#648

It’s inevitable that when this farcical shitshow hits the buffers, when the fantasy bollocks of ‘we can have all the perks of single market and customs union membership without any of the responsibilities’ crumbles into dust, the EU will be blamed. I can see the headlines now…

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#649
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#651
#652

Christ if only it wasn’t destroying us :confused:

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#653

only vaguely appropriate thread to share this, very interesting if you’re aware of the Kurdish struggle and the rojava experiment…

#654

this is pretty crazy tbh

https://twitter.com/ronanburtenshaw/status/1001019312969277443?s=19

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#658

Used to be irked by people with hashtags in their names. I’ve now realised that there’s a correlation between the number they add and how quickly I can disregard their tweets.

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#660

That’s a spoof account, no?

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#661

yeah, it’s quite a good one as far as those things go. we need some occasional levity itt imo.

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#662

I mean,

https://twitter.com/laughdugrylegal/status/998922571482615808

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#663

@xylo @anon76851889 sorry guys, i was trying to brighten up the thread with a bit of silliness.

then again it’s not obvious what’s parody anymore in a world with eddie Marsan’s twitter account.

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#666

pretty telling sentence this:

The Irish realised that they had binged on euros – borrowed at rates previously only available to bigger AAA-rated countries – to generate a property boom of extraordinary proportions, pay public sector workers as if they were commercial marketing executives and generally live high on the hog.

#667

Does anyone know if there are any handy regional breakdowns of how the recent vote went in Italy? A lot of these articles tend to treat Italy as a homogeneous whole whereas obviously there’s huge variations by area.

Also, this:

If a bank or government lends money to Italy, it does it knowing the country is on an arc of decline that could accelerate at any moment, given the volatile nature of international financial markets. That means that when problems hit, debt forgiveness must be part of the deal, just as it should have been when Greece found itself unable to borrow.

Have any lessons been learnt from Greece? I’m assuming not…

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#668

Heard on R4 sometime over the weekend that there’s a very clear north/south split, but I can’t remember the details.

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#669

south is generally quite poor isn’t it, local economy heavily infiltrated by camorra, cosa nostra and 'ndrangheta

#670

IIRC, Lega (nationalists, originally northern secessionists) are popular in northern Italy and 5 Star is nationally popular but dominates in the south

Italian elections 2018 - full results

Ok yeah here we go (yay I remembered correctly)

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#671

Yet more absolute cuntery from the Guardian. Seething here.

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#672

it’s from one of their economics editors too, whole article is like that, just reeking of snobbery.

#673

Found your problem. All of these types should’ve been strung up alongside the bankers in 2009, but instead they’re still out here, explaining how obvious the problem is after it happened and wagging their fingers at those damned southern Europeans, with their impulses and lack of common sense.

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