EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

You have far more confidence in David Davis than most.

I'm making plans to escape to Spain too. Apart from learning the language the most difficult question is, work from home for a UK company or try and find local work.

Do both!

Tonnes of telesales work around Marbs'

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/19/uk-caves-in-to-eu-demand-to-agree-divorce-bill-before-trade-talks

Good to hear that proper government is not dead:

“It’s not how it starts, it’s how it finishes that matters,” Davis said in Brussels after their first day of formal talks. “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.”

Both transparent fallacies, which no doubt will highly impress ringside punters. Davis evidently can't quite muster the rhetorical punch of 'Brexit means Brexit'. Future assessments are likely to include 'it's only a scratch' and 'let's call it a draw'.

No comparison with Barnier's pithy summary:

“We are looking to unravel 43 years of patiently built relations.”

Missed this earlier:

“As Winston Churchill once said, the pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty,” said the secretary of state. “There is a long road ahead, no doubt with many twists and turns, but our destination is clear.” Unfortunately for Davis, Churchill experts believed the quote was wrongly attributed to the former British prime minister.

I think David Davis' brain has been addled by all the US white sugar he sold as an executive at Tate & Lyle, undermining the indigenous sugar beet based industry.

Oh god

We're doooooooomed.

I am at the point of wondering where I could get a new job.

How are your trade negotiation skills?

Or there seems to be a strong need for domestic domestic cleaners.

You know. That's not a bad idea.

Franchise business? Or DIY?

Did dubtap post a picture there? I can't see it. (Come to think of it, I can never see any pictures he posts.)

Yes he did.

Here is the URL of it:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCrjVt-XkAA1UVI.jpg

Cheers, Matt, I saw that picture in the paper earlier. I thought the same thing--grinning fool (confirmed by his inane comments as posted above) and competent, well-prepared negotiator. No prizes for guessing who's who.

Also, I suspect it's Tw*tter pictures I can't see. No idea why.

Family business. Get the kids involved.
Till the robots take that job too.

Robots will never manage to assemble flatpack furniture.

That reminds me, I need to get the babysitting sorted for ThNRC.

Im outta here as soon as I can organise it. Irish passport being registered as soon as my older sister is done with all the original documents needed to sort the eu citizenship but hopefully a job opening with my company in sweden will be forthcoming asap. again, learning the language is the biggest barrier as usual.

Dating for Remainers

http://remainderapp.co.uk/

And at the other extreme

https://trumpsingles.com/

Dating for Remainers

http://remainderapp.co.uk/

And the first thing on the site? 'As featured in the Daily Mail'. Not sure they really know their audience.

Yes, pretty crap. Supposedly doesn't have any registered users.

Somewhat withering

For the curious

I can't see how they're going to get themselves out of this. It's only been one day and the media (that I've seen- I imagine the Mail and Express are different) are already referring to a shadow of another looming and inevitable economic disaster.

There really can't be many people who see pictures of Davis gurning and feel a sufficiently large enough swell of national pride to be able to swallow the consequences of what he's doing.

Hammond not leaving the Customs Union in 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2017/jun/20/philip-hammond-gives-mansion-house-speech-politics-live