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Punters think the deal will be done by the deadline – politicalbetting.com
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https://youtu.be/hgdKFcOssnA
https://twitter.com/DharshiniDavid/status/1342016704210210818
https://twitter.com/keiblob/status/1341866353700028419
PS: I don't mean a miniscule opportunity like selling stilton to Japan either for worse terms
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Who cares? They don't have the numbers.
This deal *is* designed to make trade easier than it would be in a clean break. So from that point of view it might fairly be compared to the free trade deals in the former Soviet Union, or Greenland’s arrangements with Denmark after 1985, which in itself sees your point fail.
A deal will be a relief, but I suspect the practical consequences will disappoint many who voted to leave. None of the rest of us are expecting much anyway.
And since 80% of the world’s potatoes are certainly not grown in Europe, it’s not exactly a ‘devastating’ blow if the industry is that monopolistic.
Furthermore, we will continue trading with the EU
I do not want to be unkind but despite your 24/7 anti brexit postings you have failed
It’s a historic achievement to avoid a No Deal.
It really is.
Admittedly, it was Boris that made No Deal scarily possible since he ousted Theresa May, but he has managed to avert what would have been an economic and political calamity.
Despite his ill-advised Internal Markets Bill.
And Cummings being allowed to firebomb half of Whitehall.
Hopefully Boris will now piss off and let the grown-ups rebuild links into the single market.
Although, it is hard to have much faith in their abilities since they overlooked the glaring clauses in the Withdrawal Agreement.
https://twitter.com/GregoryDavisHNH/status/1341882210627055619
https://cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19/reports/uk-novel-variant/2020_12_23_Transmissibility_and_severity_of_VOC_202012_01_in_England.pdf
Highlights:
(1) Transmissibility estimated as 56% higher than pre-existing variants
(2) Increased transmissibility fits the data much better than alternative explanations such as increased susceptibility among children, decreased generation time or (crucially) immune escape. (The last of those conclusions is supportive of hopes that existing vaccines and immunity acquired from previous infections will be protective.)
(3) The new variant is unlikely to be controllable by a November-style lockdown, without closure of schools and universities (= common sense).
I’m going for a run.
I very much doubt Boris will be going anywhere anytime soon
Simon Coveney, the Irish foreign minister, has said fishing is agreed in principle in the EU Brexit deal but there are still discussions on the details.
Negotiators are understood to be haggling over individual species and how many can be caught.
A planned briefing in Brussels on fish at 8.30am has been cancelled as the talks continue.
Telegrph blog
Expect a lot more of these symbolic gestures in the deal for both sides where we or they maintain control over a tiny, tiny portion of some industry but ultimately both sides are free to get on with 99.9% of life and export to each other without too much fuss.
"The EU was a danger to our fish"
and
"Just Rejoice at that news a
Maybe with “Brexit” proper out of the way some sanity will return to the body politic.
It’s been a divisive, maddening, deluding force for four v long years.
Though the mooted posthumous pardon of James Earl Ray might cause a stir.
Edit: ha, snap! (not literally)
But by tonight, there will be a real bulky document. People will start going through it. In January, there will be real bulky processes. The lipstick won't stay on forever.
Maybe it will turn out to be just the job. Maybe. But I would point out that:
1 Every other attempt to define how to do Brexit has fallen apart under examination.
2 Johnson is much better at opinion than reality.
Not entirely clear what you think I was doing, or why you think it failed.
If you mean criticising Brexit, today (assuming they sign the bloody deal) is the best it is ever going to be.
All of the problems have been mainly theoretical until now. From here on the practical realities start to bite.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/literally
informal
used to emphasize what you are saying:
My heart was literally in my mouth. [If so, Hacker had a uniquely mobile anatomy - Ed.]