[Info-vax] [OT] UK referendum, was: Re: London Stock Exchange in merger talks with Deutsche Börse

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-02-24, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <naimor$kn0$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Richard Maher
><maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> writes: 
>
>> > Of course, the UK referendum will certainly have some role to play here.
>> 
>> I was amazed talking to some people over there that at BREXIT looks 
>> "likely". Can't really blame them after Greece and immigration.
>> 
>> Maybe it'll be the Glasgow Stock Exchange merging with DB? Guernsey? Manx?
>
> Legally, the merger is independent of whether the UK remains in the EU 
> or not.  Emotionally, it will bolster the arguments of the anti-EU crowd 
> in the UK, most of which are similar to "see, they're taking over 
> everything".
>

[I've marked this thread as OT so people can easily kill it.]

Actually, one of the major drivers for the population in general is
going to be the perception of uncontrolled immigration into the UK
(along with the associated terrorist threats) and whether staying in
the EU will make things better or worse in this area.

There's also been some talk about how Germany was rewarded (for example
in the Cologne attacks) by the immigrants it took in so look out for
some hothead to raise that once again.
 
Most people are not really going to care about two stock exchanges
merging.

Oh, and we've got 4 more months of this before we can finally vote.
Oh, wonderful. :-(

I'm not taking a public position here BTW, but just pointing out what
is actually making the news here in the UK (at least when Boris and Co
are not winding up the PM and vice-versa).

We now return you to VMS and it's wonderful future (I hope).

Simon.

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