Andy Aplikowski – long of the “Residual Forces” blog – writes re the Brexit on Facebook:
So it appears the only people still whining about #BREXIT are:
1) European politicians who will lose power.
2) American politicians afraid of Federalism and State’s rights catching on in the US.
3) Filthy rich who lost a “crap ton” of money due to stock market and currency corrections.The rest of the world doesn’t seem to be permanently affected. Maybe we should have more votes of no confidence in the people who are screwing up the world.
Line up the petitions. I’m good to go.
Stick with twitter and 140 characters or less or send it back to rewrite and punch it up a bit.
Nice job, eTASS. I see you got another alias. Now it is getting personal.
I don’t know whether it is you, or your sources, who are ignorant, but you illustrate brilliantly the depths of BS to which the anti-Brexit crowd will go.
Answer is all of the above!
Those damn stupid UK voters apparently got EU running scared. Especially if you read today’s headlines. Why, can you believe that chief elitists Juncker and Schulz (a likely relation to Sgt. Schulz) have said “Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British Conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage. First, David Cameron initiated the referendum in order to secure his post. Now, fellow Conservatives want to delay the start of exit negotiations until they’ve held a party conference.
My, my. Running scared already. It seems UK may not be doomedTM after all.
While there’s something to be said about the intellectual standards of discourse, I don’t think there should be any confusion about what drives popular discourse. Very rich people don’t like uncertainty, nor weakened access to capital markets. This results in broad negativity toward Brexit without the need for in depth analysis. The popular outlets for economic discussion, both the media and the political elites generally take their cue from the rich. Accordingly, there’s widespread agreement that this uncertainty is bad.
If the pound loses value, there will be an immediate increase in consumer prices for all imported goods (most items in a British supermarket). If the real estate prices go down a majority of British home owner will feel much poorer. This is not very conducive to consumption.
I would imagine that shorting UK Ltd will be an excellent way to make huge amounts of money over the next few years providing you can hold positions over the medium-term.
Looks like one of your vilification screeds is all wrong. And it did not even take a week. What was it you said about Boris the Spider? That he quit and let others deal with the mess? Really? Lemme see… Who is heading Brexit negotiations? Oh… Wrong again. Always. Forever.
I don’t think there should be any confusion about what drives popular discourse…
Dude… just a semblance of coherence would be nice in your ramblings. Or did you just copy/paste without proofreading?
If… If… If… It is all wishful thinking on your part, that UK will sink. Why do you hate Brits so much? You got nothing, and nothing breeds nothing. You have not put forth a single cogent argument, just suppositions and innuendo. And, you are already starting to being proved wrong. I’ll make sure to keep a tally.
Tally Ho and Cheerio!
In a year or two I think people will look back on Theresa May’s (the new Conservative Prime Minister) first actions and see where it all began to go wrong.
First of all, appointing Boris the Clown, official Court Jester to the Conservative Party, as Foreign Secretary. Given that the Brexit negotiations will create huge disappointment among those who voted for Brexit when they discover that they can’t have free jam forever despite having been promised such by none other than Boris the Clown himself, there will be a huge backlash. If May had put the Clown in charge of Brexit negotiations he would have carried much of the inevitable opprobrium. As it is, he will manage to avoid some of the ordure that should rightly have accumulated on his tousled head.
Secondly, by imagining that Brexit was somehow a protest vote of the have-nots against the haves, May fails to grasp that (a) it was a vote of the uneducated and uninformed against their own best interests, and (b) Brexiteers were unclear on what it was they were actually voting for. Some thought they were voting for patriotism (“get control back over our country”) which is so vague as to be meaningless; others were voting against the presence of Johnny Foreigner and will resent both non-Brits already present and any new immigrants, no matter how desperately needed they may be. Thus any concession to the EU’s insistence on freedom of movement will be seen as betrayal.
Yet as we all know, without concession on the Four Freedoms there’s no way the UK will continue to be able to trade with the EU on such favorable terms as present – which would result to a significant net negative impact on the economy.
But by failing to grasp the simple-mindedness of Brexit voters and their unrealistic expectations, May is consequently unlikely to navigate the Brexit negotiations in a way that will result in anything except a greater sense of betrayal by those foolish enough to have been led by the nose by Boris the Clown and Farage the Ferret.
Doubtless May has for a long time wished to become Prime Minister. Which just goes to prove the old adage: “be careful what you wish for.”
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How could any tech startup (or any other business, for that matter) in the UK imagine that life will be bleaker after Brexit?
Let’s look at some cheery facts. First of all, running British companies will become so much easier. This is because they will be so much smaller. With fewer employees (“British jobs for British people!” and “Keep Talent Out!”) and lower revenues, British managers won’t have to fret over hiring and cash flow projections.
Secondly, it will no longer be necessary to consider Johnny Foreigner when developing new products. This will make marketing, product management, and sales so much simpler.
Thirdly, a laser-like focus on the home market (because there won’t be any foreign ones, despite the fantasies beloved of Brexiteers) means that all the unpleasant complexities of dealing with international customers will vanish. And think of all the time saved: no more trips abroad to negotiate deals, provide customer support, and brainstorm new product offerings.
In short, we can all look forward to embracing the mantra Small Is Beautiful.
Which will be especially necessary when Scotland sensibly leaves the British and Welsh to enjoy the fruits of their self-harm. A smaller Britain will be a more beautiful Britain, filled with colorful characters indulging in such harmless pursuits as foreigner-bashing, uttering xenophobic rants, and wearing National Front/UKIP t-shirts.
Small (minded) is indeed beautiful. Really. Or as David Davis might put it in his Trump-like manner, “very, very, very beautiful, and getting much, much smaller every day.”
(a) it was a vote of the uneducated and uninformed against their own best interests, and (b) Brexiteers were unclear on what it was they were actually voting for. Yet again, your condescension to and hatred of majority of the people in Britain is unbearable and undeniable.
Yet as we all know, Condescending much? Again? You know everything more than everyone?
there’s no way the UK will continue to be able to trade with the EU on such favorable terms as present – which would result to a significant net negative impact on the economy. You have no clue what the final negotiated deal will look like. and once again, and again, and again you are discounting that UK is one of EU’s BIGGEST trading partners and they can ill afford to lose UK as a customer. ESPECIALLY since they will lose billions of dollars in extortion money they had coming whilst UK was part of the EU. It does not compute for you and I ma not surprised since it does not fit YOUR doomsday narrative.
Your grasp of all things “economy” is demonstrably one sided, ignorant, dismissive and agenda driven. You start with condescension and it all goes downhill from there. It is as if you are incapable of critical thinking. And in all those words and sentences you offered up, there was not a single cogent argument against anything I have said. All you are doing is repeating your talking points and hateful condescension over and over and over again. Sucks to be you.
(“British jobs for British people!” and “Keep Talent Out!”)
Ever heard “Buy Made in USA?” campaign? KILLED US economy. Absolutely DESTROYED it! I can see now why you think Brfexit will kill UK, because you have a precedent. Well, you wish USA was dead, but that is not the point here.
And boy, speaking of somebody drinking Kool-Aid. Dude, your RemaIN talking points rant is more insane than anything coming from the Brexit camp. when Scotland sensibly leaves Really? You truly believe Scotland will survive on its own? Or that EU (whatever is left of it) would want to support this soci@list paradise? Boy, are you deluded and confused. Reality check much? No? Did not think so.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Just plain angry appears not to have understood what Brexit is all about. It’s about “protecting” British jobs.
Which means: Johnny Foreigner is Not Welcome in any guise. Indeed, it means more: high tariff barriers to protect domestic industries, a nostalgic yearning for the good old days of complex union rules and endless strikes, and of taxpayer funds being used to prop up failed industries. This formula for success reached its apotheosis in the 1970s and we all can look forward to going back there.
Indeed, why stop at the 1970s? Why be content with shoddy over-priced goods and constant strikes? Why not return to Britain’s glory days: the 1870s. What we need is a Britain that is preeminent at making steam locomotives, a Britain that sends its gunships to ensure free and open trade for British goods around the world, a Britain that knows how to stand free, proud, and independent. A Britain that knows how to impose opium on the Chinese, penury and starvation on the Indians, and has nothing but scorn for everyone else.
Yes, Brexit will lead us to a bright future in which we won’t have to suffer the humiliating spectacle of seeing Johnny Foreigner taking over British firms.
….Because there won’t be any worth buying.
Perhaps May is more astute than I originally gave her credit for. Perhaps she understands full well the fact that the UK is now inexorably on a downward trajectory that will take it from being the world’s fifth-largest economy to being the world’s tenth-largest or, to put it another way, the world’s largest drizzle-prone banana republic.
May perhaps has grasped that the UK has zero chance of escaping economic catastrophe. As companies shut down operations in Britain and tax revenues plummet, social unrest on a scale unimaginable today will turn Britain’s streets into scenes of endless violence. As the NHS runs out of cash, deaths will mount and further unrest will occur. And although the government’s brilliant idea of borrowing as much money as possible in order to disguise plummeting tax receipts looks like a clever short-term strategy the reality is that when the international financial markets wake up, the UK debt crisis will make the Greek debt crisis look by comparison like a small child discovering it’s spent all its pocket-money and can’t buy the ice-cream it set its little heart on.
Understanding this, perhaps May has decided to ensure that everyone responsible for the single greatest self-inflicted wound in British history should go down with the ship right next to her. After all, why should Boris the Clown escape immolation merely because he’s the official Court Jester? Surely even those wearing motley should not ‘scape a whipping. (ht Shakespeare)
So instead of confronting real-world problems with pragmatic solutions, politicians whipped up anger and resentment, which only hastened the decline.
Hmmm… can’t think what lesson this might hold for the USA today.
And sadly, nor will a narrow segment of US voters.
Once again, you are professing doom and gloom based on failed premises, one-sided presumptions and cherry-picked talking points. There is no arguing with idiots and it is time for me to climb out of he gutter you dragged me into. Time will prove you wrong. Like it does every time.
It’s not really necessary to try to analyze the minutia. The big picture is all that matters. The British, swayed by absurd promises and equally absurd lies, were led by the nose by a bunch of chancers who believed until the very end that their words would have no effect other than to secure them plum jobs after the referendum was lost.
Brexit is a vote to castrate Britain on all fronts: economic, domestic, diplomatic, and ultimately (because there won’t be any money to pay for it) militarily. Britain has committed itself to becoming a cloudy banana republic and no amount of fantasy talk about being “great again” will cover this up for long. The idea of “making a success” of Brexit is equivalent to “making a success” of self-mutilation.
The British voted for irrelevance. May’s appointments are merely a consequence of a total collapse across the social spectrum. At best they may afford a few brief moments of bemusement as the ship slips beneath the waves; at worst they may fractionally hasten the process. But the ultimate conclusion is in no doubt.
MBerg, my porcine feelers are… tingling. Where are we at numbers wise?