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Bruce
Only like Hezza. Mandelson is the slimy adder - who epitomises all that is wrong with politics in EU - even worse than the Junket Man.

Some duplication sorry!

And finally

A Commons vote requesting an extension of Article 50 does not, on its own, guarantee a postponement. And, paradoxically, it is becoming clear that no-deal, because it would be as disruptive for the EU as for Britain, would lead to a series of speedy technical accords that would leave most of our existing arrangements as they are – precisely the agreement that Britain has already reached with Switzerland.A Commons vote requesting an extension of Article 50 does not, on its own, guarantee a postponement. And, paradoxically, it is becoming clear that no-deal, because it would be as disruptive for the EU as for Britain, would lead to a series of speedy technical accords that would leave most of our existing arrangements as they are – precisely the agreement that Britain has already reached with Switzerland.it would be as disruptive for the EU as for Britain, would lead to a series of speedy technical accords that would leave most of our existing arrangements as they are – precisely the agreement that Britain has already reached with Switzerland

But the complexities of parliamentary procedure matter less than what Eurocrats believe. The Brits who are most heeded in Brussels – Tony Blair, Michael Heseltine, Nick Clegg, John Major, Peter Mandelson – have argued consistently that if a deal is blocked, Britain will (in Lord Kerr’s revealing phrase) “come to heel”. Eurocrats, naturally, find that idea congenial.
John Major a gent? Tony b but a liar - what does that say for EU lot.

And

MPs, including members of the supposedly uncompromising European Research Group (ERG), have surrendered on each of these issues for the sake of reaching a deal. They have baulked only at the Irish backstop. And even here, their objection is astonishingly modest
ave surrendered on each of these issues for the sake of reaching a deal. They have baulked only at the Irish backstop.. They will swallow the idea of a backstop, as long as there is an eventual way out of it. But they won’t swap a temporary arrangement for a permanent one.
At least EU membership has an exit mechanism – Article 50. Britain is thus being asked to exchange a voluntary and contingent relationship for one where Brussels will control our global trade in perpetuity.
Source MEP D Hannan.
Is this what remoaners want? And if so why. Think deep you Ruddy/Hammond fans.
Hancock on Ridge on Sky and Hunt on Marr - puff balls of nothingness just like the fairground candy floss - looks like something - but nothing with an ysubstance!

Stand back for a moment and ask why the EU won’t give Theresa May the tweak she is asking for. Britain, after all, has caved in on every other point. There will still be a role for European judges after we leave. Any disputes will be arbitrated asymmetrically, giving precedence to EU institutions. European social and environmental laws will be cut and pasted on to our statute books. We will fork over £39 billion – a sum which no international tribunal would uphold. And we will do all these things without the trade deal that was meant to be the quid pro quo

John 46 15.36
I speak 4 languages
Please translate into Spanish=
Ya = yo? Hicieron - iizerion - he sufrido a los manos de mis padres?
Se puede ver mi casa /

The majority of MPs are just like May - you can see what I said about her below, They are clueless, overpaid - our life in their hands? We would need the crash support trolley every 5 mins.
Don't think MPs can revoke anything re Art 50.

Mrs May, having said at the outset in October 2016 that she wants to leave the customs union and single market, has never put forward a workable proposal to deal with the Irish border.
The EU proposed their own solution, which was to put a customs and regulatory border in the Irish Sea. But Mrs May rejected this The EU grumbled and groaned, and last December grudgingly offered Mrs May an all-UK customs union for the backstop – something which she promised would satisfy the DUP. And then Parliament voted it down by a 230-vote margin.

That was the moment EU leaders started to doubt Mrs May, which turned into outright anger when she used the Brady amendment to back the Malthouse proposals which sought to rip up the very backstop that had been built in her name, to her specification.
Remember MaxFac? That used as yet uninvented technologies and required 80 per cent of goods to be exempted from checks, which in EU minds rather spoke for itself. It was rejected.

As one EU official puts it: “This is the nub. At the point of impasse in the future negotiations, the EU wants the backstop to endure, to put a floor under what is possible – but the British ultimately want the right to walk away. These two positions cannot be reconciled.” (Telegraph comment)
No medals in this for TM who has engineered her remain preference though purporting to manage what the people voted for. Put her in the barrel!

Fleccy

If previous posts have validity -29 3 is exit day.
Stuff Hammond
Just a thought -should we have the right to bear arms - how many mps may be at risk?

Tricky
Will do thanks

Tricky
Hope you enjoy your hol - thought u said Lloret del Mar - but now Playa Americas perhaps - racing channel etc readily available. and the beer & I euro eh?
Sure the weather will be better than the ongoing downpours here - it will certainly suit Percy.
GL

Shatter
The Novartis link and the cash in is critical not just to Oxb - but to Novartis.
Many of the RNS are outside of my understanding - gene cells etc - but if you had to hold investments for your children then the R & D in the pipeline here could be enormously fruitful - again with Astra Z 7 Gsk - -
unless mankind kills itself through unthoughtout political decisions. Should there be basic education qualifications for MPs? Please don't ask for a peoples vote.

Jr
Missing the interaction of the Nag Bb?

LTI 17.50
Sure it was a fit of pique - or phps just words. Why give up the divi?
you can see where he posts elsewhere - we all rant a bit at times - don't we?

they say
Telegraph comment
So when the EU talks of “reasonable” proposals, it ultimately means ideas that can be practically implemented.

What does that mean? Well, a senior EU diplomat recently pointed me to a speech delivered last week at a conference in Galway by Carlo Trojan (a former Secretary-General of the European Commission) in which he is “frank” that the UK will not be able to develop the Brexiteers’ independent trade policy in the medium term.

Therefore an extension to the transition period when it ends in 2020 is a no-brainer, given the difficulty the UK will have just running to stand still and rolling over 40 preferential EU FTAs with 70 countries.

“Let us face the facts, global Britain advocated by the Brexiteers is an illusion,” Mr Trojan says, matter of factly, with the loss of EU market share from Brexit being impossible to compensate for with independent trade deals.
Given the EU is bereft of ideas and Eire is a basket case Eh?

hooky
no just used the thread - nothing ti do with buybacks - sorry

If we only posted about LLOY - up and downs - without any real insight - the board would be boring.
Leaving EU vote has affected LLOY and will continue so to do - so there is no reason not to bring the political HOC - and what should not be political BOE - and the awful Guardianistas comments up for comment.
Don't like the contents? - try Thorntons.

LTI u didn't - assumed request - but consent of all remaining incl in your post!

Bronco
She can't implement no deal?
In the absence of - all LTI and URR have said - we leave.

LTI
I understand addition supplies of tissue have been procured for the HOC together with incontinence pads and panties when it is realised that HOC is outside the law in trying to do its own thing and deny - Or is there a ruse more? Treason May - but all she has done has resulted in failure - so I have real confidence in her future failure.
glad to see we clawed back some of the Draghi drop.