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Is that the same ONS that independently produces its statistics according the following standards?

Read this for the way forward on Brexit. The Telegraph is on a roll and is waking up to the facts outlined in my OP. ...and... It looks like their exit from the World cup is the least of Germany's problems. Note: Lex monetae is a Latin phrase which means that a sovereign state chooses which currency it will use and that the meaning of units of above-mentioned currency is determined by the law of the country whose money is in question. The concept has been identified as a potential problem if the Eurozone breaks up or a member state decides to leave it, since debts in euros may turn into debts owed in another currency. Conversion would be at a rate determined by the nation in question, and no party to a contract or transaction will have the right to default on it. No coincidence that the phrase is in Latin so the Italians understand it....

Size isn't everything, as your wife keeps saying. If you had read and understood the article, you may have realised that the Germans, via the ECB, have been buying amongst other gilts, Italian bonds. The Italian bondholders has been quickly turning this money into less risky investments, i.e. not Italian bonds. It is in the article you didn't read, but chose to engage me, because you are lazy. I won't make the same mistake again. Here is the extract from the article: (PS, the BoE has been investing in UK gilts and is unlikely to pull out of sterling) (PPS, You are back on ignore for wasting my time. Please feel free to engage with Mr. Smart money instead, who is bound to tell you what you want to hear, i.e. I am an ignorant scumbag, the Euro is a good thing and bet against sterling, pal. Thank God I put that arsewipe on ignore as well, or I'd be losing money on bitcoins )

​The chickens are coming home to roost, the writing is on the wall and the canary is dead (don't say I didn't warn you). Read this excellent Telegraph article and prepare for the upcoming economic cluster£ukk, to be lead by the Italians and followed closely by the Germans. It's like bobbing up and down in a lifeboat, watching the EU rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic, while Draghi's band keeps playing.

I just love Wikipedia:

Pity the American Embassy diplomats didn't read the opening post of this thread, referencing the Heritage Foundation paper of 2014, here. It begins: Lucky for the US that their founding fathers weren't as lily-livered as these diplomats are, back in 1776.

Total nutcase. Like I said, get professional help, mate:

Farage pales into insignificance compared to Remains new puppet master, George Soros, in shorting sterling.

I find it frightening that there may be a one in 30,000 chance of meeting you at St. Mary's. You need professional help, mate...

Meanwhile, just to update my post with the latest information, courtesy of Lord Ridley and Professor Kevin Dowd: So, to repeat, wrong on both counts and Mr. "Smart Money" is back on ignore for being a troll....

Wrong on both counts:

The @TIME cover story blowing up reinforces everything Trump has said: *Fake News: She wasn't separated *Not a first time crosser *Claiming asylum when it doesn't apply *Photos in media don't show the reality *Put child in danger *Treating him differently than Obama

Time and its fake cover: Total b0ll0x as it turns out: Correction: The original version of this story misstated what happened to the girl in the photo after she taken from the scene. The girl was not carried away screaming by U.S. Border Patrol agents; her mother picked her up and the two were taken away together.

Seems like I was on the money, proved by this story: ....and the liberal, gullible fools on here just lapped it up....

Meanwhile, back in January, the BBC reported here: I know it's far fetched, but next, the EU will be supporting the transfer of the Eastleigh Transit factory to Turkey. Oh, hang on.... Now, remind me. Are Turkey and China in the EU single market?

Yeah, right. So Airbus is worried about the UK being out of the single market. I think what they mean is the UK being out of their single "illegally state subsidised" market. They have more to worry about from the US and WTO than whether we are in their grubby club...

I just love the buttons that are pushed to get Trump demonised. Children separated from parents shock-horror. Yet, I'm looking closely at the press and since the Independent published, back in 2017, this article regarding the record number of children in the UK being placed in care, I don't see much for the UK to feel superior about. So, there are about 65 children separated from their law breaking parents, daily, in the Southern states of the US. The UK beats that, with 90 children being placed in care, every day. The reasons for this are often down to poverty, homelessness and substance abuse. I'm trying to think of a scapegoat, but the hard truth is that these children in the US, are placed in this position by their parents, not Donald Trump. Still, it's easier to blame a government, with accompanying tragic news footage. Saves a foreign government like Mexico taking the responsibility for the poverty and homelessness their citizens face (and plenty of substance abuse, no doubt). It also helps score cheap political points, rather than face up to the social issues, namely parental responsibility, that lead to these terrible and tragic situations. I would never suggest that Mexico may be creating this situation on the back of threatened trade tariffs, but it makes you think. Let's tidy up our own backyard before we start lecturing the US. Our social services are in crisis and we should fix them first, before Theresa May starts lecturing people again, like a third-rate headmistress.

I prefer the Australian system:

After their experience with Turkey, I can't see the EU or the countries that have to contribute money going for another deal like that one...

I was wrong. It is more than that, according to May:

I make the Brexit dividend about £384 m PW more to spend on the NHS, according to May.

Canaries were used in mines to warn of a toxic build up of poisonous fumes. When the canary died, the miners got out of the mine. The prospect of the restriction of the free movement of economic migrants from outside the EU in Germany is the canary. Should freedom of movement end in Germany and Merkel quits, the basic principle of the EU, upon which it was founded ends and the EU is dead. This was picked up in the Times today, by Niall Ferguson. Nice to see that someone has been reading my posts...

Patronising pr!ck..

One more reason to be glad we're leaving the EU, in today's Times: ...and a dead canary in the EU coal mine from the same edition: ...ooh, look, another dead canary:

Have you ever submitted a post on this site that you regret? I must admit, that was a dumb-ass post and not my finest...sorry about that.