Airbus have basically just taken over production of this airplane, and moved final assembly within the US to get around the various sanctions and tariffs. So it seems as though the bombardier plant in belfast are going to be making wings for airbus. And there's nothing in this world that is more secure than the future of Airbus's UK based wings manufacturing process.
Airbus have basically just taken over production of this airplane, and moved final assembly within the US to get around the various sanctions and tariffs. So it seems as though the bombardier plant in belfast are going to be making wings for airbus. And there's nothing in this world that is more secure than the future of Airbus's UK based wings manufacturing process.
Making wings is a step forward from growing wings I suppose...
May has implied that the government will not implement a transition period unless there is a deal on trade too by next autumn. David Davis, the Brexit secretary, said this last week and May’s spokesman said the same at lobby this morning.
Brilliant negotiation, brilliant.
We won't let you give us something we want unless you do what we say.
Given that Kool Aid will be prohibitively expensive to import by March 1999, you can only think that the Government's plan is to stockpile large quantities of cyanide and lemon barley water. Maybe get the BBC to repeat the Peter O'Toole Masada mini-series a few times to keep the nudge theorists happy.
Barnier states that any national parliament would be able to veto an EU-UK deal, and indeed, why would the Dáil approve an arrangement that took the UK out of the Single Market?
But the deal would need to be sorted before we left. Ireland and allies could refuse to sign anything that didn't preserve the single market or similar. So WTO for us.
Most think it will have a negative ompact on the British economy
Positive: 30%
Negative: 46%
No difference: 13%
Net: -16
And on their own finances
Impact on your personal finances
Positive: 13%
Negative: 35%
No difference: 38%
Net: -22
Almost 50% of voters do not expect the Brexit talks to conclude successfully. Only 30% of people expect a successful outcome to negotiations.
Respondents were told the Brexit negotiations will have to end by 29 March 2019 and were asked if they expected them to end successfully or unsuccessfully. The results were:
Conclude successfully: 30%
Not conclude successfully: 45%
Don’t know: 25%
A majority of voters say they will react negatively if Britain leaves the EU without a deal. Only 20% say they would react positively.
This is significant because polls have repeatedly shown that, if you ask people if they would prefer no deal to a bad deal, they will back no deal by a large margin. (See here and here, for example.) This is a boost for Theresa May because “no deal is better than a bad deal” is her mantra and there is some evidence that the government is beefing up preparations for the possibility of a no deal.
The pro-Brexit Tory MP John Redwood claimed at the weekend that recent comments from Angela Merkel show that EU leaders are “very worried at just how popular the WTO model [ie, leaving with no deal] is with many UK voters”.
But our polling suggests Redwood has got this very wrong. We tried to assess how people would feel if the UK were to leave the EU without a deal. Respondents were asked to imagine the UK and the EU failing to reach agreement by Brexit day and to then pick two of the responses that would best describe their emotions. The results were:
Worried: 50%
Confused: 29%
Furious: 24%
Pleased: 14%
Would feel nothing: 13%
Terrified: 12%
Proud: 11%
Excited: 11%
Net negative (all those choosing at least 1 negative response): 62%
Net positive: 20%
(down 6 from ICM in September)
Impact on life in Britain generally
Positive: 35%
Negative: 38%
No difference: 15%
Net: -3 (down 4)
Labour and Tories tied on 42%,
Labour: 42% (up 1 from Guardian/ICM two weeks ago)
Conservatives: 42% (up 1)
Lib Dems: 7% (no change)
Ukip: 3% (down 1)
Greens: 2% (no change)
Jeremy Corbyn has a clear lead over Theresa May on the matter of who is seen to be doing a good job, the poll suggests.
Finally, we also asked people if they thought the following people were doing a good or bad job. Here are the results.
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