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PM May announces Brexit process should be over by 2019 with strong limits on immigration policy
Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday that Britain would begin the process of withdrawing from the European Union by the end of March and suggested that she would seek a clean break that makes limits on immigration a priority. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAbout time but now she has to DO what she says.
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 10:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0And fight of the remoaners on the way,
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but it will still take another two years,
providing were all still alive to enjoy it.
Take note Toby, no free movement of people, or paying into EU budgets.
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We shall see what sort of a trade deal may be possible, Spanish veto’s notwithstanding.
Remembering that under WTO base rules of 3% tariff both ways, we will do very well out of it, mostly at the expense of the French and Germans.
And perhaps the Spanish, who may well lose both ways,
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No Gibraltar
and No more EU bailouts, so they say.
May need to watch the Japanese Car Factory owners in UK that produce for the European market though and offer them some assistance to get the next investment made here as well - and not in EU so they can avoid the 3% or whatever it may be.
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Only assistance to those already with factories here and planning next stage investment in next 2 years.After that any new investment comes along - they will have the deal so can decide anyway.
Just to assist those already invested and investing in UK in next 12-24 months in the uncertainty of what final scenario will be.
Still remains to be seen what the big banks will do - if they start to move across the channel - that will be a LOT of cash and “exports” value less every month - several hundreds of millions a month I imagine - used to be over 100 m 20 plus years ago.
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Oct 04th, 2016 - 12:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0You just gave yourself your own answer... you really expect the Germans and French to give you a deal “at their expense” economically? And the Spanish give you all you want at their territorial risk?
The UK has already been humiliated. It's 6 months after your vote and the EU have not budged one inch, in fact they are doubling down on you getting out.
Please keep living in 1849 Pugol, I am much enjoying your face falling flat on the floor and the utter humiliation of your country, and deservedly so. Couldn't have happened to more genial folk....
Here we have Pugol and Briton already predicting they will bend the combined German, French, Spanish, Italian et all over and Britain will have a better economic and territorial deal than them.
Unfortunately delusions of grandeur with no clinical disease to cure usually has one cure: to have your face flattened by the reality of humility. It's coming.
On the contrary, it was the EU who was humiliated, and, “deservedly so”.
Oct 04th, 2016 - 02:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0@6. Trying to understand your rabbiting. One wonders about the mindset that talks about the French and Germans giving Britain a deal “at their expense”. Let's suppose that, effectively, France and Germany were to agree that, in terms of trade with the UK, nothing would change. How would that be “at their expense”? To consider the single sector of the automobile industry, both countries sell considerable quantities of vehicles to the UK. Where is the “expense” in continuing that? I'm not aware of any EU country that charges export taxes, unlike argieland. Hollande, of course, has been somewhat hawkish, but I doubt he has the popularity to emasculate his country's car industry and get away with it. In Germany, Merkel is still suffering from her open door migrant policy.
Oct 04th, 2016 - 07:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Like those in the UK that I call the “Remainders”, you live outside reality. Prior to the referendum, they produced dire warnings of immediate catastrophe, ranging through economic collapse to war. Didn't happen! Markets could be expected to be volatile. Now their prophecies have been moved back two years. You can't even count the number of months correctly!
I wonder if you can come up with any instances of our entire country “falling flat on its face”. To the best of my knowledge, it hasn't happened in a thousand years.
I wonder at the depth of your hatred. Britain has experienced innumerable conflicts with equally innumerable countries. Most of those countries have been sufficiently mature to recognise that those conflicts are in the past. I can even point at a comparable situation involving the Channel Islands and France.
But not you. Perhaps, in the otherwise empty space between your ears, it gives some sort of meaning to your existence. I am more inclined to liken you to Daesh terrorists. Emotionally and mentally challenged!
@6 “ delusions of grandeur ” How is that plan coming along? You have gone awfully quiet about it. Have you been duped again?
Oct 04th, 2016 - 07:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0@7
Oct 04th, 2016 - 07:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nope it was not, those are not the facts, sorry. You have no basis for your claim.
The only people that would think that are the ones living in Andromeda or under the Earth's crust, you i guess... because everyone else knew and has known for decades the British may leave, what with their cosntant whinging and diva complex.
So what was written on the wall for ages is hardly humiliating.
The UK was never a real member anyway. If one of the founders leave, that would be humiliating.
@6 CapiTrollism_is_back!!
Oct 04th, 2016 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ok Toby, let’s try this slowly.
WTO base rules are the DEFAULT POSITION, applied where there is not a trade agreement.
The French and Germans don’t have to agree this, this is what happens automatically if there is no trade agreement.
The French and Germans have to agree a deal, if they don’t want this to happen automatically.
The fact is, however much you hate it, that the PM has the cards here, as in most things the EU are not playing with a full deck.
@10 Capi
Oct 04th, 2016 - 12:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Weren't you predicting WWIII not long ago? If that's the case then Britain won't be doing any kind of deal with the EU, so why speculate?
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