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Nuclear Unicorn

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4. I opined that the prophecies of doom were much ado about nothing.

Reply to Else You Are Mad (Original post)

Wed Jun 29, 2016, 05:20 PM

Jun 2016

I expected to be proven correct a month or two out.

I think the doomsayers were just trying to scare the people of Britain and elsewhere into staying but now that it's happened they may well be shown to be impotent ad well as mistaken. Once a party in a debate has destroyed its credibility they seldom recover.

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The Brexit's reactionary financial downturn is already correcting itself... [View all] Else You Are Mad Jun 2016 OP

Where is the pound? Kelvin Mace Jun 2016 #1

Well, how I see it. Else You Are Mad Jun 2016 #2

Also, the loss of Scotland's Kelvin Mace Jun 2016 #3

I opined that the prophecies of doom were much ado about nothing. Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2016 #4

There will be convulsions, to be sure gratuitous Jun 2016 #5

UK stock market has recovered all lost ground from Brexit Angel Martin Jun 2016 #6

People were ready to call it the end of the world really fast. nt Rex Jun 2016 #8

So no eminent WWIII? No new Cold War? No back to the Stoned Age? Rex Jun 2016 #7

The UK stock market should be fine since it responds to the 1% who should do well in the new UK. pampango Jun 2016 #9