i'm just waiting for someone to start pushing for what TO do... not what to do... There are only three likely outcomes. Either a general election results in a government with a large enough majority to push through a withdrawal agreement, the UK leaves with no deal, or a government conducts a refer...

Both English and Scottish courts have now ruled that Boris Johnson's proposed prorogation of Parliament is lawful and legal. :thumbup: Bozzymandias' prorogation is now pointless though because its entire purpose was to prevent parliament from intervening to prevent the UK leaving the EU without a w...

Am I reading this right, if boris can’t make a new deal he has to revoke A50? https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2017-2019/0433/amend/euwithdrawal6_daily_cwh_0904.pdf The Prime Minister must notify the European Council that he is revoking the notice of withdrawal by the UK from the E...

The Boris bounce is a pure reflection of his go-getting, out-means-out, we-can-do-it, fist pump rhetoric BS. If he is forced to extend and he isn't able to get an election in October we'll see him flounder and people will begin to recognise him as the feckless buffoon he is. If. That's it. His perf...

all the polls, even Survation, bar one say any GE right now would see a Tory Majority I really wouldn't put too much faith in where the current polls are as a representation of the results of a general election. There's a significant four-way split in the vote and the current Conservative figures r...

Ha ha the BBC reports the pound sinks with news of a possible general election. They then show a graph with a large negative dip. But when you read the figures it slid less than 1 percent. Compared to usual trading a 1% slide is pretty significant and if any currency traders were "in the know&...

It you who is incorrect there isn’t a real border and there will continue not to be a real border. As for the check there most definitely is, a family member is one of the inspectors at one of the border posts. Border checks at ports exist because there are goods imported from non-EU countries. The...

That's only going to be the case if there is a customs arrangement that avoids the need to erect a customs border in order not to fall foul of WTO most favoured nation rules. WTO rules don't demand a hard border. Not specifically, but unless there's one of those much vaunted "technological&quo...

No matter what happens deal, no deal there isn’t going to be a real border on the island of Ireland. In 1923 a common travel area was agreed and from then on people can move freely without documents, no passports no nothing between any parts of the uk and Ireland, very different to what happens eve...

No matter what happens deal, no deal there isn’t going to be a real border on the island of Ireland. In 1923 a common travel area was agreed and from then on people can move freely without documents, no passports no nothing between any parts of the uk and Ireland, very different to what happens eve...

Well you have certainly demonstrated your arrogance. No, I've demonstrated my concern that in your arrogance you've fallen for the trap that demagogues, charlatans, disaster capitalists and their geopolitical backers have laid for you and damaged the prospects you, your family and everyone else in ...

So your saying leave supporters are stupid ignorant and easily led. Yes, because you demonstrably are. That I think shows your lack of faith in the people of the UK, or a large proportion of them at least. It's fair to say that I lack faith in the opinions of those who are led by demagogues, charla...

How much do we actually know about FCASW? I know it is to be both air and sea launched and possibly ground if the intermediate treaty isn't rehashed, As far as I'm aware the INF treaty is a bilateral treaty between the US and Russia and doesn't restrict the development of intermediate-range nuclear...

There's something to be said for the faith and optimism of no dealers Their is little to be said for the lack of faith of remainers in the UK and its people. On the contrary, remain supporters simply lack faith in the demagogues, charlatans, disaster capitalists and their geopolitical backers that ...

Well you seem to have been brainwashed then! The remoaners have a different take on that. They seem to believe that getting your freedom back is the same as losing something. Well that “something” was never worth having in the first place and certainly has become of even less Value with the passage...

this has amused me for some time. scot-ind made some logical sense when the SNP were tartan tories, but now that they are 'decent' social-democratic types then have an odd square to circle in promoting an act that to be successful will need a stripped back and streamlined state that would make Geor...

Scimitar54 wrote:Well you seem to have been brainwashed then!

The remoaners

Hmm... I'm guessing that self-awareness isn't your thing.

Scimitar54 wrote:The suicidal people were the PM,s who took us in to the EEC/EC/EU and surrendered our sovereignty as well as theirs.

I thought that only spoilt children considered that sharing something was the same as losing something.

What will Eire be getting (that they don't have; indeed they enjoy practically being part of this country!)? They get what they've wanted since 8th December 1922, the fulfilment of Article 2 of the ROI constitution. I actually think that it would be electoral suicide for an ROI government to reject...

So, as I said - he didn't actually say it. What you impute to his statement will depend on what your political perspective is and what you are seeking to prove Not really, it'll more depend on whether you understand the meaning of the words that he's using and the ultimate implication of that meani...

sorry to say, but (for once!... only once?) you might be missing the Big Picture? This is not about rolling the Soviets back by a thousand km. Not about taking on states that were/ are not truly of European tradition (Romania, Bulgaria... the rest of the "Balkans "peninsula") - the r...

Can anyone find an actual recording of him saying "nothing to do with a new agenda - it is all about numbers as the government knows they can’t command a majority in the House of Commons, thus they have misled The Queen."? I can't. The closest I can find is him saying is: “And we’ve sudde...

That's true but lofty ideals alone won't pay the bills. Northern Ireland in its current form is no longer economically viable after the degradation of its heavy industrial sector. Reunification will not alter this reality. The truth is that without the financial assistance of primarily English taxp...

You'll never see an united Ireland. The free state don't want the expense of changing everything over. Think pensions, taxation etc..etc. A mahoosive task which would take years to sort out and cost billions of euros. Add to that the pressure that would be brought to bear by the Protestant side of ...