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[tenapen] 17/11/2018 07:15

WE need a missing person alert for boris Johnson.

Please check your local spoons for a mumbling fool who like the UK banks .... gambled and lost.

[johnwise] 16/11/2018 21:25

Chaos as Brexit Nears its Final and Insane Stage

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[mroalan] 16/11/2018 08:55

BREXIT SMALL PRINT,MRO.

[lanarkian] 16/11/2018 08:22

What exactly is Labour's policy here?

[johnwise] 16/11/2018 08:11

The only Conservative voters that would be ok with this deal, would be ones that don't realise that the UK will never be able to leave the Customs union without EU approval. Who on earth would agree to that. I suspect the media are keeping that bit quiet. Go to an election and see what happens if the Tories push this agreement through. They will be decimated.

[johnwise] 15/11/2018 19:23

Rees-Mogg slams Theresa May with letter of no confidence

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[iomhere] 15/11/2018 10:53

Ken Clark in his memoir, 'Kind of Blue' relates how May, then Home Secretary, spoke at a Conservative conference of a couple who had successfully appealed against deportation on the ground that they were a family because they owned a cat. The Royal Courts of Justice confirmed publicly that there had been no such case. (The media labelled it as the cat in a flap case).

[ignoble] 15/11/2018 08:42

Don't think David Cameron was much better
Imho

[iomhere] 15/11/2018 08:27

I'm not sure it's as simple as that. The referendum took us out of Europe and I cannot see why we should not leave with a clean break and, on that basis, enter into a common tariff agreement with the EU if that is what both parties want. If not tariffs will need to be decided. May's lack has been that nothing has been agreed and the word is that Davies was fed up with Downing Street's attempt to take over his work in the negotiating process and so he resigned. It seems May is now in Eden's league as one of the worst PMs in living memory.

[careful] 15/11/2018 07:49

There has to be restrictions on our ability to do our own deals if we want free tariff free trade with the mighty EU. our single biggest trading partner by far.

Think about it. What if a Chinese Car maker invested billions in the UK to make cheap cars, components made in china.

We could sell them tariff free into the EU. All the investment here, jobs here and China, profits and taxes in both.
EU. would suffer, we would have a competitive advantage.

[iomhere] 14/11/2018 22:50

The draft agreement precludes the UK doing deals with free trade countries and this seriously affects JDW's costs since it has changed bringing many of its overseas supplies in from the WTC area.
Thus the draft agreement seems to go against the spirit of Brexit. Ken Clarke described Theresa May as 'a difficult woman'. One of life's small blessings is that I'm not married to her.

[johnwise] 13/11/2018 19:11

VIDEO

13th November 2018

BREXIT - Nigel Farage: "Thank you, Angela Merkel, without you there was no Brexit"

[johnwise] 10/11/2018 06:47

We've had the referendum, parliament had voted to abide by the result and the people voted to leave. We were told, a vote to leave is a vote to leave the EU, single market, customs union, the people voted to leave. The problem is May and most Map's are remainers and they didn't expect to lose. If the result is to be ignored 17.4 million voters will not forgive.The Tory Party will become history..

Brexit bombshell: Jo Johnson RESIGNS - leaving EU is ‘terrible mistake’

[bountyhunter] 09/11/2018 21:56

Get well soon Tim, the country needs you to continue to save the British pub!

[johnwise] 09/11/2018 18:55

75 per cent of the staff a Pret a Manger are EU imports..They are excellent, well mannered,obliging and hard working, no tattoos, salary of £10 an hour..Employing British ? most usually disappear in a fortnight, not up to the required standard....

[sponges] 09/11/2018 16:38

Agree totally - neither party has helped the pub industry - neither have ever recognised how pubs have often been the beating heart of a community and now wonder why a lot of people just don't have anything to do with their neighbours anymore absolute travesty really the way it has and is changing society - ie a lot of old people who would say live on their own would use a pub as a way of getting out of solitary existence if only for one day a week etc and once a local has gone its gone

[essentialinvestor] 09/11/2018 14:50

The Tory party have been no friend to the pub industry,
at least not in terms of taxation differential re supermarket alcohol.
Can appreciate why Tim repeatedly highlights the difference.

[sponges] 09/11/2018 11:47

Careful- you're up your own superiority - who needs Juncker when the uk has peopele like you -
The population of this country is around 66 million and circa 65% of them are of working age - (2011 Census)so even if you then deducted around 3.5 million people as being either european or non-europeans - you still have around 40 million people of working age in the uk and currently Employment stands at -

Employment rate remains at record high. Britain has a joint record high employment rate of 75.6% with 32.39 million people now in work according to the latest official statistics.

The unemployment rate is now 4.2% – down 0.4% since last year – with the number of people out of work falling by 115,000.12 Jun 2018

[essentialinvestor] 07/11/2018 12:36

careful, you think this is a new development??.
Having experience of the care sector this has been the
case for decades.

[essentialinvestor] 07/11/2018 10:01

Tim is not a fan of the bureaucracy etc, however the benefits to UK
hospitality in a flow of cheap EU migration are immense.

Would not surprise me to see future warnings on costs pressures.