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tinybgoat wrote:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 6.html?amp
"EU to reject Theresa May's call for Northern Ireland 'backstop' to be time limited"
https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... toms-union" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Hard Brexit Tories pressure May over customs union
Johnson, Gove and Rees-Mogg deride PM’s plan and demand minimal transition period"

Gove said that choosing to follow the path favoured by Hammond on environmental regulations, rather than the one he proposed, had left the government at the mercy of the “reality of parliamentary arithmetic”. The government suffered 15 defeats in the Lords over the bill.

PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:@adam

What's so frustrating is the press should be ripping May to shreds. She is doing nothing. Nothing to solve Brexit. And nothing else.

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:@adam

What's so frustrating is the press should be ripping May to shreds. She is doing nothing. Nothing to solve Brexit. And nothing else.

Now buoyed by the expectation that MPs will vote for Britain to stay in a customs union with the European Union, leading Remain campaigners are starting to eye up their next prize: staying in the European Economic Area.

Hilary Benn goes next. He says the committee is “struggling to understand” what Braverman is saying. (Politics Live, Guardian)

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:@adam

What's so frustrating is the press should be ripping May to shreds. She is doing nothing. Nothing to solve Brexit. And nothing else.

PorFavor wrote:

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:@adam

What's so frustrating is the press should be ripping May to shreds. She is doing nothing. Nothing to solve Brexit. And nothing else.

I was thinking that, yesterday. It's odd, isn't it - even by the standards of the British press. Reminds me of the atmospheric conditions which prevail before a big thunder storm. But the storm, if there's to be one, is an awfully long time coming.

PorFavor wrote:

Hilary Benn goes next. He says the committee is “struggling to understand” what Braverman is saying. (Politics Live, Guardian)

I think we all are. I certainly am.


(Just in case anyone's forgotten, "Braverman" is Suella Fernandes, as was. Yet another not stupid Conservative (who also happens to be a woman)).

“I haven’t read all of the Good Friday Agreement”
“Have you read any of it ?”
“No.”

Crace would have little to add !





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Ken Clarke backs John Bercow over 'stupid woman' row

In a point of order after PMQs Ken Clarke, the Conservative MP and father of the Commons, defended John Bercow, the speaker, over complaints that Bercow called Andrea Leadsom, the leader of the Commons, a “stupid woman” in muttered remarks from the chair last week. Clarke said:

Would you agree, Mr Speaker, if every time a member of this House has felt moved to say under his breath something rather abusive about another member, and action was taken, the chamber would be deserted for considerable quantities of time?

Would you not agree it’s best to leave this to the body that is now investigating it and perhaps hope that some common sense will be applied to this rather overheated subject?

(Politics Live, Guardian)

Ex-mayor of Ipswich denied citizenship after almost 40 years in UK

Home Office tells Inga Lockington, who moved from Denmark in 1979, it ‘cannot be satisfied’ she is permanently resident (Guardian)

frog222 wrote:Can the HomeOffice do anything right ?

frog222 wrote:Can the HomeOffice do anything right ?

The government is promising to respect the remit of the European court of justice in relation to participating in EU programmes.

Back in the committee Thomson says HMRC has 1,100 staff working on Brexit. In response to a question about whether HMRC is looking at just the government’s two preferred customs options, or whether it is looking at others as well, he says two is enough.

PorFavor wrote:

Ken Clarke backs John Bercow over 'stupid woman' row

In a point of order after PMQs Ken Clarke, the Conservative MP and father of the Commons, defended John Bercow, the speaker, over complaints that Bercow called Andrea Leadsom, the leader of the Commons, a “stupid woman” in muttered remarks from the chair last week. Clarke said:

Would you agree, Mr Speaker, if every time a member of this House has felt moved to say under his breath something rather abusive about another member, and action was taken, the chamber would be deserted for considerable quantities of time?

Would you not agree it’s best to leave this to the body that is now investigating it and perhaps hope that some common sense will be applied to this rather overheated subject?

(Politics Live, Guardian)

adam wrote:

Back in the committee Thomson says HMRC has 1,100 staff working on Brexit. In response to a question about whether HMRC is looking at just the government’s two preferred customs options, or whether it is looking at others as well, he says two is enough.

This isn't a criticism of HMRC but of the government, but we're concentrating all of our energy on two proposals that come pre-refused by the rest of the EU.

This back-door reorganisation spells the end of general practice
23 May 2018

Dr Kailash Chand

Here is some reaction to the HMRC evidence to the Treasury committee.

From George Parker, political editor of the Financial Times

George Parker @GeorgeWParker

Brexit just got crazier. Head of HMRC warns that the so-called "max fac" customs proposal being studied by the cabinet would cost business £17bn-£20bn a year. That is about double the UK's annual net contribution to the EU. So why are they even considering it?
4:16 PM - May 23, 2018 (Politics Live, Guardian)

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Jeremy Corbyn has announced that Labour will abolish the Lords if elected.

Which is a fairly clear response to the Mail

Exclusive: Yulia Skripal - Attempted assassination turned my world upside down

Faisal Islam
@faisalislam
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NEW: Government to announce tomorrow it will bring back all the Brexit Bills next month to put to the Commons - facing down the (a?) customs union rebels... rebels though are confident they will win. ERG wanted it, now we get considerable fireworks in June. 1922 told today

Judges in the US have ruled that Donald Trump can't block Twitter users as it would violate the First Amendment
They also said that the President's Twitter feed was a "public forum"

Local campaigners up and down this country are concerned that Labour are attempting to frustrate Brexit ignoring the result of the referendum.
They are clear that we need the best Brexit deal for our country - and know Labour's approach won't deliver this.
That's why they are asking their local MPs to respect the result.

Willow904 wrote:http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/views/blogs ... 8s.twitter

This back-door reorganisation spells the end of general practice
23 May 2018

Dr Kailash Chand

Why the government's second thoughts about CCG's is unlikely to be a good thing.

A £400m fund announced by Theresa May to pay for replacing combustible cladding on up to 158 social housing high-rise buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire, means fewer affordable homes will be built in the coming years, it has emerged.

The government has admitted that the funds for the renovations are being taken from the Affordable Homes Programme.

Neither May nor the secretary of state for housing, James Brokenshire, mentioned that the money was coming from that budget when they announced the bailout last week, triggering widespread relief in the housing sector.

In advance of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill returning to the Commons next month, the Conservatives have launched a website – Respect the Result – specifically targeting Labour MPs with a record of seeking to oppose Brexit while representing areas which voted to Leave.

tinybgoat wrote:(more on 'respect the result')
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"Tory HQ launches online campaign to pile pressure on anti-Brexit Labour MPs in Leave-backing seats"

In advance of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill returning to the Commons next month, the Conservatives have launched a website – Respect the Result – specifically targeting Labour MPs with a record of seeking to oppose Brexit while representing areas which voted to Leave.