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In my respectful opinion, your only honourable response will be to stop being a fucking fool by changing your fucking mind. Only honourable response to Nick Cohen is to quote himself back at him. The first minute of this is delicious -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=getG0kXj1RY" onclick=&quo...

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SGO 10-.49 - fraid not . Everything that you thought may have been resolved was just kicked down the road . Yanis Varoufakis was right . The EU has since reminded us that we wanted "nothing is decided before everything is decided" . So a Hard Brexit is still possible. The EU has reminded u...

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"" @wesstreeting Relieved we're onto phase two, but notice people with opposing viewpoints on longer-term relationship with EU are cheering the same section of text. Creative ambiguity means big battles still ahead. 8:55 AM - Dec 8, 2017 "" 09:08 Anushka Asthana Lots of Labour p...

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Morning! So, as expected, May has found so solutions to the Irish border problem, nor even proposes any. Just a fudge. A form of wording. Fudge agreed . 48 The United Kingdom remains committed to protecting North-South cooperation and to its guarantee of avoiding a hard border. Any future arrangeme...

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Morning !

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Money "done and dusted" ... ...

Blowing a full gale and down to 2° here

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May poised for early morning dash to Brussels over Brexit Work continuing through the night on a post-Brexit border deal that would satisfy the DUP and the Irish government Margaritis Schinas ✔ @MargSchinas .@JunckerEU was on the phone with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and then with @theresa_may. We are ...

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Adam -- commendable

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House of Lords Impact Assessments https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201719/ldselect/ldeucom/46/46.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Page 12 example -- The British Retail Consortium warned that the average tariff on food products imported from the EU would be 22%, wi...

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Charlotte Leslie to join Celebrity Big Brother :lol: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/5083521/cbb-channel-5-charlotte-leslie-tory-mp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Isn't that stretching the definition of "celebrity" just a tad? ;) Living in rural Lower Norm...

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Elaborate ?

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So as Willow foreshadowed earlier we are left utterly uncertain as to whether the Impact Assessments ever existed. Either they did and they were so bad that they have been destroyed and Davis is lying, or they didn't, in which case Davis was lying when he previously said they did. Surely this situa...

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For some (cough) light relief; Mr Crace -- apparently he's said he's not doing satire tonight but just straight reporting . It's increasingly hard to tell the difference, as in the last two Raph Behrs at the G https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/06/david-davis-excuses-missing-contingency-b...

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Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam Split verdict - but no contempt by Davis votes the Brexit committee because there were no impact assessments 11-8 for no contempt. There are 10 Tories and 1 DUP. So his answers to Seema Malhotra's thrice-repeated "impact assessments", Q131, do no...

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TBG haha ! thanks

I found the Sun one, complete with boobs, but thought there must be something more er serious elsewhere !

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Link to the Curtice article ?

I did try first :!

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No 10 dismisses Hammond's claim that UK will pay 'Brexit bill' even without trade deal This is what Philip Hammond, the chancellor, told the Treasury committee about the UK’s “Brexit bill” payments not being conditional on the UK getting a trade deal. Asked if the exit payments would be conditional...

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/05/under-fire-from-both-sides-david-davis-retreats-into-his-shell" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Crace -- now to read !! Addition --- ... along with Tories Anna Soubry and Antoinette Sandbach . One after the other, they begged t...

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Well I'm about to turn on Parliament TV in the hope of finding out a bit more ;-) Found it ! http://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/4db75290-a512-421a-8789-b6c075313a86" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Davis made good points on Labour previously also attacking SM an CU , so it...

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Complete barney between SNP and Tory representatives on Victoria Derbyshire this morning. Sinn Fein piling in today, as well. And Nicola Sturgeon with this (from the G live blog): Nicola Sturgeon has called for opposition parties and pro-EU Conservative MPs to form an informal coalition at Westmins...

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For Northern Ireland, meanwhile, the deal would be inarguably positive. It would leave open the possibility of maintaining the North’s special status, thereby limiting its exposure to the worst effects of Brexit and giving it a competitive advantage over other parts of the UK. The DUP’s opposition ...

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For Northern Ireland, meanwhile, the deal would be inarguably positive. It would leave open the possibility of maintaining the North’s special status, thereby limiting its exposure to the worst effects of Brexit and giving it a competitive advantage over other parts of the UK. The DUP’s opposition ...

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“”The trouble was that agreeing to keep British rules aligned with Brussels would rather undermine the whole point of Brexit. Already Brexiters were being asked to swallow a bucket-load of humble pie. Many of May’s stubborn red lines, such as a refusal to countenance any role for the ECJ, were in ta...

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Here's Corbyn's reaction. Jeremy Corbyn‏Verified account @jeremycorbyn The reason for today’s failure in the Brexit talks is the grubby deal the Tories did with the DUP after the election. Each passing day provides further evidence that @Theresa_May’s Government is completely ill-equipped to negoti...

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Hehe (to the idea that Dublin might possibly be politicians who had heard of M Machiavelli ..) Edited to add the Crace ------------------- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/04/theresa-may-brussels-jean-claude-juncker-eu-northern-ireland" onclick="window.open(this.href);return f...

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Perhaps Dublin agreed to the meaningless ” regulatory alignment ” cooked up by the civil servants because they knew the DUP would reject it ?

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I am certainly not a fan of the DUP, but it would be unfair of them to be scapegoated for this. Indeed, it wouldn't have got passed Tory backbenchers. It's quite handy for May to say "we didn't get enough seats, the electorate spoke, and move on to Soft Brexit. Soft brexit being back to someth...

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PorFavor wrote:Well. That was easy, wasn't it?

Money for old rope !

All the participants are being well-paid for er .... whatever

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citizenJA wrote:No deal today, the pound fell

Psst Only because it had gone up a cent on some expectation of a Magic Solution .

( Or a few bank dealers had a ring going . I've seen that .)

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This squaddies' expression of fifty odd years ago covers it all :

" The biggest fuckup since Dunkirk ! "

As you were

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Adam -- a footnote on the gerrymandering--

redrawing constituency boundaries in the UK is controversial, not easily resolved technically, AT ALL, but the past few years of "redistricting" in the US have been completely disgraceful.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/17/opinions/the-brexit-talks-are-going-exactly-as-predicted-menon-opinion/index.html "The Brexit psychodrama is going exactly as expected" So far, the Brexit negotiations between Britain and the EU have been entirely predictable. Despite the contemporary tendenc...

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“Mark subsequently found out he has to have a fitness to work telephone interview,” she wrote in an open letter which went viral on Facebook this year. “I called the Universal Credit work coach to ask if she was aware he is terminally ill and has difficulty speaking as he has mouth cancer. She said...

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/11/30/im-a-depression-historian-the-gop-tax-bill-is-straight-out-of-1929/?utm_term=.4774795f5f79" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I’m a Depression historian. The GOP tax bill is straight out of 1929. Republicans are a...

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https://beergbrexit.blog/2017/12/03/long-and-winding-brexit-road/amp/ The EU is also likely to offer the UK a strictly, time-limited transition deal, of probably about two years, during which the UK will be a de facto if not de jure member of the EU, with the UK accepting during the transition the ...

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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/dec/03/thousand-pupils-trapped-in-zombie-academy-schools 40,000 children trapped in ‘zombie’ academy schools ""Last week Wakefield city council backed a motion asking that the trust be allowed to return to local authority control, arguing that th...

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""""""PaulfromYorkshire@gilsey""adam"] Lewis was asked by the BBC how he could be sure it was Green, now the first secretary of state, who accessed the images. He said: “The computer was in Mr Green’s office, on his desk, logged in, his account, his name....

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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/strategy-seeks-one-million-more-disabled-people-in-work-by-2027 Strategy seeks one million more disabled people in work by 2027 Neil Crowther An effective but deeply cynical media strategy to pre-announce something but hold back on publishing any details til the m...

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More crazy times , I'm just settling down to read tonight's Crace -- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/30/theresa-may-donald-trump-tweets-jordan-parliament-politics-sketch" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; This still wasn’t good enough for many MPs from both sides...

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More crazy times , I'm just settling down to read tonight's Crace --

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FWIW Gorka was on the Washington Journal 'phone in shown on BBC Parliament Sundays a couple of weeks ago.You occasionally get calls from the UK. Hindle -- he gets himself everywhere ! Or perhaps, his handlers/associates get him everywhere ??? The other alternative is that , in this case the BBC, ei...

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For some light relief (we surely need it ?) Kalten 34m ago 8 9 I've saved a fortune on Christmas thanks to Gwyneth's homeopathic gifts, I just rubbed some wrapping paper against the screen of my laptop whilst browsing the site and now all my family will be able to experience the amazing wellness of ...

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I am not in Oz !

edited to remind to PTO

thankyou.

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This from the LiveBlog is classic Looking Glass — “” Another Irish official was contacted by her British counterpart, who asked what she had been ‘hearing back’ from the EU about the idea of an ‘associated membership’. (This was before article 50 was triggered, so Britain could not engage directly w...

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The creep Sebastian Gorka was starring on R4's World at One Today, imposing his Islamophobia on the journalist ... http://uk.businessinsider.com/sebastian-gorka-trump-bio-profile-2017-2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; His CV is rather fun: a bogus doctorate, and service in a...

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And an excerpt from the Coulter interview is now being used in BBC radio news bulletins all day without context, scrutiny or any such thing. Of course it is. Coulter is one of those 'overton window' issues - if she has anything at all to do with the mainstream it can only mean that the mainstream h...

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Diane Abbott says she would back referendum on final Brexit deal Shadow home secretary says her remarks in letter to constituent are ‘poorly worded’, but Vince Cable welcomes senior Labour MP’s support of public vote https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/28/diane-abbott-says-she-would-back-...

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Just back from the pub quiz. Still chuckling at this stunning wrong answer from the team we marked.

Q. Which king lost his life at the Battle of Hastings?

A. William the Conqueror

Were they Wrexiteers ?

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Hunt 'risking repeat of junior doctors' row' with plan to change NHS pay The government has triggered a row with NHS staff by unveiling plans to overhaul their pay, including how much they receive for working antisocial shifts. Health unions have warned Jeremy Hunt that he is risking a repeat of th...

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