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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss Amad saving our blushes in a win against Southampton as well as our now annual loss at home to Brighton. They discuss Amorim's post-match comments, revisit how mid-table we may or may not be, and discuss some transfer news.
No it is the question you asked ... see below
This was a question from you, to which I was responding.
Did she replace Dominic Grieve?
And you responded with the question that I quoted.
Good I'm glad we got that sorted!
She wouldn't have written this herself though, would she? Isn't this what she'd have expert staff for at her department?
Geoffrey Cox was the previous AG, and he replaced Jeremy Wright, who replaced Grieve.
Geoffrey Cox
No, they've had two since then, Geoffrey Cox was her predecessor
I can't shake the feeling that the motivators for this obvious desire to no deal are more related to certain individuals financial prospects and the economic future of the country is little more than an irrelevance to them. I simply cannot see any way that what they're doing makes any sense at all, except for that you can profit greatly from economic failure if you know its coming in advance and can prepare for it.
Aaah thank you.
The lawyers in the AG department will have written the text, under instruction from her Private Office, and she would have signed off on the final copy, having requested changes where she felt they were necessary to make. Ultimately she is responsible for the final text.
All the lawyers on Twitter are going mad about thiscomparing it to a first years students paper.
A first year student that didn't bother studying.
Its time that every British person in mainland Europe is kicked back to blighty. Starting and ending with sancho
Pound's nearly reached €1.08. Can Johnson do it. Is parity the objective or lower?
Of course she is - I'm not disputing that. What I was getting at, is that either there is a lot of crap in her department, or she got good advice but she and her political staff completely went against that. I guess I'm being too technical on procedure here. (I work in government, so I have sick & twisted interests in that regard.
)Down to 1.079 now. Crashing hard currently.
I hope someone is watching currency trading by ministers, their friends and tory donors
First time I have heard national law as an excuse for breaching international law.
Think it’ll be at 1:1 by December, then possibly weaker than the Euro by January.
Technically its a boost to exporters I guess
In theory but in practice the UK have to import products to make the exports and are vastly net importers anyway.
The gain from lower prices could be more than offset by tariffs which are inevitable if this bill goes ahead.
Then you will have foreign owned companies leaving the UK in droves which makes up most of the UK manufacturing industry.
Then possibly financial and trade sanctions on top of all of that.
The only people who will benefit from a lower pound will be the currency speculators intent on shorting the pound and the hardest hit will be the prats cheering Boris on.
We are outside the EU but their level playing field rules still apply to us if we wish to sell our goods to EU customers tariff free, because they won't allow us to do it in illegal, damaging or manipulative ways according to their definitions. It's their market, not ours.
But besides that, putting the rules aside, the politics is that the single market is extremely, overwhelmingly important to the EU, and keeping it clean is their bottom line negotiating objective. If we want a deal, we do it their way or we don't get a deal - and then we find out what life can be like for an island off the coast of a pissed off economic superpower.
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It's also worth noting the moment we left the EU we became a competitor nation to them. You can't very well complain about a large economic competitor trying to constrain a smaller economic competitor. That's the geopolitical game you brexiters foolishly signed us up to when you kicked off this misbegotten affair.
These Tories are killing what's left of the country.
Every consequence is deserved.
Good luck you are going to need it
Every consequence is deserved.
Good luck you are going to need it
You a kilt twirler? Nice one lad
Eu say they they will give us to the end of the month to withdraw the legistlation
EU leaders conference on 24th September
Just enough time for both sides to agree some fudge and the EU to say we backed down whilst boris saying he secured the deal he wanted and then withdraw the legistlation
Im still thinking a deal will be done though in the best Eu traditions they are leaving it very late and that does run the very real risk of something going wrong
EU leaders conference on 24th September
Just enough time for both sides to agree some fudge and the EU to say we backed down whilst boris saying he secured the deal he wanted and then withdraw the legistlation
Im still thinking a deal will be done though in the best Eu traditions they are leaving it very late and that does run the very real risk of something going wrong
Funny how you try to frame this absolute clusterfeck as following EU traditions when the UK has contributed 95% of this mess we are in.
We have gone from a claimed "oven ready" deal and unlawfully suspending parliament to breaking international law and risking the good Friday agreement.
Besides the criminal activities of the UK government, there seems to be no progress on the latest round of talks either.
Chances of a deal seem somewhere between zero and zero.
I'm constantly moody and I hate Cornish pasties, so yes I'm Scottish. But I also have a fair bit of English blood so I can also do things like eat vegetables and spel things corectly.
Actually you might be onto something there. They may have decided a deal itself without adversity wouldn't play well for Boris so they're setting up a posturing manoeuvre they can claim won the day.
It's not like they haven't done this before and it's right out of Trumps playbook. However I'm still going with a lack of competency for now.
I feel like these aren't mutually exclusive.
UK strikes agreement with Japan to secure first post-Brexit trade deal
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-strik...-secure-first-post-brexit-trade-deal-12068674
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-strik...-secure-first-post-brexit-trade-deal-12068674
from your link..." Department for Trade figures reveal that, in 2018, the UK's trade with the EU was worth £659.5bn while trade with Japan was worth £29.1bn. "
The future looks bright for the UK.
The future looks bright for the UK.
The hilarious quote at the bottom:
"Our Conservative manifesto commitment is for 80% of UK trade to be covered by such deals within the next three years."
As nearly 80% of UK trade is with the EU and the USA this seems a tad unlikely at this moment in time.
From The Independent....https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-japan-trade-deal-brexit-agreement-eu-b421841.html
'The government said businesses will benefit from tariff-free trade on 99 per cent of exports to Japan, delivering a £1.5bn boost to the UK, claiming manufacturers, food and drink producers and the tech sector will see the greatest benefits'.
£1.5bn
'The government said businesses will benefit from tariff-free trade on 99 per cent of exports to Japan, delivering a £1.5bn boost to the UK, claiming manufacturers, food and drink producers and the tech sector will see the greatest benefits'.
£1.5bn
Yay. Fukushima rice coming soon.