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    there are two issues- and with respect demanding a second referendum because you lost the first was not particularly smart. In fact the all or nothing approach was a tactical and strategic disaster-which handed the initiative to the pirates who don't giove a shit as long as they can deregulate


    there were plenty of ways of leaving the EU and staying in a Norway plus agreement. That was what the brexiteers initially said they wanted.

    https://twitter.com/adampayne26/status/1306167968947200000?s=20

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      You don't get it. Any form of brexit agreement is just a law that can be changed at the whim of a prime minister with a large majority and a malicious intent . If the last parliament had voted for a customs union deal, the current parliament would have just torn it up. There's no such thing as soft brexit unless you can keep the tories out of power in perpetuity. That's why you needed a second referendum.
      Last edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 16-09-2020, 11:58.

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        Lord Keen offers his resignation, if reports are to be believed. Lord Falconer gave him an absolute shoeing in the House of Lords.

        Meanwhile, Raab has gone to Washington to reassure the House that all is well. I'm sure the good folk of Olympia will be delighted to see him.

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          Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View Post
          Ta.
          He is Cersei Symmonds' last partner before she fell for the charms of a clinically obese sociopath, old enough to be her father.

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            Originally posted by Eggchaser View Post
            Lord Keen offers his resignation, if reports are to be believed. Lord Falconer gave him an absolute shoeing in the House of Lords.

            Meanwhile, Raab has gone to Washington to reassure the House that all is well. I'm sure the good folk of Olympia will be delighted to see him.
            haha, best place for him. He's only going to get shouted at and threatened if he turns up to washington DC.

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              Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post
              You don't get it. Any form of brexit agreement is just a law that can be changed at the whim of a prime minister with a large majority and a malicious intent . If the last parliament had voted for a customs union deal, the current parliament would have just torn it up. There's no such thing as soft brexit unless you can keep the tories out of power in perpetuity. That's why you needed a second referendum.
              If the last parliament had voted for a customs deal the current parliament wouldn't have assumed the shape it did

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                Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Post

                If the last parliament had voted for a customs deal the current parliament wouldn't have assumed the shape it did
                As TAB has said, Johnson would still have argued in the election campaign that the House was tying his hands by denying him a clean Brexit, and would have achieved the same electoral result - the only difference would have been that the election itself would have happened before he met Leo in Cheshire.

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                  Johnson would't have been the leader. Philip Hammond would have been Chancellor.

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                    Hmmm. The ERG/Gove/Johnson/Cummings axis would have brought it all down anyways.

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                      Raab's visit to Washington went well:

                      https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1306334039557586944

                      https://twitter.com/BrianOD_News/status/1306334436884131843

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                        That's the Advocate General for Scotland gone from Johnson's mob now, unable to stand over the general shitting over what passes for rule of law in the failed state. Fuck knows who he'll bring in as replacement, I hope it's fucking Adam Tomkins.

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                          The Keen story is a shitshow

                          https://twitter.com/LOS_Fisher/status/1306202838310227968

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                            We're looking at a Chicago school totally deregulated economy come January 1st aren't we?

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                              That’s the - for want of a better word - plan.

                              Or a Russia style kleptocracy.

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                                I rather suspect you already have a Russia style kleptocracy. Here in Australia the Libs appoint fossil fuel shills to secret committees to decide on COVID recovery projects and act surprised when the secret committees select fossil fuel COVID recovery projects.
                                Last edited by Uncle Ethan; 17-09-2020, 07:11.

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                                  Originally posted by Snake Plissken View Post
                                  That’s the - for want of a better word - plan.

                                  Or a Russia style kleptocracy.
                                  In which case, we can expect ahistorical gems like this from the FCO next year:

                                  https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1306516128643121152

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                                    I'd. love to compare that with the FCO's description of how the British left Kenya- or indeed Britain's involvement with the Iraq war

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                                      Toby Young has abandoned Johnson, as he is more Cromwell than Prince Hal:

                                      https://paulonbooks.blogspot.com/202...l#.X2NWJzTTW2d

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                                        Well now I think better of Johnson

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                                          I knew someone who was in the Polish Army when the war started. He said that they spent more time fighting the Russians than the Germans.

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                                            I have told the story here before of my sixth form Russian teacher who was an ethnic Ukrainian living in Soviet-occupied Poland who was deported with her village to Karelia by the invading Soviets.

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                                              HMG has begun the backpedalling on the IM Bill.

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                                                c. insistence on paperwork requirements (export declarations) for NI goods going to GB, thereby compromising the principle of “unfettered access” in Article 6 of the Protocol;
                                                So it will definitely be triggered then.

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                                                  Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View Post
                                                  I knew someone who was in the Polish Army when the war started. He said that they spent more time fighting the Russians than the Germans.
                                                  He must have been on the eastern side then, because they spent 36 days fighting the germans and nineteen fighting the russians.

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                                                    Yeah, so? He was one of the many Poles (amongst others) who made their way to the UK either during or after the war.

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