Off Topic UK / EU Future

Yeah - maybe...... That involves telling the countries that import, tariff free, 85% of all fish the UK fleet catches that their boats are no longer welcome in our waters. I'm not 100% convinced that one's going to work.

 

Yes... Will be part of any trade negotiations with EU so will be a trade off

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The PM loses the vote on support for the way she is handling the Brexit talks. Brussels will have watched and seen that once again there is no support for any single route to leave the EU. This is the tenth time she has been defeated, yet she still has nothing new to offer. France is suggesting that an extension would receive approval, but it would be a long one of 21 months, something that has been mooted in the UK recently. No doubt we will hear the government blaming the EU, the Labour party, or anyone else they can try and shift the blame to for their own mess. Meanwhile business is already wondering what to do. Should they enter into contracts when they haven't a clue what will happen next?

 

The UK is clearly suffering due to the uncertainty over Brexit, can you explain why the EU is heading for a recession and why unemployment is so high in France, Spain Italy etc?

 

My house has got dry rot - but rather than discuss it I'm going to laugh at my neighbour who's got Japanese Knotweed.

 

So the financial health of the trading block that many wish to deny democracy for to remain part of is of no consequence?

You are joking?

 

It sounds a disaster up your road, I advise moving.

 

Of course it is of consequence. But not as serious right now as the failure of our Parliament to give any certainty whatsoever about the biggest political issue facing this country in 60 years. If this was going well I suspect we would hear less about what happens elsewhere.

 

The media not reallly roasting the tories over any of this farce ? What a shower of holes they all are , one big cess pit of privileged people who can’t handle the mess they’ve made

 

My feeling is that 27 countries are united, despite their problems, in being able to agree how to conduct discussions with a UK that doesn't actually have a clear view of what it does want. Parliament is split in so many ways, throughout the parties, they are reflecting the referendum result. You cannot tell me that everyone who voted to leave had the same view that you hold. Many would have been taken in by the it will all be so easy and you will not notice the difference claims. Today we have seen that even the militant tendency of the Tories cannot agree a common position. How many more companies taking money out of the UK, or companies saying they are relocating to Europe does it take before you start to question if you have been sold a pup?

 

In an escalation of tensions, Richard Harrington, one of May’s business ministers, even suggested MPs in the ERG should join Ukip.

“The prime minister has done a pretty good job of standing up to them up till now, but they were drinking champagne to celebrate her losing her deal and I regard that as being treachery,” he told the House magazine.

“I read that Nigel Farage is setting up a new party called ‘Brexit’ and if I were them I’d be looking at that, because that seems to reflect their views more than the Conservative party does. They should read carefully what that party’s got to offer, because in my view they’re not Conservatives.

“There are people who are very solid and stringent in their views and if I were they I would be looking at a party that seems designed for them – Nigel Farage’s party.”

This surely is the truth. For years they have tried to drag the Tory Party in their direction, and have not really been inclined to put the country first, but make sure that their particular agenda, takes over from a party that once ruled for all, not just the rich. Despite his financial support for the Tories, SH has admitted it is not for government, but for this right wing grouping of people who really would be better bed fellows with Farage than the party. Instead of spending more money for an an election appeal SH, start passing over your cash to Farage who you admire so much that you think he should be knighted.

 

Can you answer the question?

 

Desperate nonsense

 

We were discussing what had been going on in Westminster, and you tried as usual to divert attention from the chaos within your party. Let me ask you a question. Which faction of the Tories are you supporting tonight?

 

What is nonsense? One of you government ministers suggesting that there is no real place anymore for the right wing nutters?

 

So you are not willing to explain why much of the EU has slower growth, higher unemployment and dodgy extreme politics.

You derided the ERG group for having no influence, well clearly that is not the case tonight. They represent most Conservative voters and many Labour voters. Remainer May has allowed herself to be manipulated by those who would like to defy the will of the people. If a sensible deal cannot be achieved with the EU's negotiators then we should leave without a formal deal. To rule out a no deal scenario is a sign of weakness.

 

No, suggesting the 27 nations are united when the French ambassador has been recalled from Italy, unprecedented since WW2. They are fighting like rats in a barrel.

 

Maybe you should look at the latest growth tables which show that the UK is actually doing rather poorly, and well below the the EU average.

You have no proof that the ERG represent the views of most Tory voters. They might have a following amongst Tory members, but as we know they are a very small, and decreasing number. What is this weakness you talk about? The UK is numerically rather a small entity compared to the EU. Why do you think that Japan is playing you along, saying that they will not give you as good a deal as you currently have? Sorry but despite what you were told, you don't hold all the cards.

 

For decades the people in the poorest areas of Britain have been duped by the Tories, and the right wing media, into thinking that the reason they were poor was because the EU had been taking away their money ! Their reaction to this incessant propaganda is what you call 'The Will of the People' - led on by an ultra Thatcherite right wing fringe group which would use the votes of such deluded people in order to strip away what remaining rights they have. Talk about the turkeys voting for Christmas. The ERG are like a Cancer growth within the party and TM's mistake is in humouring them - you do not talk to cancer growths, you cut them out by any means possible.

 

I suggest that maybe you should catch up with the actuality of what is going on. Have you been back to your favourite news sources again?