"One option the EU could accept is a scaled-down version of the customs partnership proposed by Theresa May for the whole of the UK and the whole of the EU. The reduced version would apply only to Northern Ireland, which would leave the EU customs union and remain part of the UK customs territory.
Under the customs partnership, the UK would agree to enforce EU customs rules and tariffs on goods moving from Britain to Northern Ireland. But if the EU tariff was higher than the UK tariff, businesses in the North would receive a rebate.
So Northern Ireland would leave the EU customs union and would enjoy all the benefits of an independent UK trade policy. But the customs border for administrative purposes would run alongside the regulatory border in the Irish Sea."
That looks like a great deal for NI.
So good, in fact, there would probably never be a majority for reunification. I wonder if the DUP are smart enough to see this.
I pity the poor foot soldiers who have to go out in all weather in a November/December GE. The politicians have it easy travelling around the country or being in nice warm studios. I wonder too, if turnout will be dismal if an election takes place at such a dark time of year?
I see Jess Phillips lied on live TV that she knocked on 25000 doors in GE 2017
The in joke in the Labour Party is
Knock knock
Whose there
Its fuckin Jess Phillips again
Have you ever considered that she has a team of supporters?
Random question. Who’s looking forward to El Camino?
Me, I've rewatched Breaking Bad over the summer.
Breaking Bad is the best TV show ever, anyone who says otherwise will spend eternity stuck in a lift with Piers Morgan.
Nah Deadwood is far better.
That’s more controversial than any Brexit statement made on this site!!!!
Deadwood is jolly good, Breaking Bad is better (but the ending sucks)
Superior to all of them is Spartacus. An absolute masterpiece. They invented their own dialect.
Show me to wine, Crixus.
Despite a famous novellist PBer also adoring Spartacus I just could not get into it. But Breaking Bad was much more over hyped.
Spartacus is hampered by the first 3-5 episodes. They are cartoony and schlocky. Many give up.
Yet a mysterious alchemy took place halfway thru series 1, and it becomes something genuinely beautiful and hugely clever. Those of us in the know are the Spartaci
Random question. Who’s looking forward to El Camino?
Me, I've rewatched Breaking Bad over the summer.
Breaking Bad is the best TV show ever, anyone who says otherwise will spend eternity stuck in a lift with Piers Morgan.
Nah Deadwood is far better.
That’s more controversial than any Brexit statement made on this site!!!!
Deadwood is jolly good, Breaking Bad is better (but the ending sucks)
Superior to all of them is Spartacus. An absolute masterpiece. They invented their own dialect.
Show me to wine, Crixus.
Despite a famous novellist PBer also adoring Spartacus I just could not get into it. But Breaking Bad was much more over hyped.
Narco’s?
Never seen it unfortunately. The Wire is a great show, as I recall, but I've never felt the urge to rewatch it so I doubt it is as good as I remember. Better than the borefest of Mad Men, for sure.
Random question. Who’s looking forward to El Camino?
Me, I've rewatched Breaking Bad over the summer.
Breaking Bad is the best TV show ever, anyone who says otherwise will spend eternity stuck in a lift with Piers Morgan.
Nah Deadwood is far better.
That’s more controversial than any Brexit statement made on this site!!!!
Deadwood is jolly good, Breaking Bad is better (but the ending sucks)
Superior to all of them is Spartacus. An absolute masterpiece. They invented their own dialect.
Show me to wine, Crixus.
Despite a famous novellist PBer also adoring Spartacus I just could not get into it. But Breaking Bad was much more over hyped.
Spartacus is hampered by the first 3-5 episodes. They are cartoony and schlocky. Many give up.
Yet a mysterious alchemy took place halfway thru series 1, and it becomes something genuinely beautiful and hugely clever. Those of us in the know are the Spartaci
If this really is the deal it could be an economic boom for Northern Ireland. They would have a legup over GB on regulatory alignment with the EU and no checks going into the single market, and a legup over ROI by getting to benefit from the UK's FTA tariff cuts.
This could really help tame the poverty that leads to violence and giving an electoral tailwind to the party in power, almost certainly the DUP.
Let us hope they are smart enough to take it.
Oh yes, I've said this all along. Being inside the UK from a tax, subsidy and workers rights perpective, but being inside the EU from a customs perspective (with the exception that you also benefit from lower tariffs if that's what the UK has) is mana from heaven for Northern Ireland.
It does, however, mean that Northern Ireland will absolutely never vote to leave the backstop.
Random question. Who’s looking forward to El Camino?
Me, I've rewatched Breaking Bad over the summer.
Breaking Bad is the best TV show ever, anyone who says otherwise will spend eternity stuck in a lift with Piers Morgan.
Nah Deadwood is far better.
That’s more controversial than any Brexit statement made on this site!!!!
Deadwood is jolly good, Breaking Bad is better (but the ending sucks)
Superior to all of them is Spartacus. An absolute masterpiece. They invented their own dialect.
Show me to wine, Crixus.
Despite a famous novellist PBer also adoring Spartacus I just could not get into it. But Breaking Bad was much more over hyped.
Narco’s?
Never seen it unfortunately. The Wire is a great show, as I recall, but I've never felt the urge to rewatch it so I doubt it is as good as I remember. Better than the borefest of Mad Men, for sure.
We’re all remarkably affable and pleasant when the B word is taken out of conversation for a while. A promising sign for when things will, and they will, clam down and revert to normality.
Mad Men is the best. It just is. The Wire and Breaking Bad are also very fine. I’d also throw in Boardwalk Empire for consideration.
Mad Men was excellent. Went on about 2 seasons too long, tho. And the ludicrous backstory about Don Draper stealing someone’s ID was a massive flaw.
You got the sense, by about episode 5, that the writers knew it was a drag. And they tried to minimize it or ignore it as much as poss
It wasn't one of those classic US tv things where they fire the writers when it became a hit and they ask for a raise and replace them with cheaper alternatives?
If this really is the deal it could be an economic boom for Northern Ireland. They would have a legup over GB on regulatory alignment with the EU and no checks going into the single market, and a legup over ROI by getting to benefit from the UK's FTA tariff cuts.
This could really help tame the poverty that leads to violence and giving an electoral tailwind to the party in power, almost certainly the DUP.
Let us hope they are smart enough to take it.
Oh yes, I've said this all along. Being inside the UK from a tax, subsidy and workers rights perpective, but being inside the EU from a customs perspective (with the exception that you also benefit from lower tariffs if that's what the UK has) is mana from heaven for Northern Ireland.
It does, however, mean that Northern Ireland will absolutely never vote to leave the backstop.
But also never vote to join Ireland. Which should appeal to the DUP
Random question. Who’s looking forward to El Camino?
Me, I've rewatched Breaking Bad over the summer.
Breaking Bad is the best TV show ever, anyone who says otherwise will spend eternity stuck in a lift with Piers Morgan.
Nah Deadwood is far better.
That’s more controversial than any Brexit statement made on this site!!!!
Deadwood is jolly good, Breaking Bad is better (but the ending sucks)
Superior to all of them is Spartacus. An absolute masterpiece. They invented their own dialect.
Show me to wine, Crixus.
Despite a famous novellist PBer also adoring Spartacus I just could not get into it. But Breaking Bad was much more over hyped.
Narco’s?
Never seen it unfortunately. The Wire is a great show, as I recall, but I've never felt the urge to rewatch it so I doubt it is as good as I remember. Better than the borefest of Mad Men, for sure.
We’re all remarkably affable and pleasant when the B word is taken out of conversation for a while. A promising sign for when things will, and they will, clam down and revert to normality.
What have the Lib Dems got to offer if Brexit gets done?
What nonsense is this...more wiffle waffle than a typical Boris speech...the best TV show ever, The Wire.
The Wire is overrated. It’s good but it’s worthy and slow.
The Wire was brilliant, especially the first two seasons.
I watched the first few of Spartacus and it was crap; a hammy take off of little interest. You of all people should understand that the real thing is always better than the pale imitation.
Random question. Who’s looking forward to El Camino?
Me, I've rewatched Breaking Bad over the summer.
Breaking Bad is the best TV show ever, anyone who says otherwise will spend eternity stuck in a lift with Piers Morgan.
Nah Deadwood is far better.
That’s more controversial than any Brexit statement made on this site!!!!
Deadwood is jolly good, Breaking Bad is better (but the ending sucks)
Superior to all of them is Spartacus. An absolute masterpiece. They invented their own dialect.
Show me to wine, Crixus.
Despite a famous novellist PBer also adoring Spartacus I just could not get into it. But Breaking Bad was much more over hyped.
Narco’s?
Never seen it unfortunately. The Wire is a great show, as I recall, but I've never felt the urge to rewatch it so I doubt it is as good as I remember. Better than the borefest of Mad Men, for sure.
We’re all remarkably affable and pleasant when the B word is taken out of conversation for a while. A promising sign for when things will, and they will, clam down and revert to normality.
What have the Lib Dems got to offer if Brexit gets done?
"One option the EU could accept is a scaled-down version of the customs partnership proposed by Theresa May for the whole of the UK and the whole of the EU. The reduced version would apply only to Northern Ireland, which would leave the EU customs union and remain part of the UK customs territory.
Under the customs partnership, the UK would agree to enforce EU customs rules and tariffs on goods moving from Britain to Northern Ireland. But if the EU tariff was higher than the UK tariff, businesses in the North would receive a rebate.
So Northern Ireland would leave the EU customs union and would enjoy all the benefits of an independent UK trade policy. But the customs border for administrative purposes would run alongside the regulatory border in the Irish Sea."
The described option was not acceptable to the EU. Technically speaking, NI will leave THE EU customs unions as that is legally restricted to member states, but A new, effectively identical customs union will have to be created. The technological solutions available now and for the forseeable future only serve to alleviate the necessity of customs controls to a minor degree, checks and controls would still have been unavoidable, with all the consequences.
But leaving the UK customs territory will likely not be a significant loss to NI, if at all. For the immediate future, the UK has already submitted a tariff schedule to the WTO which is identical to the EU's one. In the medium term, if and when the UK leaves the EEA, it may be possible to conclude new trade agreements which improve trading conditions for UK (mainly services) exporters, mostly by removing non-tariff-barriers to trade, but it's unlikely that much will change in regard to tariffs.
What nonsense is this...more wiffle waffle than a typical Boris speech...the best TV show ever, The Wire.
The Wire is overrated. It’s good but it’s worthy and slow.
The Wire was brilliant, especially the first two seasons.
I watched the first few of Spartacus and it was crap; a hammy take off of little interest. You of all people should understand that the real thing is always better than the pale imitation.
As I say below, you have to get beyond episode 4 or 5 with Spartacus. Up to that point you’re right, after that it becomes something rare and precious
Random question. Who’s looking forward to El Camino?
Me, I've rewatched Breaking Bad over the summer.
Breaking Bad is the best TV show ever, anyone who says otherwise will spend eternity stuck in a lift with Piers Morgan.
Nah Deadwood is far better.
Not in real life it isn’t; I was there two weeks back. A tacky theme-park-town where every other building is a casino or house of slot machines.
If the TV series is good, which streaming service is it on?
Now TV.
The West Wing is better than Breaking Bad too.
As is Billions.
And Twin Peaks.
Succession is better than any of those. Succession is the first TV show I've watched live in perhaps fifteen years.
Interesting - will try.
Succession is excellent.
I remember seeing the trailers for Season 1 for that, the trailers made it look really cheesy and not good at all.
It does a number of things right:
1. It gets the balance between drama and black comedy spot on. 2. It's the only TV show which gets business right. (Billions gets a 5.5/10, Succession a 7/10). 3. The family dyamic is fucked up but all too believable.
Random question. Who’s looking forward to El Camino?
Me, I've rewatched Breaking Bad over the summer.
Breaking Bad is the best TV show ever, anyone who says otherwise will spend eternity stuck in a lift with Piers Morgan.
Nah Deadwood is far better.
Not in real life it isn’t; I was there two weeks back. A tacky theme-park-town where every other building is a casino or house of slot machines.
If the TV series is good, which streaming service is it on?
Now TV.
The West Wing is better than Breaking Bad too.
As is Billions.
And Twin Peaks.
Succession is better than any of those. Succession is the first TV show I've watched live in perhaps fifteen years.
Interesting - will try.
Succession is excellent.
I remember seeing the trailers for Season 1 for that, the trailers made it look really cheesy and not good at all.
It does a number of things right:
1. It gets the balance between drama and black comedy spot on. 2. It's the only TV show which gets business right. (Billions gets a 5.5/10, Succession a 7/10). 3. The family dyamic is fucked up but all too believable.
Just looked it up, it is the guy behind Peep Show, who was also involved in Thick of It, Four Lions, to name just a few.
Random question. Who’s looking forward to El Camino?
Me, I've rewatched Breaking Bad over the summer.
Breaking Bad is the best TV show ever, anyone who says otherwise will spend eternity stuck in a lift with Piers Morgan.
Nah Deadwood is far better.
Not in real life it isn’t; I was there two weeks back. A tacky theme-park-town where every other building is a casino or house of slot machines.
If the TV series is good, which streaming service is it on?
Now TV.
The West Wing is better than Breaking Bad too.
As is Billions.
And Twin Peaks.
Succession is better than any of those. Succession is the first TV show I've watched live in perhaps fifteen years.
Interesting - will try.
Succession is excellent.
I remember seeing the trailers for Season 1 for that, the trailers made it look really cheesy and not good at all.
It does a number of things right:
1. It gets the balance between drama and black comedy spot on. 2. It's the only TV show which gets business right. (Billions gets a 5.5/10, Succession a 7/10). 3. The family dyamic is fucked up but all too believable.
It does do business well. Billions is cheap and shite in comparison.
It’s also very good on the baleful influence of a mega-alpha but ageing patriarch.
What nonsense is this...more wiffle waffle than a typical Boris speech...the best TV show ever, The Wire.
The Wire is overrated. It’s good but it’s worthy and slow.
The Wire was brilliant, especially the first two seasons.
I watched the first few of Spartacus and it was crap; a hammy take off of little interest. You of all people should understand that the real thing is always better than the pale imitation.
As I say below, you have to get beyond episode 4 or 5 with Spartacus. Up to that point you’re right, after that it becomes something rare and precious
So i’ll try again with episode six.
Kingsley in Testimony; definitely a minority interest but I watch it through every year.
What nonsense is this...more wiffle waffle than a typical Boris speech...the best TV show ever, The Wire.
The Wire is overrated. It’s good but it’s worthy and slow.
The Wire was brilliant, especially the first two seasons.
I watched the first few of Spartacus and it was crap; a hammy take off of little interest. You of all people should understand that the real thing is always better than the pale imitation.
As I say below, you have to get beyond episode 4 or 5 with Spartacus. Up to that point you’re right, after that it becomes something rare and precious
So i’ll try again with episode six.
Kingsley in Testimony; definitely a minority interest but I watch it through every year.
I thought Kingsley was brilliant in Iron Man 3 as the "The Mandarin"
She seemed to be blaming Michael Green (and ultimately Boris) for the fact that she voted against May's WA three times thus raising thr risk of No Deal?
She is either a deeply confused or deeply dishonest person.
A terrrrible result for the theory that the Tories will clean up in Leaver England.
By doubling their vote share?
Con + UKIP/Brexit Party went down. Labour + Lib Dem went up.
Corbyn Labour is not a Remain party unlike the LDs
Sleazy Tories on the slide!
Tories up 17%
They might have peaked! What is amazing is TM could get 40% plus whereas BJ struggles with artificial support from the Brexit supporting media to get 35%! Is that why BJ is a winner and TM a loser?
Americans keep dropping dead from Vaping. Surely the next scandal to come?
I was shocked to find out just how much nicotine is in the leading brand, Juul, plus how much people actually use of it.
I'm not a smoker, but the unscientific caffeine equivalent seems like somebody going from having a few cups of coffee a day, to constantly pounding cans of Red Bull.
A terrrrible result for the theory that the Tories will clean up in Leaver England.
By doubling their vote share?
Con + UKIP/Brexit Party went down. Labour + Lib Dem went up.
Corbyn Labour is not a Remain party unlike the LDs
Sleazy Tories on the slide!
Tories up 17%
They might have peaked! What is amazing is TM could get 40% plus whereas BJ struggles with artificial support from the Brexit supporting media to get 35%! Is that why BJ is a winner and TM a loser?
Random question. Who’s looking forward to El Camino?
Me, I've rewatched Breaking Bad over the summer.
Breaking Bad is the best TV show ever, anyone who says otherwise will spend eternity stuck in a lift with Piers Morgan.
Nah Deadwood is far better.
That’s more controversial than any Brexit statement made on this site!!!!
Deadwood is jolly good, Breaking Bad is better (but the ending sucks)
Superior to all of them is Spartacus. An absolute masterpiece. They invented their own dialect.
Show me to wine, Crixus.
Despite a famous novellist PBer also adoring Spartacus I just could not get into it. But Breaking Bad was much more over hyped.
Narco’s?
Never seen it unfortunately. The Wire is a great show, as I recall, but I've never felt the urge to rewatch it so I doubt it is as good as I remember. Better than the borefest of Mad Men, for sure.
We’re all remarkably affable and pleasant when the B word is taken out of conversation for a while. A promising sign for when things will, and they will, clam down and revert to normality.
What have the Lib Dems got to offer if Brexit gets done?
Still going to revoke if they win a majority?
Scrap tuition fees?
Effective progressive governance that actually works.
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So good, in fact, there would probably never be a majority for reunification. I wonder if the DUP are smart enough to see this.
(Sorry 😉)
If the TV series is good, which streaming service is it on?
Eh?
I watched the first few episodes of season one but didn’t get on with it at all. It was just irritating.
The West Wing is better than Breaking Bad too.
As is Billions.
And Twin Peaks.
Superior to all of them is Spartacus. An absolute masterpiece. They invented their own dialect.
Show me to wine, Crixus.
Yet a mysterious alchemy took place halfway thru series 1, and it becomes something genuinely beautiful and hugely clever. Those of us in the know are the Spartaci
I'm sure it is all totally above board.
https://twitter.com/rachelweinerwp/status/1182314312641196033
You got the sense, by about episode 5, that the writers knew it was a drag. And they tried to minimize it or ignore it as much as poss
It does, however, mean that Northern Ireland will absolutely never vote to leave the backstop.
Still going to revoke if they win a majority?
Scrap tuition fees?
I watched the first few of Spartacus and it was crap; a hammy take off of little interest. You of all people should understand that the real thing is always better than the pale imitation.
No
nonononononononono
No
My scariest was Michael Myers in Halloween. I dont think I slept for a week when I first watched it, probably about 8yo
Technically speaking, NI will leave THE EU customs unions as that is legally restricted to member states, but A new, effectively identical customs union will have to be created. The technological solutions available now and for the forseeable future only serve to alleviate the necessity of customs controls to a minor degree, checks and controls would still have been unavoidable, with all the consequences.
But leaving the UK customs territory will likely not be a significant loss to NI, if at all.
For the immediate future, the UK has already submitted a tariff schedule to the WTO which is identical to the EU's one.
In the medium term, if and when the UK leaves the EEA, it may be possible to conclude new trade agreements which improve trading conditions for UK (mainly services) exporters, mostly by removing non-tariff-barriers to trade, but it's unlikely that much will change in regard to tariffs.
As I say below, you have to get beyond episode 4 or 5 with Spartacus. Up to that point you’re right, after that it becomes something rare and precious
1. It gets the balance between drama and black comedy spot on.
2. It's the only TV show which gets business right. (Billions gets a 5.5/10, Succession a 7/10).
3. The family dyamic is fucked up but all too believable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9TKHvvaMfE
(But you need to see Season One first)
It’s also very good on the baleful influence of a mega-alpha but ageing patriarch.
Kingsley in Testimony; definitely a minority interest but I watch it through every year.
https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1182417998235295750?s=21
I still don't understand the love for West Wing. Overwritten, overacted, sentimental mush.
Both the Wire and Breaking Bad are outstanding.
I'm not a smoker, but the unscientific caffeine equivalent seems like somebody going from having a few cups of coffee a day, to constantly pounding cans of Red Bull.