Cont: Brexit: Now What? 9 Below Zero

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The Cabinet Office confirms that Matthew Coats, the director-general for EU Exit Implementation and head of the Border Delivery Group, (a body that co-ordinates the work of all government departments on planning for the Dover-Calais strait) is to leave his job.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
The Cabinet Office confirms that Matthew Coats, the director-general for EU Exit Implementation and head of the Border Delivery Group, (a body that co-ordinates the work of all government departments on planning for the Dover-Calais strait) is to leave his job.
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Well it could hardly have been a permanent job, and one has to assume that he's done all the preparations so what else could he do?




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commandlinegamer said:
I've read this numerous times; that billions will be made by shorting the pound, but I was under the impression that this is what hedge funds (if they are involved) do: the clue's in the name. Would be helpful if somebody with better knowledge could chime in.
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No 'knowledge' here, but nothing obliged them to short the pound rather than the Euro, and Johnson does seem utterly frantic to crash out on Oct 31st. He's close to delirious about it, afaics.
 
ThatGuy11200 said:
The City of London Corporation governs the Square Mile, which was the extent of the city through the Roman, Saxon and the Medieval periods. They are headed by the Lord Mayor of London, which many people confuse for the Mayor of London. They've been around for about a thousand years and their rights and privileges are guaranteed by Magna Carta, which is still part of English law.
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CGP Grey has a couple of videos explaining London that break it down pretty well.
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commandlinegamer said:
I've read this numerous times; that billions will be made by shorting the pound, but I was under the impression that this is what hedge funds (if they are involved) do: the clue's in the name. Would be helpful if somebody with better knowledge could chime in.
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Indeed, but its unusual to have politicians actively working in your favour to make it happen because they stand to benefit one way or another personally from it.
 
Nessie said:
It is notable that rather than rejoin UKIP, he formed a new party. I suspect there was more money in it for him that way.
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Can you really call it a party when it has no members? It's a Ltd company where people give it money for the pleasure of being called supporters but receive no benefit or rights in return and the leader is an unelected managing director with no means of removal.
 
Mojo said:
Tory MP says we should abolish the Supreme Court.
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Both Nick Ferarri on LBC & Toby Young have called for the Supreme Court to be replaced with political appointees. I don't know muck about the former except that he's pro-Brexit, but my general rule is that if I don't know what the moral position is on any issue I look at what Toby "Daddy got me into Oxford" Young's take on the matter is and run in the opposite direction as fast as my little legs will carry me.

It's an approach that hasn't failed me yet.
 
commandlinegamer said:
I've read this numerous times; that billions will be made by shorting the pound, but I was under the impression that this is what hedge funds (if they are involved) do: the clue's in the name. Would be helpful if somebody with better knowledge could chime in.
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What makes the situation unique is that many of the hedge funds doing this have donated heavily to a Prime Minister who is defying Parliament to force through a course of action that the overwhelming majority of experts think will crash the pound & damage the economy for decades while benefiting no-one in the country except those hedge funds.
 
GlennB said:
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Boris Johnson is deliberately whipping up fears of riots and deaths so he can try to invoke emergency powers and avoid extending the UK’s EU membership beyond 31 October, Labour’s Brexit spokesman, Keir Starmer, claimed on Saturday.

Desperate stuff, if true.
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I see he also wants to introduce “political screening” of the judiciary:
On Saturday night, Johnson signalled that he would again challenge the judiciary by introducing US-style political screening of supreme court judges before they are appointed. Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph, the prime minister said: “If judges are to pronounce on political questions in this way, then there is at least an argument that there should be some form of accountability. The lessons of America are relevant.” The Law Society and the Bar Council both said last week that politically appointed judges would threaten the independence of the judiciary.
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From the people who brought you aircraft carriers without aircraft: 40 new hospitals when we’re short of 40000 nurses and 10000 doctors.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
From the people who brought you aircraft carriers without aircraft: 40 new hospitals when we’re short of 40000 nurses and 10000 doctors.
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Naive person, you only need a handful of people wearing nurses uniforms and a few wearing scrubs for a photo opportunity, what else are these buildings called "hospitals" for?
 
GlennB said:
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Boris Johnson is deliberately whipping up fears of riots and deaths so he can try to invoke emergency powers and avoid extending the UK’s EU membership beyond 31 October, Labour’s Brexit spokesman, Keir Starmer, claimed on Saturday.

Desperate stuff, if true.
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This is something I've seen floating around for a few days. It's worth taking comfort in the fact that to use these powers someone is going to have to detail exactly what the emergency is, why it requires the suspension of law, etc. This will then be open to scrutiny and, if found not to be on the level, will be breaking the law and subject to a prison sentence of anything up to life.

Given that Johnson, for fear of perjury, couldn't find someone to sign a witness statement saying that the content of his memos was accurate it seems even less likely to me that he'll be able to find someone willing to go to prison for life for him for such a transparent ruse.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
From the people who brought you aircraft carriers without aircraft: 40 new hospitals when we’re short of 40000 nurses and 10000 doctors.
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Build it and they will come......





They won't stay when they aren't paid but that's a problem for another Prime Minister.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
From the people who brought you aircraft carriers without aircraft: 40 new hospitals when we’re short of 40000 nurses and 10000 doctors.
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With the amount of money they are going to get from the Brexit dividend they will be able to literally purchase thousands doctors from abroad like slaves.
 
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Mojo said:
Tory MP says we should abolish the Supreme Court.
"In the long term, I also believe that in the election manifesto we should have a commitment to abolish the Supreme Court and return to the status quo ante.

"After all its only in the last decade we had the law lords in Parliament resolving great disputes rather than a Supreme Court of people that are frankly accountable to no one."
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Conservatives in the USA have been similarly whining about "unelected judges" for decades. Of course, now that the courts are being rigged in their favor, it'll be different.

Captain_Swoop said:
From the people who brought you aircraft carriers without aircraft: 40 new hospitals when we’re short of 40000 nurses and 10000 doctors.
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"Hospital" and "Hospitality" are derived from the same root. Obviously they are planning on building 40 new hotels. Maybe Trump will put his name on one.
 
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