Brexit fallout

[Darkwood]

:grouphug:

Time will tell mid' but considering most of the gloom and doom hasn't happened and only the expected dip in the FT100 that occured and recovered in 1 day and the pound which is now recovering well actually happend then there is little credibilty in the leaves scaremongering thus far... even the BoE which was one of the biggest doom forecasters has revealed the protective measures it had that would ensure we would be able to ride any financial fallout that occured, strange how they forgot to mention this in the campaign instead of saying new recession and tax rises etc..

If the BoE was worried about our position then they wouldn't have left interest rates as they were and instead reduced further to boost investment and growth, this is another catch 22, reduce interest rates and the world see you are worried and need to bolster the economy, do nothing and you loose face to all the gloom you said would happen if we left, luckily for us they are not stupid enough to bite their nose to spite their face and also realise that most people out there are ruddy clueless so under the smoke screen of all the political mayhem they play their cards.

 

[Midwest]

You right darkwood, only time will tell. The prospect of Armageddon, may have been unwarranted, we shall find out. The only issue I have with your argument at the moment, regarding the current state of the pound & economics, is we are still in the EU. We will have to wait until we actually leave to see the effect, and then it might be a few years, before we see how things pan out.

As for Boris. It's interesting how some people in this country view him and how people outside the UK do, as in Marvo's case. I was listening to views of different foreign correspondents on how their country think of him. The only positive one was the US, as he was the only British politician most Americans could name, cos he appeared on some chat show.
He's bigged himself up, now's his chance to step up to the plate.

 

[Darkwood]

Boris has a bit of a media lagacy for his foolery and baffoonism (if that's a word) and in the modern world of social media and global news then it's not just the UK that are witness to this, what you will find is those that have actually met him and talk about serious subject matter over the table do hold him in high respect, the rest just play comment and opinion on what they have been fed over the years by the media, you can tell who he's met and done business with because they describe a very different Boris to that we all witness, it's like I told a mate the other night to his surprise that he is multilingual and very well educated, he thought I was joking so it goes to show how media shape opinions and is often used for political gain, well that is until the public see through the lies and stand up against the machine