Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Tamas]

Corbyn reportedly asking if the SNP or Greens will join his shadow cabinet

Communist meltdowns are fun to watch.

[garbon]

Markets seem to be out of the knee jerk phase (hopefully) European banks looking very shaky. Rumours of rescue package in Rome. Anyone know why such a big problem for them? General uncertainty on top of pre-existing weaknesses ? Higher cost of funds without London? It seems odd

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b5a0579a-3c48-11e6-8716-a4a71e8140b0.html#axzz4CsWxC81F

Italy is eyeing a multibillion-euro rescue of its ailing banks, using the market turbulence triggered by the UK's Brexit vote as an excuse to sidestep strict rules against state support for lenders.

Following a further hit on Italian bank shares in the wake of the UK referendum, Matteo Renzi, Italian premier, has resurrected ideas to shore up a sector that is fast becoming one the eurozone's weakest links, say bankers and officials.

Italy's previous bailout plans have met with deep scepticism from officials in Brussels and Berlin, who see no legal route around Europe's tough new bail-in rules. Designed in the wake of the eurozone crisis, they push the burden of bank rescues on to private creditors rather than taxpayers.

Italy's quandary over its banks — and what critics see as Rome's unwillingness to confront structural problems — is proving to be a drag on the eurozone's recovery. It is also one of the biggest impediments to the ambition of completing a euro area banking union that would make its lenders more resilient.

[Tamas]

I've realised I can get the best of both worlds if I can grab myself a UK citizenship before the far-right deports me, while holding on to my Hungarian citizenship as well!

Is Hungarian citizenship part of any good world, let alone best world?

It is the ONLY world.

[garbon]

I've realised I can get the best of both worlds if I can grab myself a UK citizenship before the far-right deports me, while holding on to my Hungarian citizenship as well!

Is Hungarian citizenship part of any good world, let alone best world?

It is the ONLY world.

[The Larch]

Markets seem to be out of the knee jerk phase (hopefully) European banks looking very shaky. Rumours of rescue package in Rome. Anyone know why such a big problem for them? General uncertainty on top of pre-existing weaknesses ? Higher cost of funds without London? It seems odd

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

[garbon]

[Richard Hakluyt]

Markets seem to be out of the knee jerk phase (hopefully) European banks looking very shaky. Rumours of rescue package in Rome. Anyone know why such a big problem for them? General uncertainty on top of pre-existing weaknesses ? Higher cost of funds without London? It seems odd

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

There are new fortunes being made from all the market volatility of course.

[Ed Anger]

farage in the Euro Parliament today.

[derspiess]

farage in the Euro Parliament today.

I liked the part where very few MEPs have ever had a real job

[Valmy]

I liked the part where very few MEPs have ever had a real job

Well they are MEPs so they still don't.

But I don't see how that is a particular clever or funny burn. I mean people have been making that joke about politicians for thousands of years.

[derspiess]

I liked the part where very few MEPs have ever had a real job

Well they are MEPs so they still don't.

But I don't see how that is a particular clever or funny burn. I mean people have been making that joke about politicians for thousands of years.

His delivery was better than mine

[Valmy]

His delivery was better than mine

Gotcha.

[OttoVonBismarck]

I think because of the perception MEPs are wholly irrelevant in the world makes them seem like even greater do-nothing bureaucrats than typical politicians.

[Valmy]

I think because of the perception MEPs are wholly irrelevant in the world makes them seem like even greater do-nothing bureaucrats than typical politicians.

Well it is also the only position Farage has ever had so he would know.

[The Larch]

My dad is half Irish. 
I even lived over there a bit when I was a baby.
Only trouble is his mother was born after the family moved to England and was never registered as being Irish (afaik. ... I should give it a serious check. The family story says they were loyalists who left because of serious disagreements with the power that be so.... I doubt it)

Ok. New plan for survival.
Get my dad to register as Irish through his grandad.
I have a kid (that's the hard part), register it as Irish through its grandad (my dad).
Claim Irish citizenship myself on account of being the parent of an Irish baby
What could possibly go wrong?

Is your grandma Irish or not? If she has Irish citizenship you can get it as well.