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According to documents published this week, the EU expects all its laws and regulations to apply during the transition period, however the UK will not participate in the decision-making of the EU, meaning the country will have no say on any laws created during the transition period. Davis said on Wednesday there might be "issues" with this demand.
Brussels is also expected to demand freedom of movement continue throughout the transition period, which Prime Minister Theresa May has previously ruled out.

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City AM is understood to be keen to take a more Eurosceptic tone.

Jean-Paul Sartre wrote “Hell is other people”. At least the European Union offered us company that, however infernal to many, was at least prepared to share decision taking with us, and with whom, in many vital areas, such as finance and defence, not to mention language, we were I believe much more than merely first amongst equals. Sartre’s famous quotation comes of course in his (one act) play, “No Exit”.

PorFavor wrote:Forgot to have haggis.

HindleA wrote:I wear them.everyday,compulsory.

English farm-workers working the fields in their winter clothes throughout the month of May could suffer from heat exhaustion if they kept all their winter layers on until the end of May!

Brexit politics is hotting up amid the snows of Davos. The Brexiteer house paper the Daily Telegraph reports remarks from Taoiseach Leo Varadkar taking a soft Brexit line close to Chancellor Philip Hammond’s in the Swiss resort. Hammond is the key figure here. He has lit the blue touch paper to ignite the Tory right and earned himself a rebuke from a No 10 which is trying to damp down the first flickers of new surge against Theresa May’s weak leadership.

adam wrote:There are lots of 'lets get real' opportunities for May at the moment and she is showing absolutely no sign at all of taking any of them. It seems more likely that if she does shift further to Hammond then she will have to fight and survive a confidence vote of the parliamentary conservative party - I think we've had this story already but it's said that the chair has asked tory backbenchers not to write to him requesting a confidence vote because he's so close to the 48 threshold.

discordantharmony wrote:

adam wrote:There are lots of 'lets get real' opportunities for May at the moment and she is showing absolutely no sign at all of taking any of them. It seems more likely that if she does shift further to Hammond then she will have to fight and survive a confidence vote of the parliamentary conservative party - I think we've had this story already but it's said that the chair has asked tory backbenchers not to write to him requesting a confidence vote because he's so close to the 48 threshold.

Man who got honoured in New Years Honours list not wishing to upset apple cart shocker

adam wrote:There are lots of 'lets get real' opportunities for May at the moment and she is showing absolutely no sign at all of taking any of them. It seems more likely that if she does shift further to Hammond then she will have to fight and survive a confidence vote of the parliamentary conservative party - I think we've had this story already but it's said that the chair has asked tory backbenchers not to write to him requesting a confidence vote because he's so close to the 48 threshold.

Ever the campaigner, McDonnell said that he’d prefer be at home in his west London constituency talking to voters rather than in the Swiss mountains, but that it had been his “duty” to come to Davos and set out Labour’s position.

“It’s part of my job. I’d rather be back in Hayes and Harlington to be honest ... or I’d rather be at a public meeting somewhere up north in England,” he said. “This is beautiful, but I haven’t got time for the view.”

SpinningHugo wrote:

adam wrote:There are lots of 'lets get real' opportunities for May at the moment and she is showing absolutely no sign at all of taking any of them. It seems more likely that if she does shift further to Hammond then she will have to fight and survive a confidence vote of the parliamentary conservative party - I think we've had this story already but it's said that the chair has asked tory backbenchers not to write to him requesting a confidence vote because he's so close to the 48 threshold.

She is an almost unbelievably bad politician. Lacking the basic skills for the job.

The problem for the Tories is the lack of any credible candidate. Hammond or rudd would be their best bet, but the Brexiteers hate them. That JRM is the bookies favourite shows you how utterly crazy the Tories have become.

https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/br ... ive-leader" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

They're so stuffed. Utterly hopeless. Their only hope is the uselessness of the opposition.

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:

SpinningHugo wrote:

adam wrote:There are lots of 'lets get real' opportunities for May at the moment and she is showing absolutely no sign at all of taking any of them. It seems more likely that if she does shift further to Hammond then she will have to fight and survive a confidence vote of the parliamentary conservative party - I think we've had this story already but it's said that the chair has asked tory backbenchers not to write to him requesting a confidence vote because he's so close to the 48 threshold.

She is an almost unbelievably bad politician. Lacking the basic skills for the job.

The problem for the Tories is the lack of any credible candidate. Hammond or rudd would be their best bet, but the Brexiteers hate them. That JRM is the bookies favourite shows you how utterly crazy the Tories have become.

https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/br ... ive-leader" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

They're so stuffed. Utterly hopeless. Their only hope is the uselessness of the opposition.

So not utterly hopeless then?

AnatolyKasparov wrote:JRM is not going to be the next Tory leader, even after everything else that has happened in the last few years.

Bookies odds on these things are notoriously unreliable, you only have too look at the betting on "next Labour leader" in the Sept '15-June '17 period to see that.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Not as daft as Hilary Benn being favourite to succeed Corbyn for much of the time before the last GE, Chuka had genuinely laughable odds too.

tinybgoat wrote:https://www.conservativehome.com/platfo ... tless.html
John Stevens: "Rees-Mogg and Johnson have a point – Brexit may indeed be pointless"

Jean-Paul Sartre wrote “Hell is other people”. At least the European Union offered us company that, however infernal to many, was at least prepared to share decision taking with us, and with whom, in many vital areas, such as finance and defence, not to mention language, we were I believe much more than merely first amongst equals. Sartre’s famous quotation comes of course in his (one act) play, “No Exit”.

SpinningHugo wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Not as daft as Hilary Benn being favourite to succeed Corbyn for much of the time before the last GE, Chuka had genuinely laughable odds too.

Well, you can see how punters had not quite grasped that the Labour party membership of 2017 didn't remotely resemble the membership of 2010l

RogerOThornhill wrote:@PFY

I find the Block facility on that Twitter useful in separating the wheat from the chaff....

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:

RogerOThornhill wrote:@PFY

I find the Block facility on that Twitter useful in separating the wheat from the chaff....

I don't do much blocking.

In fact I just checked and I have blocked three accounts only. Two I have no idea why! The other is one of the Cure the NHS brigade (but not St Julie herself)

I'm minded to unblock them all again now.

Strangely I've rarely felt rattled by Tweets. Perhaps it takes more than 280 characters to get under my skin

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Wow, that will include Tim Aker (their candidate there at the last GE, who got easily UKIP's best result anywhere in the country)

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Is the UKIP party officially over

http://www.yourthurrock.com/2018/01/26/ ... new-party/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

All UKIP councillors in Thurrock have joined the local independents.

PorFavor wrote:If Davd Davis and Philip Hammond are as one, why was it necessary for No 10 to issue a statement slapping down the latter (other than as a sop to Jacob Rees Mogg et al - but even then, it doesn't make sense)? And - a forlorn question - does anyone here know what David Davis is talking about?

"Owen Paterson, a Conservative MP and former cabinet minister, tweeted a warning directly to Hammond and David Davis, the Brexit secretary...
Arguing that ministers should have been in Davos trumpeting the benefits of Brexit, he told the Guardian: “It would be good if all cabinet ministers stuck to government policy.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ceptic-mps" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 42% (+3)
CON: 39% (+2)
LDEM: 9% (-)
UKIP: 3% (-1)
GRN: 2% (-2)

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