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"Because after all the division and discord, the country is coming together.
The referendum was divisive at times. And those divisions have taken time to heal."
"Because after all the division and discord, the country is coming together.
The referendum was divisive at times. And those divisions have taken time to heal."
- T May
She used the word 'discord'.
oh god
"Where there is discord may we bring harmony . . ."
"Because after all the division and discord, the country is coming together.
The referendum was divisive at times. And those divisions have taken time to heal."
Lost Soul wrote:"Because after all the division and discord, the country is coming together.
The referendum was divisive at times. And those divisions have taken time to heal."
- T May
heal !
The wounds are infected...rot has set in.
She's using past tense. As though she thinks her proclamation makes it so. Mr citizen tells me this is a characteristic feature of Tories. Pronouncements. It's intentionally crazy-making, gas-lighting everyone who's watching the proceedings with horror at what's taking place.
All this talk about "best possible access to the EU".
We already have the "best possible access", it's called membership. By leaving we are guaranteeing that we no longer have the "best possible access". Not the obvious basis for "best days to come".
"Fall seven times, get up eight" - Japanese proverb
If you reverse a claim and it makes no sense, there is a strong likelihood that the original assertion is meaningless too.
“The government will prioritise securing the freest and most frictionless trade possible in goods and services,” reads the report’s section dealing with a desired new free trade agreement and customs arrangement. It is hard to imagine any government seeking such agreements admitting it wanted to de-prioritise trade and make it as difficult and cumbersome as possible.
- The white paper on Brexit: a wish list disguised as a strategy
Police move sick driver's car then blow it up by mistake
Officers parked vehicle outside Workington station when driver taken ill, then others called bomb squad after they thought it suspicious
European parliament leaders call on EU to reject Trump's likely ambassador pick
Exclusive: Heads of parliament’s main political parties issue unprecedented call opposing Ted Malloch, who likened his goal to ‘bringing down the Soviet Union’
Ted Malloch: guilty of ‘outrageous malevolence’ towards ‘the values that define this European Union’, according to a letter from MEPs. (Guardian)
NHS cash crisis in Kent halts non-urgent surgery until April
West Kent clinical commissioning group is trying to save £3.2m by delaying non-urgent operations until new financial year
Willow904 wrote:How thick do these politicians think we are?
All this talk about "best possible access to the EU".
We already have the "best possible access", it's called membership. By leaving we are guaranteeing that we no longer have the "best possible access". Not the obvious basis for "best days to come".
Indeed.
And how do you make an amendment meaningful? "Full tariff free access"? The government could say, with justification, that you can't bind the other side in a negotiation. See also Tsipras, Alex v the Troika. They weren't bound by his referendum.
[Jane] Golding [lawyer based in Germany] noted that a continued right to permanent residence would plainly be critical for all the estimated 900,000 UK citizens living in other EU countries who wanted to stay there, but that beyond that, priorities often differed.
“For some, the right to residence will be worthless without the right to work, receive equal treatment as nationals of the country they are in, be self-employed, own and run a company, even commute across an EU border,” she said. “For others, particularly people who have retired, the continued right to receive reciprocal cross-border healthcare, and of course an index-linked state pension from the UK, will obviously be the biggest things weighing on their minds.”
- 'Alternative white paper' by Britons in EU says rights must be protected
I can't figure this out. Are people just up a tree then? Because some idiot former PM screwed up? Your citizenship is altered, you've no right to your home, business or work. Insane.
The country’s best-paid academy boss has been handed another pay rise – boosting his salary to at least £420,000.
It marks another salary increase for Sir Dan Moynihan, chief executive of the Harris Federation, who was paid at least £395,000 in 2015.
New annual accounts published by Harris, which runs 41 schools, show another seven staff members are also more than prime minister Theresa May’s £143,462 salary.
The pay rise will prompt concern from academy critics, and also comes while teacher pay rises are capped at just 1 per cent.
I'm sure those who whine about public sector pay will be right on this soon...they will, won't they?
If I'm not here, then I'll be in the library. Or the other library.
The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to scrap an Obama administration rule requiring background checks for gun ownership.
In an apparent effort to improve gun ownership under President Trump, lawmakers moved to peel back the background checks for Social Security recipients mentally incapable of managing their own affairs, the Associated Press.
Why? Just why would you want to do that?
If I'm not here, then I'll be in the library. Or the other library.
The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to scrap an Obama administration rule requiring background checks for gun ownership.
In an apparent effort to improve gun ownership under President Trump, lawmakers moved to peel back the background checks for Social Security recipients mentally incapable of managing their own affairs, the Associated Press.
Why? Just why would you want to do that?
Makes for an interesting juxtaposition with this, doesn't it?
Prossy @Pkakooza 36s37 seconds ago
I felt betrayed by @jeremycorbyn stance on #Brexit & enabling May.
& his latest gaffe saying being #LGBT is a "choice" is just another kick
Mr Corbyn told an audience: “We’re with you, we’re in solidarity with you. Your triumphs are our triumphs.”
He went on: “Our defence of you is a defence of all of humanity and the right of people to practise the life they want to practise, rather than be criminalised, brutalised and murdered, simply because they chose to be gay, they chose to be lesbian, they were LGBT in any form.”
Mr Corbyn told an audience: “We’re with you, we’re in solidarity with you. Your triumphs are our triumphs.”
He went on: “Our defence of you is a defence of all of humanity and the right of people to practise the life they want to practise, rather than be criminalised, brutalised and murdered, simply because they chose to be gay, they chose to be lesbian, they were LGBT in any form.”
If we aren't going to change any laws until after we've Brexited, does that mean the Freedom of Movement Directive will still be in force once (if?) we've Brexited?
Mr Corbyn told an audience: “We’re with you, we’re in solidarity with you. Your triumphs are our triumphs.”
He went on: “Our defence of you is a defence of all of humanity and the right of people to practise the life they want to practise, rather than be criminalised, brutalised and murdered, simply because they chose to be gay, they chose to be lesbian, they were LGBT in any form.”
Thanks.
Bad use of words there.
Yes that was my take. It's clear what he meant, but a bit of a bungle!
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:If we aren't going to change any laws until after we've Brexited, does that mean the Freedom of Movement Directive will still be in force once (if?) we've Brexited?
The whole things getting a bit bonkers now, what with the monkey writing the white paper and all.
(FACT! I saw him writing it on twitter!)
