I mean, surely the Express is trying to serve Boris by trying to get people to talk about Brexit, rather than corruption and sleaze. The former is his bread and butter. If I were his aide, I'd be trying to get everyone to talk about Brexit. Cue posturing with France, in the hope that they take the 'bait' and give the tabloids a nice French fisheries story to hide behind.
Actually a few of us were discussing this at hockey. Who benefits from this - it's not the 'discredited' Cummings. To be part of de Pfeffel's cabalinet two things are required absolute loyalty to both him and 'his' project (BREXIT) and his patronage is guaranteed - this is shown by the 'talent' he's assembled and the sanctions/scrutiny they've faced (even Javid's resignation was only for a short while and I assume paterson will be handed a juicy CEO position that's in the government's gift such as a QUANGO or NHS). M'Lord Frost is one of the kool-aid drinkers, but he must have come to realise that his name is going to be forever attached to the treaty which may lead to the resumption of armed conflict within the UK let along the economic fallout of 'his' work. For all the bluster about it being the 'Frost' treaty it had to be signed-off by, ultimately, de Pfeffel.
Yes, definitely Johnson's responsibility. My question was more about what Cummings was trying to say. Of course saying Johnson is an ignorant fool that didn't even understand the CU & SM as recently as October 2020 is not a good look for a "normal" PM. But this PM is a "lovable fool" according to his supporters so how shocking or damaging is this "revelation" really? I would have thought, if anything, it paints Cummings as even more of a devious and undemocratic force than many people thought. He's basically admitting that he pushed a democratically elected PM and Government down a path they neither understood or wanted because he realised they were ignorant and, as such, under his control. That is tantamount to treason in my humble opinion. If anyone still respected Cummings before this revelation surely they can't now?
A good analogy to Cummings' output is the ISIS magazine 'Dabiq'. Pages and pages of impenetrable text that's 'read' by deluded followers who think "Wow! I don't understand this fully which means whoever wrote is a genius...." FWIW I think he's got some interesting anecdotes to sell because of his time at the top table but few people are buying them. What's readily overlooked about him is his 'colourful' past - most notably his time in Russia the country that is de Pfeffel's Tory party's Achilles Heel.
Tariffs on steel imposed by Trump when we were still in the EU won’t be lifted by 1 January. The US has struck a deal with the EU to remove the tariffs but for obvious reasons that deal doesn’t apply to us. And, in the words of our trade minister: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59597310
Of course. Nothing to do with backing down to the French on fishing licences, backing down to the EU over ECJ involvement in the NIP or having his bluff called over Article 16. No sir.
This Tory WhatsApp exchange really looks like it should be a parody: https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1472331053775958016?t=Pv2RdR3ZHgjN0U_lt3Zq-Q&s=19
Some people remember when Liz Truss was a Remainer. But then some people remember when she was a Lib Dem as this footage shows. https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1472650144092938247?s=21
Some light reading on the downsides of Brexit, every one sourced. https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/regular-features/the-davis-downside-dossier-2/
No they are not. What made you say that? They are all one sided opinions with little or no evidence, some of them repeated.
Now that we are having 8 new mini-Nightingales, I guess this will mean that the Brexit dividend will only have to fund 32 new hospitals over the next few years?
If you have a few quid in the bank ,and all that ,then swanning around gentrified areas of Europe must seem like a good deal . #VoteRemain If you are poor and living day to day on the edge then ,"living and working in Europe" and all the bolox means fugg all . Affluent people expecting and criticizing poor people for not voting for affluent people's benefit are an absolute joke and I shall forever and a day coat them off.
That’s not even true though. The mildly adventurous less well off have made a sunny living out of Europe’s tourism for years, whether running bars, tour-guiding or working in property. That’s been hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people since we joined (let alone all the other industries and opportunities Brits take up). Odd that the less well off from Europe can work out how to get to the UK, but according to Brexiteers, their own countrymen and women are too daft to make it to the continent.
I'd have sympathy for your view if Brexit meant the life of the poor and working class would be better for it. But there is absolutely no evidence for that. In fact the opposite is far more likely. The latest figures show that wage growth is starting to stagnate as inflation continues to grow: https://www.newstatesman.com/chart-of-the-day/2021/12/how-uk-wages-are-stagnating And the wage growth is largely sector specific anyway with large numbers of working people, especially in the public sector, having to suffer real term wage falls as inflation rises. A much better solution to low pay poverty is to increase the minimum wage, something that the government could always have done within the EU. And those that believed that cheap foreign labour was the problem are likely to be disappointed anyway. The government are already negotiating with India to relax visa rules for Indian workers to come to this country as part of a trade deal. It's not something I would have a problem with as we need workers as our population continues to age. But, when these negotiations are taking place at a time when some Tory voices are calling for deregulation and opting out of the ECHR, it's not difficult to see the direction of travel. If we do cut workers rights and allow workers from developing nations to work here more freely then the rich are only going to get richer and the poor will have no EU rights to protect them. They will have to compete with an influx of workers happy to accept low pay and conditions. And, btw, the rich won't have any problems swanning around EU countries anyway. It's the students, retirees and workers that have now found that the dream of living abroad has become more difficult if not impossible. If you have ₹500,000 to buy a property in Spain you can get a "golden visa" to live there for example. The poor are not welcome anymore.
I'm not claiming anyones life is better regardless of how you vote. My beef is with those who claim everyone's life would be better if they voted the same way as them
Oh come on Moose, I am not talking about those who can run a bar in Torremelinos Some people are so disadvantaged that they have never left the community that they have always lived in. You are better than this .
Brexiteers did (and do) exactly the same thing, not sure what your point is? Strong adherents to any political position will always say that. The vast majority of people know politics is a compromise (I think).
That’s quite a lot of people and there are always those who use the opportunities they have to leave the circumstances they are in. Those opportunities have shrunk. The communities you speak of need direct assistance for sure, but restricting opportunities doesn’t help them. You’ve gambled that those who have constructed their disadvantage over hundreds of years are now their saviours.