The Brexit Times (News and Opinion)

Here's Chris Williamson, one of Corbyn's trusted lieutenants, filmed yesterday (29th August 2017):

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"If you’re in the single market, you’re in the European Union, I just don’t think it’s an option, it’s unrealistic for people, it’s misleading to suggest you can have that and be outside the European Union".

A terminally-confused Labour party. Good job they're not in the entertainments business: they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery!

No brainer "it's misleading to suggest you can be in the single market & be outside the EU"

No disagreement there

Meanwhile, negotiations are going nowhere fast... not long before another General Election.

Well, having just sat down and watched the news it does still seem that negotiations are progressing very slowly, if at all.

Britain’s cake-and-eat-it Brexit routine wears thin with Barnier

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In Barnier’s words, London “wants to take back control, it wants to adopt its own standards and regulations, but it also wants to have these standards recognised automatically in the EU – that is what UK papers ask for.

“This is simply impossible. You cannot be outside the single market and shape its legal order … The single market, the EU capacity to regulate, to supervise, to enforce our laws, must not and will not be undermined by Brexit.”


https://www.theguardian.com/politic...cake-and-eat-it-brexit-routine-michel-barnier

You know what? I would like to see us cut a good deal with the EU. But realistically will it actually happen?

Not untill we agree to everything the whole Brexit movie is Tory Party Politics on the Mad Scale

So, you win big on the pools and decide to celebrate by inviting the whole family to join you for a week of high-living in the fictional Europa, a luxury hotel in London. You like to have "walking about" money with you at all times and you've secretly planned to pay a call on your old auntie on your way home and give her the cash to pay for that hip operation and her cataracts to be done privately. So you take with you half-a-dozen or so thick bundles of £50 notes. You deposit most of money this in the room safe upon your arrival.

Your stay is fine but you wonder why the hotel considers it necessary to label the hot taps in the bathroom with "Caution - hot water!" in ten different languages, similarly the safety instructions . The hotel has a number of restaurants and cafes, each featuring a menu from a different European country and staffed by employees from those countries. The apparent diffidence exhibited by some staff towards British guests strikes you as decidedly unfriendly. Anyway you survive the week - mainly by ignoring the rudeness and eating-out a lot.

On your last morning, you go to the room safe, dial-in the combination but to your dismay, the door is not unlocked. You go down to register your concerns at the front desk and after the receptionist has heard about the room safe, she asks if you're ready to check-out. She doesn't prepare and hand you a bill, instead she simply tells you to pay - but declines to tell you how much. She then tells you that the money that you deposited in their safe now belongs to the hotel but you may not leave until you settle your account. She advises you to go away and work-out how much you owe and if that amount is acceptable, then you may go on your way.

The above parodies the current impasse: Barnier is the hotel receptionist and you are Britain. Would you really hand-over an indeterminate amount of money based on a guess? And would you really walk away from a £9 billion bank deposit in your name?

Zzzzzz

What a truly puerile response that is! Seeing as it will be your tax money that pays the divorce settlement, one would have thought you'd like some justification for its size. Obviously not. Your tax money, not mine.

I thought that the IOM was outside the UK tax jurisdiction.

Well that depends on who he thinks he is ...

My sock puppets are getting dummer

What a bumber.

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There, seated on the left, is Caroline Fint, member for Don Valley, a seat she has held for Labour since 1997. Although her constituency voted two-to-one in favour of leaving the EU, Flint campaigned to remain, it should be remembered that she is a former Europe Minister in the Blair government. However, in common with many on her benches, she is a democrat and believes in upholding the referendum result - as was her party's declared position until last weekend. She has long spoken-out about ending freedom of movement.

On the Andrew Marr show this morning, she declared "We are leaving the EU" and said that she will not try to disrupt Brexit.

This public declaration now apparently places her at odds with the party's current position on Europe - which (currently) mirrors Momentum's - and therefore makes her a prime target for deselection by the party's hard-left activists.

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Boris Johnson says EU has legal duty to discuss future trade relations

"Boris Johnson has risked further antagonising Brussels by dismissing warnings this week about Britain’s approach to the negotiations and insisting the EU is obliged to start talking about a future trade deal.

After a bruising week for the British government, the foreign secretary expressed his “absolutely rock-solid confidence” that a deal with the 27 member states would be reached."

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-legal-duty-to-discuss-future-trade-relations