Brexit, the economy and house prices (Part 3)

A_Medium_Size_Jock

The bickering has already started with MEP's undecided what to do about the unused EU Parliamentary seats when the UK leaves.

The European Parliament has no plan yet for what to do with the 72 British seats that will be left vacant after Brexit — although it is not short of contradictory ideas.
Making the decision will not be easy because many MEPs view a reallocation of seats post Brexit as an opportunity to right what they perceive as long-standing injustices in the legislature’s makeup.

http://www.politico.eu/article/parliaments-72-empty-chairs-crisis/

Watch for the inevitable and probably vehement disagreements for an idea of just how "united" these MEP's are.

Quasar

I'm just back from spending 16 days in Italy. People over there are amused by Britons' dire predictions about the EU - collapse, catastrophe, lamentations. There are of course various complaints about some EU dealings, but in the same tone as one complains about the home government. There isn't any doomsday fear creeping up either at local or national level. Neither are there in France and Spain, going by the sites of theirs I have been reading.

It's a very British fantasy: without us, things can't go well. Newsflash: they can.

Bon appetit! :beer:

Thrugelmir

Quasar wrote: »

People over there are amused by Britons' dire predictions about the EU - collapse, catastrophe, lamentations.

Who is predicting the demise of the EU?

Quasar

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Who is predicting the demise of the EU?

Quite a few people on this forum, for example, and on various sites which foreign media, and individuals, are quite able to read (such as myself, naturally). You know, the voices of people who are not necessarily politicians.

dalehitchy

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Who is predicting the demise of the EU?

Go an read the daily mail comments. About 90% on a daily basis say 'they will collapse soon anyway' and 'they only want us for our money, once we are gone the EU will fall' and so on. I'm not even joking. It's comment after comment

Thrugelmir

dalehitchy wrote: »

Go an read the daily mail comments. About 90% on a daily basis say 'they will collapse soon anyway' and 'they only want us for our money, once we are gone the EU will fall' and so on. I'm not even joking. It's comment after comment

That's a reasoned argument. As the UK are significant contributors. There's no apparent will to fund the budget shortfall .

System

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Who is predicting the demise of the EU?

Plenty of posters on this forum. You must've noticed.

System

Thrugelmir wrote: »

That's a reasoned argument. As the UK are significant contributors. There's no apparent will to fund the budget shortfall .

It's not a reasoned argument. I can write the names countries with a will to fund budget shortfalls using a brick as a pen and the end of a matchstick as the paper.

The EU aren't unique in having an unshakeable belief in the magic money tree.

System

Rinoa wrote: »

18.9%

The ECB say real EU unemployment is far higher.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-unemployment-ecb-idUKKBN1860UU

Still, what do they know, Mayo will be along shortly telling us they have full employment but it's all cash in hand.

Yes it's a high number but context is important..

cogito

ilovehouses wrote: »

Yes it's a high number but context is important..

Context is indeed important. The youth unemployment rate in Italy is 35.2%, in Spain 41%, and in Greece 45%. Young people in those countries are only too happy to be put into context. It's a disgrace.

And it's interesting that unemployment rates in the eorozone are falling much more slowly than in the membership as a whole. The euro is such a big success, isn't it?