Thread: Brexit - It's Still On!

We're still living with the infestation with their sheds, orange coloured women and mobile sites - fukin hate pikies

Not enough died in the famine

I was referring to the consequences of the Irish famine, Helge.

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Get it

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Originally Posted by malmomike77

We're still living with the infestation with their sheds, orange coloured women and mobile sites - fukin hate pikies

Not enough died in the famine

Another valuable contribution to the discussion . . . a ginger back when he still had hair whining about 'orange coloured women' . . .

Originally Posted by cyrille

Oh no, Betty's bubble...burst.

Germany
GPD growth 0.2 this year, forecast 1.4% next year
Inflation 6.8% this year, forecast 2.7% next year
Unemployment to remain about 3.1%

Trade surplus of Euro162 billion


I doubt you'd like to compare that to the UK with 0.4%, over 6% and unemployment 3.8% . . . Trade surplus? Nah, trade deficit.


Yea, no Schadenfreude there . . . just what rebbu said:

Originally Posted by rebbu

Brexiteers need to put down the crack pipe. You fucked yourselves over good & proper & it's time to admit that you swallowed a load of propaganda about Johny Foreigner forcing you to eat bendy barnarnas & the invasion of Turks. You lot are still in the denial stage whereas anyone & everyone with a functioning brain can see the absolute mess the UK has made of their economy.

Keep throwing your tantrums and deflecting. You were fucked and you still are

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

In fairness the pikies have had their snout in the EU trough for years and yet ironically it was the British who bailed them out in their time of need.

Ah yes, the famous bailout that you and many of the wanker class in England seem to think only came from the U.K.

In November 2010, the Irish government sought help from the IMF and the European Union, which together provided loans totaling €67.5 billion—equal to 40 percent of Ireland’s economy. On the IMF’s recommendation, banks were merged, and staffing was reduced, and over time assets were aligned more closely with deposits. The IMF brought in experts from Norway and the United States to offer advice on modifying loans and working with borrowers who had gone into arrears on their mortgages.

After the banks, the second task was the country’s public finances. The government set out a plan to reduce the budget deficit over three years. This included increases in the value-added tax and carbon and motor vehicle taxes, the introduction of a supplementary personal income tax, cuts in the civil service, and savings in capital spending. Together, these steps amounted to 8 percent of GDP.

The government gained public support for these tough measures partly by preserving most welfare spending and consulting with stakeholders.

By the end of the second year of the program, in 2012, the Irish economy had begun to recover. Firms started investing, and unemployment began to decline. The government returned to the financial markets, banks’ arrears halved, and home prices in Dublin started to improve. By 2018, the unemployment rate had fallen back to less than 6 percent.

Ireland was swept up in the global financial crisis, but its problems were homegrown, and its return to economic health required homegrown solutions: restructuring banks, putting government finances back on an even keel, and working out a mountain of bad debts. The IMF and the European Union provided loans and advice, but the Irish government was always in the driver’s seat.

IMF Lending Case Study: Ireland

And as it was a loan there was interest paid.



Ireland has paid at least £610m (€709m) in interest on the 2011 bilateral bailout loan it got from Britain, making it one of the most lucrative "no-risk" loans ever advanced by the UK to a sovereign government, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

It comes as finance minister Paschal Donohoe said today that the National Treasury Management Agency had made the last instalment payment on the £3.2bn (€3.7bn) loan which was struck as part of the overall €67.5bn international bailout the State needed in the wake of the devasting banking and property crash of over a decade ago.

The loan was a separate bilateral loan but — unlike other and smaller bilateral bailout loans that Ireland struck with Denmark and Sweden — the British government under an Act of Parliament didn't allow early repayment of the loan, which would have likely reduced the cost of the interest payment bill to Ireland over time.

Ireland paid at least €709m in interest to UK for bailout loan


So, as long as you are throwing fictious stones about the benevolent U.K saving Ireland was this bailout same as the IMF bailout of $3.9 billion the UK received in 1976? An equivalent of $21 billion in today's dollars.


The 1976 sterling crisis was a currency crisis in the United Kingdom. Inflation (at close to 25% in 1975, causing high bond yields and borrowing costs), a balance of payments deficit, a public spending deficit, and the 1973 oil crisis were contributors.

The origins of the crisis are traced to the 1972 Conservative "spend for growth" budget that initiated the inflation cycle.

James Callaghan's Labour government had to borrow $3.9 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the intention of maintaining the value of sterling. At the time this was the largest loan ever to have been requested from the IMF.


1976 sterling crisis - Wikipedia

Review – ‘When Britain Went Bust’ | Financial Times

Now that's ironic.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

We're still living with the infestation with their sheds, orange coloured women and mobile sites - fukin hate pikies

Not enough died in the famine

Fuckin' 'ate Pikies,
Fuckin' 'ate Pakis,
Love stealin' potatoes

Hello Beatrice. Yeah nah, you're talking out your bum about Ireland performing worse than post-Brexit UK.


Ireland hits record trade of €842bn amid export boom.

So, rebbu

Did you dobble check your numbers ?

Double-check !

Can't edit

Rebbu, educating lower end, Estuarine, Engerlish trash is quite pointless, they cling to their ignorance and bigotry tighter than a street whore holds on to a $100 John. You see, they are defined by their imbecility, it lends substance to an otherwise futile existence, a state of being in which truth is anathema.

Once again, Whingey/toots does not post here anymore. I wonder why?

There are 30 councils facing bankruptcy, of all political persuasions, with Woking being a Tory run show with nigh on £2 billion losses on the books. 13 years of Tory austerity reducing central funding, many Labour run councils being affected the most, have had their deleterious effects.

But still, now BoJo the Clown is back in funds perhaps he can repay the £120,000 he took from the Londoner council tax revenue in order to ingratiate himself with his then American trollop to whom he paid this rather nice bung and other benefits.

Technically, both sentences are correct since 30 is just a more precise wording of at least 26.

I wouldn't consider the Tory governments in recent times to be successful. Liz Truss and the wet lettuce leaves a nasty aftertaste.

^^Hey, if you haven't worked it out about these useless, venal ****s yet...

'Most successful'...what a fkin joke that is.

Still, you do have big letters going for you.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

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Got that right.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Still, you do have big letters going for you.

Sorry if that upset you.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

90 minute queue at passport control the other week to enter the EU.

Three hours at immigration to get permission to work and live here.

Only 5 minutes for me to get through immigration to enter the UK earlier this year. Nae bother at all. And no issues about living and working in the UK if I choose.

^ eGate? Lucky they were working...

Fortunately my Article 50 card gets me through the EU immigration quicker than the average Brit.

^ They had e-gates that were working and being used but they were also allowing Brits to go through a couple of IO channels at the same time to speed things up. And overall, there weren't a lot of passengers arriving at that time.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Sorry if that upset you.

Just when it seemed you couldn’t be any more ridiculous.

Meanwhile, Brits with Brit passports are still able to enter Britain without delay.

Bravo!