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At last, someone on the BBC who asks questions properly. Ben Bradley MP on Stephen Nolan last night:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000jd9It starts about 10 minutes in, then the phones goes down but then go to 33 minutes for the rest of it.I listened to it live, it's an absolute car crash of an interview from someone backing the 'Boris Plan' but has his arse handed to him on a plate when it's shown he has completely no idea how it's supposed to work in Ireland and he comes up with guess after guess when Nolan doesn't let him get away with it. I bet this interview won't get mentioned much elsewhere in the media!
For anyone with an hour and half to spare I went to a talk the other evening with the international trade negotiators Jason Hunter and Stuart Brown discussing what leaving on WTO rules will mean.Jason's talk is here, about 20 mins.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtkP3Hkc1cMThere was a Q&A at the end where I get to ask a question but there is a lot of ramblinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmUJzXYiku8For those who want a quick summary:After Brexit everything stops. Everything. 750+ treaties covering areas as varied as docking permissions for cross-channel ferries & aircraft safety certification to veterinary regulation and platform permission for the Euro-Shuttle.A bloke asked how he could guarantee he would be able to provide and ship an order of drones he had for an event in Belgium next June. The answer - set up a shell company in Estonia.
I'll do a bit of crystal ball gazing here. Everyone knows that any form of Brexit would be damaging to the economy. Everyone knows that the only reason we had a Referendum was to sort out the issues on the Right of the Tory party. Everyone knows that Johnson carefully calculated which way to dive in in the Referendum to maximise his chances of becoming PM. Everyone knows that every shenanigan in the Brexit manoeuvring over the past 2 years has been about who comes out the other side as PM. Start of from there and the logic of where we are going is bleeding obvious. 1) Johnson needs May to fail. To have Chequers thrown out. To go to the wire of March next year with no deal on the table. 2) Then there is a crisis. May is dead. She resigns if she has any pride. If not she's booted out. 3) Johnson replaces her as PM. 4) But Johnson is not so stupid as to then pitch us into a No Deal scenario. He knows that would be catastrophic and he would go down in history as the man who sent Britain off to a third rate future and destroyed the Union. He doesn't want that. 5) So he concocts some cock and bull story about the negotiations having gone to hell. And how we need a longer period to sort out shit out. And we end up with PM Johnson and not much else changing. Which was always his aim. 6) And yes, that wouldn't satisfy the Europhobes on the Right of the Tory party. But he faces them down by saying, "So sack me then. And go into chaos. And get PM Corbyn." 7) And the issue of UK Vs Europe remains unresolved for another decade. And the entire f**king country will have been played to satisfy that bas**rd's ego. Watch it unfold over the next 6 months.
BFYPThe EU are doing the best for the EU. What do you expect someone to do in a negotiation?
He certainly is trying. What surprises.me is that it's our government that are the bad guys. Are the e.u doing the best for everyone? I would suggest not.
Yes the lodger who pays way over what they should do and who keeps you house safe whilst you pi**off to the Bingo every night
Quote from: Sprotyrover on October 15, 2018, 12:19:36 pmYes the lodger who pays way over what they should do and who keeps you house safe whilst you pi**off to the Bingo every nightWell, that's not quite a fair comparison is it. But if you felt that way and you decided to leave, then they still have f**k all obligation to you, do they? It's like me telling my bank I don't fancy paying the mortgage on my house anymore and letting my utilities know I've cancelled their direct debits but expecting to be able to live in it anyway with gas and lecky.