Faisal Islam @faisalislam Wilbur Ross in June said whether this merger was blocked "a major near term test" of EU approach to U.K. He's now US Commerce Secretary. Faisal Islam @faisalislam European Commission blocks LOndon Stock Exchange- Deutsche Börse merger on morning of Article 50:
I may be wrong, but this is the kind of deal that the Commission would have de facto make or break control over after we leave the EU, too. It has little to do with attitudes to the UK and much more to do with a Competition DG that is very wary of dominant positions and has been for years.
Surely after we leave the EU the Commission and the UK authorities both have equal 'break' control over the issue. Either one could block it. Both need to accept it for it to proceed.
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
A revealing post.
It reveals that much of what remains of europhilia - particularly in England - is driven by an embarrassment of our colonial past.
She really does appear to be barking up the wrong tree. I can't imagine another bona-fide full blown independence referendum this side of 2021.
The other way of looking at it is that the people elect the SNP and expect them to get on with the business of delivering independence. They have a mandate to negotiate a frictionless transition with the European Commission and UK government.
The next round of Scottish elections, both to Westminster and Holyrood, will now be fought on the understanding that the SNP will not honour their 'once in a generation' promises.
It was literally right there in the SNP Holyrood manifesto. Brexit == IndyRef2.
This is just flat out denial to claim otherwise or to pretend the public were fooled.
Sturgeon also said about sufficient public demand. That does not exist.
She's trying to have it all ways and needs to be reminded that her fellow Britons need to be respected, after all the good people Scotland voted to remain as Britons in 2014 and voted as Britons, not Scots, last June.
Yes, or is rather an important word.
Sufficent public demand or Brexit. not Sufficient public demand and Brexit.
Well, perhaps May should two tier the whole thing?
A binding referendum in late 2019 to see if the Scottish government should be obliged or barred from running a referendum in the post 2021 administration, irrespective of who is elected.
The game playing around words and meanings needs to brought to an end and there needs to be a very clear distinction between the role of Holyrood as a devolved administration and independence.
When was the last time that a foreign election was as important to Britain as the coming French one? Was there ever a time?
On the surface, the British government is backing a candidate who openly espouses strengthening the relationship between France and Germany to provide core leadership in the EU. Meanwhile, other candidates want France to chum up with Britain in reforming Europe.
What Britain needs to do is invoke Article 13 of the NATO treaty, ensuring NATOexit a year later. That's an elephant in the dining room. Russia is a player throughout the whole of Europe now, and there's nothing that can be done about it.
But instead, the country has no functioning leadership, no functioning opposition, and is going round with a begging bowl to New Zealand and the dictators of the Gulf. Perhaps they can all have a big party in the Shard before a big fly off, Iceland-style?
She really does appear to be barking up the wrong tree. I can't imagine another bona-fide full blown independence referendum this side of 2021.
The other way of looking at it is that the people elect the SNP and expect them to get on with the business of delivering independence. They have a mandate to negotiate a frictionless transition with the European Commission and UK government.
The next round of Scottish elections, both to Westminster and Holyrood, will now be fought on the understanding that the SNP will not honour their 'once in a generation' promises.
It was literally right there in the SNP Holyrood manifesto. Brexit == IndyRef2.
This is just flat out denial to claim otherwise or to pretend the public were fooled.
Yeah, the manifesto clearly broke that once in a generation promise.
Every time there is an indy referendum we should make it two referendums one for the people of scotland on whether they want to be independent, the other for everyone else in the uk to see if we still want them. If the rest of the uk votes no they are out, if scotland votes yes it is out.
Ok slightly tongue in cheek and as it happens I support Scottish independence however I do not support a sword of Damocles hanging over our head in the form of threatened referendums every time the snp get miffed over something. The constant uncertainty damages not only Scotland but the rest of the UK.
Faisal Islam @faisalislam Wilbur Ross in June said whether this merger was blocked "a major near term test" of EU approach to U.K. He's now US Commerce Secretary. Faisal Islam @faisalislam European Commission blocks LOndon Stock Exchange- Deutsche Börse merger on morning of Article 50:
I may be wrong, but this is the kind of deal that the Commission would have de facto make or break control over after we leave the EU, too. It has little to do with attitudes to the UK and much more to do with a Competition DG that is very wary of dominant positions and has been for years.
Surely after we leave the EU the Commission and the UK authorities both have equal 'break' control over the issue. Either one could block it. Both need to accept it for it to proceed.
Yep. I just took that as a given. But you're right to make the point.
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
Worse than dreary. The Anti-Metrication Board lives again!
When was the last time that a foreign election was as important to Britain as the coming French one? Was there ever a time?
On the surface, the British government is backing a candidate who openly espouses strengthening the relationship between France and Germany to provide core leadership in the EU. Meanwhile, other candidates want France to chum up with Britain in reforming Europe.
What Britain needs to do is invoke Article 13 of the NATO treaty, ensuring NATOexit a year later. That's an elephant in the dining room. Russia is a player throughout the whole of Europe now, and there's nothing that can be done about it.
But instead, the country has no functioning leadership, no functioning opposition, and the government is going round with a begging bowl to New Zealand and the dictators of the Gulf. Perhaps they can all have a wild party in the Shard before a big fly off, Iceland-style?
Which candidate is the British Government backing?
another German journalist who has never left London
This Der Spiegel article talks sense. IMO, the biggest problem in terms of difficulty is the 1922 artificial line across Ulster. The obvious solution is Irish reunification, but there are a lot of obstinate people in the 6 counties who would oppose this sensible solution.
Other solutions could involve a united Ireland reabsorbed into the UK, with heavily devolved powers; a repartition of Northern Ireland, with the unionist part staying in the UK; Northern Ireland being included in the customs union, but not the UK mainland; an arrangement where EIRE does customs checks on behalf of the island of Ireland, including the NI as part of the UK, or spot customs checks at the main roads, ports and airports of NI.
These are problems but not insurmountable problems.
What Britain needs to do is invoke Article 13 of the NATO treaty, ensuring NATOexit a year later.
Are you joking ?!
Even as someone who isn't particularly keen on our Nuclear deterrent exiting NATO at the moment would be burning ALL our bridges with our partners. It would be the height of diplomatic lunacy.
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
A revealing post.
It reveals that much of what remains of europhilia - particularly in England - is driven by an embarrassment of our colonial past.
I was wrong when I posted last night that the text of the Article 50 letter would be released outside market hours. Instead it will be released soon after delivery. My guess is that sterling will rise when it's released, as traders look at what will undoubtedly be warm words about the UK wanting a good deal for both sides. Then, as the responses start trickling in, it will look less rosy.
I was wrong when I posted last night that the text of the Article 50 letter would be released outside market hours. Instead it will be released soon after delivery. My guess is that sterling will rise when it's released, as traders look at what will undoubtedly be warm words about the UK wanting a good deal for both sides. Then, as the responses start trickling in, it will look less rosy.
She really does appear to be barking up the wrong tree. I can't imagine another bona-fide full blown independence referendum this side of 2021.
The other way of looking at it is that the people elect the SNP and expect them to get on with the business of delivering independence. They have a mandate to negotiate a frictionless transition with the European Commission and UK government.
The next round of Scottish elections, both to Westminster and Holyrood, will now be fought on the understanding that the SNP will not honour their 'once in a generation' promises.
It was literally right there in the SNP Holyrood manifesto. Brexit == IndyRef2.
This is just flat out denial to claim otherwise or to pretend the public were fooled.
Sturgeon also said about sufficient public demand. That does not exist.
She's trying to have it all ways and needs to be reminded that her fellow Britons need to be respected, after all the good people Scotland voted to remain as Britons in 2014 and voted as Britons, not Scots, last June.
Yes, or is rather an important word.
Sufficent public demand or Brexit. not Sufficient public demand and Brexit.
It's confusing but once you get your head round the following it all makes sense.
Tory manifest commitment on not rasing NI = who cares SNP manifesto commitment on Indy ref II if support in polls = CAST IRON SNP manifesto commitment on Indy ref II if material change of circs such as leaving EU = who cares Green wafty manifesto line that 'preferred way' of triggering a referendum is by an 'appropriate number' of people signing a petition = CAST IRON COMMITMENT THAT MEANS GREENS SHOULD ABSTAIN OR EVEN VOTE AGAINST THIS TERRIBLE, DIVISIVE BILL
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
Your views about being stuck in the past, seem to be stuck in the past. Forty Years On opened in October 1968. Nobody thinks like that any more, you just think they do.
Countdown to "but you haven't invoked Article 50 yet" being replaced with "but you haven't left yet" as to why Britain isn't facing an immediate post-referendum recession in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ...
I think the customs union and free trade in goods are the most important for our trade with the EU.
Despite the noise, the single market in services within the EU has never been completed (or close to being completed, partly because its so heavily in the UK interest for it to be so)
The main impact is in financial services passporting, which could be addressed by equivalence. In any event, even if we had Remained within the EU it would have been full of uncertainty as well, with the risk of the single market in financial services becoming increasingly dominated and regulated by Eurozone interests at the expense of us taking opportunities in vibrant global markets.
For insurance, legal services and professional services the impact will be minimal.
What Britain needs to do is invoke Article 13 of the NATO treaty, ensuring NATOexit a year later.
Are you joking ?!
Even as someone who isn't particularly keen on our Nuclear deterrent exiting NATO at the moment would be burning ALL our bridges with our partners. It would be the height of diplomatic lunacy.
Has anyone read Riddle of the Sands? I am a third of the way through it and need some encouragement to push on.
If the sailing detail is the problem, then that is persistant through the book. The plot kicks up a notch in the final third. It makes for a nice slow read.
The film is a good condensed version which speeds up the plot with some minor changes but doesn't omit any of the major plot points.
It is worth pointing out most of the sailing & location detail was pretty accurate to reality. If you are interested in the background then "The Riddle" by Maldwin Drummond goes into that & Childers life.
Countdown to "but you haven't invoked Article 50 yet" being replaced with "but you haven't left yet" as to why Britain isn't facing an immediate post-referendum recession in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ...
I think the customs union and free trade in goods are the most important for our trade with the EU.
Despite the noise, the single market in services within the EU has never been completed (or close to being completed, partly because its so heavily in the UK interest for it to be so)
The main impact is in financial services passporting, which could be addressed by equivalence. In any event, even if we had Remained within the EU it would have been full of uncertainty as well, with the risk of the single market in financial services becoming increasingly dominated and regulated by Eurozone interests at the expense of us taking opportunities in vibrant global markets.
For insurance, legal services and professional services the impact will be minimal.
I am not sure about the others, but there are definitely big issues for legal services with Brexit:
When was the last time that a foreign election was as important to Britain as the coming French one? Was there ever a time?
On the surface, the British government is backing a candidate who openly espouses strengthening the relationship between France and Germany to provide core leadership in the EU. Meanwhile, other candidates want France to chum up with Britain in reforming Europe.
What Britain needs to do is invoke Article 13 of the NATO treaty, ensuring NATOexit a year later. That's an elephant in the dining room. Russia is a player throughout the whole of Europe now, and there's nothing that can be done about it.
But instead, the country has no functioning leadership, no functioning opposition, and is going round with a begging bowl to New Zealand and the dictators of the Gulf. Perhaps they can all have a big party in the Shard before a big fly off, Iceland-style?
Why do we need to leave NATO?
SOVEREIGNTY. Haven't you been paying fucking attention?
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
Your views about being stuck in the past, seem to be stuck in the past. Forty Years On opened in October 1968. Nobody thinks like that any more, you just think they do.
Have you see the front cover of the country's best selling newspaper today?
When was the last time that a foreign election was as important to Britain as the coming French one? Was there ever a time?
On the surface, the British government is backing a candidate who openly espouses strengthening the relationship between France and Germany to provide core leadership in the EU. Meanwhile, other candidates want France to chum up with Britain in reforming Europe.
What Britain needs to do is invoke Article 13 of the NATO treaty, ensuring NATOexit a year later. That's an elephant in the dining room. Russia is a player throughout the whole of Europe now, and there's nothing that can be done about it.
But instead, the country has no functioning leadership, no functioning opposition, and is going round with a begging bowl to New Zealand and the dictators of the Gulf. Perhaps they can all have a big party in the Shard before a big fly off, Iceland-style?
Why do we need to leave NATO?
SOVEREIGNTY. Haven't you been paying fucking attention?
Has anyone read Riddle of the Sands? I am a third of the way through it and need some encouragement to push on.
If the sailing detail is the problem, then that is persistant through the book. The plot kicks up a notch in the final third. It makes for a nice slow read.
The film is a good condensed version which speeds up the plot with some minor changes but doesn't omit any of the major plot points.
It is worth pointing out most of the sailing & location detail was pretty accurate to reality. If you are interested in the background then "The Riddle" by Maldwin Drummond goes into that & Childers life.
Thanks. And @Richard_Nabavi also. I'll push on. The sailing I don't get (have been half a dozen times only in my life) but I do like the tone and historicity. Plus I only just twigged (thanks @Richard_Tyndall) that that was the Childers of the Irish civil war.
Plus I don't like giving up/walking out of anything. I even stayed for the second half of Copenhagen in a by then half-empty theatre.
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
Of all the flavours of nationalist exceptionalism on offer the British variant is uniquely repellent for its unmatched combination of banality and arrogance.
One wonders whether LSE will now look at the on again off again NASDAQ merger. I think it would be a better fit than DB anyway. Our interests lie outside or Europe for the time being. I think as a nation we just need to let Europe get on with whatever they are getting on with while we refocus our trade and diplomacy towards the US and Asia. Brexit was a huge topic in India, there are big expectations that India and the UK will be able to come to a trade agreement which will allow for more investment in the Indian economy by UK companies and vice versa. There is also a lot of hope that the UK will agree equivalency for degrees and professional qualifications given out by elite universities in India so that Indian graduates are ready for UK employment.
I also know that in SE and East Asia there is a certain degree of interest in Brexit and my old contacts at Sony are all saying that the Japanese government are looking to make a UK-Japan comprehensive trade deal top of their agenda if the EU one isn't completed in time for it to carry over like CETA is expected to.
As we move away from the referendum sponsored doom mongering it is clearer that any opportunity losses we may (and may is the key word here) experience from leaving the EU should be replaced 2x by new opportunities in the rest of the world. Trading with 15% of the global economy to the exclusion of 85% never made sense. Hopefully the DIT are up to the task, but AIUI their recruitment and promotion criteria is much tougher than other departments which has led to a general labour shortage.
If anyone is looking to work in international trade apply now.
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
Of all the flavours of nationalist exceptionalism on offer the British variant is uniquely repellent for its unmatched combination of banality and arrogance.
Yet, this is one of the more liberal and tolerant of European countries. Disdain for British nationalism is based on snobbery.
One wonders whether LSE will now look at the on again off again NASDAQ merger. I think it would be a better fit than DB anyway. Our interests lie outside or Europe for the time being. I think as a nation we just need to let Europe get on with whatever they are getting on with while we refocus our trade and diplomacy towards the US and Asia. Brexit was a huge topic in India, there are big expectations that India and the UK will be able to come to a trade agreement which will allow for more investment in the Indian economy by UK companies and vice versa. There is also a lot of hope that the UK will agree equivalency for degrees and professional qualifications given out by elite universities in India so that Indian graduates are ready for UK employment.
I also know that in SE and East Asia there is a certain degree of interest in Brexit and my old contacts at Sony are all saying that the Japanese government are looking to make a UK-Japan comprehensive trade deal top of their agenda if the EU one isn't completed in time for it to carry over like CETA is expected to.
As we move away from the referendum sponsored doom mongering it is clearer that any opportunity losses we may (and may is the key word here) experience from leaving the EU should be replaced 2x by new opportunities in the rest of the world. Trading with 15% of the global economy to the exclusion of 85% never made sense. Hopefully the DIT are up to the task, but AIUI their recruitment and promotion criteria is much tougher than other departments which has led to a general labour shortage.
If anyone is looking to work in international trade apply now.
If that is your understanding of international trade may I please ask on behalf of the country that you don't apply.
It conjures the delicious vision of the EU defending the interests of Scotland, NI & Gib in negotiations, while Tessy's precious union sockpuppets angrily demand that aforementioned interests should be of no account.
As ever in south-east Spain 'el Tiempo' provides the perfect antidote to Brexit gloom for us Brimmigrants here - clear blue skies and 25 degrees - bliss! PS what has happened to Scotty of cutnpaste fame - did he finally fall victim to too much of that glue?
As ever in south-east Spain 'el Tiempo' provides the perfect antidote to Brexit gloom for us Brimmigrants here - clear blue skies and 25 degrees - bliss! PS what has happened to Scotty of cutnpaste fame - did he finally fall victim to too much of that glue?
Blimey, not been on for two weeks now. Hope he's alright.
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
Your views about being stuck in the past, seem to be stuck in the past. Forty Years On opened in October 1968. Nobody thinks like that any more, you just think they do.
Have you see the front cover of the country's best selling newspaper today?
I hadn't, so thank you - that is extremely funny. It is also completely lacking in any neo-imperialistic colonial subtext, and rather subtly reinforces my point, seeing as how it's about projecting your own ideas onto things.
It conjures the delicious vision of the EU defending the interests of Scotland, NI & Gib in negotiations, while Tessy's precious union sockpuppets angrily demand that aforementioned interests should be of no account.
Scotland/SNP has tremendous goodwill with the EU at the moment, I feel alot of others underestimate the value of this.
One wonders whether LSE will now look at the on again off again NASDAQ merger. I think it would be a better fit than DB anyway. Our interests lie outside or Europe for the time being. I think as a nation we just need to let Europe get on with whatever they are getting on with while we refocus our trade and diplomacy towards the US and Asia. Brexit was a huge topic in India, there are big expectations that India and the UK will be able to come to a trade agreement which will allow for more investment in the Indian economy by UK companies and vice versa. There is also a lot of hope that the UK will agree equivalency for degrees and professional qualifications given out by elite universities in India so that Indian graduates are ready for UK employment.
I also know that in SE and East Asia there is a certain degree of interest in Brexit and my old contacts at Sony are all saying that the Japanese government are looking to make a UK-Japan comprehensive trade deal top of their agenda if the EU one isn't completed in time for it to carry over like CETA is expected to.
As we move away from the referendum sponsored doom mongering it is clearer that any opportunity losses we may (and may is the key word here) experience from leaving the EU should be replaced 2x by new opportunities in the rest of the world. Trading with 15% of the global economy to the exclusion of 85% never made sense. Hopefully the DIT are up to the task, but AIUI their recruitment and promotion criteria is much tougher than other departments which has led to a general labour shortage.
If anyone is looking to work in international trade apply now.
If that is your understanding of international trade may I please ask on behalf of the country that you don't apply.
What specifically do you have an issue with. I'm time limited as I'm about to board a flight to Hong Kong so if i don't reply it means there's no WiFi on the plane.
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
A revealing post.
It reveals that much of what remains of europhilia - particularly in England - is driven by an embarrassment of our colonial past.
How did you get to that?
" old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future"
One wonders whether LSE will now look at the on again off again NASDAQ merger. I think it would be a better fit than DB anyway. Our interests lie outside or Europe for the time being. I think as a nation we just need to let Europe get on with whatever they are getting on with while we refocus our trade and diplomacy towards the US and Asia. Brexit was a huge topic in India, there are big expectations that India and the UK will be able to come to a trade agreement which will allow for more investment in the Indian economy by UK companies and vice versa. There is also a lot of hope that the UK will agree equivalency for degrees and professional qualifications given out by elite universities in India so that Indian graduates are ready for UK employment.
I also know that in SE and East Asia there is a certain degree of interest in Brexit and my old contacts at Sony are all saying that the Japanese government are looking to make a UK-Japan comprehensive trade deal top of their agenda if the EU one isn't completed in time for it to carry over like CETA is expected to.
As we move away from the referendum sponsored doom mongering it is clearer that any opportunity losses we may (and may is the key word here) experience from leaving the EU should be replaced 2x by new opportunities in the rest of the world. Trading with 15% of the global economy to the exclusion of 85% never made sense. Hopefully the DIT are up to the task, but AIUI their recruitment and promotion criteria is much tougher than other departments which has led to a general labour shortage.
If anyone is looking to work in international trade apply now.
We did not trade with 15% of the global economy to the exclusion of 85% of it. We are a British company and do around 65% of our trade outside Europe. Here in Hong Kong I can buy British-produced goods and services from all kinds of companies and firms. I can do the same in the US, China, Australia and countless other places. If we do not export as much as other European countries to the world, that is not the EU's fault, it is ours. Brexit will not change that.
As for India, if we liberalise our immigration regime for Indian nationals and the Indians are willing to be less protectionist (two bigs ifs, I'd suggest), we may well get a trade deal done.
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
Of all the flavours of nationalist exceptionalism on offer the British variant is uniquely repellent for its unmatched combination of banality and arrogance.
Don't underestimate our fighting spirit, though - that's the mistake the Boche made in '39.
The claim that British exceptionalism is unique is probably the most brilliantly self-stultifying theory put forward since logical positivism was debunked. Think it through slowly and carefully.
One wonders whether LSE will now look at the on again off again NASDAQ merger. I think it would be a better fit than DB anyway. Our interests lie outside or Europe for the time being. I think as a nation we just need to let Europe get on with whatever they are getting on with while we refocus our trade and diplomacy towards the US and Asia. Brexit was a huge topic in India, there are big expectations that India and the UK will be able to come to a trade agreement which will allow for more investment in the Indian economy by UK companies and vice versa. There is also a lot of hope that the UK will agree equivalency for degrees and professional qualifications given out by elite universities in India so that Indian graduates are ready for UK employment.
I also know that in SE and East Asia there is a certain degree of interest in Brexit and my old contacts at Sony are all saying that the Japanese government are looking to make a UK-Japan comprehensive trade deal top of their agenda if the EU one isn't completed in time for it to carry over like CETA is expected to.
As we move away from the referendum sponsored doom mongering it is clearer that any opportunity losses we may (and may is the key word here) experience from leaving the EU should be replaced 2x by new opportunities in the rest of the world. Trading with 15% of the global economy to the exclusion of 85% never made sense. Hopefully the DIT are up to the task, but AIUI their recruitment and promotion criteria is much tougher than other departments which has led to a general labour shortage.
If anyone is looking to work in international trade apply now.
If that is your understanding of international trade may I please ask on behalf of the country that you don't apply.
What specifically do you have an issue with. I'm time limited as I'm about to board a flight to Hong Kong so if i don't reply it means there's no WiFi on the plane.
I don't think membership of the EU is holding back any UK company from seeking non-EU oportunities while there remains just under half our trade with the EU at the moment.
Anyway, onto more important matters. On the plane watch Grimsby and Keeping up with the Joneses (the first better than the second, both "dreadful", but plenty of laughs). Plus enjoy the Captain's Bar.
Has anyone read Riddle of the Sands? I am a third of the way through it and need some encouragement to push on.
If the sailing detail is the problem, then that is persistant through the book. The plot kicks up a notch in the final third. It makes for a nice slow read.
The film is a good condensed version which speeds up the plot with some minor changes but doesn't omit any of the major plot points.
It is worth pointing out most of the sailing & location detail was pretty accurate to reality. If you are interested in the background then "The Riddle" by Maldwin Drummond goes into that & Childers life.
Thanks. And @Richard_Nabavi also. I'll push on. The sailing I don't get (have been half a dozen times only in my life) but I do like the tone and historicity. Plus I only just twigged (thanks @Richard_Tyndall) that that was the Childers of the Irish civil war.
Plus I don't like giving up/walking out of anything. I even stayed for the second half of Copenhagen in a by then half-empty theatre.
It was reading about his treatment by Churchill - along with Churchill's whole duplicitous behaviour over the Independence Treaty - that made me realise that even my heroes had feet of clay. Or something rather less benign in Churchill's case.
One wonders whether LSE will now look at the on again off again NASDAQ merger. I think it would be a better fit than DB anyway. Our interests lie outside or Europe for the time being. I think as a nation we just need to let Europe get on with whatever they are getting on with while we refocus our trade and diplomacy towards the US and Asia. Brexit was a huge topic in India, there are big expectations that India and the UK will be able to come to a trade agreement which will allow for more investment in the Indian economy by UK companies and vice versa. There is also a lot of hope that the UK will agree equivalency for degrees and professional qualifications given out by elite universities in India so that Indian graduates are ready for UK employment.
I also know that in SE and East Asia there is a certain degree of interest in Brexit and my old contacts at Sony are all saying that the Japanese government are looking to make a UK-Japan comprehensive trade deal top of their agenda if the EU one isn't completed in time for it to carry over like CETA is expected to.
As we move away from the referendum sponsored doom mongering it is clearer that any opportunity losses we may (and may is the key word here) experience from leaving the EU should be replaced 2x by new opportunities in the rest of the world. Trading with 15% of the global economy to the exclusion of 85% never made sense. Hopefully the DIT are up to the task, but AIUI their recruitment and promotion criteria is much tougher than other departments which has led to a general labour shortage.
If anyone is looking to work in international trade apply now.
We did not trade with 15% of the global economy to the exclusion of 85% of it. We are a British company and do around 65% of our trade outside Europe. Here in Hong Kong I can buy British-produced goods and services from all kinds of companies and firms. I can do the same in the US, China, Australia and countless other places. If we do not export as much as other European countries to the world, that is not the EU's fault, it is ours. Brexit will not change that.
As for India, if we liberalise our immigration regime for Indian nationals and the Indians are willing to be less protectionist (two bigs ifs, I'd suggest), we may well get a trade deal done.
Joff, how long are you in HK for? My gf and I will be there for a few days. I'm busy tomorrow and the day after catching up with friends but should be free on Saturday if you're up for a possible drink!
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
A revealing post.
It reveals that much of what remains of europhilia - particularly in England - is driven by an embarrassment of our colonial past.
How did you get to that?
" old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future"
This was a big clue.
The words.
Those words speak to me of regret that we keep harking back to the past, not embarrassment that we have a past.
It conjures the delicious vision of the EU defending the interests of Scotland, NI & Gib in negotiations, while Tessy's precious union sockpuppets angrily demand that aforementioned interests should be of no account.
Scotland/SNP has tremendous goodwill with the EU at the moment, I feel alot of others underestimate the value of this.
Goodwill doesn't butter any parsnips to butcher a phrase, but a drastic toning down (if not absence) of the Barroso/Spain line from last time is a big bonus.
Fillon is now indicating he may not come to the 20 April debate. Recap: all 11 have been invited; Macron and Mélenchon say they won't come; Le Pen, Hamon and Dupont-Aignan say they will come.
What reason have Macron and Melenchon given for not attending?
It conjures the delicious vision of the EU defending the interests of Scotland, NI & Gib in negotiations, while Tessy's precious union sockpuppets angrily demand that aforementioned interests should be of no account.
Scotland/SNP has tremendous goodwill with the EU at the moment, I feel alot of others underestimate the value of this.
Goodwill doesn't butter any parsnips to butcher a phrase, but a drastic toning down (if not absence) of the Barroso/Spain line from last time is a big bonus.
All for naught if Sturgeon doesn't want to immediately rejoin
It conjures the delicious vision of the EU defending the interests of Scotland, NI & Gib in negotiations, while Tessy's precious union sockpuppets angrily demand that aforementioned interests should be of no account.
Scotland/SNP has tremendous goodwill with the EU at the moment, I feel alot of others underestimate the value of this.
Goodwill doesn't butter any parsnips to butcher a phrase, but a drastic toning down (if not absence) of the Barroso/Spain line from last time is a big bonus.
How can Scotland be independent if she continues to be run from Brussels?
One wonders whether LSE will now look at the on again off again NASDAQ merger. I think it would be a better fit than DB anyway. Our interests lie outside or Europe for the time being. I think as a nation we just need to let Europe get on with whatever they are getting on with while we refocus our trade and diplomacy towards the US and Asia. Brexit was a huge topic in India, there are big expectations that India and the UK will be able to come to a trade agreement which will allow for more investment in the Indian economy by UK companies and vice versa. There is also a lot of hope that the UK will agree equivalency for degrees and professional qualifications given out by elite universities in India so that Indian graduates are ready for UK employment.
I also know that in SE and East Asia there is a certain degree of interest in Brexit and my old contacts at Sony are all saying that the Japanese government are looking to make a UK-Japan comprehensive trade deal top of their agenda if the EU one isn't completed in time for it to carry over like CETA is expected to.
As we move away from the referendum sponsored doom mongering it is clearer that any opportunity losses we may (and may is the key word here) experience from leaving the EU should be replaced 2x by new opportunities in the rest of the world. Trading with 15% of the global economy to the exclusion of 85% never made sense. Hopefully the DIT are up to the task, but AIUI their recruitment and promotion criteria is much tougher than other departments which has led to a general labour shortage.
If anyone is looking to work in international trade apply now.
We did not trade with 15% of the global economy to the exclusion of 85% of it. We are a British company and do around 65% of our trade outside Europe. Here in Hong Kong I can buy British-produced goods and services from all kinds of companies and firms. I can do the same in the US, China, Australia and countless other places. If we do not export as much as other European countries to the world, that is not the EU's fault, it is ours. Brexit will not change that.
As for India, if we liberalise our immigration regime for Indian nationals and the Indians are willing to be less protectionist (two bigs ifs, I'd suggest), we may well get a trade deal done.
Joff, how long are you in HK for? My gf and I will be there for a few days. I'm busy tomorrow and the day after catching up with friends but should be free on Friday if you're up for a possible drink!
I am flying back on Friday! I would definitely have been up for it. My work colleagues head home in the evenings and I am left all alone (though, to be fair, as you know that is no great hardship over here).
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
A revealing post.
It reveals that much of what remains of europhilia - particularly in England - is driven by an embarrassment of our colonial past.
How did you get to that?
" old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future"
This was a big clue.
The words.
Those words speak to me of regret that we keep harking back to the past, not embarrassment that we have a past.
Andrew Neil's message to ISIS: "Remember, all you Poundland shoppers, Blighty won an air battle in 1940!"
That reminds me of a Soviet guy who asserted in the late 1980s, when the USSR was already going down the tubes, that if people thought the USSR wasn't to be reckoned with, they should remember who put Yuri Gagarin into space!
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
On the contrary our politicians spending time on grinding trade negotiations etc is a good thing it stops them spending time on idiocies such as the dangerous dogs act, id card, encryption back doors, porn filters. Remember the adage, the devil makes work for idle hands and our parliament has proved that true time and time again over the last couple of decades.
I agree giving Politicians something to do to keep them busy so they have less time to interfere with our lives is a good idea. but think there may be better distractions, could we not encourage them to take jobs editing news papers for instance?
I was wrong when I posted last night that the text of the Article 50 letter would be released outside market hours. Instead it will be released soon after delivery. My guess is that sterling will rise when it's released, as traders look at what will undoubtedly be warm words about the UK wanting a good deal for both sides. Then, as the responses start trickling in, it will look less rosy.
I'd be surprised if it shifted anything substantial, unless it turns out there was a clerical error and they activated Article 50 of the Treaty of Versailles instead. (If you have Saar Basin mining stocks it might be worth selling just in case.)
It conjures the delicious vision of the EU defending the interests of Scotland, NI & Gib in negotiations, while Tessy's precious union sockpuppets angrily demand that aforementioned interests should be of no account.
Scotland/SNP has tremendous goodwill with the EU at the moment, I feel alot of others underestimate the value of this.
Goodwill doesn't butter any parsnips to butcher a phrase, but a drastic toning down (if not absence) of the Barroso/Spain line from last time is a big bonus.
Sturgeon might be able to get the basis of a future agreement with the EU to present as a plan when Indyref 2 comes round. I think the EU wants Scotland aboard, Edinburgh as the EU-US financial link (US Democrat president due in 2024) is long term a good option for all (EU, Scotland) sides.
It conjures the delicious vision of the EU defending the interests of Scotland, NI & Gib in negotiations, while Tessy's precious union sockpuppets angrily demand that aforementioned interests should be of no account.
Scotland/SNP has tremendous goodwill with the EU at the moment, I feel alot of others underestimate the value of this.
Goodwill doesn't butter any parsnips to butcher a phrase, but a drastic toning down (if not absence) of the Barroso/Spain line from last time is a big bonus.
How can Scotland be independent if she continues to be run from Brussels?
It conjures the delicious vision of the EU defending the interests of Scotland, NI & Gib in negotiations, while Tessy's precious union sockpuppets angrily demand that aforementioned interests should be of no account.
Scotland/SNP has tremendous goodwill with the EU at the moment, I feel alot of others underestimate the value of this.
Goodwill doesn't butter any parsnips to butcher a phrase, but a drastic toning down (if not absence) of the Barroso/Spain line from last time is a big bonus.
How can Scotland be independent if she continues to be run from Brussels?
Scotland can choose to pool its sovereignty with whoever it likes. And it can choose to stop doing so, too.
Countdown to "but you haven't invoked Article 50 yet" being replaced with "but you haven't left yet" as to why Britain isn't facing an immediate post-referendum recession in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ...
I think the customs union and free trade in goods are the most important for our trade with the EU.
Despite the noise, the single market in services within the EU has never been completed (or close to being completed, partly because its so heavily in the UK interest for it to be so)
The main impact is in financial services passporting, which could be addressed by equivalence. In any event, even if we had Remained within the EU it would have been full of uncertainty as well, with the risk of the single market in financial services becoming increasingly dominated and regulated by Eurozone interests at the expense of us taking opportunities in vibrant global markets.
For insurance, legal services and professional services the impact will be minimal.
I am not sure about the others, but there are definitely big issues for legal services with Brexit:
Solicitors in England and Wales qualify to practice in England and Wales. Other European countries have different legal jurisdictions that those same solicitors are not qualified to practice in. That even applies within the UK - in Scotland.
Major legal firms may well have many branches within the EU that are part of the same parent that could be inconvenienced post-Brexit as administrative arrangements change.
I don't think that would hugely affect our exports of legal services.
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
A revealing post.
It reveals that much of what remains of europhilia - particularly in England - is driven by an embarrassment of our colonial past.
How did you get to that?
" old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future"
This was a big clue.
The words.
Those words speak to me of regret that we keep harking back to the past, not embarrassment that we have a past.
There is also a disconnect (most eloquently, and wrongly, expressed by @Cyclefree) that somehow if we see the good in Europe we have a disdain for the things that make Britain British, whether that be marmite, the Changing of the Guard, our stiff upper lip, or what have you. Of course it does not.
It conjures the delicious vision of the EU defending the interests of Scotland, NI & Gib in negotiations, while Tessy's precious union sockpuppets angrily demand that aforementioned interests should be of no account.
Scotland/SNP has tremendous goodwill with the EU at the moment, I feel alot of others underestimate the value of this.
Goodwill doesn't butter any parsnips to butcher a phrase, but a drastic toning down (if not absence) of the Barroso/Spain line from last time is a big bonus.
How can Scotland be independent if she continues to be run from Brussels?
She can't. It is the one great failing of the Scottish Independence Movement - that they apparently don't really want to be independent.
I was wrong when I posted last night that the text of the Article 50 letter would be released outside market hours. Instead it will be released soon after delivery. My guess is that sterling will rise when it's released, as traders look at what will undoubtedly be warm words about the UK wanting a good deal for both sides. Then, as the responses start trickling in, it will look less rosy.
I'd be surprised if it shifted anything substantial, unless it turns out there was a clerical error and they activated Article 50 of the Treaty of Versailles instead. (If you have Saar Basin mining stocks it might be worth selling just in case.)
It conjures the delicious vision of the EU defending the interests of Scotland, NI & Gib in negotiations, while Tessy's precious union sockpuppets angrily demand that aforementioned interests should be of no account.
Scotland/SNP has tremendous goodwill with the EU at the moment, I feel alot of others underestimate the value of this.
Goodwill doesn't butter any parsnips to butcher a phrase, but a drastic toning down (if not absence) of the Barroso/Spain line from last time is a big bonus.
The EU parliament and the European Comission are two very different beasts.
A50 day and Corbyn goes on about bobbies on the beat. Another bonkers performance.
Disagreed, there's little he can reasonably say about A50 but given this is the first PMQ's after last week's terrorist attacks the Police are a key issue.
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
A revealing post.
It reveals that much of what remains of europhilia - particularly in England - is driven by an embarrassment of our colonial past.
How did you get to that?
" old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future"
This was a big clue.
The words.
Those words speak to me of regret that we keep harking back to the past, not embarrassment that we have a past.
Andrew Neil's message to ISIS: "Remember, all you Poundland shoppers, Blighty won an air battle in 1940!"
That reminds me of a Soviet guy who asserted in the late 1980s, when the USSR was already going down the tubes, that if people though the USSR wasn't to be reckoned with, they should remember who put Yuri Gagarin into space!
Am I proud we stood alone against the Nazis in 1940? You bet your bottom dollar I am. Am I embarrassed that on the day that Article 50 was triggered by the PM our biggest national newspaper chose to mark the event by using the White Cliffs of Dover to essentially tell our closest neighbours to piss off? Yup, I am.
It conjures the delicious vision of the EU defending the interests of Scotland, NI & Gib in negotiations, while Tessy's precious union sockpuppets angrily demand that aforementioned interests should be of no account.
Scotland/SNP has tremendous goodwill with the EU at the moment, I feel alot of others underestimate the value of this.
Goodwill doesn't butter any parsnips to butcher a phrase, but a drastic toning down (if not absence) of the Barroso/Spain line from last time is a big bonus.
How can Scotland be independent if she continues to be run from Brussels?
She can't. It is the one great failing of the Scottish Independence Movement - that they apparently don't really want to be independent.
It's independence from England they want, all else is tangential.
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
A revealing post.
It reveals that much of what remains of europhilia - particularly in England - is driven by an embarrassment of our colonial past.
How did you get to that?
" old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future"
This was a big clue.
The words.
Those words speak to me of regret that we keep harking back to the past, not embarrassment that we have a past.
I think the link being made was clear: that leaving the EU is by definition all about harking back to the past in the search of lost imperial glory.
I - and many other Brexiteers - see it as being about the future.
What a grey and miserable day. It saddens me that, for years to come, British political life will be dominated by grinding trade negotiations, blame apportioning, sterility and paralysis. The tweedy English eccentrics responsible - Farage, Nuttall, Mogg etc. - will be but distant memories by the time all this is resolved, if it ever is to anyone's significant satisfaction. I thought we were finally turning away from the old morbid post-Imperial fetishes: a pompous contempt for everything foreign, petty nationalistic symbolism, White Cliffs of Dover, Tommy helmets, the plucky Brit underdog... But we're evidently trapped in the past for the foreseeable future. Dreary times.
Sunset and evening jar And one drear pall for me Let there be no remoaning at the bar When Brexit is clear to see.
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It reveals that much of what remains of europhilia - particularly in England - is driven by an embarrassment of our colonial past.
A binding referendum in late 2019 to see if the Scottish government should be obliged or barred from running a referendum in the post 2021 administration, irrespective of who is elected.
The game playing around words and meanings needs to brought to an end and there needs to be a very clear distinction between the role of Holyrood as a devolved administration and independence.
These are problems but not insurmountable problems.
The UK and the world would have been very different if FDR had lost.
Even as someone who isn't particularly keen on our Nuclear deterrent exiting NATO at the moment would be burning ALL our bridges with our partners. It would be the height of diplomatic lunacy.
Tory manifest commitment on not rasing NI = who cares
SNP manifesto commitment on Indy ref II if support in polls = CAST IRON
SNP manifesto commitment on Indy ref II if material change of circs such as leaving EU = who cares
Green wafty manifesto line that 'preferred way' of triggering a referendum is by an 'appropriate number' of people signing a petition = CAST IRON COMMITMENT THAT MEANS GREENS SHOULD ABSTAIN OR EVEN VOTE AGAINST THIS TERRIBLE, DIVISIVE BILL
Despite the noise, the single market in services within the EU has never been completed (or close to being completed, partly because its so heavily in the UK interest for it to be so)
The main impact is in financial services passporting, which could be addressed by equivalence. In any event, even if we had Remained within the EU it would have been full of uncertainty as well, with the risk of the single market in financial services becoming increasingly dominated and regulated by Eurozone interests at the expense of us taking opportunities in vibrant global markets.
For insurance, legal services and professional services the impact will be minimal.
The PB server hamsters are not to blame.
The film is a good condensed version which speeds up the plot with some minor changes but doesn't omit any of the major plot points.
It is worth pointing out most of the sailing & location detail was pretty accurate to reality. If you are interested in the background then "The Riddle" by Maldwin Drummond goes into that & Childers life.
http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/news/press-releases/no-deal-post-brexit-could-be-devastating-for-uks-valuable-legal-sector/
Plus I don't like giving up/walking out of anything. I even stayed for the second half of Copenhagen in a by then half-empty theatre.
He just had to be lying and duplicitous bastard to help win the war whilst being officially being neutral.
When they officially entered the war he sold the policy of Germany First which again was brilliant.
I also know that in SE and East Asia there is a certain degree of interest in Brexit and my old contacts at Sony are all saying that the Japanese government are looking to make a UK-Japan comprehensive trade deal top of their agenda if the EU one isn't completed in time for it to carry over like CETA is expected to.
As we move away from the referendum sponsored doom mongering it is clearer that any opportunity losses we may (and may is the key word here) experience from leaving the EU should be replaced 2x by new opportunities in the rest of the world. Trading with 15% of the global economy to the exclusion of 85% never made sense. Hopefully the DIT are up to the task, but AIUI their recruitment and promotion criteria is much tougher than other departments which has led to a general labour shortage.
If anyone is looking to work in international trade apply now.
He's bonkers.
The hat he had to eat in 2015 must have been toxic.
It might revise your opinion of the wonderfulness of Britain.
https://twitter.com/ZoeParamour/status/847025627089784832
People do come and go, so hopefully it's just a sabbatical.
Edited extra bit: Mr. Divvie, Nick Heidfeld.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auvmljhAWok
This was a big clue.
The words.
As for India, if we liberalise our immigration regime for Indian nationals and the Indians are willing to be less protectionist (two bigs ifs, I'd suggest), we may well get a trade deal done.
The claim that British exceptionalism is unique is probably the most brilliantly self-stultifying theory put forward since logical positivism was debunked. Think it through slowly and carefully.
Anyway, onto more important matters. On the plane watch Grimsby and Keeping up with the Joneses (the first better than the second, both "dreadful", but plenty of laughs). Plus enjoy the Captain's Bar.
Recap: all 11 have been invited; Macron and Mélenchon say they won't come; Le Pen, Hamon and Dupont-Aignan say they will come.
That reminds me of a Soviet guy who asserted in the late 1980s, when the USSR was already going down the tubes, that if people thought the USSR wasn't to be reckoned with, they should remember who put Yuri Gagarin into space!
SNP hate England more than they hate Brussels.
Major legal firms may well have many branches within the EU that are part of the same parent that could be inconvenienced post-Brexit as administrative arrangements change.
I don't think that would hugely affect our exports of legal services.
It's Clutching the Scotland straw o'clock.
I - and many other Brexiteers - see it as being about the future.
And one drear pall for me
Let there be no remoaning at the bar
When Brexit is clear to see.