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Do you think there will be a Deal or No Deal?


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Massive Spanner

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Can someone explain how this vote to stop no deal will solve anything given May's deal is still the only one on the table and they've all rejected it loads already?
 

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Possibilities on how the week evolves:
Though I wouldn't put it past BJ to agree an election date, only to reneg and have it after October 31st. That surely would lead to violent civil war?

 

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I've already stocked up on my important prescriptions.
I've been taking less of mine for months so i have a stockpile. The government mitigation to providers is for then to hold a 6 weeks supply but that's nothing.
 

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Oh yes it does, the 'sabre-rattling' is not aimed at the EU hierarchy, its at the individual states. One thing which has so far held is the determination of the 27 to stick together. The no deal threat is specifically to put the wind up those EU countries who will suffer most, Irelands economy (for example) is deemed to suffer most, and pressure from industries and sectors in a number of member states as been building on their Governments, just like it has on ours. However unlike ours they don't do their dirty washing in public, but if you search below the surface there are major concerns coming to the fore in a number of countries, these are the ones Boris/Cummings are after, they will only need a few strategically placed holes in the EU defence and the EU resistance (they hope) will crumble... at least that's the theory!
The problem with putting pressure on Ireland is that breaking the GFA here will be political suicide for any politician and possibly any party that enables it to happen. The British don't care that much about it but I can't imagine any Irish person being ok with torching it for economic reasons.
 

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This will who be ''kicking off''


Most people who really want a no deal brexit are fecking old and are fast a sleep by mid afternoon.
Why do people like this always get the airtime? Does she really not give a crap about meds, NHs staff shortages, lack of food choice, death of certain industries, job losses and probably impact on her pension etc? Are they really that stubborn to ‘cut their nose off to spite their face’?
 

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If only.
Although I have been critical of Jeremy Corbyn, his performance was orders of magnitude better and far more focused than bumbling Boris.
The very worst of all the terrible responses from him was to the question about Angela Merkel and the 30 day challenge to identify an alternative to the Backstop.
His response was typically vague and off the cuff and made absolutely no sense at all.
Some may find him entertaining.
I find him dreadfully out of his depth.
His performance this afternoon was utterly appalling. He took an absolute kicking, did not look up for the fight at all and the Tory benches were visibly unimpressed.

Phillip Lee crossing the floor and thereby taking away the PM's majority, while he was in the middle of speaking, was also a tremendous "feck you" to the bloated, bumbling twat.
 

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Possibilities on how the week evolves:
Though I wouldn't put it past BJ to agree an election date, only to reneg and have it after October 31st. That surely would lead to violent civil war?


Though I wouldn't put it past BJ to agree an election date, only to reneg and have it after October 31st. That surely would lead to violent civil war?
Reports of an incoming civil war are greatly exaggerated.
 

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This will who be ''kicking off''


Most people who really want a no deal brexit are fecking old and are fast a sleep by mid afternoon.
Shes as bad as those middle class socialists claiming little Garbriella wont be able to serve them their latte.
 

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Johnson is out of his depth. I said May was the worst PM in my lifetime and also said had a feeling the next one would be even worse.
Corbyn was better but he still managed to stutter and splutter as usual as if it was the first time he'd read what he'd been told to say.
There is no alternative to the backstop, Merkel knows it and Johnson knows it.
He might know it. That is true. But he is still pretending the he knows how to fix it.
His problem is that already people are starting to see through him.
Ian Blackford of the SNP made him look and sound stupid.
These are desperately trying times. All of which is totally self inflicted.
 

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I would find it hilarious if the man who has played a very long game in order to become PM become's the shortest PM in history in little over a month. One can dream.
 

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Didn't Cameron know this, when he proposed for the referendum; that leaving the EU would be impossible because of this detail?
You can leave the EU but stay in the customs union and single market which would resolve the problem. It's a bit pointless but the leading Brexiters before the referendum were talking of staying in them. As I said earlier none of them thought things through and they realised later they couldn't do their own trade deals and had to accept freedom of movement and maintain EU laws etc.
 

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His performance this afternoon was utterly appalling. He took an absolute kicking, did not look up for the fight at all and the Tory benches were visibly unimpressed.

Phillip Lee crossing the floor and thereby taking away the PM's majority, while he was in the middle of speaking, was also a tremendous "feck you" to the bloated, bumbling twat.
Brilliantly descriptive. Wish I had thought of that.
I was going to say that you should be a journalist. But that would have been an insult.
 

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Why do people like this always get the airtime? Does she really not give a crap about meds, NHs staff shortages, lack of food choice, death of certain industries, job losses and probably impact on her pension etc? Are they really that stubborn to ‘cut their nose off to spite their face’?
They remind me of Trump supporters.
 

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He might know it. That is true. But he is still pretending the he knows how to fix it.
His problem is that already people are starting to see through him.
Ian Blackford of the SNP made him look and sound stupid.
These are desperately trying times. All of which is totally self inflicted.
It wasn't the only lie he told. He's not as bright as some people think he is.
It must be very trying having these fools running the country.
 

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Didn't Cameron know this, when he proposed for the referendum; that leaving the EU would be impossible because of this detail?
Look. It is blindingly obvious that the idiot Cameron knew nothing and like all idiots, just said the first stupid thing that came to him. Proof of that was the idiotic binary Yes/No vote.
Anyone other than a half wit would have realised that leaving an organisation like the EU was always going to be eye wateringly complex. Everything subsequent is due to his shortsightedness.
 

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It wasn't the only lie he told. He's not as bright as some people think he is.
It must be very trying having these fools running the country.
Boris is the ultimate dilettante. He'd have been a wonderful spare man at the Mitfords' dinner parties, because they probably didn't last as long as a parliamentary debate. The longer he speaks, the more he's exposed.
 

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It wasn't the only lie he told. He's not as bright as some people think he is.
It must be very trying having these fools running the country.
Completely agree and hopefully his biggest mistake was appointing his hard man thug of a political advisor.
Big big mistake Boris.
 

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So shall we have a prediction game on how many Tories will vote against their own PM tonight, despite being threatened with Deselection?

My submission is 17.
 

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It wasn't the only lie he told. He's not as bright as some people think he is.
It must be very trying having these fools running the country.
When I voted in 1975, I thought it was to build a new community. Instead, as with the German elections at weekend, it’s clear all we built was a short-sighted self interest nationalistic provincialism and asked fools to run it. What we have now is an utter disaster for everyone in UK and Europe as self-interest, greed and corruption destroys all our lives. I have never wanted or condoned revolution but I think the people need to revolt against the elites and the political class before these idiots finally turn us in a nightmare of 1984/animal farm proportions.
 

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It wasn't the only lie he told. He's not as bright as some people think he is.
It must be very trying having these fools running the country.
Do you think he’d lie and reneg on an agreed election date, from pre to post Halloween?
 

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Boris is the ultimate dilettante. He'd have been a wonderful spare man at the Mitfords' dinner parties
Yes, they could've congratulated themselves on their wit as they shared racist jokes.
 

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Why do people like this always get the airtime? Does she really not give a crap about meds, NHs staff shortages, lack of food choice, death of certain industries, job losses and probably impact on her pension etc? Are they really that stubborn to ‘cut their nose off to spite their face’?
Think a lot of them believe that ‘project fear’ is just that and none of what you mention will actually happen.
 

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It was used as a symbol of exaggerated confirmation on my part!

I've been tracking this story for a while now because I have a family member who requires such medicines.

Rees-Mogg had a run in with a highly reputed doctor on radio yesterday (see tweet below), slandering him with obscene insults.

If I saw Rees-Mogg in person, I'd throttle him with every ounce of my being.

Saw that earlier. He is an awful human being.
 

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I would find it hilarious if the man who has played a very long game in order to become PM become's the shortest PM in history in little over a month. One can dream.
Surely lots of swing voters will be alarmed by BJ’s performances and actions so far?

One of my sisters has voted labour and Tory over past few elections, and voted leave in Referendum. She now admits she was woefully illiterate for her referendum vote and now armed with more knowledge wants the earliest opportunity to rectify her position. Must be loads like her around?
 

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Who's the Tory who looks like he should still have his head down a toilet? On BBC now.
 

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Why the feck do Sky News and most of the other outlets always just feature Leavers in their common man interviews.

Always just the same "get on with it" nonsense. These people barely even watched politics before brexit and barely even do now, oo but i sometime hear the news and I'm bored of politics. feck off
Because they are pro brexit media ? They are essentially Fox news in nicer packaging.