The On-going Never-ending Brexit Story Part Four

He's Belgian

 

Funny, when one knows you can't trust promises made by second hand cars sellers and politicians:

 

What's your point?

 

Nothing, just stating an indisputable fact

 

Hilarious.

👏 Welcome @LeeAndersonMP_ - our new Deputy Chairman of the @Conservatives pic.twitter.com/zXexdGqsGt

— Conservatives (@Conservatives) February 7, 2023

 

That post will be a labour of love.

 

Well, I thought you were being somewhat harsh on him but it turns out you're right. He is, indeed, Belgian... but we won't hold that against him

 

It's going well for Lee Anderson after two days in the job.
Arguing for the death penalty and threatening a local BBC radio station over an interview where they called out his previous lies.

 

True in some respects but, tbh, it's probably going better than I would have expected

 

Mad Nad standing down at the next election. Parliament will be all the better for her departure.

 

Big-dick energy from Gove here...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/11/revealed-secret-cross-party-summit-held-to-confront-failings-of-brexit

 

Yeah, was just coming here to post that.

Pretty amazing... finally getting around to sorting out what 'leaving the EU' means, and after only a mere 6 1/2 years as well. Quite whether the British political class will be able to maintain this breakneck pace remains to be seen

This should have been started by Cameron the day AFTER the vote, not fecking 6+ years later, you dozy bastards

 

It should have been like the Scottish referendum, where the leave campaign had to set out a white paper on the framework of leaving before the vote took place.
But we were told that wasn't necessary (along with various proposed safeguards) as it was only an advisory referendum.

 

Thursday's by-election had no shocks. Labour hold with a 10% swing from the Tories.

What will be more worrying for Sunak will be the council elections - several Lib Dem wins in what should be safe Tory seats.

Areas like this should be safe Tory. It's affluent farming territory and should be as blue as they get in Yorkshire. Part of Skipton and Ripon, where they got 60% in 2019.
May's elections are going to be a bloodbath.

Masham and Fountains (North Yorkshire) council by-election result:

LDEM: 62.7% (+37.3)
CON: 37.3% (-7.0)

No Ind (-30.3) as prev.

Votes cast: 2,150

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) February 9, 2023

 

Good. The sooner the Tories are out of power in every place power is held, the better.

 

While it's welcome, and no mention of the ERG in the article is obviously a good thing, until there's a working majority within the Tory party for closer alginment I doubt anything significant will come of it. Johnson's 2019 purge of the moderates will make that difficult in this parliament.

 

Sturgeon resigning and Corbyn deselected.

 

Interesting times for the SNP. Could make or break their current independence push depending on where they go next. I imagine they'll go for someone younger, like Yousaf or Forbes rather than the old guard of Swinney or Robertson if they want to keep engagement up.

 

Islington North will be interesting if Corbyn stands as an independent. He's probably one of the few MPs with enough local recognition to make a run at their seat outside their party, and I would have thought he'd be the main challenge to Labour (no other party has topped 30% since the 70s).

 

They should put her on the Scottish pound.

 

Pertinent tweet from a couple of days ago. Feels like the next SNP leader could be just about anyone.

Nicola Sturgeon would reach a decade as First Minister towards the end of next year. The Scottish public have very little sense yet of who should replace her. (Panelbase for Sunday Times) pic.twitter.com/FMMWoBNyO1

— Sunder Katwala (@sundersays) February 12, 2023

 

Maybe. This is a very odd move. I suspect a scandal is about to break. Could be wrong, but it seems unlikely she would do this on her own.

 

Possibly this?

 

He's nearly 90, but still running rings around the Brexit idiots.

Normally they don’t put heavyweights in the ring with lightweights.

And yet here we have Lord Heseltine refusing to allow banal slogans and tropes to pass as a substitute for sensible conjecture.

Refreshing to see.

pic.twitter.com/iZJqCIqBUr

— Jemma Forte (@jemmaforte) February 15, 2023

 

They could but then they'd have to explain who would be standing behind the currency and that was a significant problem when they had the last referendum. They couldn't decisively say which currency they were going to use.

One proposal was for them to continue to use the pound but that meant they'd still be partly under the control of the rest of the UK because our population, (and thus taxpayer base size), is 10 times larger. The other proposal was for them to use the euro but then they'd have to exchange control largely by us for that of the european central bank.

It's similar to the issues we've faced with brexit... unless you can say precisely how things are going to work, (and the currency is only one issue but there are others including 'borders' for trade, etc.), then maybe it's not such a great idea.