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Do you think there will be a Deal or No Deal?

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Red in STL said:
He was for a bit, he was a pretty quick bowler but not the most frightening one I ever batted against, played against a West Indian test fast bowler, can't remember his name now, I was no.11 being a bowler, I faced 3 balls, scored 8 runs and never saw the ball, first 2 edged for 4, last one the stumps went for 4!

Local league cricket in Lancashire was pretty special up until 20 odd years ago, each team would have a professional , quite often younger players before they hit the big time but not always, lots of Aussies and West Indians but some from every test nation, Andy Flower and Curtley Ambrose played for my local team (well after I stopped) Joel Garner played for a local team, and lived in a caravan at the ground, we always tried to hit when we played there!

Fun days
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.... Brexit make sense
 
horsechoker said:
Posting this to dispel the myth that some hold (not on here primarily) that Scotland will join the EU in a matter of a few years

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...en-ukraines-hopes-of-fast-track-eu-membership
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Scotland would be considerably quicker than Ukraine though, as Scotland basically still follow the same rules and standards as the EU countries to this point.

Of course if and when Westminster introduce their Brexit bill and the standards are changed to UKCA etc then the process would take a lot longer. The aim of the Tory party is to trash everything so it would be too difficult to rejoin; plus they have a willing accomplice with the opposition.
 
Quote from a Dutch late night comedy show concerning the labor market:

"Because of Brexit the UK are unable to get cheap workers from the EU into the country. They are dealing with a shortage of bus drivers, a shortage of seasonal workers, the only actual surplus they have now are Chelsea players."
 
DutchSerb said:
Quote from a Dutch late night comedy show concerning the labor market:

"Because of Brexit the UK are unable to get cheap workers from the EU into the country. They are dealing with a shortage of bus drivers, a shortage of seasonal workers, the only actual surplus they have now are Chelsea players."
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:lol:
 
DutchSerb said:
Quote from a Dutch late night comedy show concerning the labor market:

"Because of Brexit the UK are unable to get cheap workers from the EU into the country. They are dealing with a shortage of bus drivers, a shortage of seasonal workers, the only actual surplus they have now are Chelsea players."
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And some think the Dutch don't have a sense of humour
 
DutchSerb said:
Quote from a Dutch late night comedy show concerning the labor market:

"Because of Brexit the UK are unable to get cheap workers from the EU into the country. They are dealing with a shortage of bus drivers, a shortage of seasonal workers, the only actual surplus they have now are Chelsea players."
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:) Question is which project looks more likely to succeed. Brexit or new Chelsea. Looking like two badly thought through projects.
 
Thanks for the article link. Obviously a trade war with the EU is a terrible turn of events, but reading that "the UK is about to lower standards in areas such as environmental protection and workers’ rights " makes for miserable reading.

MP's in the Conservative Party really don't understand the gravity model of trade. Going to trade war with your neighbors is a Putinesque kind of mistake.
 
RoyH1 said:
Thanks for the article link. Obviously a trade war with the EU is a terrible turn of events, but reading that "the UK is about to lower standards in areas such as environmental protection and workers’ rights " makes for miserable reading.

MP's in the Conservative Party really don't understand the gravity model of trade. Going to trade war with your neighbors is a Putinesque kind of mistake.
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Despite their rhetoric, a lot of the current Tory party would love to live in a Russian style Oligarchy. Probably why they accept so much money from the Russian Oligarchs.
 
Bert_ said:
Despite their rhetoric, a lot of the current Tory party would love to live in a Russian style Oligarchy. Probably why they accept so much money from the Russian Oligarchs.
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The biggest joke about the pro-Brexit vote was that it largely comprised people dissatisfied with modern Britain (whether through genuine suffering from the effects of the Thatcherite reforms or simple nostalgia for a simpler, perhaps imaginary community-based past) while the people pushing it were ultra slash and burn liberalists who wanted to destroy any remnants of the post-war consensus and the protections afforded by EU legislation.
 
FireballXL5 said:
fecking idiots, the lot of them.

Revealed: secret cross-party summit held to confront failings of Brexit

Michael Gove and David Lammy join Ditchley Park talks amid admission that ‘UK has not found its way outside the EU

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ty-summit-held-to-confront-failings-of-brexit
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Both the Tories and Labour are completely clueless about Brexit. They still don't understand why Brexit is such a bad decision but they're both trying to find a way to bash their heads against a brick wall. It can't possibly in any shape or form be successful.
 
Why even bother with questions any more? It doesn't matter if it's in Parliament or the media, if you can just say absolutely whatever you want after a question then why pretend? Let's just say unconnected shit all the time, have a laugh and move on. I also think in today's politics it's actually far easier to do this than just a couple of decades back. I may be misremembering, but not so long ago you had to at least minimally connect the answer to the question somewhat logically, even if the answer was mostly waffle anyway. Even that's not necessary any more. Absolutely any question can be answered with an unconnected sound bite, and nobody bats an eyelid.
 
Embrace a benefit if you can find one.

How many different ways can the UK lose the TCA with the EU to ensure No Deal finally becomes a reality and trashes the economy even more?

1. Not implementing the NI Protocol properly
2. Brexit Bill or Leaving the ECHR so that human rights issues cancel the agreement.
3. Freeports - unfair advantages for companies producing in freeports
4. Introducing the UKCA - standards too low for goods to be sold in the EU

I'm sure there's a fifth but can't remember.
 
It's true that Heseltine made these two clowns look like the idiots they are and although it's not his job to hold them to account - it should be the British journalists.

However, it still didn't go far enough. How are the 'Remoaners' holding Brexit back. What is going to make Brexit work? Every day that goes past the worse it gets are that will accelerate over the coming years until at some point the inevitable will happen.

Idiot Brexiters have had it so easy for seven years. Nobody has a backbone.
 
Paul the Wolf said:
It's true that Heseltine made these two clowns look like the idiots they are and although it's not his job to hold them to account - it should be the British journalists.

However, it still didn't go far enough. How are the 'Remoaners' holding Brexit back. What is going to make Brexit work? Every day that goes past the worse it gets are that will accelerrate over the coming years until at some point the inevitable will happen.

Idiot Brexiters have had it so easy for seven years. Nobody has a backbone.
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It's fifth column nonsense.
 
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