Category Euro Crisis
CORONAVIRUS CONTINGENCY PLANNING | WORST-CASE SCENARIO
This is another mini-series of three posts looking at contingency planning for the Covid-19 pandemic should the health, socio-economic and geopolitical situations deteriorate. This first post describes what could be a Covid-19 worst-case scenario. The second post will look at the positive side of the pandemic and how our quality of life could conceivably be […]
BREXIT | AN APPEAL TO THE ‘DON’T KNOWS’
Dedication This post is dedicated to my dear friend and Remain voter, Doctor A and his wonderful, feisty partner, J. Doctor A believes from his heart that the decision of the majority of British voters – that the UK should leave the European Union – was a dreadful mistake; one that we’ll live to regret. […]
EU REFERENDUM: WHAT NOW?
Post-EU Referendum analysis of the principal reasons for voting one way or the other threw out the following key conclusions. Remainians voted primarily out of fear of the economic and social consequences of us leaving the EU: honourable and fair enough. On the other hand, we Leavers voted primarily for self-determination: equally honourable and fair […]
EU REFERENDUM: WHO SPEAKS FOR YOU?
Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission Post # 1-of-4 on the subject of the UK’s EU Referendum: how will you decide which way to vote? A Punter’s Guide. Who Speaks for You? Hello and welcome to Moraymint Chatter. I’m assuming you’re here because you saw the notice I placed in […]
THE EUROPEAN UNION: MAKE ME LARF
If you’re wondering whether, come 23 June, you want to be a Brit or a citizen of the European Union (it’s one or the other; you can’t be both), then you need to watch this presentation by Boris Johnson. Show me one politician, just one politician from the ‘Remain in the EU’ side who has […]
PATRIOTIC VOICES FROM EUROPE – THE BBC WON’T BE REPORTING THIS SPEECH
UKIP’s leader, Nigel Farage, is in Washington where he made a speech to the Heritage Foundation. If a British mainstream politician had made this speech – ‘Patriotic Voices From Europe – there’s a real chance that the BBC would have reported it. However, since the speech was made by Mr Farage, there was and remains no […]
GREECE – THE EURO AND GROUPTHINK
As the Greek government, a paragon of economic and political ineptitude, pressed and bullied by the European Union, moves to impose yet more austerity on its people, a thought comes to mind. The desperate attempts to keep Greece locked in to the euro currency – and with it Greece’s total socio-economic destruction – will go […]
PERHAPS EUROPEANS ARE WAKING UP?
Some quick, spur of the moment thoughts about unfolding events in the Balkans and the Lower Danube. I’m referring to Greece, of course, which is in Europe, kind of. Although you’d never know the Greeks were Europeans from the way they’re being treated by their European Union compatriots. This ‘ever closer union’ thing is brilliant, isn’t it? […]
INTERLUDE – WHERE’S EUROPE HEADING?
If you’re anything like me – which you’re probably not, but hey – you wonder from time to time where all the seemingly interminable nonsense in Europe is most likely to end up. Do you ever wonder that? I mean, barely a day goes by when we don’t hear, read or watch some report or […]
WHO IS ‘NUMBER ONE’ IN THE MODERN-DAY PANTHEON OF IDIOTS?
To discover who is Number One in the modern-day pantheon of idiots running countries around the world, watch this …
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