It doesn't hint, it fucking screams.
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
The Brexit Thread
Collapse
X
-
- Aug 2008
- 25417
- The zero meridian
- Swansea, Gaziantepspor and the Zeugma Franchise
- Bahlsen Choco Leibniz Dark
Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostNot allowing EU citizens settled in the UK to bring a spouse (unless they meet an income threshold) seems mean and nasty, like the old restrictions on spouses in the Commonwealth immigration and nationality acts of 1962-81. In fact, the income threshold hints at race and class discrimination by stealth.
Comment
-
There is a story on the front page of the Telegraph, telling of how Theresa May has told various business leaders that she will probably walk out of the EU discussions over the divorce bill in order to win support at home. The UK are going to play hard ball. It seems like a really bad idea, based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the EU's position.
Meanwhile the guardian is carrying a story suggesting harsh reality is beginning to stare people in the face.Last edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 02-07-2017, 17:57.
Comment
-
Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostThere is a story on the front page of the Telegraph, telling of how Theresa May has told various business leaders that she will probably walk out of the EU discussions over the divorce bill in order to win support at home. The UK are going to play hard ball. It seems like a really bad idea, based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the EU's position.
Comment
-
I think a certain amount is based on the thinking that david Cameron should have walked out on those talks he had with the EU, and got more concessions. The thing is that the reason that the UK didn't walk out of those negotiations is that it would have got them precisely nowhere.
Comment
-
The "emergency brake" was seen as a concession. I don't know if we could do that anyway.
There's a lot of Thatcher and the rebate mythology hanging over the "we'll just say no". Thatcher, of course, wasn't quitting the EU and had a veto, and could play the other members off against each other.
Comment
-
Try moving to Sweden without having a contract. You'd get nowhere. Place to live, health insurance, bank account, SIM card? Oh but you need a social security number for all of that and you'll need a job to get one of those.
The irony is that the UK is the country that most embraced the concept of an open Europe, albeit accidentally.
Comment
-
We're taking back control of our waters which the junior minister on the radio said several times even though he said all that means is doing deals to allow people to fish in "our" waters WHICH WE ALREADY DO NOW.
Still nice to hear the Faroes get a mention. Hopefully they'll send some senior ministers to negotiate the fish treaty and the pilot won't have landed in fog on Vagur before.
Comment
-
Originally posted by Fussbudget View PostBut if you're British, how do you prove you're legally residing in the UK, other than by having to show your passport/birth certificate? And if you don't have one, then what?
Comment
-
*sigh*Another official said: “We have got to a stage where a lot of key questions on Brexit still need to be properly thrashed out in conversations. For example, we have not had a detailed discussion across departments about what the impact of leaving the single market will be for specific sectors of the UK economy. This has to change.”
Comment
-
Cue Irish fishermen hurriedly registering boats in Bruges!
http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.en...News/1.3018117
Comment
-
What a stupid cunt Mason is. Stupid and dangerous. He's still pushing the FoM kills wages bollocks the whole time as well. He'd have been even worse at the spin than Milne.
You can't suspend FoM ya fanny, you might get some emergency cap if you play very nice, but I'd say only if the rebate goes.
Comment
Comment