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CBI concerned about “lack of clarity” surrounding talks on future UK/EU trade
Time is running out on Brexit, and the UK should remain in a customs union with the EU, the Confederation of British Industry has warned. Carolyn Fairbairn, head of the UK business group, said there was a “lack of clarity” surrounding ongoing talks about the future of UK-EU trade. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“We are confident of negotiating a deep and special economic partnership that includes a good deal for financial services - that will be in the EU's best interests, as well as ours,” ... Uuhu.
Jan 23rd, 2018 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse -3It's always about GB's financial systems and GB's financial ties, and GB's banks, and GB's trade... and GB's commerce and GB's everything.
Perhaps the very quiet notion respectfully kept tacit that many of the harmony, character of unity and flow problems that plagued the EU where due to G.B. always wanting special consideration and special treatment in a context devoid of solidarity and the team spirit courage to just jump in with both feet, tilting the mechanisms of the Union to be excessively based on money military finances and defense, rather than social civil and political integration. I think Britain should just well sever and cut its looses, and take a good long hard look at all the problems its demands caused Europe during its entire “almost joining” process.
They would say that wouldnt they? The CBI get £1 million a year off the EU. The CBI is a ' big business' organisation that doesnt care about consumers, the people, it just wants to continually screw them! We pay 11% tarrifs on clothing because we are in the EU, and UK consumers overpay for lots of things much much more because of it. We are on our way out, lets hope the British government holds its nerve.
Jan 23rd, 2018 - 04:39 pm - Link - Report abuse +2P.E.
Jan 23rd, 2018 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse +2I think you should read what you type before sending. You have written a 5 line sentence that does not make sense in English. I read it 5 times and got lost half way through.
I also think Poland and Hungary are not too happy with European integration as it affects their country. I am also sure Greece is delighted with the treatment they received.
What else do we have to discuss. What Europe does after we leave is up to them.
You seem to think that is one happy family all agreed on the principle of a unitary state with the same laws, tax arrangements, currency, armed forces and foreign policy.
Each EU country should be given a chance to vote on the proposed policies of the EU commission and see what the result is . I don't think it would go down too well in Brussels!
The Unification of Europe, could never work as an increasing agglomeration of countries that come from various distances of varying differences to the central unifying concepts that where agreed upon a small group of countries and thinkers. The very notion of Unifying a Continent made up of uniquely different histories societies cultures and languages, means that the only way to have stable forward movement, is for the total number of the group at every given moment share equally in the constant redesigning of its central administration to satisfy absolute equality of input, influence, force, form and decision making investment into that growing unity by each single country, without any kind of leadership hierarchy in any category or area at all.
Jan 23rd, 2018 - 06:34 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Patrick
Jan 23rd, 2018 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +2It won't happen !
By the way, a small point in your English.
You keep using the word “where” which is an adverb instead of “were” which is correct in the context of your sentence... were is the past tense second-person singular, past tense plural, and past subjunctive of be .
I am not trying to be critical as such but you may as well get it correct.
He's using one of those translators they had in the film 'Mars Attacks'
Jan 23rd, 2018 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse +3@PE
Jan 23rd, 2018 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse +1“... the total number of the group at every given moment share equally in the constant redesigning of its central administration to satisfy absolute equality of input, influence, force, form and decision making investment into that growing unity by each single country, without any kind of leadership hierarchy in any category or area at all.”
What you have described is *nothing* like the EU in its current form. Britain never did share France and Germany's vision of unification, and every country wanted special consideration on some things, but we managed to compromise up until now.
Mars Attacks! My second favourite film!
Jan 23rd, 2018 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Aark Arrk.... Why cant we all get along...?
Is Patrick composed of a combination of people assembled by Martians, that would explain it. I think he's a combination of Stanley Unwin and that Welsh Windbag Neil Kinnock?
Sorry you didnt get what I tried to explain Demon Tree
Jan 23rd, 2018 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse -2@PE
Jan 23rd, 2018 - 10:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't think anyone did. Try explaining in fewer words...
I got it PE and everyone else picked it up to.
Jan 24th, 2018 - 04:08 am - Link - Report abuse +3That was a wild sentence and not meant to be said in one word less!
By the end of it though I felt a bit dazed and sort of high.
When do you expect human beings to dialogue like that? You'd have to reincarnate Solomon and even then he'd need an aluminum baseball bat to get politicians to act that way.
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