tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post3756504813341830844..comments2024-03-28T22:45:51.014+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Fabian PhilCityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-81814706916894317782017-07-13T08:32:39.049+01:002017-07-13T08:32:39.049+01:00My neighbour commutes to Hungary.
One of the few g...My neighbour commutes to Hungary.<br />One of the few going " the other way." University lecturer.<br /><br />He says Hungary is breaking towards the extreme right! ( he means they favour no immigration.and would , almost, rather leave the EU than take any of the African-Syrians.) <br />Putin is very popular, I'm told. Neighbour says he is at the point of giving up his job there. It's a very regressive atmosphere.<br /><br />This, from a country that defied Russian tanks and was always the least signed up of the Warsaw Pact nations.<br />They, I'm told, prefer the strong man dictator to the democratic liberalism ideology of the EU. <br />It's only the cash keeping them in. <br />If there was a referendum, they would vote leave.<br /><br />Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-59052412597484115152017-07-12T06:38:51.484+01:002017-07-12T06:38:51.484+01:00Spent a delightful weekend cycling the byeways of ...Spent a delightful weekend cycling the byeways of Kent and enjoying the beautiful English countryside. Noticed on the way the high levels of building of Europark This and Europark That and Europark the Other 3. <br /><br />Would be interested to know where the property development community are land banking in that in the new Liam Fox inspired world would entail a shift in trade patterns. <br /><br />Land must be cheap near Southampton, Ipswich, Plymouth and Liverpool so where are the post Brexit bets being placed. <br /><br />Early mover advantage?<br /><br />By the way, there are shitloads of Bulgarians about at the momentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-62671868997125394242017-07-10T21:44:44.622+01:002017-07-10T21:44:44.622+01:00The analogy with the Second Punic War will not ent...The analogy with the Second Punic War will not entirely correspond. The aim of Quintus Fabius was to use delaying tactics in order to defeat the Carthaginians, which he did.<br /><br />The aim of the CBI and other Remoaners is to use delaying tactics in order to surrender to the EU/Carthaginians. Indeed, this would offer a closer analogy, since the EU is becoming more like North Africa with every passing day.<br /><br />In fairness to Hammond, his job as Chancellor is to minimise the risks to the British economy. That, combined with his natural Eeyorish outlook, inclines him to caution and procrastination.<br /><br />Fortunately, David Davis is in charge of Brexit negotiations, not Hammond. Furthermore, Davis is buttressed by Liam Fox and by Boris Johnson. We also have a Prime Minister who knows that her only chance of redeeming her Premiership now is through a successful Brexit.<br /><br />I happened to see David Cameron today, all alone and unrecognised, wheeling his bicycle through St.James's Park. I don't know if Theresa May rides a bicycle, but she might take his personal fate as a warning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-89329557275739752292017-07-10T13:21:14.989+01:002017-07-10T13:21:14.989+01:00Like renovating a dilapidated house; sometimes it ...Like renovating a dilapidated house; sometimes it is necessary to take a step back, survey the landscape, then realize that the path forward involves razing everything to the ground and starting from scratch.<br />So is it with Brexit.<br />Richard North and many others would have you believe that years, nay decades are required to ease into a new relationship with Europe. To unpick laws and treaties one step at a time.<br />Anyone with experience of the real world will know that once the bureaucracies get involved then nothing will get done.<br />It's all or nothing.<br /><br />BlokeInBrumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-18453008634844322852017-07-10T11:02:14.167+01:002017-07-10T11:02:14.167+01:00If we delay leaving we won't leave. Transition...If we delay leaving we won't leave. Transitional arrangements must be time-limited, and the shorter time the better.<br /><br /><i>"Nought shall make us rue<br />If Britain to herself do rest but true"</i> <br /><br />Trouble is, we have a lot of influential people for whom 'Britain' is nothing but an economy with some good private schools, theatres and landscape attached. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-69009607748494868482017-07-10T10:45:17.044+01:002017-07-10T10:45:17.044+01:00She doesnt need to get to the end of the garden pa...<br />She doesnt need to get to the end of the garden path<br /><br />She just needs to gain a sense of timing - when to step out.<br /><br />I remain convinced that the cons lost so badly in 97 because they were just dead people walking and clearly either not exercising power - or if they did, not for any rational purpose.<br /><br />Most things do not have to be done _now_ - apart from brexit.<br /><br />There is reason for her to reach out and build a genuine cross - party consensus on brexit.<br /><br />Not because she really needs to. <br /><br />More that when it is clear that it is all going horribly wrong and our economy is set on converging with Romania's, the great british public will not blame themselves, <br />they will blame the legislators.<br /><br />You think it will succeed?<br /><br />How naive <br />- all I will say is by what standard <br />- and by the standards of the bbc, ft, economist, guardian, about 40% of the sitting MPs and the 48% of the UK population who look to show that they were right, anything short of complete success is utter failure, and we know that as we we will lose frictionless trade (or at least friction will increase post brexit), we have failed already.<br /><br />What the exiters need to do is define what a successful brexit is before the failure meme becomes completely entrenched.<br />Otherwise their careers are over.<br /><br />- What will a successful brexit look like in 2022?<br /><br />andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-33877287800467957562017-07-10T09:20:03.976+01:002017-07-10T09:20:03.976+01:00the real need for a fabian strategy is Tory Party ...the real need for a fabian strategy is Tory Party vs the oncoming Corbyn<br /><br />unfortunately I wouldn't credit May with being able to devise a strategy for reaching the end of the garden path, that wouldn't get blown off course by a sparrow looking at her askance Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-38864279269029058322017-07-10T00:03:19.153+01:002017-07-10T00:03:19.153+01:00Sort out the Tory Party mainstream and the BBC sha...Sort out the Tory Party mainstream and the BBC sharpish. They are the ones thwarting Brexit. Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-90279567529817704732017-07-09T23:59:15.504+01:002017-07-09T23:59:15.504+01:00Trump was mightily unexpected but he is here.
Th...Trump was mightily unexpected but he is here. <br /><br />The BBC dislike it (good)<br /><br />The default of the Tory Party is:<br /><br />- Remain in the EU<br /><br />- Follow Blairism (whom they mightily respect)<br /><br />The Tory Party is our problem - Not Corbyn. <br /><br />In the advent of Brexit they gifted us.... MAY !!!<br /><br />Hitchens was absolutely right to abstain from the referendum on the basis that there was not the party to lead us out of the EU. <br /><br />I wish I had listened. The Tories are the enemy. <br /><br />The country is too disparate to organise. We are cats being herded through a single cat-flap because none would commit. Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-75294893597175239902017-07-09T20:39:43.558+01:002017-07-09T20:39:43.558+01:00EK - Craig Oliver, head of project fear, and getti...EK - Craig Oliver, head of project fear, and getting fed up with being told the referendum was only a conservative ploy to sort out its backbencher said the other day.<br /><br />" we had a referendum on membership of the eu. And leave won. Which tells you exactly why we had need of a referendum."<br /><br />I don't think anyone believes it can all be done in the time scale. But the destination can be set. And it mustn't include any base camp halfway up the mountain that eventually becomes a home. Trump is willing to give a deal. He will too.<br /><br />There are people wailing that us will demand so much from us a deal won't be worth having. USA/eu style.<br /><br />Trump, uniquely, is about Trump. If he wants to do a deal, then Washington can follow up after wards. But the deal will be done.<br />We need to grab the offer whilst he is still needing good publicity and still in office. He won't be there for long.<br /><br />And china will do a deal. Pretty much whatever we want. They have more sets of forks and spoons and pop up tents, shirts, canoes, televisions than we could possibly buy. <br />They will say what they want, and will happily ship us their stuff in exchange.<br /><br />People continue to moan that china and USA trade is only" x" % of our Eu trade.<br /><br />Well, naysayers...we will still have the eu trade. Or most of it. And it's a miracle we have ANY Chinese or US trade at all, a we are in the eu. <br />It must be obvious even to the most remoaniest of remoaners that non eu trade WILL rise to replace lost eu trade.<br /><br />Nothing stands still. Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-22688115168609599582017-07-09T20:20:05.095+01:002017-07-09T20:20:05.095+01:00Remainers totally ignore the biblical scenes from ...Remainers totally ignore the biblical scenes from the Mediterranian and the EU debt and unemployment. They never explain to us the intended destination of the EU. <br /><br />All very well Line-wanker telling us "no positives with Brexit" when the Remain camp abjectly failed to sell us remain positives in the Referendum. <br /><br />All they had to sell was Project Fear. <br /><br />The EU is SHIT.<br /><br />THAT's why we voted to leave it. <br /><br />Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-27390347422351864542017-07-09T19:50:16.451+01:002017-07-09T19:50:16.451+01:00Graeme
I think most Brexiters understand that - h...Graeme<br /><br />I think most Brexiters understand that - hence their patient and sensible use of due democratic process to achieve their aims. <br /><br />This took place over a long period of time and against all odds. As the man said "I made my mind up long before the battle bus was painted."<br /><br />We understand the nuances but a Norwegian proposition is a con. <br /><br />http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/staying-customs-union-after-brexit-would-be-disaster-britains-trade-1628721<br /><br />Whilst in the EU us 'boomers' have seen our kids thrust back into the 1920s. Debt laden renter serfdom. Never mind the '70s when a man could pay for a home, a wife to raise his kids full time and look after both parents. <br /><br />Sexist ?<br /><br />Luxury by today's standards. <br />Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-5835666924982444312017-07-09T19:00:34.984+01:002017-07-09T19:00:34.984+01:00Isn't the problem that leaving the EU combines...Isn't the problem that leaving the EU combines a number of different subject areas,for example political, geopolitical, economic independence. Political independence seems possible. But the other 2 can only happen on a partial basis. I cannot see the UK turning its back entirely on what happens on the European landmass, simply because there are players other than the UK and EU. Similarly, given international trade and financial flows, a complete severance from the EU is both unlikely and undesirable. Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007306140530173428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-56986530313615972762017-07-09T01:50:30.064+01:002017-07-09T01:50:30.064+01:00Labian Phif.
Not clever but you get my drif. Labian Phif. <br /><br />Not clever but you get my drif. Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-54994102524049475692017-07-08T15:56:34.926+01:002017-07-08T15:56:34.926+01:00
... because no-one else wants such a horrid job?
...<br />... because no-one else wants such a horrid job?<br /><br />until revenues (i.e. incomes / corp profits) start rising and we have eliminated the deficit, this is a job that only be done with varying degrees of failure.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-72519766215526834852017-07-08T15:24:01.377+01:002017-07-08T15:24:01.377+01:00Why is Mr Hammond chancellor? Does he have a stron...Why is Mr Hammond chancellor? Does he have a strong following among the Conservative MPs?John in Cheshirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16304578727119582195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-46805364210821844042017-07-08T14:59:16.984+01:002017-07-08T14:59:16.984+01:00TBH, you could say the same about Mayhem herself p...TBH, you could say the same about Mayhem herself plus, in a reprise of the 1970's, the entire Civil Service is committed to merely managing Britain's decline.amcluesenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10887158439636012151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-31546183892453650542017-07-08T14:51:43.717+01:002017-07-08T14:51:43.717+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.amcluesenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10887158439636012151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-37612757847645246832017-07-08T14:51:36.565+01:002017-07-08T14:51:36.565+01:00Personally, I think the world would be a better pl...Personally, I think the world would be a better place had Hannibal and The Carthaginians won.Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.com