Brexit, The Economy and House Prices (Part 2)

setmefree2

FWIW

Davis won’t stay in Brussels for the full week, according to a U.K. official. The hour-to-hour management of the talks will be left to Permanent Secretary for the Department for Exiting the European Union Oliver Robbins, who will lead the negotiating team.

http://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-to-break-vow-not-to-talk-trade-in-brexit-talks/

mayonnaise

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

An abstention rate of 58% led to a record low turnout of French voters.

Fact check:
Abstention rate was 22.23% in the first round and 25.44% in the second.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,_2017

A_Medium_Size_Jock

mayonnaise wrote: »

Fact check:
Abstention rate was 22.23% in the first round and 25.44% in the second.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,_2017

And now for relevant facts rather than a very selective choice - and from France24:

Macron completes electoral grand slam amid record-low turnout

For the first time in history, turnout in a legislative election has slumped to below 50%, in both rounds. On Sunday, a mere 43% of voters bothered to cast their ballots. This means the 42% of votes won by LREM candidates account for less than 20% of registered voters.

http://www.france24.com/en/20170619-france-macron-party-landslide-parliament-majority-abstention-le-pen-melenchon-socialists

Low French turnout also reported in UK media here for example:

French election turnout worst in modern history as Emmanuel Macron heads for landslide victory in parliament

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-election-turnout-emmanuel-macron-parliament-france-victory-fn-marine-le-pen-national-front-a7785366.html

mayonnaise

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

And now for relevant facts rather than a very selective choice

We were talking presidential elections.
Macron was not a candidate for the parliamentary elections.
Please do keep up.

A_Medium_Size_Jock

mayonnaise wrote: »

We were talking presidential elections.
Macron was not a candidate for the parliamentary elections.
Please do keep up.

You may have been but the relevant post which I originally replied to was:

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Didn't many French voters simply abstain.

The one not keeping up then is you.
It would therefore appear that my original response was entirely pertinent which it naturally follows makes your response(s) impertinent.

A_Medium_Size_Jock

ilovehouses wrote: »

Turnout = the number of people that turnout out

Abstentions = of those that turned out the number that abstained

From that I gather you did not bother to read the links I posted.
:rotfl:

The record level of abstention underscored the widespread election fatigue accumulated over more than 12 months of non-stop campaigning

mayonnaise

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

You may have been but the relevant post which I originally replied to was:

You replied to Thrugelmir's post

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Didn't many French voters simply abstain.

The French are more likely to take to the streets, strike and riot, or blockade Channel ports. When they don't like something.

Which was a reply to cogito's post.

cogito wrote: »

I agree. I suspect that Frech voters were voting against other candidates than for Macron.

Which clearly points to Macron as a candidate, i.e. presidential elections.
Let's move on.

A_Medium_Size_Jock

ilovehouses wrote: »

You neither by the looks of it but keep digging



Where do your links mention an abstention rate of 58% - that sounds extraordinarily high?

You are as usual the one doing the digging which will surprise not one single regular contributor to this thread.

I did not supply a link in my original, look again.
But here:

At 42 per cent, turnout was at a record low

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/18/french-election-macron-track-massive-parliamentary-majority/

Never before has voter abstention been so high, at roughly 58 percent, according to one exit poll.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/french-parliamentary-elections-give-big-boost-to-macron/2017/06/18/1a28c952-51fd-11e7-b74e-0d2785d3083d_story.html?utm_term=.26b6b8366842

Thrugelmir

mayonnaise wrote: »

We were talking presidential elections.
Macron was not a candidate for the parliamentary elections.
Please do keep up.

A newly founded party with little electoral support now controls French democracy. If that occured in the UK there would be meltdown. Not a system to unite people together.

A_Medium_Size_Jock

ilovehouses wrote: »

The disappointment in some parts that Le Pen didn't win with a resounding majority is almost palpable. Not here of course.

Show us where?
Prove that this is not merely another throwaway facetious comment.