The document suggests the UK will abide by new EU laws and be involved in talks on future fishing quotas, but will not be able to sign trade deals without the EU's permission.
It contains no "pushback" on EU demands for free movement of people to continue in the same form during the transition phase, no suggestion of a veto to block new EU laws and no power to implement new international trade deals without the EU's permission.
Fucking pointless, unless the point is to prove what a bunch of useless and spiteful cunts the Tories are
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
The more revealing insights are the comments from the EU parliament coordinator who has returned from talks and meetings with his British counterparts and discovered the frightening extent of the Brexit team's incompetence, unpreparedness and total lack of direction which he has characterised as nothing more than a shambles. He has discussed his findings with Barnier who agrees that the UK is simply unprepared for Brexit and is governed by a fractured government providing no clarity or direction for its civil servants. The Dutch have already had enough of British dithering and shambolic posturing, and are preparing for a hard Brexit to the extent they are drafting new customs procedures and recruiting several hundred more officers to cope. However, they expressed the opinion that given their assessment and estimate for what they think is the minimum necessary for them to cope, they conclude that the UK would have to recruit several thousand more in order to manage their new tariff regimes, and whatever immigration controls they might wish to impose.
Amber Rudd and her junior ministers have revealed they are recruiting 300.
Without doubt, this certainly has to be the worst British government in modern history.
^ Ah! Tuchman's Law:
The UK is still heading for disaster city at a hefty rate of knots though...Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place. Besides, persistence of the normal is usually greater than the effect of the disturbance, as we know from our own times. After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening — on a lucky day — without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena. This has led me to formulate Tuchman's Law, as follows: "The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold" (or any figure the reader would care to supply)
Well, it seems that Corbyn is now committing the Labour Party to alignment with the single market and the common tariff.
This could well be the overture to the General Election and with luck the British public might just redeem itself and kick out the worst, shittiest, meanest, dumbest, most cack-handed, incompetent Tory party in its entire history.
The Brexshit negotiations will either collapse entirely and the EU membership extended accordingly on existing terms or they will simply capitulate in favour of a Norway model or some such thing as an accommodation but in truth I cannot see how that can be reconciled with current EU policy to prevent proliferation of half-arsed membership.
Frankly, the only sensible course is to have another referendum but, having regard to the past eighteen months of Brexshiteers spouting the most inane shit,I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the British voted to join up with North Korea and the Philippines, they're that fucking dumb.
Latest opinion polls had labour with a slight lead vs tories. It would be intetesting to see how much this lead increases with the labour decision. I think they should have gone a step further and said they would remain in the custom union rather than just a commitment to align.
Nothing short of the status quo will be beneficial for the UK. Everything I hear is a disastrous attempt at damage limitation following a very pointless and dangerous referendum.
It's quite telling that Labour can't pull ahead in the polls hardly moved from 1 or 2 points for ages. If they had a half decent leader instead of that fruitcake Corbyn they'd probably have a 10 point lead and be looking at a 50+ majority in the next election. Tories really need to get rid of Doris and the sooner the better as no hope of winning an election with her at the helm.
And replace May with who..? Go on, gives us a good laugh
Predicted long ago
Monty Python - La Marche Futile - Video Dailymotion
I hear the Maybot is still expecting flying pigs to land on her doorstep and Unicorns to offer her a ride to Parliament Square....
..yet another Alice-in-wonderland speech for the world to ridicule.
When will thegent be heard and people listen in awe to his immenselywisesuperiorwordstringingness and give up with this Brexit crap...
I didn't even bother to listen to Doris speech, I was relying on you to give me the lowlights and highlights Troy, so anything in there I should be happy about and change my opinion about her? Or should I still have the same opinion that the useless wench should go and we need rees-mogg as PM?
what a total fucking cretin
A member of the hard right wing of the Conservative Party, he has been ideologically characterised as a High Tory and social conservative with reactionary, traditionalist, and right-wing populist views.
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Well she didn't give much confidence to those supporting Brexit, to which your hero suggested Brexiteers shouldn't nitpick. The problem is she gave even less confidence to those that think Brexit is a mistake. More cake, more cake, and more cherries was one popular comment doing the rounds on the internet.
The bit you won't like is that her red lines are blurring into Euro blue co-operation...leaving the Customs Union but expecting to do tariff-free trade, not allowing the ECJ to rule Britannia but making every effort to make future EU rules UK ones as well.
Too much smoke and mirrors for everyone's liking and seen from the outside as nothing more than damage limitation.
Rees-Mogg is a fucking papish, hypocritical, sesquipedalian, second rate academic who despite attendance at Eton and having the best of tutors still could only achieve a 2.1 reading History for Chrissakes, and is a weird little gerontophile, to boot, who is still fucking his 70 year old nanny, the sick, elongated streak of putrid, paralysed piss.
No fucking wonder Bumbumboy fancies him as a PM, the fucking eejit.
Anything would currently be better than Doris and at least he has a vision for Britain regardless of whether you agree with it or not. Where as Doris offers nothing only PM with less charisma than Major.
^ Speaking of Sir John Major, he made a far better speech last week. I won't bore you with a cut&paste of it, but those interested can read it at the link below. There is also a link to the video version at the bottom via The Grundian for those who prefer:
https://www.libdemvoice.org/a-longer...end-56827.html
I don't have to read it, he was a disaster as PM and if we'd had a referendum on Maastrict on his watch as we should have done, we would have left then.
^ You're going to be happy with the result of the election in Italy. Another populist party getting a fistful of votes.
Major was not a bad PM and in fact was a reasonable administrator whose last years with Kenneth Clarke saw Britain drag itself out of the 1992 crash and recession but he was fucked over by the "Bastards" i.e Cash and his fuckwitted mono-themed anti- EU dinosaurs, and the sleaze merchants whose hypocrisy was teetering into an overwhelming arrogance that even the craven English were beginning to see as anathema.
The response was of course inevitable and Labour won their landslide victory - if Bill Cash and his cronies had been euthanised, and the Hamiltons, Proctor and the other crooks been kicked out, and the absurd Portillo not been permitted to patronise the poor so openly, then it might have been different but in truth the Tories were simply a busted flush after 18 years of achieving very, very little.
The irony of course is that it was the EU phobic dinosaurs who fucked Major and its their current generation of converts and clones who are fucking over the country and destroying the Tories all over again, all overseen by their geriatric ghouls still parading the earth, Messrs. Cash and Bone, like some grisly political grave robbers.
Yup...the last three tory pms all killed off because of Europe.
And people say nothing good has ever come from the EU
Allegedly the EU are going on holiday until the Irish problem is sorted.
"The UK must find a solution to the Irish-border issue if Brexit talks are to continue, the EU has warned. It comes as Brussels is accused of acting like gangsters, “throwing threats of violence around” in the negotiating process.
EU President Donald Tusk issued a bold statement to Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, saying that if talks about the UK’s withdrawal from the bloc are to go ahead, she must find “realistic” proposals to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the south. Speaking alongside Irish PM Leo Varadkar, Tusk said talks would be a case of “Ireland first.”
“We know today that the UK government rejects a customs and regulatory border down the Irish Sea, the EU single market, and the customs union,” Tusk said. “While we must respect this position, we also expect the UK to propose a specific and realistic solution to avoid a hard border.
“As long as the UK doesn’t present such a solution, it is very difficult to imagine substantive progress in Brexit negotiations. If in London someone assumes that the negotiations will deal with other issues first before the Irish issue, my response would be: Ireland first,” the EU leader said, according to The Independent."
https://www.independent.ie/business/...-36685000.html
A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.
Why the fuk does the UK have to propose everything, we are leaving, we aren't going to put up border controls on the Irish border, if the EU want to do it then let them do it. Fucking bunch of drama queens these continentals.
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