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As can be seen the Daily Mirror is the only one which does not have reference to Brexit on its front page. Of course it might be that this is the best call from a news point of view given the potential threat that the flu represents.
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They wanted to forge the United States of Europe. But it's like Texas just voted to leave the USA. OK, so Texas might be the most semi-detatched state. But the loss of that large state would have massive repurcussions in the US. The EU? Nobody even lost a day of their pension....
The EU enters February 2020 a far less credible thing.
"I have in front of me two letters..... Eeeny, meeny, miny, mo....."
While, obviously, the world moves on, and 'everything is always changing', one does wonder.
A constant mistake that's been made ever since June 2016 (by the media, but most critically by the hardline Remainers, whose failed strategy was largely predicated on a myth) was to assume that, because the referendum vote was almost 50:50, the country is split down the middle on Brexit into two almost warring camps. It isn't, and it never was.
The partisans on both sides of the Brexit argument constitute a significant but nonetheless relatively small minority. Reporters will seek and doubtless find little groups of Brexiteers holding firework displays and Remainiacs holding candlelit vigils, but for most of the population the formal departure from the EU will go unmarked and, in a great many cases, unnoticed.
But the look on their faces tomorrow, as Farage returned, clutching a heavy box full of Union Jack flags...
"Surprise! We've had so much fun, we're going to do it all again. Here's a letter from the PM, invoking our Article 50 departure on 31st January 2022. But this time, we're going to do it right....."
In the shitz'n'gigglez stakes, that has to be tempting.......
Meanwhile, across the pond, the Democrats look to have lost the impeachment.
I'm not sure I can recall a more chaotic world in my lifetime.
Because that is what just happened to the EU.
Now imagine the fall-out in the US. The next thing the President would be telling the people is that he was resigning. Before the Senate got a chance to fire his sorry ass, for allowing this humiliation to come about.
The EU? At the most senior level of its management, it just has no concept of fuck up.
Admittedly, even then they can’t find any positives.
You’ll be backing Brexit next.
(No, that post is not meant seriously!)
@AlastairMeeks does not look old enough to retire, unless he is a Premier League footballer or perhaps a Brexit lawyer.
Enjoy Next Phase of Life. I hop your partner is looking forward to it too.
Downing Street anger over 'ill-disciplined' Javid’s attempt to hijack HS2 decision
Boris Johnson’s relationship with Sajid Javid under renewed strain after Chancellor's intervention in rail project row
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/01/30/downing-street-anger-ill-disciplined-javids-attempt-hijack-hs2/
Only trouble was they went on a further ten or so years and, for a while, things were rather difficult.
Then she died, and 'something turned up' for him, although he wasn't a happy bunny.
Johnson not only has no concept of a fuck up, but actually declares each of his fuck ups as a demonstration of his genius.
I like this, but Grozoubinky is wrong in one respect. The jokes on us.
https://twitter.com/DmitryOpines/status/1220812086747566080
He'd been into computing very early, worked for one of the big companies and consequently did a lot of travelling. Having him home all day needed quite an adjustment.
And he doesn't like golf!
But only when you listen carefully he was arguing with the UK and Chinese government about not willing to leave without his non-British wife, with the Chinese government saying she couldn't go and by the time the UK government convinced them to allow her to also go, it was already past the departure time.
Given there are other foreign relatives and Irish citizens on the flight, I am going to presume that perhaps there might also be even more to complications to this case.
So, it would resist any such move by force if needs be.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus-outbreak/Coronavirus-study-on-early-human-transmission-fuels-public-anger
The paper also found that only 55% of the 47 infected patients before Jan. 1 were linked to the seafood and live-animal market thought to be ground zero. This means that other patients either got infected elsewhere or from other people.
The new findings have sparked a massive backlash on Chinese social media, with users questioning why the information did not come out earlier.
Many of the paper's authors work for the Chinese Center for Disease Control and local counterparts. Many were among the first batch of medical experts to have entered Wuhan for on-the-ground inspections, developing "a tailored surveillance protocol to identify potential cases" on Jan. 3.
"They all knew," a user on the Weibo microblogging platform said. "They just didn't say, but lied to us."
"If only they could have told people earlier, we could have taken better preventive measures, and the virus would not have spread this fast," another wrote...
You must have done well to be retiring at 52 (?) or something like that?!
But seriously, best wishes with whatever you come up with.
Any thoughts on how you might do that which you’d care to share? What are you considering?
It is still a member organisation, an unusually powerful one perhaps, but still.a member organisation, that has lost a member. It is simply not like a USA that has lost a state. It is different.
It is like when you bewail the lack of a politician who campaigns for the EU presidency from Birmingham to Berlin, channelling the spirit of some William Glen federalist erotic dream. The EU presidency is not like that because the EU is not like that, the nation's do not wish it and they are happy with their own domestic democratic power bases, thank you very much.
But we're leaving, so your confusion over what it is we are leaving is, for the present time, rather more moot.
That's not entirely fanciful. There are Mexican nationalists who dream of recovering the lost lands.
No.
SUN readers can mark this momentous day with a FREE Brexit souvenir – a commemorative 50p, worth £10.
That’s right! We are giving away 100 of the brilliant uncirculated coins to celebrate the UK’s historic departure from the European Union.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10860045/sun-readers-free-brexit-souvenir-50p-coin/
I do also feel relief in a way that the whole mess is behind us. I think the heat will go out of brexit as a news story very quickly, and the PM will have a lot more room to manoeuvre in the next stage of the negotiations. He will compromise in certain areas to enable a mid level trade agreement to be signed, enough to avoid any sort of dramatic cliff edges in 2021. I also don't see rejoin being a mainstream idea in the next couple decades.
It probably means Boris will be the first tory PM in decades not to be destroyed over Europe, so what will bring him down instead?
I (and Mrs Stocky) are coming down by train this morning and making a couple of days out of it.
Is there anywhere else in London to keep an eye on for action e.g. Traf Square, Buck Palace, Downing Street?
Anyone know where Johnson is making his speech at 10 pm? I think he`s in Sunderland this morning.
And finally, and most importantly, where am I to take Mrs Stocky out for a meal this evening near Westminster? Any recommendations?