[SystemSafety] Off Topic

[Matthew Squair]

As Australia is in Eurovision, I don't necessarily see Brexit as an insurmountable hurdle to your continuing participation. :)

Matthew Squair

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> On 24 Jun 2016, at 8:38 PM, Chris Hills <safetyyork at phaedsys.com> wrote:
> 
> Re" It will be many years before we can say for sure just what the UK will
> reap from yesterday."
> 
> No, we know some of it now.  
> 
> 1 Our price list has just had a 15% increase  due to GBP plummeting against
> Euro and USD 
> (the financial people we are talking to are saying it could get worse  there
> is no "before it gets better" in the short -medium term)
> 
> 2 Several multinational companies are looking to re-locate from the UK to
> the EU.
> Interestingly these are not just financial companies but Engineering and
> manufacturing ones too.
> 
> 3 A lot of instability as Scotland and Northern Ireland look at leaving the
> UK and staying in the EU. 
> (see point 1) 
> 
> 4 Not only the UK trade with the EU will be affected but most of our trade
> with the rest of  the world as that was  under EU Trade agreements with
> other countries.
> 
> Longer term the Leave campaign have no solid plans on how they will achieve
> any of the promises they made. Mainly because most were illusions anyway.
> 
> It is interesting in that in all the companies we have talked to this
> morning not one can see a good future in the UK leaving the EU.  
> 
> However the day is so depressing I think we will close at 12:00 and go to an
> Italian style coffee shop for an expresso  and  croissants.  Then home for
> some Lasagne and a glass of Riesling finishing up with some strudel to
> reflect that we won't be in the Eurovision Song Contest any more........  Oh
> £$%^"$  That’s the one thing we do get to keep  :-( 
> 
> Regards
>   Chris 
> 
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: systemsafety
> [mailto:systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de] On Behalf Of
> Andreoli, Kevin (UK)
> Sent: 24 June 2016 08:42
> To: systemsafety at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
> Subject: Re: [SystemSafety] Off Topic
> 
> "As ye sow, so shall ye reap"
> 
> Hollande, Merkel and their predecessors sowed intransigence and have reaped
> yesterday's vote in the UK.
> 
> It will be many years before we can say for sure just what the UK will reap
> from yesterday.
> 
> I see this morning that there have been calls for the Dutch and the French
> to be given the same chance that the UK voters had yesterday.
> 
> We voted last time to join (or stay in) the Common Market, yesterday the UK
> voted to leave the European Union - I think the difference in those two
> ideas/terms is a major part of the reason for the result. 
> 
> Kevin
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