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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Philbhoy…
When I was 34 I went to adult swimming lessons ,which were run by a friend of mine.
20 odd women and me!
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Do you sill have a contact number for the swimming lessons? :))
Gene
Stick to the Horlicks :-)
GFTB
Learn to swim.
You can do it and once you get your confidence up, well.
Olivia can swim rings round me, but the chase is great fun!
SIPSINI
If it’s the same wummin……………………..
Croppybhoy,
Imo, everything has changed and changed utterly. The far right are now running (?) the show. They have unleashed the racist little Englanders and offered them bread and circuses. Pure pie in the sky.
I would have voted Yes at the Independence Referendum, if the SNP had been honest about the economic consequences. Now, I feel our only hope is to remain in the EU. Britain is well on its way to being a basketcase.
FOGHORN LEGHORN on 26TH JUNE 2016 5:02 PM
there is not a better beer on this planet than a cold bottle of San Miguel drank out the glass
-)) Nearly chocked there on my Kamenitza !!!
Philbhoy,
Do you really believe that those people who do not vote would vote in your favour under the threat of a Penalty?
What if the Penalty isn’t enough to force them to vote; do you then hold a gun to their head?
If that don’t work; do you pull the Trigger?
What interesting little World you live in.
GENE on 26TH JUNE 2016 5:05 PM
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
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sacrilege
wine is the devils* drink
* the devil does not exist** so no need to be alarmed
**unless you drink 3 bottles of red wine
FOGHORNLEGHORN
My Dad brought me up to support Celtic,and to vote Labour.
I have frequently disagreed with the paths each has taken,but I’ve never considered changing sides.
What’s wrong with that? Everyone should remember where they come from,and what has mostly served them well. And reserve the right to criticise without abandoning it.
FOGHORN LEGHORN
When I can remember I keep my beer glasses in the freezer.
Lovely.
Sipsini 5.08
That’s what I should have posted :-)
Although sometimes 1 wummin moaning at you, is one too many never mind 20
On a Celtic point, I would take Shane Duffy to partner Eric or Jose or Boyata or Mulgrew
sipsini
Philbhoy…
When I was 34 I went to adult swimming lessons ,which were run by a friend of mine.
20 odd women and me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fPTdUK5Kt8
PHILBHOY on 26TH JUNE 2016 5:16 PM
FOGHORN LEGHORN
When I can remember I keep my beer glasses in the freezer.
Lovely.
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and a lot of pubs now do that
cannae beat it
What’s your view Bobby on the shadow cabinet resigning?
It’s hard to see whats happening in politics now.
I think trade unions are the key to social cohesion. Without them, it all turns to merde
Socialism now!
PHILBHOY….
Surely, they have learned to swim by now!
I was never a strong swimmer but would dive off anywhere when younger, nearly killed myself diving off a cliff in Torquay in my late teens… A Scotland v England challenge… I won ;))
Foghorn
San Miguel would be one of the least popular beers here.
I am partaking in a supermarket beer called Steinburg, very decent drop, goes down a treat in the heat.
HH
AURORABOREALIS
Do you really believe that those people who do not vote would vote in your favour under the threat of a Penalty?
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I didn’t say that.
You did.
Don’t you tell the truth in your wee world?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERSon 26TH JUNE 2016 5:15 PM
FOGHORNLEGHORN
My Dad brought me up to support Celtic,and to vote Labour.
I have frequently disagreed with the paths each has taken,but I’ve never considered changing sides.
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absolutely nothing wrong with that at all
my point was that i reckon there are so many more voters who no longer align themselves so strictly to an individual party, so those parties have to work harder to get the floaters
I also like Staropramen…………..served very cold.
Delicious.
Foghorn Leghorn
“so they have to try appeal to the modern day floating voter who are much more discerning about who they vote for”
There really is precious little evidence for that.
Why were there so many google hits for “What is the EU anyway?” on the day after the referendum from these “discerning voters?
Labour high heidyins became career westminster politicians and ignored the hopes of the grassroots supporters and took for granted that they would blindly vote for them. Hell mend them.
Croppybhoy
Yep as usual your correct.
Shine a light on liars.
How bout party of poor profiteering with pfi.
The party of middle class aspiration forgetting
The party of the single most fascistic action that wiped out one million people in iraq.
Gordon who boomed and busted it eh? Not arf! His econ managemrnt meant chaos as ‘tick’went out control and the offshore industry went into overdrive.
Yep have a look at lies.
The labour partys
Then move on.
Hope yir good
Pps nae ref2 for me as its been dpne tho I wouldnt rule out Tories ‘baiting’a ref2 so they can put indi question to bed for good
HH
COOLMORE MAFIA
IMO,they should explain their reasons to their local constituency party.
That’ll be the constituents who by and large voted for a leader that MPs detest.
PHILBHOY on 26TH JUNE 2016 5:04 PM
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.
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Maybe you shouldn’t let your ar$e do the typing if its not in sync with your thought process.
Anyone who thinks there is any chance of Scotland being allowed to negotiate remaining in the EU is kidding themselves on big time. There is more likelihood of London getting in before Scotland.
It is pure pie in the sky.
There is no economic argument for independence, there wasn’t first time round and nothing has changed. In the 420 page document the SNP published about independence, finance got about half a page. All their forecasting was based on oil being £110+ a barrel.
We would have been bankrupt if we had voted Yes, but have the shameless bandits even acknowledged that they got things so badly wrong?
Of course not! Now we have the appeal of fantasy diplomacy. Meanwhile the Scottish Health Service is falling apart, the Education system likewise, the Police etc !
The SNP are a one issue pressure group with no real interest in anything but pursuing their goal.
They have been in power for a decade and done nothing for ordinary working class people while protecting their core middle class constituency – free university tuition , council tax freeze etc.
If Labour wants to change things for ordinary people they need to be able to win power. Reconnecting with core voters is needed but so too is the ability to take back the centre of British politics from the Tories.
All that is a huge ask of any policing let alone one so limited as JC. He might be a nice guy but he has all the charisma of a dead goldfish!
HH
AURORABOREALIS
Tut tut.
I didn’t say I believed anything.
I didn’t mention shooting anyone.
You did.
Away and argue with yourself.
CROPPYBHOY
I loved my dead goldfish,and wept as I flushed it down the toilet.
Of course,I wasn’t quite so attached to it as Virgil was to his fly.
http://latin.livejournal.com/487930.html?nojs=1&thread=3592186
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOXon 26TH JUNE 2016 5:27 PM
Foghorn Leghorn
“so they have to try appeal to the modern day floating voter who are much more discerning about who they vote for”
There really is precious little evidence for that.
Why were there so many google hits for “What is the EU anyway?” on the day after the referendum from these “discerning voters?
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that’ll be the one brain cell brigade i also mentioned in my post
SOUKOUS…
Loved it, my da still plays his songs on his banjo, went up earlier to check on him an he was watching the three stooges and laughing his head off.
There is a lot of hidden connotations in some of the songs.
Croppybhoy
The Labour Party has been a busted flush from the minute Bliar lied us into Iraq. End of!
They have as much chance of regaining their position as the elected representatives of the labour movement as the huns will apologise for their cheating.
Philboy, what was odd about the women?
Following your argument, Croppybhoy, I would say that Labour has no chance of making any connection with any section of society. They are suffering now precisely because they tried to move to the centre in British politics but the membership now is overwhelmingly left wing, which is why we have Corbyn, good man that he is but totally unelectable.
Right to vote ?
What about the right to not vote, if both cheeks are the different side of the same arse ?
Apologies to the many arses out there
Bobby am sure my parents would have lived through the same as yours, obviously labour voters but thankfully they tried to get my labour vote but more importantly brought me up to think for myself, am rubbish at politics, I actually liked Tony Blair before I realised what the Middle East peace (?) envoy really stood up for……anyway glad he held his religious views so high that he had to wait until he wasn’t PM
Now that Ireland are out any chance BR will be parading Shane Duffy on New Balance Friday
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/rodgers-to-step-up-duffy-bid/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
STAIRHEEDRAMMY
They could all swim!
I was the only complete non swimmer.
Goodnight to Slovakia….next.
CROPPYBHOY on 26TH JUNE 2016 5:32 PM
‘He might be a nice guy but he has all the charisma of a dead goldfish!’
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“An empty taxi arrived and Clement Attlee got out”
PHILBHOY on 26TH JUNE 2016 5:36 PM
The point I have made is based on your assertion that people should be fined for not voting. An assertion that you would never have made had Brexit failed. So basically you want people punished because you never got the result you were after.
I am one of those “One braincell brigade” that who chose to abstain from the Vote.