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Today's quote:

Friday, June 24, 2016

Brexit could be followed by Grexit, Departugal, Italeave, Czechout, Oustria, Finish, Slovakout, Latervia, Byegium. Only Remania will stay.

BHP shares on Friday, 24 June 2016

 

I could see the writing on the chart when BHP shares nosedived halfway through the morning from a high of $19.28 to $17.29, recovering only slightly to $17.54 at the close of trading.

This is the end of the Empire. It may also be the end of the United Kingdom as Scotland will seek independence to remain in the EU (as do Northern Ireland and Gibraltar), and it casts a huge shadow over the future of the European Union and globalisation in general.

Denmark and the Netherlands and then Spain and Greece could follow Britain's example in wanting to leave this unwieldy beast that has minted gold medals for itself in the art of bureaucratic nonsense.

For anybody who doesn't fully understand the Euro situation . . . .

 

Pythagoras' theorem - 24 words

Lord's Prayer - 66 words

Archimedes' Principle - 67 words

10 Commandments - 179 words

Gettysburg address - 286 words

US Declaration of Independence - 1,300 words

US Constitution with all 27 Amendments - 7,818 words

EU regulations on the sale of cabbage - 26,911 words

 

"Club Europe" is dead and Putin must be rubbing his hands with glee as a weaker Europe plays right into his hands. So let us be upstanding and sing Europe's national anthem while there still is a Europe:

But, of course, BREXIT may never happen if these comments in "The Guardian" are anything to go by:

"If Boris Johnson looked downbeat yesterday, that is because he realises that he has lost.

Perhaps many Brexiters do not realise it yet, but they have actually lost, and it is all down to one man: David Cameron.

With one fell swoop yesterday at 9:15 am, Cameron effectively annulled the referendum result, and simultaneously destroyed the political careers of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and leading Brexiters who cost him so much anguish, not to mention his premiership.

How?

Throughout the campaign, Cameron had repeatedly said that a vote for leave would lead to triggering Article 50 straight away. Whether implicitly or explicitly, the image was clear: he would be giving that notice under Article 50 the morning after a vote to leave. Whether that was scaremongering or not is a bit moot now but, in the midst of the sentimental nautical references of his speech yesterday, he quietly abandoned that position and handed the responsibility over to his successor.

And as the day wore on, the enormity of that step started to sink in: the markets, Sterling, Scotland, the Irish border, the Gibraltar border, the frontier at Calais, the need to continue compliance with all EU regulations for a free market, re-issuing passports, Brits abroad, EU citizens in Britain, the mountain of legistlation to be torn up and rewritten ... the list grew and grew.

The referendum result is not binding. It is advisory. Parliament is not bound to commit itself in that same direction.

The Conservative party election that Cameron triggered will now have one question looming over it: will you, if elected as party leader, trigger the notice under Article 50?

Who will want to have the responsibility of all those ramifications and consequences on his/her head and shoulders?

Boris Johnson knew this yesterday, when he emerged subdued from his home and was even more subdued at the press conference. He has been out-maneouvered and check-mated.

If he runs for leadership of the party, and then fails to follow through on triggering Article 50, then he is finished. If he does not run and effectively abandons the field, then he is finished. If he runs, wins and pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over - Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a recession ... broken trade agreements. Then he is also finished. Boris Johnson knows all of this. When he acts like the dumb blond it is just that: an act.

The Brexit leaders now have a result that they cannot use. For them, leadership of the Tory party has become a poison chalice.

When Boris Johnson said there was no need to trigger Article 50 straight away, what he really meant to say was "never". When Michael Gove went on and on about "informal negotiations" ... why? why not the formal ones straight away? ... he also meant not triggering the formal departure. They both know what a formal demarche would mean: an irreversible step that neither of them is prepared to take.

All that remains is for someone to have the guts to stand up and say that Brexit is unachievable in reality without an enormous amount of pain and destruction, that cannot be borne. And David Cameron has put the onus of making that statement on the heads of the people who led the Brexit campaign."

P.S. More interesting reading here and here.