Cont: Brexit: Now What? Part 5

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I know it's not the critical point, but the pagination of the agreement document that I got (from europa.eu) is pretty awful. With page count not being a critical issue, I would have thought that a simple layout would be;

Article 1
para 1.
para 2.
para 3.

-----page break-----

Article 2
para 1.
para 2.
para 3.

-----page break-----

Article 3
para 1.
para 2.
para 3.

but no, they appear to have gone with

Article 1
para 1.
para 2.

-----page break-----

para 3.
Article 2
para 1.
para 2.

-----page break-----

para 3.
Article 3
para 1.
para 2.

-----page break-----

para 3.


It's quite distracting. Maybe that was the point.
 
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Watching the news again last night it struck me that they are either going out of their way to find the most moronic Brexiteers they can or the average Leave voter can count their braincells in single figures.
 
One amazing thing is that the PM seems to have achieved the impossible by uniting the country once more - literally everyone thinks her proposal is dog dirt.
 
Archie Gemmill Goal said:
Watching the news again last night it struck me that they are either going out of their way to find the most moronic Brexiteers they can or the average Leave voter can count their braincells in single figures.
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Evidence that they can count, please?
 
I don't have Twitter so pinched from another forum

"David Baddiel@Baddiel

I feel I should take the job of Brexit Secretary now.

If only so that when I resign, Theresa May can finally be proved right than No Deal is better than a Baddiel."
 
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One amazing thing is that the PM seems to have achieved the impossible by uniting the country once more - literally everyone thinks her proposal is dog dirt.
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Hey it is far better than I figured would happen with a no deal exit and all that so does that count as good? Driving the car into a wall instead of off a cliff is better after all.
 
Its a good deal for Ireland, north and south. So I'm pleased with it, or I will be if it passes the HoC.

Doesn't look promising for that though.
 
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Oh, I agree, but this is entirely an own-goal. The EU has changed no rules or operating criteria. It is sad so few remember the days of getting exchange rates to not be manipulated in a common market, then the snake in the tunnel, then the euro to mitigate that, and the need for common fiscal policies that logically flow from that...

The real problem is that far too many, in far too many places, have swallowed gallons and gallons of the libertarian/wingnut Utopian Freedom Gospel, which takes the kind of "freedom" only anarchy can provide as its ideal, while poo-pooing what it would be like to live in Somalia. If I hear another complaint about "unelected Eurocrats" I think my head will burst from so much childish nonsense.
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Oh definitely. Theresa May is one of the guilty parties ... unless the end result of this is a cancelled Brexit. She made every possible misstep I can think of.

If I was in her position and wanted to stop Brexit from happening, that's exactly what I'd do - essentially put the ERG in charge, have them negotiate something better than the "worst deal in history" and put it to public review. The statement Dominic Raab made about Dover-Calais being so vital to UK over two years into Brexit clearly shows he's unqualified to work in the government, except maybe as a junior janitor. Who better to put in charge of an affair you want to collapse? A taxidermied monkey could do better, I think.

Whether she's smart enough to do so or this is a result of a perfect series of incompetent missteps is something we still don't know.

McHrozni
 
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Its a good deal for Ireland, north and south. So I'm pleased with it, or I will be if it passes the HoC.

Doesn't look promising for that though.
 
From a legal standpoint, can this new deal project be valid and binding for both parties (UK and European Union), even if it is not approved by the British Parliament?
 
Michel H said:
From a legal standpoint, can this new deal project be valid and binding for both parties (UK and European Union), even if it is not approved by the British Parliament?
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No. Then it is not ratified and thus not legally binding.
 
It doesn't need to be 'ratified' but if the PM tries to go ahead without parliament there will be an election.
 
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