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On bbc one now, panorama attempts to wrap it's head around trump victory.
I'm sure many Dems are still knocking back a fifth!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37949877
Further Integration.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081v8yc
' On the 23 June, Britain voted to leave the European Union. Then, on the 4 July, Nigel Farage, the man who had made it all possible, resigned saying he wanted his life back. But what sort of life has he gone back to, and how does a man forever in the spotlight fill his days now he has nothing to do? '
Hopefully we wont see a sequel.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04fdt5n
from 28:00 in.
LOL
You need to look at the world a bit more if that's what you think
Instead he chose George Osborne.
What an opportunity missed.
"This could give Britain the opportunity to forge a new bridge between Europe and the USA, this time through trading and political links to the USA and military and foreign policy closeness to the EU."
It's a complete reversal of post-WW2 British policy but still workable and far better than the present situation.
Maybe in the UK we should Gerrymander a few UKIP constituencies - I am sure that part of PB would be wholeheartedly in favour of that.
I think the more appropriate name would be the Allies, if this goes on we have gone a complete circle only to return geopolitically to WW2, if such then we are on the winning side.
I'm going to take this and stick it up his tight limey ass
So we simply switch.
But Soros is also hiring: how do you fancy getting up to $350 a day to protest Trump?
https://twitter.com/sialusa/status/798220808384434176
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-defence-idUKKBN1391HP?il=0
"EU leaders must still sign off on the plan in December, while divisive aspects over money were left for officials to work out next year."
America's Team has won 8 straight for the first time since 1977 when Roger Staubach was throwing to rookie Tony Dorsett.
Plus the Pats lost to Seattle last night.
America's Team are 8-1, best record in the league.
If I was a fan I'd be really pumped... Tony Who?
What will happen to him now ?
Will Trump give him a medal or something ?
"EU leaders must still sign off on the plan in December, while divisive aspects over money were left for officials to work out next year.'
'Translation: "We have to sign up to a pointless gesture"
I wonder which part of 'we are leaving the EU' they don't understand ?
"The Republican Party has become the most dangerous organization in world history. The party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of organized human life."
http://www.ecowatch.com/noam-chomsky-trump-2093271018.html
May herself seems to have spotted the risk of Brexit becoming Trexit and becoming Trexit derailing Brexit. Thus her odd Mansion House speech trying to triangulate Brexit between the EU and neoprotectionsm. How you be a " global leader in Free Trade " by leaving the world's biggest and deepest Free Trade area is another matter. But she knows a Trexit would exert gravitational pull on some Tory MP's who indulge anglospheric fantasies.
So Alistair's sketch of a Grand Bargain where Brexit Britain works by keeping Europe in the Pax Americana and switching to the NAFTAsphere for economic purposes is a good one. However it will require an enormous number of ducks in a row at a time where Ducks seem usually rabid. The number of emotional variables now in play is now astonishing.
If Pax Americana ends then we'll need a Pax Europa. Which in practical terms means a Pax Germanica. We aren't a million miles away from actually asking the Germans to rearm. They've the wealth, population and industrial mass to lead the EU's defence of it's eastern borders. But it would be a hell of a psychological and political switch ( as well as taking time ).
As a Remoaner I like arsonist comparisons. The Transatlantic Union as was is now in flames. If we're to extinguish it and craft adapted structures in time we're relying on Trump, Putin and very angry northern European voters all doing exactly the right thing for at least the next 3 years. At the moment I wouldn't bet on it.
https://twitter.com/DVATW/status/798258321635549184
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/798196902693113856
Anyway since the Democrats actually staged protests in the primaries against Trump in order to help him politically, I do believe those protests might be staged too, just not from Soros.
Juncker. Grade A dickhead.
I can't imagine this is an accident.
What price a form of rapprochement with France, our most truculent EU opponent, but also the one with whom we have closest military ties?
Probably not. But still, we live in interesting times.
"This could give Britain the opportunity to forge a new bridge between Europe and the USA, this time through trading and political links to the USA and military and foreign policy closeness to the EU."
This is my hope too, but we shall see what happens. It certainly won't be boring.
Thanks for writing.
You can't compare ludicrous claims to proven science.
Hmm.... very good question.
Any thinking which fails to address the question of how Russia can be readmitted to the top tier of the civilized world on terms that they find compelling is missing the significance of the opportunity that now presents us.
Delicious.
Feels as though Trump's election may cause a rift between Boris and TM... the job of foreign secretary just became a lot more important- can TM really afford to give it out to a man she surely does not trust?
Interested to hear what Mr. Meeks thinks Russia wants out of all of this? They're clearly delighted with Trump's election, but is that because they think he will give them a free hand in Eastern Europe?
@619 U OK hun?
But, we shouldn't give ourselves that the US will always put our interests first out of sentiment.
They won't.
Doubt I'll get him otherwise.
The fake spike by Big Ben was cheeky though! (I'm told)
West German forces formed the backbone of NATO forces on the Rhine for almost 40 years.
Meanwhile in the real world - you know, the homely little ball of rock we all live on, we're experiencing the highest temperatures in recorded history.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37949877
FWIW, I think Merkel needs to retire and Germany needs new leadership.
She's had her time.
It has destroyed the very things it sought to protect.
A comprehensive failure
A few Clinton bots seem to have scarpered.
As long as we don't go all Suez Crisis about it. That should be quite a powerful force in North/Western Africa, for example, which will becoming increasingly important over the next 30-40 years.
We where going into a nasty fight with the EU over the terms of exit completely isolated, now we can have the USA on our side and the EU is the one that's isolated.