tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post2969361209338957584..comments2024-03-29T09:09:46.823+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : Brexit: what on earth does the UK do now? Three proposed solutionsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-20168886601261314292018-07-26T13:52:03.931+03:002018-07-26T13:52:03.931+03:00https://www.ft.com/content/e415828e-8e8b-11e8-bb8f...https://www.ft.com/content/e415828e-8e8b-11e8-bb8f-a6a2f7bca546<br /><br />A leading business executive who is in a position to know hails Brexit as a disaster. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-90977370881644659022018-07-22T13:03:32.266+03:002018-07-22T13:03:32.266+03:00https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/foreign-affai...https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/foreign-affairs/brexit/news/97047/‘start-again’-brexit-david-davis-tells-theresa-mayPolitical Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-45967674124552179182018-07-22T12:57:23.080+03:002018-07-22T12:57:23.080+03:00Nigel Lawson thinks an orderly no deal would work....Nigel Lawson thinks an orderly no deal would work. The Remainers lied about Norway option which need not mean paying large contributions or free movement. Norway might do. Best outcome would probably be Canada but the EU will play hardball over Irish border.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-24963088843344822492018-07-22T10:18:19.560+03:002018-07-22T10:18:19.560+03:00I love that speech and can hear it over and over. ...I love that speech and can hear it over and over. <br />I once lunched with Peter Shore when an undergraduate and said I didn't think class was important any more. He replied that it was still one of the ways people think about themselves. <br />Now that seems obvious to me. It didn't to many people then including my father and mother and their friends or to many conservatives including Mrs. Thatcher.<br />How foolish I was in student days to like Mr Heath.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-45994183020453804242018-07-21T19:48:53.591+03:002018-07-21T19:48:53.591+03:00Pete North (son of Richard North) explains how the...Pete North (son of Richard North) explains how the "Hard Brexit" morons are leading the UK straight into the EU's trap:<br /><br />"So here we are at a crucial point in history - upon which our wealth, prosperity and international standing turns - and we have a band of liars making things up, denying reality and throwing tantrums every time someone attempts to address the reality.<br /><br />Of itself that is objectively disgusting. They lie without remorse, they fabricate, they deflect and they evade. There is no dialogue. Only propaganda. And worst of all, they think it's funny. They pretend details don't matter.<br /><br />Rees-Mogg is a skilled political operator. He knows exactly how to manipulate the weak-minded which is why he has a loyal following of intellectually subnormal kippers. He's leveraging that to visit an economic calamity on us.<br /><br />Meanwhile the oafish Johnson doesn't even have an agenda for the country. His sole concern is his personal ambition and in pursuit of that, any lie will do. He knows his persona still cons plenty of ordinary people.<br /><br />Meanwhile they have their stooges in the Tory apparatus to do their dirty work for them, not least the TPA and Low Fact Chloe, along with the unbelievably dishonest BrexitCentral and the IEA. It's pure propaganda.<br /><br />So far as they are concerned, forty years of technical integration can be undone at the stroke of a pen, and who cares who gets hurt or how it damages relationships with our allies? Not least those we trade with via the EU.<br /><br />These are men without principle, without decency, without honour. They are the saboteurs and wreckers. They don't care about Brexit. Brexit to them is just a window of opportunity for their dogmatic "free trade" ideas - all of which are bullshit.<br /><br />Certain laws and Blogger terms and conditions prevent me from saying in full what I think of these men - and what should be done to them, but if there is a hell, they are surely going there. Where else would evil go?<br /><br />It now looks like no deal is unavoidable. Mrs May has gone as far as she can go, politically, with the White Paper. Yet this cannot be accepted by the EU. Thus, when the EU rejects it - which they must do - this opens the way for a "no deal" walk-out<br /><br />The only thing is that Brussels must be aware of this. They will be calculating the odds and working out their own game plan. They'll say "we're nearly there", right up to the time the shutters come down, calling right up to the very last minute for more UK proposals.<br /><br />Thus, we will get a time expiry without any dramatic rejection and UK walk-out. The EU then unilaterally implements time-limited mitigating measures which keep the show on the road more or less. These will be hailed as "concessions" by the UK and treated as a victory.<br /><br />But they will be a trap. Unilaterally given, they can be unilaterally withdrawn - with staged removal as the EU/MS get their systems in place. Progressively, we find the walls closing in, a slow-motion train wreck rather than a big-bang.<br /><br />The UK will then have to come, cap in hand, to Brussels, asking for a deal, which will be set entirely on the EU's terms. We will be royally shafted. That's when the screaming will start and politics starts to fall apart.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the Ultras have over-reached themselves. They have set themselves up for a fall, claiming that "no deal" is benign. When the shit hits the fan, they will need to go into hiding. Even their local associations will want blood.<br /><br />They'll try the meme that its "punishment" from the EU, but the EU is already onto that one. It won't stick. The key will be when the media turns against them and the politicians start panicking. At that point the Tory right is finished."<br /><br />http://peterjnorth.blogspot.com/2018/07/endgame.htmlDavidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-41002142006682446782018-07-20T18:57:38.815+03:002018-07-20T18:57:38.815+03:00Boris needs to get busy polishing a turd -- his ow...Boris needs to get busy polishing a turd -- his own.Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-76745421868665415482018-07-19T11:49:54.309+03:002018-07-19T11:49:54.309+03:00In reply to your next comment, which I naturally d...In reply to your next comment, which I naturally deleted, my comments on Theresa May were, of course, not an ad hominem attack or even impolite, but the sort of critique which should be made of all elected politicians.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-4090413559043783072018-07-19T09:59:44.145+03:002018-07-19T09:59:44.145+03:00What is your surname, by the way?What is your surname, by the way?Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-20087100484290803642018-07-19T09:59:03.634+03:002018-07-19T09:59:03.634+03:00Răzvan Ciobanu, the doyen of Romanian fashion desi...Răzvan Ciobanu, the doyen of Romanian fashion designers, once said (to a third party, not me) that I had more style than anyone else in Bucharest. However, whether I dress well or badly or could be a successful politician are all irrelevant. Ad hominem attacks as well as being rude are inherently unintelligent because they invite the reply - what does that have to do with it?Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-17268408983854456362018-07-19T07:22:46.663+03:002018-07-19T07:22:46.663+03:00Paul given the way you dress, you would also be th...Paul given the way you dress, you would also be the last one I would listen to on tailoring.<br />AndrewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-49309478874418747432018-07-18T14:32:28.834+03:002018-07-18T14:32:28.834+03:00@ Anon
Its always a pleasure to share this blast f...@ Anon<br />Its always a pleasure to share this blast from the past:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoO6146qM5g<br /><br />especially with a raving remoaner :).<br /><br />David in Belgradenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-43921764390373759212018-07-18T10:43:56.032+03:002018-07-18T10:43:56.032+03:00Because I can't make a suit doesn't mean I...Because I can't make a suit doesn't mean I cannot criticise one.<br />Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-90972481315322483332018-07-18T10:32:33.810+03:002018-07-18T10:32:33.810+03:00@ Ben
Yes, Mrs May is almost a second Winston Chu...@ Ben<br /><br />Yes, Mrs May is almost a second Winston Churchill.<br />Familiarize yourself with the Peter principle:<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle<br /><br />By the way, how is Bill?<br />David in Belgradenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-18275921089322727112018-07-17T21:06:37.331+03:002018-07-17T21:06:37.331+03:00Why don't you give your name, as I do?Why don't you give your name, as I do?Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-27663379734873540372018-07-17T18:53:39.411+03:002018-07-17T18:53:39.411+03:00Brilliant! What a marvellous riposte to patronisi...Brilliant! What a marvellous riposte to patronising drivel from a reactionary Brexiteer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-41587961925003996552018-07-17T07:37:54.304+03:002018-07-17T07:37:54.304+03:00Yet while you gripe from the sidelines she has hel...Yet while you gripe from the sidelines she has held down that great office of state and others in cabinet, how wise you must be to have not been called to represent such a lowly function.<br /><br />BenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com