You want some good news? Around £1m of Tottenham’s money for Victor Wanyama will find its way to Celtic, which will offset some of the economic impact of this morning’s news. This aside, there is only bad news. If we want to buy footballers priced in euros (or anything other than GPB) they will cost more money. We will also have to pay higher wages to be competitive with European clubs.
Goods will cost more – it will start today with fuel and travel, then food, electrical goods and everything else. Wages will buy less (not just less-able footballers). Borrowing repayments will be higher. Business expenditure, wages and employment will drop, so will the tax take – and money available for welfare spend. The poor always pay the highest penalty.
If you are rich enough and without a mortgage you can indulge in flag waving all day, happy in a delusion that self-determination even remotely exists in modern economies. Or that more self-determination over here, and a little less over there, is a panacea. It’s not, it’s just another economic crisis coming your way soon.
The entire political class have failed us. Calling a flag waving referendum was a grubby attempt to hold onto power by the prime minister; this mess is his making. Whoever succeeds him will have to successfully pander to the same party membership in order to get elected.
Jeremy Corbyn’s mealie-mouthed campaigning was an embarrassment. His “7 out of 10” backing for remain did what it was supposed to do: convince people he was going through the motions for something he didn’t believe in.
Who’s ever heard of a leader winning support for an issue he is prepared to back 7 out of 10 himself? He should go, but political ego will ensure he’ll hang around to make sure Johnson wins the next general election.
It took six days for the Greek government to abandon their own disastrous EU referendum mandate. Instead of attempting a rescue, all our political ‘leaders’ will give us is more populist power grabs. It’s already underway.
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Wonder if St. Stivs would care to comment
Ra Port
corkcelt
well done to your son
lifechangingCSC
Corckcelt…
Well done your son, a magnificent achievement. HH
Ireland done their best against a not bad team, the not given corner had a big input on the game, wether it would have changed the final outcome!
Wait until we see the dodgy ones next season.
Corky
Good stuff from your young fella.
HH
The rebelious labour cabinet members should go and start their own political party. Doubt if they would get far.
MOONBEAMS
Just had a look online,not looking good.
Let’s hope for better news as time goes on.
Cappuccino and ELO streaming on the telly fae Glastonbury, cannae whack it!
CORKCELT
Best wishes to your laddie.
If only I was young again…………………..
Wait a minute……………
I am a wee bit streaky on beer.
Sometimes I go off it for weeks.
Right now I’m drinking a San Miguel.
Very nice.
Could that be what is keeping me young (looking)?
No shame in losing, Ireland.
I believe there is the core of a good team for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers.
O T ish,
LNS decision was based on lies and deception and has no legal standing.
Brett decision was based on lies and deception and has no legal standing.
THE EXILED TIM
earlier today —
Caffe freddo .
Served ice cold in a wee glass . Made from coffee made in a Moka which is allowed to cool and is then poured into a glass bottle which is kept in the fridge .. If you want you can have a caffe freddo with added granita di caffe . the latter is like an ice pole made from really strong teeth staining coffee.
Basic model costs 1.40 on a beach and 1.20 in a bar on the seafront . Bar on the outskirts of town would sell you one for 80 cents. I was in a bar in super chic Taormina last week . . Brit and German tourists were paying 5 euros for a caffe freddo and 7 euros 50 for the with granita version.
Horrific scenes coming from the M&Ds rollercoaster accident https://t.co/3dTOOhhWbP https://t.co/99vnRIpLMF
hankray on 26th June 2016 4:25 pm
Oglach……….Coleman Brady Long Hendrick Randolph………….would you not ha e them in your team?
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Honestly no, i’d prefer Celtic were to look at acquiring some real quality, fanciful thinking? perhaps. But IMO we already have a squad full of players of the calibre such as those you mentioned
PHILBHOY
Aye,mate. As long as you believe it,that’s good enough.
Now for the hard part.
Get the missus to buy intae it!
BMCW
Would that be the experiment/fiasco of actually winning three elections on the bounce?
The Labour Party needs to address the concerns of ordinary, mainly white working class people who are deserting them in tens of thousands in Scotland and England.
Corbyn’s brand of far left student politics from the 1970s is never ever going to be electable.
In England the Labour Party has to see off the vile scum of UKIP and in Scotland they need to come firmly down on the side of common sense and get 100% behind the union. They need to be honest with people and acknowledge that independence would be a financial disaster, instead of flirting with the fantasy politics of the SNP.
We have just seen how unscrupulous politicians will tell blatant lies over controlling immigration in order to win the EU referendum.
Labour needs to call out the lies in the SNP and UKIP or face becoming totally irrelevant
HH
BMCUWP
She’s teetotal just now!
Help!
Masty
Scary stuff at M&Ds, seemingly one of the cars came off the rails and into one of the kids wee obstacle things, they think 10/12 people have been hurt but hopefully nothing too serious, closed off just now, ambulances and fire engines on the scene……hope and pray all ok
Feck the union.
The UNION is dead. Just like Rangers.
No longer relevant!
MWD
“and in Scotland they need to come firmly down on the side of common sense and get 100% behind the union.”
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canny believe Crappyboy is quoting stuff from FF
Corkcelt
Well done to your bhoy, I remember reading this morning you were tracking his progress, a right good achievement, I would just love to able to swim :-)
CROPPYBHOY
We won three elections in a row by appealing to those who don’t see themselves as natural Labour voters.
In doing so,we ignored the concerns of those who are,thinking they would always be there anyway.
It’s worked a treat,it has disenfranchised millions. And those millions voted their anger last week and also last year.
Blairism has no place in Labour’s history. Anyone could have won the 97 election. Look at the diminishing vote in subsequent elections.
The euphoria lasted as long as the froth on my pint.
Hard luck Ireland, but the best team won.
Not the fault of the referee.
If I had to pick one player from the Ireland team it would probably be the bhoy Brady.
…but we have 101 midfielders already.
HH!!
SoT
80c, looks like it’s mi who is getting robbed :-)
Saving grace is if you are in company when some are drinking beer or wine, tapas is forthcoming for everyone, so maybes not !
HH
Philbhoy
Get a few corona with a slice of lime or a wee Sol with a slice of lemon, quite refreshing
Ma father will be turning in his grave at that sentence…..
His tipple “a black label and half pint of light”
thoughts with those in Strathclyde park just now.
GFTB
Re swimming.
When I was about 10 I was pushed in at the deep end at Shettleston Baths.
I was a non swimmer and ended up in the Royal. I t was 24 years before I went back to the “baths”
When I was 34 I went to adult swimming lessons ,which were run by a friend of mine.
20 odd women and me!
I would not get in the pool without water wings. Such was my terror.
After 4 lesson I swam a breadth, unaided.
Never looked back.
If there is anything in your area it’s well worth a try.
the days of the masses being hard wired to always vote for labour or the tories because their families always have are over
it probably means that the original reasons for these parties existing are defunct now
so they have to try appeal to the modern day floating voter who are much more discerning about who they vote for
and if they collect a few of the one brain cell brigade who just fall for sound bites then that always helps as well
GFTB
I’ve got a 15 year old Glenfiddich Unique Solera Reserve in the other hand.
Gorgeous.
Croppyboy – its not yet sunk in has it? Economically the UK is finished outside the UK. Culturally the UK is finished, England is a political omnishambles. Everything has changed. Scotland independant in the EU is the only hope
outside the EU that is
there is not a better beer on this planet than a cold bottle of San Miguel drank out the glass
FACT
even better if said glass has been ‘released’ from the pub ;-)
Philbhoy 4.57
My swimming fear comes from being in Scarborough on holiday with my aunt & uncle, my big cousin who has always looked out for me taunted me to play “dare” and walk into the water
GENE on 26TH JUNE 2016 4:04 PM
Get an on line petition going to get a rematch – it’s all the go don’t you know :))
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Too late, somebody already has:
UK petition calling for second EU referendum has 77,000 fake signature’s
Almost 80,000 fake names have been removed from the ‘second EU petition after they have been found to be fraudulent.
The House of Commons Petition Committee removed 77,000 signatures which they believe were added fraudulently.
A UK petition calling for a second EU referendum now has more than 3.1 million signatures.
It will have to be debated by parliament, as it has surpassed the minimum 100,000 required.
It has emerged the petition for a second referendum on EU membership, was set up by a leave campaigner a month ago when he thought his side would lose.
Oliver Healey claims the remain camp have “hijacked” the document on the UK government website.
However, the House of Commons petitions committee said it is investigating allegations of fraud in connection with the petition.
And the British Prime Minister David Cameron has already said there will be no second vote.
FOGHORN LEGHORN
It’s the “one brain cell brigade” who don’t vote, in my opinion.
We should import the Australian system.
Fined if you don’t vote, I believe.
San Miguel gives me a bit of a headache in the morning – I should probably stop at 6 and don’t mix it with red wine
After all that has happened, I am glad I have had an Irish passport for over twenty years. Jokingly told a group that I was sitting with in the church hall this morning, that I wondered if I was the only European in the hall..
Philbhoy
The rest of that post is….. He dared me to see who would fold first, at that age (8) I didn’t realise he was about a foot bigger, being the eijit I am I didn’t turn back when I started spluttering and under water, thankfully the big bully managed to grab me and drag me back…..
Seemingly I asked “did I win ?”
Croppybhoy-
Sticking Scotland back on the Union?
How does that at all make sense when England is lurching toward a progressively right-wing fascist “regime”, with no light at the end of the tunnel, pun intended as is the hyperbole.
Living in the US, I can assure you the UK is taking the brunt of many a Yankee dig today. They have interpreted Brexit as nothing more than a disaster for the British people. Google this weeks New Yorker magazine cover as an example, and this in light of the Americans’ historical sympathies that the UK can do no harm.
At no point in history has Scotland been more politically polar opposite to those making trips to the English voting booths.
Perhaps I s now time that we sought a new solution. Get the scientists, the scholars, the economists north of the border onboard and seek a more sensible path to self determination. We certainly have the backing of the European heavyweights.
I’m no Nat supporter, but perhaps it’s time to use their political influence to our own good for a wee change. Scotland can only expect further hardship under the likes of Boris and pals, have you read what these eejits have said and written about Scotland and its people in the past?
Perhaps it’s time for a New Auld Alliance.