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[diku] 24/6/2020 18:08

What kind of signals is he looking for?...show them the no deal signal and the deal will be done...




Progress on a post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and European Union will depend on whether Boris Johnson stops “backtracking” on commitments he has already made, Michel Barnier said.

The EU’s chief negotiator said he believed a deal was still possible as he prepared for an intensified talks process beginning next week.

But “the ball is in the UK’s court” and there must be “clear signals” that progress can be made.

The Prime Minister has suggested that he wants a deal done by the end of July but Mr Barnier said the “moment of truth” would be in October, the deadline for getting an agreement ratified by the European Parliament before the end of the year when the current arrangements expire.

At an event hosted by the Brussels-based European Policy Centre think tank, Mr Barnier said “the UK keeps on backtracking (on) its commitments in the Political Declaration”, the document agreed by Mr Johnson and the 27 EU member states.

Mr Barnier, who will hold a further round of talks with Mr Johnson’s Europe adviser David Frost next week, said: “We now need clear signals that the UK is ready to work on an agreement that respects this document, both in the spirit and in the letter.

[jl5006] 24/6/2020 17:41

5xy
So much for guidance - wearing face masks prevents Co2 emission and by inference reingests the gunk into the lungs at the expense of O2.
What a world of quaks fxxk us all

[xxxxxy] 24/6/2020 16:52

Live in Wales too. Drakeford is a Stalinist. Son in prison. And wants to tell everyone else how to live their lives. Ghastly man.

[xxxxxy] 24/6/2020 16:49

hTtps://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1435/rr-40Just some ...' Face masks make breathing more difficult. For people with COPD, face masks are in fact intolerable to wear as they worsen their breathlessness.[5] Moreover, a fraction of carbon dioxide previously exhaled is inhaled at each respiratory cycle. Those two phenomena increase breathing frequency and deepness, and hence they increase the amount of inhaled and exhaled air. This may worsen the burden of covid-19 if infected people wearing masks spread more contaminated air. This may also worsen the clinical condition of infected people if the enhanced breathing pushes the viral load down into their lungs.(5B) The effects described at point 5 are amplified if face masks are heavily contaminated (see point 2)(6) While impeding person-to-person transmission is key to limiting the outbreak, so far little importance has been given to the events taking place after a transmission has happened, when innate immunity plays a crucial role. The main purpose of the innate immune response is to immediately prevent the spread and movement of foreign pathogens throughout the body.[6] The innate immunity's efficacy is highly dependent on the viral load. If face masks determine a humid habitat where the SARS-CoV-2 can remain active due to the water vapour continuously provided by breathing and captured by the mask fabric, they determine an increase in viral load and therefore they can cause a defeat of the innate immunity and an increase in infections. This phenomenon may also interact with and enhance previous points. '

[xxxxxy] 24/6/2020 16:40

End Lockdown now. Life is for living.Those who are timid. Go and wrap in cling film and stay at home.

[xxxxxy] 24/6/2020 16:38

Heat of the sun. Penarth.Hardly a mask to be seen. And heaving with people. Good sign.

[xxxxxy] 24/6/2020 16:35

Let's get a Deal.With the USA.

[bbalanjones] 24/6/2020 16:29

So spake the Capo del tutti Cappi withe the handle 'stonedyou'

[bbalanjones] 24/6/2020 16:25

stondyou : You hardly set the 'Gold Standard' as a wordsmith yourself dear!!

[bbalanjones] 24/6/2020 16:22

maxk: oh you mean the day that Russia won the contest by fooling the gullible-but-oh-so-confused British Hobbitry?

[maxk] 24/6/2020 15:47

Brexit Facts4EU.Org
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At 4.39am, 4 years ago today, the shocked Remainer BBC had to declare that Leave had won.

Do you remember that wonderful moment of Brexit euphoria? We do! Re-live it all here:

[jl5006] 24/6/2020 15:43

BBJ
Excellentnews about reading -? UNI
Get rid of the lefties and start teaching again
This will be the precedent - UNIS will slim down
if wokes have their way.
Nothing to learn should the past history be taken away.

[smartypants] 24/6/2020 15:37

What’s the rush...

UK not rushing into trade deal with US



On Wednesday Liz Truss the United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade said, London will not rush into a trade deal with the United States, adding "there is no deadline" for it to be finalized.

Speaking before the House of Commons' International Trade Committee, she claimed that "the reality is that many UK products have been kept unfairly out of their market."

In May she asserted that both sides are "hopeful" about resuming trade talks at an "accelerated pace" seemingly contradicting todays statement.

[jl5006] 24/6/2020 15:35

To Boots the Chemist - not Boots but some foreign firm _ Applegreen?
I give you notice that you will need to leave the premises because you have not paid ur Qs rent.
LL

[bbalanjones] 24/6/2020 15:33

5xy: Please only publish such lightweight drivel but once! Or is it the 'shakes'?

[xxxxxy] 24/6/2020 15:02

We are sleepwalking from one denial of our liberties into an even more insidious phaseThe ramifications of this seizure of our freedoms are profoundly disturbingJANET DALEY30 May 2020 • 1:00pm?When you think about it, there is something very odd about the farrago of the last week. Endless numbers of MPs, many of them Conservative, and a similarly vast array of media outlets received outraged demands for the sacking of the prime minister's adviser because he allegedly transgressed the rules which have damaged the quality of life of ordinary people. Those who complained said that the deprivations and sacrifices which they have endured at such cost to their personal happiness and welfare were mocked by Dominic Cummings' actions.But wait a minute - I thought that the great majority of people were not bothered much at all by the lockdown restrictions? According to almost every opinion poll that has been published over this extraordinary period, a clear message has gone out from the country: No, we're really not fussed about having to stay under house arrest, locked away from our beloved families and closest friends. It's pretty nice, actually - an extended break from the pressures of work and social demands.ADVERTISINGPromote health. Save lives. Serve the vulnerable. Visit who.intSo we are quite content to sign away our rights as freeborn Englishmen and women to move about and associate with whomever we wish (even the right to a family life which we grant unreservedly to asylum seekers) for the indefinite future. We're not even particularly worried about how much education our children are losing - certainly not missing the early morning school run, ha ha. Give us a shout when it's over but we personally will be sad to see it end.That's been, overall, the resounding sentiment, hasn't it? So which is it? Are most people quite unbothered about the unprecedented restrictions to which they have been subjected (in which case, the possible infringement of those restrictions would be of little interest) or not? Of course, the obvious answer is that these are not the same groups of people: the ones who tell the opinion pollsters that, as far as they are concerned, this can go on forever are living quite different sorts of lives from those who are aggrieved by how much they have had to give up.But is this necessarily true? Many of the former lot could be public sector employees who are currently enjoying a holiday on full pay but whose political orientation is likely to incline them to attack the Tory government at every opportunity. So they could easily have it both ways: saying, quite honestly, that they are having a lovely time under the present dispensation, but still joining in the media chorus of condemnation of the government when it suits them.Full articlehtTps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/30/sleepwalking-one-denial-liberties-even-insidious-phase/

[xxxxxy] 24/6/2020 15:01

We are sleepwalking from one denial of our liberties into an even more insidious phaseThe ramifications of this seizure of our freedoms are profoundly disturbingJANET DALEY30 May 2020 • 1:00pm?When you think about it, there is something very odd about the farrago of the last week. Endless numbers of MPs, many of them Conservative, and a similarly vast array of media outlets received outraged demands for the sacking of the prime minister's adviser because he allegedly transgressed the rules which have damaged the quality of life of ordinary people. Those who complained said that the deprivations and sacrifices which they have endured at such cost to their personal happiness and welfare were mocked by Dominic Cummings' actions.But wait a minute - I thought that the great majority of people were not bothered much at all by the lockdown restrictions? According to almost every opinion poll that has been published over this extraordinary period, a clear message has gone out from the country: No, we're really not fussed about having to stay under house arrest, locked away from our beloved families and closest friends. It's pretty nice, actually - an extended break from the pressures of work and social demands.ADVERTISINGPromote health. Save lives. Serve the vulnerable. Visit who.intSo we are quite content to sign away our rights as freeborn Englishmen and women to move about and associate with whomever we wish (even the right to a family life which we grant unreservedly to asylum seekers) for the indefinite future. We're not even particularly worried about how much education our children are losing - certainly not missing the early morning school run, ha ha. Give us a shout when it's over but we personally will be sad to see it end.That's been, overall, the resounding sentiment, hasn't it? So which is it? Are most people quite unbothered about the unprecedented restrictions to which they have been subjected (in which case, the possible infringement of those restrictions would be of little interest) or not? Of course, the obvious answer is that these are not the same groups of people: the ones who tell the opinion pollsters that, as far as they are concerned, this can go on forever are living quite different sorts of lives from those who are aggrieved by how much they have had to give up.But is this necessarily true? Many of the former lot could be public sector employees who are currently enjoying a holiday on full pay but whose political orientation is likely to incline them to attack the Tory government at every opportunity. So they could easily have it both ways: saying, quite honestly, that they are having a lovely time under the present dispensation, but still joining in the media chorus of condemnation of the government when it suits them.Full articlehtTps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/30/sleepwalking-one-denial-liberties-even-insidious-phase/

[xxxxxy] 24/6/2020 15:00

End Lockdown now.