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May's cabinet still squabbling as Chequers Brexit meeting looms

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/01/mays-cabinet-still-squabbling-as-chequers-meeting-looms?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet&__twitter_impression=true



We need a new word. "Omnishambles" just doesn't cut it anymore. Extraordinary, really.

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The vast majority of MPs on a x party basis will do what’s right for the country, jobs, economy and national interest. It’s not an ego-fest and we all need to remember that

The prime minister is gathering her squabbling ministers at Chequers on Friday for a one-day discussion to thrash out the UK’s future relationship with the EU. But EU sources who have seen drafts of the long-awaited British white paper said the proposals would never be accepted.

“We read the white paper and we read ‘cake’,” an EU official told the Guardian

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Cake news:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -officials
"UK's latest Brexit proposal is unrealistic, say EU officials"

“” In response, Xavier Bettel, the prime minister of Luxembourg, said of the Brits: “They want to have their cake, eat it, and get a smile from the baker.”

He certainly cleaned that one up ! The french original is somewhat ruder, does anyone know it ?

https://www.politico.eu/article/luxembo ... nd-eat-it/

A humorous variation goes, “vouloir le beurre, l’argent du beurre et le sourire de la crémière“ — wanting the butter, the money for the butter, and the dairymaid’s smile. Other, mildly bawdy versions claim a little more from the dairymaid that just her smile; you’ll recognize them when you see them.

Labour’s Chuku Umunna says the EU Withdrawal Act makes it illegal to do anything that would introduce a hard border in Ireland. But if the UK were to leave without a deal, under WTO rules it would have to impose border controls. Can May confirm then that the Act makes a no deal Brexit illegal.

May says she does not accept that interpretation. After leaving, the UK could decided for itself what it did with the border, she claims.

May dismisses claim EU Withdrawal Act’s Irish border amendment makes no deal Brexit illegal.

Both Houses accepted the Government’s amendment in lieu was agreed which amends the Lords’ clause to refer to the North-South co-operation in the Good Friday Agreement / Belfast Agreement (rather than list the specific areas of co-operation) and reduces the list of new border arrangements to include “physical infrastructure, including border posts, or checks and controls”. It also says this should be subject to an agreement between the UK and the EU rather than the UK and Ireland.

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Hear that David Davis went in to see the PM this morning after not knowing about Number 10's 'new plan', but left the meeting still not having discussed the 'new plan'
5:38 PM - 2 Jul 2018

The Brexit compromise is coming - prepare yourself for the cry of treachery

May has ruled out keeping the UK in the EEA (European Economic Area) after Brexit, the so-called “Norway” option that would involve remaining in the single market. When the Tory Brexiter Sir Bill Cashasked her about “disturbing reports” that that was what she was planning, she replied:

In relation to the point that he makes about the EEA, I have been clear from the start that is one of the things that the European commission had suggested was on the table. The EEA is not right because the EEA - and particularly in the form that the European commission has proposed it - would not deliver on the vote of the referendum and the vote of the British people.

One tangible benefit of Brexit is that the whole of Europe will now be able to interpret correctly the phrase "to have one's cake and eat it"

Paul -- every country has its equivalent the only french version I knew is this --

" “Ils veulent le beurre , l’argent du beurre, et les cuisses de la crèmière “"

Some versions say ‘cul’ but this is a bit more refined .

The most polite IS “a smile from the milkmaid” … but confess I’d never heard it !

He's one of the newer MPs tbf.

From the G live blog:

And here's an interpretation of the amendment from the institute for government:
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org. ... nd-debates

Evening all. Meetings on Wednesday so into the library today.



This is becoming a bit like Blackadder and Baldrick's attempts to come up with a new dictionery before Dr Johnson comes round in the morning...

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This fuckwittery had better stop soon.