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Bloomberg describes Brexit as the “single stupidest thing any country has ever done”
Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul and former mayor of New York, has said Brexit is the “single stupidest thing any country has ever done” apart from the election of Donald Trump as US president. Bloomberg argued that “it is really hard to understand why a country that was doing so well wanted to ruin it” with the Brexit vote, in a series of outspoken remarks made at a technology conference in Boston a fortnight ago. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesMichael Bloomberg is not the holder of all knowledge. He's rich because he was lucky not a genius.....
Oct 26th, 2017 - 08:01 am - Link - Report abuse -1Some of us were doing well, others not so well. He is looking at it from the financial sector in London with inflated salaries.
Oct 26th, 2017 - 09:17 am - Link - Report abuse +2I don't think it's even the stupidest thing any country has done this year. IMO Turkey making Erdogan President wins the prize; it's like they looked at their neighbours in Europe and their neighbours in the Middle East, and said, “yes, we want to be more like the war-torn hellholes, please”.
Oct 26th, 2017 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse +1As for Brexit, I think there were a lot of people who didn't feel the country was doing so well, and the same in the US with Trump. It's all very well for a country to get richer, but if the poor see no benefit and still suffer the disadvantages then why should they support it?
And perhaps the same thing happened in Argentina, which used to be one of the top 10 richest countries in the world, but the poor were still very poor and most of their politicians ignored them, so they ended up voting for policies to help themselves that made the country as a whole poorer.
A man whose god is money and lives in a land that worships wealth above all else would say that. There is more to life than wealth. Fortunately large tracts of our green and pleasant land still exist in a bit of a very pleasant timewarp. Thats what we need to preserve.
Oct 26th, 2017 - 10:00 am - Link - Report abuse +1“This country doesn’t like immigrants,’” Bloomberg said”
Oct 26th, 2017 - 05:06 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Bullshit. this country doesn't want to be swamped and over populated but to say all immigrants are unwelcome is utter rubbish.
There are nearly 55 million people living in England.
Australia ( a continent) has a population of under 25 million.
New Zealand roughly the size of the UK has under 5 million people living there.
This is nothing to do with race colour, and personal qualities of immigrants, many who are decent people .
There are just too many in a country the size of England.
Bloomberg does not have to put up with the EU telling the USA what to do and them legally having to comply.
It's the political side of the EU that has ruined the organisation, not the principles of European friendship and trade.
And while the UK is bound to lose out so will Europe, as I doubt even 4th placed economy Spain will be able to contribute as much money to the EU as the UK has.
And there's many people on low incomes who the EU metropolitan elite have ignored.
What would Bloomberg say to NAFTA adopting or proposing the same regime as in the EU.
Oct 26th, 2017 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Free unhindered movement of people.
Common currency
Joint parliament and the equivalent of the ICJ.
Common taxes imposed by this parliament.
AND a common defence force and eventual unification into one state.
I would guess he would say no way....but he is saying that is what the UK should accept ?
What would Bloomberg say...?
Oct 26th, 2017 - 05:53 pm - Link - Report abuse -4Free unhindered movement of people...?
Common currency...?
Joint parliament and the equivalent of the ICJ...?
Common taxes imposed by this parliament...?
AND a common defence force and eventual unification into one state...?
Sounds just like Mr. Bloomberg's very own and beloved most powerful State in the world...
I would guess he says..., of course..., and that the UK should do the same thing...
@Think
Oct 26th, 2017 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +1That's true, and I have pointed it out before, but it's also true there is absolutely a 0% chance that modern day Americans would vote to share any of those things with Mexico.
The 13 colonies formed a union almost immediately after they became independent, they had a shared language and culture and they didn't have a history of endless wars against each other. None of this is true of Europe. Pragmatically speaking a union might be better for everyone, but it would only work if people wanted it to.
Ermmmm...
Oct 26th, 2017 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse -1https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IUjLE_N1Cuc
So? It's true; they didn't have a history of wars against each other, and they still managed to have a massive civil war *after* they formed a union.
Oct 26th, 2017 - 10:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That is NOT a recommendation! If the USA, composed of states speaking the same language, with similar culture and who think of themselves as one people, can't get through 100 years of union without having a civil war, what will happen to the EU with all its diversity and massive disparities in wealth and development?
Sooo...? You must then agree with me that it is good that Engeland BREXITED..., as I have been propagandizing since the beginning...
Oct 26th, 2017 - 10:26 pm - Link - Report abuse -2Chuckle ..., chuckle...
No, I don't, and you can chuckle all you want. I think the reasons to stay outweigh the reasons to leave, but that doesn't mean I think there are no reasons to leave.
Oct 26th, 2017 - 10:32 pm - Link - Report abuse -1I don't think many understand Bloomberg.... or his way of doing things
Oct 27th, 2017 - 01:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Geeeeeeeee......
Oct 27th, 2017 - 04:29 pm - Link - Report abuse -1I half of what one reads in them Egrish papers is half true....,we may soon see a Civl War between Brexiters and Bregreters...
Me money on the Cromwellians...
And long live Bonnie Prince Charlie...
Chuckle..., chuckle...
Onward and upward ;-))))
Oct 27th, 2017 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse +1O Lord our God arise,
Scatter her enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save us all! .
The Bregreters Godly National Anthem against them Godless Brexiters...:
Oct 27th, 2017 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Not in this Land alone...
But be God's mercies known...
From Shore to Shore...
Lord make the Nations see...
That men should Brothers be...
And form one Family...
The wide World over...
CHUCKLE..., CHUCKLE...
The question is why is this piece appearing in Mercopenguin, a British government propaganda organ supposedly devoted to America, South America and the “South Atlantic”?
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