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Isle of Man isn't in the EU. Your future prime minister is an imbecile.
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Isle of Man isn't in the EU. Your future prime minister is an imbecile.
Yes but the UK is. If British farmers want to fish in British waters and sell their products to Britain . . .
Except he was talking about someone from the Isle of Man. Yet another one of his inane anecdotes with no basis in reality.
IoM has a limited but (for them) significant relationship with the EU/EEA, through the UK's accession treaty. They enjoy some of the benefits of access, and have similar obligations as other rule-taking third parties.
Yes, that doesn't change what I said. In future we could set it so that the Isle of Man fisherman trading within Britain wouldn't have to follow that regulation.
No the backstop is what they want to come AFTER transition.
Indeed and I said at the time that if there are negative consequences for eg financial services that it is a shame. Nothing has changed.
Macroeconomically we have record employment, wages growing faster than inflation and even as a whole the financial services sector has seen more job gains than job losses since the vote. Macroeconomics is how the country should be run but that can be cold comfort for the microeconomic exceptions that lose out.
@Randy: let's see if you are this sanguine when it hits your business.
Lancashire is self-sufficient in horse manure.
Lol, sending Elizabeth II to Brussels as a stand in for an unwilling PM to request more time?
I stand corrected; Bojo the Buffoon.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49052373
Devastating
Professional imbecile. Hard to think much higher of those who vote for him.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/b...them-1.3960638
Will the Buffoon even have a working majority in the HoC?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ebedev-mansion
Not Trump-like at all.
It's really rough when the leader of a modern western nation is not only a racist liar but also functionally indistinguishable from an actual idiot:
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It wasn't frictionless, that's why they had heat shields. Atmospheric friction has little relevance to regulatory friction. The coding required was a major challenge at the time. It wasn't accomplished simply through the application of can-do attitude but rather through the dedicated work of thousands of experts.
I live like a 10 minutes from work, so I always get to hear the tail end of the Today Program when commuting, and they're always finishing up with these discussions at the end of the program about who's going to be in PM Boris's cabinet, what his first steps are going to be etc.
Since I have not bothered to look up the date of the result announcement beyond "some time in July", from the context I can never tell if they're talking hypothetically or if it has been confirmed at some point since I last saw the news that's he has won, and having covered the actual news and reactions earlier in the program are now using the 10 minute slot at the end for a bit of theory-crafting about what he'll do next.
And so for 10 minutes I get to experience the reality where Boris Johnson has actually become Prime Minister, rather than the one where he is merely extremely likely to become Prime Minister but has not yet done so. It's not a very pleasant place.
I'm sorry, I actually did consider the harmful impact my phrasing was likely to have on your wellbeing. Indeed, I briefly panicked after writing that and had to make sure he wasn't already PM. But it looks like that shitshow is still ahead of us
Tic, toc, tic, toc not for much longer.
Almost as inane as frictionless re-entry
Good thing though he doesn't have any furniture to move into Downing street.
"I don’t understand how a man whose entire prep for anything seems to consist of drawing a cock and balls – but in Latin! – on a sheet of paper, ends up in high office."
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ry-london-dude