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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/674587800835092480
Alas, poor Grand Admiral Thrawn.
On-topic: could make a case for Farage, given the EU vote and his intervention for Trump.
I wonder whom they would have chosen if Hillary had won?
He's said far harsher things about people he's subsequently given jobs to so no-one should read into his tweets that he really is a convinced opponent of anything Merkel stands for.
Trump's needle:
Margin/(Swing*2)
FL: 0.9%/2.1%
MI: 9.5%/9.7%
PA: 5.4%/6.1%
WI: 6.9%/7.7%
If like me you keep chickens, ducks or other birds, even if only a few, please be aware that as of this morning there is now a country wide prevention zone in force across England. All birds must be kept under cover/indoors and separated from any possible contact with wild birds.
This is due to the very nasty (for birds) avian flu outbreak on the continent. It is not yet present in the UK but the fear is it is only a matter of time.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-measures-to-protect-poultry-against-avian-flu
Really?
http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2016/11/26/what-are-the-negotiating-aims-of-the-eu-27/
"The UK’s position is very easy to grasp for anyone who read the referendum ballot paper or has listened to the Prime Minister. The UK is going to leave the EU. There is no such thing as a single market we can remain in on leaving, and no-one on the Vote Leave campaign suggested there was. As the Uk wishes outside the EU to negotiate trade agreements with non EU countries we clearly will not be in the Customs union. The PM has ruled out EEA membership. This means there is not a lot to negotiate. We will not negotiate our independence with the rest of the EU – that is an absurd contradiction. We will offer them no new barriers to their trade with us, and I expect after a lot of huffing and puffing they will want to accept that offer. If they don’t we will trade with them as most favoured nation under WTO rules, and they will be the big losers on tariffs as a result."
Paul Joseph Watson
Buzzfeed is close to becoming the left-wing Stormfront. https://t.co/8PGo1vaEr8
https://twitter.com/JoeMurphyLondon/status/806481461864001536
https://twitter.com/daily_politics/status/806484087024263168
Not the happiest of metaphors, but he didn't really call the EU 'the enemy'.....
Whats yr cumulative book on the contenders so far.
I am 25s Greening, 10s Fox.
I think adding too many feels a bit muggy.
Be realistic..
"So you want to stay in the customs union, indeed need to do so to pass this through your parliament. What are you prepared to offer in return for that ?"
Laudable as it may be we don't want to hand all our 'twos' to strengthen the EU's hand.
EU politicians: "See! We said no cherry-picking, and the UK is no longer in the Single Market! It is reduced to the status of Turkey!"
UK politicians: "See! We said we could protect out exporters, and this gives us tariff-free, zero paperwork access to the Single Market! And without having to concede control of our borders or submit to the jurisdiction of the ECJ."
So there could be a basis of part of a deal there. Services would remain the big stumbling-block, of course.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/12/pmqs-emily-thornberrys-battle-customs-union/
In practice I think trade in manufactured goods and agricultural produce will be tarrif and barrier free, but services and other parts will be outside the single market. Hard Brexit plus cars and food in other words.
(They will be the same people of course who constantly whined about how it was "up to the government" to determine Brexit.)
It's fair game for the moderate bit of Labour to have a go at it.
Would the UK remain a member of the European Union if we did this?
If "yes", it isn't Brexit.
If "no", it is Brexit.
Anything else is personal opinion and wasn't on the ballot paper.
https://twitter.com/SheldanKeay/status/806495834548346880
Slightly more difficult, and relevant to the last thread, is the Supreme Court decision on Brexit. I was gainfully employed this morning and didn't see it but the chat at lunch was that Pannick got a bit of a doing this morning. Is there value in the government winning? Maybe there is.
One day someone will.........
All stems from Cameron's decision not to make the referendum legally binding anyhow...
Who was advising him on that ?
"Boldly, JLR says the new TRANSCEND project, which is partly funded by the UK government, will help “rebuild the UK’s transmission production”. Jaguar Land Rover currently uses an eight-speed automatic gearbox supplied by German firm ZF; many of its manual gearboxes come from Germany’s Getrag."
"ULTRAN has been a three-year research initiative led by Jaguar Land Rover in a consortium including Ricardo, Tata Steel, Lubrizol, GRM Consulting Ltd, American Axle & Manufacturing and the Universities of Southampton, Newcastle and Warwick – with the support of the UK’s innovation agency, InnovateUK."
"GKN’s integrated electric drive system could transform the EV market. UK firm's integrated drive system produces up to 1475lb ft and will make production in 2019. The company that created the all-wheel drive systems of the BMW i8 and Porsche 918 has produced an innovative electric drive system that can produce up to 1475lb ft of torque."
I get the feeling that things are looking up for reshoring.
Is it like Colonel Sanders' tie actually being little arms and legs?
http://www.more.com/entertainment/fun/its-arrow-famous-logos-hidden-images/fedex
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539,00.html
It makes a rightwards pointing arrow (and this is deliberate)
Something should be done about them, don't you think?
On tinder dry technical legal grounds we should win the case - but "justice" is the governments' potential out I feel. I have no idea if law trumps justice or vice versa though.
Edit: Alastair has answered my point eloquently below.
The Amazon logo.