Alan Medic

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where did it all go wrong > Theresa?...https://twitter.com/brexitbroadcast/sta > tus/1060116437631680512 That's excellent though the supporting cast mustn't be forgotten. I particularly like this from Raab who I think must be speaking to a class of 6 year olds. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-dominic-raab-trade-eu-france-calais-dover-economy-finance-deal-a8624036.html

Lovely try by Larmour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovysBJzNFjI

I can't believe the effin BBC. Banks is apparently on Marr on Sunday, followed by Question Time (In Dulwich?).

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The response to the budget is one of the most > difficult speeches to give as you've only just > heard it or maybe it's provided just beforehand > (possibly). > > Corbyn's response did sound pre-written which can > (and did) catch him out, thinking on his feet has > never been his strength - maybe that's McDonnell's > to be honest. I heard they get it 3 hours beforehand. Am I mistaken as I thought the shadow Chancellor used to respond to the budget speech?

Tractorlad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > About 10 years ago I had p*ss next to Gary Barlow > in the gents at Terminal 5. I'm still dining out > on that story! People buy you dinner for that?

Someone really wants to 'chuck chequers'. https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/fake-news-89up-evidence-17-19/

If there was a challenge to her leadership (I believe 44 out of the required 48 letters have been delivered), she wouldn't stand down. Who could beat her? I think the party is so split between no deal brexiteers, brexiteers who want a deal and remainers or those who want another referendum, she might win it almost by default.

Robert Peston's take on May's last chance from what he calls 'well-placed sources'. Robert Peston 11 hrs ? Facebook Creator ? Hello from Brussels and the EU Council that promised a Brexit breakthrough and delivered nothing. So on the basis of conversations with well placed sources, this is how I think the Brexit talks are placed (WARNING: if you are fearful of a no-deal Brexit, or are of a nervous disposition, stop reading now). 1) Forget about having any clue when we leave about the nature and structure of the UK?s future trading relationship with the EU. The government heads of the EU27 have rejected Chequers. Wholesale. And they regard it as far too late to put in place the building blocks of that future relationship before we leave on 29 March 2019. So any Political Declaration on the future relationship will be waffly, vague and general. It will be what so many MPs detest: a blind Brexit. The PM may say that won?t happen. No one here (except perhaps her own Downing St team) believes her. 2) The earliest date for a deal on Brexit terms - that vacuous Political Declaration and the Withdrawal Agreement - is now the Council in mid December. But even that date may prove too challenging. 3) The gulf between the EU27 and May, as you know, is over how to keep open the Northern Ireland border. There is no chance of the EU abandoning its insistence that there should be a backstop - with no expiry date - of Northern Ireland, but not Great Britain, remaining in the Customs Union and the single market. That would involve the introduction of the commercial border in the Irish Sea that May says must never be drawn. 4) All efforts therefore from the UK are aimed at putting in place other arrangements to make it impossible for that backstop to be introduced. 5) Her ruse for doing this is the creation of another backstop that would involve the whole of the UK staying in something that looks like the customs union. 6) But she feels cannot commit to keeping the UK in the customs union forever, because her Brexiter MPs won?t let her. So it does not work as a backstop. And anyway the Article 50 rules say that the Withdrawal Agreement must not contain provisions for a permanent trading relationship between the whole of the UK and the EU. Which is a hideous Catch 22. 7) There is a solution. She could ignore her Brexiter critics and announce the UK wanted written into the Political Declaration - as opposed to the Withdrawal Agreement - that we would be staying permanently in the customs union. This is one bit of specificity the rest of the EU would allow into the Political Declaration. And it could be nodded at in the Withdrawal Agreement. 8) But if she announces we are staying in the Customs Union she would be crossing her reddest of red lines because she would have to abandon her ambition of negotiating free trade deals with non-EU countries. Liam Fox would be made redundant. 9) She knows, because her Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins has told her, that her best chance - probably her only chance of securing a Brexit deal - is to sign up for the customs union. 10) In its absence, no-deal Brexit is massively in play. 11) But a customs-union Brexit deal would see her Brexiter MPs become incandescent with fury. 12)Labour of course would be on the spot, since its one practical Brexit policy is to stay in the Customs Union. 13) This therefore is May?s Robert Peel moment. She could agree a Customs Union Brexit and get it through Parliament with Labour support - while simultaneously cleaving her own party in two. 14) It is a Customs Union Brexit, or leave the EU without a deal. 15) Which will May choose? Ultimately this is her choice, and hers alone. It is her moment in history.

keano77 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > An example of the above is the (preposterous, > totally unacceptable) back up to the back up in > perpetuity/ border in the Irish Sea. If the EU > doesn?t drop this absurd demand there?ll be a > no-deal and guess what - the hard border they are > pretending to prevent will then necessarily have > to be imposed by the EU. Makes Shakespeare?s Feste > in Twelfth Night look like the wise King Solomon. Guess you'd be suprised then if the backstop to the backstop was a UK idea.

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If you don't have any luck I can ask my OH who fulfils the criteria, on your behalf. She doesn't use the forum.

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Sparkler Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I want to be there- can you let me know what the > plans are? Do we all go up together? > Thanks > Sophie This might help.

Chick Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > With the greatest respect what for? It's just > water and has no "memory". Sure there may be a > placebo effect but that's all. > That's the point. The placebo effect can be huge.

Chick Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are no homeopathic remedies. It's just > water, save your money. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45721670 Try expanding your horizons a bit and watch this episode of Horizon. Currently on BBC iplayer.

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Someone throws a cabbage at Steve Bruce and he > promptly gets sacked. > > ^Looks up proximity of greengrocers around OT...^ From what I hear and read there's going to be a delivery of veg to OT very soon.

fishbiscuits Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Alan Medic Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/deep-in-t > > > > he-heart-of-political-unionism-lies-a-great-fear-o > > > f-betrayal-by-london-1.3650620 > > > > This could change things though I don't know to > what. > > Article was temporarily interesting, before it > descended into biblical claptrap. THe DUP specialise in biblical claptrap.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/deep-in-the-heart-of-political-unionism-lies-a-great-fear-of-betrayal-by-london-1.3650620 This could change things though I don't know to what.

Nake Fudes is on drugs I reckon.

She's a nutter like a lot of her party. This country is unofficially run by the insane.

robbin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is a hypothetical question I realise, > (because there's no chance of another referendum) > but if the result of a 'best of 3' further vote > didn't meet with your approval, would there be > another march calling for 'best of 5'? Not hypothetical at all. There won't be a deal. Parliament will vote on what happens next if May doesn't call another GE. Enter 'another referendum'. Most MP's do not want to leave without a deal due to the economic consequences.

Is Brazilian Portuguese a lot different to Portuguese Portuguese? My nephew is married to a Brazilian and they have a three year old. They don't live in ED though so may not be of any interest to you anyway.

I was following posts on twitter during the typhoon as my son is in Shenzhen and this was posted there and who knows where ever else. It's like a scene from the comedy movie Airplane.

edcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Highly amused that Theresa May thinks the EU > maintaining its integrity is "disrespect". Just > hurry up and stop this farce. I think she probably just got pissed off with Donald Tusk's Instagram photo's and comment. That was a strange one as he writes his own comments and could have predicted the outrage it might cause in sections of the UK press. A tactic maybe, but to what end I wonder. From what I read the EU got annoyed with the tone of her speech at the dinner which was apparently almost word for word what she had said to a German newspaper beforehand. Either it's my way or the highway. Also in a private meeting with Varadkar the following morning she told him it was unlikely she would come up with a solution to the Border backstop issue before November when the understanding was it would be October. Mind you as there is no 'solution' given she is owned by the DUP, that's not a surprise. I reckon the EU got fed up with the kicking the can down the road routine.

PM still talking bollocks... http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2018/09/20/theresa-may-still-talking-utter-bollocks-eu-leaders-reveal/