Guided Missile

The German economy is dependent on manufacturing and exports of goods and will be hard hit by a trade war/tariff imposition by the US on automobiles and a slowdown in the growth of the Chinese economy. It's banking sector, in particular Deutsche Bank, is in real trouble, as I pointed out a couple of years ago. If you had followed my advice and shorted Deutsche Bank stocks, you would have made a compound gain of over 16% a year. With the UK economy largely dependent on it's growing service sector, the threats facing it, in regard to a trade war, a slowing Chinese economy and bailing out the Italians, are far less than those faced by the metal bashing Germans. The German economic miracle has run out of steam, after being built on an undervalued currency and massive trade surplus, on the back and to the detriment, of the rest of the EU. Trump has them worked out and will deliver a hammer blow soon. I would love us to "crash out" of the EU and stick 25% tariffs on German cars in retaliation for not giving us a free trade deal. That would wipe that smug grin off Frau Merkel's face. Still, what do I know? I've only been right about everything.....

Meanwhile, in Euroland: Italy’s economy at zero growth and about to implode. In Germany people are fighting in the streets fed up with mass killings from unwanted immigrants. Poland and Hungary being instructed what to do. French economy slowing. German economy likely to go into a recession. German banks about to go bust. Like I've said before, it's always nice to be the first one in the lifeboat...

I think you're ignoring the facts again, pal, obviously because you're having too many homoerotic fantasies involving economists: I tell you what, pal. I'll promise to keep you off ignore, if you'll promise to stop jerking off over the Economist centrefold...

Here's my reality, matey-boy: I think you are currently inhabiting the universe where "the zealots are finding it impossible to process anything that contradicts their ideology". Still, I'm highly amused by the ease with which the so-called intellectual Remainers on this thread are brainwashed, by the dumbest of politicians this country has to offer.

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The Mensa comment was obviously ironic.

I am aware of both points you have made above and have been grateful for the past 20 years that GM wheat has not been possible, due to the fact that I rely on cereal herbicide sales to run my business. When Bob Shapiro, (who I met a few times when I worked in the US), committed Monsanto to developing GM soya, resistant to the only decent herbicide they had, glyphosate, back in the 1980's, it effectively killed the many decent selective herbicides Cyanamid developed, the imidazolinone group. These were discovered by a mate of mine, Marinus Los, when we were both working at their US research centre in Princeton, NJ. My brother in law was a product manager for the first compound introduced, Pursuit, which sold $150 million in the first year. 5 years after GM soya was introduced, Cyanamid's imidazolinone products were basically dead and the company was sold to BASF. You are such an intellectual midget who doesn't even read posts, because you are so keen to post your latest internet search that you think wins an argument. The crop I harvested this season was rape seed, as i posted. It's a common break crop, after wheat is grown, to put nitrogen back into the soil. It is also known in Canada and the US as canola. I'll leave a Google expert like you to use GM and canola as search terms to educate yourself. I'm only going to comment on the first abstract you quote, by posting a brief part of the paper below the abstract. After Proposition 37 was rejected by the electorate in California, the contamination of crops by GM varieties ceased to be an issue and is the main reason that the EU is forced to accept GM soya, because there is no such thing as 100% GM free soya, even when a farm wants to grow it. After it was kicked out by the consumers in California, the activists were forced to claim that glyphosate is carcinogenic, a claim that is totally false and spread by Marxist anti-capitalists. Google Prop. 37 and glyphosate carcinogen and learn something. Try and justify why Macron wants the EU to ban glyphosate by 2021. As I have said, it is probably because he is as dumb as you.

What's your excuse for starting insults? I put you on ignore after this particular and delightful example: Took you off after this one: Then you post this: I know you're one of my trolls and would love to have a debate with someone you foolishly believe you are intellectually compatible with, but I'm afraid you're back on ignore for the main reason that you are a w@nk stain, as us Mensa members would describe you...

You're hilarious. I grow wheat and this year, rapeseed. A £250k combine pops in to harvest the crop, takes the seeds to a merchant who weighs them and puts them in a silo, with all the other farmers seeds who can't afford a £250k combine. If I slapped a non-GM label on the combine before it left my farm, there would be a remote chance that a few of the seeds may be mixed with any GM labelled seeds left in the silo. That may alarm idiots like you who think that consuming GM seeds, or animals that have eaten them, would cause a health problem, but no one outside the EU gives a sh!t, because they only care about affordable food, not what they read in the Guardian. "Transgenic contamination"? Mate, stop googling and stop digging the hole you're in any deeper.

Cry me a river...

Alright, I'll respond. Trump, who is the Leader of a country that imports less German cars than the UK, threatens a 25% tariff on them. Junker gets on the first plane, kisses Trump on the cheek and offers a trade deal. I don't give a f*** who won that particular deal, as both of them would want to claim victory. My post wasn't about the EU vs the US, it was about May vs Trump. You see May, who is the Leader of a country that imports more German cars than any other country, threatens to do f*** all apart from offering a more generous trade deal with the EU, than Trump ever offered. May then gets on the first plane to the South of France, kisses Macron on the cheek and makes a fool of herself. Still, forget trade deals and tell me about the "genetic contamination" again. I need a laugh...

If it's all the same, I'll go with the opinion of 108 Nobel laureates, than the "genetic contamination" b0ll0x you have obviously read in a leaflet somewhere. You must have failed every science exam you ever took, because you haven't a clue what "genetic contamination" is. I guess you mean cross pollination. That only occurs between very closely related species and has been going on for thousands of years. In the case of GM crops, it's like worrying that a field of fruit trees will "contaminate" or pollinate an adjoining field of barley and the next year you'll end up with a field of apples, rather than barley. It seems that the EU politicians are as dumb as you.

I am well aware of that. The increase in the amount of GM soya imported from the US, rather than Brazil, who are now replacing the US in selling to China now, is new. What is an old argument is the crass hypocrisy of the EU for banning the cultivation of GM crops in Europe on food safety grounds and importing more GM crops, to benefit German car manufacturers. I am all ears for a cogent argument justifying their anti-technology argument on GM crops. The only comfort I've got, is they've screwed all the anti-GM NGO's, like Greenpeace. They were warned 2 years ago: Still, WTF does James Watson know?

I wasn't talking to you, numbnuts, but replying to the post below from badger: I replied: The below article might help you understand the point: ...now get back in your box before you make a total tool of yourself.

We need to change. This country is now full of bleeding heart liberals intent on selling our country and what made it great, down the river.

Trump took the risk and it paid off in about a week...

Where would we be, if the £500 billion we sent to Brussels had been invested in UK infrastructure, the NHS and technology, rather than it enabling the tax dodging Greeks, Irish and Italians to buy "expensive designer clothes and lovely cars"?

During that period, Merkel sent Jean-Claude Drunker over to see Trump and beg him not to impose 25% tariffs on German cars. In return he promised that the EU would buy US soybeans, in fact GM soybeans, a variety that cannot legally be cultivated in the EU. What a principled organisation they are. Unsurprisingly, the diminishing prospect of a trade war between the EU and the US boosted the euro. Ban GM crops to protect French farmers and then import them from the US to protect German car companies. More German cars are exported to the UK than anywhere else. Why May feels unable to threaten a 25% import tariff on German cars unless we get a decent trade deal with the EU is beyond me. May has to go and we have to leave this corrupt organisation which, it is obvious to anyone that watches the attitude of the EU, during our trade negotiations, has been set up to benefit the French and Germans. Of course, there are many quislings on this forum that think that it is fair for the EU to treat the UK as they are. I just happen to think that, after contributing around £500 billion to the failed continental political experiment the EU has become, the UK government may be a little more aggressive in their trade negotiations. As in, "Jog on, Barnier, you get no more from us and we'll take our chances in EFTA. We may then consider granting a decent bilateral free-trade agreement with the EU, so that your German paymasters can continue to sell £26 billion more a year to us than we sold to them."

It's not been doing that bad against the euro. If we had Trump instead of May negotiating, it would be doing much better.

Behave, Gramps... a recession isn't here and there is no sign of one. If there was a sign, the BoE wouldn't have raised interest rates, would they?

Totall b0ll0x from Mark Carney who was predicting a recession that never happened, before the vote in June. 3 months before the referendum in the UK, the ECB was doing this: Draghi is still buying Italian bonds... All down to Brexit, innit...

I'm more worried about Nicholas Cage movies, than Brexit:

I thought that it was pretty obvious, given the tripe I was responding to and I thought you lot were pretty clever, compared to us knuckle dragging Brexiteers...

I'm aware of that. The point was, that the poster suggested that the UK QE was somehow related to the Brexit vote. It obviously wasn't. Just for your information, the EU didn't vote to leave the EU.

UK QE Cost since 2008: £435bn EU QE Cost since 2008: €2.4tn