How Much Easier Can They Make It ?

[bazwillrun]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/02/23/third-time-lucky-for-the-london-stock-exchange-and-its-german-su/

and this how the cancer grows...insidious, bit by bit...the eussr will be rubbing their greedy hands with glee...

[Svejk]

They obviously weren't as stoical as Labour supporters, who probably would and almost definitely will, follow their party over a cliff.

[sandyRoe]

We shall go down with all guns blazing.

[Svejk]

That's the spirit. Although, haven't they banned guns yet. Or was that just for the unarmed forces?

[Svejk]

I think you've upset Chris now. Dissing his Lib-Dumbs, like that, sandy.

[Gromit]

LSE Group is an International company based in the UK. It has his fingers in many countries, notably Italy, Japan, India and Canada. The fact that it might go into a marriage of convenience with a private company in Germany has *** all to do with the EU.
In fact previous efforts to tie the knot were thwarted by EU regulators.

[jim360]

Never let the facts get in the way of a good EUSSR rant, buen and gromit :/

[bazwillrun]

"WAKE UP TO THE REAL WORLD, BAZWILLRUN!!! "

shame you dont buenchico, and cant see whats really going on and where the country is going..

"What has that report got to do with the EU?"...how naive are you ?...

[bazwillrun]

" isn't it about time your retired this silly little nomenclature. "

no why ?...heres the deal, you stop posting on here and I'll stop using it !...

I could use NJ's "euromaniacs" but im sure that doesnt suit your delicate little sensibilities either...so I think i'll carry on with eussr...dont like it ..tough, not my problem

[mrblear]

Somebody touched a nerve there.

[jim360]

You're welcome to your opinion of what I post, baz, but it's hard not to see what you post as "ranting" when it's filled with barely-disguised anger, bile and inflammatory vocabulary. Which style out of yours and mine people prefer to read is their own choice. Personally, I can't see the appeal in constantly shouting and branding anyone who disagrees with you (on this, at least) as traitorous.

But anyway, once again you're wrong. I don't call opinions I don't like rants for the sake of their being the opposite opinion to what I hold. It's the style I'm objecting to with your posts when I refer to them as rants -- the substance I also disagree with, to be sure, but if it were expressed differently I'd engage with it in a different manner. As it is, you'll forgive me if I don't think it's worth it.

[bhg481]

Well said Jim.

[bazwillrun]

only a two para rant (your word not mine !) from you

thanks for proving my case jim...much appreciated...

[bazwillrun]

"Somebody touched a nerve there."
not at all....I give as good as I get...certain people on here think that they and they alone have the right to say what they want and that they are always correct so I, like others on here see no reason to let them get away with it...

[jim360]

"...certain people on here think that they and they alone have the right to say what they want and that they are always correct..."

I'll concede the last point -- can't see much point in posting something if, at the time at least, I don't believe it's correct, after all! -- but the first it again completely false. I disagree with you and your style), but I'm not stopping you from saying it, never have done, and never will do. I just express my disagreement with your opinions, which is a completely different thing (and calling them rants isn't saying that you can't post either, but is also just expressing an opinion).

[Svejk]

/// but the first it again completely false///

Can't understand why you think that?

[jim360]

Well, at least it's false if by "certain people" baz is referring to me alone. If you extend to others, maybe I shouldn't speak for them -- but I would argue that the same basic attitude can be seen, in only a slightly different, from posters on the other side of the discussion. Apart from the precise choice of adjective, what is the difference between labelling a post or poster "racist" (or, I suppose, a rant), and labelling them "brainwashed" or traitorous?

[Svejk]

No, I really couldn't understand it. It looks like something translated from Japanese.

[jim360]

No idea what you're on about, svejk.

For the record, if I counted posts correctly then one of baz's -- and the one addressed to me at that -- has been removed. I had nothing at all to do with that decision.

[Old_Geezer]

Globalisation should not be unreservedly welcomed. It allows merchants to run roughshod over governments by playing one against the other. Labour and thus jobs can easily be moved to where the public are paid less that nothing thus undercutting the more developed countries that has citizens who, quite rightly, expect a decent standard of living and thus pay. Money just flows away instead of investing in the country where it was accumulated. These merchants were constrained more, for the better, when there were more regulations; and trade was mainly export/import. The merchants then had a home country they felt more loyal to.

The problem is that we think of the London Stock Exchange as an institution of the United Kingdom; but it is in private hands, so it is just another thing we value but which is simply sold off to the higher, usually foreign, bidder. If a nation values something as being important to it then it should ensure it is owned by the people, and thus will continue to act in the people's interest. Otherwise you get takeovers, er oh sorry, mergers of equals, such as this of the very things you wished to retain independent and British.