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carlafindle Wrote:

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> Hemingway Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > You can always get the gardener in to

> thoroughly

> > inspect her front garden again Bob

>

>

> Not forgetting the back passage.


Oh, yes, down the side return too - does anyone have a number for a gardener? I did some trimming in the front garden yesterday with Mrs Bob.

diable rouge Wrote:

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> Would this be the same Dominic Raab who didn't

> quite understand how reliant UK trade is on the

> Dover-Calais crossing?...


Yes that?s him, the one and the same. Still 20 years in the foreign office probably meant that it took a little while to figure out the complexities and nuances of trading goods across the water from foreigners lands.


Like how the heck are you meant to know these details, if not by working in the Foreign Office. That said, Whitehall is quite a long way from Dover, I?ve read Samuel Pepys diary and it took him days to get there tbh.


So please, let?s cut Dom some slack here.

Raab has a fine tightrope to walk but he seems to have gone all in for Trump now (I think someone from the US has got in touch)


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-iran-soleimani-dominic-raab-pompeo-boris-johnson-latest-a9270841.html.


I can only assume from his comments that we would also have killed the guy if we had the opportunity, yes ?

  • 4 weeks later...

keano77 Wrote:

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> diable rouge Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Nicola Sturgeon...So, given the verdict of the

> > people of Scotland last night, the Scottish

> > Government will next week publish the detailed

> > democratic case for a transfer of power to

> enable

> > a referendum to be put beyond legal challenge.

> > That didn't take long...

>

> It will be interesting watching what happens in

> Scotland.

>

> Alex Salmond?s court case in January could do a

> lot of harm to the SNP and partly explains

> Sturgeon?s haste.

>

> More interesting perhaps is a point made by Andrew

> Marr this morning. If, or when, Boris agrees to an

> Independence vote for Scotland the U.K. will

> probably have left the EU. Scotland would then be

> faced with voting to leave the U.K. while also

> being outside the EU.

>

> Squeaky bum time.


Oh oh, Derek Mackay has now had to resign and Alex Salmond will soon be in court. Peak SNP? All downhill now?

keano77 Wrote:

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> keano77 Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > diable rouge Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> > -----

> > > Nicola Sturgeon...So, given the verdict of

> the

> > > people of Scotland last night, the Scottish

> > > Government will next week publish the

> detailed

> > > democratic case for a transfer of power to

> > enable

> > > a referendum to be put beyond legal

> challenge.

> > > That didn't take long...

> >

> > It will be interesting watching what happens in

> > Scotland.

> >

> > Alex Salmond?s court case in January could do a

> > lot of harm to the SNP and partly explains

> > Sturgeon?s haste.

> >

> > More interesting perhaps is a point made by

> Andrew

> > Marr this morning. If, or when, Boris agrees to

> an

> > Independence vote for Scotland the U.K. will

> > probably have left the EU. Scotland would then

> be

> > faced with voting to leave the U.K. while also

> > being outside the EU.

> >

> > Squeaky bum time.

>

> Oh oh, Derek Mackay has now had to resign and Alex

> Salmond will soon be in court. Peak SNP? All

> downhill now?


An independent Scotland would not be run by the SNP just like UK post Brexit is not run by UKIP.


I'd expect independent Labour and Tory parties of Scotland.

For context - I didn't vote conservative recently, despite my leaver credentials on this forum. For me the question of government or leave are totally separate.


But, in anycase, after the election I was prepared to give Boris the benefit of the doubt, despite his patchy record with the truth etc. But I must say this forcing out of javid does concern me.


They wanted him to change his advisors, so really they wanted to keep him as a figurehead to show stability, but number 10 would actually make the decisions in the chancellory...


Hmmmm.......

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