Brexit - or Article 50: the Phoenix!

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Last night in Berlin, Angela Merkel made surprisingly positive noises towards a surprisingly diplomatic Boris Johnson, that surprised even Number 10 in their warmth. Despite this morning the PM’s team playing down their significance, Merkel told a press conference yesterday that:
“I see possibilities… It was said we will probably find a solution in two years, we can maybe find it in the next 30 days.”​
Insiders are not expecting today’s “working lunch” with Emmanuel Macron to go anywhere like as smoothly, already briefing the meeting will be “frank”, a diplomatic word for frosty. The French President told reporters last night “Renegotiation of the terms currently proposed by the British is not an option that exists, and that has always been made clear by President Tusk.” Good cop bad cop…
Former Brexit Secretary David Davis told the Today Programme this morning that he recognises the thirty day timetable as an important timeframe as the UK Government does not expect serious crunch discussion until the end of September, after it can be proved to the EU that Parliament cannot stop No Deal. As long as Parliament doesn’t stop Number 10 holding its strong line, the Government expects the EU to properly engage until Conference recess towards the end of next month…
 
Hobbit said:
Today sees figures for foreign investment in tech companies at a record high.

It does make you wonder why company directors would look at long term investment into a failing country? What on earth are company boards doing approving investment into a country that will be locked into a restricted trading regime with diminished market access?

Yet another hysterical, dire prediction blown out of the water?
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I think the exchange rate is helping acquire assets cheap and there might be a bit of gambling on the sterling rising post October
 
Hobbit said:
Today sees figures for foreign investment in tech companies at a record high.

It does make you wonder why company directors would look at long term investment into a failing country? What on earth are company boards doing approving investment into a country that will be locked into a restricted trading regime with diminished market access?

Yet another hysterical, dire prediction blown out of the water?
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And a workforce that will have starved to death by Christmas.
 
spongebob59 said:
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Former Brexit Secretary David Davis told the Today Programme this morning that he recognises the thirty day timetable as an important timeframe as the UK Government does not expect serious crunch discussion until the end of September, after it can be proved to the EU that Parliament cannot stop No Deal. As long as Parliament doesn’t stop Number 10 holding its strong line, the Government expects the EU to properly engage until Conference recess towards the end of next month…
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Please, please...This must mean that we can suspend all speculation/propoganda in this thread until end of Septembe then!
 
Even though Macron repeated the '30 day' Merkel assertion in meeting with the PM she has now said it was an allegory !

I suppose its nice to see a German politician making up stories when they feel like it - certainly gave the press something to latch onto. You'd have thought as German Chancellor involved in an international meeting of significance with a fellow head of state she would have been well aware of how such a statement would have been interpreted

Macron's reported to have described the 'backstop' in the proposed WDA turned down by Parliament 3 times as indispensable - problem is, of course, if there is no modified agreement it will be dispensed with by default!!
 
drdel said:
Even though Macron repeated the '30 day' Merkel assertion in meeting with the PM she has now said it was an allegory !

I suppose its nice to see a German politician making up stories when they feel like it - certainly gave the press something to latch onto. You'd have thought as German Chancellor involved in an international meeting of significance with a fellow head of state she would have been well aware of how such a statement would have been interpreted

Macron's reported to have described the 'backstop' in the proposed WDA turned down by Parliament 3 times as indispensable - problem is, of course, if there is no modified agreement it will be dispensed with by default!!
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Interesting to compare the Beeb's version of who said what to ITV's...
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Most of Scotland worked that out in 2014.
Despite the unionists feeble denials. ;)
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Bit of news today that Englands prop up benefit to Scotland has gone up this year to £2000 for each adult and child. Thats a rather large hole in the Scottish economy if they leave the UK. Would our friends in the EU be prepared to fill it
 
drdel said:
Pm bounces comment back
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Speaking to reporters on the plane to Biarritz, Boris Johnson hit back over Mr Tusk's comments, saying: "I have made it absolutely clear I don't want a no deal Brexit.
"But I say to our friends in the EU, if they don't want a no-deal Brexit then we have got to get rid of the backstop from the treaty.
"If Donald Tusk doesn't want to go down as 'Mr No Deal Brexit' then I hope that point will be borne in mind by him too."
 
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Speaking to reporters on the plane to Biarritz, Boris Johnson hit back over Mr Tusk's comments, saying: "I have made it absolutely clear I don't want a no deal Brexit.
"But I say to our friends in the EU, if they don't want a no-deal Brexit then we have got to get rid of the backstop from the treaty.
"If Donald Tusk doesn't want to go down as 'Mr No Deal Brexit' then I hope that point will be borne in mind by him too."
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He is lying, the only way he can deliver Brexit is by blocking Parliament.
I believe the last person to do that was be-headed.
 
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