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Brexit will happen. As Alastair Meeks sensibly pointed out here yesterday, there’s a good, clear case that Article 50 is not revocable. Britain could ask for an extension to the talks but the PM has been clear that she doesn’t intend to do so and in any case, a delay is not a reversal of course. In practice, the transitional arrangement might look very much like continued membership but even that will have an expiry date, presumably one that’ll be written into the Exit Agreement.
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However better to be brave and stay in the EU!
Reunite the Kingdom, sans Little England.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/638215/Additional_Data_Paper_-_Northern_Ireland_Trade_Data_and_Statistics__2_.pdf
Perhaps we could do the same thing with the whole EU question. Be in it and out of it at the same time. Just not ask questions about it.
Of course it would drive the lawyers mad - a small price to pay - but it would help get your incompetent government off the hook of its own creation.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/investing/news/amount-retirees-can-safely-withdraw-year-invested-pension-drops/
Isn't this a big part of what is wrong with the British/Western economies?
Wealthy older people refusing to spend their capital/downsize in retirement, trying to protect it until their death to pass on to their own kids.
It's a fundamentally unreasonable proposition.
We've become a nation of minor aristocrats and it's killing the economy.
Interesting article, Mr. Herdson, and one with which there is much to agree.
F1: in case the musical seats at Toro Rosso weren't moving fast enough, Hartley will be occupying Gasly's seat for the race in the US:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/41614891
It's possible he could stay on for the three following races, probably alongside Gasly (he will be Kvyat's team mate in the US).
I don't know much about the Sweden/Norway border, but has it ever been open in the way that the Irish border is now? If not, the trade flows between Norway and Sweden are unlikely to mirror those between NI and Ireland. What's more, I suspect the Norway/Sweden border is the subject of a formal, policed agreement.
All of the above is why the Irish border is an EU red line. It has no choice. Unless the problem is resolved there will be No Deal.
Jeremy Corbyn: Let workers control robots
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41614820
It has created an entirely wasteful and pointless debate on an issue that had been settled and distracts us from more pressing and serious concerns. You name it virtually anything is more important than reopening this can of worms. The economy, social care, dealing with Trump for starters.
Something like "terminal provincialism".
No doubt, on reflection, a better descriptor will occur to me.
Remember how we were told it was not an issue prior to the referendum?
And it would give the current politicians in the UK hell to pay. And hand many of them their P45. In June, 80%+ voted for parties who were pledged to getting us out the EU. "We gave you one job to do....Just one."
It's the divide that's the problem. Blaming one side or another misses the point.
Mr. Observer, we also had politicians playing down the impact the EU has on us. Now it seems to affect everything. If Remain had won, the media and politicians might be happier but we wouldn't be a land of sweetness and light, it's just that those who report the news wouldn't be so eager to point out the divide.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41608722
Physics gives me a hadron.
So Yay! for Brexit....
The UK does not take responsibility for this issue still causing huge worry to many people.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41614820
Though Theresa May would have won a small majority in a UK of England, Wales and Scotland alone
http://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-ireland-border-customs-norway-sweden/
Though to do this Norway has to promise to harmonise its commercial policies with the EU:
https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/is-the-norway-sweden-border-a-model-for-uk-ireland/
If Mr Varadkar thinks he’s got problems now....
The DUP like pork, they also went into power sharing with Sinn Fein, I’m sure for the right money they’ll go into power with Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil.
Oh, stick that on the side of a bus and I think I’ve found a way for the Tories to win a majority in 2022.
The DUP like powersharing when they are the largest party as in Northern Ireland, not when they would be a permanent minority as they would be in the Republic and they would also rsther occasionally hold the balance of power at Westminster than the Dail
If only we didn't have people running the show who appear not to be able to negotiate their way out of a paper bag, I would have more confidence.
Precisely, David. This is what I've been saying for months.
It’s impossible.
In reality we need to remain in the Customs Union after Brexit, as we have neither the infrastructure nor the supply chains to do otherwise without maximum disruption. A sensible Brexit policy would be to stay in the CU permanantly*, and unlock many of the other issues.
*Nothing in politics is ever truly permanent, so we could revisit this in time if it wasn't working.
Checking rules of origin and final destinations of goods with spot checks at airports/ ports in NI and EIRE should be enough compliance, for now, and free movement across the NI/EIRE border is unlikely to be a big problem.
How's the assembly getting along?
Brexiteers, just not up to it.
Try squaring that circle.
Except the GE would be in 2018 once the DUP get wind.
But amidst all this uncertainty, there's one thing we can be sure of: those who tied us into the EU, often on the sly, with the intention of making sure that leaving was impossible or incredibly costly - without ever getting the blessing of the the people of the UK in this - will take no responsibility whatspever for their actions. It will all be down to those pesky kids who found them out and stopped them.
Ha! An army of over-65s setting barriers in the street!
It may well be there are contradictory desires being held there, but that's hardly new.