Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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all so large tins of nescafe.
Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
Also wallpaper for some reason.
Guest 3065- Registered: 10 Jan 2019
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Only 3 weeks to go for brexit
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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So, we're now back to our usual stance of blaming the EU for our failings. Was it the EU that called for the Referendum? Was it the EU that triggered A.50 without a plan? Was it the EU that called for an election which threw away a working majority? Was it the EU responsible for losing a vote by 280 votes? No, or course not.
Best thing about Brexit - Governments can no longer use the EU as a convenient scapegoat for all our failings.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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rumors that Brexit might take a year longer to get the right deal.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Examples of appallingly sloppy journalism, before we get to a plausibly correct 3rd para:
"a number of papers report a surge in the number of people making a last-minute dash across the Channel to stock up on duty free alcohol and cigarettes before Brexit.
The i says a no-deal Brexit would render null and void the single market rules that allow Britons to bring home a generous allowance of tax free goods.
The Guardian says the Calais wine trade is riding high on the "Brexit boom", but quotes the co-owner of a local wine superstore as saying: "A hard Brexit means the booze cruise is dead.""
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-47504503(Not my real name.)
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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button,see nobody knows what there talking about.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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With 20 days left the argument over the Irish border is much the same as 2 years ago. The word technological keeps being bandied about in the same way that detergent companies used biological to sell their products years ago. Nobody knew what it meant but it increased sales.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Courtesy of the Sunday Times - more bounty from the magic money tree.
Theresa May is battling to save her premiership this weekend as cabinet ministers warned she may have to fall on her sword to save Brexit. In a final throw of the dice, Philip Hammond will offer Tory MPs a £20bn Brexit “bribe” this week to finally “end austerity” if they support the prime minister’s deal. The chancellor will use his spring statement on the public finances on Wednesday to pledge to pump money into the police, schools and even some tax cuts in a spending review this autumn — but only if parliament votes for a deal.
This weekend May’s team was warned by senior Brexiteers that she would get her deal passed only if she offered to resign by June so a new prime minister could lead the second phase of negotiations.
In a sign that senior colleagues are abandoning her, one cabinet minister said: “I don’t believe there is a single one of us who thinks it’s a good idea for her to stay beyond June.” Another, previously loyal, added: “She’s run out of road.”
Senior figures revealed that:
■ May’s aides are considering persuading her to offer to resign as soon as the deal is passed in order to get MPs back on board.
■ Senior cabinet ministers have held private talks about whether they will have to visit May to tell her to go as early as this week.
■ A ministerial aide predicted that if Labour tabled another vote of no confidence in the government, “Tories will vote for it” in order to “bring her down”.
■ Allies of the four main contenders to succeed her — Boris Johnson, Sajid Javid, Jeremy Hunt and Dominic Raab — said they were “ready to go” and that “things could move quickly”.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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What a way to run a country. My God.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It now appears that the divorce hand out will be much higher when we ask for an extension to article 50 which is very much a certainty and Boris is rubbing his hands with glee as it will strengthen his position in the leadership race.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Well, what do you know! I worked on the EU Tissues and Cells Directive back in the day. Not the first thing I would worry about with Brexit, that's for sure.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The PM is not the most subtle of people and knows she will lose tomorrow night's vote unless she pulls it beforehand. This will carry on right up until the 29th and she believes that when MPs stare in to the abyss they will panic and vote her deal through. Most MPs are aware that the country at large dislike the deal and would prefer leaving without any deal but if that happened they would get the blame for the ensuing chaos.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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I like your optimisum howard, best to stay a while longer and try and get a better deal or stay in all together.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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So, she's off to Strasbourg, apparently, for a last minute piece of paper from Brussels. We can assume that Geoffrey Cox will wave this around furiously tomorrow with his usual flamboyance. I would crack up if she pulled the vote again, that would be beyond shambolic.