http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/01/brexit-talk-with-nigel-farage.html
Brexit discussion starts ~7:50
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Inquiring minds are listening to an interesting Interview with Nigel Farage on the "Brexit". For those unfamiliar with the term, "Brexit" means a United Kingdom (British) exit from the EU.
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Click on the first link to play the podacast with the always entertaining Farage, to hear what he has to say to GoldMoney interviewer Andy Duncan regarding the ongoing euro currency situation and the recent speeches from Mr Barroso, the President of the European Commission.
They also discuss the recent news of the German Bundesbank's decision to repatriate some of its physical gold reserves from the USA and France, and the chances of the “Brexit” in the next few years, as well as the likely fate of the euro and the EU itself.
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France would "roll out the red carpet" if Britain decided to leave the European Union, the country's foreign minister has said, as David Cameron promised to give Britons a straight referendum choice on whether to stay in the 27-nation bloc or leave.
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Mr Cameron promised on Wednesday to give Britons a straight referendum choice on whether to stay in the European Union or leave, provided he wins an election in 2015.
He ended months of speculation by announcing in a speech the plan for a vote sometime between 2015 and 2018, shrugging off warnings that this could imperil Britain's diplomatic and economic prospects and alienate its allies.
But Mr Cameron said Britain did not want to pull up the drawbridge and retreat from the world but that public disillusionment with the EU is at "an all-time high".
"It is time for the British people to have their say. It is time for us to settle this question about Britain and Europe," Cameron said. His Conservative party would campaign for the 2015 election promising to renegotiate Britain's EU membership.
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I think the elitists know that when the balloon goes up, the People will come after the financial centers with a serious vengeance, and they do not want the EU to be associated with the evil banks at that point, since they will have already looted all the hard assets, leaving worthless paper promises stacked in Londons vaults.
JMHO
French National Front leader Marine Le Pen calls for EU membership referendum in France
Thursday, June 23, 2016, will go down in history as Britain’s Independence Day. The Europhile elite has been defeated. Britain points Europe the way to the future and to liberation. It is time for a new start, relying on our own strength and sovereignty. Also in the Netherlands.
A recent survey (EenVandaag, Dutch television) shows that a majority of the Dutch want a referendum on EU membership. It also shows that more Dutch are in favour of exit than of remaining in the EU.
The Dutch people deserve a referendum as well. The Party for Freedom consequently demands a referendum on NExit, a Dutch EU exit. ...
How about not having to listen to Germans still suffering with nazi guilt ....
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They just learnt to be PC about it.
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Deutsche Bank analyst said:...
It's worth looking at the voting split in the UK's EU referendum based on polls compiled by Lord Ashcroft to get an idea of the disenfranchisement. In terms of socio-economic groups, 57% of ABs (upper/middle class - professional/managers etc) voted remain, 49% of C1s (lower middle class - supervisory/clerical or junior management/administrative), 36% of C2s (skilled working class) and 36% of DEs (Ds - semi & unskilled manual workers. Es - casual/lowest grade worker or state pensioner). So there's no escaping the fact that this is a class war. Whether its globalisation, immigration, inequality, poor economic growth or a combination of all of them it's quite clear from this and other anti-establishment movements that the status quo can't last in a democracy. Eventually you'll have a reaction. ...
Haven't come across any guilt in those alive today but I am aware that they have always had difficulty accepting non white folk as equal.
They just learnt to be PC about it.
( disclosure - My mother was german and met my father who was in the occupying forces in germany after ww2, so I am able to comment )
so locally, the sentiment is there is a divide between the old and young? Do folks buy into the narrative that the old voted for leave because they are racist/xenophobic?
Angela Merkel is a prime example Also in the '72 Olympics it was on full display as they were so terrified to have any police or military presence, especially around the Israeli team that it resulted in that catastrophe. When I was stationed there, the whole topic of anything in regards to Nazi's, Hitler, WWII or Jews made any of the krauts I tried bringing up the topic become red faced and try to change the subject.
...It might feel good to rattle sabers, but nothing good can possibly come of it. The risk of a hard Brexit is very real, and it’s a two-way street.Mario Draghi has become the latest European official to push for the EU to take a tough line in negotiations with the UK over Brexit, saying Britain should be refused access to the single market unless it sticks to rules on free movement of labour.
“Regardless of the type of relationship that emerges between the European Union and the United Kingdom, it is of utmost importance that the integrity of the single market is respected,” Mr Draghi said, speaking at the European Parliament on Monday. “Any outcome should ensure that all participants are subject to the same rules.”
Referring to rules on the free movement of labour, capital, goods and services, the ECB president said: “The four freedoms go all together. That’s clear.”
Mr Draghi added: “How we come out of this position will impinge on the stability of the union in future.” Allowing the UK to skirt the rules would weaken the EU’s strength in years to come, he said.
If the UK loses access to the “single market”, the EU will find itself losing exports to the UK.
No one wins these kinds of trade wars, but the EU will lose far more.
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- Nigel Dodds said the DUP would rather a no deal than the current EU proposal
- New warning comes as Theresa May embarks on her latest diplomatic offensive
- Crucial EU summit is due to begin in two weeks time and is meant to finish a deal
- May offering compromise to match customs union rules until a trade deal is done
The U.K. cabinet is bitterly divided over Brexit, and the Irish border isn’t the only problem.
It’s tempting to think Prime Minister Theresa May’s only difficulty in the Brexit negotiations is to find a solution to the Irish border conundrum. After all, it’s the only substantial question left to resolve in the U.K.’s divorce treaty, which needs to be finalized within the next few weeks. But the inability to find answers may be a symptom of a wider problem.
As Tim Ross reports today, two factions in May’s cabinet are battling over the issue of how to avoid customs checks at the Irish frontier without tying the U.K. into the European Union’s trade regime forever. The EU says there must be a “backstop” – an insurance policy that will keep the border invisible “unless or until” a better future post-Brexit arrangement is agreed.
The “unless or until” language, first mentioned in the EU’s plan for the Irish border backstop in February, highlights May’s difficulty. The U.K. doesn’t have an agreed clear vision for what it wants its future relationship to look like, and while this remains the case it’s difficult for May to get political buy-in for any version of the backstop. While the government remains divided over how close the U.K. should be to the EU after Brexit, any backup plan for Ireland doesn’t look quite as temporary as it otherwise might.
Negotiators are looking at various ways to help May make the Irish backstop more sellable. Brexit-backers in her cabinet are demanding a legally binding mechanism to pull Britain out. They fear that the U.K. will stay tied in a customs union with the bloc indefinitely, preventing the country from striking new trade deals around the world – a key prize of Brexit for those who campaigned for it.
That’s unlikely to wash with the EU, which says that the backstop can work as an insurance policy only if the “unless or until” language remains. At a summit in Brussels last week, May offered further compromises, pledging to consider extending the U.K.’s post-Brexit transition period and to drop her demand for a strict end-date to the backstop. It still isn’t enough and, as with May losing control over the warring factions within her team, it’s why many EU member states now struggle to see how May can push any reasonable negotiated accord through Parliament.
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Sadiq Khan warned the EU to brace for Brexit to be delayed today - as Theresa May put off a Cabinet showdown over her Irish border plan.
The London Mayor told Michel Barnier to be ready to postpone the March deadline as he held talks with the negotiator in Brussels.
He said an extension to the Article 50 process could well be needed while a second referendum or election is held.
The intervention came as Remainers ramped up their campaign to block Brexit as negotiations reach crunch point.
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Nicola Sturgeon has claimed that the draft Brexit agreement between the UK and EU would be bad for Scotland as her party pledged to oppose the deal.
Scotland's first minister said the proposals would take Scotland out of the single market while Northern Ireland effectively stays in.
This would have a "devastating" impact on jobs and investment in Scotland, she insisted.
The prime minister is currently hosting a cabinet meeting in Downing Street.
But her Brexit deal proposals, which have not yet been published, are already facing strong opposition from senior Brexiteers and some Remain supporters.
The BBC's Norman Smith said Theresa May would seek to head off the threat of any resignations by telling her ministers that while not perfect, the agreement was as good as it can get.
Ahead of the cabinet meeting, Mrs May told Prime Minister's Questions that the UK is now "significantly closer" to delivering on the result of the Brexit vote,
However the Democratic Unionist Party, which props up her minority Conservative government, has warned that the deal could lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom if it is accepted by MPs.
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