Brexit View

[JohnL]

The ultra right wing brexiteers causing trouble in Haymarket today apparently if anybody feels like avoiding it.

Such idiots and to contrast the children had their march yesterday which was pretty peaceful I guess being as they're children :).

[JohnL]

LOL Somehow this gives me a feeling of Schadenfreude

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/philip-hammonds-trade-trip-to-china-not-going-ahead-amid-fury-at-gavin-williamson-threat-to-deploy-a4068711.html

[JohnL]

Looks like Boles has been/will soon be deselected. There's a Leave campaign to deselect using the same facebook methods as the referendum to do this to a number of MPs.

He should resign from the Tories and keep the seat until the next general election IMHO.

[JohnL]

"But former Militant firebrand Derek Hatton, readmitted to Labour 30 years after being expelled, branded the seven ?pathetic?."

Okay - I've entered a time loop and I'm back in the 80s aren't I.

[Blah Blah]

This for me is the last straw. Hatton back in the party (bear in mind he is now a property tycoon and lives in a luxury penthouse in Liverpool) meams I too am leaving the Labour Party.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Is it just me that's actually starting to think, "let the house burn"? I'm so fed up with the 'project fear' nonsence, that a small part of me is starting to believe that we should crash out and let Boris et al be exposed as the con artists they undoubtably are. There is no good way out of this and it feels a bit like we'd be better just ripping the plaster off and rebuilding again.

[JohnL]

Matt Hancock just now "There will be enough medicines if everybody does what they need to do"

Matt Hancock April 2019 "There aren't enough - None of you did what you needed to do"

He really has a knack of inspiring confidence this guy :)

[Loutwo]

It seems the U.K. is fulfilling the post-empire prophecy of managed decline. We only punched above our weight previously because of our common market membership, not in spite of it. Few people alive today will have memories of living in post war economic uncertainty. A bankrupt country crawling out of debt. The idea we are a great nation punching above our weight is laughable in the context of Brexit. Without EU membership, I would hate to see what state this country would be in today. Ah well, you reap what you sow. I have a tin hat somewhere.

Louisa.

[Siduhe]

Blah Blah Wrote:

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> This for me is the last straw. Hatton back in the

> party (bear in mind he is now a property tycoon

> and lives in a luxury penthouse in Liverpool)

> meams I too am leaving the Labour Party.

Same. I typed a longer response but then thought better of it.

[Alan Medic]

Seems the UK managed to f**k up potential trade deals with both China and Japan due to sheer stupidity. Meanwhile the media manages to focus on a teenage girl in a foreign country who is apparently a threat to the nation. To keep the story going, let's strip her of her citizenship. That will keep the great unwashed busy for a while.

[Alan Medic]

Robert Peston expects 4 Tories to join the Independents today.

[JoeLeg]

To be fair the trade deal with Japan is still on the table, although I suspect we?ve burned some goodwill. China is always tricky territory, both literally and figuratively, although Williamson has to know that which makes his comments even more bone-headed.

All that said, it doesn?t bode well for the idea that we?re good negotiators.

[JohnL]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> Robert Peston expects 4 Tories to join the

> Independents today.

3 so far.

Maybe one chickened out - or maybe another announcement later.

[keano77]

It would be good fun if it was Theresa May

[Sue]

keano77 Wrote:

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> It would be good fun if it was Theresa May

:)) :)) :))

[JohnL]

Such a Soubry comment (by Anna Soubry)

?I?m not leaving the Conservative party. It has left me,?

[uncleglen]

Anna Soubry- Born in Lincolnshire, MP for Broxtowe an area that voted LEAVE- the woman has lost touch with her roots and constituents...good riddance

Still, having been a barrister AND a journalist- double whammy in the libturd stakes

[JoeLeg]

uncleglen Wrote:

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> Anna Soubry- Born in Lincolnshire, MP for Broxtowe

> an area that voted LEAVE- the woman has lost touch

> with her roots and constituents...good riddance

> Still, having been a barrister AND a journalist-

> double whammy in the libturd stakes

And yet Kate Hoey is allowed to ignore the fact that 70% of HER constituents voted Remain?

Let me see if I understand your ?logic?...

- MP voted Remain, but constituents voted Leave, MP is duty-bound to support Leave. Ok, yeah, fair enough - I see where you?re coming from on that. They work for us and so on.

- MP voted Leave, but constituents voted Remain (by a far greater margin than the overall result), MO is duty-bound to lecture those constituents about how wrong they are and then ignore their opinions. Um, hang on...isn?t that exactly what you objected to for so many years, and isn?t that completely twisted? And massively hypocritical? Yes. Yes it is.

Oh, and look - ?libturd?. Your term of abuse for anyone who disagrees with you.

I bet you looked fetching in your yellow vest. Funny how they say people get more right-wing as they age, eh?

?Libturd?...dear oh dear...

[rendelharris]

uncleglen Wrote:

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> Still, having been a barrister AND a journalist-

> double whammy in the libturd stakes

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are journalists. Winston Churchill was a journalist. Geoffrey Cox is a barrister and so was Margaret Thatcher. Seriously, take some water with it and try not to start so early.

[keano77]

European Medicines Agency loses battle to end UK lease over Brexit

Leaving EU does not ?frustrate? contract with landlord Canary Wharf Group, high court rules

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/20/european-medicines-agency-loses-bid-to-end-uk-lease-over-brexit

Its case was obviously ?frustrated?

[JohnL]

Seems the Bankers have signed their own deal with the EU.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/22/city-free-port-brexit-deal-bankers

[JoeLeg]

Well isn?t that nice for them...

As usual, those in power look after themselves and f? the rest of us.

[JohnL]

Oh dear. not many friends left in the world it seems.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/25/un-court-rejects-uk-claim-to-sovereignty-over-chagos-islands

[Captain Marvel]

What might the islanders do with a long range bomber base, naval dockyard and a satellite telecommunications station?

[JohnL]

OK this is even more chaos now - someone tried to draw a decision tree of Mays latest plan - but what happens when you get to the bottom right - you can't say no deal as it's already been voted down in the earlier portion of the decision tree.

https://twitter.com/Edsbrown/status/1100373800431042562/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-3942230753904423937.ampproject.net%2F1902072121410%2Fframe.html