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The UK votes to leave the European Union |OUT2| Mayday, Mayday, I've lost an ARM
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The other aspect is that Frankfurt already has the infrastructure and a talent pool to dip into. With Dublin they'd be starting pretty much from scratch.
Frankfurt, huh.
...poor bankers. Who'd want to live there.
If I had any say I'd collude with other banks and choose some nice and sunny place. Somewhere in Spain or Italy, maybe. Both would probably bend over backwards to be able to lay claim on the financial capital of EU.
They should turn a Greek island into a banker's paradise. Sun and cocaine for everyone! Yay!
That's all they have. Once reality hits them they'll realise what's going on. Let them dream and be assholes on the Internet for now.
It's interesting to see Boris negotiating with himself
https://twitter.com/DMcCaffreySKY/status/857494325286113280
*No one ever suggested this
https://twitter.com/DMcCaffreySKY/status/857494325286113280
*No one ever suggested this
Theonik
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Hey I like Frankfurt.Frankfurt, huh.
...poor bankers. Who'd want to live there.
If I had any say I'd collude with other banks and choose some nice and sunny place. Somewhere in Spain or Italy, maybe. Both would probably bend over backwards to be able to lay claim on the financial capital of EU.
On it chief. We are already working to get the drug authority too.
Frankfurt, huh.
...poor bankers. Who'd want to live there.
If I had any say I'd collude with other banks and choose some nice and sunny place. Somewhere in Spain or Italy, maybe. Both would probably bend over backwards to be able to lay claim on the financial capital of EU.
I quite like Frankfurt. Fuck all to do at the weekend in the city centre though, and relatively dead at night.
Funky Papa
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Frankfurt is deadass boring.
Nothing a few thousand young, ludicrously overpaid
Theonik
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I personally prefer it to London. Loads of things to do but living there is painful.
Frankfurt is nice enough but doesn't have the sprawling mess of a metropolis.
Don't we already handle most of our dirty Russian money laundering and Trump funding over there? Don't be so greedy.
Now, Gibraltar. That would be the most offensive choice, I think - and thus, obviously the best. Just build a city-sized skyscraper on the rock and watch Spain and UK duke it out for the rest of eternity. Plus, the axis Gibraltar-Malta-Cyprus would make for a truly lovely clusterfuck.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
You could ship all of Ibiza's coke and every high priced escort from London to Frankfurt and it would only turn into the world's largest, dullest brothel.
The city pretty much feels like a bizarre amalgam of office space and German suburbia.
The city pretty much feels like a bizarre amalgam of office space and German suburbia.
Frankfurter
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What's up with all the hate against Frankfurt? It's a pretty nice city imo. Certainly nicer than those mega cities a la London.
DarthMasta
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Theonik
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See, that resonates with me in an uncanny level.
Yeap. If there is alcohol and money, all the rest will soon follow.
Vienna could have been a great financial capital if it wouldn't have been for the self isolationism of the Austrians.
Frankfurter
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BBC News: "May, on an extended stay In Derby, failed to present a comment on Johnson's statement on Syria but agreed with her defense secretary's claims that Corbyn is too weak to lead to country."
Yawn. Grow a backbone. I feel like Kuesenburg is steadily becoming May's little croney too.
Yawn. Grow a backbone. I feel like Kuesenburg is steadily becoming May's little croney too.
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/857642198308990977
Gee i wonder why
Already prepping the "They wanted to punish us" line for walking away from negotiating
She was on the news spinning Merkel's comments that the Tories were promoting a Brexit fantasy as a good thing for Theresa May. The reality of Brexit will somehow change if the Tories have more seats in parliament.
Somehow I don't think the rest of the EU care about our parliamentary majorities.
anonymous_abc
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Shocking. rEU standing together.... Who would have thunk.
What I find absolutely HILARIOUS about this is that she admits she wants to pick the union apart to strengthen UK's position. Offering Greece something, offering Spain something etc. It was obviously UK's plan all along but you don't just say that like this. Like, wth?
Royal_Phalanx
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Deep and special new partnership
I thought that May would be a fan of the strong and stable leadership shown by Merkel, uniting the continent in the European interest.
EU prepares for post-Brexit membership for united Ireland
https://www.ft.com/content/f4c720b0-2b63-11e7-bc4b-5528796fe35c (if it goes to paywall google the title)
https://www.ft.com/content/f4c720b0-2b63-11e7-bc4b-5528796fe35c (if it goes to paywall google the title)
PJV3
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I think that is pretty sensible and a good deal for the province.
That is how EU is supposed to fucking work.
Obviously getting exceptions over exceptions and continuously blocking any minor change made UK think EU is something else, like their toy or something.
Is there much chance of Ireland actually voting for unification? There's surely no chance that a referendum will be enough to see it through, given the history of the two countries?
Who knows how Brexit will turn out and what the situation in NI will be. I believe under the good friday aggreement the UK goverment is required to hold a unification referendum if polls show there's a majority for unification.
I don't see unification happening in our lifetime. They can get best of both worlds there. I have seen people voting for Brexit and the next day applying for an Irish passport. They got to leave the EU but keep all the benefits of being an EU citizen.
The Republic has liberalised a great deal since The Good Friday Agreement but Northern Ireland hasn't progressed as quickly. Religion still plays a part in its politics and society.
If I voted it would be No.
The Republic has liberalised a great deal since The Good Friday Agreement but Northern Ireland hasn't progressed as quickly. Religion still plays a part in its politics and society.
If I voted it would be No.
Who knows. We don't even know if EU/NI border would be peaceful (that's why most people don't want a hard border there).
Don't think unification is likely at this point. Unless some major shift happens.
PJV3
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The important thing is that clear political routes to objectives for either side are there.
I hope the UK will be cool with the move, nothing happens without the people there wanting it.
Funky Papa
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While I think it's smart to offer some assurances and start thinking long term, I hope nobody frames this as an attempt at breaking up the UK. Because it could be so easily misconstructed as such. I'd rather keep the potential unification of Ireland as a very distant "what if" at this point.
The EU could say they wish for world peace and the brexiteers would spin it negatively. They could say "we fully support the decision of the brittish people and will give them the best deal possible" and the brexiteers would damn the EU
This was only confirmed today (Davis even confirmed it a week ago or so) but you know it's gonna get spun into something by the usual suspects.
PdotMichael
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I mean sugar coating the UK sure helped everyone.
Royal_Phalanx
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May's dinner with Juncker apparently didn't go so well.
http://www.politico.eu/article/britains-brexit-denial/
http://www.politico.eu/article/britains-brexit-denial/
The first week of negotiations will become a real reality check for May and the country.
anonymous_abc
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The history books on this Desaster will be quite something.
PdotMichael
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They are gonna ride it until the very end.
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