Off Topic UK / EU Future

Latest opinion polls in Germany show the Greens on 22%, making them the second most popular party - as we have been for the last 10 surveys. With Angela Merkel giving her last speech as leader of the CDU today the overall picture here could be changing. Something of a distraction I know, but if SH. can do it so can I.

 

What is the AfD's polling rate?

 

Martial Law taking over in riot ravaged France?

It must be true it is in The Express


MACRON CRISIS: President may be replaced by ARMY GENERAL - 'right-wing is REAL WINNER'EMMANUEL Macron could be replaced by a French Army General as tensions between the...

 

On Wiki it gives Germany Greens on 20% with the AfD on 14%

 

I struggle to believe the date on that rag. Proper bastion of truthful, unbiased reporting... NOT.

 

Wikipedia only have running polls SH. The latest poll (7.12) shows.
CDU 29%
SPD 14%
Bundnis 90 die Grünen (Green) 22%
FDP 8%
Die Linke 8%
AfD 13%
Others 6%
All parties with over 5% of the popular vote come into the Bundestag.

 

So it is now admitted that stockpiling six weeks of medicines will not be enough with the chaos in Kent likely to go on for six months. The government would do far better to invest money into the NHS rather than buying space to store these items. 1,000 less doctors rather than the 5,000 promised, 3 weeks for an appointment. Priorities totally wrong. Cancel the whole ridiculous experiment, and tell people that the money can be spent on improving their lives.

 

There'll be no point in getting all that medicine as the way it's going there'll be no nurses to administer it.... To be fair that isn't all down to Brexit but it sure as hell hasn't helped matters.

 

The French are bound to induce difficulties at the ports until those French areas with already very high unemployment demand their government stops the shenanigans to prevent further suffering to their inhabitants. No wonder the far right have strongholds in these Northern areas.

 

It doesn't matter how or why such events happen, none of them would have done under the current arrangements. Stop trying to blame others for something that you didn't worry about when you voted.

 

I fully appreciated the capacity for the French to cause disruption, I have witnessed it before at the ports. Most Brexiteers knew there would be some hassle especially with a no deal scenario but well worth it to be free of the dysfunctional EU claptrap.

 

The French will find it easy to cause the UK lots of disruption, they have perfected it so well on themselves!!!

90,000 to be deployed this weekend, this is almost total anarchy. It makes the UK's political woes seem like a picnic.

Eiffel Tower closed as Paris braces for worst 'yellow vests' protests

 

90,000 police

 

With most of France's police on duty in Paris the burglars will be out in force around the country tomorrow.

 

Lord Howard now saying that we should prepare to leave without a deal - and then accept all EU goods with no tariffs or new documentation even if the EU doesn't reciprocate. I can definitely see the logic in that but a) I don't think EU businesses will be allowed to send to us under current arrangements whereby they are obliged by EU rules to have different documentation and procedures (certainly for agriculture and fisheries) and b) it won't go down well with UK businesses trading with the EU if they don't see reciprocity. On the plus side it's good to see someone seeking to build bridges in a pragmatic and constructive way.

 

The big flaw in his suggestion is that a trade deal along the lines of the Canada one is that it could be done in 12 months. Although he might be trying to help, it looks like a further method of creating even more chaos. How could our exporters work without a transition, something that will not exist without acceptance of the withdrawal agreement?

 

"I think you would mess it all up for us, the way you have messed it all up for yourselves." Heidi Nordby Lunde, president of Norway's European Movement, is sceptical about calls for the UK to strike a Norway-style deal with the EU.

 

Is France the next member state to leave the EU?

FREXIT? French protesters call for EU EXIT as Macron fails to control DEADLY Paris riotsYELLOW vest protesters in Paris have been calling for France to leave the European...

 

Yes - it'll happen on the same day Vince Cable becomes Prime Minister.

 

Vince who?