Still pretty reasonable to assume they had a contingency plan in place. 🙂 I would be interested to know if there is any truth to this, and if so, where would they have fled to? Presumably the same route Vera took when returning to Canada.

I have to agree, I see no reason why the pound would suddenly shoot up. If that were the case, and that knowledge was widespread enough to be discussed here and now, the pound would already be going up as speculators got hold of as much as possible.

Discounting possible external factors, the next time we see a sudden, significant increase in the pound will be when our free trade agreement is reached, IMO.

If that ‘white seam’ was in fact supposed to go on a pole, you would be correct. But look at the top of the ‘seam’. It is clearly just a one sized flag, and the bottom 3/4 of that edge has folded over exposing the white backing which superficially resembles a seam. There are fixings on all 4 corners, showing this was never meant to be mounted on a flag pole.

If you look closely, you can even see where the print on the folded over section doesn’t align with the rest.

They will be controlling the process 100 per cent.

Who?

The delegation? the commission? the council? the parliament? national governments?

Their poker face is a united front, but behind the scenes there is going to be an incredible amount of squabbling going on about what each of these groups want out of the negotiations, and the 30,000 corporate lobbyists who run the show are going to be at loggerheads with the federalists about access to an extremely important market. As Angela Merkel and Viktor Oban have frequently shown, any EU agreements and treaties can simply be ignored by member states when it suits them, and the EU is fairly powerless to stop them.

We won’t be in a position to offer very much at all. If / When the Euro goes down we will be facing very hard times too.

Moggy

True, but we will be in a stronger position than those in the euro zone.

I’m not necessarily convinced about Mays rhetoric about ‘global Britain’, but we should definitely use this opportunity to get so many of our eggs out of the euro basket, and push as hard as we can for trade with the emerging markets. It is clear that Europes prosperity is going to decline, with no end in sight.

For us, the EU is toast and when the euro finally bites the dust we’ll all be drinking to a ‘bonfire of the EU vanities’.

While I wish the Euro didn’t exist, and want it to come to an end, I will not be celebrating when it does. The failing European union represents a failure of a metropolitan, neoliberal elite, to listen to its own people, all the while flooding their own halls with corporate lobbyists (over 30,000 of them now). But more importantly, when the Euro fails, it will bring misery and ruin to millions of our fellow Europeans. Rather than jumping up and down on the Euro bonfire, we should, and we will offer the hand of friendship. 🙂

It’s actually the European union I feel sorry for in these negotiations. The British government might not have as much weight behind them, but at least they are *relatively* united. Imagine what will happen when 27 countries, who all want very different things out of Brexit, try and get together to present a united front. It is also conceivable that the MEP’s and the Members of the Council of eachcountry will want very different things from each other, especially with some of the Eastern European countries.

The wreck in Croatia is the best pattern example available except for 3D scans of the originals in Chicago or in the UK. Croatian officials decided to let the recreational divers have it for now.

Meanwhile in Greece…

Given German reluctance to invest in current programmes, I doubt they will fund a new fighter on their own.