[Merged]Brexit stuff

[Paddy]

No time to post. too busy spending all the wealth that is coming my way courtesy of Brexit

loads of wealth when the pound on one to one with Turkish lira

[d000hg]

Yes but for the extra 50 or 100 quid that will cost you over a year do you think it is worth giving our civil liberties to a central European power?

So you think you're suddenly going to gain a lot of liberty?

[d000hg]

Maybe this "we've agreed to Brexit but aren't actually doing it" is the best position to be in. We still get free trade but Leavers are happy we've agreed to leave. We don't have to really play a part or take on new laws as "we're leaving any minute"

String it out for decades?

(stranger things must have happened in international politics?)

[GB9]

Which bit of 'we're not starting until we're ready' don't some of you get? Or the bit about 'not this year'? Are you back to miserable posts claiming that nothing's happening because we haven't given notice? We're winding the EU up which is worth the wait in itself.

In good news, and the benefit of the weaker pound, 20bn export boost.

[jamesbrown]

We don't have to really play a part or take on new laws as "we're leaving any minute"

Um, no.

Until we've left, we have all the benefits and obligations of membership. Everything passes through the EC 1972 act into UK law as normal. Absolutely nothing has changed, other than the EU organising some "unofficial" gatherings that don't involve the UK (such as the informal meeting in Bratislava).

May has the political capital to drag out the whole Brexit means Brexit fluff until next March, perhaps. However, come the next budget, that political capital is spent, and the circular firing squad will be loading (not to mention the Laurel & Hardy, Junker/Verhofstadt, double-act, if either are sufficiently sober to point the correct end in our direction).

[Flashman]

The sooner we get our territorial waters back the better. Hopefully it will breath new life into our fishing communities.

I just hope the government doesn't sell the fishing industry down the river again during the political horse trading....

[MrMarkyMark]

not to mention the Laurel & Hardy, Junker/Verhofstadt, double-act, if either are sufficiently sober to point the correct end in our direction.

What happens if they are sufficiently drunk, will they be waving their collective bell ends in our direction

[SueEllen]

The sooner we get our territorial waters back the better. Hopefully it will breath new life into our fishing communities.

I just hope the government doesn't sell the fishing industry down the river again during the political horse trading....

How many fishermen are there?

[jamesbrown]

What happens if they are sufficiently drunk, will they be waving their collective bell ends in our direction

[NotAllThere]

France used to turn of their gas supply to the UK during winter, just to cause trouble. They'd force their own gas companies to buy and store gas they didn't need. The EU stopped that.

Winter 2019 could be a bit chilly for some.