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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 21:52 
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Wowowow that Telegraph piece isn't messing around.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 22:00 
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Lonewolves wrote:
Cavey has been quiet lately. Must be a coincidence.


I'm no fan of Cavey's stance on many political issues but goading folks when they're not around is just plain bad form IMO.

Maybe he's been quiet lately because he's mad busy at work, or maybe he's got stuff going on with his family, or any other entirely valid reason that means he's got more important things to do than argue on BEEX about Brexit or anything else.

Or maybe he just can't be arsed at the moment, and that's fine too. I feel that way sometimes as well.

Prodding people with a stick isn't exactly a great debating tactic, especially when you have no idea why they're not sat at the table at any particular moment in time.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Oh I'm sure he's very busy, like we all are.

It was just a gentle ribbing, nothing more.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Wowowow that Telegraph piece isn't messing around.


To be fair, that’s Michael Deacon isn’t it? So he’s paid to take the piss.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Is it? That makes sense, but I thought his piece today was the 50 Shades one. But maybe he wrote two things!


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Is it? That makes sense, but I thought his piece today was the 50 Shades one. But maybe he wrote two things!


Yeah, it is him. A busy day!

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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The whole 50 billion euros thing wouldn't have been an issue had the government been open and honest about likely costs sooner. Instead we had Mr Johnson talking about whistling.

I also don't care much for talk of 'the other side'. Surely we'd be better off seeing it as a collaborative project and admitting that both sides have interests and possibilities where we might both benefit, rather than a them v us zero-sum game?


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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That would be nice but it can't happen. The animosity is only going to increase.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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That would be nice but it can't happen.


I know. Sometimes my idealism gets the better of me. But lying in the gutter you're looking at stars at all that.

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The animosity is only going to increase.


Are we doing Boudicca, Elizabeth the 1st, or Churchill this week?


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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https://www.ft.com/content/cabf22e2-d46 ... c0a5c8d5c9

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Both sides say no final figure will be agreed on Britain’s exit settlement next week. Significantly the UK plans to avoid a lump-sum settlement and instead will develop a system for regularly calculating payments in years to come, when specific liabilities come due.

Under this model, pensions of EU officials, for instance, could be paid on the basis of annual costs, meaning there will be no final figure for the so-called “Brexit bill” until the final eligible EU pensioner is dead, many decades from today.
Well, that's one way to attempt to dodge screaming headlines from the Mail: make it too complicated for Mail hacks to add up. Can't see it working, though, but what else can May do?

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The mechanism for determining payments, once applied in future years, may take account of the fall in sterling and decline in the relative size of Britain’s economy, thereby reducing the UK’s share from 13 per cent.
"Good news! We've reduced the Brexit bill, and all we had to do was fuck our currency and economy into a cocked hat!"


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Amazing that the pound has a strong showing this morning after Talk was of actually paying £50bn.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Amazing that the pound has a strong showing this morning after Talk was of actually paying £50bn.

Presumably because the markets fear a cliff edge, so every bit of news that nudges us closer to a deal is good news.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
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Amazing that the pound has a strong showing this morning after Talk was of actually paying £50bn.

Presumably because the markets fear a cliff edge, so every bit of news that nudges us closer to a deal is good news.


Absolutely this, it’s just funny how it works.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... r-a-barrel

Well, this neatly sums up the shit we're in.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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It took me multiple attempts just to get past May's election...

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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The bus ended up a little worse for wear. :)


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Just got a 48. Hmmm.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Slow work day?


I’m still poorly.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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I just got 48s three times in a row. :'(

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Huh, if that proves anything it's how much quicker the new version of Firefox is (in this specific application at least). I played this initially at home on the new souped-up Firefox and it was fine but here at work on the shitty old ESR version it's awful.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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DUP MP Sammy Wilson has warned that his party's deal to support the Conservative government could be jeopardised by the Brexit negotiations.
He said any attempt to "placate Dublin and the EU" could mean a withdrawal of DUP support at Westminster.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-42179387

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Mr Wilson said his party will be "making clear to the government we have a confidence and supply arrangement with them".
The East Antrim MP added that "if there is any hint that in order to placate Dublin and the EU, they're prepared to have Northern Ireland treated differently than the rest of the UK, then they can't rely on our vote".
He added: "They have to recognise that if this is about treating Northern Ireland differently, or leaving us half in the EU, dragging along behind regulations which change in Dublin, it's not on."

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Call it a draw?


NEVER. Everyone knows that in the event of a draw the person who got the score first is the ultimate winnah.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Call it a draw?


NEVER. Everyone knows that in the event of a draw the person who got the score first is the ultimate winnah.

Tell that to every sport in history.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Call it a draw?


NEVER. Everyone knows that in the event of a draw the person who got the score first is the ultimate winnah.

Tell that to every sport in history.


This isn’t a sport. It’s a leaderboard for a video game.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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It's not, it's a satirical take on the clusterfuck that is Brexit in a Trials fashion, there are no winners.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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It's not, it's a satirical take on the clusterfuck that is Brexit in a Trials fashion, there are no winners.

Except for Ian. Who is winnar.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Looks like Ian isn't the winnah after all

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Aww, we’re sorry Devilman, entries closed on Friday at midnight. Looks like I’m still Mr Winnah Man. (Shabba)

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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I'm a long way from being an expert here, but I really don't see how any deal on the Irish border can simultaneously be acceptable to the Republic, the press / Hard Brexitish MPs, and the DUP. Someone is going get pissed off, which will either mean talks stalling, or there being a pretty good chance of the government collapsing.


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I'm a long way from being an expert here, but I really don't see how any deal on the Irish border can simultaneously be acceptable to the Republic, the press / Hard Brexitish MPs, and the DUP. Someone is going get pissed off, which will either mean talks stalling, or there being a pretty good chance of the government collapsing.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Squirt wrote:
I'm a long way from being an expert here, but I really don't see how any deal on the Irish border can simultaneously be acceptable to the Republic, the press / Hard Brexitish MPs, and the DUP. Someone is going get pissed off, which will either mean talks stalling, or there being a pretty good chance of the government collapsing.


It's simply amazing how ill thought out and half arsed this whole thing is, and I'm amazed on a daily basis that presins whom I thought vaguely competent can continue down this car crash of a path. It, surely, must end soon.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Squirt wrote:
I'm a long way from being an expert here, but I really don't see how any deal on the Irish border can simultaneously be acceptable to the Republic, the press / Hard Brexitish MPs, and the DUP. Someone is going get pissed off, which will either mean talks stalling, or there being a pretty good chance of the government collapsing.


It's simply amazing how ill thought out and half arsed this whole thing is, and I'm amazed on a daily basis that presins whom I thought vaguely competent can continue down this car crash of a path. It, surely, must end soon.


Very much this. It's even more frustrating that all this damage is being done to keep the Tory party together and Mrs May in power, rather than attempt to find a broad consensus. I know the Tories tend to delude themselves into thinking that what is good for the party is good for the country, but by pressing for the hardest Brexit possible so she can keep the right-wing obsessives on side, she's caused immense damage.


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