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So, what's happening?
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The mods wish is my command.
So, what's happening?
Strong eurozone data drags pound to fresh eight-year low against the euro
Low pound: Great for Exports, great for tourism.
Meanwhile:
Deutsche Bank news: Lender to target London's rich after Brexit | City & Business | Finance | Express.co.ukQuote:
Germany's biggest lender wants to increase the number of its rich UK customers by expanding its asset management business in London.
The financial giant is adding a number of customer advisors in the hope of also attracting people from China and Middle East based in Britain's capital.
Deustche Bank believes many of these potential clients will still be in London after Brexit and doesn't want to miss out on lucrative deals.
Manager, Peter Hinder said: "There are many advantages that will not disappear with Brexit.
"Great Britain or the London region are attracting assets like a magnet."
Err, GDP has not strengthened in the past year but has contracted, exports have not increased markedly by any significant indicator and certainly not commensurate with the devaluation of the currency.
Purchasing power of the consumer is to be hit in a triple whammy of higher taxes, higher inflation and enforced wage restraint.
The pain is increasing, day by day, but of course where there is no sense there is no feeling and we all know the British are fucking stupid and quite insensate to most anything except the need to get drunk, get another tattoo and have a two weeks all inclusive holiday in Grotos.
Being the bargain basement tourist tat destination of choice by the masses is in fact a measure of just how low you fallen in the scheme of things.
Tell me, do you just make shit up because you think it makes you sound clever?
UK exports continue to rise on back of a weaker pound - BelfastTelegraph.co.ukQuote:
UK manufacturers have reported rising demand driven by a rebound in export orders on the back of a weaker pound.
The latest Confederation of British Industry (CBI) industrial trends survey showed that 30% of manufacturers said their total order books were above normal in August, compared to 17% that experienced lower levels over the same period, resulting in a balance of plus 13%.
That is above the long-run average of minus 14%, and July's balance of 10%. Those figures were driven by stronger export order books, as a rounded balance of 11% of manufacturers reported above-normal overseas demand in August, compared to 2% in July.
Anna Leach, the CBI's head of economic intelligence, said the Brexit-hit pound - which has made UK goods cheaper for overseas buyers - is to thank for the rise. "There are further signs that exporters are feeling the benefit from the lower pound," she said.
UK tourism soars 20% as weak pound sterling makes Britain more attractive despite terror attacks | The IndependentQuote:
UK tourism soars 20% as weak pound sterling makes Britain more attractive despite terror attacks
More people made trips to the UK between April and June than in any other quarter since records began in 1980
i know as a mere lay person you lap this simplistic stuff up unquestioningly but the reality is that in terms of economic betterment the impact on our manufacturing base is minimal given its relative insignificance, only 8% of gross value, and the value of topical tourism to the overall economy is again incidental and not systemic in any significant sense.
The problem you people face because you are quite stupid is that you neglect to factor into the equation the not inconsequential fact that we haven't left the fucking EU yet and the devaluation of the £ has meant that some products have now become more attractive to our EU neighbours with whom we currently have unfettered trade.
In 1 year and 120 days that will no longer apply because the Bresxshit fuckwits will have destroyed Britain's status and it will therefore have to compete like any coon state of incidental worth.
Doubt these British manufacturers will be all chirpy-chirpy- cheep-cheep then, will they, once they pay extra for the factoring and customs clearance agency work and of course the additional duty of 10%-30% will probably make the end users a bit chary of buying British shit.
Also, the Brexshit retards keep ignoring the fact that in order to sell to far flung markets you have to pay for the fucking transportation - no more cheap EU lorry transport but heck, why should second rate deluded political has-beens concern themselves with mere detail when the dumb British untermesnch are so fucking stupid they'll believe any bullsit rhetoric thrown at them.
Hard Brexshit, no customs deals, no single market means fucking misery but some will win, the trade in third world contract labour will mushroom exponentially and the big players will be getting into human-trafficking in a big, big way.
If i was younger I would look to get into Manpower services and contract a deal with the Home Office as a preferred contractor to recruit, house and repatriate third world units for the agricultural/food processing/ market-garden industries.
Remember when Fox said the British and that piece of shit Duterte shared common values? Yep, money-grubbing immoral scum sucking each other's cock dry.
Brexshit heaven!
Meanwhile, wage growth is below inflation so the standard of living is actually falling, though no doubt in a year and a half's time, David Davis, our very own Moses, will deliver us unto the promised land where we will all be eating milk and honey.
Explaining stagflation to these morons is akin to teaching macrame to blind retarded thalidomide victims with no arms.
in the meantime, silly May has been releasing working papers explaining her vision of Brexit, which everyone agrees is nothing but a pipe dream
apparently the ambiance at No.10 is quite gloomy, with everyone frustrated how slow the whole process is and how unprepared anyone is
Mr Barnier has been quite strict with the whole thing, not moving a bit on any silly requests by the UK.
it's going to be a Brexitcrash, hard landing style :banana:
One truly does wonder at what point these sclerotic Brexshit Tory dullards will finally understand that if you want some of the benefits of club membership you will have tp pay for them. If you don't then fuck off and sort yourself out when your membership expires.
How fucking difficult can it be? Duty free trade and unfettered access to a single market including the City stuff? Fine, accept free movement, primacy of the ECJ and pay your fucking dues without whining and in return the EU will let you trade with whomsoever in the world provided the goods are not dumped or re-sold within the EU.
If you don't agree and you want a hard brexshit, then any deal that you might negotiate will be vetoed by the Irish and any six other EU members.
So, fuck you.
The £ will be shredded by then, 15 million Brits will be strapped for cash and baying for blood, and the Tories will be out on their fucking ear......and they know it.
But the truly shaming thing for the Brits, and for anyone who observes and understands the negotiating process, is the apparent reality the British are a bumbling bunch of buffoons, without a strategy or indeed a coherent brief, whereas the EU team are the quintessential professionals who give every indication that they know what they are doing, that they know the legal implications of what they are doing and that they know precisely what the effect will be in respect of any policy decision that may be agreed.
A simple "Sorry, I was wrong" would have done.
Well, here's some much needed light eu-relief after yet another one of the gents interminable and repetitive rants.
Macron keeps up appearances with €26,000 makeup bill since May.
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Aides to French president acknowledge bill is high but say artist had been called in as ‘matter of urgency’
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Emmanuel Macron
Kim Willsher in Paris
Friday 25 August 2017 11.32 BST First published on Friday 25 August 2017 11.03 BST
His wife Brigitte lamented her wrinkles compared with his “freshness” over the breakfast table, but Emmanuel Macron’s youthful looks come at a price: €26,000 in three months.
The French president returned to work this week after perhaps the shortest presidential holiday in modern French history to find himself under fire not only for his controversial plans to reform France’s complicated labour law, but for spending a small fortune on makeup.
Since entering the Elysée Palace in May, the 39-year-old president has settled two bills from a personal makeup artist called Natacha M; one for €10,000 and another for €16,000.
After the report in Le Point, presidential aides insisted there was no cover-up and that the makeup artist had been called in as “a matter of urgency”. Future cosmetic bills would be “significantly reduced”, they insisted.
“The sum covers various services including press conferences and foreign trips where the person concerned has to travel with him,” one Elysée official told journalists. The official admitted the bill was “high … but less than his predecessor’s”.
Macron, nicknamed Jupiter after the all-powerful Roman god, is not the first French president to pay handsomely for keeping up appearances.
His predecessor, the Socialist François Hollande, was accused of “shampoo socialism” after reportedly forking out €30,000 for makeup, topped off with a monthly €9,895 bill for a personal barber to cut and dry his thinning hair, according to the satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchainé. The Elysée justified the cost by saying the hairdresser had to “get up early and fix the president’s hair every morning … and as many times during the day as necessary”.
how is that related to Brexit ?
running out of silly pro-Brexit arguments, maybe ? :rolleyes:
the opinions and influence of the self important popinjay are very much related to the brexit negotiations.
It's all part of the deal, he must retain his youthful looks or his oedipal mistress will dump him for another Adonis. She sucks the life out of them and spits out the husk of their relationship. In truth, she is Ayesha and around 2,200 years old.
Nothing much is happening. The Government has written some grey papers and some blue papers but they are content free. The EU have read them and explained that they are content free. The UK will go back to the negotiating table on Monday to argue their case, which has no details and requires the EU to use their imagination...
Meanwhile, it's getting cheaper to visit the UK. However, I did notice one oddity on my last visit; a can of G&T in the UK was the same price as in Germany but is only 5% alc c.f. 10% alc. It isn't just Brexit where UK citizens are being diddled.
and nothing will happen until the deadline, they simply do not have the staff or the skills to create such an agreementQuote:
Originally Posted by Troy
if May can't even draft an agreement for Brexit because she doesn't have the staff for it, how is she going to manage all those bi-lateral agreements with the rest of the world ?
:rofl:
:rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by buriramboy
you certainly have an ironic sense of humor, are you related to Harry by any chance :)
sounds like it's no longer an option, but the only possible outcome :pQuote:
Originally Posted by buriramboy
Negotiating with the EU is like debating with Mr Earl. There is a brick wall with dark conspiracies beyond it. Thou shall not pass.
Its so pointless, no wonder Davis and co seem so half hearted about it.
It didn't. We only got a chance to vote exit after 40 odd years. I'm sure given the opportunity before, we'd have voted to leave.Quote:
Originally Posted by lom
Err, if you took but a moment to read the various "briefing papers" put out by the Brexshit Tory caucus, you will see what the problem is; no one fucking knows what it is these wankers actually want or how they propose to achieve it.
Not, the Irish, not the nationalist N.Irish, not Barnier and his team, not the British public, not the foreign investors, not the international trading partners, not the banks, not the markets and certainly not Parliament. In fact, I think it fair to say that not even a significant proportion of the Tory party are aware.
Woolly-headed, vacuous rhetoric spouted in semi-truculent soundbites in lieu of workable proposals to be managed within an established legal and executive framework simply doesn't cut it.
A case in point: From the Irish PM, just how do the British intend to operate a territorial boundary between the EU and N. Ireland reconciling totally divergent migration and economic policies?
Answer from the British wankers - we will implement imaginative and technologically based solutions. Indeed, but what are they? Err, we haven't got any further in our policy focus group on that yet, but it will be technological and, er, imaginative.
Understand now?
The Maybot team is a shambles, Davis is a geriatric alcoholic, Johnson is simply a fat, lazy tosser who wants to have power but is too fucking idle to actually work at it, and Fox is quite simply a rather weird idiot who seems to be labouring under the rather bizarre notion that what all these foreign Johnnies he meets in his junkets are telling him is the truth.
In dealing with the British it is like trying to negotiate with an adolescent child who simply doesn't know what it wants but keeps getting angry and rather tearful when suggestions are put to it.
Pitiful, absolutely pitiful and I suspect the international markets, traders and extra - EU countries are quite appalled at just how incompetent and disorganised the British actually are.
May is fucking off and is therefore demonstrating to the world that she has no power. The team's captain is staying in the changing rooms just when the rest of them are shambling off to take the field and they haven't a fucking clue as to what position they are meant to be playing or what the tactics are.
Johnson hates Davis and no one likes Fox and the rest of them around that cabinet are frightened to speak except Hammond who is so isolated he has to eat his sandwiches alone
There is no coherent British government and the only actual strategy so far demonstrated is to pick on EU citizens lawfully in the UK and terrorise them because that is what the Maybot has been doing to foreigners for six years and they might as well carry on with it.
Are you Brexshitters terminally stupid or will you eventually wake up?
what a sadly true description of that British government,Quote:
Originally Posted by Seekingasylum
Once the UK completely tumble and realize what they did, May will do a runner (as the Brits always do when caught in their shame) and the rest of the world will laugh
oh the look on the face of the average Brexit supporter will be beyond priceless :rofl:
May has already disclosed she is fucking off in 2019 and will not be around to answer for her crimes, and will disappear on some fucking walking expedition that hopefully ends in her early demise.
oh god, and the writing is already on the wall :)
Apart from describing your own contributions so perfectly, it explains why I said, 'Davis and co appear so half hearted about it' you thick mongrel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seekingasylum
Your insipid and deleterious participation in this thread is a continual surprise. Neither you or butters has a dog in this fight and you will have absolutely zero impact on the outcome, or the opinions of others, on an anonymous Thai forum that will fall into disuse just like you.
And you have the nerve to call me dumb. FFS
they are only half hearted because nobody is buying their BS, and being exposed as the silly frauds that they are
nothing to do with EU being stubborn, but again who is speaking again, Chass the old clueless Brit :)
Chass, are you related to May by any chance ? :p
Of course it's the EU being stubborn as you want yet more money from us and because we won't agree to your silly extortion attempts you don't want to discuss anything else. As I said I really hope we just walk away and when you want access to our markets on favourable terms we will listen to your proposals. It's going to be fun watching French garlic farmers go out of business.
As I said, the Brit attitude is rather laid back, indicating a charade, waiting for EU tantrums to give UK the excuse to walk away and get on with running their own country, free of interference from the quarrelsome children over the water.
Leave them with nothing. Best way really.
This is a supposition gent. Given your fondness for them, I'm sure you won't mind.
it's your legal financial obligation FFS,Quote:
Originally Posted by buriramboy
in that case, give us back the subsidies you kept receiving during the negotiation. Can't have it both ways, can we ?
DeGaulles has finally been proven right, you are all a bunch of frauds :)
it's called paying your dues, and why should we let that go and give you a favorable agreement in return when you don't even play by the rules ? are you guys completely delusional ? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by buriramboy
What dues? We are leaving, anything we signed up to was based on us being a member of the EU, we are leaving so owe you nothing. Who pays to leave a club and continues to pay when your membership expires? The EU beginning to sound a bit desperate realising they are going to be even more strapped for cash.
I believe that the UK has already said that it will meet any of it's commitments for the budget period 2014-20. Accordingly, those funds which the UK would receive for the same period should be made also. I also believe pension rights for EU personnel is another issue. Surely, the UK taking responsibility for these rights for those UK citizens affected meets rational thinking.
So what else is there to make payment for? The EU needs to break down exactly what it wants and why, and be prepared to substantiate their reasoning. It's not up to the UK to put offers on the table.
The EU are being petty and stupid over the N Ireland border also, they don't want to discuss trade or customs arrangements till the border issue has been sorted but you can't sort out any border arrangement until you know what customs deal you will have. You just can't reason or discuss things rationally with these EU buffoons, sooner we're out the better.
This? From a man who believes 9/11 was an inside job orchestrated by the US government and that the two planes that flew into the Twin Towers were actually created by cunning CGI.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dragonfly
Yes sure DF. What medication are you on by the way?
Pag,budgets are planned on a quinquennial basis and incorporate proposed expenditures which are agreed on the basis of membership consent. These represent longer term projects which are undertaken in good faith and budgeted accordingly. I surmise that the EU expect the slimy, used-car dealing Brexshit English wide boy scum to honour these commitments but the little fuckers want to welsh on them.
The real problem that is being experienced by the EU is that they have to contend with a British negotiating team which reflects the innate streak of sleazy, seedy, underhandedness that pervades the Brexshit scum they represent.
No honour, no principles, no sang-froid, no charm, just a bunch of rotund beery old blimpish farts grunting away in meaningless jingoistic inanity.
One has a lot of sympathy for Barnier and his team.