Brexit Thread 2

[Lagamorph]

twitter.com/BenChu_/status/1019953728718278656

[more heat than light]

Sorry Ireland.

[Moggy]

Austria are pissing themselves laughing.

[Squinty]

It's like we are taking Ireland with us on a suicide pact. So sad.

[Garth]

twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/1019977350224777216

twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/1019984063577444356

[Garth]

twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/1019992665180471297

[Return_of_the_STAR]

twitter.com/BenChu_/status/1019953728718278656

It’s funny how the DM seem to have forgotten the UK data in their story on this report isn’t it. Leading to comments liked in their thousands about have the EU will suffer and not us so the EU have nothing to bargain with etc... how is a news outlet allowed to just get away with complete lies.

[Squinty]

twitter.com/mpc_1968/status/1019677525046415360

Watch the whole thing

[Lagamorph]

Chequers agreement is ‘final offer’ to the EU, warns Andrea Leadsom

The Commons Leader said the white paper set out by the Government was a “hard and fast offer” that the EU had “better take seriously” or risk “forcing us down the road of no deal”.

Yet more "It's all the EU's fault" posturing.

[Hexx]

twitter.com/PeterKGeoghegan/status/1020036767012048897

[Garth]

So that's why she bothered to come here? FFS.

[Lagamorph]

So basically the EU now have no reason to believe we will honour any commitment we make. We can't even be trusted to abide by legal agreements we've actually signed.
I should call my mortgage provider tomorrow and tell them that I can no longer honour making my payments as the damage to my bank balance it causes is something I will never accept and I believe no occupier of my home could ever accept.
However I demand to maintain all the benefits of keeping my house.

[Squinty]

Destabilising the economy?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-44883612

The CBI director in Northern Ireland has warned the region "looks to be on the brink of recessionary territory" after official figures showed the economy shrank in the first three months of 2018.

The figures showed a contraction of 0.3% compared to the previous quarter.

There was a decline of 1% compared to the same period last year.

Angela McGowan said it was "a stark warning for the Northern Irish economy".

The statistics are measured using the Northern Ireland Composite Economic Index (NICEI).

That is roughly equivalent to Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

They are the most up-to-date official figures for the local economy.

Ms McGowan said the data had revealed "worrying levels of economic contraction and present a stark warning for the Northern Irish economy".

She said although there had been growth in the last quarter of 2017 that had followed two consecutive declines in economic activity in the middle of 2017.

The marginal decrease in the NICEI over the quarter was driven by a fall in construction sector output.
'Beast from the east'

That may be related to the impact of the 'beast from the east' storm in March.

The decline in the index over the year was mainly due to the the manufacturing sector.

Recent figures from manufacturing have been skewed by the ending of of production at the JTI and Michelin factories in Ballymena.

Although the sources are not fully comparable, the results show that the UK economy has been growing at a faster pace than Northern Ireland.

Annual growth (comparing Q1 2018 with Q1 2017) was 1.2% in the UK compared with -1.0% in NI.

Although the growth of the Northern Ireland economy has been comparatively weak over the last year the labour market has been performing strongly.

The total number of people in work has never been higher and the unemployment rate is close to record lows.

That suggests that Northern Ireland's long term problem with weak productivity is continuing.

Meanwhile, official figures from the Republic of Ireland suggest that the domestic economy grew in the first quarter of the year.

Ireland's national accounts tend to be significantly distorted by the activities of foreign multinational companies.

The first quarter GDP figure showed a quarterly decline of 0.6% while GNP (Gross National Product) showed a decline of 4.9%.

However, Modified Domestic Demand - a measure used to remove the distorting effects of multinationals - showed growth of 2.8% during the first quarter.

We don't appear to be doing all that well.

[Cuttooth]

She’s risking a return to widespread violence in Northern Ireland all because English nationalists can’t be told the truth about the impossibility of their fantasies.

[Lagamorph]

She’s risking a return to widespread violence in Northern Ireland all because English nationalists can’t be told the truth about the impossibility of their fantasies.

No she's not, the bullying EU are!

[Hexx]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 55451.html

There you go. It’s all up to the EU.

[KK]

twitter.com/BenChu_/status/1019953728718278656

This wouldn’t be the same IMF that predicted a vote to leave would trigger a stock market crash and a UK wide recession in 2017, would it...

[DML]

twitter.com/BenChu_/status/1019953728718278656

This wouldn’t be the same IMF that predicted a vote to leave would trigger a stock market crash and a UK wide recession in 2017, would it...

A recession is coming. Absolutely inevitable.

[Hexx]

twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1019080862741204993

[Moggy]

twitter.com/BenChu_/status/1019953728718278656

This wouldn’t be the same IMF that predicted a vote to leave would trigger a stock market crash and a UK wide recession in 2017, would it...

I think that the people of this country have had enough of experts from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong, because these people are the same ones who got consistently wrong