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'Feelies, feelies, nee putties in' was a phrase round our way from young lasses who didn't want their young lads taking too many liberties.

Can we take a moment to appreciate just how grim May's "jumping the queue" rhetoric is, by the way? It'll go largely unnoticed in the broader clusterfuck of Brexit but it says absolutely everything about the woman.

We can technically strike trade deals during transition, however, they won't be able to take effect until after transition. The problem is we won't know what our future relationship will be with the EU until the end of the transition period. Plus the backstop is going to be the minimal level our of future trading arrangement so any trade deal with another country won't allow us to amend the tariffs set by the EU, therefore taking away 90% of our leverage. The other 10% of leverage is the quality of goods we'll accept from third countries. The issue here being that any acceptance of goods that don't meet EU standards will make frictionless trade with the EU impossible as they will have to implement checks on the border. As for the FTA's we have via the EU, they all end in March 2019. After that any of these third countries are under no obligation to honour the existing terms of our deal with the EU. Furthermore, any new trade deals between the EU and third countries will not include the UK so we will not necessarily benefit from any of those. The real issue is that we're caught in the backstop. We're tied to the EU Customs union for goods but have no guaranteed access to the single market. That means on day 1 they can demand any amount they want from us for access knowing that we're tied to the CU so can't do any meaningful trade deals of our own so they are pretty much our only option for trade. This deal leaves us entirely beholden to them and they know it.

We can't make any trade deals while we are in transition or tied inyo the backstop. And the trouble is, there is no plausible mechanism of leaving the backstop because of NI. Your magical technological solutions wont work now and wont work in 10 years time. What tyoe of idiot takes what May says seriously anyway? And even if we could, please explain to me why we would want to? We already have FTAs with the large majority of wealthy countries in the world via the EU. The US perhaps being the exception, but you were vehemently against TTIP citing this as a reason to leave the EU, remember? The countries the EU hasn't got a deal with are all poor so what types of deal do you envisage? The combined GDP of the continent of Africa is less than Germany. The mean GDP per capita of the commonwealth is TEN times less than the EU. So come on, tell me more about these fantastic deals.

I didn't say they had anything of substance. I said that there are so many of them now, and so little desire amongst them to listen to reason, that I'm struggling to think what we can possibly do about them. Beyond what we've already done, which is point out the realities, and which has not worked, what do you propose?

Not that she doesn't want to oust our second female PM, she just doesn't want to be seen doing it.

The increasing desperation from these ERG cunts is so transparently driven by the fact that they are financially incentivised to make the shitshow of no deal happen.

Completely misses the point about how affordable it was then compared to now

That photo man

Ummmmmm... lock her up?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/19/make-america-rake-again-finland-trump-forest-fire

*Paging operation Yewtree*

Just back from Krakow and one bar had a shot called "BREXIT" and it was fucking rancid. Made two of us hoy up and tasted like some radge herbal vodka, brewed in a serial killer's bath. So, it was perfectly named. Just thought I'd bring it up

Fuck you Scudamore https://www.football365.com/news/the-truth-we-have-gained-nothing-from-the-premier-league

Finland of course being noted for having lots of forest fires in its many deciduous forests

this is on the money from john harris https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/19/brexit-class-labour-conservative-leave-peoples-vote