Brexit: UK-EU trade talks to resume over 'critical issues'
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Negotiators will talk on Sunday, but "significant differences" between the two sides in post-Brexit trade talks remain.
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Brexit will finish off the economy and the tories in the short term.
Brexit isn’t a Tory policy, it was the public’s decision. The EU needs the uk market. They will not cripple their export market, they will do a deal. Tariffs will not happen, can you imagine tariffs on all German car imports to the uk in retaliation. Not gonna happen.
Hilarious BBC imagery... so now Boris is Darth Vader
He does have children who probably don't know that he's their father.??
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Now don't be beastly about Darth Vadar. I am sure there was a nice guy struggling to get out.
Well, he did alter the deal.
Pray he does not alter it further. In a specific and limited way.
Pray he does not alter it further. In a specific and limited way.
He does wear a mask and he might be your father.
What is “level playing field”?
Price fixing.
Protectionism.
Slavery.
Price fixing.
Protectionism.
Slavery.
Time to put your big boy pants on Johnson and get this deal done - fishing, sovereignty this is not 1930 Boris but the economy will look that way if you screw this up!
Come on Boris, if anyone can do it you can. Do not let johnny foreigner bully us. Send em packing back home old chap.
Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.
A pint of ale to our great leader, working hard in to the night to keep this country safe. Doing what we elected him to do by a rather large mandate too. Good chap.
Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.
A pint of ale to our great leader, working hard in to the night to keep this country safe. Doing what we elected him to do by a rather large mandate too. Good chap.
Dear EU, you're required to give the UK an FTA. You've been offered one. Take it or risk the entire Withdrawal Agreement going in the bin...
Nope, none of that is true.
You are so absolutely wrong, where do you get your data? Fox News?
Clearly these talks should be put on hold, even if it means WTO rules in January.
How can the EU be expected to negotiate whilst the French President is having to deal with violent protests, against him and his recent laws, at home.
How can the EU be expected to negotiate whilst the French President is having to deal with violent protests, against him and his recent laws, at home.
UK is not negotiating with France, but with 27 countries, 24 of them have no protests.
What's the point of HYS at all? Such rubbish.
Well it gave fools like you a voice
Why are you posting then?
Come on Boris, if anyone can do it you can. Do not let johnny foreigner bully us. Send em packing back home old chap.
Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.
A pint of ale to our great leader, working hard in to the night to keep this country safe. Doing what we elected him to do by a rather large mandate too. Good chap.
Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.
A pint of ale to our great leader, working hard in to the night to keep this country safe. Doing what we elected him to do by a rather large mandate too. Good chap.
Screw the left!! We are leaving as is the people's vote! They can not stop it!! Let them have their 5 minutes on HYS. The country voted. Boris gets the results done regardless of terms we voted to leave.
I only commented that Boris is being portrayed as Darth Vader by the BBC and wow the website went down
What's the point of HYS at all? Such rubbish.
A bit harsh, why am I a fool?
And to idiots like you...
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Get this right Boris or we will be back to 2016, people will not fall for half leave deals
For certain MPs and members of his party, the European Research Group and their billionaire friends, 'get this right' means crash out with the no-deal that they always wanted.
Walking political zombie and routinely sacked clapped out has been British Prime Minister versus consumate successful European business woman and leader of a modern forward thinking Europe.
I see the French are rioting again, even their citizens think Macron is a coqwomble
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They certainly do think so which is perhaps why he wants the police to have more powers and protection. His popularity has fallen to 29%, so he is far less popular in France than Trump was in the USA. This means he cannot give in on the sovereignty issue of the UK's territorial waters or else they will perhaps really think he is a mummy's boy.
Dear EU, you're required to give the UK an FTA. You've been offered one. Take it or risk the entire Withdrawal Agreement going in the bin...
BBC doesn’t understand complex talks will always go to the wire.
Sham3 the over 75s have been mad3 to pay for this schoolboy journalism
Sham3 the over 75s have been mad3 to pay for this schoolboy journalism
Shame they're not paying for the Brexit fiasco.
Given that it was mostly over 75 year old Daily Racist reading purple faced morons that voted for this mess, I think it entirely appropriate.
Time to put your big boy pants on Johnson and get this deal done - fishing, sovereignty this is not 1930 Boris but the economy will look that way if you screw this up!
Fingers crossed for No Deal
Yeh WTO rules are just what we want when dealing with Europe
Uneducated remark
Uneducated remark
Apparently, you have no idea of what suffering that means. You should not be allowed to vote. Sorry, but if you don't understand the consequences of your vote, you should not be allowed to put other people in risk.
Well it gave fools like you a voice
You think calling you a fool is harsh?? Thats the lightest I could of gone given the BBC HYS mod bots quick response to anything stronger Ahahaha snowflake.
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“ a further effort should be undertaken by our negotiating teams to assess whether they can be resolved.“
What does this mean? Just deciding whether there is any chance of a deal? Or planning to drag it out for more years?
Any delay beyond 31st Dec would be unacceptable to all sides.
What does this mean? Just deciding whether there is any chance of a deal? Or planning to drag it out for more years?
Any delay beyond 31st Dec would be unacceptable to all sides.
Actually, with COVID wrecking havoc to the economy, a delay would've been a very wise move. And it was entirely in Boris Johnson's hands to choose a deferment back in the early summer. Did he make make that sensible move, that would've helped hundreds of thousands of hardworking families? Nope, he listened to disaster capitalists and extremist nutters, who have access to the corridors of power.
An indefinite delay is cool by me, the uncertainty may bite a bit but nowhere near the chaos caused by whatever the hell no deal is going to do.
The government guidance is basically "Be prepared" without any specifics OR software change specifications.
The government guidance is basically "Be prepared" without any specifics OR software change specifications.
Hilarious BBC imagery... so now Boris is Darth Vader
So much for walking away - there will be a deal because Trump is out and the chess board pieces have moved. Bottom line is it will be a deal, a cr%p one for us but a deal, and it will be paraded as the best deal ever and the usual suspects will believe it.
Such a waste of time and effort to be worse off!
Such a waste of time and effort to be worse off!
The best deal was being in the EU. You voted out. What are you complaining about?
Brexit will finish off the economy and the tories in the short term.
Brexit became the ONLY Tory policy the moment those with dissenting voices were purged from the party.
What's left hasn't just been shorn of dissenting voices, it's also had most of the progressive, moderate, moral and competent voices removed.
It's no longer the Conservative and Unionist party of the UK, more like the Conservative and Brexit party of little England.
What's left hasn't just been shorn of dissenting voices, it's also had most of the progressive, moderate, moral and competent voices removed.
It's no longer the Conservative and Unionist party of the UK, more like the Conservative and Brexit party of little England.
Fingers crossed for No Deal
A remainer who cannot accept they lost.
Walking political zombie and routinely sacked clapped out has been British Prime Minister versus consumate successful European business woman and leader of a modern forward thinking Europe.
Walking political zombie and routinely sacked clapped out has been British Prime Minister versus consumate successful European business woman and leader of a modern forward thinking Europe.
So much for their being a break from anything political this Christmas the way things are going.
So because they can’t get 84% of the UKs fish they’d prefer 0%. Bizarre negotiating strategy.
The french are using fish as a smoke screen. I think they prefer a no deal brexit.
Zero on fish....then the UK stuffed with other deals. We have more to lose.
And then you have 100%. Where do you want to sell all that fish? You export already the greatest part of what you catch to the EU. Catching fish is one thing, selling and eating it is another... And the fishing industry is of no economic importance for your economy as wel as for the EU-fishing countries. Much a do about nothing.
In fairness it's rather more complex than a reductive punchline in a comment section.
No. They prefer no deal. Take what they want.
The French are about to wrestle the official language of the EU from the Germans. They see us leaving as their chance to be top dogs.
We surrendered our seat at the table. The vacuum this leaves is the prize. Not a deal. Certainly not an issue joe public can understand like fishing.
We are no longer part of the bigger game.
We should lament that.
We surrendered our seat at the table. The vacuum this leaves is the prize. Not a deal. Certainly not an issue joe public can understand like fishing.
We are no longer part of the bigger game.
We should lament that.
While the UK wants all the benefits of europe without contributing?
Seems like an even worse negotiating strategy.
Seems like an even worse negotiating strategy.
I honestly voted to leave in the referendum and I did so weighing up all the options and think I was making a good democratic choice.
But I swear down, I honestly never thought that this was the outcome. Let's just make a deal and ffs get on with it.
But I swear down, I honestly never thought that this was the outcome. Let's just make a deal and ffs get on with it.
Did you weigh it up on the back of a cigarette packet ?
No one unless motivated polictally thinks it a good idea, we will be all worse off, fact
No one unless motivated polictally thinks it a good idea, we will be all worse off, fact
The problem is that people weighed up options. But they were not the options that now matter.
So what you are saying is you didn't weigh up all of the options? Half the nation voted to remain. This is the net result, and proof that democracy isn't perfect.
You're very honest. The PM's been trying to make a deal for months, but self-interested MPs, SNP zealouts, ex PM's and of course Macron, Verhofstadt et al, have been trying to do the opposite.
We were always going to lose out, the EU has far more clout than Britain on its own and far more people to spread the mess around.
Did you weigh it up for your own selfishness? Or was for the futures of the UK's children?
I thought there’d be less football on TV once we’d voted ourselves out of Europe!
A bit harsh, why am I a fool?
You having a tough night seems legit?
is it double bluff, to make bojo look like a winner
So much for walking away - there will be a deal because Trump is out and the chess board pieces have moved. Bottom line is it will be a deal, a cr%p one for us but a deal, and it will be paraded as the best deal ever and the usual suspects will believe it.
Such a waste of time and effort to be worse off!
Such a waste of time and effort to be worse off!
The referendum vote said differently, and this has been endorced by the last election.
So then all the UK would have needed to do would have been to decide whether or not to remain outside the monetary union as the EU back it up with political union or merge into the United States of Europe.
Either way the infamous 'Status Quo' could not have been maintained.
What would your choice have been?
Either way the infamous 'Status Quo' could not have been maintained.
What would your choice have been?
The UK wants to leave. Unfortunately when it comes to territorial access, having a say in UK domestic law and jurisdiction of its own courts it sounds like the EU wants the UK to stay.
Seems to me it is not those that voted leave, that have been complaining all these years. It is not those that voted leave seeking to delay and delay by any means.
No deal is better than the EU deal.
No fishing in UK waters for the EU. Watch the French cry,
EU forced to check goods from RoI or force RoI to break the GFA.
This is what the country needs. Fun and games.
Just remember civilised people understand countries have borders.
Why is a GFA agreement required?
Decide which side to live and show your passport when entering another country.
No hard!
No fishing in UK waters for the EU. Watch the French cry,
EU forced to check goods from RoI or force RoI to break the GFA.
This is what the country needs. Fun and games.
Just remember civilised people understand countries have borders.
Why is a GFA agreement required?
Decide which side to live and show your passport when entering another country.
No hard!
Politically correct photograph at the top of this article suggest's the UK PM is in darkness as the EU is in Daylight. What's the Time Zone between the UK and Europe. Do the BBC Know????
Hardly, UK employs photographer who has some artistic freedoms ... EU Gosford soft frontal lighting as a courtesy to avoid harsh wrinkles and an EU flag so we know roughly who she is.
If you took the time to look you would see they are both in closed rooms with different types of lighting. Doh.
BBC breaching its own impartiality rules with that one, I'm afraid..... they really need to bring back Clarkson so he can punch impartial correspondants in the face :)
You think calling you a fool is harsh?? Thats the lightest I could of gone given the BBC HYS mod bots quick response to anything stronger Ahahaha snowflake.
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No good thanks, you xox
Brexit isn’t a Tory policy, it was the public’s decision. The EU needs the uk market. They will not cripple their export market, they will do a deal. Tariffs will not happen, can you imagine tariffs on all German car imports to the uk in retaliation. Not gonna happen.
The best deal was being in the EU. You voted out. What are you complaining about?
Two possibilities ... both will work out.
What was on the back of your cigarette packet?
The usual diatribe,in need of bog roll to wipe clean
The usual diatribe,in need of bog roll to wipe clean
that is quite simply not a fact just your opinion, problem is too many people can't tell the difference. Even though they've been told by democratic opinion over and over again. Live with it. In case you don't understand democracy, more people have a different opinion to you and they won. Several times.
Wow, someone who predicts the future....and calls it a 'fact'.
Ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha.
You know, i hear from a lot of remainers talking to brexiteers that simply saying "fact" at the end of a sentence does not, in itself, make that sentence factual!
In fact, what you claim as fact, cant be determined as fact at all - its a prediction at best, and one I expect is tainted by your own biased opinion of the situation.
But you already knew that because remainers are so clever... right?
In fact, what you claim as fact, cant be determined as fact at all - its a prediction at best, and one I expect is tainted by your own biased opinion of the situation.
But you already knew that because remainers are so clever... right?
Fingers crossed for No Deal
So I’m too stupid to vote - I’m certainly not too stupid to vote for a party that has your elitist ideology
You having a tough night seems legit?
Living the dream
Nah, the French are being the typical French. Trying to play at being big boys of the EU, there are a few countries who have fishing high up on heir agendas but France want that little extra freebie. So much for democracy in the EU. Merkel must be cursing little Macron, lol.
You could be right. Macron has a domestic audience to please and as it stands it's fairly likely his main opponent at the next election will be Front National. Looking strong now might keep those who'd be half-tempted by Le Pen in the second round of voting sweet.
I agree, they've regretted not listening to De Gaulle re why UK should be kept out. Sure enough, UK was never a full partner, never more than half-in with all the opt-outs & special treatments.
Not just the French, UK's most-pampered-nation status annoyed a lot of members—so there are many more quietly behind Macron in this, he's not hanging himself out on a limb over a few fish. Ie not a cod.
Not just the French, UK's most-pampered-nation status annoyed a lot of members—so there are many more quietly behind Macron in this, he's not hanging himself out on a limb over a few fish. Ie not a cod.
Macron's up to le neck with domestic problems, like his new security bill (riots in Paris today) and his internal ethenicity and religious problems.
Shoutng 'fish' or 'poisson' in the same way Sturgeon shouts 'It's all Westminster's fault', is the best he can do at present in the misdirection and distraction front.
Shoutng 'fish' or 'poisson' in the same way Sturgeon shouts 'It's all Westminster's fault', is the best he can do at present in the misdirection and distraction front.
The French, as one of their ministers stated yesterday, are firmly of the opinion that those choosing to leave the EU must be seen to suffer “ pour encourager les autres “. Ergo the UK must be punished. Their thinking is pure politics and nothing to do with mutually beneficial trade deals.
they all 27 have a veto. Though hard core leavers pretend we gave them up in the Lisbon treaty. Where's the Norway Leave Johnson and Farage pushed in 2016? And Labour in 2017 and 2019? leaver lied
Politically correct photograph at the top of this article suggest's the UK PM is in darkness as the EU is in Daylight. What's the Time Zone between the UK and Europe. Do the BBC Know????
Politically correct photograph at the top of this article suggest's the UK PM is in darkness as the EU is in Daylight. What's the Time Zone between the UK and Europe. Do the BBC Know????
I think one thing is clear. Both the EU and Remainers are panicking more than the UK about a no deal.
That is because they value the economy more highly than the Brexiteers who think that sovereignty is more important even if it carries a high economic price.
I think after 4 years, and having left, it's time to stop splitting the country by how they voted on a single issue on one day. Let's move on.
How so?
Probable consequences of no deal:
we leave on bad terms with our neighbours and principal trading partners;
because of Irish problems we have bad relations with the US, our 2nd trading partner;
there is substantial short term disruption to trade and travel;
there is long term economic damage on top of Covid;
we endanger the Union.
And the up side is?
we leave on bad terms with our neighbours and principal trading partners;
because of Irish problems we have bad relations with the US, our 2nd trading partner;
there is substantial short term disruption to trade and travel;
there is long term economic damage on top of Covid;
we endanger the Union.
And the up side is?
The upside, if you can call it that, is that the Leave voters will suffer the worst. If you're into schadenfreude.
I mean, if they couldn't compete with foreign labour for minimum wage jobs, a Brexit and Covid-impoverished country certainly isn't going to start throwing money at them now.
I mean, if they couldn't compete with foreign labour for minimum wage jobs, a Brexit and Covid-impoverished country certainly isn't going to start throwing money at them now.
The up side is Scotland gets freedom after 300 years and we can blame Boris for it!
Most of your points are irrelevant since it's out of our hands and we just have to be adult enough to deal with them. But you are close with, endangering the European Union; but once again that's down to the EU's behaviour and we've no control over that. You should be asking the EU for what reason they are trying for no deal, and what they see as the up side.
All this is unfortunately quite possible
The upside, no one has given me a sensible explanation of what the upside is either.
Wish I had your crystal ball. Any chance of the lottery numbers?
We'll be free mate, that was the point. US, so what, that's Biden playing the more Irish than thee card to his voter base, let's see what actually happens when he takes office (though at 77 that could be chancy?). Bad terms with Macron and Verhofstadt of course, the rest, nah! Covid, everyone's dealing with it, try and be more positive, it'll make you feel or warm and fluffy inside :).
The ipside is that Scotland gets its independence at long last. Yehhhhh.
The upsideis nil. Look at the Brexit brigade. E. G. Complete twits like reesmoog, eustice, cash, thinly veiled fascists like baker , ids, farage narcissts like johnson, gove, patel and compeltely uneducated absolite chumps like much of the north, essex and absilite farkin stinkpits like Dudley and stoke.....
the upside is China does not forget, India has its own problems, NZ is more aligned with the social democracies of Norther Europe....actually a lot are nor enamoured with Britains past and present.
Any half wit can see see Brexit is a disaster apart from that priviliged school boy from Eton absoluteley hopeless voted Brexit on the basis of immigration
If the Covid-19 vaccine is produced in Belgium and need to be deep frozen will Brexit affect delivery? Been scratching my head for a benefit and the only thing I can up with is maybe they'll kick us out of the Eurovision song contest.
Its very very very very very small but it will be brexiters trying to explain why all you have listed is somehow a good thing... try to dodge the spittle coming out of their mouths..
The upside is that we will begin a new journey together. You are probably right in what you say - the journey be fraught with hardship and sacrifice but through that I honestly think we will discover a new identity as a completely independent nation - an identity that will belong to all of us, no matter where you came from prior to Brexit. It will be something we can all own.
Well just a little matter of controlling your borders and regaining sovereignty - controlling labour supply - the uk voted for Brexit and has a perfect right to undertake Brexit and can’t base its whole policy on Ireland and others national interest - there could well be a significant upside for Brexit -
Bojo about to cave in
Useless at everything he does
Useless at everything he does
So long and thanks for all the fish
and come Jan 1st, Don't Panic
Trouble is nobody eats it!
No deal is better than the EU deal.
No fishing in UK waters for the EU. Watch the French cry,
EU forced to check goods from RoI or force RoI to break the GFA.
This is what the country needs. Fun and games.
Just remember civilised people understand countries have borders.
Why is a GFA agreement required?
Decide which side to live and show your passport when entering another country.
No hard!
No fishing in UK waters for the EU. Watch the French cry,
EU forced to check goods from RoI or force RoI to break the GFA.
This is what the country needs. Fun and games.
Just remember civilised people understand countries have borders.
Why is a GFA agreement required?
Decide which side to live and show your passport when entering another country.
No hard!
They can talk until 23.59 hours CET. December 31ste but it will be no deal since they do not have the same objective.
The best deal was being in the EU. You voted out. What are you complaining about?
Just because people voted for Brexit doesn't mean it's a good thing, especially when they were undeniably lied to on a scale never before seen in UK politics. Literally every significant "benefit" of Brexit has been proven to be false. Meanwhile the list of negatives is as long as my arm.
Oh and for your information, more people voted for anti Brexit & 2nd ref parties at the last election.
Oh and for your information, more people voted for anti Brexit & 2nd ref parties at the last election.
What's the point?
Do they think that another 24 hours is going to make any difference after 4.5 years?
The French will veto any deal anyway, so just walk away; no deal / WTO
Do they think that another 24 hours is going to make any difference after 4.5 years?
The French will veto any deal anyway, so just walk away; no deal / WTO
If the French do, I wonder if they'll be treated as well as Hungary and Poland.
No good thanks, you xox
Good stuff, keep living it :)
Politically correct photograph at the top of this article suggest's the UK PM is in darkness as the EU is in Daylight. What's the Time Zone between the UK and Europe. Do the BBC Know????
Living the dream
Ooooooo, big trouble in little china is on the box, so happy tv.
We voted for a full Brexit, Mat did nothing and Boris has lost it, The seas are ours and they trade with us on our terms and all of our armed forces return home apart from Cyprus and Gibraltar. Any Gallic and German fury will hit their economies so hard as we export to them half of what we import; how about a 50%tarrif on German cars and French wine? We want global freedom now.
That is all nonsense. Britain is a tiny country, the shortfall in income to the EU could be easily absorbed.
Can you find an adult to translate for you please?
Can you find an adult to translate for you please?
So long and thanks for all the fish
Dear EU, you're required to give the UK an FTA. You've been offered one. Take it or risk the entire Withdrawal Agreement going in the bin...
For a man that said all along that England would do great out of a no deal, then why is he trying so hard to get a deal! No one believed him then and no one believes him now...Maybe with D.J Trump gone panic/realisation is starting to set in. Sleepless nights Boris? all of a sudden Teresa May's deal seems like a real good idea now?
Maybe, because unlike yourself, he's trying to be reasonable and give it all he can.
No deal is better option EU not going to agree for free trade agreements. EU self more goods than UK sell goods to EU. Its will cost European countries on exports tariffs in billions than UK. UK government can't afford to compromise on redline.
By your logic, let's all go for a meal, shall we? You bring along 3 of your mates. To make it fair, you pay £20, and us other 4 pay £40. We are paying more, so it's worse for us.
Of course, the £40 is split between 4, and your £20 is coming from you alone. Great.
Of course, the £40 is split between 4, and your £20 is coming from you alone. Great.
Under no-deal, UK will charge tariffs on all EU imports. That's on top of the cost of administering all the new paperwork created. Businesses will pass that on to you and me by increasing prices.
A no deal will bring hardships to the EU and UK. For Politicians to be considering this in the middle of the financial chaos of Covid is an altogether different level of madness.
So long and thanks for all the fish
Time to put your big boy pants on Johnson and get this deal done - fishing, sovereignty this is not 1930 Boris but the economy will look that way if you screw this up!
Who cares?
We will be back in within 10 years.
Pointless exercise.
We will be back in within 10 years.
Pointless exercise.
To what point ? There is no way that the UK can give more in the face of EU demands, and the EU, for political reasons of their own, presumably, refuse to be reasonable in negotiations, so nothing can change. Leave them to stew and revisit this when we've finished creating trade agreements everywhere else. No point in wasting more time on awkward entitled nations/blocks.
Come on Boris, if anyone can do it you can. Do not let johnny foreigner bully us. Send em packing back home old chap.
Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.
A pint of ale to our great leader, working hard in to the night to keep this country safe. Doing what we elected him to do by a rather large mandate too. Good chap.
Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.
A pint of ale to our great leader, working hard in to the night to keep this country safe. Doing what we elected him to do by a rather large mandate too. Good chap.
Well lets pray Boris can do all he can to make sure domestic laws are never made outside of our fine country ever again. Our coasts will be safe with Patel at the helm standing ready to shoot anyone who dares to enter our Waters. The White cliffs of dover can take that massive Job Centre Plus sign down at last
THIS IS A SERIOUS RISK IN PROCEEDINGS AND A SERIOUS RISK THAT BREXIT MIGHT BE DERAILED.
Please cancel this nonsense, put Brexit in the BIN
Please cancel this nonsense, put Brexit in the BIN
FRANCE so much for EUunity when they are only interested in whats in it for them...Now tell them to go do one and let us go WTO
Another HYS on this? Surely there can't be anything for the EU-luvies to write which they haven't already been blathering on about for the last 4 years.
Go back to your Daily Express.
They're commenting on the problems most Brexiteers either think don't exist or don't matter that much.
The people who now have the actual responsibility for this country's short to medium term future also see it differently from ardent WTO Brexiteers - and they're not thinking much of JRM's longer term 'it'll all be ok in 50yrs' either.
The people who now have the actual responsibility for this country's short to medium term future also see it differently from ardent WTO Brexiteers - and they're not thinking much of JRM's longer term 'it'll all be ok in 50yrs' either.
The word is Boris has agreed to EU terms but this weekend is all about saving Boris from his own party.
Says who? What 'word'? Something you've heard from a geezer dahn the pub. Name your source? Wasn't BBC, Labour or SNP staffers was it?
Wrong.
Brexit is a terrible mistake.
Europe’s a wonderful place.
It’s where we all belong economically & emotionally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a23945btJYw&t=39s
Europe’s a wonderful place.
It’s where we all belong economically & emotionally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a23945btJYw&t=39s
We still will be able to travel there, work there, and importantly trade with each other. How do you think this happened before we joined and how non EU countries get on.
Stop smoking the carpet mate, your sounding really spaced out.
In your small minded opinion.
Hilarious BBC imagery... so now Boris is Darth Vader
Worth pointing out if there is no deal agreed this year, there will be next year as we will trade with each other. Once both sides see the folly of their ways they will go rushing back to the negotiation talks, especially if it all goes pear shaped. Once UK prices go up cos of tariffs and the EU not selling to us. In the long run there is no such thing as a no deal.
We are more than happy to trade with the EU. The EU on the other hand are more concerned with controlling us.
'Cos of tariffs'? Economic expert are you, or sinking one too many cans on the couch?
Yeah but whovwill be hurting the most by that time. Not the EU!
A trade deal can take up to ten years to sort out without a deadline.
Trade tariffs a month away, I wonder how much more a BMW will cost.
Don't care, sick of these and Mercs and Audis coming up my backside all the time and passing at 80 or 90, as though they own the road...just like the EU thinks it owns the UK?
You don't think for one minute, that Mr Macron may be doing all this huffing and puffing to save la France's fishing and its propensity to subsidise its industries, because he is a deeply devisive and unpopular person in France?
'Dozens of protesters have clashed with police in the French capital Paris in fresh demonstrations against a controversial draft security law.'
Who'd have thought?
'Dozens of protesters have clashed with police in the French capital Paris in fresh demonstrations against a controversial draft security law.'
Who'd have thought?
They are only fashion accessoires anyway
As I don't intend to but one not a problem. Might be for the people on the shopfloor at BMW though.
Who cares?
We will be back in within 10 years.
Pointless exercise.
We will be back in within 10 years.
Pointless exercise.
Walking political zombie and routinely sacked clapped out has been British Prime Minister versus consumate successful European business woman and leader of a modern forward thinking Europe.
For a man that said all along that England would do great out of a no deal, then why is he trying so hard to get a deal! No one believed him then and no one believes him now...Maybe with D.J Trump gone panic/realisation is starting to set in. Sleepless nights Boris? all of a sudden Teresa May's deal seems like a real good idea now?
THIS IS A SERIOUS RISK IN PROCEEDINGS AND A SERIOUS RISK THAT BREXIT MIGHT BE DERAILED.
Please cancel this nonsense, put Brexit in the BIN
Please cancel this nonsense, put Brexit in the BIN
I'd assumed the phone call was to tell each other what compromises will be made, so the teams can reconvene to say those to each other, and finish the deal. But having watched Ursula's clip above, she doesn't look as cheerful as she might. That suggests to me that there is a substantive problem and they don't have a secret way out!