Brexit, the economy and house prices part 5

gfplux

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Wouldn't happen to be anything to do with Stena Line who operate the port. Stena Line are themselves privately Swedish owned........

Very probably. They are protecting their investment. The curse of Brexit just keeps on giving.
More technical details in this story.
https://afloat.ie/port-news/dublin-port/item/37536-world-s-largest-ro-ro-ferry-to-be-introduced-on-dublin-routes-linking-mainland-europe

Herzlos

ilovehouses wrote: »

Good news for anyone who will be glad to see each sailing remove 600 return truck journeys from UK roads.

Should be pretty good for air quality, road wear, congestion and so on. Pretty rubbish for anyone making money from said 1200 journeys, as mentioned.

Shouldn't we be pushing to get as much of this traffic off the roads as possible if we're pretending to be green?

BobQ

Eric_the_half_a_bee wrote: »

I'm struggling to understand why you keep doing this. Every time there is bad news, you post a link. Every time there is good news, you stay silent. Quite often, a story is mainly good news and you pick out the one bad bit in it and quote that.

You must think we are a bit thick; it's certainly not having the effect you seem to be hoping for.

Possibly because the good news is publicised more quickly by others

setmefree2

UBS says London Brexit exodus ‘more and more unlikely’

Threat to 1,000 UK jobs recedes after ‘regulatory and political clarifications’ says CEO

UBS has received “regulatory and political clarifications” that make it “more and more unlikely” that the Swiss bank will end up moving 1,000 jobs from London after Brexit, its chief executive said on Friday.

Chief executive Sergio Ermotti told reporters on Friday that UBS would finalise its Brexit plans “in the next few weeks”. “The 1,000 [job moves . . . is becoming in the last few months more and more unlikely . . . because we got also some regulatory and political clarification about what we need to do,” he added. Mr Ermotti said UBS already had all of the licences it needed in its EU bank in Frankfurt to continue all its EU businesses after Brexit, but that the bank’s target was “to keep as many people as we can in London”.

https://www.ft.com/content/e82a4fe2-bad0-11e7-9bfb-4a9c83ffa852

setmefree2

Same story

The head of Swiss banking giant UBS said its "worst case scenario" of having to shift 1,000 jobs out of London due to Brexit was looking unlikely.
Chief executive Sergio Ermotti said it planned to tell UK staff "in the next few weeks" where it would move positions as it plans for Britain's departure from the European Union.

http://news.sky.com/story/ubs-boss-scales-down-worst-case-brexit-exodus-scenario-11100392

Thrugelmir

gfplux wrote: »

Very probably. They are protecting their investment. The curse of Brexit just keeps on giving.

All round seems more like a business decision. Than one one purely related to Brexit.

LHW99

Yep, seems to have happened
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116

Thrugelmir

Unsettling for Spain. Unsettling for Europe. Old divisions re-emerging. Totally in contrast to the Brussels political vision of a generic European.

Herzlos

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Unsettling for Spain. Unsettling for Europe. Old divisions re-emerging. Totally in contrast to the Brussels political vision of a generic European.

Brussels doesn't have visions of a generic European.

tracey3596

"Why can’t the EU do more about the crisis in Catalonia?

The bloc is powerless to head off disaster in Spain."

It is almost certain there will be some resistance from parts of civic society and Catalonian government officials, increasing the chances of violent clashes between Spanish police and locals.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/10/why-can-t-eu-do-more-about-crisis-catalonia




There you go. More on Catalonia.

So mayonnaise, does that me a Jock too?
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