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[url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/22/greg-clark-free-movement-uk-workers-eu-vital-brexit]UK Business Secretary calls for freedom of movement for UK workers in the EU27[/url]
Yet at the same time they want to block free movement from the EU into the UK. The “have your cake and eat it too” mentality just gets more detached from reality every day.
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Entitled thinking.
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[link=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/britains-russia-collusion-scandal-looks-just-like-trumps.html]Jonathan Chait[/link]: [b]Britain’s collusion scandal looks exactly like Trump’s[/b]
The most important thing to understand about the Russia scandal is that it perfectly fits a clear pattern of behavior. What Vladimir Putin is accused of doing to help Donald Trump win the presidency is essentially identical to what he is either accused of or proven to have done to help many other right-wing candidates in many other countries. As the plot in the United States is slowly exposed, a remarkably similar one in the United Kingdom is quickly surfacing.
Months before the United States narrowly elected Trump, the United Kingdom narrowly elected to withdraw from the European Union. Both votes advanced Russian foreign policy goals in the latter case, by splitting up the Western alliance. (Trump has energetically pursued this strategy, too.) Russia employed many of the same tools to influence both elections. It deployed social-media bots and trolls to spread its message. It recruited friendly candidates who gave voice to previously marginal Russophile positions. And, as the newly surfaced evidence suggests, it indirectly financed the campaign.
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Not to be the turd in the punch bowl…
Responding to the trolls just makes them want to troll some more.
It they have nothing to contribute just ignore them.Sometimes you have to call out the loud liars and bullies. Being politely silent gives them the podium with no decent response. So the Flat Earthers and Birthers and Climate Deniers, the Haters, those who declare immigrants are all criminals and sub-humans, etc, etc, etc are given the stage as if their arguments have equal footing in reality and facts. This is about ignorance and white supremacy among other things.
They re NOT entitled to their own set of facts because their own set of facts are based on hatred and lies and are patently false.
[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/free-speech-just-access.html]https://www.nytimes.com/2…peech-just-access.html[/link]
On June 17, the political commentator Ann Coulter, appearing as a guest on Fox News, asserted that crying migrant children separated from their parents are [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/06/18/migrant-kids-are-child-actors-ann-coulter-says-on-fox-news-telling-trump-not-to-be-fooled/]child actors[/link]. Does this groundless claim deserve as much airtime as, for example, a historically informed argument from Ta-Nehisi Coates that structural racism makes the American dream possible?
We may feel certain that Coulter (is) wrong, but some people feel the same way about Coates and Manne. And everyone once felt certain that the Earth was the center of the solar system. Even if Coulter and Peterson are wrong, wont we have a deeper understanding of why racism and sexism are mistaken if we have to think for ourselves about their claims? And whos to say that there isnt some small fragment of truth in what they say?
If this specious line of thought seems at all plausible to you, it is because of the influence of On Liberty, published in 1859 by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill. Mills argument for near-absolute freedom of speech is seductively simple. Any given opinion that someone expresses is either wholly true, partly true or false.
The problem with Mills argument is that he takes for granted a naïve conception of rationality that he inherited from Enlightenment thinkers like René Descartes. For such philosophers, there is one ahistorical rational method for discovering truth, and humans (properly educated) are approximately equal in their capacity for appreciating these truths. We know that of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed, Descartes assures us, because even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.
What harm is there in people hearing obvious falsehoods and specious argumentation if any sane and minimally educated person can see through them? The problem, though, is that humans are not rational in the way Mill assumes…I wish everyone knew that it is irrational to deny the evidence that there was a mass shooting in Sandy Hook, but a syndicated radio talk show host can make a career out of [link=https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/23/us/alex-jones-sandy-hook-suit/index.html]arguing for the contrary[/link].
However, our situation is very different from that of Mill. We are seeing the worsening of a trend that the 20th century German-American philosopher Herbert Marcuse [link=https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm]warned of back in 1965[/link]: In endlessly dragging debates over the media, the stupid opinion is treated with the same respect as the intelligent one, the misinformed may talk as long as the informed, and propaganda rides along with education, truth with falsehood. This form of free speech, ironically, supports the tyranny of the majority.
the top colleges and universities that invite Charles Murray to share his [link=https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-murray-race-iq-sam-harris-science-free-speech]junk science defenses of innate racial differences[/link] in intelligence (including Columbia and New York University) are not promoting fair and balanced discourse.
To award space in a campus lecture hall to someone like Peterson who says that feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination, or to give time on a television news show to someone like Coulter who asserts that in an ideal world all Americans would convert to Christianity, or to interview a D-list actor like Jenny McCarthy about her view that actual scientists are wrong about the public health benefits of vaccines is not to display admirable intellectual open-mindedness. It is to take a positive stand that these views are within the realm of defensible rational discourse, and that these people are worth taking seriously as thinkers.
Neither is true: These views are specious, and those who espouse them are, at best, ignorant, at worst, sophists. The invincibly ignorant and the intellectual huckster have every right to express their opinions, but their right to free speech is not the right to an audience.
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[link=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/08/arron-banks-met-russian-ambassador-11-times-lucrative-deals]https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/…ucrative-deals[/link]
[b]Revealed: Arron Banks met Russian ambassador 11 times [/b] [align=left] [b]The Leave.EU founder was offered lucrative deals in talks with the envoy[/b]
Brexits biggest funder, [link=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arron-banks][color=”#ab0613″]Arron Banks[/color][/link], met the Russian ambassador at least 11 times in the run-up to the EU referendum and in the two months beyond, documents seen by the [i]Observer[/i] suggest seven more times than he has admitted. The same documents suggest the Russian embassy extended a further four invitations but it is not known if they were accepted.
It is the third time the number of such meetings has been revised upwards. For two years, Banks insisted his only contacts with the Russian government consisted of one boozy lunch with the ambassador. After the [i]Observer[/i] revealed a month ago [link=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/09/arron-banks-russia-brexit-meeting][color=”#ab0613″]that he had had multiple meetings[/color][/link] at which he had been offered lucrative business deals, Banks told a parliamentary inquiry into fake news he had had two or three meetings. Last week, when pressed by the [i]New York Times[/i], he admitted a fourth meeting. But the [i]Observer [/i]has seen evidence that suggests there were at least seven more. When questioned about this, Banks offered no response.[/align]
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Russian money is greasing up a lot of events.
“I’m a patriotic Nationalist!” But that doesn’t stop me from accepting good money from Russians just because it undermines the government and democracy of my country. That just makes me a Capitalist, no? And money is a First Amendment “Free Speech” action, no?-
Its not too complicated
The goal of Putin and Russia is to undo all post WW2 European alliances that they lost following the Cold War
They want complete European influence
Cant say I blame them but its certainly not in our best interests or the best interests of the rest of world
trump is truly their useful idiot
Its not real complicated
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[url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44761056]Brexit Minister and his Deputy resign[/url], says UK “less and less likely” to leave the customs union and single market.
Some Remain-supporting politicians said the resignation was evidence of the need for a second referendum.
Baron Adonis, a prominent backer of a second vote, [link=https://twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/1016092184829886465]tweeted[/link]: “People’s Vote to put Brexit out of its misery a big step closer after DD’s resignation. Now the Brexiteers holding Mrs May hostage are falling out, there isn’t a majority for any withdrawal treaty in Parliament.”
The Liberal Democrats called on people to sign a petition for a vote on the proposed deal, adding: “The resignation of David Davis is yet more evidence of the chaos of this Tory Brexit. You deserve the final say on this shambolic Brexit with the chance to stay in the EU.” -
[link]https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44770847[/link]
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If the Brexit has taught me anything about the British it’s that they are indecisive. Pull the trigger already.
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As if it had been that easy. Also consider that the Brexiteers promised a painless divorce the would allow Britain to have its cake and eat it too. So any plan is going to make people upset, especially those who voted for Brexit under the impression it was painless & there would be more $ for the British public and the Brits would be able to cross EU borders at will while the EU people would have to go through British immigration & the brown immigrants would be denied entrance. And then there are EU regulations that have to be untangled for businesses because it’s not like you can overnight declare them null and void; would that mean de-regulations or new regulations? And how about any business with the EU, it’s not as if it would stop overnight.
None of the plans were easy or realistic which is why they are still tangled. And the Brexiteers want May to take the fall for their false promises.-
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As if it had been that easy.
Not meaning it’s easy but you have to pick one way or the other, right? If you drive the boat straight at the iceberg and don’t turn starboard or port you’re in for some trouble.
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The problem is the promises made by the Brexiteers were never true. Remember the day after the Brexit vote, Boris & all the Brexiteers were all like the dog that caught the tire. Now what? They had no clue. The plan was to be the loyal opposition to the EU & gain a reputation for criticizing everything about the EU and how Britain was being shafted. But then they caught the car & now had to pay up with their promises. Except they had no plan to win because that would have been the disaster it is. So their solution is to quit in “protest” at every opportunity because that is all they have.
There is no plan for Brexit. There is only the snake oil they sold because actually completely exiting the EU is both a tangle and a disaster. And largely because of the promises made that it would not only be painless, it would all be “winnninggg!” to use Trump’s phrasing. But there is no easy win. & none of the Brexiteers want to fall on their swords like they should. So it’s May’s fault.-
Trump scolds Theresa May that the voters didn’t vote for a soft Brexit; that if she continues to seek a soft Brexit, she can forget about making any sort of deal with the US while he is President.
I assume he thinks he has a lifetime appointment by that threat.
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The new trump strategy is just to claim victory constantly no matter what
Basically he is Bull sheet artist and when confronted he doesnt have the capacity to defend any of what he says so he starts a fire somewhere else then runs away and says….. all is well I and I alone won
The reality show is getting old and the other world leaders are calling his bluffs
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Kinda like figler
Gold was going to be 3500$
No fng basis whatsoever to support that claim and in fact many people were calling the bubble
Gold dropped but figler still somehow claims he won
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Love how the smartest man ever with the highest IQ is trying to say that he didn’t say things that are actually recorded.
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/07/13/trump-denies-he-said-something-that-he-said-on-a-tape-that-everyone-has-heard/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.39a4a1b2ca27]https://www.washingtonpos…utm_term=.39a4a1b2ca27[/link]
Trump’s denial Friday echoed what the White House said late Thursday, when press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered this: The president likes and respects Prime Minister May very much. As he said in his interview with the Sun, she is a very good person and he never said anything bad about her,'” Sanders said.
[ul][*]I actually told Theresa May how to do [Brexit], but she didn’t agree. She didn’t listen to me.[*]I would say she actually went the opposite way. … But it’s too bad what’s going on.”[*]I think the [European Union trade] deal she is striking is not the one people voted on, exactly. It’s a much different deal than people voted on. It was not the deal that was in the referendum.[*]But it will definitely affect trade with the United States, unfortunately in a negative way. [/ul]-
Obviously any sound and video recordings showing thus have been doctored by the Deep State people. And in reality, even if they weren’t, who cares?
Reality has nothing to do with anything real according to Republicans, when are you going to realize that. Karl Rove stated exactly that to Ron Suskind back in the ancient “Dubbya” Bush days.
As Suskind notes:“guys like me were in what we call the [link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community]reality-based community[/link],’ which he (Rove) defined as people who believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality judiciously, as you willwe’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
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Kinda like figler
Gold was going to be 3500$
No fng basis whatsoever to support that claim and in fact many people were calling the bubble
Gold dropped but figler still somehow claims he won
You haven’t had 1 prediction on here, you are obsessed with me because I made the single greatest prediction.
By now you said Trump would be in jail.
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I predicted gold was peaking in fact even called the bubble and definitely not going to 3500$
But of course you were distracted by the doomsday propaganda types
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[url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44838028]Theresa May says Trump told her to sue the EU[/url]
Where are they going to file suit, the ECJ? 🙂
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[url=https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-17/second-brexit-referendum-could-break-u-k-political-deadlock]Bloomberg Editorial Board:[/url] [b]If Brexi deadlock can’t be broken, Vote Again[/b] [i] The backlash against Theresa Mays new plan makes a second referendum possible.
[/i]This wont be easy, but its starting to look possible. A former minister has [link=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44840154]come out in favor[/link] of a second referendum, the first senior Tory to do so. Labours leadership [link=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-10/u-k-labour-open-to-brexit-referendum-if-may-s-deal-fails]hasnt ruled it out[/link]. Such is the disarray in both parties that no plan leave, stay or split the difference looks capable of commanding a majority in Parliament. In this state of paralysis, with Brexit deadlines looming, the House of Commons could decide to throw the decision back to the country out of sheer inability to do anything else.
Granted, if that happened, the result would be uncertain. Recent [link=https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/phvyn092lg/TimesResults_180711_VI_Brexit.pdf]polls[/link]suggest movement in favor of Remain, but its less than decisive. The EUs position on whether Brexit can or should be stopped is also unclear. Europes leaders might feel theyve had enough of Britain, and if they took a hard line during another referendum campaign, it could push support back to Leave. Whatever happened, the issue would not be settled: As soon as a second referendum reversed the 2016 vote, a campaign for a third referendum would begin.
Yet Britains past two years of self-sabotaging politics have proven one thing: Voters in 2016 were offered a choice they didnt understand. They opted for Brexit without knowing what it would mean. By now, voters have at least learned that, whatever form it takes, it will be complicated and costly.
Thats not all thats changed since the 2016 vote. Britains relationship with Europe has fractured, perhaps beyond repair. A second vote wont fix that, but it might avoid the impending chaos of a no-deal Brexit. At the moment, every other option looks worse.
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Meanwhile Putin wins another war without firing a shot
He had truly discovered the weakness of the west and western democracy …….hatred and division
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Why wouldn’t England want to be free? Didn’t they fight wars to not be controlled and ruined by corrupt German politicians?
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You’re a troll, aren’t you mr4523. 2 posts making vague complaints and loose empty allegations.
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You’re a troll, aren’t you mr4523. 2 posts making vague complaints and loose empty allegations.
Fastest person ever added to my block list.
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Bloomberg: [url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-24/-smooth-and-orderly-brexit-in-sight-raab-says-brexit-update]Theresa May takes over Brexit talks, relegates the Brexit Department[/url]
Prime Minister Theresa May has taken control of Brexit talks, relegating the Brexit Department. The pound rose on the news. Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and Oliver Robbins, Mays negotiator, are now taking questions in Parliament.
The announcement that May is taking control of the negotiations (and, perhaps more significantly, that her Europe unit grabs day-to-day running of the talks from the Brexit department) is the latest development in the power struggle between the camp in government that wants a clean break from the EU and those who want to stay close.
The changes are a victory for the latter group, for May and her Europe adviser, Olly Robbins, who leads the technical talks in Brussels. Ever since the negotiations began, hes been pushing for a softer Brexit, and was the architect of the blueprint for the future relationship published this month. That white paper prompted the resignation of former Brexit Secretary David Davis and angered hardline Brexiteers.
The shake-up clearly points the government on course for a negotiation that keeps the U.K. close to EU rules. Whether Parliament can live with that is a different matter.[/QUOTE]
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[link=https://twitter.com/europeelects/status/1023845538549121024?s=21]https://twitter.com/europeelects/status/1023845538549121024?s=21
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[b]British public opinion has shifted sharply against Brexit, according to a new Sky Data poll.[/b]
European Membership Referendum
Scenario: No Deal
Remain: 59%
Leave: 41%(Excluding don’t know/abstain)
UK, Sky Data poll:
European Membership Referendum
Scenario: No Deal
Remain: 59%
Leave: 41%(Excluding don't know/abstain)
Sample Size: 1,446
Field Work: 20/07/19-23/07/18#Brexit #PeoplesVote pic.twitter.com/yeZjLUXP1O— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) July 30, 2018
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[h1]Brexit has reached a dead end[/h1]
The UK’s Brexit negotiations with the European Union are at an impasse that’s according to Prime Minister Theresa May. In a letter to her own divided Conservative party, she admits that, surrounded by red lines she is not allowed to cross, she can neither push ahead nor turn back. Brexit can’t be too soft or too hard, or else the various parties and the EU will be unable to reach an agreement.
Brussels has rejected May’s latest proposal, which would have meant negotiating a kind of free trade area only for goods. Just 11 percent of UK citizens liked that plan, according to opinion polls. Negotiations resume in Brussels this week. However, the teams accompanying EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier and the UK’s Brexit minister, Dominic Raab, wonder what they will be negotiating.
There are no [link=https://www.dw.com/en/uk-economy-gathers-speed-despite-brexit-woes/a-45034201]viable proposals[/link] either on trade issues or the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. The British government is set on a vague statement about its future relationship with the EU. However, Brussels is insisting on a concrete exit treaty that would at least finalize essential questions regarding finances, borders and civil rights. It is clear that time is getting short. A Brexit deal [link=https://www.dw.com/en/uk-trade-minister-liam-fox-says-eu-pushing-britain-to-no-deal-brexit/a-44957033]is supposed to be in place[/link] by the end of October. That is tight.
What now? Without a concept, Britain continues to teeter toward Brexit day. At the moment, there is little hope that anyone will pull the emergency brake and at least postpone the unfortunate event.Full article here:
[link=https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-brexit-has-reached-a-dead-end/a-45084743]https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-brexit-has-reached-a-dead-end/a-45084743[/link]
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[h2][url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/aug/23/brexit-no-deal-papers-dominic-raab-prepares-to-publish-no-deal-planning-papers-politics-live]Public confidence Brexit talks will end satisfactorily has plummeted, poll suggests[/url][/h2] Guardian/ICM polling out this week… one of the questions covered [link=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/eu-referendum]Brexit[/link].
[ul][*][b][b]Public confidence that the Brexit talks will conclude satisfactorily has plummeted in recent months, a Guardian/ICM poll suggests.[/b] [/b]By a margin of more than three to one now, people think they wont end well. For almost a year we have been asking people if they think the Brexit negotiations will or will not conclude satisfactorily by 29 March 2019, the day the UK is due to leave the EU. In October last year the pessimists outnumbered the optimists, [link=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2017/oct/24/barnier-dashes-mays-hopes-of-reaching-quick-deal-on-uk-eu-trade-after-brexit-politics-live?page=with:block-59ef0b3bba0d8d0626b39451#block-59ef0b3bba0d8d0626b39451]but not by a massive margin (45% to 30%). [/link]In December, in a poll taken after agreement was reached in phase one of the Brexit talks, the pessimists were only ahead by four points. By April the pessimists were again substantially ahead, with[link=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/may/01/brexit-david-davis-lords-liam-fox-tells-may-that-compromising-over-customs-union-would-be-unacceptable-politics-live?page=with:block-5ae82920e4b026c402d8859e#block-5ae82920e4b026c402d8859e] 28% saying the talks would end satisfactorily and 47% saying unsatisfactorily (a 19-point lead).[/link]But when ICM polled at the weekend if found only 18% of people saying the talks would end well, and 60% saying they wouldnt. [/ul]
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[url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/23/new-brexit-referendum-should-remain-on-the-table-says-labour]Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary says second referendum should remain “on the table”[/url]
Labours [link=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/eu-referendum]Brexit[/link] spokesman has said a second referendum should be on the table, if parliament is not prepared to accept Theresa Mays final deal negotiated with Brussels.
A day earlier Gardiner, Labours spokesman on international trade had emphasised a second referendum was not Labours current policy, and argued there could be civil disobedience if an attempt was made to overturn the Brexit vote on another national poll.
Starmer dismissed those claims in his interview. He said: Well, weve had lots of ups and downs already on [link=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/eu-referendum]Brexit[/link]. Im sure there are many to come, and I have not seen signs of civil disobedience. “[/QUOTE]
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I had heard a little about the negotiations on the NPR this morning. Essentially the UK wants to keep the benefits like open trade, not having to use customs, doesn’t want trucks lined up at ports, doesn’t want to pay tariffs. However, the EU is basically saying “that’s the benefits of being in the EU”. To me the EU is right.
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I had heard a little about the negotiations on the NPR this morning. Essentially the UK wants to keep the benefits like open trade, not having to use customs, doesn’t want trucks lined up at ports, doesn’t want to pay tariffs. However, the EU is basically saying “that’s the benefits of being in the EU”. To me the EU is right.
Yep. This is a prime example of what has now come to be called Brexit “cakeism”.
The UK Brexiters somehow think that they can have their cake and eat it too and will negotiate to get all of the good stuff of EU membership with none of the bad stuff that comes from leaving.
It has always been and remains a fantasy that the EU would cave to British demands because “they need us more than we need them.” -
[url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/15/ford-u-turn-carmaker-says-no-deal-brexit-could-force-it-to-leave-uk?utm_term=R3VhcmRpYW4gVG9kYXkgVUstMTgxMDE2&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&CMP=GTUK_email]
Ford U-turn: no-deal Brexit could force carmaker to reconsider UK plans[/h1]Change of heart comes as AstraZeneca and Nissan also sound alarm about hard Brexit
The US carmaker Ford has described a no-deal [link=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/eu-referendum]Brexit[/link] as a red line that would force it to reconsider the scale of its presence in Britain in a dramatic reversal of an earlier commitment to stay put.
Ford issued the warning on the same day as the pharmaceuticals company [link=https://www.theguardian.com/business/astrazeneca]AstraZeneca[/link] and the carmaker Nissan said the prospect of a hard Brexit was already disrupting their businesses.
The interventions, from firms employing nearly 30,000 people between them in the UK, offered a timely reminder of the anxiety within British industry as Theresa May revealed that talks with Brussels had [link=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/15/brexit-eu-insistence-on-northern-ireland-backstop-unacceptable-may-tells-mps]reached an impasse over arrangements for the border[/link] in Northern Ireland.
Fords European boss, Steven Armstrong, said: For [link=https://www.theguardian.com/business/ford]Ford[/link], a hard Brexit is a red line. It could severely damage the UKs competitiveness and result in a significant threat to much of the auto industry, including our own UK manufacturing operations.-
I guess Ford doesn’t surprise me because they’ve been getting hammered to the point that it looks like they’re giving up on making cars. There’s talk of layoffs brewing in the USA for Ford. So I can see them tightening up around the brexit.
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“Brexit Preppers” preparing for disaster. Not the American race war and end of government fears but economic downturn preparation.
[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/world/europe/brexit-preppers-united-kingdom.html]https://www.nytimes.com/2…rs-united-kingdom.html[/link]
Her cupboards are jammed with pasta, rice and couscous enough to feed a family of five for weeks. Medications are crammed into plastic tubs, and in the garden of her four-bedroom home stands a 290-gallon water tank.
Nevine Mann is not readying herself for the threat of nuclear war, flooding or civil disorder in this part of Cornwall, in scenic southwest England. No, the specter that keeps her on edge is Brexit.
Ms. Mann, 36, has joined the countrys band of Brexit preppers, people who fear [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/world/europe/uk-brexit-theresa-may.html?module=inline]chaos in March[/link], when Britain will leave the European Union, and who are stockpiling supplies.
For more than 18 months, Britain has been trying to negotiate a deal with the European Union, without which the country could face [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/world/europe/uk-brexit-shortages.html?module=inline]gridlock at ports[/link], trucks stuck on highways with their loads of food spoiling, empty grocery and pharmacy shelves, energy scarcity and factories shutting down. Britain imports around one-third of its food from the European Union, and businesses rely on complex supply chains that could break down if checks are imposed on the thousands of trucks that cross the English Channel each day.
This being Britain, people are not retreating to underground bunkers, as Americas [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/arts/television/doomsday-preppers-and-doomsday-bunkers-tv-reality-shows.html?module=inline]Doomsday preppers[/link] do, and Britons are more likely to hoard toilet paper than weaponry.
More ominously, the government has advertised job openings in emergency planning.
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[url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2018/oct/20/peoples-vote-march-london-second-referendum-brexit-live]Over half a million people marching in London to demand the peoples’ say in another Brexit vote[/url]
