Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

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Whose Hard Brexit do you want to get shafted by?

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Labour's Hard Brexit!
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Tory Hard Brexit
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13%
Cheese or bacon or something
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88%
 
Total votes: 8

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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Jun 10, 2018 4:24 pm

Which are going to be considerable which way you turn it.
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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:25 am

A City firm co-founded by the influential Conservative backbencher, Jacob Rees-Mogg, has set up an investment fund in Ireland and is warning prospective clients about the financial dangers of the sort of hard Brexit favoured by the Tory MP.

The disclosure is embarrassing for Rees-Mogg, who works part time at Somerset Capital in addition to his work as an MP. The parliamentarian has repeatedly dismissed the concerns of those worried about the financial risks of Brexit and has argued the UK needs to quit the single market and customs union so the country is not a “rule taker” from Brussels...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -rees-mogg
First Nigel Lawson applies for French residency and now this from one of The Moggster’s investnent firms.
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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by Scot Dutchy » Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:37 am

The rats are preparing to jump ship.
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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:08 am

Most of these guys were brutalised by the elite private school system into which their parents abandoned them, a system that in turn convinced them that nobody could possibly care about you unless you had money. In a way Brexiteers are just looking for love.

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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Jun 17, 2018 5:55 pm

Magic money tree has reappeared:

Theresa May under fire over NHS 'Brexit dividend' claim
Assertion that post-EU windfall can help fund £20bn injection ‘treats public as fools’, says Tory MP
Just where is that money coming from?

NHS funding: where will the money come from and how will it be spent?
After eight years of 1% rises, PM marks 70th birthday of NHS with a larger boost - but is it enough?
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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by cronus » Sun Jun 17, 2018 6:34 pm

Government printed 500 trillion in QE to save the banks so I'm sure 20 billlion is no big deal. Especially given the global financial climate as it appears in the next few years, Trump etc...
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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Jun 18, 2018 7:47 am

Never mind.
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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by Rum » Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:04 pm

Well there admitted taxes will have to go up now. Bastard brexiteers.

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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:49 am

What really annoys me is the lack of knowledge of British European news correspondents. The one on the BBC has not a clue. The way she went on about Merkel and the CSU was so far fetched it was in the realms of fantasy. She went how it could lead to the breakup of Germany and the EU. Was she sponsored by the Brexiteers? The Brexiteer mentality; the EU is always in a state of breaking up.
Merkel is in great difficulties but that is what the CSU does. CSU has a massive inferiority complex with its big brother the CDU and now and again likes to cause a stir but the CSU likes being in power. In two weeks a solution and COMPROMISE (something alien to Brexiteers) will be found. Mutti will pull down a few pants and give a good hiding.
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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:59 am

So apparently The Lords are an unelected elite who threaten the very fabric of British society. Whodda thunk that patriotic traditionalists like your Rees-Moggs, Duncan-Smiths, and de Pfeffel Johnsons, along with the massed ranks of grey-haired Daily Mail readers, would be the ones calling for the abolition of such a cornerstone of the best-of-British establishment.
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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Jun 19, 2018 9:37 am

Well they keep on belting Teres for six. :smug:

New Lords defeat for government on Brexit 'meaningful vote' amendment
Landslide vote by peers, including 22 Tory rebels, sets up another Commons showdown

The government has been defeated in a landslide Lords vote which will set up another Commons showdown over an amendment to give MPs a “meaningful vote” even if the government fails to reach a Brexit deal.

The House of Lords voted in favour of a new amendment, devised by Tory MP and pro-EU rebel Dominic Grieve and tabled by Viscount Hailsham, by a significantly bigger margin than the last time the issue was debated. The amendment was passed by 354 votes to 235 – a majority of 119.

Michael Heseltine, Chris Patten and Sayeeda Warsi were among the 22 Tory peers who rebelled and backed the amendment.

Hailsham, the former Conservative cabinet minister Douglas Hogg, tabled the last-minute amendment on Monday morning, based on the deal Grieve believed he had struck with the solicitor general, Robert Buckland, in order to avert a government defeat in the Commons by pro-EU Tories.
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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:18 am

"Wat is het een gezellig boel hier".

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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by Hermit » Tue Jun 19, 2018 11:17 am

Scot Dutchy wrote:
Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:49 am
CSU has a massive inferiority complex with its big brother the CDU and now and again likes to cause a stir but the CSU likes being in power.
To start with, it's "sister". Die Partei.

Next, the CDU and the CSU are not even sisters any more. The CSU has become the Bavarian branch of the CDU, and like all state branches of any party, they fight over how much more influence they can exert over any and/or all other state branches. The CSU is of course especially handicapped and therefore has an especially oversized chip on her shoulders because Bavarians are the missing link between Austrian and humans.
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Re: Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Jun 19, 2018 11:50 am

Question of language. In Dutch it is HET partij. Neutral. We dont talk about sister parties.
The CDU still relies on the support of the CSU which never wants to be taken for granted so it rattles its chains now and again.
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