In addition to her confusion about France, UK net migration is already plunging. She surely knows this. RW populist lying about migration is so fucking tiresome.

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Yeah, bankers are obsessed with titles and organisational status. Like, sure, some take the money and run but mostly banks are full of people fighting phoney wars to increase their standing (or sink someone else’s)

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People vary. But I’ve met relatively few people who have treated finance as a burglary (take as much as you can, get out quickly) and a lot of people in quite stressful (but extremely well paid jobs) carrying on when they objectively could have retired a decade ago.

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I just don't believe that. Most bankers I've ever met are obsessed with working and with status - and money is just one of the ways they choose to measure that status

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Once again, the dynamics of #EUbudget negotiations seem to confirm the formula that unanimity in the EU = Franco-German government alignment plus special deals for troublemakers. (We're in the alignment phase now. The special deals phase will come next.)

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