[Big Brian]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

The leaked list shows all the major brown nosed stayers picking up gongs, knighthoods, companions of Honour, etc.

Out of curiosity, are there any Brexiters on that list?

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Originally Posted by martyh

I find it amazing that so much is being attributed to Brexit .For the record we have not even begun the leaving process yet so we have not 'ditched the EU' and neither are are all the warnings about Brexit being proven groundless ,they may be proven groundless in the future or they may be proven correct we simply do not know yet .

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I think a lot depends on location and type of construction .For instance up here small scale house building has gone beserk but i do see signs that large scale house building has slowed as has local authority projects.

Very strange. Why didn't they just carry on as normal? Nothing has changed.

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Originally Posted by Osem

Well the media needs stuff to report. So in Brexit they have the story which keeps on giving. Every time there's a problem it's down to Brexit, then every time there's some good news it's in spite of Brexit.

What I notice more is the relative absence, in the places I frequent, of stuff about what's going on in the EU, migration, banking problems etc.

There was some more bad news about the Italian banks the other day but I didn't see it reported widely.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e67c83c4-5...#axzz4GI3boQrP

Is the bad weather recently attributed to Brexit? I ask because they blame everything else when they could just carry on trading as normal. But no, they have to carry on making problems for themselves. I can understand it had we left on the Friday after the vote.

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Interest rates lowered to 0.25%, MPC forecasting rates to go to 'close to, but a little above, zero' by end of year.

£60 billion of new QE to buy government debt, £10 billion to purchase corporate bonds, up to £100 billion to support lending.

Seems the BoE are indeed somewhat 'chilled'.

EDIT: This is going to harm pensions and investments further as gilt yields have dropped considerably already.

EDIT 2: In better news while the BoE are 'chilled' they are not predicting recession, just slower growth, which is not as bad as it could have been.

I don't understand all the financial stuff but printing money only puts off for a while as it has to be paid back. Wish they'd put the interest on my credit card at 0.25%.