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    alanjjohnstone
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    France’s ambassador in London was summoned and two Royal Navy patrol vessels were put on a state of “high readiness” to tackle potential port blockades by French fishing boats as the row over post-Brexit access to British waters escalated.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/28/royal-navy-boats-high-readiness-channel-fishing-row-intensifies-france

    #223917
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    The US and EU trade war ceasefire but the UK steel industry excluded from the peace

    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59113868

    #226310
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster
    #226442
    ALB
    Keymaster

    It’s becoming clearer and clearer that Starmer is an unscrupulous place-hunter. To become PM he is prepared to go back on all he once said and on what he promised Labour Party members to get elected Leader.

    Wasn’t he the person who forced Labour to take a more pro-Remain position that Corbyn wanted and whose tactics of holding out for a second referendum sabotaged any chance of a softer Brexit?

    Him and the gang of careerists around him show once again that the Labour Party is just a vehicle for careerist politicians and can never be reformed into being an instrument of socialist advance, as some still naively believe.

    #226694
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Rees-Mogg may extol the virtues of Brexit but British businesses hold a differing opinion.

    Seven in 10 UK firms say the government’s Brexit trade deal with the EU has been bad for business and held back growth, with a majority reporting it has pushed up costs and increased paperwork.

    A majority of the 1,000 companies polled by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) also said the deal had put Britain at a competitive disadvantage.

    Just one in eight firms think the hard Brexit deal secured by Boris Johnson has had a positive impact on them,

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/brexit-uk-businesses-exports-bcc-b2016926.html

    #226721
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Sinn Fein deputy leader Michelle believes the UK’s exit from the EU will lead to a referendum on reunification.

    She said: “Well I certainly think we’re closer than we’ve ever been previously and I think now is the time to plan and that’s why we’re saying to the Irish government, now is the time for them to make the preparation…If that last couple of years of Brexit has taught us anything, it’s that the Tories will never prioritise the interests of people here, whether you be Unionist, Nationalist, or other.”

    https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sinn-fein-deputy-leader-michelle-111600247.html

    #226728
    Matthew Culbert
    Keymaster

    It is just ore nationalist huffery puffery. The Tories priorities are to be the government at any cost.

    Jeez! They even sold out business.

    #228785
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Broken Brexit Pledge

    Conservative’s 2019 manifesto promised “at a minimum” to match the average EU subsidy of about £1.5bn a year to help the most deprived parts of the UK.

    But details of the government’s Shared Prosperity Fund show that it will hand out only £2.6bn over the next three years and will not match the previous EU funding level of £1.5bn a year until 2025.

    A 43% cut in real terms compared with the average annual EU grants of £1.5bn between 2014 and 2020.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/14/an-outrage-tories-post-brexit-fund-will-not-match-eu-grants-until-2025

    #236675
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Brexiteer Owen Paterson wants European court to decide on his lobbying

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63714944

    Hypocrisy, did someone remark?

    #236677
    ALB
    Keymaster

    The European Court of Human Rights (so called) in Strasburg has nothing to do with the European Court of Justice in Luxemburg of course. Still, English Nationalists like him don’t like the one in Strasburg any more than the one in Luxemburg.

    I thought you were going to comment on Starmer who used to champion the free movement of labour becoming a Brexiteer on immigration. Another hypocrite. Or perhaps he didn’t believe that either but is just an unprincipled, careerist politician.

    #236694
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Starmer on a loser.

    “a decade of warming public attitudes to immigration, with half of the public expressing positive views on migration compared with a third in 2014.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/23/uk-politicians-win-swing-voters-more-open-migration-policy-report-finds

    “Labour could attract 5% of the public and only repel 2% by signalling a more open approach to immigration.

    Only 1% of the general public would be attracted to Labour if it adopted a restrictive stance on immigration, the paper said, and 11% would be repelled.

    The Conservatives would attract 3% and repel 2%, using the model of voting behaviour focusing on the swing voters most likely to switch parties.

    For the Tories, a restrictive stance would attract just 2% of the public and an equal number would be repelled.”

    #236759
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Now it is semi-Brexit

    Jeremy Hunt has repeatedly refused to deny that the Treasury briefed a newspaper that the government was considering a closer, Swiss-style relationship with the EU

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/23/jeremy-hunt-denies-briefing-that-uk-wants-swiss-style-ties-with-eu

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