But it'll still be good, right?

Grayling on R4 this morning spoke absolute twatwaffle about May's speech and how Britain will change. It was incredibly nebulous, and he sounded like he was just reading it ans didn't believe it himself. I was amused.

I just made the mistake of listening to that. It was awful. Almost nothing of substantive content was said. What a waste of time.

He's as dumb as a box of hair.

I spent a couple of hours with him in his Parliament office when he was shadow transport sec'. He's as dumb as a box of hair whose entire career seems to be thanks to the fact that he willingly plays the role of lightning rod for the leader.

Also, she really can't do rousing speeches, and shouldn't try. That part was painful.

May just basically said that she wants a two year transition where basically nothing will change. Brexit can just firmly kicked two more years down the road

Do you think the EU will say "No deal, or stay" come 2019 and push away any transition stuff?

If they don't agree to the transition, we fall out of the EU in March 2019 automatically.

I'm pretty sure that if we came begging back, the EU would find a way. But I'm not sure we'd get the rebate back.

'Let's think creatively'.

Ugh.

"Ceci n'est pas une Brexit"

We look forward to the United Kingdom's negotiators explaining the concrete implications of Prime Minister Theresa May's speech.

Low effort Photoshop after reading that the cost of Brexit per household is about £4.2K compared to £317 for staying in.

Low effort Photoshop after reading that the cost of Brexit per household is about £4.2K compared to £317 for staying in.

I increasingly picture Brexit as one of those criminally underwhelming Christmas theme parks in which the UK specialises

Doubt has been cast over one of the longest-standing economic claims in the Brexit debate after a Sky investigation revealed that Britain's real exports to outside the EU are actually far lower than official figures suggest.

The Government's trade statistics show that, over the past five years, the share of UK goods being exported to the European Union was only 46% - a fact frequently referred to by those who campaigned for Brexit.

However, this number is severely distorted by the flow of gold bullion in and out of London - the world's major centre for the trade of this precious metal.

When gold is excluded from the trade figures, the numbers are transformed - with half of UK physical exports over the past five years going to the EU.
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Since the vast majority of this gold is shipped to non-EU countries such as China, Switzerland and India, the upshot of these gold figures is to swell the total amount of goods reported as being shipped outside Europe.
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In the fourth quarter of last year, a sharp outflow of gold showed up as a sudden spike in exports, causing some economists to conclude that Britain's manufacturers were starting to benefit from a post-Brexit jump in confidence.

In fact, the spike was primarily a sign of investors pulling gold out of vaults in London.

Ah, the joys of our constitution! That's made me realise that I've always interpreted 'session' as 'year' when thinking about the Parliament Acts.

The downside is that if the bill doesn't pass and the EU don't agree to extra time we'll be even more fucked in 2019 than we currently will be.

it appears that so many otherwise intelligent people seem hell-bent on advocating something ridiculously stupid.

I still love you guys. But i get joris’ point http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magaz ... he-england

I still love you guys. But i get joris’ point http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magaz ... he-england