Brexit! Obviously it's massively complicated and I don't think anyone has a real grasp on what the ramifications will be. I think this article is an even handed look at the range of possible economic implications, and it shares (mostly) my general pro Brexit feeling at least insofar as it represents a strike against the clearly failed policies of neoliberalism (failed, that is, for all but the very top of the economic ladder.) Interesting times and all that....
Also, very indirectly, I'm hoping Brexit is a small step towards a larger dissolution that might hopefully lead to the unravelling of NATO. I see this as very important if we want to avoid war with Russia. There will be a lot of negatives in any wide ranging European dissolution, but if it does help to avoid that war I think the costs will be worth it. I guess easy for me to say from the woods of Connecticut.
- jim 6-24-2016 10:11 am
Wine prices could go down Jim so stay focused on the key issues:>)
- Skinny 6-24-2016 11:23 am
Stockpiling English wine as we speak.
- mark 6-24-2016 2:41 pm
Perhaps the Scots will re-think their relationship with the English. Also, would be interesting to see two different independent Irelands.
- mark 6-24-2016 4:06 pm
Jack Sargeant posted this comment from the Guardian's comments section to his FB page and it's caused a little stir with his fellow brit friends.
If Boris Johnson looked downbeat yesterday, that is because he realises that he has lost.
Perhaps many Brexiters do not realise it yet, but they have actually lost, and it is all down to one man: David Cameron.
With one fell swoop yesterday at 9:15 am, Cameron effectively annulled the referendum result, and simultaneously destroyed the political careers of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and leading Brexiters who cost him so much anguish, not to mention his premiership.
How?
Throughout the campaign, Cameron had repeatedly said that a vote for leave would lead to triggering Article 50 straight away. Whether implicitly or explicitly, the image was clear: he would be giving that notice under Article 50 the morning after a vote to leave. Whether that was scaremongering or not is a bit moot now but, in the midst of the sentimental nautical references of his speech yesterday, he quietly abandoned that position and handed the responsibility over to his successor.
And as the day wore on, the enormity of that step started to sink in: the markets, Sterling, Scotland, the Irish border, the Gibraltar border, the frontier at Calais, the need to continue compliance with all EU regulations for a free market, re-issuing passports, Brits abroad, EU citizens in Britain, the mountain of legistlation to be torn up and rewritten ... the list grew and grew.
The referendum result is not binding. It is advisory. Parliament is not bound to commit itself in that same direction.
The Conservative party election that Cameron triggered will now have one question looming over it: will you, if elected as party leader, trigger the notice under Article 50?
Who will want to have the responsibility of all those ramifications and consequences on his/her head and shoulders?
Boris Johnson knew this yesterday, when he emerged subdued from his home and was even more subdued at the press conference. He has been out-maneouvered and check-mated.
If he runs for leadership of the party, and then fails to follow through on triggering Article 50, then he is finished. If he does not run and effectively abandons the field, then he is finished. If he runs, wins and pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over - Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a recession ... broken trade agreements. Then he is also finished. Boris Johnson knows all of this. When he acts like the dumb blond it is just that: an act.
The Brexit leaders now have a result that they cannot use. For them, leadership of the Tory party has become a poison chalice.
When Boris Johnson said there was no need to trigger Article 50 straight away, what he really meant to say was "never".
When Michael Gove went on and on about "informal negotiations" ... why? why not the formal ones straight away? ... he also meant not triggering the formal departure.
They both know what a formal demarche would mean: an irreversible step that neither of them is prepared to take.
All that remains is for someone to have the guts to stand up and say that Brexit is unachievable in reality without an enormous amount of pain and destruction, that cannot be borne. And David Cameron has put the onus of making that statement on the heads of the people who led the Brexit campaign"
- steve 6-25-2016 8:51 pm
- steve 6-26-2016 11:08 am
I was gonna link to that -- thanks. "The Hamptons is not a defensible position."
Firstly, which part of the racket should you contact to get maximum backspin, the top edge where Is the part furthest from the handle like how you explained in your contact for maximum backspin video. Or should I the front edge of the bat. Because I heard another coach saying that to contact the front edge. - VideoPortal (guest) 3-14-2017 6:27 pm
Brexit! Obviously it's massively complicated and I don't think anyone has a real grasp on what the ramifications will be. I think this article is an even handed look at the range of possible economic implications, and it shares (mostly) my general pro Brexit feeling at least insofar as it represents a strike against the clearly failed policies of neoliberalism (failed, that is, for all but the very top of the economic ladder.) Interesting times and all that....
- jim 6-24-2016 10:06 am
Also, very indirectly, I'm hoping Brexit is a small step towards a larger dissolution that might hopefully lead to the unravelling of NATO. I see this as very important if we want to avoid war with Russia. There will be a lot of negatives in any wide ranging European dissolution, but if it does help to avoid that war I think the costs will be worth it. I guess easy for me to say from the woods of Connecticut.
- jim 6-24-2016 10:11 am
Wine prices could go down Jim so stay focused on the key issues:>)
- Skinny 6-24-2016 11:23 am
Stockpiling English wine as we speak.
- mark 6-24-2016 2:41 pm
Perhaps the Scots will re-think their relationship with the English. Also, would be interesting to see two different independent Irelands.
- mark 6-24-2016 4:06 pm
Jack Sargeant posted this comment from the Guardian's comments section to his FB page and it's caused a little stir with his fellow brit friends.
If Boris Johnson looked downbeat yesterday, that is because he realises that he has lost.
Perhaps many Brexiters do not realise it yet, but they have actually lost, and it is all down to one man: David Cameron.
With one fell swoop yesterday at 9:15 am, Cameron effectively annulled the referendum result, and simultaneously destroyed the political careers of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and leading Brexiters who cost him so much anguish, not to mention his premiership.
How?
Throughout the campaign, Cameron had repeatedly said that a vote for leave would lead to triggering Article 50 straight away. Whether implicitly or explicitly, the image was clear: he would be giving that notice under Article 50 the morning after a vote to leave. Whether that was scaremongering or not is a bit moot now but, in the midst of the sentimental nautical references of his speech yesterday, he quietly abandoned that position and handed the responsibility over to his successor.
And as the day wore on, the enormity of that step started to sink in: the markets, Sterling, Scotland, the Irish border, the Gibraltar border, the frontier at Calais, the need to continue compliance with all EU regulations for a free market, re-issuing passports, Brits abroad, EU citizens in Britain, the mountain of legistlation to be torn up and rewritten ... the list grew and grew.
The referendum result is not binding. It is advisory. Parliament is not bound to commit itself in that same direction.
The Conservative party election that Cameron triggered will now have one question looming over it: will you, if elected as party leader, trigger the notice under Article 50?
Who will want to have the responsibility of all those ramifications and consequences on his/her head and shoulders?
Boris Johnson knew this yesterday, when he emerged subdued from his home and was even more subdued at the press conference. He has been out-maneouvered and check-mated.
If he runs for leadership of the party, and then fails to follow through on triggering Article 50, then he is finished. If he does not run and effectively abandons the field, then he is finished. If he runs, wins and pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over - Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a recession ... broken trade agreements. Then he is also finished. Boris Johnson knows all of this. When he acts like the dumb blond it is just that: an act.
The Brexit leaders now have a result that they cannot use. For them, leadership of the Tory party has become a poison chalice.
When Boris Johnson said there was no need to trigger Article 50 straight away, what he really meant to say was "never".
When Michael Gove went on and on about "informal negotiations" ... why? why not the formal ones straight away? ... he also meant not triggering the formal departure.
They both know what a formal demarche would mean: an irreversible step that neither of them is prepared to take.
All that remains is for someone to have the guts to stand up and say that Brexit is unachievable in reality without an enormous amount of pain and destruction, that cannot be borne. And David Cameron has put the onus of making that statement on the heads of the people who led the Brexit campaign"
- steve 6-25-2016 8:51 pm
- steve 6-26-2016 11:08 am
I was gonna link to that -- thanks. "The Hamptons is not a defensible position."
Just for balance, here is some liberal and/or neoliberal tooth grinding about how awful it all is: http://lobelog.com/brexit-whistling-past-the-graveyard/
- tom moody 6-26-2016 2:52 pm
Firstly, which part of the racket should you contact to get maximum backspin, the top edge where Is the part furthest from the handle like how you explained in your contact for maximum backspin video. Or should I the front edge of the bat. Because I heard another coach saying that to contact the front edge.
- VideoPortal (guest) 3-14-2017 6:27 pm