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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I fully understand how negotiations work. I regularly negotiate deals and there is give and take. But what Macron has done is plain nasty, political grandstanding and, frankly, blackmail. I walk away from any such situation.
Your contrariness is probably more pixie than sincere because a normal person would also not wish to be blackmailed like this.
As to your insulting remark about my not understanding economic growth calculations, there was no need to baseline to the current 100%. It was sufficient to take the 100% from the top, since that was the comparison being made.
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Your comparison doesn’t baseline 100%.
Your flawed interpretation implies that if one economy has 10% growth and another 9% less growth its “91%” of that growth.
100-110
100-109.1
When commentators use 9% less its baselined. So rather than 110% of the original size they mean 101%, or just 10% of the growth experienced elsewhere.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Well what did you expect, they’re turning the pressure up to 11.
I think they can turn the pressure up to 15, May and the cabinet can charm offence all they want and you can have 30 tv debates.
This deal is not going to get through Parliament.
So Mr Tusk, says the outcome will either be No Deal, or No Brexit. Brexit however is enshrined in law. A law that parliament voted for...convincingly.
Ergo,,,,,,no deal? But no deal ( we are told ) will not be allowed by Parliament..........parliament is walking into a paradox of it’s own making.
As I said earlier, it’s fascinating, real popcorn time.
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I’ve expected this for some time. As stated earlier, Parliament is sovereign and can unbind itself if there’s the political will to do so. I’d go so far as to say the will is clear, it’s the political expedience of who takes the fall that’s the problem.