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Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister.
He beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival's 46,656.
The former London mayor takes over from Theresa May on Wednesday.
In his victory speech, Mr Johnson promised he would "deliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn".
Speaking at the Queen Elizabeth II centre in London, he said: "We are going to energise the country.
"We are going to get Brexit done on 31 October and take advantage of all the opportunities it will bring with a new spirit of can do.
"We are once again going to believe in ourselves, and like some slumbering giant we are going to rise and ping off the guy ropes of self doubt and negativity."
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @02:16PM (2 children)
The Euro is one of the biggest problems with the EU. You can't have financial union without political union. No one in the US cares if money is flowing from New York to Alabama or the reverse, but people in Germany do care about whether their money is going to Greece. This is made worse by the EU not having a proper single central bank. As a customs union, it's fine, but as a unified currency, it's not.
The EU has also managed to create a system where cultural barriers to movement of people are greater than legal ones. This maintains the financial problems because people don't naturally move for better economic opportunities like they do in the US.
The EU is roughly the size and population of the US, and they tried to skip ahead to get the economic benefits of unification but while trying to pretend they can skip the political and cultural part. It kind of works as long as everyone is good at pretending, but it's always going to be a source of trouble.
Ironically, of course, whoever wants out first has the worst of both worlds.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @06:09PM (1 child)
The Euro covers a sub-optimal currency zone with huge imbalances being inevitable. It's a joke currency, a ponzi scheme that demands EU expansion while ripping wealth from poorer countries. Any country impoverished by their Eurozone membership leaving and defaulting on a large deficit would probably collapse the entire system.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @10:13PM
The idea of money is that you can spend it.
Competitive devaluation may be a way of exploiting the weak in your own country, but it is a very short sighted solution to anything.
We in the UK are stuffed, partly because we did not join the Euro, and are victims of our own politicians stupidity. For money to work, you have to be
able to use it to trade. Its not the Euro that is ripping money from the poor countries - its their own politicians - but, with the aid of liars like
Boris, they blame it on the EU. Imbalances are caused by lying about your productivity. Its not the Euro that stuffed Greece - it was corruption.
Brexit is a wonderful thing - for a small bunch of rich crackpots (Boris, Rees Mogg and his Moggies, Farago etc - who, incidentally, all have
homes in FRANCE in preparation for the forthcoming disaster). The rest of face a rapid descent into poverty and starvation.
The EU is not "playing hardball" - it is attempting to explain the concepts of reality to people like Boris. A truely pointless waste of time,
but someone has to do it.
Your post shows that you have swallowed the Boris lies, hook line and sinker. You might want to read a bit more widely.