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September 4th, 2018, 07:51 PM | #3931 |
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When Ma Merkel visited Athens to tell, erm discuss, problems with the Greek Government the man on the Immigration desk asked 'Occupation' to which she replied 'Not this time'.
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Despite Brexit and the impact on the exchange rate and inflation in the UK, British people will still buy Mercedes, Audi or Porsche cars, whatever the price, because it's a status buy. And middle-class Brits will still buy Bosch, Siemens or Miele electric appliances because those are robust products that last for ages. Portugal, Spain and other weak European economies don't manufacture similar products. The reality is that Germany simply has a more competitive economy than other European nations. France forced Germany to give up the deutschmark and adopt the euro in the hope that it would help contain Germany's economic rise. But in the end, euro or dm, the result is still the same. |
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The Euro is artificially weak because it pools Germany's economy with the economies of much less prosperous and efficient member states. The Euro enables Germany to run a permanent balance of payments surplus without being hampered by a strong currency. This is why Germany goes to extraordinary lengths to "support" Greece - prolonging the economic hardship of the Greek people by preventing devaluation, which is the obvious remedy for their over-borrowed position.
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So really, what you describe as essential to a free trade area, we did not have until the Treaty of Maastricht and we were doing just fine. In the interests of politeness I merely point out that your argument is not based on fact.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-719940.html http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-th...crisis-2014-11 Mitterrand's ulterior motives (containing Germany's economic power within a European structure) were obvious for historians. During WW2, Mitterrand was a prisoner in a German camp for a brief period and later feared as a president a too dominant Germany. |
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But this is an example of "path dependence" -- choices you made before change available options now. And so the options available in leaving the EU are quite different than those that might have been obtained had Britain never joined. |
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The EU, says nothing about the French threatening to send in it's Navy to beat up some scallop fishermen and admits that the way Selmayr got his job was both wrong and not legal but they can't do anything about it.
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To be completely honest I strongly suspect that the British side are in the wrong here, and that the French scallop fishermen are trying to conserve stocks while the British fishermen are being selfish and greedy, and deserve a good slap. But of course this is precisely the self-same shit which has been ruining the British fishing industry ever since 1973. So while my pesky sense of fair play tells me not to support or protect the British fishermen who frankly are ripping out scallops off season and probably deserve exactly what they have been getting from the French side; I can't and don't feel one atom of sympathy for the French fishermen, even though I think they are being wronged. This is a taste of their own medicine. Brexit will come to France's aid, if there is no agreement covering fisheries. But unfortunately it will mean that they won't be able to steal our fish any more either, and our waters are more extensive than theirs, so in net terms (geddit?) we will gain and they will lose. Meanwhile, Spanish and Belgian and Dutch and German boats will be slowly shut out of British waters as British enforcement action gains force and momentum, but will be entitled to come to the Seine Bay under the Common Fisheries Policy and will rip out scallops out of season because there are no common sense EU rules to prevent it. "Common sense EU rules" - oxymoron of the day.
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Its understandable that leaving the EU doesn't return you to the status quo ante |
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