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Northern Ireland's top pollster finds by small margin more people saying they'd prefer to join the Republic to stay in EU than to leave EU and stay in UK pic.twitter.com/viKBapmqYI
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I guess many young Protestants do not share the views of their elders.
https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/938824861887221761
https://twitter.com/DanielBoffey/status/938858803851878402
His investment advice is very useful to the whips.
TMay will argue that supporting her is to support 'sensible' Brexit. She can use DUP and UKIP opposition as evidence that she is avoiding hard Brexit and the opposition of Lib-Dems and hard-core remainers as evidence that she is carrying out the referendum result. It would expose Labour's (lack of) Brexit policy and forestall a Tory leadership contest (at least in the short term). Tory MPs who don't support the deal would be deselected (or choose to defect) and the member for Rushcliffe might finally retire! The fact that May is negotiating a 'middle' way is actually an electoral strength for her. Although her greatest strength at the moment is that, frankly, she has nothing whatsoever to lose.
I'm reaching out.
Also, doesn't evidence of last two weeks suggest Parliamentary opposition will fade away.
Three weeks ago, the news headlines were all about the EU Withdrawal Bill having several hundred amendments, Amendment Paper running to hundreds of pages, it was all going to be impossible to get through.
Now this week the EU Withdrawal bill is sailing through the Commons without anyone in the media even bothering to report on it.
The government has definitely handled a tough job poorly in a lot of ways, including the reaching out to remainers (of whom many at the top in government were on that side) and deserves much criticism for that however.
https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-future-is-here-alphazero-learns-chess
It's not just that opposition politician from Germany, you know.
Therefore the only explanation for the EU's behaviour towards us is spite.
Power, once experienced, is not often relinquished voluntarily.
But I really think he knows he didn't do enough for his side, and wishes so hard he'd done more. All this lashing out at us is just public self-harm; seeming to attack the others, but really just tearing apart his reputation as a fine thinker.
Armchair psychiatrists should be enjoying it.
But as always this should be with the support of the majority in those countries.
Personally I would say thatnif Brexit was the catalyst that resolved the Irish question that has rumbled on for centuries then that in itself would be a great outcome.
Ouch.
Trigger warning for fans of Mr GO.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-42271150
*I’ve just enraged most of the Black Country.
Probably their fan base are the same idiots trading crypto kitties.
1) yes, the immigration stufff was frightfully gauche, now can we just forget about it?
2) the immigration stuff was entirely irrelevant and no one should be talking about it now
3) the immigration stuff was fantastic and was the whole point, so deal with it
I haven't seen any reaching out or any attempt to build common ground with Remain supporters from any of these three groups. This isn't a new point of mine. I've been making it for over a year. And Leavers still have no real interest in it or in considering what might be required as a framework.
Second discussion would never ever be asked anyway, the simple question would be 'do you want to leave the UK or not?' for which every poll shiws about 2/3 of NI voters would say a clear NO.
Thirdly of course that question would never be asked as long as the DUP win most seats in Northern Ireland
She's given no indication that she's been at all ruffled by this. She may well have a string of Yes Minister Euro-sausages (or more likely fudgey compromises) agreed with the negotiators.
Neither side, even in any of the contentious issues, wants an angry non-settlement. But they know they have to handle the PR well, to make as many of the plebs think they're winning as possible.
The DUP may be a fly in the ointment, or they may be playing along as a potential fly in the ointment, to help themselves get more of what we want. If they're really the fly, that might mean that they actually want a hard border. I so hope that's not what they want.
Many points will be argued about in public, with a pre-agreed compromise in place. We'll argue about the extremes of the argument, and end up content with the compromise.
At least, I hope this is what's happening! Obviously, even if my hopes are realised, it still has to pass the EU27. This could be hard work, and I hope we have people working hard on what we need to agree with each EU member for them to sign off our preferred FTA.
If she can get us a fair and workable deal, and the economy doesn't collapse, then she'll have exceeded almost everyone's expectations.
If she does she'll be as loved as she looked liked she would be at the election, until the election.. My remainer mum is really annoyed that politicians and the public, aren't supporting her and the UK in the negotiations.
I think it might be worth betting on her being PM for the years+ option, for a few quid. I don't know the years or odds.
NEW THREAD
So this problem isn't going to go away.
On the other hand, those who know what they're talking about, say:
One strand of comment that has been common amongst those who oppose Britain’s withdrawal from the EU is that when the alleged difficulties and consequences of Brexit become clear to voters they will come to regret the decision to Leave – or at least will wish to sue for a soft Brexit. The experience of the last six months suggests this logic may be faulty......
Rather than coming to the conclusion that the progress of the Brexit process so far means they came to the wrong decision about the EU, it seems that Leave voters are inclined to the view that those responsible for the process – including the EU as well as the UK government – are (from their perspective) failing to make progress towards the kind of future arrangement that they would largely still like to see. In short, they blame the actors in the Brexit process not the act of leaving itself. If the talks about Brexit continue to be difficult and if the economy does indeed begin to suffer, we should not presume that voters in Britain will change their minds about the merits of Brexit. Rather they may simply blame politicians - on both sides of the channel – for their apparent failure to deliver what those who voted for Leave have all along said they want.
https://whatukthinks.org/eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/EU-Briefing-Paper-11-Half-time-brexit-negotiations.pdf