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Pound Sterling Erases Election Gains Over Euro and Dollar after 'No Deal' Brexit Cliff Edge Returns
Pound Sterling Live ^ | 17 Dec 2019 | James Skinner

Posted on 12/17/2019 8:57:01 PM PST by Cronos

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To: Berlin_Freeper

Its a divorce agreement.

These things are complicated and difficult. If you think a husband and wife deciding how to untangle their lives, split assets and move on is difficult, the situation between the UK and the EU is even more of a mess.

Getting married was easy. Cutting long-standing ties doesn’t literally happen overnight.

If it was that easy, it would have happened already.


21 posted on 12/18/2019 2:14:50 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Bojo could have left

Did you actually pay attention to anything that happened over the last few months?

So you noticed then how BoJo lost his majority in Parliament by traitorous defections, was hamstrung by that same Parliament (including games by Speaker John Bercow), while being attacked daily by the British Media?You saw that??

Cuz it sounds like you've been asleep the whole time

"BoJo Clown"?? Give us a freaking break


22 posted on 12/18/2019 2:29:14 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Mr. K

they aren’t paying to leave the EU.


23 posted on 12/18/2019 3:17:08 AM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: goldstategop

Johnson was clear at the time he would do no deal Brexit but then caved. Which was not the first time he caved. Boris actually voted for May’s deal. So I don’t know who he thinks he is fooling now.

13 September 2019 - Boris Johnson ‘won’t be deterred’ from Brexit on 31 October

... But despite the new law, Mr Johnson said he would rather be “dead in a ditch” than ask for an extension.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49690613


24 posted on 12/18/2019 3:39:38 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: canuck_conservative

Bojo The Clown voted for May’s deal.

Get woke on that all you like.


25 posted on 12/18/2019 3:41:11 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: goldstategop

you are correct on all threes counts - the withdrawal deal is agreed and done

the uk will leave as a member on 31 january 2020

the new trade agreement will be hard - but not impossible.


26 posted on 12/18/2019 4:39:57 AM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Mr. K

What does the brexit deal involve then, if not GB forced to hand over a bunch of money and rights?


27 posted on 12/18/2019 7:35:57 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“ UK will be on the EU teat February 1.”

It is Brussels that is sucking on the U.K. teat...as well as the other EU nations.


28 posted on 12/18/2019 7:37:28 AM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: Cronos
Then that’s what is happening on January 31.

NO, that's NOT what is happening. Boris had his chance and schedule for Brexit, according to the UK Referendum, on October 31. It was Johnson who requested an extension from the EU to January 31, to hold his election. The EU granted it. As far as the EU is concerned, the UK is still a full member of the EU with all rights and obligations. The EU and the UK reached a provisional agreement in March 2018. It includes a transition period until 31 December 2020 in which ALL EU rules continue to apply. It also covers the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

29 posted on 12/18/2019 8:26:50 AM PST by PGR88
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To: jdsteel

Not rerally.
If that were true Bojo The Clown would have left the EU on October 31 to much fanfare.


30 posted on 12/18/2019 10:16:12 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
But then I pointed out to you I am posting for real no deal Brexit
Link?
31 posted on 12/18/2019 5:04:59 PM PST by lewislynn (STOP SUPPORTING CHINA AND ANTI-AMERICAN GLOBALISTS! DO IT NOW!)
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To: lewislynn
This thread.

But lewislynn, I don't care what a crazy racist idiot, who is too much of a cheap loser to donate a single dollar to FR in 21+ years, calls anti-abortion conservatives "lunatic disgusting dimwits" and sided with McCain on illegals because you are a Republican Party Thug who is UK centric and always hates on Germany and me,... thinks about anything.

32 posted on 12/18/2019 10:05:33 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Does the U.K. send money to the EU or the other way around?

Boris has been fighting to leave. Here’s a quote to give you an idea of how much it costs the U.K. to be in the EU:

https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-says-his-350-million-a-week-brexit-claim-was-an-underestimate-2018-1


33 posted on 12/19/2019 7:25:37 AM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: jdsteel

The blog you linked doesn’t like my ad blocker.

Facts are that UK makes money (in tax revenues) from being in the EU because of having access to the single market.

Fact also is that the EU has absolutely no power to keep UK in the EU.

That leads to the fact Bojo The Clown could have simply run-out the clock on October 31 and left the EU by fait accompli but instead decided to remain connected to the EU.

What you are ridiculously posting is that Bojo The Clown, instead of leaving the EU decided to make a deal giving the EU many billions of Pounds because...?
... He just loves giving the EU billions.


34 posted on 12/19/2019 8:01:58 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

You are obviously both ignorant to the issue and emotionally opposed to Boris. I’ll humor you for a short while.

From the article:

LONDON — Boris Johnson has defended the Leave campaign’s claim that Brexit will give Britain an extra £350 million a week to spend on the NHS by arguing the campaign could have used a larger figure.

The foreign secretary has told The Guardian that the figure splashed across the side of the Leave campaign’s battle bus in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum should have been bigger than £350 million.

Johnson was pictured standing in front of the bus which had the slogan “we send the EU £350 million a week, let’s fund our NHS instead” emblazoned on the side.

In 2016 the UK Statistics Authority described the £350 million claim as “potentially misleading” as it didn’t take into account the rebate which is applied before Britain pays its contributions to the European Union.

FullFact described the claim as a “clear misuse of official statistics” in September 2017.

However, Johnson has doubled-down on the contentious claim.

“There was an error on the side of the bus. We grossly underestimated the sum over which we would be able to take back control,” Johnson, who played a lead role in the Brexit campaign, told The Guardian.

He claimed that the UK’s gross weekly contribution to the EU will rise to £438 million by the end of the proposed two-year transition period in 2021.

The government will be able to “take back control” of this money and spend it on the NHS, he added.

“As and when the cash becomes available – and it won’t until we leave – the NHS should be at the very top of the list.”


35 posted on 12/19/2019 8:27:18 AM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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You are obviously both ignorant to the issue and emotionally opposed to Boris. I’ll humor you for a short while.
I get it.
You are a Bojo The Clown Fanboy.

I already schooled you on the fact that it is Bojo The Clown who desperately wants access to the EU single market happen, with the EU having zero power to make that happen. He could have simply run-out the clock on October 31 and the UK would have been out with the EU unable to change that.
You can remain pig ignorant about that all you want.

Btw: How many children does Bojo The Clown have?
29 Nov 2019 - Boris Johnson refuses to say how many children he has

I never heard of any normal person refusing to simply state the number of children he has.

Are you an American citizen?
Or is a London pub creature wasting my time between dart throws?

36 posted on 12/19/2019 8:38:44 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Ok, you’ve gone from mildly amusing to a boring idiot in just a few posts.

Happy to be done with you. Spout your nonsense elsewhere.


37 posted on 12/19/2019 8:44:19 PM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: jdsteel

You got triggered and then made a total ridiculous fool of yourself.

It is the UK crawling to suckle on the EU teat.

Crybaby who started the personal insults when I schooled you.


38 posted on 12/20/2019 12:03:03 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: jdsteel
Come back and tell us more how your Cult Leader loves giving billions of Pounds to the EU for no gain.

Still lmao on that!

Idiot.

39 posted on 12/20/2019 12:12:06 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Sorry, I don’t have the patience for fools anymore. From Berlin or not.


40 posted on 12/20/2019 6:30:16 AM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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