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« Reply #3810 on: Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 18:01:38 »

Having done some TV work with Portillo  Yes he was a generally nice bloke during the afternoon we spent together (shocking pink shirt aside!)


Did he brush your hair?
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« Reply #3811 on: Thursday, November 8, 2018, 17:41:33 »

 See the fella who replaced Davis as Brexit wallah, Raab, admitted in a speech that he hadn't quite understood that so much of our trade passed through Dover.   Smiley
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« Reply #3812 on: Thursday, November 8, 2018, 19:32:49 »

See the fella who replaced Davis as Brexit wallah, Raab, admitted in a speech that he hadn't quite understood that so much of our trade passed through Dover.   Smiley
It's almost as if they haven't got the first fucking clue what they're doing!
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« Reply #3813 on: Friday, November 9, 2018, 09:42:50 »

Dominic Raab, looking up with a fevered expression, "YOU MEAN, WE'RE THE FUCKING ISLAND??!!"
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« Reply #3814 on: Friday, November 9, 2018, 10:08:04 »

Slowly, the penny starts to drop.

We will do a deal with the EU, because there is no alternative to that.  (Contrary to the Brexit bullshit we've had to listen to for several years now, we need them way more than they need us.)  And the terms of deal?  The terms will be whatever the EU decides they will be.  It's called realpolitik.

I'm weary of this nonsense now.
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« Reply #3815 on: Friday, November 9, 2018, 10:14:55 »

Slowly, the penny starts to drop.

We will do a deal with the EU, because there is no alternative to that.  (Contrary to the Brexit bullshit we've had to listen to for several years now, we need them way more than they need us.)  And the terms of deal?  The terms will be whatever the EU decides they will be.  It's called realpolitik.

I'm weary of this nonsense now.

Its going to BINO, which will make no one happy.
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« Reply #3816 on: Friday, November 9, 2018, 15:46:44 »

Dominic Raab, looking up with a fevered expression, "YOU MEAN, WE'RE THE FUCKING ISLAND??!!"
Not our problem, mate.

"Fog in Channel.  Continent cut off
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« Reply #3817 on: Friday, November 9, 2018, 16:19:38 »

 See that Johnson's bro has resigned as Transport Minister over Brexit.  He thinks May's deal will leave the UK significantly worse off with no say in what happens in the EU..... JRM's vassal state, or in a state of chaos, if it's no deal. He intends to campaign for a second referendum, so that the electorate can ratify what they want.
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« Reply #3818 on: Friday, November 9, 2018, 16:28:56 »

See that Johnson's bro has resigned as Transport Minister over Brexit.  He thinks May's deal will leave the UK significantly worse off with no say in what happens in the EU..... JRM's vassal state, or in a state of chaos, if it's no deal. He intends to campaign for a second referendum, so that the electorate can ratify what they want.

https://medium.com/@JoJohnsonUK/why-i-cannot-support-the-governments-proposed-brexit-deal-3d289f95f2bc
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« Reply #3819 on: Friday, November 9, 2018, 16:32:23 »

https://twitter.com/RachelSJohnson/status/1060925600683175939

Christmas dinner at the Johnsons' could be fun
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« Reply #3820 on: Friday, November 9, 2018, 18:42:44 »

Dominic Raab, looking up with a fevered expression, "YOU MEAN, WE'RE THE FUCKING ISLAND??!!"

Apparently Civil Servants refer to him as Raab C. Brexit  Smiley
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« Reply #3821 on: Friday, November 9, 2018, 18:47:06 »

What annoys me (wrong thread?) is this use of "vassal state".

A vassal state was a weaker state that would be obligated to support the pre-eminent state in supporting military campaigns.  This is a pseudo-educated phrase misapplied.

The only recent example of the UK acting as a "vassal state" was the Iraq War with the unelected (in the UK) George Bush directing one man, Tony Blair and a few of his appointees.

The basic problem is that there never was a single concept of Brexit.

Look at the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution etc.  Knew what they were against.  Rather painful and prolonged consequences searching for what they did want.
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« Reply #3822 on: Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 17:19:11 »

All hail May. She's solved it all

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46188790

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« Reply #3823 on: Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 17:19:55 »

Try getting that through the Commons, though.
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« Reply #3824 on: Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 17:25:53 »

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Try getting that through the Commons, though.


hence the Wink !!
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