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OT: The News Thread

lecoqsportif said:
Meh. None of this matters to the super rich. They live in a parallel universe. This might mean a bit more paperwork for their lawyers and accountants to make sure the property rights for the villa in the south of France are sound and that it doesn't create an unexpected tax liability.
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Yep. They will probably buy the real estate dip in London.
 
The backtracking is getting strong.

Seems orchestrated.

It's not a legally binding referendum. The markets and currency tank, a bunch of "I told you so" doomsday accounts come out.

The two stooges at the top of the Brexit campaign suddenly back off from their positions and now people are signing petitions for a re-vote.

:lol

They aren't going anywhere. Maybe this can help leverage a better deal with the EU somehow.
 
scotland and northern ireland telling the UK to **** off and staying in the EU should end it quick.
 
Scotland voted to stay under the assumption that the UK would remain in the EU. Reneged.

And obviously they just can't remain. If the UK triggers article 50, they're out.
 
But it's not binding.

The backlash is getting strong and there is no leadership on the Brexit side.

It's going to fall apart. They're will be no Brexit.
 
Let's see if the continentals insist on starting the negotiations right away and miraculously lower/eliminate taxes on financial services.
 
lecoqsportif said:
Let's see if the continentals insist on starting the negotiations right away and miraculously lower/eliminate taxes on financial services.
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they will start early and they will play hardball -- they can't make it seem easy for other countries to leave. But someone first has to invoke article 50.
 
CH1 said:
they will start early and they will play hardball -- they can't make it seem easy for other countries to leave. But someone first has to invoke article 50.
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Is there a mechanism in place that they can revoke an invocation of article 50? Can they invoke article 50, start negotiating, then like a year later be like, "holy shit this would be terrible for us" and opt back in? Or once article 50 goes down, they have to get out, and then re-apply to come back in?
 
Aberdeen said:
The UK is totally rudderless right now. It's in deep doodoo.
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Yeah, it's pretty remarkable. I don't know if I've ever seen anything like it from one of the major Western democracies in my lifetime. What they really need is a snap election so that someone has a mandate on how to proceed from here, but I'm not sure how that's possible with Labour & the Tories both essentially leaderless and in complete disarray.

I mean, who would even be the standard-bearer for the "leave" crowd in that election? Labour obviously doesn't, and then only about 40% of Tory MP's support an exit from the EU.
 
What do you think would happen if they did another vote today? After another 6 months of doom and gloom?

The fact that it wasn't binding and that nobody has invoked article 50 means they are still in the EU and I would bet money that they ultimately do not leave.
 
JohnnyHolmes said:
What do you think would happen if they did another vote today? After another 6 months of doom and gloom?

The fact that it wasn't binding and that nobody has invoked article 50 means they are still in the EU and I would bet money that they ultimately do not leave.
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Et tu JohnnyHolmes?

If quebec won it's referendum and went through a few months of gloom and doom and didn't officially separate yet, are you telling me the separatists would back down? Are you people serious? To go against the democratic will of the people? Does democracy really mean so little? Democracy until the vote that results dowlesnt match the results that the elites want?

If they don't go through with this there will be hell to pay.
 
I'm not suggesting that the government go against the Democratic will of the people.

I am suggesting that will has and will probably change.
 
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