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Post by TCM on Jun 24, 2016 10:59:50 GMT -5
The EU system is flawed and I'm all for economic reform of any sort if it turns out positive. Except no one knows what's gonna happen. The age demographics hilariously skewed towards much older wanting to leave, which is fine...but not at the behest of the next generation having to clean up if it all goes to hell. I feel there are much less noble reasons at play here: anti-immigration/refugee stance (that Trump loves I'm also inclined to believe this is a real bad idea) like I alluded to. www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24/the-british-are-frantically-googling-what-the-eu-is-hours-after-voting-to-leave-it/^ Now, I know America doesn't do much better with knowledge of what you're voting on, but that's also a tad alarming.
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Post by arsenette on Jun 24, 2016 12:07:48 GMT -5
Very few people are educated on the grand scheme of things which is why when the EU formed in the first place we all saw the collapse in slow motion. The fact that the UK even had an out-clause already set and kept their currency was indication of how flawed of a system it was to begin with. It was the hubris of those couple decades ago that created that flawed system in the first place. As for FIXING it.. there is never a good way of doing it other than throwing dynamite into it and starting over. The EU system was completely unsustainable and the economic collapse was already showing. Greece being the first and 4 others following in rapid succession. "Staying" would not have "fixed" it either. That's the economic thing. As for the social aspects and immigration that's an entirely different thing altogether. It's not a race issue. It's a defense issue and with the collapse of the middle east and those poor refugees flooding the rest of the world trying to survive and criminals hiding among their midst and the already frayed economic state of every EU country (see above why) this is a perfect storm. Frankly this is no different than what happened in WW2 but most people don't research that either. It's far easier to scream at people for being racist than to actually come up with solutions. This is going to be messy as all hell but I'm confident leaving the EU to spark the collapse of the system is far better than to see everyone bleed dry a slow and painful death. This is not the first time a currency has collapsed it's just in social media now so people who didn't give a damn about it now can feign ignorance or worse.. feign passion. In about a week people will be tired of this news cycle and b**** that's going on for too long. Welcome to the millennial generation of news. For the rest of us... we see why it collapse and didn't need to "google" it to know why it was inevitable. The ramifications are far reaching worldwide and will be felt for centuries. All because some asshats when I was in college decided it would be a great idea to come up with this disaster to gain votes for a temporary political office. EDIT: Wow.. France said they are next? So that's.. 4 wanting a referendum? The collapse may be earlier than expected.
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Post by higeboshi on Jun 24, 2016 14:15:07 GMT -5
Heh I would have voted out. the funny thing is that Remain was predicted to have won in the papers this morning an embarrassing mistake Did Dewey defeat Truman again?
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Post by arsenette on Jun 24, 2016 14:25:27 GMT -5
the funny thing is that Remain was predicted to have won in the papers this morning an embarrassing mistake Did Dewey defeat Truman again? LMFAO I doubt he understands that totally American fiasco. LOL ahahah.. ehem.. I'm old..
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Post by SuperTiger on Jun 24, 2016 15:00:40 GMT -5
This is abysmal for my stocks.
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Post by The Chief on Jun 24, 2016 17:06:29 GMT -5
In the short term, but long term I don't think this will have near the impact that people think it will. There will be very noticeable ramifications for the EU for a long time, but eventually things will stable out. What that stability will be is completely unknown.
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Post by Badalight on Jun 24, 2016 20:53:43 GMT -5
I'm ignorant to the situation at large so I have no idea whether this is a good or bad thing.
But what I do know is, it's f***ing up the USD to YEN exchange rates right as I'm switching large amounts of currency between the two. RIP my bank account.
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Post by UnrealCanine on Jun 25, 2016 16:42:05 GMT -5
This whole situation has been a horror story from day one, and now it looks like the entire British politics system is going to crash and burn.
And it's all Cameron's fault
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Post by Amber on Jun 25, 2016 17:02:40 GMT -5
And it's all Cameron's fault
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2016 17:09:04 GMT -5
And it's all Cameron's fault Not your fault lol David Cameron's fault
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Post by arsenette on Jun 26, 2016 17:48:16 GMT -5
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Post by beeeeeees on Jun 28, 2016 20:41:44 GMT -5
That's just a fringe far right nationalist politician. They have 2 out of 577 seats in the French parliament. Their views obviously don't represent the views of France.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2016 16:42:52 GMT -5
So basically over 17 million people are right wing people...FML...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2016 16:13:24 GMT -5
The new prime minister will be a woman. It will either be Theresa May or Andrea Leadsom
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Post by arsenette on Mar 29, 2017 9:26:03 GMT -5
And so it begins. Article 50 in effect now.
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Mar 29, 2017 9:58:28 GMT -5
Joy.
Not only do we currently have an inept government in Westminster right now, but Scotland is holding another independence vote and my lovely local government in Northern Ireland are throwing all the toys out of the pram and declaring they won't work together. Which means we have no local government at all.
Apparently all the governments here in the UK just need some 'me time'?
Everyone is clinging to the past and it's really frustrating.
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Post by TaylorTheSolitudeEnthusiast on Apr 14, 2017 10:35:19 GMT -5
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Post by arsenette on Apr 14, 2017 12:30:57 GMT -5
That course syllabus is 2 years early.. Ya'll haven't left yet. Seems the teacher is a bit miffed and running on emotion right now.
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Post by UnrealCanine on Apr 18, 2017 16:16:21 GMT -5
So.... Britain is about to have an election in 6 weeks time
Why? I have no idea
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Post by Shuberb674 on Apr 18, 2017 16:50:24 GMT -5
So.... Britain is about to have an election in 6 weeks time Why? I have no idea I really don't get it, it's almost like Teresa May is trying to get herself fired by way of being voted out. Doesn't Labour only have like 1 year left this term anyway. Its bollocks
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