Nah, wasn’t predictable at all.
The Tories descended into a fresh bout of Brexit wars today as ministers warned they will not back a push for ‘Swiss-style’ ties with the EU.
Government sources have been signalling that Switzerland’s relationship with the bloc could be a model for the UK over the next decade.
However, despite claims free movement would not return there are fears the UK could end up accepting EU law, paying into Brussels coffers and facing higher immigration.
Health Secretary Steve Barclay tried to pour cold water on the reports in the Sunday Times this morning, telling Sky News‘ Ridge on Sunday programme: ‘I do not support that. I want to maximise the opportunities that Brexit offers.’
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. This one appears to have come from Jeremy *unt.
What part of ‘leave means leave,’ did they not understand?
I dunno, but the dire state of the political landscape and the obvious contempt with which the establishment holds the electorate, we won’t be voting ourselves out of this one. After all, the opposition benches only oppose the government in so much as they aren’t worse and don’t do more to trash the economy and destroy everything that is good about this country.
Agreed. What I know about Labour is that it would have locked down for longer and harder, so creating an even worse mess, and that its green policies are even more insane than those of the Tories. Oh! . . and they no longer know what a woman is.
Fook tha lot of ’em.
The houses of commons and lords and the civil service need an Aegean stables solution.
I prefer the Reichstag solution.
I think that we are too far gone to be saved at this point. Even if someone came along with the determination to sort the mess out. How many of the workforce are totally dependent on the bloated state for their livelihoods? There was a massive unemployment issue during the early years of the Thatcher era and that was just down to streamlining the inefficient nationalised industries. What are unemployment figures going to look like if the necessary cuts to government spending are to be made now?
I concur. The time to stop the rot was 15 years ago. It’s too late now.
Do they not even listen to reports from EU.
Germany, the current paytmaster in our absence, is descending into a cool, very green, industry free winter.
France is struggling with its diversity.
Italy wants to shrug off its diverstity, but France objects.
Spain? I know nothing.
Hungary and Poland do not want any of that diversity, but cheap gas “Yes please.” Anybody want coal?
Denmark? Please will someone buy our lovely windmills? Them cheap Chinese ones use stuff howked out of the ground by children.
Netherlands. We flog gas but our cows fart too much. Farmers evil.
Ireland. We will accept any EU money, And any that US of A can spare. And we have very low corporation taxes, which rest of EU do not like. Nice vertical dancing, race horses, and Jamieson. And “craic”. And U2.
Please,Sir, can we join BRICS. Pretty please.
Switzerland’s relationship with the EU is based on a massively complicated tangle of bilateral agreements developed over many years. Even before the Brexit referendum, one of the major arguments against a Swiss-style arrangement for Britain was that the EU would not want to go through that process again.
The problem here is the continuity Remainers, who will push anything that might possibly bring Britain closer to the EU and then call it by whatever name they think might make it seem palatable to the general public.
Another small step towards rejoining. The EU play the long game and they will punish us dramatically when we go back, and the Labour party will accept any terms they propose. How jolly dare us Plebs vote against our betters.
People like to compare toytown austria-hungary with the reich, and it’s true, economically at least, that it is basically a german empire.
Perhaps a better comparison is imperial russia in the run up to 1914, obsessed with international power plays while rotting from within.
The long game of the EU is the long game of any would be “unifier” of europe (and there have been a few of those) but it just doesn’t work. There is no european “demos” to underpin it (and the crass arrogance of the EU – ynically pitting countries against each other – pretty makes it impossible for one to develop).
I don’t think the british euro-whores have any real plans. All I see is a simple pavlovian response to a sprawling political structure which they simply believe they have to be a part of. That this political/economic structure is catastrophic for peoples and economies is not just irrelevant, it’s incomprehensible (and it is a graphic demonstration of their detachment from the people they were ostensibly elected to serve).
Attempts to rejoin, or “align” are futile and can only damage this country. But hey, they’ve been doing this for the last 60 years!
Absolute, utter scum, every last one of them.