Article 50/Brexit Negotiations

[adrianr]

Agreed. Yet another thing in the seemingly endless list of cock ups she's made. I struggle to think of a single decent decision that cretin of a woman has made in her entire career. She's fucking useless and the sooner we see the back of her, the better.

Amen. But please don't replace her with Amber Rudd. Ugh.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Amen. But please don't replace her with Amber Rudd. Ugh.

There really is a dearth of talent in politics today isn't there.

On the Labour side you have Diane Abbott on the front bench, which frankly beggars belief. John McDonnell with his "fully costed, but nevertheless financially incompetent" budget. Corbyn is starting to look half normal. Ish.

And on the Tory side, it's as bad if not worse.

Where are the Heseltines, the Portillos, the Blairs, Browns. Hell even the somewhat odious Charles Kennedy was a competent if not pissed politician. I thought Nick Clegg was pretty good, and now he's not even an MP.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Nice try. Your every day Belgium doesn't give sweet FA about this. Have you ever seen how the EU works up close? Belgium always votes with France and rarely with the UK on contentious issues.

Nice try for what?
I was only pointing out that Belgium has a large trade surplus with us, so a bad Brexit would not help there economy.

 

[Len Rum]

Nice try for what?
I was only pointing out that Belgium has a large trade surplus with us, so a bad Brexit would not help there economy.

Who wants yesterday's papers.

 

[Vic]

Wot no nurses?

Lots of jobs for Brits in the health service. No immigrants needed.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Nice try for what?
I was only pointing out that Belgium has a large trade surplus with us, so a bad Brexit would not help there economy.

OK fair point BlueAnorak. I'm just pointing out how hard it will be to get a deal when the likes of Belgium, with a heavy trade surplus, don't seem too bothered. Hopefully, the Belgiums will change their tune. Also, I wonder if part of Brussels surplus with the U.K. reflects good from other Countries coming through their popular ports.

We seem to have our biggest trade surplus with Ireland who coincidentally are
more of an ally (or at least they were until the Tories and the DUP got together).

 

[BlueAnorak]

Reading this, I can see why The Tory leadership does not want to enter a Customs Union agreement like turkey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union–Turkey_Customs_Union
- Enacting changes to Turkish Customs laws by proxy.
- Subject to ECJ.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Perhaps the CETA treaty with Canada is a better starting point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Economic_and_Trade_Agreement
After all there is very little difference between economic law in the UK and the EU.

 

[Ban-jani]

Apologies Captain. It read like you voted the opposite. Now I see that you just hate who you perceive as being a spanner-in-the-works communist. Especially him.

I could see benefits and negatives to both arguments but voted for stability.

What I'd never want is for the country to fail, even if I voted the opposite way.

There's one or two far lefties who hate Britain on here and want us to fail and I can't stand the fuckers.

 

[Vic]

I could see benefits and negatives to both arguments but voted for stability.

What I'd never want is for the country to fail, even if I voted the opposite way.

There's one or two far lefties who hate Britain on here and want us to fail and I can't stand the fuckers.

I slept on this. I can't see anyone who hates Britain. Some may not see the point of policies that would seem to benefit Britain at the expense of the rest of the world (we've given up visions of empire) but the real wreckers are those who happily say they'd put up with a worse economy so long as we didn't have to be in the EU.