Brilliant article by Mark Steel. Feckin' hilarious and particularly loved this bit in Trump bragging about Saudi purchasing $450bn worth of 'things': "It seems for $450bn worth of things, the Saudis are allowed (allegedly) to kill opponents and invade Yemen. Maybe for $50m worth of things you can blow up the odd bus, and if you’re Somalia, you can buy £20 worth of things which entitles you to shout “****er!” at your opponent out of a bus." https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...m-a8590816.html?amp&__twitter_impression=true
Now they empty a clip into somebody's face and lie to the subsequent enquiry. Yes, I'm still aghast that the CPS barred a verdict of unlawful killing at the Jean Charles De Menezes enquiry.
Just picked up on the Johnny Mercer MP 'Mays Brexit '****show' interview doing the rounds, and looked back at his pre-referendum position on the subject - and found this article. https://www.totalpolitics.com/artic...ercer-and-rishi-sunak-pick-their-sides-brexit Wise words from a young independent patriotic man - contrasting violently with the utterances of his colleague, whose own words have never looked so hollow as they do right now. Mercer could be the future of a better British political class. Unfortunately it looks as if he may be lost from politics altogether.
Oh, Yea God's!! He's now supporting a Candidate who assaulted - and was convicted - a Guardian journalist in an attack that even Fox News found disturbing! Please Montana, don't fall for this ****!! https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news...guardian-ben-jacobs?__twitter_impression=true
Personally I do not want this Brexit debacle to go on forever, which it will unless a decisive move is made. Any deal will be a bad deal. Go for clean Brexit. Then impose zero tariffs unilaterally on the EU, i.e. Open trade borders with the EU. Then it is up to them how they deal with the Irish issue. If it goes tits-up, go cap in hand and apply to rejoin. If it works, then excellent.
1. (TM - RDBD) . 2. With a statement of intent "in general" (that could change from sector to sector based on the EU response etc) . "Then it is up to them how they deal with the Irish issue." From what I can see, the next big issue would be the EU could attempt to claim that non-EU compliant "sub-standard" goods can come across the border via Northern Ireland to the RoI (and thus EU land) . However I doubt there is significant financial benefit for any UK producer to make such goods, as there is far more business on the mainland than in the RoI. So this would be EU politnik sh*te. The more I look at it, the more this "hard border" stuff looks like a last throw of the dice by the EU.
Here's the issue with going cap in hand: the EU would have us over a shoddily-constructed barrel of our own construction, so could quite happily state that if we want back in the club we'd have to join the Euro - although considering the pound has gone from £1.40 against the Euro to just 87p in the past two years, we've effectively joined the Euro already courtesy of Boris, Gove and Farage
?? I was working for a client in the EU from Q4 2014 to the beginning of 2016. And was paid in Euros. During that time, the exchange rate went from GBP:EUR of 1:1.27 to a high of 1:1.44 and then back to 1:1.28 . Where it stabilised for 5 months until the referendum result.
The exchange rate in Feb 2016 was 1:1.27 . Please feel free to show us as why to the exchange rate variation over the period I said (5-18 months before the actual referendum) was anything other than the usual ebb and flow of the "markets" .
Right here: https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/bank-of-england-spot/historical-spot-exchange-rates/gbp/GBP-to-EUR Note the considerable and sustained drop between Q2 of 2016 and any time since then
