Seems like government changing position with out following conventional process
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Do we need an EU referendum thread? (Brexit thread)
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Being stuffed down the back of the Earl of Hell's underpants for all eternity preferable to breaking up union says David Mundell.
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Oh, oh, what are we gonna do? / Union, Union,
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Elton John: ‘There’s a new cereal called Brexit. You eat it and you throw up afterwards’
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Breakfast cereal can at least be stockpiled. Good shelf life. Eat your cereal.
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Anybody fancy a sweepstakes on when the military coup will be?
I doubt they'll move until after New Year. There's thirteen weeks in 2019 up to 29/03/2019. I'll take week 9 24th Feb to 1st March.
Prize is 500ml of paraffin and a day's worth of boil in the bag meals.
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It seems that decisions are being made to appease local Conservative party members. There are only around 70k members and I imagine the demographic is fairly narrow.
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There’s a good list of possible actions here -
https://twitter.com/clatchardcraig/status/1018970402545176576
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This will be the cause of insurrection in Blighty.
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Brexit threat to sandwiches
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Of course our departure from the EU, which provides almost a third of our food, could seriously disrupt supplies; and of course, it’s likely that UK and EU governments will finally work together to prevent that outcome, since it benefits no-one except a few crazed – if sadly influential – catastrophe capitalists.“
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Something to cheer you up ahead of the weekend:
http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2018/07/27/this-is-what-no-deal-brexit-actually-looks-like
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What's going on? Are these nuts encouraging apocalyptic talk so that everyone cheers with relief when they capitulate or are they really going for the whole Enver Hoxha anglo-juche thing?
They really are playing with matches.
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"Are these nuts encouraging apocalyptic talk so that everyone cheers with relief when they capitulate"
I suspect this. Or at least I hope so...
Either that or they really are completely incompetent. I hope it's not *that* bad.
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You’ll have had your devolution. Supreme Court hears that power devolved is power retained
"The UK government’s legal counsel, Baron Keen of Elie, may not have said that Scotland was a region of England, but he made absolutely clear that, constitutionally speaking, Holyrood is little more than a regional tier of government. This is because, like the old Strathclyde Region, it “does not exercise any sovereignty” on its own account. In other words, it is entirely a creature of Westminster. It is not a parliament that can in any sense be regarded as federal – as having its own constitutional status. Power devolved is power retained.
Of course, cynics and old-style nationalists have claimed this all along, but it was still mildly shocking to hear it confirmed so baldly in a legal forum. When Westminster wants to get its way, as it does over Brexit, it must be obeyed, because it is the only source of true legal authority and power in the UK. Everything Holyrood does is contingent and reversible. The Sewel Convention, which was supposed to mean that the Scottish parliament had to give its consent before Westminster legislated on devolved matters, has no legal standing. In fact, is not even a convention any more, but a mere “practice”."
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“If we’re talking about a catastrophic scenario or some absolute dog’s dinner next spring we can’t leave ourselves financially exposed too much. We will want to maintain the absolute quality of the event but we will have to have a fallback position. Our priority will be to make sure the festival is safe and secure.
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i expect most of us here have spent a fair bit of time in mainland europe over the past few years and are hip to how far behind we are in just about every facking thing
my worry is this
the home counties have their teeth bared for the unregulated killing they expect to make, post haste
the tories get with that and anticipate the incoming civil unrest by increasing police numbers
big increase in salary for coppers is henceforth announced
we're back in thatcherland x1000
actually maybe i can jive with it.. things have to get worse before they can truly get better
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@bax
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This's fairly psychedelic for CCE....
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it was a css quirk of fate
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Mr Murphy, a Europe minister under Tony Blair, offers “political risk analysis and strategic mitigation planning” on Brexit.
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http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16395305.failed-mp-jim-murphy-earns-150k-as-political-consultant
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The possibility of a no-deal Brexit is "uncomfortably high" and "highly undesirable", Bank of England governor Mark Carney has told the BBC.
Mr Carney said the prospect of the UK leaving the EU without a deal was "a relatively unlikely possibility, but it is a possibility".
He said it was "absolutely in the interest" of the EU and UK to have a transition period.
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Of course it’s all the EU’s fault that the UK wants to leave...
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Labour’s Madeleine Moon began by asking about the effects of US steel tariffs. Fox stifled a yawn. It was all rather complicated, he wasn’t sure he fully understood what was going on and it was all a bit boring anyway. But he was fairly confident it would all turn out OK in the end. And if it didn’t, then it would probably still be okayish. Did he think the US president was someone we could do business with? Absolutely, he replied. His confidence was touching.
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Full-on scaremongering -
(But it could be true.)
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those DEFRA stats are sobering
its all over for fruit and veg
tough cheese
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At least we'll have a £4 billion Whisky surplus although as that's more likely to just sit in warehouses we'll have to console ourselves with Salmon and milk.
Even the positive looking breakfast cereal industry I suspect is relying heavily on imported grain.
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HS2 is truly a train designed for Brexit.
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That might be pushing things a bit, though there are links with “experts”’ and ‘evidence led decision making’!
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