I agree, not many in the uk know the eu even made an offer over 2 weeks ago. the media/ newspapers in this country have barely mentioned it anywhere. one thing i will say though is apparently ( i might be wrong) for the eu offer - they want the eu courts - ecj to have the final say/ full control, over things like british citizens abroad/eu citizens here and british courts to have no say at all. i think thats ridiculous tbh
Yep. It's fair to disagree with aspects of the EU offer and I presume there will be a degree of horse trading given its a negotiation after all but the absence of debate or discussion about their offer is astonishing.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politic...it-solidifies-which-half-his-voters-should-he
pretty interesting article on the problems labour and corbyn face.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politic...it-solidifies-which-half-his-voters-should-he
pretty interesting article on the problems labour and corbyn face.
They will present two faces to the electorate (cue jokes that they always do). Brexit is a Tory owned problem and mess of its own making. The negotiations are a Tory problem. The public identifies Brexit with the Tories not Labour. All Labour needs to do is keep tacking with the prevailing winds and keep out of the shitstorm. Besides this Tory Govt after 7 years has run out of steam and ideas. All Govts do and this one is your classic zombie Govt.
Just to run through 7 years of administration.
Public Services on point of collapse. Notice how many Police Chiefs are popping up saying enough is enough. NHS. Local Councils you name it its gasping for air
Armed Forces. Royal Navy has continued to decline in capital ships. Army numbers are below 80,000. But hey Trident which we will never fucking use.
Workers pay. Wages in negative growth since the crash. Only Greece has negative wage growth. All other EU countries positive growth.
Two referendums and two GE's since 2015. One MP murdered, one PM gone and the current one propped up. Who do we think we are? Italy?
And now Brexit. A two year clock ticking away and the first few months we pissed up the wall. And still the country, Parliament and cabinet are split on the way forward.
And the latest tragedy? Seems we decided to wrap our tower blocks in flammable material and no one is sure whether this was legal or not. Or how many there are. What mind set led to this?
Strong and stable? Yeah right.
You need to check your facts.
NHS spending is up year on year though the NHS has never had enough money and never will.
The Armed forces are responding to the threats we face, we do not need a mass force because the wars in the future are not the wars of past. Either way, the defence budget is still 2% of GDP and GDP is going up meaning the budgets have only gone up, how they are spent is a different story. We have also committed to NATO etc, what do you think Corbyn had planned for the armed forces?
Workers pay is not in negative figures, workers pay on average is at 2% growth which is lower than before but it is growing nevertheless. What you are referring to is the ratio of growth to inflation and again that is purely down to Brexit and the pound, it has nothing to do with the government of the day. I wonder what the figures were pre-Brexit? Maybe check the unemployment figures too?
And the referendums well they came about because the country voted for a Tory government who promised to have one, the country then voted for Brexit, maybe you should be blaming your fellow compatriots who wanted this instead?
As for the tower block scenario well as it turns out they have been wrapping towers up in these materials for the last few decades, hundreds of them. Unfortunately no-one not even the people responsible for manufacturing and installing them nor the people deciding to put them there considered they can burn a building down until now.
You need to check your facts.
NHS spending is up year on year though the NHS has never had enough money and never will.
The Armed forces are responding to the threats we face, we do not need a mass force because the wars in the future are not the wars of past. Either way, the defence budget is still 2% of GDP and GDP is going up meaning the budgets have only gone up, how they are spent is a different story. We have also committed to NATO etc, what do you think Corbyn had planned for the armed forces?
Workers pay is not in negative figures, workers pay on average is at 2% growth which is lower than before but it is growing nevertheless. What you are referring to is the ratio of growth to inflation and again that is purely down to Brexit and the pound, it has nothing to do with the government of the day. I wonder what the figures were pre-Brexit? Maybe check the unemployment figures too?
And the referendums well they came about because the country voted for a Tory government who promised to have one, the country then voted for Brexit, maybe you should be blaming your fellow compatriots who wanted this instead?
As for the tower block scenario well as it turns out they have been wrapping towers up in these materials for the last few decades, hundreds of them. Unfortunately no-one not even the people responsible for manufacturing and installing them nor the people deciding to put them there considered they can burn a building down until now.