Another new Brexit thread

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mat said:
Boris is looking for a ton of dead cats to distract from breaking his own election promise.

Expect lots of election! election! election! And maybe a smidgeon of Labour in crisis news stories.
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As night follows day -I'd expect a labour anti semitism/ resignation/ leadership challenge story to grab the headlines on 31 Oct & 01 Nov.
 
FT running a story on leaked documents it has obtained with plans to diverge from EU standards on workers rights. Behind a paywall but others will run with it over the weekend I imagine. Expect Labour will push hard on it as well.
 
bellbuzzer said:
One thing only saving johnson, nothing whatsover to do with talent, achievement, suitability for the role etc. He is a tory, and therefore untouchable by the msm, Eating a baby live on stage will be portrayed as reasonable in fact rather brlliant way to supplement foodbanks. (Ok replace food banks). As long as the electorate are doomed to left v right choices and news papers are given free rein to carry on their propaganda with no accountability .....bleak times inevitable for 90% of the population,
It's the system stupid....
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I think you’re long overdue proportional representation.
Currently you parliament seems to be running on propositional representation.
Whoever propositions them best gets represented.
 
Chippy_boy said:
The only show-stopper for me in May's deal was the whole of the UK being locked in forever in the backstop, unable to get out of it without the consent of the EU. That's been removed, which makes in bearable. We've thrown the DUP under a bus, but 1.2m of their 1.8m are remainers anyway, who presumably are not too fussed about being more closely aligned with the EU. So not ideal, but no solution is.
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The only way I ever saw a deal being done was with a 32 county economy.
That’s leaving the polarised politics out of it.
But the thing about this deal that I think will cause trouble is that if you were in business up north, how could you plan for the future if;
1. You don’t know where you will be in 14 months.
2. You don’t know where you’ll be every 4 years.

Politically you don’t have any incentive to get the assembly up and running.
The GFA had a consent of both communities built into it and it was there for a reason.
Brexit has now altered this within the Assembly for a Brexit vote which doesn’t sit right with me.
Brexit and The GFA are different entities and this is blurring the lines.

In the absence of an Assembly Westminster will make the decision and as the DUP have seen they will cut the North adrift if they have the numbers for a deal and still have the option of a hard border again if they end up with No Deal.

Very troubling times and built in uncertainty for Northern Ireland and us too as a result is how I see this deal. Seems great for Nationalists on the face of it, but I don’t really see it that way.

Mind you I was never in favour of forcing an All Ireland decision on the North in this way.

That sort of thing should have years of consideration and planning and further integration.
It should have evolved naturally. Not like this.

Mind you if Brexit leads to a breakup of the Union, then what.
A different ball game then. Where would unionism go then.
 
mat said:

Conservatives. Party of the working man....
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I’d love to know where this “leak” came from...

they’re the lesser of a number of evils for me... basically less shit than the other parties...

I’ve said it before and now it’s maybe more appropriate.. we are a laughing stock at present

these “leaks” are going to ramp up over the coming weeks.. he said, she said....
 
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