And over half of them is due to our colonial heritage. (Not a history to be proud of.)
I had a long conversation with someone yesterday on this very topic. He's sense is that the european (continent) investments in London (we were talking mostly about the financial services industry) is due to what the city has to offer, not because UK/London being part of the EU. As such, he believes that the investments will likely continue, without substantial declines as others have suggested.
I tend to agree with that assessment.
I had a long conversation with someone yesterday on this very topic. He's sense is that the european (continent) investments in London (we were talking mostly about the financial services industry) is due to what the city has to offer, not because UK/London being part of the EU. As such, he believes that the investments will likely continue, without substantial declines as others have suggested.
I tend to agree with that assessment.Interesting, the stockmarkets do not agree and the banks are preparing for a move probably towards Luxembourg or some other financial paradise inside the EU, at least that is the news we are hearing.
It is not as much the EU or britisch/scottisch banks ofcourse but the big international banks that want to be in the EU for their business that are moving. We'll see what happens, again who knows really?
Stock markets are small potatos. As for banks. I don't know if even Luxemburg will give them their own little semi-private police force to harass people with, or has a large enough economy to convincingly limit counterparty risk of "too big to fail" entities.
Brexit leaves the UK financial industry with no options remotely as good as the City and the UK were ... you'd almost feel sorry for them.
Brexit leaves the UK financial industry with no options remotely as good as the City and the UK were ... you'd almost feel sorry for them.
The perp had known mental problems. It is exceptionally lazy and unhelpful to assume that all those who vote in a certain way in this referendum share the same deranged ideology.
In addition, there is as yet no official connection drawn between the acts of this nutter and the Brexit campaigns, and much as it is easy to draw conclusions from hearsay, I suggest that it should be treated as that.
Washington post is a well respected paper, a US of A paper mind you! Try to fade him away as a basic UK nutter is extremely lame!
Brexit leaves the UK financial industry with no options remotely as good as the City and the UK were ... you'd almost feel sorry for them.Is that why Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan gave £500,000 each to the remain campaign or were they just being public spirited?
Even the Remain camp are stating that house prices will ease as a result of a Brexit. To many people that would be welcome, certainly where I live, where you need to be earning £150k+ just to buy a £500,000 studio apartment. There is nothing racist in that.
There is nothing racist in stating that schools are under pressure from children where English is not their first language.
There is nothing racist in stating that the NHS is under pressure from health tourism because the NHS is so freely available to all.
All of those three things you mention are only perceived to be racist because individuals choose to manipulate it to be so for their own agenda. It is not racist to point out that these things happen.
Not that either side has exactly distinguished itself in this debate (and I use the term advisedly).
it has become a squalid, disgraceful mass debate.
We really don't do dynasties around here and getting this stopped in its tracks is a good idea.
Actually you do - far more than Europe.
Start with Bush Snr, then Jnr, and then Jeb tried to make it number 3.
Continue with the Kennedys; Jack/John was number 1, and Robert would probably have been number 2 if he hadn't been murdered.
Were there any earlier ones?
I don't normally give Polly Toynbee much time but I think that she hit the right note in this article The mood is is ugly, and an MP is dead. The Leave campaign is playing the race card and it is not pleasant.
Yesterday on the news a UK farmer that wanted to leave the EU although she receives directly 45k GBP a year subsidy from the EU.
Still she wants to leave, well that is someone at least that has it hopefully figured out, although I wonder what her prices will look like in a year.
We really don't do dynasties around here and getting this stopped in its tracks is a good idea.
Actually you do - far more than Europe.
Start with Bush Snr, then Jnr, and then Jeb tried to make it number 3.
Continue with the Kennedys; Jack/John was number 1, and Robert would probably have been number 2 if he hadn't been murdered.
Were there any earlier ones?
John Adams 2d President and John Quincy Adams 6th President (father-son)
Theodore Roosevelt 26th President and Franklin D Roosevelt 32d President (5th cousins)
There may be others but history isn't my interest.
George W Bush wasn't nearly as bright as his father and Jeb, well, Jeb isn't highly regarded either. I actually thought Jeb would do better than he did. Either name recognition didn't help or it helped a lot. It depends on your point of view. What I wouldn't have wanted to see was Rubio or Cruz as a candidate.
Washington post is a well respected paper, a US of A paper mind you!Not anymore. It's now owned by Bezos and serves his political agenda.
Self preservation, pragmatism before ideology, avoiding identity politics, facing reality as is without
a dense smoke screen of political correctness, and avoiding a blind adherence to the status quo.
QuoteThe last two presidents here were no good.
He is a far better choice than the alternative. First of all, he's a proven disrupter. I don't think we'll be hanging around in the Middle East and, with luck and planning, maybe we'll be out of eastern Europe before the fireworks start. There will probably be some other disruptions in foreign relations and I'm all for that!
The alternative brings with her a pending storm. Little Chelsea wants to be President just like her mommy and daddy. We really don't do dynasties around here and getting this stopped in its tracks is a good idea.
From the wars in the middle east (over estimating benefit/cost), the rise of ISIS ('a JV team') doubling our national debt (each on his own), restricting the healthcare insurance market (try to change carrier mid year), more people on food stamps, decline in good jobs, terror attacks,
and rampant illegal immigration. A rational American has many reasons not voting for more-of-the-same.
You are asking to much of your 2 party system, with Trump as president you might face a 1 party/person system as Trump would not hesitate to manipulate the constitution to suit his needs well Bush ignored it in parts, just as Putin manipulates his system. Ah i forgot that Trump adores Putin, find's him a reasonable and "strong man", does that mean that the Swedes should stop spy on the Russians on US behalf as they have done for quite many years already? US intelligence are extremely pleased of this "Swedish specialty".
Here is interesting report about Trump and prior presidents willingness to obey congress/constitution, maybe you will find a conspiracy lurking in Time mag as well...
http://time.com/4320105/donald-trump-u-s-constitution/
. Sweden and Us just recently signed a Statement of Intent, well not much in public but a lot behind the curtains, which gives US access to Swedish airfields in case Putin goes berserk! So with Trump as president is that cancelled?
This is, of course, the problem - there is always a gulf between reality and perception and there are always fears which politicians can use for leverage.
Zpata criticized me for my lack of rational critical thinking so what he and some other Americans here are saying is that out of a 318,9 million intellectual "rational critical thinking" population all that they can come up with as presidential candidates is a: communist, a: dynasist and a: lame Mussolini impersonator!?
... The Executive Branch doesn't make the laws, they just selectively enforce them, or not.
Eastern Europe should be heating up any day now.
Eastern Europe should be heating up any day now.No wars in our backyard. Keep your main export product to yourself for once.
It's about Brexit here, not the next cold war.