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Carney told the treasury select committee yesterday that the Brexit risk to the UK financial stability had been greatly overstated and there was in fact a far greater risk to the rest of the EU.

Now tell me again how weak our negotiating poisition is all that other bogus "experts predict disaster" rubbish.

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For someone who spends every waking hour sneering at people and calling them uneducated you're not very good at reading are you David.

Well, lets skip the hyperbole and the ad hominem attack and just ask who's David?

What's the fact that Donald Trump won on the US electoral system got to do with the referendum being won on a majority system?

I found the ironic contrast to be amusing.

But we all know it's a usual trick of yours having lost the argument on the referendum. Fail. But you're good at that.

What's a usual trick? You're the one who's pretending that I said something I didn't, so that you can get all outraged about it. Just read things before you get all frothy at mouth and start hammering the keyboard.

 

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Carney told the treasury select committee yesterday that the Brexit risk to the UK financial stability had been greatly overstated and there was in fact a far greater risk to the rest of the EU.

Now tell me again how weak our negotiating poisition is all that other bogus "experts predict disaster" rubbish.

 

If (as some people on this thread wish) we end up with a 'hard brexit' he said this

 

The governor also told members of the Treasury Select Committee that a period of transition was "highly advisable".

"If there is not such a transition put in place, in our view it will have consequences. We will work to mitigate those consequences as much as possible," he said.

 

So the risks are reduced because the bank (lead by him) has taken mitigating actions (what exactly is unclear), but if we follow a hard exit then it will have consequences.

 

Time will tell of course, unfortunately I don't want to be able to say "I told you so" when the entire economy has crashed and you're out of work living on a park bench. I don't think I'll get much satisfaction from it.

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So the risks are reduced because the bank (lead by him) has taken mitigating actions (what exactly is unclear)
Re. bold bit: 1, 2. FYP :)

 

This was discussed in a Brexit thread or another (since closed) at the time, I seem to recall the Leave brigade (here and figureheads in the media) frothing at the mouth over his public intervention (because of the apolitical nature of his post).

 

Not that I'd expect them to show any acknowledgement, never mind contrition, for it now, of course. Nah, far better to gloat over his 'wrong' predictions (which were made before he unilaterally took action this past summer towards mitigating the breakage) and, conveniently, ignore entirely his UK-helping deeds since June :roll:

 

I'm close to despairing at the level of imbecilic crassness, to which politics is currently falling like a lead weight, in this country and elsewhere.

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The experts predictions are steadily being replaced by facts as reality stubbornly refuses to obey the predictions from project fear. I still think Carney's intervention was unwise but it's done now and it doesn't really matter.

 

As for the EU negotiations, the real battle is likely to be between the council who will be firmly for free trade with the UK and the commission who will want to "punish" the UK for daring to leave, and deter others from following the same path or demanding better terms.

We may learn a lot from this about who is really in charge of the EU.

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Re. bold bit: 1, 2. FYP :)

 

This was discussed in a Brexit thread or another (since closed) at the time, I seem to recall the Leave brigade (here and figureheads in the media) frothing at the mouth over his public intervention (because of the apolitical nature of his post).

 

Not that I'd expect them to show any acknowledgement, never mind contrition, for it now, of course. Nah, far better to gloat over his 'wrong' predictions (which were made before he unilaterally took action this past summer towards mitigating the breakage) and, conveniently, ignore entirely his UK-helping deeds since June :roll:

 

There is very little in those links that give out much information as to exactly what he has done and achieved with his UK helping deeds since they were published last year.

 

Maybe you could sum them up and explain what effect they have had?

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The experts predictions are steadily being replaced by facts as reality stubbornly refuses to obey the predictions from project fear. I still think Carney's intervention was unwise but it's done now and it doesn't really matter.

 

 

nothing has happened yet, we are in a "phony brexit", situation the real test will come in the days following the end of the first days negotiations when the governments plan becomes clear, though it appears mrs may is going to give us a sneak preview next tuesday so that may or may not shed some light on things.

 

in the meantime, people and businesses have been far more optimistic than perhaps was envisaged before the referendum and the bank of england has cut interest rates and pumped billions into the economy to inflate the asset bubbles, people went on one last fling at christmas and the fall in sterling means that foreign companies can purchase and asset strip uk companies at fire sale prices.

 

regardless of what happens, the price rises as a result of the fall in sterling will start to appear along with an increase in inflation. the increase in inflation might prompt businesses to invest to increase productivity which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.

 

we've touched on this in the past, and that is over the last 40 years cross eu supply chains have developed where components flow across the eu borders easily and tariff free. if the end deal undermines the uk's place in those chains then it's hard to see how many of the businesses involved can survive without massive job losses. of course, eventually, they may be able to reestablish their businesses but that might take years with the uk suffering high unemployment and all its consequences in the meantime.

 

the brexiteers seem to be pinning their hopes on liam fox's trade deals and while these will make our exports easier, they also make imports easier too. so unless he's found some countries with no exporters who want to deal with us, any growth in employment due to exports is likely to be balanced by jobs lost because imports have replaced home produced products.

 

we also need to consider that the world seems to be moving towards more protectionism, particularly america. also, as we run headlong into these deals lets not forget that many of the things about the TTIP treaty which got everyone all worked up tend to be standard parts of these sorts of deals so all these arguments will reappear, especially as we try and do deals with the more economically advanced countries.

 

there are other important things other than trade deals which no one seems to have spoken about, things like the erasmus and horizon2020 projects if we pull out of those then it will seriously limit the teaching and research potential of our universities and other organisations,

 

also, the common aviation area, leaving that might affect the ability of uk based airlines to operate in the eu, and as there are eu level deals with them, the us and canada.

 

and a final thing, will we leave the european medicine regulatory framework?

some of the consequences are explored here......

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/oct/14/why-losing-the-european-medicines-agency-is-bad-news-for-patients-jobs-and-the-nhs

 

it may not matter anyway

 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/753487/END-OF-THE-WORLD-friday-13-apocalypse-Venus-Wolf-Moon

 

lets hope your soul is clean, just in case............

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nothing has happened yet, we are in a "phony brexit", situation the real test will come in the days following the end of the first days negotiations when the governments plan becomes clear, though it appears mrs may is going to give us a sneak preview next tuesday so that may or may not shed some light on things.

 

in the meantime, people and businesses have been far more optimistic than perhaps was envisaged before the referendum and the bank of england has cut interest rates and pumped billions into the economy to inflate the asset bubbles, people went on one last fling at christmas and the fall in sterling means that foreign companies can purchase and asset strip uk companies at fire sale prices.

 

regardless of what happens, the price rises as a result of the fall in sterling will start to appear along with an increase in inflation. the increase in inflation might prompt businesses to invest to increase productivity which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.

 

we've touched on this in the past, and that is over the last 40 years cross eu supply chains have developed where components flow across the eu borders easily and tariff free. if the end deal undermines the uk's place in those chains then it's hard to see how many of the businesses involved can survive without massive job losses. of course, eventually, they may be able to reestablish their businesses but that might take years with the uk suffering high unemployment and all its consequences in the meantime.

 

the brexiteers seem to be pinning their hopes on liam fox's trade deals and while these will make our exports easier, they also make imports easier too. so unless he's found some countries with no exporters who want to deal with us, any growth in employment due to exports is likely to be balanced by jobs lost because imports have replaced home produced products.

 

we also need to consider that the world seems to be moving towards more protectionism, particularly america. also, as we run headlong into these deals lets not forget that many of the things about the TTIP treaty which got everyone all worked up tend to be standard parts of these sorts of deals so all these arguments will reappear, especially as we try and do deals with the more economically advanced countries.

 

there are other important things other than trade deals which no one seems to have spoken about, things like the erasmus and horizon2020 projects if we pull out of those then it will seriously limit the teaching and research potential of our universities and other organisations,

 

also, the common aviation area, leaving that might affect the ability of uk based airlines to operate in the eu, and as there are eu level deals with them, the us and canada.

 

and a final thing, will we leave the european medicine regulatory framework?

some of the consequences are explored here......

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/oct/14/why-losing-the-european-medicines-agency-is-bad-news-for-patients-jobs-and-the-nhs

 

it may not matter anyway

 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/753487/END-OF-THE-WORLD-friday-13-apocalypse-Venus-Wolf-Moon

 

lets hope your soul is clean, just in case............

 

 

I think that European integration has far less market value than some would have us believe and that bad EU policy similarly has far more negative value.

Therefore the net effect on the UK economy from Brexit is positive, as the leave campaign always argued. It really isn't a surprise to us.

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I think that European integration has far less market value than some would have us believe and that bad EU policy similarly has far more negative value.

Therefore the net effect on the UK economy from Brexit is positive, as the leave campaign always argued. It really isn't a surprise to us.

 

It'll come as a surprise when it turns out that this statement is wrong then :)

 

Wait until the actual plans are A) announced and B) implemented, before making value judgments. I admit I didn't at first, but, as you will notice from my relative absence in this thread, that is exactly the phase I am in now.

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It'll come as a surprise when it turns out that this statement is wrong then :)

 

Wait until the actual plans are A) announced and B) implemented, before making value judgments. I admit I didn't at first, but, as you will notice from my relative absence in this thread, that is exactly the phase I am in now.

 

 

I'm not operating on a high degree of certainty, just my estimation of the balance of probabilities. I admit it's a gamble.

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I'm not operating on a high degree of certainty, just my estimation of the balance of probabilities. I admit it's a gamble.

 

Losing a couple of quid because your horse falls at the first fence in the grand national is a gamble. Burning the economy to the ground is insanity not a gamble.

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Losing a couple of quid because your horse falls at the first fence in the grand national is a gamble. Burning the economy to the ground is insanity not a gamble.

 

Thanks. We we're having a reasoned and measured discussion there for a moment. Don't know what we were thinking. Hang on and I'll come up with a similarly exaggerated counter-claim...

 

 

German domination, everybody eating garlic and straight bananas. Also Johnny foreigner taking all our jobs and dictatorship and slavery and such!

There is that better?

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