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 Jimenez  SELHURSTPARKCHESTER,DA BRONX 26 Sep 17 1.31pm |
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hedgehog50  Croydon 26 Sep 17 1.52pm |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
Isn't fiscal discipline part of membership of the Eurozone, which thank god we're not in? The prisoner countries in the Eurozone have no real control over their own economies. They are unable to change their interest rates or devalue their currency - the two most powerful tools available to governments in economic difficulties. Hence the massive problems in Greece, Spain, Italy and, to some extent, France.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 26 Sep 17 2.03pm |
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Originally posted by hedgehog50
The prisoner countries in the Eurozone have no real control over their own economies. They are unable to change their interest rates or devalue their currency - the two most powerful tools available to governments in economic difficulties. Hence the massive problems in Greece, Spain, Italy and, to some extent, France. I know. He perhaps I should've said just the eurozone and not the EU. But that's monetary policy and not fiscal policy, which is why they're in debt. It's more the monetary policy they can't control or rely on Germany to budge on to get them out of it. So since Greece, are there any written rules, and not just verbal, on EU members and fiscal discipline?
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 26 Sep 17 2.05pm |
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Originally posted by the silurian
Also if we stop brexit now, we will be forced to adopt the Euro as a condition of being allowed back in...does everyone want that? Edited by the silurian (26 Sep 2017 1.09pm) A bit like being made to do PE in a gym skirt because you tried to claim you forgot your kit. A lot of humiliation and shrivelling.
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| serial thriller The Promised Land 26 Sep 17 2.58pm |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
How come? Maastricht rules state that a country's public debt can't be higher than 60% of GDP. Ours is 84%. This was the premise for the Troika offering Greece their 'bailout'. The people who really pull the strings in the EU - the ECB and the Commission, are mainly German financial bureaucrats who love nothing more than 'tightening the belts' of deficit countries. I just finished Yanis Varoufakis' book about the EU and found it very interesting. Learning about the power dynamics and legality of the EU is something I feel everyone on all sides could do with. Edited by serial thriller (26 Sep 2017 2.58pm)
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| the silurian The garden of England.(not really) 26 Sep 17 2.58pm |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
A bit like being made to do PE in a gym skirt because you tried to claim you forgot your kit. A lot of humiliation and shrivelling. Haha! You got that punishment too? Plenty did at my school, I think many of them secretly enjoyed it!
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 26 Sep 17 3.00pm |
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Originally posted by the silurian
Haha! You got that punishment too? Plenty did at my school, I think many of them secretly enjoyed it! No I liked PE and sport. I do remember having a bit of a phobia of dirty, dried up dusty naked feet when we were all sat on the gym floor though.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 26 Sep 17 3.07pm |
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Originally posted by serial thriller
Maastricht rules state that a country's public debt can't be higher than 60% of GDP. Ours is 84%. This was the premise for the Troika offering Greece their 'bailout'. The people who really pull the strings in the EU - the ECB and the Commission, are mainly German financial bureaucrats who love nothing more than 'tightening the belts' of deficit countries. I just finished Yanis Varoufakis' book about the EU and found it very interesting. Learning about the power dynamics and legality of the EU is something I feel everyone on all sides could do with. Edited by serial thriller (26 Sep 2017 2.58pm) That's been obeyed and gone well then. Or when was that rule introduced? How much does he admit his own economy's irresponsible mismanagement, including almost everyone except normal, humble PAYE workers? Pretty pointless trying to make moralistic stands when everyone is at whatever, but some professionals took tax dodging to an extreme, then fled.
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| the silurian The garden of England.(not really) 26 Sep 17 3.15pm |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
No I liked PE and sport. I do remember having a bit of a phobia of dirty, dried up dusty naked feet when we were all sat on the gym floor though. Only reason I went to school! Wednesday afternoon triple games....football, cricket, athletics etc much more fun than maths french and history....
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| steeleye20 Croydon 26 Sep 17 3.18pm |
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According to Michael Heseltine the blame culture on the EU for our mistakes was started deliberately by Mrs.Thatcher. She wanted to have a third party to blame for Nigel Lawson's disasters and was quite straightforward in the need for that, but she didn't want it to be from the UK. Brussels was the perfect target and so the blame culture was started and has been so successful. You only have to look at posts here to see that everything is the fault of the EU it is a complete brainwashing.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 26 Sep 17 3.30pm |
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Originally posted by steeleye20
According to Michael Heseltine the blame culture on the EU for our mistakes was started deliberately by Mrs.Thatcher. She wanted to have a third party to blame for Nigel Lawson's disasters and was quite straightforward in the need for that, but she didn't want it to be from the UK. Brussels was the perfect target and so the blame culture was started and has been so successful. You only have to look at posts here to see that everything is the fault of the EU it is a complete brainwashing.
It's only really since the middle of the last decade that people have noticed any effect on their lives and made any noises over the EU. Nobody, 25 years ago+ could've predicted or would've agreed, if asked, to high immigration levels from Eastern Europe. When stats claim it's mainly for sovereignty and democratic reasons I'm not sure if I believe that. Possibly some shame of being concerned about immigration and being labelled xenophobic or racist. Maybe a case of look after own first, and that's because of immigration we aren't.
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| hedgehog50 Croydon 26 Sep 17 3.30pm |
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Originally posted by steeleye20
According to Michael Heseltine the blame culture on the EU for our mistakes was started deliberately by Mrs.Thatcher. She wanted to have a third party to blame for Nigel Lawson's disasters and was quite straightforward in the need for that, but she didn't want it to be from the UK. Brussels was the perfect target and so the blame culture was started and has been so successful. You only have to look at posts here to see that everything is the fault of the EU it is a complete brainwashing.
If the totally neutral and unbiased Michael Heseltine says so, it must be true.
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