Thought I'd start a new thread as this is going to be a major talking point this year...have not made up my mind yet...(unlike bucksfizz)....but thinking of voting for an exit as Europe is not doing Britain any good at all it seems....

Here's a strong piece of journalism from Sputnik.....

(Following his recent resignation as Foreign Secretary, I believe Boris has been given special permission to speak by the Speaker and is scheduled to speak in the H of C at around 3pm today)

Boris, Hit May for Six Please!
Sputnik
13:58 18.07.2018
by Jon Gaunt

Today has to be the day that Boris Johnson steps up to the crease and bowls out Theresa May for the dead duck she is.

This useless woman has been clinging to power and batting away all criticism for far too long and has consequently dragged the UK into the outfield of European and world politics.

Yesterday she attempted to whack away any criticism from backbenchers who were going to vote against her with the threat of an election, deselection for them and a Corbyn government. This was the action of a deluded fool and a tin-pot dictator.

It was the action of a desperate woman who is proving time and time again she is not a team player but only interested in her own position and staying at the crease despite the facts showing that her tactics (if she has any) are wrong time and time again.

I use the cricket metaphor as it is so apt as Boris now has to play the part of Geoffrey Howe, whose resignation speech ended Maggie Thatcher’s time at number 10.

The Iron Lady was bowled for six by Howe just days after she made that famous speech at the Mansion House saying, “I am still at the crease, though the bowling has been pretty hostile of late.”

Howe responded in his resignation speech saying, "It's rather like sending our opening batsmen to the crease only for them to find before the first ball is bowled, that their bats have been broken by the team captain…..The time has come for others to consider their response to the tragic conflict of loyalties with which I have wrestled for perhaps too long."

This was the beginning of the end for Thatcher.

Today, Boris has to bat for the whole of the UK and not just his party and certainly not just for himself, which is his usual playing style.

Enough, the simple plain facts are May has to go and she has to go now. We should feel no sympathy for her as she has proved time and time again she is no Iron Lady, no Mrs. Thatcher.

Who can forget Maggie Thatcher’s tears at the window of Number 10 when she knew her time was finally up. I felt great sympathy for her but I will be crying with laughter if May goes today.

Yesterday was not just a day of high drama in the Commons it was a day of melodrama and actually an insult to every voter in the UK.

Andrea Leadsom’s suggestion that the Commons could go on holiday early just to avoid Boris making his resignation speech and thereby saving May’s scrawny neck was an absolute smack in the teeth to every working man and woman in the country.

Just imagine if you had messed up in your job and your reaction to your boss was, “I’m off on holiday before you can give me the rollicking?” The result would be that you would be looking for a card with a letter P and a number between 44 and 46!
I am joking but this is no laughing matter and the fact that it was Leadsom who put forward this idea is just a further illustration that the elite are not doing what we instructed them to do in the EU Referendum. Leadsom, for god’s sake, was meant to be a Brexiteer!

Labour are no better as they are also putting their party before the country.

This self-serving madness of the Elite has to stop and that must start with Boris becoming Brutus and knifing Theresa May in the back and front. I want it to be bloody, I want it to be nasty and I want it to be final. She must go today.

As I suggested, a few weeks ago, we need a Brexiteer in number 10 and a cabinet stuffed full of people who voted to leave and this must include Nigel Farage in an advisory role.

Nothing else will satisfy the 17.4 million who voted for Brexit. Don’t believe me? Well just take a quick look at the rising numbers who are joining UKIP. The people have had enough of this nonsense.

Quite frankly I am bored to the back teeth with Brexit and I reckon most people in the UK feel like me. Why has it all been so bloody difficult and complex?

It should have been easy, we gave them a mandate to get us out of the EU. We knew what we were voting for, it was to get our country back and control our borders and make our own law.

What we didn’t vote for was for the elite to drag their feet or pretend that we the masses didn’t know what we are voting for. We absolutely knew what we were voting for but those in power just didn’t like our decision.

Instead of thinking about extending their summer holidays M.P.’s should be kept at Westminster until they sort out this Brexit mess.

“Drunker Juncker” must be laughing his “proverbial” off at this nonsense as it is clear May has now blown any chance of us having any real negotiating position with the EU.

So, this is why I want Boris to go in today with his bat swinging.

I want him to knock May for six, I want his team (The Tories) to get behind him and I then want him to hit the EU to the boundary and tell them in no uncertain terms that there is a new man at the crease and he is no longer playing by their rules.

Do you agree?

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect Sputnik's position.

252days to go Hils , woo hoo

And the absolute bolloxs I'm hearing from self proclaimed on just in time deliveries falling apart if we don't get a deal is absolute nonsense and more scaremongering by remoaners.

One clown even claimed that goods were delivered to a factory , worked on , then returned on the same lorry an hour later !

Yeah right , there is no way that ever happens , wouldnt be cost effective for starters.

Ffs cant these idiots work out that if it takes 12 hours to get from A to B now 16 hours if we have checks at the port then the lorry needs to leave 4 hours earlier !

Its not bloody rocket science.

Would suggest those interested in the future possibilities of "Brexit" view John Major's to-day's interview by Andrew Marr:


https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bc9qqt/the-andrew-marr-show-22072018

Mr Major set off the chain of events when signing the Maastricht treaty.

I am getting to the point believing the result will be annulled.

We then enter a period of violence.

No.

We will be under the Donald Trump's protection and queuing for food parcels from the colonies.

Ask Dil.

A revolution is overdue, we might see the rise of a dictator that takes power to eradicate the corruption is the whole system.

We are almost living in a Police state as it is.

"Once again the chaos and confusion at the heart of Brexit is exposed. Mrs May's scheme could not command a majority in the House of Commons two weeks ago when she allowed the Brextremists to mutilate it.

"Now we know that hardly mattered because it was not acceptable to the EU in any case."

"The white paper is dead. It has expired. It has ceased to be. It has gone to join the choir invisible."

Following the latest round of talks, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier blew a hole in Mrs May's post-Brexit plan to collect tariffs on behalf of the bloc at the UK border.

Known as a "facilitated customs arrangement", the prime minister's proposal formed a key plank of her plan for leaving the EU, which she agreed with her cabinet at Chequers earlier this month and subsequently set out in a white paper.

The Chequers strategy led Mrs May to suffer two high-profile cabinet resignations - Boris Johnson and David Davis - as well as infuriating her Brexiteer MPs.

Delivering a further blow to her plan, Mr Barnier used a joint news conference with Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab to voice resistance to the customs element of Mrs May's strategy.

EU negotiator @MichelBarnier has declared Brussels won't "delegate" the application of its customs policy to a non-member, delivering a significant blow to the PM's Brexit plans

Taking a dig at the Leave campaign's "taking back control" mantra from the 2016 EU referendum, Mr Barnier warned: "Maintaining control of our money, law and borders also applies to the EU's customs policy."

The European Commission official added: "The EU cannot - and will not - delegate the application of its customs policy and rules, VAT and excise duty collection to a non-member, who would not be subject to the EU's governance structures."

Calling on the UK to "respect this principle", Mr Barnier also reiterated that the EU remains open to agreeing a post-Brexit customs union with the UK, despite the prime minister having consistently ruled this out.

He added: "Any customs arrangement will also have to be workable and must protect EU and national revenue, without imposing additional costs on businesses and customs authorities."

Mr Barnier was also pessimistic about the UK's proposals on a backstop agreement for the Irish border, which seeks to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland in the event the issue is not solved by the future EU-UK trading relationship.

The UK has rejected the EU's own backstop plan, warning it risks dividing Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.

But, despite the UK's insistence a backstop agreement must be on a UK-wide basis, Mr Barnier declared Brussels has "doubts that this can be done without putting at risk the integrity of our customs union, our common commercial policy, our regulatory policy, and our fiscal revenue".

He revealed "open and frank" talks had been held between the EU and UK on the issue, with the UK promising to return with "concrete proposals" on how to address Brussels' concerns.

The EU official also stressed his belief the UK's £39bn divorce bill had been "agreed for good" last December, despite Mr Raab's efforts to make the cash conditional on a future EU-UK trade agreement.

Tee hee hee.

Robbed from across the road, h/t to xy for spotting it.

xxxxxy
26 Jul '18 - 21:22 - 228085 of 228087
0   1  0



A Reminder about th Why Thing.

Why we voted leave
By JOHNREDWOOD | Published: MARCH 23, 2018
On 23rd June 2016 17.4 million voters told Parliament we should leave the EU.
Leave voters voted to take back control.
We voted to take back control of our money, our laws and our borders.
We voted to be a sovereign people again.
The overarching aim is to restore our freedoms
To become self governing as we used to be
We wish our Parliaments to frame our laws
To levy and spend out taxes
To make our borders safe
To award the precious gift of citizenship to those we choose to invite
We did not vote in the belief that future Parliaments will always be wise
Nor that they will always get it right
We voted to restore powers to Parliament because it is our Parliament
We can lobby and influence it
We can dismiss it and replace the MPs when they no longer please.
I find it surprising that some find it difficult to understand this overriding wish
For it is based on our long standing pursuit of freedom
It springs from our history
The history of the UK is the story of the long march of every man and every woman to the vote
The story of asserting the rule of law against all, however mighty.
We prize the gift of freedom under the law for all on an equal basis
We share an aversion to slavery
A dislike of military rule
A resistance to arbitrary government
A rejection of the patronising errors of elites
A distaste for overmighty bureaucracies cramping our freedoms
A belief that we should be free to do whatever we please unless the laws prevents it
The signposts to democracy run through Magna Carta to the first Parliaments
From the 1660 settlement to the Glorious Revolution
From the Great Reform Act to the triumph of the suffragettes
We carelessly lost some of these freedoms,
casting away much of the power of our vote and voice
by passing powers to the European Union
We allowed the EU to impose laws we did not want
To levy taxes we disagreed with
And to spend our money as they saw fit
Brexit is designed to recall those lost powers

P9257
The EU official also stressed his belief the UK's £39bn divorce bill had been "agreed for good" last December


So what happened to ''nothing is agreed until everything is agreed''?

For the majority, change the EU to the London Parliament and governing cabal and clingers on and the rules stay the same for the punters.

The effects that so-called "brexit" will have for the majority that new laws, rules and regulations will be drawn up in the backrooms of the city in collusion with "moneyed" groups in backrooms of London but living abroad.

The wasted money will be going into the likes of Redwood and Mogg.

It the "regulations" are bad within the EU. modify or change them, don't tear up the whole rule book.

-=-=-=-=

The costs of the "exit" and the "holidays abroad" on "preparations" for it are being picked up by the general public, not the individuals seeking or gaining benefits from such.

--=-=

The majority don't know or care who made the "rules" or "laws" as long as they are fair and implemented "honestly".

Jaw-jaw, not war-war is what is needed.

-=--==

We are heading for a banana republic run by a social elite relying on inherited hand-downs to bolster their positions.

End of the day, so many other countries in the EU will leave in the years ahead............if they see the UK can exit easily.

It is not in the EU's future interest to make it easy to leave.

They will do everything they can to make the UK stay in - and make it very difficult to leave.

It exposes the weakness of the EU, that it is totally corrupt and that we are better out of this corrupt pile of shite.

No deal - WTO rules - no divorce payment - F%#$ the EU.

Well said Pros , I've never seen a problem with the no deal option if the EU want to play silly buggers.

And if your in need of a food parcel Fred after Brexit Fred I'm sure all your friends on here would have a whip round for you.

244 days to go.

Dil, I think in the end there will be a very simple trade deal which means the UK pays the divorce payment and in return gets a simple trade deal with no strings attached.

However the EU is going to push it to the brink to try to stop Brexit........the coming months are important, the push for a 2nd vote will be sponsored by all and sundry from outside the UK - trying to stop Brexit.

But if the UK holds firm to the end, then a simple trade deal will happen - which is what Leave wants.

Not going to be easy to get there - lots of non-UK funds are pouring in now to support another vote and derail Brexit.

.

Sums it up!

Mary Berry for PM!

This woman is a genius. We want Brexit to be a "piece of cake" and this is surely the lady to do it for us.

83 yr old Mary Berry playing the drums with Rick Astley at the Dorset Festival on the 27th July