03-02-2017, 19:45
May was right to invite Trump. The Queen has gold coaches and stuff; he'll love it. The Duke of Edinburgh'll say something embarrassing and of course Charles will have to be abroad dealing with climate change and conveniently disregarding the human rights violations of his own wealthy friends in the middle east, but we'll get through it.
Personally I think WE should agree to take all Obama's Nauru refugees to sort out the row between America and Australia and make two friends for life and commit a humanitarian act in one David-Blaine style spectacular denouement.
Eventually someone will wake up to the idea that Mrs May has no option other than a hard Brexit, because that is all there is and ever was. Her white paper, the deal, even the negotiations themselves are all essentially irrelevant because once Article 50 is triggered there is two years in which to reach a deal. Despite its much-vaunted trained negotiators the EU has no history of reaching any kind of deal within that time-span. So we'll leave without a deal, but trade will still exist and they will continue to need us as much or more than we need them. And we'll be free to strike deals elsewhere, instead of having to cajole and drag 27 other countries along with us whose fondest wish seems to be to tie any potential partner into their own peculiar brand of bureaucracy.
Everything we were told by Cameron, Osborne, The Bank Of England, that corrupt Legard woman from the European Central Bank, lovely President Obama, Nick tuition fee Clegg and loads of others is proving to be bollocks. The only thing Mr Corbyn did wrong was to ditch his forty-year opposition to the EU in order to elastoplast over the suppurating scab of a party composed of political enemies who cannot help but infect one another and make of the party's lifeblood only black pudding. End of rant.
Personally I think WE should agree to take all Obama's Nauru refugees to sort out the row between America and Australia and make two friends for life and commit a humanitarian act in one David-Blaine style spectacular denouement.
Eventually someone will wake up to the idea that Mrs May has no option other than a hard Brexit, because that is all there is and ever was. Her white paper, the deal, even the negotiations themselves are all essentially irrelevant because once Article 50 is triggered there is two years in which to reach a deal. Despite its much-vaunted trained negotiators the EU has no history of reaching any kind of deal within that time-span. So we'll leave without a deal, but trade will still exist and they will continue to need us as much or more than we need them. And we'll be free to strike deals elsewhere, instead of having to cajole and drag 27 other countries along with us whose fondest wish seems to be to tie any potential partner into their own peculiar brand of bureaucracy.
Everything we were told by Cameron, Osborne, The Bank Of England, that corrupt Legard woman from the European Central Bank, lovely President Obama, Nick tuition fee Clegg and loads of others is proving to be bollocks. The only thing Mr Corbyn did wrong was to ditch his forty-year opposition to the EU in order to elastoplast over the suppurating scab of a party composed of political enemies who cannot help but infect one another and make of the party's lifeblood only black pudding. End of rant.