Which means there probably has because what this government says and what happens are two entirely different things.
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Which means there probably has because what this government says and what happens are two entirely different things.
Exactly, talks will continue no matter what happens at the end of the year, neither side can actually afford for there to be no deal long term even if one is better prepared for it. The question is just moving into a phase of how long the damage from tariffs will last while they try to figure something out.
The whole thing is a complete mess caused by the UK, but people underestimate how bad this is going to be for the EU too (even if the UK takes a much worse hit) - no-one should be championing the idea of "walking away" by either party no matter how frustrating it is, it's a terrible outcome on so many levels.
bendy bananas, blue passports, chip paper and hoovers with big motors.
Allowing chip shops to use old newspaper because.... Ink adds to the chips flavour?
Eating dirt and germs builds your immune system. If we hadn't surrendered our Great British Chip Shops to the EU, we'd all be tough as nails and that corvid-90 wouldn't be able to cross the channel.
After watching my nan lick her finger every time she turned the page, I went off the idea. And that was in olden times when some newspaper readers were reasonable humans. Nowadays newspapers are only purchased by people with actual rabies.
Kent lorry park will not be ready in time for Brexit day deadline
www.theguardian.com
Scottish airfield earmarked as post-Brexit lorry park
Exclusive: Transport Scotland hopes to use site in case of delays at ferry terminals linking with Northern Ireland
www.theguardian.com
Supposedly they're just trying to work out a way of making it look like both sides won... which really wouldn't surprise me.
I reckon something will be announced soon.
Good luck with that.
"Boris was a remainer all along" in 5, 4, 3...
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Key was always to work out a way for boris to claim victory
My prediction is that the emphasis on them reassuring eurosceptics, means that it undoubtedly will make eurosceptics very angry.
I look forward to the upcoming talks about backbench rebellions.
I look forward to the upcoming talks about backbench rebellions.
Can't wait to see what the mental gymnastics and word salads for market alignment not actually being market alignment will be.
I suspect it'll be like last year where some of them will scream about it being a betrayal, but nobody outside of the hardcore leaver bubble will particularly care.
He didn't half disappear off the face of the earth, not complaining but Mogg too. The latter probably up to making money for the result.
Step by step, the folding becomes ever greater on the UK side.
www.theguardian.com
UK drops push for renationalising of fishing vessels in Brexit talks
No 10 said to have reached a compromise over fishing vessels to be majority British-owned in future
www.theguardian.com
So if this turns out to be a deal, which would probably require Johnson to cave in on all those idiot populist lines he drew, how are the scum papers going to spin it? Will it be a great red white and blue victory or will they turn on him?
Boris will concede to an even worse position than a couple of weeks ago, then spin it as a win and the EU completely caving to the UK. He did the same with May's deal.
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Good luck competing with Malta which has one of the biggest ship register in the world and is in the EU
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It means they'll cut taxes hoping ships register in the UK and bring jobs as seamen or cruise lines crews.
Basically what ireland does for big companies to settle there only for ships
Given this, I'm surprised the EU would allow us the ability to undercut them.
I was under the assumption that state aid rules would form part of any deal.
It will probably start as a huge celebration of Johnson's victory over the EU. Any deal is going to be massively complicated. It won't just be a >1000-page text, it'll be a >1000-page text that constantly refers back to itself and to dozens of other texts including EU directives and regulations. The most controversial parts might deliberately be made the most difficult to nail down. The result will not be human-readable even by trade experts - UK tabloid writers will not have the slightest hope of parsing it, so they'll just take whatever tone they're told to take.
Eventually, once people have time to start digging into it, the chances are that it'll show that the EU got most of what they wanted and (more importantly) at least some of what Johnson said that they would never get. That could turn the mood against Johnson, but by then there will be little that can be done about that - the treaty will be signed (and the EU will have harsh breach contingencies) and Johnson might even be gone.
I remember seeing the freeport there when I was on holiday a few years back - the scale of the place was unreal for an island of Malta's size.
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Yup they have a huge shipping industry for their size. Just like Cyprus.
"The good news is that we have found a way forward on most issues," she said, adding that she and EU negotiator Michel Barnier can now see a "narrow path to an agreement". "But this is now a case of us being so close, and yet being so far away from each other, because two issues still remain outstanding, you know them: a level playing field and the fisheries. "
www.thejournal.ie
'We have found a way forward': Ursula von der Leyen says path to a Brexit agreement is in sight
The European Commission president addressed the European Parliament this morning.
www.thejournal.ie
"The good news is that we have found a way forward on most issues," she said, adding that she and EU negotiator Michel Barnier can now see a "narrow path to an agreement". "But this is now a case of us being so close, and yet being so far away from each other, because two issues still remain outstanding, you know them: a level playing field and the fisheries. "
'We have found a way forward': Ursula von der Leyen says path to a Brexit agreement is in sight
The European Commission president addressed the European Parliament this morning.
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Level playing field seems like a rather big issue to be separate on.
Saw this from The Sun's reporter:
"The PM has been told this month is the now-or-never chance to clinch a tariff and quota free UK-EU trade deal. If talks fail the bloc is set to switch to a 'different approach' next year, pursuing 'sector-by-sector' negotiations that may drag on for years."
That sounds horrible.
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They will spin it as the master negotiator triumphing over the bullies of Brussels. The detail doesn't matter, the whole country has had enough of hearing about Brexit. Apart from the very few true believer nutters nobody cares about the detail just like nobody cared about the detail when we were still in the EU. We were in, now we are out. One front page saying "BRITAIN TRIUMPHS OVER EUROPE" is all Boris needs. We have bigger problems than Brexit now.
The actual crisis we are currently facing shows just how vacuous the Brexit fiasco was, it was all hot air. People like Francois, Mogg, Redwood etc now look like the detached chancers that they are when the country is facing a genuine crisis and not their manufactured rich man's crisis from 2016.
The UK still getting preferential access to the single market without freedom of movement is what they wanted right? Considering they are getting it, it should ideally be a win for them.
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Renaming it into something that can be sold at home always was gonna be the most likely scenario
This is tariff free access and has little to do with the 4 freedoms