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Their problems are down to the misconceived structure of the Eurozone. Their government isn't broke because Greeks hate paying taxes. Up until the crisis, Greek public debt was stable and sustainable. The problem began with the financial crisis, when it needed to roll over its debt, and spreads ove...

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I mean to have you even if it must be burglary.

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croyals wrote:Polls suggesting Merkel's days could be numbered...

She's ahead in the polls despite the Schulz bump - which is fading already - and is favourite to be the next chancellor.

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guy verhofstadt on hardtalk, plugging his latest book... http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08cgskz/hardtalk-guy-verhofstadt-european-parliaments-chief-brexit-negotiator good to hear sackur remind the nutter just how dangerous he is. Most striking thing for me was that he strongly believes that ...

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Statistically and factually, a young white male specifically is slightly poorer than a black male on US statistics and there is less of them than anyone else on campus and it's still dropping. Do you have a reference for these statistics? Everything I've come across indicates that by wealth or inco...

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As long as th cheap gas keeps coming Merkel gives not one shit. Except Merkel has expended more diplomatic effort to setup and maintain the western sanctions against Russia than pretty much any other western politician/leader you f**k moron. Oh do f uck off, if they're was a real attempt by the EU ...

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Russia are very much en vogue politically at the minute. Donald Trump is meeting him soon after a successful phone call: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/53787 . Glad to see Theresa May's 'beware Russia' remarks were taken seriously. Also the French President candidates like him and many ...

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Didn't Fillon pretty much declare he would ignore Schengen and make France have hard borders again? It does seem Europe is responding to the results of 2016 somewhat. Again whatever your feelings of Brexit, I agree these are positive signs for May's stance. Yes, he did. As it happens, I think this ...

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Edinburgh is far more attractive but Dublin is 2 or 3 times its size so I don't see them as comparable really. Dublin is an alpha city while Edinburgh is a beta (in the GaWC sense). And as Silver will assert, alphas have fitter women.

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Just how obvious does it have to get? UK voted for control of immigration I think you need to look at that voting card again. The question asked was if people wanted to leave the EU. Joining the EEA would satisfy the result and would be sensible and relatively non-disruptive economically. Just beca...

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Just how obvious does it have to get? UK voted for control of immigration I think you need to look at that voting card again. The question asked was if people wanted to leave the EU. Joining the EEA would satisfy the result and would be sensible and relatively non-disruptive economically. Just beca...

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grubberkick wrote:Oh dear.... this is the bigoted view that helped provoke the majority out vote..

Oh dear... this is the stupidity that jumps to a mistaken conclusion because they see "yes voter" and racist in the same sentence and assumes that it's claiming yes voters are racists.

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Just how obvious does it have to get? UK voted for control of immigration I think you need to look at that voting card again. The question asked was if people wanted to leave the EU. Joining the EEA would satisfy the result and would be sensible and relatively non-disruptive economically. Just beca...

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Just how obvious does it have to get? UK voted for control of immigration I think you need to look at that voting card again. The question asked was if people wanted to leave the EU. Joining the EEA would satisfy the result and would be sensible and relatively non-disruptive economically. Just beca...

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The UK tanking and taking Italy, Ireland, Spain, Greece (40% of GDP) ....... The Whole EU.... The whole world with it :lol: sure that's going to happen - the Uk represents about 3% of world GDP. For the love of god that's the most basic and moronic argument I've ever seen on here. Lolz a few billio...

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And they probably wouldn't have voted for it if they knew few decades later it was going to include many poor countries and millions of Eastern Europeans were going to come to the UK unrestricted and undercut wages for low income earners. The uk was one of the biggest champions for rapid EU eastern...

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folk voted to join a common market in 1974. they didn't vote to join a common market that would morph into the eu, with unelected bureaucrats shaping our laws, rulings from foreign courts, free movement from eastern europe, an inability to negotiate our own trade deals, etc, etc, etc... remain lost...

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dr dre2 wrote:The UK tanking and taking Italy, Ireland, Spain, Greece (40% of GDP) ....... The Whole EU.... The whole world with it

sure that's going to happen - the Uk represents about 3% of world GDP.

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folk voted to join a common market in 1974. they didn't vote to join a common market that would morph into the eu, with unelected bureaucrats shaping our laws, rulings from foreign courts, free movement from eastern europe, an inability to negotiate our own trade deals, etc, etc, etc... remain lost...

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It absolutely is, GDP and GDP per capita are shite measures of an economy's health - read this article if you're not convinced http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21697845-gross-domestic-product-gdp-increasingly-poor-measure-prosperity-it-not-even Most independent Central Banks like the Fed, BoE...

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and also your data is wrong Actually you're right - my apologies. But it's more that the graph is confusing as tradingeconomics uses separate scales for each metric being compared (the EU one is on the left of that image - the UK one is on the right) so the EU one should be shifted up about 20%. On...

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openclashXX wrote:yes they do, and also your data is wrong

You're really going to argue that economists consider unemployment rate as a more important macro indicator of a country's economy than GDP per capita? Data came from tradingeconomics.

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most economists (and most Central Banks) prefer using unemployment as a gauge of the health of an economy, and under those measures European countries have (on the whole) been doing significantly worse than the UK - the Euro area unemployment average is currently around twice the UK's - and this ha...

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terryfinch wrote:An economy that has been in the doldrums for two decades with some parts (France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal) in real trouble.

Classic brexit delusion

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Oh and the point about the third world is valid. They deserve the cheapest form of power. Thankfully that is fast becoming solar. And equally China and India are now the world leaders in those technologies.Goldwind is the largest wind power supplier and I think Trina is the largest solar. And sorry...

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Great, now there's two of them. I'm experiencing schadenfreude thinking of what bimboman makes of being on the same "team" as this pair. It must be like looking over your shoulder before talking a restart to realise that the rest of your team has suddenly f**ked off and of the 2 remaining, one of t...

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Funny even the Koch brothers (billionaire energy traders) are now admitting that the world is warming and that CO2 contributes to it after channeling almost $100 million into denialist "think tanks" for years. They gave high profile denialist, Dr. Richard Muller, a ball of money to "study" climate c...

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pontifex wrote:A case in point, nobody labelled you anything remotely like an SJW, or a hand-wringing hipster.

You f**king clown

Catman wrote:Derriz meet Chuckles.

Chuckles, Derriz

I would say shake hands, but they must be quite painful from all the wringing, so a hipster hug will do.

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You escalated and escalated your attempt to smear me, and now that you've been so clearly shown to be a liar I gave up reading your bullshit right at the start of the message where you said I was a liar, dishonest and lacked integrity because I had made up the thing about the hand-wringing hipster....

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pontifex wrote:So much for my Christmas goodwill.

Whatever man - time for me to step away and try to digest the dinner. Have a good Christmas and happy new year.

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TranceNRG wrote:I'm highly sceptical about these deportations.

Hmm I guess I have more confidence in the German authorities' ability to round up these people and ship them off against their will..

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Or you and your friends although close to it are not in a position to see it yet. A party has grown from non existence to half the size the of the ruling party in three quarters of one election cycle. They are a response to something, I fear your insurance that there is no problem is subjective and...

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As to your proposal, first, a vanishingly small number (in proportion) who are 'deported' are actually removed from the European continent, mostly they are simply allowed to drift through the Schengen zone and become somebody else's problem, as with this perp and the Freiburg rapist and murderer. ....

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So how many have they actually deported? They might have deported 1000 economic migrants and would be higher than the numbers deported in other countries but it's a tiny number compared to the 1.5 million that made in to Germany in 2015 alone. It's common knowledge that it's very difficult to depor...

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Despite being labeled an SJW earlier in the thread I am in favor of draconian measures for failed applicants like this prick if they make repatriation difficult by lying - no objection to locking them up until they can be deported. I'm sorry. Where were you labelled an sjw earlier? I couldn't find ...

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I'm also wondering how and why a "Tunisian" was anywhere near an asylum claim. When he turned up in Italy and identified he should have just been bundled onto a boat and driven back. 80% of illegal immigrants (all labelled as refugees) in Italy cannot claim any asylum status...yet once they arrive ...

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I'm also wondering how and why a "Tunisian" was anywhere near an asylum claim. When he turned up in Italy and identified he should have just been bundled onto a boat and driven back. 80% of illegal immigrants (all labelled as refugees) in Italy cannot claim any asylum status...yet once they arrive ...

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Except that survey after survey shows that freedom of movement is overwhelmingly viewed as a positive among Europeans. Admittedly the U.K. is an outlier in the eurobarometer surveys in having one of the least positive views towards it but if the brits go into negotiations with the notion that freed...

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:nod: Four phonies more like Anyone sane can see free movement doesn't work in the current EU shape. It worked when it was a group of countries with similar living standards and didn't have a shambolic migration crisis to deal with but it doesn't work now. Also as explained already there's no free ...

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Too little too late. We are leaving, it's just a case of how and when. Merkel seems to be running EU, I don't recall voting for her. We pay a huge contribution for near zero say in what goes down. That is about to stop. Yes, you will have huge contributions for zero say Nope - we'll be fine, both s...

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