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Do you enjoy big Commons votes? Then you’ll enjoy this tomorrow. Lose – and the government must reveal all its Brexit subcommittee papers! pic.twitter.com/CYIZFbpKWV
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I guess this is what taking back control means right?
And then it turned out they secretly DID HAVE ANALYSIS, which explained Brexit was all a big mistake, which anyone sensible knows already. But they put numbers on it. I admit I was fooled. I really thought they were pretending to have analysis but didn't really.
John Bercow = Speak Lenthall
Discuss.
Seemed apt for this vote.
Michel Barnier has mocked Theresa May over her failure to agree a post-Brexit customs model with her ministers as he said it was “unnecessary to fight” over two options which Brussels will reject anyway.
The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator reportedly told European ministers attending the General Affairs Council in Brussels that neither the Prime Minister’s preferred option of a customs partnership or the alternative "maximum facilitation" model were “realistic”.
Ann Linde, the Swedish Europe Minister, reportedly said: “Michel Barnier said [to the GAC] the two British proposals the Cabinet is disagreeing about – none of them are realistic.
“So he thinks it’s unnecessary to fight about it, as none of them are realistic no matter which one they choose.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/05/15/theresa-mays-hopes-breaking-brexit-deadlock-stall-warring-ministers/
My solution would be for closed sessions with cross party representatives and a vow of secrecy. (Such secrecy would not have to be permanent - nine to twelve months would probably be sufficient.)
* albeit the EU has been very open in publishing its documentation, which means that all journalists tend to see is the EU side of the story
The issue Italy has is the same one Greece has. The country is deeply split on Euro membership, and it is the opposite split to the UK. Old people have massive Euro denominated savings. (Indeed, Italians' financial assets are the highest of any major Eurozone economy.)
Leaving the Euro means cutting the real value of old people's savings and pensions. And the EU knows this. So, Italy's leverage is limited.
I assume it will just say 'Brexit means Brexit'.
If parliament votes May's way, then it will have exercised authority nonetheless, and the analogy falls yet further.
The man is a a sleazy (and ugly) motherf*cker!
I think it's still better than 50/50, but ask again in 24 hours.
All Brexit and no play makes Theresa a dull girl
All Brexit and no play makes Theresa a dull girl
All Brexit and no play makes Theresa a dull girl
All Brexit and no play
makes Theresa a dull girl
All Brexit and no play
makes Theresa a dull girl
All Brexit and no play
makes Theresa a dull girl
"It is impossible for an Englishman to get dressed for a wedding without making some other Englishman hate or despise him," as George Bernard Shaw so memorably said.
That doesn’t make it a good idea.
Alas, I must be off. Do play nicely, children.
I did that at a recent wedding, the groom isn't a suit wearing chap wore a normal lounge suit, and well me replete with morning suit and knob cane did stand out.
What we are seeing now is the political fights and bluster on both sides that are necessary to get it to pass, and stick. We had similar last year with EU citizens rights - where both Barnier and Verhofstadt said the UK had a long long way to go - and it turned out to be a debate between whether these should be 5 years (UK) or 10 years (EU), and was settled at 8 years.
We now have the highest percentage of those between 16 and 64 in work ever recorded. And that is despite the fact that in the 1970's or 80's many of the 16 year old's would have been in work and they are now all presumably in compulsory education.
Oh and wages are now growing again in real terms.
This man is our Trade Secretary FFS! Shocking I know!
He's just a typical self-absorbed American... Making it all about him.
But, then again, we can’t choose our families. So far I think Meghan has behaved impeccably.
So, it does, taken to its logical conclusion.
It depends how, where and who whoever, and whether people feel it in the pocket. But, if they do, many of those who voted for Brexit will feel vindicated.
But, if one is not used to the limelight, it must also be terrifying. I’d be very nervous if I had 600 million eyes on me.
It’s nerve-racking enough getting married in front of all your friends and family as it is.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/timeseries/mgsv/lms
The thing I found most interesting was that there were only 96,000 redundancies in 2018q1:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/redundancies/timeseries/beao/lms
I would have expected there to be some feed through by now of redundancies in the retail and restaurant sectors.
I also think a monopoly of governance and regulation is as bad an idea in the public sphere as it is in the private.
Competition between nations and governments can be very beneficial.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/im-your-father-now-trump-tells-meghan-20180515164868
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Italian_general_election
The UN is the closest we have to a global government and it is fair to say it is not exactly a dynamic organisation
I definitely prefer the Klingons and Cardassians to the Federation. Though DS9 Federation is much more interesting than TNG or VOY.
However, I’d expect it to deal with things like agreeing rules for interplanetary trade with other planets, global space defence, and interspecies relations and I’d expect it to do it though nation states on earth.
I wouldn’t expect it to fully replace domestic governments, or normal foreign policy relations between nation states on earth, still less globalise tax, health, education and social policy as Star Trek implies.