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Author:  Curiosity [ Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:29 ]
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The weirdest thing is seeing arseholes on Twitter like Guido Fawkes and Julia Hartley-Brewer crowing about how this is a Hard Brexit and how all the Remainers will be crying today, and how May has achieved everything amazingly well.

And there’s starting to be a slow dawning realisation that they got almost nothing that they wanted.

Author:  markg [ Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:30 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Gove makes my skin crawl.

Mine too but to his credit I read the other day that he had said some good things about soil. They should just make him the minister for soil.

Author:  romanista [ Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:33 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Right, so the government conceded on having talks in parallel regrading leaving and trade, the government will pay £50 billion to leave, regulations will be startlingly similar, being outside customs union makes trade harder, and the courts might still refer things to the ECJ.

That's good skills, there.


Still a weird agreement...monday's seemed quite well form my point of view... but then the DUPpers used their trump card.. on that point they have now basically said 'well, as long as UK will fix that, it's ok'.. so are they counting on a future without the DUP to arrange this point?

Author:  Mr Dave [ Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:42 ]
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markg wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Gove makes my skin crawl.

Mine too but to his credit I read the other day that he had said some good things about soil. They should just make him the minister for soil.

They made him the minister for soiling Britain. Close enough?

Author:  asfish [ Fri Dec 08, 2017 13:46 ]
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Looks like we got out just in time, EU is proposing to mess with Doner Kebabs :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42238363

Author:  Kern [ Fri Dec 08, 2017 13:49 ]
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asfish wrote:
Looks like we got out just in time, EU is proposing to mess with Doner Kebabs :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42238363


Kebabs and blue passports. Great, that's the number of benefits of leaving doubled.

Of course, as a free and sovereign nation (TM), Parliament will look at the issue, consider it, then follow what the EU wants us to do because of regulatory alignment. But it'll be a free decision, so that's ok then.

Author:  markg [ Fri Dec 08, 2017 14:26 ]
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If I was the EU I'd definitely have made red passports one of the conditions to move on with negotiations. Just for the LOLs.

Author:  Kern [ Fri Dec 08, 2017 14:29 ]
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markg wrote:
If I was the EU I'd definitely have made red passports one of the conditions to move on with negotiations. Just for the LOLs.


I'd make British officials get on their knees before any meeting, just to emphasise the status of the relationship.

Author:  Grim... [ Fri Dec 08, 2017 15:06 ]
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I like my red passport :(

Author:  Cras [ Fri Dec 08, 2017 15:13 ]
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Same. It's much nicer than navy

Author:  Kern [ Fri Dec 08, 2017 17:53 ]
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Cras wrote:
Same. It's much nicer than navy


It's the royal crest that annoys me most. I'd much prefer a railway train.

Author:  Kern [ Fri Dec 08, 2017 17:55 ]
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Just finished Nick Clegg's book on how to stop Brexit. The first half goes over the current situation but hasn't told me anything new. The meat of the book is in the second half and some of his solutions are clever, workable, yet sadly likely to be ignored.

Readable but glad I got it from the library so only paid the reservation fee.

Author:  MaliA [ Sun Dec 10, 2017 2:24 ]
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... eal-for-uk

Quote:
After a week that saw May reach a deal with the EU that will allow Brexit talks to move forward on to future trade relations, EU officials insisted a bespoke deal more favourable to the UK than other non-EU nations was out of the question.

One EU source close to the talks said: “We have been approached by a number of [non-member] countries expressing concerns and making it clear that it would constitute a major problem for them if suddenly the UK were to get better terms than they get.”


Quelle surprise.

Author:  Squirt [ Tue Dec 12, 2017 14:34 ]
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David Davis TALKING BRITAIN DOWN.

https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/stat ... 1684719616



Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Dec 13, 2017 21:48 ]
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My MP continues to impress me:

https://twitter.com/S_Hammond/status/941039278871728128




https://twitter.com/S_Hammond/status/941039680551825410



Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Dec 13, 2017 22:10 ]
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https://twitter.com/Otto_English/status ... 8068872194



Author:  Cras [ Sun Dec 17, 2017 15:19 ]
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The Sun running with a headline that Britain will enter an 'overtime bonanza' as we leave the EU and exit the Working Time Directive, meaning that employees will be able to do more overtime hours and earn more money.

The WTD is already opt-out, so there's absolutely nothing stopping that happening today. All the WTD does is prevent employers from _forcing_ employees to work an excessive number of hours. How can they possibly have the gall to spin this as a positive outcome?!

Author:  Kern [ Sun Dec 17, 2017 16:11 ]
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I was pretty sure Mr Gove et al had promised to protect workers' rights. This pledge must have gone the way of the £350 million a week for the NHS.

Author:  Cras [ Sun Dec 17, 2017 16:31 ]
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Well they are selling it as protecting workers' rights to work more hours, which is insane.

(Let's not forget there's lots of other stuff tied into the same legislation as the WTD, like the right to paid vacation)

Author:  myp [ Sun Dec 17, 2017 18:02 ]
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It's ludicrous. They know exactly what they're doing though.

Author:  NervousPete [ Sun Dec 17, 2017 18:12 ]
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"And do not suppose this is the end, this is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in olden time."

Churchill. Who was pro-EU, incidentally.

Author:  MaliA [ Sun Dec 17, 2017 20:16 ]
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There is no way any overtime will be paid at a higher rate, though, if at all.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sun Dec 17, 2017 22:48 ]
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https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/ ... 2179861504



Author:  Kern [ Mon Dec 18, 2017 9:25 ]
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According to the news this morning, the Cabinet will discuss what they want our final relationship with the EU to look like. This really should have been done before they activated Article 50. What a pathetic way to run a country.

It's one thing to do something I don't agree with. It's a whole bigger problem when you do it so incompetently.

Author:  Trousers [ Mon Dec 18, 2017 10:54 ]
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Kern wrote:
According to the news this morning, the Cabinet will discuss what they think the Daily Mail wants us to do next.


Feex

Author:  devilman [ Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:39 ]
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I was bored on a conference call this morning...
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Author:  Cras [ Tue Dec 19, 2017 2:22 ]
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Bloody love Bercow.

"You are never mutineers, never traitors, never malcontents, never enemies of the people" - the Speaker's message to MPs after hearing stories of online abuse. https://t.co/0uU5bfGXK9

Author:  Kern [ Tue Dec 19, 2017 17:56 ]
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This leaflet was waiting for me in my letter box today:

Author:  Kern [ Tue Dec 19, 2017 18:01 ]
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Expect to hear more of the 'betrayal' line over the next few months. Like 'Doctor Who' fans, Brexit lovers will spend their lives debating when it was ruined forever.

Author:  MaliA [ Tue Dec 19, 2017 21:13 ]
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Beautiful

https://twitter.com/AngryScotland/statu ... 7863438337



Author:  Kern [ Tue Dec 19, 2017 22:18 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Beautiful

https://twitter.com/AngryScotland/statu ... 7863438337




I want Mr Johnson to be remembered for the £350 million in the way we remember Mr Chamberlain and his piece of paper.

Author:  Kern [ Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:00 ]
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In a debate on vaping yesterday, Lord Wallace made an interesting contribution:

Quote:
Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD)

Could the Minister possibly encourage his colleagues to consider publishing a list of EU regulations which are there primarily because British lobbies with the support of British Ministers have pushed them on to the EU? I am thinking in particular of animal welfare, as well as a lot of health and smoking regulations. It would help to educate opinion in this country as to what sort of regulations might be likely to diverge after we leave, and which will not.

Lord O'Shaughnessy

Anyone who really wants to find out how many regulations there are provided by the EU can find that online, and I am sure that it would be a wonderful way to spend a weekend. I am just going to bother myself with the ones that have been dedicated to the health area. We are, of course, looking at everything within that realm to make sure that, when we leave the European Union, we end up with the best possible health regime.

Author:  Kern [ Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:04 ]
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Meanwhile, in the Commons, the Health Secretary showed an appropriate level of urgency to ensure continuity of provision for the NHS after the Glorious Day (TM).

Quote:
Neil Gray (Airdrie and Shotts) (SNP)
  Last week the Brexit Secretary stated that UK membership of EU agencies is unlikely to continue beyond March 2019, so what provision has the Secretary of State for Health made to replace the European Chemicals Agency, which regulates the raw chemicals required by the pharmaceutical industry to produce drugs in the UK? [903041]

Mr Hunt :
That area will obviously be very important in the negotiations, but we have made our preference clear: a deep and special partnership with the EU in which the benefits of co-operation that we currently have can continue.

Author:  MaliA [ Wed Dec 20, 2017 11:58 ]
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I've met Lord W as part of that other thing I do. He's really nice.

Author:  Mr Dave [ Wed Dec 20, 2017 12:11 ]
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MaliA wrote:
I've met Lord W as part of that other thing I do.

Naked spanking goatherd nights?

Author:  Squirt [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 13:44 ]
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Sector analyses released to the general public!

https://twitter.com/CommonsEUexit/statu ... 4673587201




I've looked at the ICT one, and I'm not convinced it will help businesses to make the sort of complex decisions leaving the EU will bring up.

Author:  Hearthly [ Wed Dec 27, 2017 12:40 ]
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A Labour government might not be as bad as Brexit, claims Heseltine.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -heseltine

Author:  Kern [ Thu Jan 04, 2018 10:32 ]
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I can't decide if Tony Blair or John Humphries was the least convincing this morning. Mr Humphries' line of questioning was pretty obvious, yet Mr Blair failed to block them the way it did.

The simple response to the 'why have a second referendum, we've already decided' point is 'nobody knew what Brexit would like', but it took the former prime minister ages to actually say that.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:35 ]
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Our government: “no deal is better than a bad deal”

Also our government: “OMG the evil EU is preparing for a no-deal scenario, please stop them”

We are being led by idiots.

https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/950501082903580672



Author:  Kern [ Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:40 ]
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It's almost as if they're only just realising the EU itself and the other 27 countries have their own interests to protect and further.

Author:  Kern [ Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:42 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Our government: “no deal is better than a bad deal”


In Tim Shipman's 'Fallout' (yeah, spoilers), he argues that the Prime Minister is approaching the negotiations in the same way she approached the justice/home affairs opt outs when she was home secretary: leave everything then come back into the ones you want. I'm not sure this was ever going to be a goer in a situation where the EU will treat UK as a third country.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:51 ]
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Kern wrote:
It's almost as if they're only just realising the EU itself and the other 27 countries have their own interests to protect and further.

Quite. It’s a misplaced belief in British exceptionalism; it’s not even conscious, I think, but rather a genuine bone-deep inability to grasp any possibility other than “Of course they need us too much to not accommodate us. We’re special!”

Or as I put it last year: https://twitter.com/penllawen/status/858021766882611201



Author:  Kern [ Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:03 ]
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That was back when Mrs May was going to be the new Boudica, wasn't it? Feels like so long ago now, and Mr Cameron is practically ancient history.

I'm still shocked that the loss of their majority hasn't stopped the Tories from toning down their ambitions or working towards a more pragmatic compromise, but then with Mr Corbyn being a useful idiot on this they don't really need to.

Author:  Kern [ Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:05 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Kern wrote:
It's almost as if they're only just realising the EU itself and the other 27 countries have their own interests to protect and further.

Quite. It’s a misplaced belief in British exceptionalism; it’s not even conscious, I think, but rather a genuine bone-deep inability to grasp any possibility other than “Of course they need us too much to not accommodate us. We’re special!”


We can just send the navy round to fire off a warning shot and that tends to sort things.

Author:  MaliA [ Tue Jan 09, 2018 12:39 ]
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https://twitter.com/LibDemPress/status/ ... 2753832960




Lib dem press office quite amusing at times

Author:  Squirt [ Tue Jan 09, 2018 13:33 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Kern wrote:
It's almost as if they're only just realising the EU itself and the other 27 countries have their own interests to protect and further.

Quite. It’s a misplaced belief in British exceptionalism; it’s not even conscious, I think, but rather a genuine bone-deep inability to grasp any possibility other than “Of course they need us too much to not accommodate us. We’re special!”


The strange thing is that this hasn't been true for decades - Britain is important, but hasn't been irreplaceable to the EU for ages, surely since before the beginnings of the careers of all the politicians involved. It's like some odd collective memory from the 1880s that's still hanging around.

Author:  Kern [ Tue Jan 09, 2018 13:55 ]
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I think the government's surprised by the solidarity of the other 27. They were probably hoping to buy each country off, one by one, but they aren't facing the divided Europe they were expecting.

Author:  Findus Fop [ Tue Jan 09, 2018 16:54 ]
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Spotted on the Chris Morris Bits twitter feed (referencing Day Today natch)

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Author:  Cras [ Tue Jan 09, 2018 22:07 ]
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Fucking embarrassing.

https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/950697434413486080



Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Jan 10, 2018 16:35 ]
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how is this real life

https://twitter.com/WikiGuido/status/951099506480877568



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