EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

We haven't got anyone to pick the cherries now anyway

Jesus. What a shit show.

Commentators I respect reckon the CTA won't survive Brexit.

I'm being tired and slow. CTA?

Oh chequers trade agreement?

is that Redwood tweet actually legit?

Oh chequers trade agreement?

Common Travel Area - the ability to cross the border between NI and I without a passport check.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwylBRucU7w

Hahaha oh yeah duh. That makes much more sense. Thanks for clarifying.

Going for the Bake off vote?

I'm off to the commissioning editors at RT with that idea.
Great Brexit Bake Off: Rnige, dePfeffel, Redwood, DfdsFox, Gove, ids, jrm, Paterson, Patel, Davis, Cash, Field, Hoey, Villiers, all competing to both bake a cake and eat it.

If that is the case the shit is well and truly going to hit the fan here.

But it is pre EU why would it not last?

Haha :)

No deal means no deal, and Irelands border is now the EU border.

Because the main reason (AFAICT) for Eire not joining the Schengen Zone is that the UK wasn't, and at the time they had no intention of upsetting the UK. That becomes a lot less relevant post Brexit, when they want to pull in closer contacts with the rest of their main trading zone. Schengen would require a passport check on Irish borders.

less than ninja edit bloody spell checkers.

Don’t panic, any minute now the EU27 will realise they need us more than we need them. Just wait, you’ll see. Annnnyyyyy minuuuuute....

Surely Lake Erie only becomes a factor if the Tories drop Chequers and go for a Canada+deal?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/common-travel-area-a-bilateral-issue-for-uk-and-ireland-says-tánaiste-1.3545550?mode=amp

Simon Coveney says CTA is a bilateral agreement and brexit won't matter. Let's hope so.

Good god, it seems to be.

https://twitter.com/johnredwood/status/1043141778562576384

Nuts (but only proper British home-grown nuts)

This only gets better:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/22/dont-mistake-british-politeness-for-weakness-jeremy-hunt-tells-eu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIMX4JNpOEQ

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45599122

Weird weird weird

The prime minister had read from her op-ed that morning in the German newspaper Die Welt in which she warned that the EU would have to change course. And she had repeated a mantra on Chequers that is an anathema to the EU: take it or leave it. Over the following 24 hours, after further missteps, including further prevarication over the crucial, knotty issue of the Irish border, the answer from the bloc could not have been clearer. They were not taking it.

I think that means the EU are a load of leavers?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/22/tories-seek-new-avenues-after-salzburg-dead-end

Here, evidently, is the reason why 'Brexit' could even happen and also the resolution of this period of crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/23/karma-restored-mythical-london-stone-returns-to-its-city-home

Fancy calling it 'a load rubbish' that it has mystical powers. Unbeleavers all.