yip, and dont you forget it. hips been fine for a few days now, think my voodoo is stronger than yours. :Finger::smileys:
Mervyn King says we should leave the single market. Britain should be 'confident' about Brexit and quit Single Market, former Bank of England governor says The danger is that we end up with the worst of both worlds, tied to a limited single market without full access to the rest of the world. Better to be bold, leave now and get on with our future rather than be tied to the sinking ship that is the EU.
I have a lot of respect for the views of people like Mervyn King and Digby Jones. The EU machine and leaders of the 27 member states are now taking a very hard line against the UK and I think they fear the consequences of an increasing EU public dissatisfaction if they see a successful UK escaping from the EU shackles. The Euro is a ticking time bomb and damaging their own economies by falling out with the UK is going to make things worse. There will be a lot of new leaders and influences over the next few months and it's going to be a roller coaster in 2017.
We just need to get on with it and have some balls and backbone. The problem is that nearly half of the population are wittering and keeping the foot firmly on the brake, whilst our government are somewhere in between. Good strong forthright leadership is needed now, not pandering to every concern from every corner. You can't please everyone, not in the EU, not out the EU. But a halfway house is worse than either in or out. Can somebody for christ sake take us forward
Surely it was Horatio Townshend 1733 - 1735, 1st Viscount Townshend :Shifty:? He was just hopeless. :Asshat::Banghead:
I know who it was. It was Duke58*. *He used to be Duke63 before Brexit but the bottom is falling out of the market. I reckon he'll be DukeSingleFigures by the end of Q2.
The criteria is that Mervyn King has said that the UK should wholly remove itself from the single market, so the duke was insinuating that Mr. King was the worst Govenor of the Bank of England in over 320 years to denigrate his opinion as worthless. Do I win something now?
King was the Governor who warned Chancellor Gordon Brown that his policies and his neutering of the BoE's authority with the tripartite regulatory system and the FSA was allowing excessive borrowing and risky lending practises that would cause serious trouble in the near future. In fact he was the second Governor. Eddie George predicted disaster as well. Don't shoot the messenger, as they say, but they did shoot this messenger when he was subsequently proved right.
