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

[catsmate]

So pull a Trump and just refuse to pay your debts. Simple really default on all obligations and live with a closed border. And stop whining about your decision to close the Irish border.

Well of course, but trade and international travel are small prices to pay for retaking your boarders! Where is the old Blitz spirit? Bring back rationing and all that like in the good old days!

It really is time for a remake of 1990, say 2030.

I'm still very confused as to exactly what end result the DUP want from Bresit.
They seem to want to leave the EU, but not have a border with the EU, but not be in any customs union (possibly?).
Which is, surely, not achievable?

Is there a simple list of (non-contradictory) demands from them?

Taigs out.

 

[Darat]

Well I've now read the withdrawal agreement/proposal and all I can say is "good luck" and "thanks for all the fishes".

 

[Darat]

I presume it refers to the opt-outs, the continual grumbling and complaining and the demands for special treatment.

To be fair that's true of pretty much all the countries in the EU, they all look out for their own interests first, as they should.

 

[Ian Osborne]

It's OK, there's a potential saviour

https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/19/davi...it-his-former-chief-of-strategy-says-8154169/

Alternatively, this is actually too stupid even for current British politics.

Naah, let's bring back Thatcher instead.

 

[Darat]

Naah, let's bring back Thatcher instead.

If there was someone who knew how to sell "signing away our sovereignty" to the public as a positive it was Thatcher.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

I'm still very confused as to exactly what end result the DUP want from Bresit.
They seem to want to leave the EU, but not have a border with the EU, but not be in any customs union (possibly?).
Which is, surely, not achievable?

Is there a simple list of (non-contradictory) demands from them?

What you have to understand about the DUP is that they want Northern Irland to be treated the same as the rest of the UK. Just the same. Exactly the same.

Except for in the areas of women's rights and reproductive autonomy, gay rights, same sex marriage, cross border trade and movement, use of Ulster Scots, religion........

 

[Information Analyst]

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.

Why? Norway and Switzerland don't.

 

[Archie Gemmill Goal]

In a wonderful couldn't-make-it-up moment Spain have now said they will veto the deal anyway unless the situation on Gibraltar is clarified.

 

[Darat]

What you have to understand about the DUP is that they want Northern Irland to be treated the same as the rest of the UK. Just the same. Exactly the same.

Except for in the areas of women's rights and reproductive autonomy, gay rights, same sex marriage, cross border trade and movement, use of Ulster Scots, religion........

In matters of social issues NI is an embarrassment for the UK.

 

[Earthborn]

Rees Mogg and his ERG have been bleating about their plan for Brexit.

All you need to know about the ERG is the fact that here in the Netherlands (otherwise known as "the place your food comes from") the word "erg" means "terrible".

 

[Information Analyst]

Shades of '1990', remember Edward Woodward?

Now available on DVD! It's actually quite dreary, as 1970s BBC dystopian drama goes (Survivors is much better!), but bits of it do seem worryingly prophetic, even if the writer thought the "bad" stuff would come about for an entirely different reason.

 

[Darat]

All you need to know about the ERG is the fact that here in the Netherlands (otherwise known as "the place your food comes from") the word "erg" means "terrible".

Could you do me a favour? Buy some extra refrigerators and freezers to store my food in as I do believe there might be some slight delay in getting it to me after the 29th March. Thanks.

Signed: The people who didn't want to leave and those that are now thinking "oh my god what have we done?!!!" of the UK.

 

[zooterkin]

In a wonderful couldn't-make-it-up moment Spain have now said they will veto the deal anyway unless the situation on Gibraltar is clarified.

That's been on the cards for some time, hasn't it?

 

[Information Analyst]

The people invoking the blitz spirit tend to ignore how reliant the UK was on the Atlantic convoys.

There's a whole heap of stuff such people are ignorant of.

 

[Information Analyst]

Could you do me a favour? Buy some extra refrigerators and freezers to store my food in as I do believe there might be some slight delay in getting it to me after the 29th March. Thanks.

Signed: The people who didn't want to leave and those that are now thinking "oh my god what have we done?!!!" of the UK.

And hope for no power cuts....

 

[Information Analyst]

That's been on the cards for some time, hasn't it?

Shameful opportunism - totally unpredictable!

 

[Amazer]

All you need to know about the ERG is the fact that here in the Netherlands (otherwise known as "the place your food comes from") the word "erg" means "terrible".

and 'very'... I'll admit that just doesn't have quite the same ring to it though.

 

[Delphic Oracle]

You can type your resignation letter anywhere.

Here in the U.S. you can even pull over to the side of the road and type it out on your mobile device after a snow job destroys your reputation and none of your colleagues have an ounce of spine between them.

 

[Craig B]

In matters of social issues NI is an embarrassment for the UK.

Thirty years of carnage, from 1968 to 1998, was somewhat embarrassing too.

 

[Garrison]

Clear progress as May goes an entire day with the same cabinet...