yeah but I probably did more damage in that 5mins than good, so I’m worse than you. Bloody public sector.
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I’m currently on gardening leave from a private sector firm 
- The reason for leaving is that the management structure is full of Sociopaths - with the CEO the biggest sociopath of the lot.
I’ve worked in both private and public sector firms and from experience private sector firms tend to be about profit at all costs for the owners / shareholders. The company I’m leaving was bought by a US firm who are looking for a 25% year on year return on their investment. GoT has nothing on the methods they use to get that return.
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The FTSE250 - mostly made up of businesses which are more exposed to the UK and Europe (as opposed to the global giants in the FTSE100) is still about 9% down.
Nadim Muslim @ NadimMuslim 55m55 minutes ago
US-UK Trade Bill In Congress Just One Week After Brexit Vote http://heat.st/2993V9F via @ heatstreet
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Elsewhere in Europe, Austrian courts have ordered a re-run of the Presidential election.
Postal vote fraud.
The constitutional court ruled the election, in which a far-Right candidate was narrowly defeated, would have to be held again because of irregularities in counting postal votes.
The ruling means the far-Right may seize the presidency of a European Union member state for the first time.
Norbert Hofer, the gun-toting candidate of the far-Right Freedom Party (FPÖ) lost the election in May by just 31,000 votes.
The Austria thing bothers no-one, no?
The far right has been on the rise in Europe for decades. Marine Le Pen, her predecessor and her pals, have arguably only been kept out of office because of constant revision in French boundaries and the majorities they needed to take power.
Long before Brexit was a thing or Corbyn was on the agenda as leadership material, people on the left were deeply concerned about the rise of the far right across the continent.
I was at this meeting, and was very alarmed with what Tariq Ali had to say.
Originally posted by @pap
The Austria thing bothers no-one, no?
The far right has been on the rise in Europe for decades. Marine Le Pen, her predecessor and her pals, have arguably only been kept out of office because of constant revision in French boundaries and the majorities they needed to take power.
Long before Brexit was a thing or Corbyn was on the agenda as leadership material, people on the left were deeply concerned about the rise of the far right across the continent.
I imagine it bothers a few people. And has done for some time. Possibly people on the right, in the middle as well as on the left.
Le Pen was one of the first to congratulate the Brexit voters and the referendum result. The far right see it as paving the way for referenda elsewhere in the EU. If that happended it would undoubtedly throw the EU into chaos and cement the far right on the european political agenda. And it could be argued that Brexit was a catalyst for this. One of the stranger twists in this whole Brexit debacle.
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You’d think that some Brexiters might pause for thought given all the backslapping from far-right parties across Europe.
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Originally posted by @TheCholulaKid
You’d think that some Brexiters might pause for thought given all the backslapping from far-right parties across Europe.
But at least no fucker is tellng us we can’t have a bendy cucumber and that’s dead important that this. #wegotourcountrybackinnitmush
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Originally posted by @pap
Originally posted by @cobham-saint
OK Lenin - we’ve heard all the theory. How do you propose to actually sort it all out and make society equitable to all. Give us details dammit!!
Don’t start that! We’ll be here all day!
Damn, you saw through my cunning plan to make you go off on one.
Well played sir…!
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Finding a new London for world finance
If between 10% and 40% of the Cityof London financial institutions are looking to relocate to the EU, then UK tax base will be slashed with the resultant tax increases hitting ordinary workers hard.
with the likelihood of recession
just around the corner, jobs will be lost and public expenditure will be cut
meaning no end to austerity for the forseeable future
and if an EEA- deal is entered into, there will be no end to immigration to at least give some brexiters a crumb of comfort.
And you’d think Remainers would be worried about sharing their sovereignty with such parties.
But it’ll be like the good ole days when no one locked their doors, urchins stayed out until sunset playing cricket under gas lamps and everyone loved the Royal Famly like a real life Life On Mars.
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But it’ll be like the good ole days when no one locked their doors, urchins stayed out until sunset playing cricket under gas lamps and everyone loved the Royal Famly like a real life Life On Mars.
Said no-one ever, apart from you, twice 
That was based on listening to some old dears in the hospital waiting room on Wednesday. They all said how it’s chance to get back to how it used to be. I did want to chime in if that included power cuts and the Black & White Minstrel Show but under the circumstances that would have been harsh even for me.
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#wemelton
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In the same way that Brexiters have expressed worries about sharing our sovereignty with the other members of the WTO or NATO, for example?
No? Thought not.
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Ex colleague of mine overheard someone in m&s post referendum say how we’d be going back to no Sunday shopping now the Leave campaign won. So maybe there are some people who thought we were going back to the good ol’ days.