C4 News earlier said the FT were reporting a number 10 aide was telling them
Nothing like that on the FT itself.
C4 News earlier said the FT were reporting a number 10 aide was telling them
How else would you characterise mays deal?
I suppose it's down to personal perception and priorities. It seemed not a particularly hard brexit at the time - certainly not in comparison with what is on offer now.No Single Market, no Customs Union equals Hard Brexit. That was May’s deal.
Nothing like that on the FT itself.
Nothing like that on the FT itself.
LolNo Single Market, no Customs Union equals Hard Brexit. That was May’s deal.
Pfft, how would the FT know what the FT has said.Nothing like that on the FT itself.
I met the great man twice. Once at a labour party conference at the winter Gardens and once on a trip to the commons.Utter cobblers. 75% of momentum members (post referendum) were for a second referendum (and remaining) and I suppose none of the EU socialist parties are in favour of being in the EU. Thatcher called the Social Chapter a socialist charter, and we are now opting out of that important bit of internationalism. Workers' rights are under threat. The EU has policies to address the precarariat, the UK will embrace the "flexible" labour market (yet another "benefit" for the right wing promoters of Brexit.
Did you ever meet Benn?
Lol
Single market = Common rulebook.
Free movement = Mobility framework.
Customs union = Customs arrangement.
That was Mays deal.
Well and truly backed into a corner.
The four years since has just been the UK slowly recognising that fact. In short there was never a chance of keeping our cake and eating it
Please don't let Brexit make you stupid.I met the great man twice. Once at a labour party conference at the winter Gardens and once on a trip to the commons.
He was great for lots of reasons, just one of which in my mind being his vociferous opposition to the EU at the same time Mrs Thatcher and many on the right of the Conservative party were actively campaigning to keep Britain In.
Did you ever meet Maggie? She sounds like just your sort of person.
I "think" you mean BRexit??Please don't let Bexit make you stupid.
Please don't let Bexit make you stupid.
So very well said - @Rascal, myself and others have been saying similar for yearsYou very clearly know next to nothing about Tony Benn, that's obvious as the suggestion that Tony would have been in favour of the Thatcher designed modern day EU is laughable. That's not a problem, patriotic left wing politicians aren't everyone's cup of tea.
Michael Foot was also anti-eu. as was Peter Shore and indeed a plethora of British socialists. As they are now. It is impossible to be a socialist AND a remainer.
Its the liberals that are pro EU, and as anyone with any modicum of intelligence already knows liberals and socialists are very very different political animals.
Two-thirds of Labour voters voted Remain. We lost our constituency to the Tories because the LibDems took enough of the Remain vote to cost Labour its majority. And that was true of most Labour seats, just not the "red wall" - even in nearly all those constituencies most Labour voters still vote Remain.Stupid is clinging to the fact thinking a few hundred thousand momentum members are Labour.
Millions of the electorate fucked you and your shite brexit plans off. Millions that would have voted for Labour but for Corbyn and his plans.
Alright Nostradamus. Think most people have been saying that both sides will inevitably make concessions as the deadline looms.Just read this:
Brexit: France hints at compromise with UK over divergence from EU standards
Brexit: France hints at compromise with UK over divergence from EU standards (msn.com)
Makes me wonder what could be the cause of all these recent reports of movement/concessions/compromises from the EU?
Anyone got any suggestions?