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Baphornet
14 Jan 19 09:29
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so says the worst PM in the history of British politics. Unelected & unwanted. Just go!

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By:
donny osmond
When: 14 Jan 19 09:37
60% of electorate didnt want a tory government

what part of democracy dont tories understand ....
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 09:45
this government will be sitting in the new "Barebones Parliament" soon enough

i wish i'd have called myself Cromwell on here now
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 11:07
the "reassuring"  letter has arrived from Juncker? & is full of nothing. The letter has arrived from May; & is full of nothing!
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 11:42
“The letter isn’t legally binding,” DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds told BBC radio. “The prime minister will struggle to justify what the delay was about.”
By:
1st time poster
When: 14 Jan 19 11:53
the PM says to get labour on side she will not only agree to keep work place ,regulations we cureently have but go further than the EU ON THEM,that in tory ,business eyes means more red tape so why doesn't someone ask her that been the case how does she think we will  win make trade deals around the world, thought that was the whole point of leaving, get rid of eu regs to make it easier for countries to trade with us Singapore on the thames as boris and co would see it
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 12:01
This is your PM speaking minutes ago:

"I firmly believe that the deal we have struck is the best possible outcome given the principles of both sides"
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 12:03
your points, moisok are well noted & would fall on deaf ears all over Whitehall
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 12:04
1st TP sorry, i'm used to only moisok answeringHappy
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 12:09
she also says the letter has "legal force" What the heck is legal force? If she thinks that's enough to turn her vote around then the padded cell definitely await
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 12:10
Here's the EU letter in full; sorry i can't c&p it

https://static.rasset.ie/documents/news/2019/01/letter-to-prime-minister-may.pdf
By:
InsiderTrader
When: 14 Jan 19 12:19
Is that link to a real letter or a comedy thing?

Junker did not even bother to sign it properly. He just wrote a cross to make his name. Or maybe he cannot read and write?
By:
Arleystation
When: 14 Jan 19 12:36
This is your PM speaking minutes ago:

"I firmly believe that the deal we have struck is the best possible outcome given the principles of both sides"


Therein lies the problem.

The enfeebled Government has tried to make leaving the EU fit in with the wishes of both the EU and the Remainers. Impossible aim.
By:
northanlite
When: 14 Jan 19 12:38
since most of us were born we have had relative peace and prosperity within the EU.
you've lost your minds if you think things will get better.
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 12:39
absolutely correct, and virtually everything is meaningless in that scenario. What a pity there isn't some political commentators or MPs who can say that
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 12:40
to Arleystaion - obviouslyLaugh
By:
UBLE/REGY
When: 14 Jan 19 12:40
I hope parliament passes May's deal

because I don't think leaving without a deal would be a good idea

I am agreeing with the title of this thread

ps
The EU do not want us to leave

so are not making it easy for us to leave, in fact they are probably making it as difficult as possible.

Because if we leave, how long before another country wants to leave?

We should have stuck to a COMMON MARKET which is what people thought they voted for in the 70's, me included.

We should have read the small print.Sad
By:
PorcupineorPineapple
When: 14 Jan 19 12:45
To be fair arley, I reckon it could have been possible. She's tried to do the complete opposite though. Roughly half the country was happy to stay in and their wishes were continually ignored and instead she's herself drew the red lines which have so hamstrung her ability to negotiate.

This has essentially been the latest in the series of hopeless Tory mismanagements. But still the idea that a vote for Labour is a vote for chaos gains traction with quite a lot of people. Staggering really.



What this needed from the get go was an aim at consensus. At getting something that the whole country could accept. Maybe it needed cross-party co-operation, maybe it needed further referenda stipulating their preferences on the path to go down, it certainly needed more time to decide on our chosen path before. She rushed into it, the party have lied throughout, have been under-prepared and have tried to circumvent Parliament. Now they've run out of time and they're up sh!t creek.


But still, they know there's still plenty of muppets who'll fall for the "but Labour will be worse" line.
By:
Arleystation
When: 14 Jan 19 12:46
We were not even provided with the small print back in the 1970's.

This is what we might have spotted then:

The founding father of the European project, Frenchman Jean Monnet (google him as you won't believe me) wrote: "Europe's nations should be guided towards the Superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation".
By:
northanlite
When: 14 Jan 19 12:47
of course the EU don't want us the leave. the clue is in them saying they don't want us to leave.
i do kind of agree that if we had stuck to it being about trade and common defence it would all be fine.
the free movement of people was ok until new countries joined who were in a very different situation.
having said that we have many Polish & a few Romanian families living in the neighbourhood & with
kids at my kids school and they are all working and decent people.
attack the policy but don't demonise the individuals., that just aint fair.
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 12:48
ah that 9 letter word, Arley
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 12:49
make that 10Silly
By:
Arleystation
When: 14 Jan 19 12:51
Sorry, Porcupine - there was no chance of consensus on such a divided issue when the Remainers were such bad losers. The wishes of those that lost the binary Referendum had to be ignored if Leave was to be enacted. There has never been any chance of cross-party co-operation because party has been more important to politicians than nation.
By:
moisok
When: 14 Jan 19 12:52
Hornet - silly question - WHERE ARE MY POINTS ??  Has May's axemen been chopping away at the forum?? 

Arley  I will be up in april  - a few at the  old castle, a couple at the station too  yum yum
By:
Arleystation
When: 14 Jan 19 12:55
Arley  I will be up in april  - a few at the  old castle, a couple at the station too  yum yum

Think you'll have to cancel - Shropshire will be in meltdown/shutdown post-Brexit. No supplies will get through. We are doomed!
By:
moisok
When: 14 Jan 19 12:57
they never expected the vote - hence they never have prepared anything other than to stay - now they are trying to convince us that to stay would be best - which is amazing after how we have been treated -

I don't think the EU system has any idea where we are coming from.  To the Eu commission, the whole thing is sacrilege - they just don't see why someone would want to leave.  Or maybe they know but would not admit it.  Just like hitler would never understand that a lot of people didn't like his ideas either.
By:
nellie1970
When: 14 Jan 19 12:57
nice to see the BBC covering the important stories.would brexit cause a toilet roll log jamLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaugh
By:
moisok
When: 14 Jan 19 12:58
Ha  but they don't know our secret arley   do they

THE RIVER!!!!   There are lots of rubber boats turning up down sarf.   A couple of them loaded up with supplies and straight up the river - no problem.  Can get up to arley easily ho ho
By:
moisok
When: 14 Jan 19 13:00
I mean  - what sort of stories will the come out to frighten the children at bed time.  It really is the most wondrous inventive stuff straight out of the brothers Grimm.   The best so far was 'thousands dying because of no fruit and veg'
By:
moisok
When: 14 Jan 19 13:02
HORNET   - what post was it  coz it ain't on here - have I been eradicated - exterminated even!!??
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 13:03
something taken down, moisok?
By:
Arleystation
When: 14 Jan 19 13:05
THE RIVER!!!!   There are lots of rubber boats turning up down sarf.   A couple of them loaded up with supplies and straight up the river - no problem.  Can get up to arley easily ho ho


Sadly no - the Government will have agreed to a hard border between Gloucestershire and Worcestershire so nothing will get up river beyond Tewkesbury. Batten down the hatches, old chap!
By:
Baphornet
When: 14 Jan 19 13:05
ah i think you misunderstand my 12:03 post? I addressed the wrong poster
By:
moisok
When: 14 Jan 19 13:08
you said you took my points et   - in your post of 1203  said etc  -    but there was no post of mine before  that I can see - or was it another forum??
By:
moisok
When: 14 Jan 19 13:08
ah  ok   thought I had been eradicated  ha ha
By:
moisok
When: 14 Jan 19 13:10
ufcdan may have the answer - he has had a watery existence, like wot I have had, but he went under it, so we could hatch a plan

the bath tub out of Dad's Army for instance!!!
By:
cooperman
When: 14 Jan 19 13:12
Cameron ran away like his pants were on fire when the reality of his colossal misjudgement exposed his stupidity.
By:
PorcupineorPineapple
When: 14 Jan 19 13:17
Sorry, Porcupine - there was no chance of consensus on such a divided issue when the Remainers were such bad losers. The wishes of those that lost the binary Referendum had to be ignored if Leave was to be enacted. There has never been any chance of cross-party co-operation because party has been more important to politicians than nation.


arley - how do you propose to gain consensus if your opinion of Remainers is that they are "bad losers"? That's the exact attitude that's gotten us into this mess. You can't just completely ignore half the country. It's just plain daft. All you're going to do is split it even wider apart so that every fault is jumped on as an example of why Brexit is bad. If you hope that simply ignoring half the country they will give up and support you then you're dafter than David Davis. It's just been terrible decision after terrible decision till we've reached the point, after two years of negotiating and refining, that no-one likes the best deal she came up with.

That's really quite an achievement. If this was sport, the tories would be forced to sit out the next election and start again with the local ones or something.
By:
TELL DEL
When: 14 Jan 19 13:26
Cameron and May have brought us to this. Probably two of the worst PM's we have ever had.
By:
UBLE/REGY
When: 14 Jan 19 13:37
of course the EU don't want us the leave. the clue is in them saying they don't want us to leave.

yes of course northanlite

I feel I needed to say it, to ensure everybody on here understand that...
which of course everyone does, oh wellBlush
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