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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67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar…… Ipox belongs to the creditors on 24th June 2016 5:12 pm
Did someone forget to tell the Brexit voters that the UK recession deficit is still north of £1.5 Trillion and being secured within the EU ……oh, dear ….hahahaha….
Make no mistake, those who voted to leave did so on immigration grounds, with no consideration, or understanding of the economic / financial implications ……selfish Brits, as usual ….!!!!
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Without a doubt IMO, the brits here were out to a man, paid little heed to anything other than coloured people entering britland, when I pointed out they were imigrants themselfs, they actually saw it as they were white, so they were superior and could do what the ef they wanted, in a nutshell that was their reasoning, warped for sure.
HH
QUONNO on 24TH JUNE 2016 5:13 PM
‘I have no idea if there will even be a formal border. I visualise there will be the same king of border that currently separates the North and South of Ireland. You know, the kind of border that people appily cross and recross daily without hassle.’
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You haven’t really thought this through, have you?
Sispini…..you are in need of entertainment ….a wee Revolution Raffle ticket….for a small investment your horizon will be brawified….
Braw..
PS I think Revolution Raffle should be shortened to RR..Rolls Royce!
Crazy eh …
PROUDBHOY on 24TH JUNE 2016 6:28 PM
I blame Martin o’neill
Neil Lennon too…….:0
ERNIE LYNCH on 24TH JUNE 2016 6:48 PM
Free movement across the Border between Ulster & the Free State Pre-dates the EU
Google trends today by brits.
Getting an Irish Passport.
Moving to Gibraltar.
And wait for it……….What is the EU….a wee bit late now little englander
Oops forgot the link
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/move-to-gibraltar-among-british-google-searches-after-vote/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business
TET,
Will your white immigrant neighbour’s still be able to avail of EU reciprocal health services, should they become old and/or ill?
*sorry for the apostrophe abuse.
A couple of things made me chuckle today, on a fairly black day for the poorest in our country. The Five Live Sports desk telling us that Sevco had signed a Scottish international ‘keeper , indeed! Also the lumpen half wits celebrating in Asda car park today in Bury, delighted about the Brexit but clueless as to what it would do to their weekly shop..
Anyway, good to young Kieran signed up, never in doubt in my opinion and hopefully he is the first of two or three bits of signing news in the next fortnight.
THE EXILED TIM on 24TH JUNE 2016 7:03 PM
‘Moving to Gibraltar.’
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Or, as it may soon be called, Spain.
Paul67
Well said.
TT
Totally underwhelmed to be told Muldini has got a three year deal and BR keen to keep him. Ajax walk off should have been the end imo.
Delighted to return and read on can that kt has signed for 5 years.
If Scotland does become Independent and accepted into the EU, will England throw out the likes of Gove and Fox as enemy aliens? There must be a pile of Scots Tories who can only get elected down south.
TET…the wee john bulls will have to park their sub’s there 2018 ….braw
Der affen insel is what Europe calls the British islands….
Hope your spare was in Yen paper or Goldilocks
Braw.
Ps a tripmin your Gyrocopter is also on ma list …
Braw
Cqn
If Jimmy Krankie gets her way in a referendum, will it lead to SEXIT?
TTT
Those who have residence will be fine, unless Spain decide to move the goalposts, and it has been known.
Those without are quite rightly crapping themselfs, they never saw this coming, and it’s the uncertainty that what worries them, most of the older ones don’t really have a scooby.
We have residence and are not dependent on britland, the Mrs gets her pension from britland, which as I understand is ok, it’s not pensions that are the problem it’s benefits, many brits are on disability and related benefits, that will be the first thing to go for many who are scamming the system, they are not happy today, I saw one earlier at the post office, I think she realised her days were numbered.
HH
Ernie
Aye, the Spanish are already talking about a closed border, disruption at all costs, the Ibex taking a walloping today prob didny help either.
The first thing the postie said to me this morning was stupid brits, must say had to agree with him.
HH
Taurangiobhoy……loved your posts from earlier…fortunately the majority are with you…my grandparents are buried in your Capital….
May a braw wind dance on your land ….and follow that wee white cloud
Tino paid
Braw
THE EXILED TIM on 24TH JUNE 2016 7:15 PM
The irony is that we’ll probably have a lot of young, fit, healthy people who are working and contributing to the exchequer leaving to work elsewhere in the EU and being replaced by a lot of elderly, unhealthy and welfare dependent former expats, all looking for housing and health care.
On the other hand ITV’s Benidorm will be cancelled, so it’s not all bad.
Tino pai…. Pardon computer
Braw
Braw
Your seat on the copter is booked mi amigo.
As for the subs, what is the going rate for parking one these days :-)
HH
Alex Polizi on 5 touring Italian islands
Stunning scenery ,
Cheers me up after 5 news
Ernie
I quite like Benidorm, tho never having been there I can only surmise of it’s reality, but if the Costa del Sol is anything to go by, they have it spot on, tis not a place that does anything for mi, give me the mountains and solitude any day.
You do wonder tho that they never saw this coming, I reckon that a scare the euros was the goal and get a better deal, they have opened the box and by feck they are going to have some job controling the consequenses.
HH
TEt….they should have given their new clown president them as a go go bag……he was on the Clyde today…
Braw..
SIPSINI on 24TH JUNE 2016 6:21 PM
NEUSTADT-BRAW…
Not only will the pension pots be affected, feck, I only had a year left to access 25% tax free :((
The USA companies that invest in British companies will not be keen on paying VAT on their products they sell to Europe…reckon that my be the final straw for where I work.
Oh well, fecked pension and feck all work about.
Unless I misheard Boris, Britain will be able to set its own taxes. I always thought that VAT was some kind of European tax which I imagine we will abolish.
According to BBC Scotland Norn Irishers of all persuasions rushing to take out Irish/EU passports.
Braw
360 million people and the best they can come up with is Donald and Hillarity, wtf is the world coming to, then the brits go and vote to leave behind their security blanket, all cos they don’t like coloured folks, and the big bad Ruskie is waiting in the wings to nuke us te feck.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s all a dream so I do :-)
HH
Quonno
“Unless I misheard Boris, Britain will be able to set its own taxes. I always thought that VAT was some kind of European tax which I imagine we will abolish.”
Are you seriously believing that the torys will abolish VAT, or any sort of tax, I thought you had more about you than that mi amigo.
HH
THE EXILED TIM on 24TH JUNE 2016 7:39 PM
Braw
360 million people and the best they can come up with is Donald and Hillarity, wtf is the world coming to, then the brits go and vote to leave behind their security blanket, all cos they don’t like coloured folks, and the big bad Ruskie is waiting in the wings to nuke us te feck.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s all a dream so I do :-)
HH
It’s a feckin’ nightmare.
Behold people (peepul?) of UKania. Your new leader.
Phil MacGiollaBhain @Pmacgiollabhain 5 h5 ore fa
Behold people of Ukania.
Your new leader.
#EUref
Enjoy!
HH!!
THE EXILED TIM on 24TH JUNE 2016 7:42 PM
Quonno
“Unless I misheard Boris, Britain will be able to set its own taxes. I always thought that VAT was some kind of European tax which I imagine we will abolish.”
Are you seriously believing that the torys will abolish VAT, or any sort of tax, I thought you had more about you than that mi amigo.
HH
I said that I heard him.
Hearing is not believing.
I was brought up to believe that anything wearing a Tory tag was scum.
Quonno
That’s better :-)
HH
Ach ballsed that up!
Feck!
HH!!
excellent leader, paul.
an appalling, appalling night for us all. the worst political decision since chamberlain at munich. the implications are terrifying for everyone with a job, mortgage, family…
just awful.
our world is now “changed, changed utterly”, who knows where it will end? there’s no easy path into the EU for Scotland (we’d flunk economic convergence criteria at the moment by a long way), but the prospect of staying tied to the UK look bleak.
17 million people voted for farage… let that sink in for a moment. truly we are surrounded by idiots.
the only hope is a deal – “associate membership” which leaves us semi-detached but fundamentally still in the EU.
implications for celtic are also profound. though i suspect the eps clubs are in for an even bigger shock very soon…
Celtic Park has caught the Measles, it’s not serious but dots have appeared in most sections. As I say it is a mild attack and most sections have just 1,2 or 3 dots. The total of these Misc dots amount to 77. Section 445 is one of the two sicker sections with 83 dots and poor Section 416 is the real sick one with 129. Making a grand Total of 289 dots.
The unfortunate thing is that with the stoke of a pen the British have voted to become second class ‘citizens’ in Europe. If they want to keep any of the benefits of Europe that will cost a fortune, without any influence whatsoever.
The Irish Parliament has been re-called on Monday to discuss this crisis.
Nobody seems to know what the status will be of Irish people, living/working in the UK or vice-versa.
Ireland doesn’t think it can make bilateral agreements with the UK, in the areas already agreed in the Treaties.
In the 6 counties many seem intent in holding onto EU Membership.
An unprecedented situation. What a legacy Mr Cameron.
‘But the fools, the fools, the fools!’