Cont: Brexit: Now What? Part 6. Pick up sticks...

[malbui]

That just proves that that the UK has become little more than a vassal state of the EU.

You'll have to explain to me in very simple terms how you derive that conclusion from my comments.

 

[angrysoba]

Just watched an interview with Jacob Rees Mogg.
Is this guy for real?????????
He seems to want to go back to the good old days when all the peasents doffed their caps to the local aristocate, and the inferior classes knew their place....
And he want to be Prime Minister?
If he makes it, then you Brits lose all rights to poke fun at us Yanks for electing Trump.....

You wish! If JRM becomes PM then it will be because a group of Tory MPs put him there, not because tens of millions of people voted for him.

 

[Andy_Ross]

John Cleese tweets

"I wonder what Murdoch will tell Gove to do...

Whatever it is, it will receive praise in the Times and the Sun, and also good reviews in the Mail from Gove's wife, and her pals"

 

[Degeneve]

Leave-voting MP Nadine Dorries slams May's Brexit deal because UK won’t have seats in European parliament.

Unbelievable!

 

[GlennB]

Leave-voting MP Nadine Dorries slams May's Brexit deal because UK won’t have seats in European parliament.

Unbelievable!

Uh ...

 

[Andy_Ross]

Leave-voting MP Nadine Dorries slams May's Brexit deal because UK won’t have seats in European parliament.

Unbelievable!

Very believable I am sad to say.

 

[jimbob]

Leave-voting MP Nadine Dorries slams May's Brexit deal because UK won’t have seats in European parliament.

Unbelievable!

As Captain_Swoop has implied, only if you haven't come across Nadine Dorries before.

 

[Filippo Lippi]

No. Believable - she ain't very bright

 

[Craig B]

Wales is permitted to warm its hands at England's fire.

(Well, they were when it was burning Welsh coal.)

During the Anglo-Irish trade war^WP of 1932-38 a popular slogan in Ireland was "Burn everything English except coal".

 

[Vixen]

You'll have to explain to me in very simple terms how you derive that conclusion from my comments.

Your quote, as follows:

With a government barely worthy of the name led by someone notable only for a rare combination of ignorance, arrogance, inflexibility, dogmatism and intolerance, with an opposition that should be utterly ashamed of itself for forgetting about the good of the country,

illustrates how little control the UK has over its own sovereignty.

 

[Vixen]

Leave-voting MP Nadine Dorries slams May's Brexit deal because UK won’t have seats in European parliament.

Unbelievable!

Why? If the UK has to follow its laws and regulations, of course it must expect to have a say in the passing and formulating of legislation.

 

[Strawberry]

Why? If the UK has to follow its laws and regulations, of course it must expect to have a say in the passing and formulating of legislation.

Best stay in the EU then.

 

[jimbob]

And you will have MEPs up until you leave in a few months. At which point the UK no longer has any say because it will no longer be a member. That's what 'leave' means.

I'm afraid it's too complex for many to grasp.

I suppose it put's Raab's discovery that Dover is near France into context.

My favourite take on that, from the twitter thread I linked to upthread:

https://twitter.com/garius/status/1062995859518996481

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LIDINGTON: There goes Raab
MAY: Dom?! The little ******* traitor.
LIDINGTON: Yup. Here's his letter.
MAY: 'I Have resigned so I can spend more time with an atlas.'
LIDINGTON: Yeah. That part was a bit weird.

1:08 AM - 15 Nov 2018

ETA: the thread develops in a nice way

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MAY <on phone>: I hear you're planning another pizza party
GOVE: <dry hissing>
MAY: How you do think I know?
GRAYLING: Hello!
GOVE: <sound of wet tentacles>
MAY: I propose an alternative: Be My Brexit Minister
GOVE: <ghoulish wail>

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MAY: Think about it Michael this could be your chance to prove everyone wrong
GOVE: <wet clicking>
MAY: Brexit Secretary. They'd HAVE to admire you
GOVE: <subdued wet slapping>
MAY: They'd have to love you then, Michael. The people, they'd have to respect you
GOVE: <demonic purr>

 

[Vixen]

I thought you wanted to leave the EU?
Now you want to stay in, do make up your mind.



And you will have MEPs up until you leave in a few months. At which point the UK no longer has any say because it will no longer be a member. That's what 'leave' means.

The UK is either 100% in or it is 100% (or near enough) out. Middle of the road is enterprise suicide (Michael Porter, business guru). The uncertainty of this position is what makes the markets volatile. I for one am considering moving my money out of the UK in case of such a crash.

 

[jimbob]

The UK is either 100% in or it is 100% (or near enough) out. Middle of the road is enterprise suicide (Michael Porter, business guru). The uncertainty of this position is what makes the markets volatile. I for one am considering moving my money out of the UK in case of such a crash.

Norway

Switzerland

 

[Vixen]

Norway

Switzerland

No, to an EU country.

 

[Vixen]

Then just quit your subscription and leave. Not sure what the problem is.

Can't. The EU are demanding an exit fee, and even then the UK will be bound to its edicts indefinitely.

 

[The Moog]

Can't. The EU are demanding an exit fee, and even then the UK will be bound to its edicts indefinitely.

Sure you can, you just say 'we're not paying' then walk.
Very easy.

 

[Vixen]

Sure you can, you just say 'we're not paying' then walk.
Very easy.

You have heard of binding contracts and treaties?

 

[Craig B]

Can't. The EU are demanding an exit fee, and even then the UK will be bound to its edicts indefinitely.

To avoid that, set up a normal policed and secured international border between NI and RoI. Then walk away from the EU. No problem.