EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42291191

Now Give is suggesting UK voters can influence the brexit deal by voting in the next GE. You really can't make the waffling up 🙄

He means "vote May out and me in to get a rock-hard, throbbing Brexit"

Has he, or anyone else, said explicitly what they'd have done differently about Ireland last week - never mind Brexity job losses, industrial flight etc?

I've not noticed it if they had.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42280487?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cp7r8vgl2rgt/reality-check&link_location=live-reporting-story

BBC reality checks mention "linguistic somersaults" it seems to me some movement is made on rights (don't worry! We just take half of them away now!) but at others here said...what does it mean to have "regulatory convergence" it sounds to me like being in a house while saying you are not in it ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gApmzSpZd10

Apologies for lack of gravitas :)

Yup.

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‘Traditional’ Britain

Those are Brightonian weirdo's. (Also looks like a Kemptown street) Hardly 'Traditional Britain'

Just in case you were wondering,or in case there was any doubt, Davis has actually said he doesn't have to be clever or know much to do his job, and that he apparently doesn't 'believe' in economics...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/david-davis-does-not-have-to-be-clever-to-be-brexit-secretary-2017-12?international=true&r=UK&IR=T

Clearly a self-declared useful idiot.

So someone in a coma could handle Brexit negotiations?

Actually they’d do better than David Davis.

in a coma

Well, many people would offer to strangle him.

^ hah! :D

1-0 Paddington.

This is useful.

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A round of applause for David Davis

In response to Davis' comments, EU leaders have altered draft summit conclusions to remove a suggestion that 'preliminary and preparatory discussions' on a trade deal will begin in the New Year. All talks now put off until March 22-23 summit, according to FT.

https://twitter.com/nick_gutteridge/status/940581462163804160

Which of his comments?

His comment (on the Marr show I think) on how the agreement that Theresa May dramatically signed up to last Friday didn't have to be seen as binding.

Davis & TMay really have to understand that within the EU28, there are a wide range of newspspers and political commentators, let alone politicians, who are not as supine as those of the UK. Just because there are few language skills within the Cabinet does not mean that interviews, speeches and newspaper articles in English go unnoticed within Europe.

The ones at the weekend I assume, where he said that having agreed to a bunch of stuff (border / regulatory alignment) was just some kind of guideline rather than an obligation.

Negotiating in bad faith apparently has consequences.

I think those bloody Continentals are SPYING on us. It's high time we took back control of our espionage.

Wow. What an act. Zoned out of the news for the whole weekend, cheers and @boristrump for the catch-up.

Who would have thought that 40 years of repeats of 'Dad's Army', & 25 years of 'Allo, allo' could have any consequences?

People thinking that dressing up as French means a string of garlic around your neck, and that's just one of the consequences ;)

No French Person Ever

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Johnny

Not too far from the truth!