2016. 6. 25. 20:33 기타
영국 독립 첫날 요약 INDEPENDENCE DAY ROUNDUP
(주: 영국 시간으로 24일, Andrew Lodder라는 사람 글 마음대로 퍼왔다.)
INDEPENDENCE DAY ROUNDUP
Our first day of independence has gone just swimmingly:
1. Nigel Farage went on the tele and retracted the (false) claim that we send £350
million per week to the EU that would now be re-directed to the NHS and
said Vote Leave should never have made that commitment to voters in the
first place. Yesterday, this commitment was on the side of Vote Leave
busses across the country. Exit polling indicates additional funding
for the NHS was cited as a reason for leaving by nearly 80% of leave
voters.
2. Daniel Hannan MEP retracted the (false) claim that
leaving the EU will lead to drastically reduced immigration into
Britain. Exit polling indicates this was the second most cited reason
voters gave for leaving the EU. Would have been nice if Vote Leave had
bothered to be honest with voters about both of these matters before
today.
3. S&P, the only rating agency still giving the UK a AAA
credit rating, confirms it has placed that rating under review for
downgrade. It appears a downgrade is much more likely than not.
Borrowing costs to fund Britain’s large deficit are set to increase
markedly.
4. Sterling collapsed to its lowest level against the USD
in three decades, the biggest single day drop in the history of the
currency. It is the third biggest single day drop in any currency ever.
It is currently $1.36, down an incredible 13 cents against the dollar
in less than 24 hours from a high of $1.49 yesterday.
5. Nicola
Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has said a second independence
referendum is “highly likely”. Scots will likely vote on dismembering
the United Kingdom in the next few years, which will fuel uncertainty
and economic turmoil.
6. Sinn Fein and various others in Northern Ireland call for a border poll on reunification.
7. Spain calls for co-sovereignty over Gibraltar.
8. More than £1.5 trillion in wealth was wiped out across global
markets in just a few hours this morning, the single greatest wealth
destroying event in stock market history. That's 187 years’ worth of
British contributions to the EU. Seems worth it to get that money back
from Brussels though.
9. The FTSE 100 (largely multinationals) fell
more than 8% and the FTSE 250 (which reflects mostly British firms
rather than multinationals) fell more than 12%. Both steadied after
Mark Carney declared that the Bank of England would not hesitate to
intervene to instil stability, the same sort of intervention that Mario
Draghi had to make to save the Euro during the Greek crisis and that the
G7 had to make to save the global economy after the collapse of Lehman.
Brexit is an event that ranks alongside those crises in terms of
effects on global markets.
10. Ultimately, the FTSE 100 finished
down 3% and the FTSE 250 down 7%. Hundreds of billions of pounds has
been wiped off people’s ISAs and pension funds. Banks in particular
have been hammered.
11. David Cameron resigned without mapping out
any plan for implementing the results of the referendum. Boris Johnson
is odds on favourite to be our next Prime Minister. In October.
12. Labour MPs have moved for a vote of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn which will be considered by the party on Monday.
13. The presidents of the European Council, Commission and Parliament
told us to invoke Article 50 and leave as soon as possible and the
settlement negotiated by David Cameron earlier this year is now void.
14. Nigel Farage, who earlier claimed that independence was achieved
"without a single bullet being fired", just called for UK gun laws to be
relaxed, one week after Jo Cox was murdered on the street in broad
daylight. With a gun.
15. Numerous reports of immigrants, and
native Britons who happen to be brown, being told to “go back home” in
the street and on the Tube, the vote to leave apparently having been
taken by some as an indication that most of the country now thinks this
sort of thing is acceptable, rather than profoundly un-British and
utterly awful.
Freedom ain't free.
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