General Chat

All countries have all manner of problems which they do their best to deal with one way or another, In the case of the EU it is very much the case that problems are shared. For the UK the moribund economy of the 70s and 30 year civil war in Northern Ireland could not have been sorted without the help of the EU.

Germany has problems which go back to the difficult history of East German which was under a racist, totalitarian regime for 60 years. Nevertheless living and working in German is perfectly safe and can be good fun, especially Berlin.

The EU is not trying to make things hard for brexit.

As far as they are concerned May's Govt thrashed out a Withdrawal Agreement which the rest of the union has ratified. There is a phase 2 but that cannot be realised unless and until the UK ratify the WA - as is. There is not the faintest chance of Bojos demands being met as David Frost will discover when he visits Brussels later this week. The WA is not seen as a test of wills, who will blink first etc. The WA is there and the UK can ratifiy it or not. Simples.

On the street ordinary people, while worried about the economic fall out are v much against changes n the WA. The 27 give priority to the Union above piecemeal deals for car makers or tourism.

The Telegrah and its ilk are publishing a lot of nonsense. The brutal truth is very simple. The UK can ask for another extension in which to hold a 2nd referendum or GE. Or it can ratify the WA. Or it can leave with NoDeal. Or of course it can cencel Brexit using S50 option. If the UK chose to do that it could not then restart brexit negotiations from scratch an idea that Corbyn is keen on.

The £ has already dropped by 4c in the past week. Forex traders are expecting it to drop below $ parity in the case of NoDeal Brexit. A crashing currency would lead to big time chaos.

No doubt many brexiters will get practical experience of a tombstone currency durng their summer holidays if they have not booked currency in advance.

Enjoy.

Please yourself what you think about the RR but I can assure you all it ain't me.

Oh and by the way you ain't even worth an RR

Gawd, I haven't been long on here this evening and I keep getting chucked off. :-0

Anyway, the post that disappeared was the one where I mentioned the RR police and jackboots - so perhaps the RRer did not like the inference? Or was it you that he/she objected to Rollo? :-0

I can't, for the life of me, see why anyone would not stand behind his/her convictions rather than go anonymous - and over such piddling little matters at the moment.