Brexit

Snowcannon wrote:

KK wrote:

TigaSefi wrote:The £500 million contract fee just shows how easily remoaners are duped as well.

Everyone from MPs to business people running with this £500m figure (which is also inflated by about £10 million), conveniently conflating the blue cover with the contract coming up for renewal anyway (which as it turns out could have also been altered to blue in the EU). Basically the whole thing doesn’t have anything to do with Brexit.

Choose your side, choose your bullshit.

The decision to change it to blue is entirely due to Brexit

Rex Kramer wrote:Fantastic, bollocks to anyone who's been educated in the last 30 years and really doesn't have a clue what your hectares, chains and farthings nonsense is all about.

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:

Hexx wrote:

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:

Hexx wrote:

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We’re such a laughing stock

I know he thinks he’s being funny but if Cameron had come back from his meetings with Brussels and said they’ve agreed to let us have our old passports back some people probably wouldn’t have voted to leave.

Agreement wasn’t needed we could change any time

Yeah I know that but they wouldn’t have known that and still don’t seem to grasp that we could have done it at any time now.

massimo wrote:

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:Poor Nigel

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Poor baby.
Realtalk for a minute though…remember when he almost died in that plane crash? Man that would’ve been sweet.

Kezzer wrote:

massimo wrote:

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:Poor Nigel

twitter.com/telegraph/status/944692046656401408

Poor baby.
Realtalk for a minute though…remember when he almost died in that plane crash? Man that would’ve been sweet.

YES!

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A "smart" Brexit deal could serve as a model for the EU's future relations with other non-EU states, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel says.

Turkey and Ukraine were two states that could benefit from the template, he told Germany's Funke media group.

He did not see either joining the EU any time soon, so alternative forms of closer co-operation were needed.

The UK's future relationship with the EU, which it is due to leave on 29 March 2019, is still being negotiated.

The two sides agreed this month on the three "divorce" issues that took up the first phase of negotiations: how much the UK owes the EU, what happens to the Northern Ireland border and what happens to UK citizens living elsewhere in the EU and EU citizens living in the UK.

In June 2016, the UK voted in a referendum to leave the EU after more than four decades of membership.

What did Sigmar Gabriel say?

"If we can reach a smart agreement with Great Britain that outlines its relations with Europe after Brexit, then that could serve as a model for other countries," he said.

He foresaw a "new, closer form of customs union" with Turkey, provided the situation in that country changed. That would appear to conflict with the UK's aim to leave the EU's customs union as well as its single market.

Germany is concerned at Turkey's human rights record under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, particularly the recent arrest of several German-Turkish nationals.

"It's a good sign that several detained Germans have been released," Mr Gabriel said, but he added there was still great concern over imprisoned journalist Deniz Yucel. "The Turks know how important his fate is for us," he said.

Tell Karl his brother is dead wrote:Wow! If things go well, we could have the same deal as Turkey or Ukraine! Everything's coming up Britain!

Goldman Sachs denies FT story that they’re moving operations from London to Dublin

Goldman Sachs (GS) is pushing back on a report that it plans to move its European asset management business from London to Dublin. "We have not chosen Dublin as home for our European asset management business," Maria Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for the bank, said in a statement.

"As part of our Brexit planning we are considering options related to elements of fund administration within the EU," she said, emphasizing that changes to headcount would be small. The Financial Times reported earlier on Wednesday that Goldman would move its European asset management business, with about 20 employees, to Dublin. It cited two unnamed sources.

A conservative think tank is calling for Tory grandee Lord Heseltine to have the whip withdrawn for his "sniping" about Brexit.

Members of the Bow Group have accused the former deputy prime minister of "outright sabotage" and want him expelled from the Tories' Lords group.

It comes after he suggested a Labour government would be preferable to the "long-term disaster" of Brexit.

Lord Heseltine is a high-profile critic of leaving the EU.

Comments made by Lord Heseltine more than a month ago have triggered a backlash from the Bow Group after they were reported in The Guardian and other newspapers this week.

The Bow Group includes big name Tory Brexiteers Lord Tebbit, its chairman, and Fisting Norman Lamont, a senior patron.

Senior Tories call for Lord Heseltine to be kicked out of party over Brexit remarks
Theresa May has been urged to kick Lord Heseltine out of the Conservatives after he a Jeremy Corbyn government would be better for Britain than leaving the EU.

The former deputy Prime Minister　said the "short-term pain" caused by having Labour in power was preferable to the "long term disaster" of Brexit.

But his remarks have led to calls for Mrs May to remove the Tory whip from the veteran peer.

The Bow Group, a conservative think-tank whose patrons include Lord Lamont and John Redwood, said　Lord Heseltine　must　be disciplined.

Its chairman Ben Harris-Quinney, a Tory councillor, said: "The Brexit negotiations cannot be led by a Conservative Government that allows outright sabotage to go unaddressed within its own ranks.

"Lord Heseltine has made clear it is his aim to prevent Brexit at all costs, including the sabotage of his own party and nation. The Conservative Party must therefore withdraw the whip and end the inevitable continuation of his sniping from inside the tent."

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KK wrote:

Goldman Sachs denies FT story that they’re moving operations from London to Dublin

Goldman Sachs (GS) is pushing back on a report that it plans to move its European asset management business from London to Dublin. "We have not chosen Dublin as home for our European asset management business," Maria Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for the bank, said in a statement.

"As part of our Brexit planning we are considering options related to elements of fund administration within the EU," she said, emphasizing that changes to headcount would be small. The Financial Times reported earlier on Wednesday that Goldman would move its European asset management business, with about 20 employees, to Dublin. It cited two unnamed sources.