Brexit, for once some facts.

[Woosh]

Is there more to CDI's and or CDD's than meets the eye?

it's what Macron intends to do with his economic reform. In my days, when you have a contract, it is usually a permanent contract, you have to commit a serious misconduct to lose your job. Macron wants to change all that to make labour laws more like we have here. Employees will have far less time to contest a sacking for economic reasons. Basically making it much easier for companies to sack their workforce. Macron made the mistake of calling people who protest against his program 'slackers' - so the slackers come out today to the streets.

This is the kind of Thatcher's economics that led to the idea that because capitalists provide employment, they can do as they please. Maybe Macron does not know the French workers as much as he thought he does.

 

[oldtom]

Sometimes I can be very critical of our MPs, some of whom work very hard on behalf of themselves but others are forced to perform thankless tasks and rarely have a good word said about them.

I suppose we should be grateful to those MPs who do a decent day's work every month and I shall try not to tar them all with the same brush in future.



Tom

 

[oldgroaner]

it's what Macron intends to do with his economic reform. In my days, when you have a contract, it is usually a permanent contract, you have to commit a serious misconduct to lose your job. Macron wants to change all that to make labour laws more like we have here. Employees will have far less time to contest a sacking for economic reasons. Basically making it much easier for companies to sack their workforce. Macron made the mistake of calling people who protest against his program 'slackers' - so the slackers come out today to the streets.

This is the kind of Thatcher's economics that led to the idea that because capitalists provide employment, they can do as they please. Maybe Macron does not know the French workers as much as he thought he does.

He sounds like Tony Blair!

 

[flecc]

He sounds like Tony Blair!

But he won't get away with things in the same way with the French public. They are much more political than our UK public.
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[oldgroaner]

But he won't get away with things in the same way with the French public. They are much more political than our UK public.
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Good to hear that!

 

[oldgroaner]

What was I saying about Foreign Companies dictating Government Policy?
Reuters today

Toyota says Brexit talks drift could threaten UK production http://reut.rs/2y2FvZM

Thus it begins.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deepening uncertainties over the direction and timetable of Brexit negotiations may force Toyota (7202.T) to shift some UK production elsewhere if they are not addressed, the Japanese carmaker warned on Tuesday.

Early government assurances that free trade with the European Union would survive Britain’s departure have been replaced by talk of transition periods, Toyota Executive Vice President Didier Leroy told Reuters.

“A few months ago the UK government was saying, ‘We’re sure we’ll be able to negotiate (a deal) without any trade tax,'” Leroy said in an interview at the Frankfurt car show. “They are not saying that any more.”

He added: “It’s clear that if we have to wait two to three more years to have a clarity on this topic, we will have a big question-mark about our future investment in the country.”

Brexit talks have become bogged down in recent weeks, with the EU’s chief negotiator saying not enough progress had been made to begin discussing a free trade deal, amid differences over the size of the “divorce settlement” London should pay.


Britain’s car industry is increasingly anxious that its exports could face tariffs and other barriers after 2019.

PSA Group (PEUP.PA) boss Carlos Tavares sounded an impatient note on Tuesday, saying Brexit uncertainties were complicating integration with Opel and its British Vauxhall plants, acquired by the Peugeot maker from General Motors (GM.N).

Vauxhall and Opel too! Oh Deary me!

“Until we have more visibility on the trade dimension it’s very hard to define a strategy,” Tavares said in Frankfurt.

It's taking back of control, but not as we know it, Jim, said Spock.

 

[oldgroaner]

an interesting read here
http://www.fljs.org/content/muddling-through-brexit-unwritten-constitution-and-limits-political-authority
The most cogent part could well be this
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i) The Act does not state that the referendum is binding on Parliament.

ii) Even if the Act did so state, the conventional principle is that Parliament cannot bind itself for the future

iii) Parliament's primary duty is to act in the public interest, the common good, the good of all. To accept the referendum as binding, despite its being against the public interest, in the opinion of a majority of members of Parliament, is contrary to Parliament's fundamental constitutional duty.

iv) The referendum has no place historically in the British Constitution. It has been used twice in recent years but without the controversy of the kind now dividing the nation. The reason is that the referendum has until now been seen as a successor to other mechanisms, such as petitions and addresses, by which the people could express their views, their grievances, their complaints. The current controversy centres on the new notion that the referendum is binding on Parliament.

v) Some politicians and commentators are now talking about the sovereignty of the people as having superseded the sovereignty of Parliament. This despite the decision of the Supreme Court in January 2017 restating the sovereignty of Parliament.

vi) Finally, there is the concern that, even conceding a place for referenda in the constitution, no consideration has been given to the conditions under which it should be appropriate, nor how to ensure the people are adequately educated about the issues and the consequences of voting one way or another.

 

[oldgroaner]

Housebuilders are going through a rough patch
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-stocks-housebuilders/british-housebuilders-sink-as-investors-call-top-idUKKCN1BN1OR?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=59b7fea804d301088ccff59a&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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LONDON (Reuters) - British housebuilding stocks tumbled on Tuesday as big share sales by company founders and growing pessimism among analysts reignited concerns over the resilience of a sector which had enjoyed a strong rally since the Brexit vote.

The founder and chairman of property developer Redrow (RDW.L), Steve Morgan, sold 25.9 million shares in the company through his charity foundation on Monday evening, sinking the shares 7 percent on Tuesday.

Tony Pidgley, founder and chairman of Berkeley Group (BKGH.L), sold 750,000 shares in the housebuilder last week, sending stocks across the sector lower.

“When Tony Pidgley and Steve Morgan sell shares in the companies they founded, investors take notice and ask if the silverback alpha males in the sector are calling the top of the market,” said Jefferies analysts."

The Goodness is flowing.......unfortunately it's flowing away.

 

[flecc]

Toyota says Brexit talks drift could threaten UK production

PSA Group (PEUP.PA) boss Carlos Tavares sounded an impatient note on Tuesday, saying Brexit uncertainties were complicating integration with Opel and its British Vauxhall plants, acquired by the Peugeot maker from General Motors (GM.N).

I've warned before that Toyota would be the first to go, it's assembly only here which is cheap and easy to shift quickly.

Honda could also shift into mainland Europe with a little more difficulty if we look like being under tariffs long term.

And the PSA/EU-GM merging has produced several surplus plants, meaning any facing tariffs will be those shut.

It doesn't stop there, Ford's Dagenham plant now only assembles light diesel engines for shipping into the EU plants producing cars and vans, so any tariffs will threaten that continuation.
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[anotherkiwi]

Macron = well educated with no common sense... He had a chance to modernise the French Code de travail which is industrial age, I think that he has blown it. He could have kept the industrial age bit for the concerned sectors (there is still some industry left here) and add a second Code de Travail for services.

Or he could have rewritten the Code for different sized companies (there is a little bit of that in his proposals but not enough).

Only the bits that aren't in favor of workers are being talked about and none of the things that are favorable, and there are quite a few.

 

[oldgroaner]

For the first time since the Referendum the Daily Mail has no content relating to Brexit on it's hugely over long online Front Page.
Why?
Note the Date: 13th Sept 2017

 

[Woosh]

For the first time since the Referendum the Daily Mail has no content relating to Brexit on it's hugely over long online Front Page.
Why?
Note the Date: 13th Sept 2017

maybe they sense that a deal is coming?

 

[oldgroaner]

From the Daily Mirror
You may have missed it but Theresa May just rigged Parliament in the Tories' favour for the next five years
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/you-missed-theresa-just-rigged-11159716
"In a late-night session of the House of Commons, MPs voted by a majority of just 19 to give the Tory government a stranglehold over crucial Parliamentary committees, making it much harder for the opposition to block 'bad' laws."

Naturally that's what these people do

 

[oldgroaner]

maybe they sense that a deal is coming?

And they haven't had their orders on how to report it?
Quite possibly!

 

[oldgroaner]

This is what the lunatic Fringe believe
http://yourbrexit.co.uk/news/breaking-government-preparing-to-walk-away-with-a-no-deal/

And on facebook the Brexit voters are cheering.
Someone really should tell them what the consequences of that will be, but how can they be reached?

 

[Woosh]

I picked this up from the independent:

JC Juncker on the future of the EU:

- a new push for all applicable member states to join the Euro
- expansion of the borderless Schengen area to Romania and Bulgaria
- creation of a new European economics and finance minister
- Direct votes to elect some MEPs elected from European-wide lists voted on by all countries at once.

Better leave the EU to get on with the creation of the US of E.

 

[flecc]

- a new push for all applicable member states to join the Euro
- expansion of the borderless Schengen area to Romania and Bulgaria

Bulgaria desperately needs this, they are losing population faster than any other country in the world, according to the United Nations. In recent years down from 9 millions to just 7 millions and on present trends, not long to be down to 5 millions. And of course it's the young who are vanishing, leaving a nation of the elderly.

The majority youthful immigrants are just what they need to re-balance the population and bring back some birth rate. And they have literally millions of dirt cheap empty homes just waiting for occupants.
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[oldgroaner]

I picked this up from the independent:

JC Juncker on the future of the EU:

- a new push for all applicable member states to join the Euro
- expansion of the borderless Schengen area to Romania and Bulgaria
- creation of a new European economics and finance minister
- Direct votes to elect some MEPs elected from European-wide lists voted on by all countries at once.

Better leave the EU to get on with the creation of the US of E.

No, we should be in there taking part we are losing our chance to shape the future

Sent from my XT1032 using Tapatalk

 

[flecc]

What does the EU want from Brexit?

This is the title of a very interesting BBC Radio 4 program which includes some of the key national views of EU member countries.

It's well worth a listen, 27 minutes long on this i-player link
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[oldtom]

A slightly worrying development is the government's prioritising of The Filth when lifting the 1% pay cap. Why? They, and especially May, hate the police.

Could it be that they sense civil unrest? Throw a bit of cheese in the direction of the coppers and they'll forgive all that went before and duff-up the workers on behalf of their masters?

I have a feeling that you may just have demonstrated a remarkable piece of prescience in that offering 'Tillson'.

Police numbers have been reduced considerably over recent years and it is most likely that in the event of nationwide unrest brought about by the effects of 'Brexit', we would see a situation again not dissimilar to that of the 1984 miners' strike.

The journalist, Paul Starling, reported on the use of army personnel dressed in unmarked police uniforms at Orgreave and elsewhere and he has raised the issue again today. I have no doubt this current government would employ the same tactics again against any threat to their supremacy - it is fascism under the pretence of monarchical democracy. In effect, it is monarchical tyranny!



Paul Starling. September 13th, 2017. THE 'MILITARISATION' OF BRITAIN. STAGE ONE.

This is 1984. Not Orwell's 1984 but the first outbreak of the 'militarisation' to hit the streets of Britain. I spent the full twelve months covering the miners strike as an Industrial Correspondent on TV. Against great pressures I reported that the army had been drafted in in unmarked police uniforms to smash heads, and the miners strike. I was awarded two national journalism awards for my 'consistently fair, accurate, in depth analysis and coverage'. Take a close look at the 'uniform' front-right of the photo. No police number or identifying marks. Thatcher was also prepared to declare a 'State of Emergency' using troops to 'maintain vital national interests'.
I've chosen 1984 as 'Stage One' because it was the first clear break-out in public of a clandestine strategy started ten years before, in the mid-1970s. That strategy was launched by a group of retired senior Army officers, chief among them one of the men who created the SAS. A maverick, he'd tried a similar strategy in Africa (including South Africa). When it failed he turned back to the politics of Britain. A plot was forged between this 'Army' group and senior Tory figures to blacken senior Labour Government Cabinet members, senior Trades Union officials, and others. The aim, to destroy the Labour Government, castrate union power and enforce a Tory government on Britain.
Within five years, it had worked. In 1979 Thatcher swept to power. Within another five years the strongest union, the National Union of Mineworkers was targeted, smashed, and crushed. In the process ALL union resistance was undermined, too.
In 1982 Thatcher, secretly, insisted that British power stations stockpile millions of tons of coal. It was a preparation for 'war' at home
In 1983 Thatcher won power again after throwing Britain's military might to the Falkland Islands. Why? Because she was heading for political defeat at the forthcoming General Election and a display of military power abroad was an early warning of that 'military' action at home.
The Miners Strike in 1984 was THE moment for Thatcher and her 'Generals' to do the 'striking'.
The tactical strategy involved, secretly, throwing millions of pounds of Government money to infiltrate unions, pit communities, and bankroll a breakaway mining union to split the miners. Shadowy figures were organised from one of the capital's best-known 'Gentleman's Clubs', and from a suite in London's most expensive hotel. Key figures in the unions and mining were targeted, blackened or bought off with either money or promises. (All of them ended up later either 'honoured', disgraced, isolated, or betrayed).
Look carefully at the 'uniform' right/front of the photo. There are no numbers or anything to identify the person in 'uniform'. Then look closely at the other unmarked 'uniforms' around him. Drafted on to the streets of Britain to smash heads and smash resistance. The early stages of what was and is a deliberate Tory policy of 'MILITARISATING BRITAIN'.

MORE TO FOLLOW.

Perhaps Stage Two?

Tom