So if The Government collapses over the weekend, gets No Confidenced Tuesday, Corbyn gets to attempt a minority government and goes to the Palace on Wednesday, then he would be the PM greeting Trump on Thursday.
Almost worth doing for the LOL's!
Then Corbyn would have to deal with Brexit and his just as divided party.
Plus Trump has shown himself ready to deal with Lopez Obrador so no reason he could not deal with Corbyn too
Yes, but the prospect of Jezza giving Trump a lesson in Jam making is too good to miss.
Trump might get on better with Corbyn than May. Arguably she is more a polar opposite than he.
I'd love it if we got a tweet from Donald along the lines of 'Just met with UK Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn. Great guy. Agree on so much about international/economic affairs. Looking forward to doing business with'.
Presumably Putin would order both Trump and Corbyn to work together.
But with a customs border along the Irish Sea, which would be anathema to the DUP.
Nope, we don't need a customs border. (it is our only land border)
If the EU want to put one up, they can....
Canada without agreement on the NI border is not one of the options the EU is willing to consider. At some point you have to accept the reality that the only option that does not require agreement with the EU is no deal, and that is not going to be economically possible, which means it won't be politically possible either.
But with a customs border along the Irish Sea, which would be anathema to the DUP.
Nope, we don't need a customs border. (it is our only land border)
If the EU want to put one up, they can....
Canada without agreement on the NI border is not one of the options the EU is willing to consider. At some point you have to accept the reality that the only option that does not require agreement with the EU is no deal, and that is not going to be economically possible, which means it won't be politically possible either.
But Brexiters believe that the EU will have no choice but to give us a gilded FTA because the BMW will tell them to.
I guess we can see which members of the commentariat report on 'sources' they have and what is going on, and so see which ones are most full of crap about those sources?
Brexit Ministers meeting reportedly saying we think there is a deal to be done
Like everyone else no doubt, no idea what is happening but we should know by kick off Saturday
It's all going to be a bit pointless though if it turns out to be yet another fantasy cake-and-eat-it "bespoke deal" which the EU has already ruled out.
But with a customs border along the Irish Sea, which would be anathema to the DUP.
Nope, we don't need a customs border. (it is our only land border)
If the EU want to put one up, they can....
Canada without agreement on the NI border is not one of the options the EU is willing to consider. At some point you have to accept the reality that the only option that does not require agreement with the EU is no deal, and that is not going to be economically possible, which means it won't be politically possible either.
And a customs border dividing our own nation is neither politically nor economically possible.
For a start, it would screw Irish exports.
The 'no border or it'll be a hard border' bluff needs to be exposed.
But with a customs border along the Irish Sea, which would be anathema to the DUP.
Nope, we don't need a customs border. (it is our only land border)
If the EU want to put one up, they can....
Canada without agreement on the NI border is not one of the options the EU is willing to consider. At some point you have to accept the reality that the only option that does not require agreement with the EU is no deal, and that is not going to be economically possible, which means it won't be politically possible either.
And a customs border dividing our own nation is neither politically nor economically possible.
For a start, it would screw Irish exports.
The 'no border or it'll be a hard border' bluff needs to be exposed.
I suspect tomorrow's 'crunch meeting' will follow a familiar pattern:
Government loyalists will proclaim it a 'Falklands Moment'. Cabinet Leavers will mumble their supposed satisfaction. Rees-Mogg will be 'keeping his powder dry'. After a few days Boris will recommence his sniping, and the whole cycle will begin again.
I've been experiencing very weird behaviour re comments variously showing with a large delay (up to 90 minutes), and no persisting of login on an iphone 8, chrome or safari.
I've seen others make similar comments. Anyone know any solution?
I've had the same thing. Log back in and the up to date comment re-appear as if by magic.
I tried this from the main site - logins (and comments) just don't seem to persist via chrome/safari on the latest ios, though they used to.
Guess I'll have to switch to the vanilla site on the mobile!
I've had similar problems from time to time. Completely closing the browser (Safari in my case) and re-opening seemed to work last time - not sure if that was just a coincidence though.
But with a customs border along the Irish Sea, which would be anathema to the DUP.
Nope, we don't need a customs border. (it is our only land border)
If the EU want to put one up, they can....
Canada without agreement on the NI border is not one of the options the EU is willing to consider. At some point you have to accept the reality that the only option that does not require agreement with the EU is no deal, and that is not going to be economically possible, which means it won't be politically possible either.
And a customs border dividing our own nation is neither politically nor economically possible.
For a start, it would screw Irish exports.
The 'no border or it'll be a hard border' bluff needs to be exposed.
Brexit Ministers meeting reportedly saying we think there is a deal to be done
Like everyone else no doubt, no idea what is happening but we should know by kick off Saturday
It's all going to be a bit pointless though if it turns out to be yet another fantasy cake-and-eat-it "bespoke deal" which the EU has already ruled out.
Not sure the EU can just dismiss it if it is the collective will of the cabinet and is in a white paper. The big if is 'the collective view of the cabinet'
Brexit Ministers meeting reportedly saying we think there is a deal to be done
Like everyone else no doubt, no idea what is happening but we should know by kick off Saturday
It's all going to be a bit pointless though if it turns out to be yet another fantasy cake-and-eat-it "bespoke deal" which the EU has already ruled out.
Not sure the EU can just dismiss it if it is the collective will of the cabinet and is in a white paper. The big if is 'the collective view of the cabinet'
I've been experiencing very weird behaviour re comments variously showing with a large delay (up to 90 minutes), and no persisting of login on an iphone 8, chrome or safari.
I've seen others make similar comments. Anyone know any solution?
I've had the same thing. Log back in and the up to date comment re-appear as if by magic.
I tried this from the main site - logins (and comments) just don't seem to persist via chrome/safari on the latest ios, though they used to.
Guess I'll have to switch to the vanilla site on the mobile!
I've had similar problems from time to time. Completely closing the browser (Safari in my case) and re-opening seemed to work last time - not sure if that was just a coincidence though.
Brexit Ministers meeting reportedly saying we think there is a deal to be done
Like everyone else no doubt, no idea what is happening but we should know by kick off Saturday
It's all going to be a bit pointless though if it turns out to be yet another fantasy cake-and-eat-it "bespoke deal" which the EU has already ruled out.
Not sure the EU can just dismiss it if it is the collective will of the cabinet and is in a white paper. The big if is 'the collective view of the cabinet'
"The collective view of what is left of the cabinet."
Brexit Ministers meeting reportedly saying we think there is a deal to be done
Like everyone else no doubt, no idea what is happening but we should know by kick off Saturday
It's all going to be a bit pointless though if it turns out to be yet another fantasy cake-and-eat-it "bespoke deal" which the EU has already ruled out.
I guess May's hope is to try and get a semblance of cabinet unity on something that can, in the dark with the light behind it, be seen as a "plan". Then she and Davis will try and sell it direct to other EU heads of government in the hope they will pressure Barnier. A tactic which has so far achieved precisely nothing and it seems very unlikely to work now when there are less than 9 months to go.
I suspect tomorrow's 'crunch meeting' will follow a familiar pattern:
Government loyalists will proclaim it a 'Falklands Moment'. Cabinet Leavers will mumble their supposed satisfaction. Rees-Mogg will be 'keeping his powder dry'. After a few days Boris will recommence his sniping, and the whole cycle will begin again.
But it will be in a white paper and everyone can pile in - on both sides of the argument.
Brexit Ministers meeting reportedly saying we think there is a deal to be done
Like everyone else no doubt, no idea what is happening but we should know by kick off Saturday
It's all going to be a bit pointless though if it turns out to be yet another fantasy cake-and-eat-it "bespoke deal" which the EU has already ruled out.
Not sure the EU can just dismiss it if it is the collective will of the cabinet and is in a white paper. The big if is 'the collective view of the cabinet'
But with a customs border along the Irish Sea, which would be anathema to the DUP.
Nope, we don't need a customs border. (it is our only land border)
If the EU want to put one up, they can....
Canada without agreement on the NI border is not one of the options the EU is willing to consider. At some point you have to accept the reality that the only option that does not require agreement with the EU is no deal, and that is not going to be economically possible, which means it won't be politically possible either.
And a customs border dividing our own nation is neither politically nor economically possible.
For a start, it would screw Irish exports.
The 'no border or it'll be a hard border' bluff needs to be exposed.
So it'll be EEA+ then. TINA as used to be said.
Not compatible with immigration controls.
I saw a poll today that indicated most people did not mind immigration but not sure where
I suspect tomorrow's 'crunch meeting' will follow a familiar pattern:
Government loyalists will proclaim it a 'Falklands Moment'. Cabinet Leavers will mumble their supposed satisfaction. Rees-Mogg will be 'keeping his powder dry'. After a few days Boris will recommence his sniping, and the whole cycle will begin again.
But it will be in a white paper and everyone can pile in - on both sides of the argument.
But with a customs border along the Irish Sea, which would be anathema to the DUP.
Nope, we don't need a customs border. (it is our only land border)
If the EU want to put one up, they can....
Canada without agreement on the NI border is not one of the options the EU is willing to consider. At some point you have to accept the reality that the only option that does not require agreement with the EU is no deal, and that is not going to be economically possible, which means it won't be politically possible either.
In December the EU effectively agreed to move to a Canada style FTA with enough regulatory alignment by the UK to avoid a hard border in Ireland
I suspect tomorrow's 'crunch meeting' will follow a familiar pattern:
Government loyalists will proclaim it a 'Falklands Moment'. Cabinet Leavers will mumble their supposed satisfaction. Rees-Mogg will be 'keeping his powder dry'. After a few days Boris will recommence his sniping, and the whole cycle will begin again.
But it will be in a white paper and everyone can pile in - on both sides of the argument.
But with a customs border along the Irish Sea, which would be anathema to the DUP.
Nope, we don't need a customs border. (it is our only land border)
If the EU want to put one up, they can....
Canada without agreement on the NI border is not one of the options the EU is willing to consider. At some point you have to accept the reality that the only option that does not require agreement with the EU is no deal, and that is not going to be economically possible, which means it won't be politically possible either.
And a customs border dividing our own nation is neither politically nor economically possible.
For a start, it would screw Irish exports.
The 'no border or it'll be a hard border' bluff needs to be exposed.
So it'll be EEA+ then. TINA as used to be said.
Not compatible with immigration controls.
I saw a poll today that indicated most people did not mind immigration but not sure where
No poll I have ever seen shows people 'do not mind uncontrolled immigration, especially uncontrolled low skilled immigration'
Brexit Ministers meeting reportedly saying we think there is a deal to be done
Like everyone else no doubt, no idea what is happening but we should know by kick off Saturday
It's all going to be a bit pointless though if it turns out to be yet another fantasy cake-and-eat-it "bespoke deal" which the EU has already ruled out.
Not sure the EU can just dismiss it if it is the collective will of the cabinet and is in a white paper. The big if is 'the collective view of the cabinet'
Why would they care about that?
There are voices in the EU pushing back on Barnier including Austria which holds the Presidency and now German Ministers. Also EU businesses are pleading not only with the UK but also the EU. Pressure is growing on both sides
Serious question...macron was elected on a blair-esque reform platform. Other than banning phones in schools and some very minor labour reforms, what is else has he been up to?
I suspect tomorrow's 'crunch meeting' will follow a familiar pattern:
Government loyalists will proclaim it a 'Falklands Moment'. Cabinet Leavers will mumble their supposed satisfaction. Rees-Mogg will be 'keeping his powder dry'. After a few days Boris will recommence his sniping, and the whole cycle will begin again.
But it will be in a white paper and everyone can pile in - on both sides of the argument.
Wake me up next April
Means you'll miss the rest of the World Cup!
Forgot about that - and of course I couldn't contribute my musings to PB
The fuss over security is odd. That is plainly a field where no deal hurts the rest of the EU more than it hurts us.
It just demonstrates that the whole process is being run by a bunch of swivel eyed zealots in Brussels. Time for the 27 nation states to take back control.
I suspect tomorrow's 'crunch meeting' will follow a familiar pattern:
Government loyalists will proclaim it a 'Falklands Moment'. Cabinet Leavers will mumble their supposed satisfaction. Rees-Mogg will be 'keeping his powder dry'. After a few days Boris will recommence his sniping, and the whole cycle will begin again.
But it will be in a white paper and everyone can pile in - on both sides of the argument.
Wake me up next April
Means you'll miss the rest of the World Cup!
Forgot about that - and of course I couldn't contribute my musings to PB
Sure we all want Brexit to be concluded asap
Indeed, but not as much as I want England to win the WC!
I suspect tomorrow's 'crunch meeting' will follow a familiar pattern:
Government loyalists will proclaim it a 'Falklands Moment'. Cabinet Leavers will mumble their supposed satisfaction. Rees-Mogg will be 'keeping his powder dry'. After a few days Boris will recommence his sniping, and the whole cycle will begin again.
But it will be in a white paper and everyone can pile in - on both sides of the argument.
Wake me up next April
Means you'll miss the rest of the World Cup!
Forgot about that - and of course I couldn't contribute my musings to PB
But with a customs border along the Irish Sea, which would be anathema to the DUP.
Nope, we don't need a customs border. (it is our only land border)
If the EU want to put one up, they can....
Canada without agreement on the NI border is not one of the options the EU is willing to consider. At some point you have to accept the reality that the only option that does not require agreement with the EU is no deal, and that is not going to be economically possible, which means it won't be politically possible either.
And a customs border dividing our own nation is neither politically nor economically possible.
For a start, it would screw Irish exports.
The 'no border or it'll be a hard border' bluff needs to be exposed.
So it'll be EEA+ then. TINA as used to be said.
Not compatible with immigration controls.
I saw a poll today that indicated most people did not mind immigration but not sure where
No poll I have ever seen shows people 'do not mind uncontrolled immigration, especially uncontrolled low skilled immigration'
It was a discussion group of 50 who did not see immigration as a problem but cannot remember the source. Age catching me up together with two strained hamstrings and lots of knee pain
Serious question...macron was elected on a blair-esque reform platform. Other than banning phones in schools and some very minor labour reforms, what is else has he been up to?
A couple of years ago May made this very point, as part of a comment as to why she wanted a deal with the EU, and in what even by his standards was hysterical and unhinged blustering Barnier accused her of threatening the EU (which given his subsequent behaviour has almost entirely consisted of bullying, threats and reneging on previous agreeements, would be funny if the consequences were not so serious).
Serious question...macron was elected on a blair-esque reform platform. Other than banning phones in schools and some very minor labour reforms, what is else has he been up to?
Sorting out the Railway workers and unions
Good article on the internal contradictions of Macronism in the latest LRB.
O/T Macron's ratings collapse suggests that one term is as good as it gets, for a French President.
What are Macron's ratings ?
About 35/65.
After a pretty easy year in office.
Sooner or later there will be some crisis he has to deal with, which might make him or break him.
Seeing him begging Nigeria to open reception centres in their own Country with the Nigerian President looking non plussed and not interested was hugely embarrassing
Serious question...macron was elected on a blair-esque reform platform. Other than banning phones in schools and some very minor labour reforms, what is else has he been up to?
Sorting out the Railway workers and unions
So far his efforts have been unsuccessful.
However, the comparison with Blair fails as he hasn't backed down at the first hint of opposition and sacked the ministers concerned for following his instructions.
I suspect tomorrow's 'crunch meeting' will follow a familiar pattern:
Government loyalists will proclaim it a 'Falklands Moment'. Cabinet Leavers will mumble their supposed satisfaction. Rees-Mogg will be 'keeping his powder dry'. After a few days Boris will recommence his sniping, and the whole cycle will begin again.
But it will be in a white paper and everyone can pile in - on both sides of the argument.
Wake me up next April
Means you'll miss the rest of the World Cup!
Forgot about that - and of course I couldn't contribute my musings to PB
Sure we all want Brexit to be concluded asap
Indeed, but not as much as I want England to win the WC!
Well that would be just fantastic but one match at a time maybe
A couple of years ago May made this very point, as part of a comment as to why she wanted a deal with the EU, and in what even by his standards was hysterical and unhinged blustering Barnier accused her of threatening the EU (which given his subsequent behaviour has almost entirely consisted of bullying, threats and reneging on previous agreeements, would be funny if the consequences were not so serious).
I wonder what he will say in response to this?
There's no point wasting time trying to persuade Barnier that security co-operation would be a good thing all round. Take it off the table.
Tom Tugendhat has just put the boot into the Russians on Radio 4. I don't think I've ever heard a British politician being so blunt about the Russians before.
A couple of years ago May made this very point, as part of a comment as to why she wanted a deal with the EU, and in what even by his standards was hysterical and unhinged blustering Barnier accused her of threatening the EU (which given his subsequent behaviour has almost entirely consisted of bullying, threats and reneging on previous agreeements, would be funny if the consequences were not so serious).
I wonder what he will say in response to this?
There's no point wasting time trying to persuade Barnier that security co-operation would be a good thing all round. Take it off the table.
Serious question...macron was elected on a blair-esque reform platform. Other than banning phones in schools and some very minor labour reforms, what is else has he been up to?
For France those labour reforms are virtually Thatcheresque and quite significant. He's been in some very serious industrial relations disputes too so not such an 'easy' year.
I suspect tomorrow's 'crunch meeting' will follow a familiar pattern:
Government loyalists will proclaim it a 'Falklands Moment'. Cabinet Leavers will mumble their supposed satisfaction. Rees-Mogg will be 'keeping his powder dry'. After a few days Boris will recommence his sniping, and the whole cycle will begin again.
But it will be in a white paper and everyone can pile in - on both sides of the argument.
Wake me up next April
Means you'll miss the rest of the World Cup!
Forgot about that - and of course I couldn't contribute my musings to PB
Sure we all want Brexit to be concluded asap
Indeed, but not as much as I want England to win the WC!
Well that would be just fantastic but one match at a time maybe
Quite right. I reckon we have a 50/50 chance of getting past Sweden. We'll have exceeded expectations if we do that.
Whatever the outcome I am looking forward to the final stages - should be some good matches.
A couple of years ago May made this very point, as part of a comment as to why she wanted a deal with the EU, and in what even by his standards was hysterical and unhinged blustering Barnier accused her of threatening the EU (which given his subsequent behaviour has almost entirely consisted of bullying, threats and reneging on previous agreeements, would be funny if the consequences were not so serious).
Services won't be part of the deal, not to worry services only accounts for 80% of the economy.
So the government proposes no change to trade in goods, in which the UK has a huge deficit with the EU, and to accept barriers to trade in services, in which the UK has a surplus.
No-one in the country cares anymore about Brexit, the focus is on the football. I called this on Tuesday night, after the game. May should use the distraction to perform a business friendly EEA style fudge. Open door.
Tom Tugendhat has just put the boot into the Russians on Radio 4. I don't think I've ever heard a British politician being so blunt about the Russians before.
These Tories are just like Hitler, the way they're attacking Russia.
I suspect tomorrow's 'crunch meeting' will follow a familiar pattern:
Government loyalists will proclaim it a 'Falklands Moment'. Cabinet Leavers will mumble their supposed satisfaction. Rees-Mogg will be 'keeping his powder dry'. After a few days Boris will recommence his sniping, and the whole cycle will begin again.
But it will be in a white paper and everyone can pile in - on both sides of the argument.
Wake me up next April
Means you'll miss the rest of the World Cup!
Forgot about that - and of course I couldn't contribute my musings to PB
Sure we all want Brexit to be concluded asap
Indeed, but not as much as I want England to win the WC!
Well that would be just fantastic but one match at a time maybe
Quite right. I reckon we have a 50/50 chance of getting past Sweden. We'll have exceeded expectations if we do that.
Whatever the outcome I am looking forward to the final stages - should be some good matches.
I think we have a good chance of making the semis then anything could happen, fingers crossed
This has been the best World Cup for decades and the final stages will be exciting and unpredictable
No-one in the country cares anymore about Brexit, the focus is on the football. I called this on Tuesday night, after the game. May should use the distraction to perform a business friendly EEA style fudge. Open door.
Tom Tugendhat has just put the boot into the Russians on Radio 4. I don't think I've ever heard a British politician being so blunt about the Russians before.
These Tories are just like Hitler, the way they're attacking Russia.
Tugendhat called them virtually everything else bar "literally Hitler".
FPT 'Ending free movement means no more pensioners retiring to Spain' - not so - the process will change, but other non-EU nationals (such as Americans or Australians) already retire there:
FPT 'Ending free movement means no more pensioners retiring to Spain' - not so - the process will change, but other non-EU nationals (such as Americans or Australians) already retire there:
Apparently they have said they hope the UK government will still pay for pensioners as they do now.
Also the new measure has got all party support.
The new Spanish government - a huge improvement on the previous one - is, unfortunately, not guaranteed to be in power forever. Right now, that does not matter. Once we leave the EU it will.
In the short term, it makes Brexit slightly easier over Gibraltar.
Speaking to a city fund manager today who had just returned from a recce trip to Brussels. He was surprised to find that there was a high level of preparedness for no deal - thick manuals for various industrial sectors apparently. He was told that the EU thinks it's far too late to begin talking about a bespoke deal even in the unlikely event of the UK government being able to agree on what it wants to put in such a deal. So it was either no deal, a Canada type FTA with an Irish Sea customs border or full participation in the single market. No other options are practical.
single market was voted down with a massive majority in Parliament.
The problem is that we all know what the vote was against, no one knows what it was for.
I compared it to Suez, but Suez was at least well planned on the military side, just incompetently on the political side.
that's because the establishment couldn't think of anything positive FOR the EU
all Brexit tells us is the numpties who run the country should have less jurisdiction in our every day lives since they cant organise a piss up in a urinal
I quite agree. The EU has a much better functioning government, but Westminster has now taken back control, with Henry VIII powers in addition.
Hang on to your seats, its going to be a bumpy ride.
I fear it is. The city contact I mentioned earlier was visibly nervous when talking about the EU's preparations for no deal. The financial community has been unanimously of the view that a no deal outcome was so damaging and stupid that it could not possibly happen. No sane government could possibly contemplate it. But we don't have a sane government, or indeed any government, we have some people in various offices of state but they cannot be said to be governing. If no deal looks like becoming a reality there will be panic in the city and it will not be pretty.
Perhaps neither side wants a deal.
The EU Commission wants to bring the UK to heel. My sense is that Merkel is still propping up the likes of Barnier and Selmayr, despite growing concerns from German business and Austria & Hungary breaking ranks, because it's personal to her too.
Tom Tugendhat has just put the boot into the Russians on Radio 4. I don't think I've ever heard a British politician being so blunt about the Russians before.
These Tories are just like Hitler, the way they're attacking Russia.
Are you saying we won't get as far as Moscow? Of ye of little faith in Harry Kane....
Brexit Ministers meeting reportedly saying we think there is a deal to be done
Like everyone else no doubt, no idea what is happening but we should know by kick off Saturday
It's all going to be a bit pointless though if it turns out to be yet another fantasy cake-and-eat-it "bespoke deal" which the EU has already ruled out.
Not sure the EU can just dismiss it if it is the collective will of the cabinet and is in a white paper. The big if is 'the collective view of the cabinet'
Why would they care about that?
There are those in the EU that believe that if they hard enough on the UK, the current administration will fall and another much more favourable to it will take its place, as UK public opinion turns to them. They can then impose a harder Remain settlement for the UK, where they will feel they've made their point.
No-one in the country cares anymore about Brexit, the focus is on the football. I called this on Tuesday night, after the game. May should use the distraction to perform a business friendly EEA style fudge. Open door.
That will last until England go out which might be literally just hours away!
Tom Tugendhat has just put the boot into the Russians on Radio 4. I don't think I've ever heard a British politician being so blunt about the Russians before.
These Tories are just like Hitler, the way they're attacking Russia.
Are you saying we won't get as far as Moscow? Of ye of little faith in Harry Kane....
Back of the net! Wish I could say I'd deliberately set that up
Services won't be part of the deal, not to worry services only accounts for 80% of the economy.
So the government proposes no change to trade in goods, in which the UK has a huge deficit with the EU, and to accept barriers to trade in services, in which the UK has a surplus.
Brilliant.
Yes, it is a good deal. We retain free access to the excellent European foods and goods, and regulations to keep out US agribusiness.
Speaking to a city fund manager today who had just returned from a recce trip to Brussels. He was surprised to find that there was a high level of preparedness for no deal - thick manuals for various industrial sectors apparently. He was told that the EU thinks it's far too late to begin talking about a bespoke deal even in the unlikely event of the UK government being able to agree on what it wants to put in such a deal. So it was either no deal, a Canada type FTA with an Irish Sea customs border or full participation in the single market. No other options are practical.
single market was voted down with a massive majority in Parliament.
The problem is that we all know what the vote was against, no one knows what it was for.
I compared it to Suez, but Suez was at least well planned on the military side, just incompetently on the political side.
that's because the establishment couldn't think of anything positive FOR the EU
all Brexit tells us is the numpties who run the country should have less jurisdiction in our every day lives since they cant organise a piss up in a urinal
I quite agree. The EU has a much better functioning government, but Westminster has now taken back control, with Henry VIII powers in addition.
Hang on to your seats, its going to be a bumpy ride.
I fear it is. The city contact I mentioned earlier was visibly nervous when talking about the EU's preparations for no deal. The financial community has been unanimously of the view that a no deal outcome was so damaging and stupid that it could not possibly happen. No sane government could possibly contemplate it. But we don't have a sane government, or indeed any government, we have some people in various offices of state but they cannot be said to be governing. If no deal looks like becoming a reality there will be panic in the city and it will not be pretty.
Perhaps neither side wants a deal.
The EU Commission wants to bring the UK to heel. My sense is that Merkel is still propping up the likes of Barnier and Selmayr, despite growing concerns from German business and Austria & Hungary breaking ranks, because it's personal to her too.
No-one in the country cares anymore about Brexit, the focus is on the football. I called this on Tuesday night, after the game. May should use the distraction to perform a business friendly EEA style fudge. Open door.
You think no-one's going to notice that because of the footy?
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If the EU want to put one up, they can....
Of course 'the biggest insult to a sitting US President ever' is hyperbolic bollox; I'm only disappointed it isn't.
Like everyone else no doubt, no idea what is happening but we should know by kick off Saturday
For a start, it would screw Irish exports.
The 'no border or it'll be a hard border' bluff needs to be exposed.
Government loyalists will proclaim it a 'Falklands Moment'.
Cabinet Leavers will mumble their supposed satisfaction.
Rees-Mogg will be 'keeping his powder dry'.
After a few days Boris will recommence his sniping, and the whole cycle will begin again.
Because they're overplaying a strong hand.
Wake me up next April
Aberdeenshire
Angus
Perthshire
Lancashire
Staffordshire
Cambridgeshire
Surrey
Kent
Only notable new thing were some cauliflowers which were prominently labelled as 'Cornish Cauliflowers'.
Now I've heard of Cornish pasties, sardines and cream ties but not Cornish cauliflowers - are they some sort of delicacy I've been unaware of ?
Still no sign or the predicted lettuce shortage.
And Then There Were None ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None
The laybys of rural Dorset are also rammed with stalls selling them.
I think we can safely say that this bumper soft fruit harvest is not rotting in the fields. Another remainer myth....
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1014973649097502721
Murderous overcrowding on the Trans-Pennine Express.
Either way, if May makes it through this, the country might be better off for having a range of voices at the table.
Sooner or later there will be some crisis he has to deal with, which might make him or break him.
Sure we all want Brexit to be concluded asap
https://www.twitter.com/costareports/status/1014972330429308928
Imagine, the man who killed the key provision of the Voting Rights Act is considered not Conservator enough.
I wonder what he will say in response to this?
However, the comparison with Blair fails as he hasn't backed down at the first hint of opposition and sacked the ministers concerned for following his instructions.
Services won't be part of the deal, not to worry services only accounts for 80% of the economy.
Whatever the outcome I am looking forward to the final stages - should be some good matches.
Brilliant.
This has been the best World Cup for decades and the final stages will be exciting and unpredictable
Goodnight all.
It's one heck of a gamble.