Current Affairs EU In or Out

[Bluerover]

Folks

You are on your own....unlike Churchill times you have actually chosen this.

Really surprised but as posted elsewhere 2 years to soften the landing.

 

[gaino92]

a note from JP Morgan Firm:
J.P. Morgan has 16,000 employees in the U.K. We are extremely proud of the work they do and our long history in the country. Regardless of today’s outcome, we will maintain a large presence in London, Bournemouth and Scotland, serving local clients as we have for more than 150 years.

The framework of the U.K.’s engagement with the EU, including trade agreements, will be negotiated over a period of years. For the moment, we will continue to serve our clients as usual, and our operating model in the U.K. remains the same.

In the months ahead, however, we may need to make changes to our European legal entity structure and the location of some roles. While these changes are not certain, we have to be prepared to comply with new laws as we serve our clients around the world. We will always do our best to take care of our people and do the right thing during times of change.

Take that how you will but my counterparts over there are worried for their jobs no matter what the CEO says.

**Disclosure, I am employed by the firm* Any views/opinions are my own.

That sounds very similar to what our CEO sent out to us

 

[Gerbs]

I know mate but I wasn't claiming it as my own like your good self as I stand to gain nothing from it.

You were seeking to pass off a genuinely amusing photo off as your own. Heinous plagarism

Point to where I was claiming it as my own. On the other hand you have an identification photo that was clearly stolen from some hard working virgin just trying to make a living in fantasy. You should post the source as soon as possible

 

[deipnosophist]

Liked, then unliked.

you are a tricky customer

 

[Joey66]

They've made a niche as a tax haven and they don't have 60 million people off contrasting backgrounds to provide for

It was in decline the isle of Mann being outside the eu has not hurt them are you telling me they attract people whith money being outside the EU?
I see the stock market rose up a fair bit it's not exactly like black Wednesday is it oh and where is Gideons emergency budget?
The Bank of England prompt up the uncertainty striaght away!

 

[ianefc]

These bloody Scots need to pipe down, you had your chance and blew it, now be a good servant and do what your told.

You're FFS

 

[Goat]

You're FFS

Im not Scottish mate.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

It's mind-boggling to me that the entire argument put forward by Leave was provable lie after lie after lie - and people actually bought it!

I voted in, and I agree that the leave campaign was a joke, but I actually don't think the remain campaign helped themselves by virtually suggesting Armageddon if the country voted to leave. A better, balanced campaign by them would have seen us still in the EU now IMO.

None of the campaigns convinced me, and actually had me up the wall at times, at the end of the day though,I voted with my head.

 

[Baines' left foot]

I've never claimed to be knowledgeable in politics, but to me the main lesson to be learnt out of all of this is that the public simply don't know enough about politics or economics and something must be done about it. I'm not saying that the leave decision was the wrong one, or the right one, but the majority of people just don't understand the ramifications of either outcome. Both campaigns were an utter mess and full of scare tactics

Perhaps politics and economics should be compulsory subjects at school? Surely it would be far more useful knowledge than religious studies, for example.

 

[deipnosophist]

Your point was that the Scottish voted against independence.

Mine was that many Scots (who would be eligible for a Scottish passport should one ever exist) were not given the choice to vote. And that many people who would not have been eligible for a Scottish passport were allowed to vote (and vote heavily to stay in the UK). In other words, it was not the Scottish necessarily who voted against independence but those who were deemed eligible to vote who voted against it.

To paraphrase a good old Austrian/German saying, it is to me a sausage who it was who decided that.

In this referendum, people holding a British passport (and the last time I checked it had unrestricted right of entry and residence to and in the UK) were not allowed to vote, even if they were living in other EU countries under laws to which the UK had agreed and despite the fact that this eligibility had been promised previous to the referendum (see recent court case to fight for right to vote).

 

[ianefc]

Im not Scottish mate.

Which way did you vote then?

 

[toffee matt]

It was in decline the isle of Mann being outside the eu has not hurt them are you telling me they attract people whith money being outside the EU?
I see the stock market rose it's not exactly like black Wednesday is it oh and where is Gideons emergency budget?
The Bank of England prompt up the uncertainty striaght away!

You can't compare a country of 60 million with an Island with less people than Southport

 

[Peter The Dog]

I voted remain, but post as Peter The Dog.

woof!

 

[chrissyjack]

Small conversation in work with a lad who's not a bright spark

" Chris, what does this vote mean ? "
Me "You can't have spag bol anymore "
Him " Really ? "


Oh dear

 

[Goat]

Which way did you vote then?

I didnt in the end, life got in the way.

I honestly dont feel as tho I was informed enough to make a decision, so whilst I feel a bit bad that my vote was "wasted", I can take some solace from that what happens next, wasnt my fault.