Positivity - The Future

[TeamD]

Mark Benson said:

Some positivity:

So far Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, Mexico and Ghana have already stated they want to begin trade talks with us.

Either that or play us at football.....

Nice folk the Ghanaians

[don4l]

vonuber said:

barryrs said:

Anything to substantiate that belief?

Living in Somerset and close to the Levels its widely reported that the EA's compliance with the EU's Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC and the Water Framework Directive (WFD) 2000/60/EC was the major contributing factor to the severity of the flooding and the length of time for waters to recede.

My particular area of the country voted 61% in favor of leave and the above may well have been a strong reason for locals.

Yes I do and I covered it ad nauesum on the somerset flooding thread if you wish to go have a read, it's too complicated to summarise in a short paragraph.

I seem to remember that your plan was to let the drains silt up and plant a few bushes.


Have I missed anything?

Anyway, common sense prevailed and the dredging took place, and will continue to take place.

[Halb]

Can someone please post some link to positive economic stories or forecasts?

[RYH64E]

Halb said:

Can someone please post some link to positive economic stories or forecasts?

If I see one I'll be sure to let you know.

[Halb]

RYH64E said:

If I see one I'll be sure to let you know.

Thank you.

[SeeFive]

I guess this is positive until you look at the chronology. Today was weird.

You may remember me posting that my CEO sending an email to the entire company the day before the vote saying we are better in, and it will be doom for the company etc.

Then the day after the vote, I posted that he sent an email saying he could see no significant impact of the vote for the company, losing all credibility.

Well to top that. Today everyone got pay rises! Many of my team got pretty good ones too.

Stupefying!

[kurt535]

I've got some:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/2...

siemens have heavily invested in places like great yarmouth, barrow, hull, all major brexit-win result areas, who now look to have achieved their aim getting jonny foreigner investment out. win win win

[Mr Tidy]

PositronicRay said:

I wish I could claim this, it's a plan.


Right. fk this. We're ALL up st creek and we need a paddle. Now, not in three months.

Fellow Remain voters: Enough already. Yes, we're all pissed off but navel gazing ain't gonna help. Not all 17 million Leave voters can possibly be racist northern pensioners without an O level to their name. Maybe they have a point about this quitting the EU thing? Maybe not. Whatever, we are where we are and no amount a whinging is gonna change that. Allegedly we're the intelligent ones, so get your thinking caps on.

Leave voters. Well done. Good game. We hear you. Now you need to get stuck in to the aftermath and not just ps off back to Wetherspoons. (Just banter, tts!). And the first person to say they "want their country back" gets deported to fking Gibraltar. OK?

Politicians.

David. fk off. Shut the door behind you. Now.

George. You may be a tt but you're our tt. Plus you know the passwords for our Junior Savers account. Get your calculator. Drop the face-like-a-slapped-ass routine. You're on.

Boris. Sorry mate. That photo of you abseiling by your scrotum over the London Olympics while waving a Union Jack can't ever be un-taken. Plus, you'll never be able to appear on Question Time again without some sturdy Glaswegian nurse asking where the fk her 350 million quid is. Not only will she have a very good point, she'll be wearing a T shirt that shows you gurning in front of that fking bus! No captains hat for you I'm afraid.

Theresa. You're in charge love. Get the biggest shoulder pads you've got. We need Ming The Merciless in drag and you'll scare the st out of 'em.

Nicola. Yep. Fair cop. You probably could get us on a technicality, as could London. But we fking love shortbread. And oil. And to be honest you're probably the best politician we've got, so we need you on side. Sort your lot out and we promise never to mention that Jimmy Krankie thing again (although it is pretty uncanny) and we'll make you a Dame once we're sorted. Bring Ruth Davidson. She kicks ass.

Opposition party. We'll need one. Someone take Jeremy and John back to the British Legion Club where you found them. Take Nigel as well. Give back their sandals, buy them a pint, then go to Heathrow and collect David Milliband. fk it. Lets gets Ed Balls as well. He keeps George on his toes. I think he works on the lottery kiosk at Morrisons now?

Oh. And Mark Carney. Give him a knighthood and tell him to keep that st coming. We definitely need more of that good st!

Everyone set? Right. Hold the Easyjet. We're going to Brussels and this ain't no hen party.

?#?weneedaplan? Share!

I laughed the first time I read this (somewhere else), but it's just more invective from the poor loser Remain campaign - one thing the USA is right about is that 2nd place is the first loser!

I voted to leave, but I live in the Home Counties, have 10 "O" levels and 2 "A" Levels and am a decade short of retirement age - I would love to know which multi-cultural London Borough the original author lives in! Perhaps there is a a degree of inadequacy due to his degree being from some "University" that in days gone by was called a Polytechnic!

Anyway I expect my local Weatherspoons is closed by now (if only I knew where it was) but come on, ts is a pretty derogatory term - just because I don't share his view!

I don't have any desire to go to Gibraltar, but as an EU fanatic maybe he should do us all a favour and move to one of those wonderful Member States while he still can!

Politicians wise yes, David needs to go and he has done so quickly. To be fair he probably comes out of this as more principled than any of his contemporaries, so respect to him!

George may well be a tt but he is the Remain campaign tt so he definitely needs to go - never liked him anyway, slimy sort of guy just hoping to bag the top job despite his charisma by-pass (reminds me of Gordon Brown hanging on for top job once his "mate" Tony checked out)!

Boris has something undefinable - he got the Mayor's job in a city that is predominantly Left-wing orientated (look at who he took that from, Ken fruit-cake Corbyn supporter). With the right team Boris could work well!

Theresa is a total No-no - she supported Remain so that makes her a lost cause for a Brexit administration. Plus she never really made a decision - every "proclamation" she ever made got over-turned by the EU anyway (which may be one of the reasons Brexit supporters wanted out)!

Nicola represents at best 10% of the UK electorate (being generous) - please just go back over Hadrians Wall. You are not representing a significant group here - if you want another referendum please be so polite as to invite the rest of the UK (you know, the other 90%) to have the same opportunity to vote for Scottish independence - I'd be happy to vote for that)! Good riddance to another drain of resources!

Opposition Party - well UKIP is pretty done and dusted with this result so Nigel could take a holiday! Jeremy and John, well who cares anyway - in the former case certainly not his elected MP's! You can't beat a bit of denial, other than with total denial!

Too late to go and get David Milliband - the lefty nutters ejected him in favour of his troubled brother who really wasn't a convincing politician, so he lost the election (unsurprisingly)! Then that party elected Jeremy - don't they ever learn?!! Apparently not, as reintroducing Ed Balls is suggested - good luck with that concept!

Oh and Mark Carney - that Canadian bloke I believe. Does Schengen include Canada? Thought not, so what was he ever doing in the UK in the first place? Did he have a Visa, or should he be deported? Lord King doesn't seem nearly as frightened by Brexit - maybe Mr Carney has some investments that may be affected by exchange rate fluctuations!? We really don't need more of that nonsense!

So to the original author and his supporters please, please, please get on Easyjet, but FFS don't board with a return ticket! Your destination is not the one that the majority chose!

Edited by Mr Tidy on Wednesday 29th June 02:57

[Hosenbugler]

Brexit good news for insurance industry

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/topstories/brexit-w...

[Smollet]

On the BBC Breakfast programme this morning the CEO of Dixons Carphone was fairly upbeat about the whole thing. Yes he had his reservations but overall he sees it as a challenge that will be overcome like all the ones before. The 2008 financial crisis was far far worse than what's happening now and we got through that although there's still a lot to be done.

[JagerT]

^^^^^
Oh and the pound is going back up

[lostkiwi]

Mr Tidy said:

So to the original author and his supporters please, please, please get on Easyjet, but FFS don't board with a return ticket! Your destination is not the one that the majority chose!

Edited by Mr Tidy on Wednesday 29th June 02:57

Yet more "if you don't like it get out" invective. Nice.

[Smollet]

JagerT said:

^^^^^
Oh and the pound is going back up

So are the stock markets around the world. Still too early to say all will be rosy but not the massive end of the world scenario that was forecast once Brexit had been announced. In two years time the picture will be a lot clearer when details of the leaving package start getting leaked but overall I'm fairly positive and I voted to remain.

[don4l]

Halb said:

Can someone please post some link to positive economic stories or forecasts?

Here you go:-

https://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=&ei=4W9zV_m...

[don4l]

Halb said:

Can someone please post some link to positive economic stories or forecasts?

Here is another:-

http://www.cityam.com/244392/profits-leap-dixons-c...

[Derek Smith]

Smollet said:

On the BBC Breakfast programme this morning the CEO of Dixons Carphone was fairly upbeat about the whole thing. Yes he had his reservations but overall he sees it as a challenge that will be overcome like all the ones before. The 2008 financial crisis was far far worse than what's happening now and we got through that although there's still a lot to be done.

I've been looking at those CEOs who have bothered to put a comment online or in newspapers. It is as if they all have the same book: Comforting Words and Phrases for a Crisis.

'Challenge' is popular. 'Overcome' is fine, but 'moving forward', 'taking opportunities', 'far worse has happened' is probably better. 'Much to do' is a sort of negative phrase, so context is important.

I've only seen the 2008 crisis mentioned once before and, like Dicksons' CEO, the chap didn't mention that then the rest of the world were in the same boat. This time it is only us sinking.

It is guff to try and placate shareholders. It is all bull. The CEO, like many of his colleagues, is bricking it.

[don4l]

Halb said:

Can someone please post some link to positive economic stories or forecasts?

And another:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/06/29/fts...

How many more do you want?

There are thousands of them out there.

[lostkiwi]

Smollet said:

JagerT said:

^^^^^
Oh and the pound is going back up

So are the stock markets around the world. Still too early to say all will be rosy but not the massive end of the world scenario that was forecast once Brexit had been announced. In two years time the picture will be a lot clearer when details of the leaving package start getting leaked but overall I'm fairly positive and I voted to remain.

We haven't had Brexit yet. That happens 2 years after the Article 50 button is pressed.

[TeamD]

Derek Smith said:

I've been looking at those CEOs who have bothered to put a comment online or in newspapers. It is as if they all have the same book: Comforting Words and Phrases for a Crisis.

'Challenge' is popular. 'Overcome' is fine, but 'moving forward', 'taking opportunities', 'far worse has happened' is probably better. 'Much to do' is a sort of negative phrase, so context is important.

I've only seen the 2008 crisis mentioned once before and, like Dicksons' CEO, the chap didn't mention that then the rest of the world were in the same boat. This time it is only us sinking.

It is guff to try and placate shareholders. It is all bull. The CEO, like many of his colleagues, is bricking it.

You just can't bear it can you? "Oh woe is me, What? the sky isn't falling in, I may have been wrong?"

[mattmurdock]

lostkiwi said:

Smollet said:

JagerT said:

^^^^^
Oh and the pound is going back up

So are the stock markets around the world. Still too early to say all will be rosy but not the massive end of the world scenario that was forecast once Brexit had been announced. In two years time the picture will be a lot clearer when details of the leaving package start getting leaked but overall I'm fairly positive and I voted to remain.

We haven't had Brexit yet. That happens 2 years after the Article 50 button is pressed.

Exactly, all that seems to be happening is everyone has realised Article 50 is not going to be triggered any time soon, and so it is going to be business as usual for the next few years.