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HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... port-finds

HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -buttigieg

PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.

Without wishing to tempt fate, it looks like we're back in business.

citizenJA wrote:

PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.

Without wishing to tempt fate, it looks like we're back in business.

right on

The vote today in the European parliament for its resolution on the UK-EU trade talks (see 11.47am) means there will be no special treatment for the City of London, an MEP has claimed. In a statement after the vote Sven Giegold, economic policy spokesman for the Greens/European Free Alliance group in the parliament, said:

The time for special treatment of the UK is over. The British government’s attempt to give its London financial centre permanent and comprehensive access to the European financial system for decades is audacious. The EU will not let the decision as to which British financial market rules are compatible with European rules be taken out of its hands. Equivalence is not a permanent subscription, but a revocable privilege. What already applies to all countries outside the single market will also apply to Britain. If the United Kingdom deviates from the European rules, it must expect to lose access to the European financial market. (Politics Live, Guardian)

AnatolyKasparov wrote:I know nobody watches PMQs since the GE (even more so than before, I mean) but Corbyn got in a nice dig at the PM today.

PorFavor wrote:I've been asleep.

The vote today in the European parliament for its resolution on the UK-EU trade talks (see 11.47am) means there will be no special treatment for the City of London, an MEP has claimed. In a statement after the vote Sven Giegold, economic policy spokesman for the Greens/European Free Alliance group in the parliament, said:

The time for special treatment of the UK is over. The British government’s attempt to give its London financial centre permanent and comprehensive access to the European financial system for decades is audacious. The EU will not let the decision as to which British financial market rules are compatible with European rules be taken out of its hands. Equivalence is not a permanent subscription, but a revocable privilege. What already applies to all countries outside the single market will also apply to Britain. If the United Kingdom deviates from the European rules, it must expect to lose access to the European financial market. (Politics Live, Guardian)

The environment bill, agriculture bill and fisheries bill replace the EU’s comprehensive framework directives, common agricultural policy and common fisheries policy.

All three bills contain major flaws that undermine the government’s claims. They leave gaps, fail on enforcement and oversight, open loopholes for future ministers to quietly backslide from existing standards, and turn what is currently a coherent system of long-term, stable regulation into a patchwork of competing and sometimes contradictory proposals.

These three post-Brexit bills bulldoze a hole through environmental protections

HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... is-johnson

AnatolyKasparov wrote:I know nobody watches PMQs since the GE (even more so than before, I mean) but Corbyn got in a nice dig at the PM today.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:I know nobody watches PMQs since the GE (even more so than before, I mean) but Corbyn got in a nice dig at the PM today.

Ava-Santina
@AvaSantina
At PMQs, @JeremyCorbyn
on Windrush deportations: 'If there was a case of a young white boy with blonde hair who later dabbled in class a drugs and conspired with a friend to beat up a Journalist would he deport that boy?'
12:15 PM · Feb 12, 2020

Ava-Santina
@AvaSantina
6h
Replying to
@AvaSantina
and
@jeremycorbyn
.@jeremycorbyn
: 'Or is it one rule for young black boys from the Caribbean and another for white boys from the United States?'

PorFavor wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:I know nobody watches PMQs since the GE (even more so than before, I mean) but Corbyn got in a nice dig at the PM today.

Lot of use that is now, though.

[youtube]modfq47onwU[/youtube]

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

PorFavor wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:I know nobody watches PMQs since the GE (even more so than before, I mean) but Corbyn got in a nice dig at the PM today.

Lot of use that is now, though.

[youtube]modfq47onwU[/youtube]

Not disagreeing there should have been more of this sort of stuff before the election.

However laudable in principle, the "they go low, we go high" approach was never the right one for the sort of contest it was always likely to be.

frog222 wrote:Emphatically agree . I gather she's not really in the running but the only one I've seen being really outspoken against Boris the Menace is Emily Thornberry .But perhaps I've been missing stuff !

RogerOThornhill wrote:Shaun Bailey on crime? About an 1/8th of a page on page 19.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:However laudable in principle, the "they go low, we go high" approach was never the right one for the sort of contest it was always likely to be.

adam wrote:Having to listen to people speaking against Starmer claiming that former Labour voters who chose to support Johnson or Farage in December would turn their backs on Starmer because he's posh.