Oh Britain, what have you done (part ∞+5)?

[TheDecameron]

Barnier is limited by instructions of European Parliament that specifically forbid Barniers team to do anything else than remind UK they signed a deal and get agreement on the legal words version of that already signed deal. That is the position since december and will be the position till 29th of March.

It looks like High Noon and Jeremy is going to call their bluff. He’s serious, we’re going to shoot ( ourselves) unless they do as we say-

In an article for the London Evening Standard, Mr Hunt wrote: “The probability of no deal is increasing by the day until we see a change of approach from the European Commission who have this view that they just need to wait and Britain will blink. That is just a profound misunderstanding of us as a nation.”

“I’ve always been someone who believed that, if we ended up with no deal, we would find a way to thrive economically because we are Britain, we are that sort of country. We have solved these kinds of problems,” the foreign secretary wrote.
(The Independent).

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Barnier is limited by instructions of European Parliament that specifically forbid Barniers team to do anything else than remind UK they signed a deal and get agreement on the legal words version of that already signed deal. That is the position since december and will be the position till 29th of March.

This, if true (citation requested if possible, please), would at least explain the apparent policy of brinksmanship being adopted by Hunt & co.

 

[notaclue]

Mark 'what's a rate rise?' Carney has a useful new summary of how close we are to no deal: "uncomfortably high".

I was hoping for something more along the lines of "massively unlikely".

But Leave.EU have found a Brexit dividend...

"EU regulations currently prevent doctors from qualifying before five years of training. Just one of countless examples of EU "market building" that do nothing of the sort, instead causing disruption and impairing UK policymakers." https://twitter.com/LeaveEUOfficial/status/1025277652373069824

Plumbers by day, doctors by night, fruit picking at the weekend. What a life young British apprentices can look forward to once they leave school. At the age of 11.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Nice comment further down the Twitter thread:

"This is nothing more than gross stupidity in broad daylight"

 

[Mullardman]

Sadly, for every thick minister who comes out with such bullshit, there are about 20 million even less informed dummies who will believe them.

 

[TheDecameron]

...a whiff of the market and labour deregulation that is the goal of Mogg, Tice, Farage and the others. I assume some unpaid intern on their site got out of bed, scratched his arse and thought “what can we stick on Twitter to make it look like I’m doing something today?”.

 

[notaclue]

They dream of a return to Victorian Britain. It's not so much that they are willing to ignore that era's poverty or the atrocities of empire or the wars, more that they'd probably like them back again.

 

[slavedata]

What gets me is the obssesive, we have this under control, we don't need another vote on the outcome of negotiations. When they clearly haven't got it under control and another vote should give them a clear mandate to do the right thing.

 

[monkfish]

If you can hold your nose long enough to read something from the DM, a fawning piece defending the rat Frank Field.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...orced-hard-Left-thugs-God-help-democracy.html

 

[droodzilla]

We got out just in time:

 

[Mullardman]

I can't..

 

[markvdv]

This, if true (citation requested if possible, please), would at least explain the apparent policy of brinksmanship being adopted by Hunt & co.

Early december 2017 May and Davis signed the Phase1 deal. Hours later, next morning on BBC Davis "unsigned" this deal. EP passed a couple of motions or resolutions, whatever you may call those, that stated the Phase1 agreement would be translated in legal text asap and UK had to reaffirm that agreement, prior to any further negotiations. EP applauded UK parliament decision that UK parliament needed to vote on that Withdrawal Agreement, we love democracy.
Now May has brought some amendments to UK parliament, which passed, that basicly block her own Phase1 agreement, but EU has good faith in May's intentions LOL So Barnier says we only need to agree on a text and UK parliament will only need to pass that text, that can't be accompanied by something relevant on future trade, because we can only get there after UK parliament has passed the Withdrawal Agreement.
The fact that not any deal will be able to pass UK parliament, guarantees the no deal Brexit outcome. May may want to discuss some other plans that also won't pass UK parliament, but again, Barnier will be pleased to do so after the Withdrawal Agreement has passed UK parliament.

 

[TheDecameron]

We got out just in time:

...ere! That looks like Britannia is being groped from the rear by that Juncker.

 

[TheDecameron]

If you can hold your nose long enough to read something from the DM, a fawning piece defending the rat Frank Field.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...orced-hard-Left-thugs-God-help-democracy.html

It’s like Raiders of the Lost Ark! The DM lionising a Labour MP? Maybe they hope he’ll cross the floor to his natural home?

 

[tqineil]

http://politics.co.uk/comment-analy...ally-killed-chequers-and-with-it-the-uk-gover

 

[Tony L]

Reality 1, Tory idiots 0.

 

[TheDecameron]

R4 News just quoted one source as saying “ the best she can hope for now is that France and Germany don’t publically destroy her white paper”. So it’s now about saving British face while the economic damage continues.

Mark Carney is now Enemy of The People again for pointing out the obvious.

 

[SteveS1]

Mark Carney is now Enemy of The People again for pointing out the obvious.

The Brexit Broadcasting Corporation once again allowing an unquestioned, evidence free ejaculation from that idiot Bone.

 

[sean99]

But Leave.EU have found a Brexit dividend...
"EU regulations currently prevent doctors from qualifying before five years of training. Just one of countless examples of EU "market building" that do nothing of the sort, instead causing disruption and impairing UK policymakers." https://twitter.com/LeaveEUOfficial/status/1025277652373069824

That's fine with me provided the doctors who graduate from the University of Neasden night school after 6 months get to complete their on-the-job training on UKIP voters.

 

[tqineil]

I'm predicting an election before next Feb