From the Guardian tonight:
This could end in tears.
And well before 2020.
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I agree. Don’t they realise that in spite of improving technology research has still be unable to disprove the generality that doubling distance halves trade?
https://medium.com/@Nightingale_P/ice-cream-selling-in-egg-land-10c4419f89d8#.8l4syvd1t
I hope the Brexiteers realise that although they may not wish to be in the EU we are still in Europe. Absolutely everywhere else is a lot futher away.
And the PM thinks triggering Article 50 before both the French and German general elections is the best moment to do it. Instead of “before 31st of March”, 1st April would be a much more appropriate date – when at least there is a chance the EU might not take us seriously.
We are led by incompetents.
Once the European Communities Act is repealed Parliament will have no control whatsoever on the terms of Brexit. Theresa May will be free to “negotiate” whatever she wants or feels she must accept. In practice there will be more negotiation with Tory right wingers than with the EU.
It is absolutely imperative that all those who are not prepared to see this country (or England and Wales if Scotland and Northern Ireland escape) governed by Nigel Farage and Rupert Murdoch urge on their MPs that they should not vote to repeal until the full terms of Brexit are known.
Brexit is supposed to be about returning democratic power to our Parliament. Let us start this process with this issue.
Brexit was never about “returning democratic power to our Parliament”
Brexit was always about returning undemocratic power to our “elite”
Look at the benefits we are going to have when that great undemocratic bureaucracy is no more, and we are returned to that great undemocratic bureaucracy that is the UK..
We won’t be forced into working lower hours…
We won’t be forced into having paid holidays…
We are highly unlikely to be able to afford free healthcare at point of treatment for much longer…already being discussed is paying for each appointment with a healthcare professional (doctors will soon be a rarity; since recruitment is dropping and at current levels of retirement versus falling recruitment we will be unable to sustain general practice for much longer) (and that’s without the rapidly-rising burnout/mental-health problems of existing general practitioners)…and now I hear that quite possibly only high-earners from the EU will get the “right” to work here…..like we need bankers and fund managers?….but not nurses and doctors?
What, precisely, have the people of this country done to deserve the poorly-performing, over-paid, under-educated, stupid, corrupt fools we have “serving” us ??
Perhaps now is the appropriate time to work out which segment of the population will be blamed for when the economy tanks again after BREXIT?
People with green eyes?
People who are left handed?
People with red hair?
Cats?
The Tories will benefit at the 2020 election as they will be seen as the party that took us out of the EU. They will want the kudos for themselves. That I feel is the game we are in now.
It’s not looking good folks.
Could?
It’s all academic really, the tories screwed this country up decades ago. Roll on the dissolution of the UK.
It’s very interesting that Theresa May is doing so much to keep the right wing of her own party together (and on board with the direction she is almost single-handedly taking), and so little to do the same for the wider party or the public in general. The decision to control migration at the expense of business, trade, commerce in general and the financial industry in particular is overwhelmingly telling. No sane prime minister would be quite so cavalier with a decision imperilling the single most important part of the UK economy if he or she were sincere about it. I honestly believe that straightforward, boring Theresa May is currently doing what she has to do to hold her party together, and if it succeeds, which she knows it cannot, she will persist to the bitter end, but if it fails, which is utterly probable, she will hang the Brexiteers out to dry in the full knowledge that the failure would have been entirely theirs. She has no emotional attachment to ideology, and certainly none to the EU, but she cannot possibly want public services to be impoverished and the economy to be eternally smaller. I think the prime minister has decided that Brexit is a giant boil that has had to be lanced, and rather bravely she is now doing the necessary.
There are few financiers in the City who think it is certain we shall leave the EU in the end.