Sulla Fernandes is the leader of a particularly nasty group of Brexiteers inside the Commons. The sort who have been claiming expenses for "research" and channelling it into funding themselves.
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Ken Clarke and Sir Keir Starmer, who are both strongly pro-remain - and Lidington says he puts himself in that category too - accepted that the bill is not about taking the UK out of the EU, he says. He says it is about ensuring that, when the UK does leave, the process will be smooth because EU law will have been imported into UK law.
He says, if Labour vote against the bill, they will be voting against people continuing to enjoy the rights they have under EU law.
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Nick "Sherlock" Timothy is on the case.
Berlin does, though, remain Europe’s most important decision maker.
In order, its priorities are to safeguard the euro, keep the remaining 27 members together, protect Europe from security threats and improve the EU’s trading links.
Brexit must do nothing to jeopardise those aims, and Britain should help Germany to achieve them.
We could, for example, make a generous offer to a select few member states on intelligence-sharing and counter-terrorism co-operation.
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We could, for example, make a generous offer to a select few member states on intelligence-sharing and counter-terrorism co-operation.
WTF does this mean? How is an offer on intelligence sharing terrorism "generous"? Either it saves lives or it doesn't. And, by definition, such an offer to "a select few" is the opposite of generous.
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Off topic, Nick Timothy, with his "education hat" on.
https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...ies-speed-read
Speaking to an invited dinner audience at the pro-market thinktank the Centre for the Study of Market Reform of Education (CMRE) in May, Timothy called for a “two-track” system for free schools: “basic-need new schools” – institutions set up in areas with a shortage of places – and truer “free schools” where there was no place shortage (“basic need” in the jargon), but not enough schools rated good or outstanding by Ofsted.
In the CMRE’s summary of the event, Timothy is quoted saying: “The free schools policy was never intended as a basic-need programme. But with the school age population projected to grow at such a fast rate, and with the fiscal squeeze [kicking in] it was inevitable that the policy would become dominated by this agenda.”
However, the policy needed to be brought back to its roots as a market mechanism, he said. “The government is trying to create a market in the education system. This … is the right track for reform but … there’s a lot that still needs to be done.”
What on earth would all these surplus places cost? Did he miss his party's spending plans too?
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Originally posted by Aitch View Post"We're going to make you the generous offer of substantially less than you have at present in exchange for your giving us substantively more. We really don't see how or why you would refuse. And no, we don't want to discuss it, thanks."
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post"If you don't give us a trade deal, we won't lend you our james bond dvd's"Last edited by Tubby Isaacs; 12-09-2017, 17:03.
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I can't remember who put me on to it, but the Brexiteers use the "X and Y" formulation a lot. In that instance above "deep and special", the border solution will be "flexible and imaginative".
From the same people who brought you "strong and stable", I assume.
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I don't always agree with him but Rob Ford on Twitter reckons that Blair's report is better than made out. Portes retweeted it, and he's not at all "blah blah legitimate concerns".
Some Brexiters having a pop at Today (run by Boris pal Sarah Sands and presented by Mailite Humphreys) for the sin of having a couple of stories about France trying to attract business from the City. Unpatriotic, apparently.
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Some of the saner Leave types are going a bit frantic about this...Apparently some think-thank called Legatum is de-facto deciding on everything and they have some insane ideas. Apparently May is simply a conduit and has no real input (other than adding a layer of pettiness and xenophia I would assume).
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