Brexit

Garth wrote:

The EU is demanding Britain accept that Northern Ireland may need to remain inside the European customs union and single market after Brexit in order to avoid “a hard border on the island of Ireland”.

The explicit mention of an “all-island” approach by Dublin and Brussels directly contradicts the UK position and will infuriate the Democratic Unionist party, on whose votes Theresa May’s government depends for a parliamentary majority at Westminster.

The European Commission on Wednesday circulated an update on negotiations, seen by the Financial Times, which concludes that the avoidance of “regulatory divergence” on the island of Ireland is “essential” to protect the peace process.

“It consequently seems essential for the UK to commit to ensuring that a hard border on the island of Ireland is avoided, including by ensuring no emergence of regulatory divergence from those rules of the internal market and the customs union,” the paper states.

The commission adds that the regulatory arrangements “are (or may be in the future) necessary for meaningful North-South co-operation, the all-island economy and the protection of the Good Friday Agreement”.

https://www.ft.com/content/9e11bdcc-c58 ... 2b2cb39656

Squinty wrote:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-theresa-may-article-50-reversal-misleading-public-author-lord-kerr-claims-a8046676.html

LOL Theresa pls

Lagamorph wrote:Jesus strawberry floating Christ at today's Express front page,



This goes beyond irresponsible and misleading.

Moggy wrote:

Garth wrote:

The EU is demanding Britain accept that Northern Ireland may need to remain inside the European customs union and single market after Brexit in order to avoid “a hard border on the island of Ireland”.

The explicit mention of an “all-island” approach by Dublin and Brussels directly contradicts the UK position and will infuriate the Democratic Unionist party, on whose votes Theresa May’s government depends for a parliamentary majority at Westminster.

The European Commission on Wednesday circulated an update on negotiations, seen by the Financial Times, which concludes that the avoidance of “regulatory divergence” on the island of Ireland is “essential” to protect the peace process.

“It consequently seems essential for the UK to commit to ensuring that a hard border on the island of Ireland is avoided, including by ensuring no emergence of regulatory divergence from those rules of the internal market and the customs union,” the paper states.

The commission adds that the regulatory arrangements “are (or may be in the future) necessary for meaningful North-South co-operation, the all-island economy and the protection of the Good Friday Agreement”.

https://www.ft.com/content/9e11bdcc-c58 ... 2b2cb39656

So Northern Ireland and Grimsby get to stay?

Ad7 wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Jesus strawberry floating Christ at today's Express front page,



This goes beyond irresponsible and misleading.

Holy gooseberry fool, not a single article on Princess Diana or Madeleine McCann

still wrote:

Hyperion wrote:There's very little waste in council departments, they're chronically underfunded

If you believe that you believe anything! I worked in Local Authority for 25 years. The waste is absolutely scandalous.

romeo G. Detlev Jr. wrote:

still wrote:

Hyperion wrote:There's very little waste in council departments, they're chronically underfunded

If you believe that you believe anything! I worked in Local Authority for 25 years. The waste is absolutely scandalous.

Which local authority? Which 25 year period?

Tafdolphin wrote: a Christmas fete no-one attended.

Tafdolphin wrote:There was a bouncy castle.

still wrote:

Hyperion wrote:There's very little waste in council departments, they're chronically underfunded

If you believe that you believe anything! I worked in Local Authority for 25 years. The waste is absolutely scandalous.

Lagamorph wrote:Jesus strawberry floating Christ at today's Express front page,



This goes beyond irresponsible and misleading.

Hyperion wrote:

still wrote:

Hyperion wrote:There's very little waste in council departments, they're chronically underfunded

If you believe that you believe anything! I worked in Local Authority for 25 years. The waste is absolutely scandalous.

I've worked in a local authority for the last 5 years so I think I know what I'm talking about

Lagamorph wrote:

Hyperion wrote:

still wrote:

Hyperion wrote:There's very little waste in council departments, they're chronically underfunded

If you believe that you believe anything! I worked in Local Authority for 25 years. The waste is absolutely scandalous.

I've worked in a local authority for the last 5 years so I think I know what I'm talking about

If I've learned anything from past dealings it's that nobody working at a local authority knows what they're talking about.

The study on the costs of EU membership, by leading City analyst Bob Lyddon, strongly supports the view of Brexit campaigners that the UK should not pay the EU a big divorce bill of up to £78billion.

Mr Lyddon’s analysis takes into account the money paid directly to the EU budget each week.

The Office for National Statistics says this is £267million once the UK’s rebate is paid back to us and money spent by the EU on projects here is included.

However, he has also added £12billion a year lost to the Exchequer through legal tax avoidance schemes which result from Britain being a member of the EU.

Multinational companies such as Google and Amazon run their finances through Ireland, Holland and Luxembourg and the only way these loopholes can be closed is by the UK leaving the bloc.

Mr Lyddon has also calculated that the annual net cost of EU migrants – once the tax they pay is deducted from benefits paid out – is £30billion a year.

His figure excludes tariff payments collected by the EU from the rest of the world, which will instead go to the Treasury when Britain is out.

There are also extra payments to the EU such as the £2billion given by British taxpayers to its foreign aid budget which are not officially designated as payments to Brussels.