May's demeanour during her statement said it all - no enthusiasm, spoke in a monotone which had all the excitement of the shipping forecast. Selling a deal on the basis of "this is crap but the alternatives are worse" is always a difficult task and May seems to have no stomach for this task.
Her statement was delivered just fine, I don't know what the focus on her delivery of it is all about.
If Barnier makes it clear that this is it, this or no deal, will that help or hinder May? The psychosis of some of the Brexiteers makes that uncertain to my mind.
As I understand Labour's position, the claim is that a triumphant Corbyn will be able to negotiate a better deal. (Apologies if I have misunderstood this).
Barnier could certainly help May by making it clear that the EU is not going to spend another 2 years negotiating with a different UK Government, and going over the same ground again.
Two big differences:
(1) Labour wants a permanent customs union and regulatory alignment, no ifs and buts. Nearly all the agony about who decides to terminate it and where the Irish have their borders disappears.
(2) Labour doesn't have a problem with being close to the EU. We recognise that people voted to leave and have concerns about immigration so something needs to be done on that, but the heat completely goes out of the discussion. We wouldn't be struggling for an illusory freedom from Europe's clammy clutches: a close partnership just short of membership would be fine.
May's demeanour during her statement said it all - no enthusiasm, spoke in a monotone which had all the excitement of the shipping forecast. Selling a deal on the basis of "this is crap but the alternatives are worse" is always a difficult task and May seems to have no stomach for this task.
She looked like she might be high but then her NOT nationally available monitoring device would doubtless have warned her.
ARTICLE 31: Social security coordination rules. It says The Union and the United Kingdom shall take due account of the Decisions and Recommendations of the Administrative Commission for the Coordination of Social Security Systems attached to the European Commission. I have no idea what that means.
May's demeanour during her statement said it all - no enthusiasm, spoke in a monotone which had all the excitement of the shipping forecast. Selling a deal on the basis of "this is crap but the alternatives are worse" is always a difficult task and May seems to have no stomach for this task.
Her statement was delivered just fine, I don't know what the focus on her delivery of it is all about.
Because they will stage manage them, Get together and co-ordinate them. One resigns over x another over y another over z all with press conferences, etc and the last one resigns the morning of the vote.
May's demeanour during her statement said it all - no enthusiasm, spoke in a monotone which had all the excitement of the shipping forecast. Selling a deal on the basis of "this is crap but the alternatives are worse" is always a difficult task and May seems to have no stomach for this task.
Her statement was delivered just fine, I don't know what the focus on her delivery of it is all about.
Because they will stage manage them, Get together and co-ordinate them. One resigns over x another over y another over z all with press conferences, etc and the last one resigns the morning of the vote.
That assumes a competence and ability to plan that they've so far failed to exhibit.
If Barnier makes it clear that this is it, this or no deal, will that help or hinder May? The psychosis of some of the Brexiteers makes that uncertain to my mind.
As I understand Labour's position, the claim is that a triumphant Corbyn will be able to negotiate a better deal. (Apologies if I have misunderstood this).
Barnier could certainly help May by making it clear that the EU is not going to spend another 2 years negotiating with a different UK Government, and going over the same ground again.
Two big differences:
(1) Labour wants a permanent customs union and regulatory alignment, no ifs and buts. Nearly all the agony about who decides to terminate it and where the Irish have their borders disappears.
(2) Labour doesn't have a problem with being close to the EU. We recognise that people voted to leave and have concerns about immigration so something needs to be done on that, but the heat completely goes out of the discussion. We wouldn't be struggling for an illusory freedom from Europe's clammy clutches: a close partnership just short of membership would be fine.
When you say Labour are you exluding Corbyn, McDonell and half of Momentum?
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Perhaps because they think it is doomed.
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(1) Labour wants a permanent customs union and regulatory alignment, no ifs and buts. Nearly all the agony about who decides to terminate it and where the Irish have their borders disappears.
(2) Labour doesn't have a problem with being close to the EU. We recognise that people voted to leave and have concerns about immigration so something needs to be done on that, but the heat completely goes out of the discussion. We wouldn't be struggling for an illusory freedom from Europe's clammy clutches: a close partnership just short of membership would be fine.
Vassal state.
Etc.