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There appears to be a lot of comment about disingenuous MPs deciding Blair style - this is how it will work.
Weekend press has comments that suggest the unthinkable - to a leaver like me.

How about an alliance between a Tory government and the most irresponsible, extremist Labour party in living memory? Number Ten and its Cabinet loyalists are working on it. Anybody up for abandoning Ulster and allowing it to be annexed by the EU (in effect, by the Irish Republic) in the interests of a cross party alliance to save Theresa May’s “deal”? You bet. Nicky Morgan appeared to suggest precisely that this week in the Telegraph Chopper’s Brexit podcast.
In order to justify these outrageous, anti-democratic proposals, which should seem beyond the political and moral pale, no-deal has to take on the quality of a serious threat. So it is now being talked up by just the sort of people who were laughing it out of court just weeks ago. What they dare to propose, under the guise of “uniting to serve the national interest” or some such perfidious blather, is an establishment stitch-up of the most outrageous proportions. And this alliance is not, it is important to note, just about our exit from the EU. It is at least as much to do with re-creating the centrist consensus that was so cherished by the Blair-Cameron generation, in which a cosmopolitan Left-liberal, post-national orthodoxy ruled without serious challenge.

This is not a comment from the illerate( bigoted views) and biased Guardian but the TEL
Worrying

Just 5 working days to go.

May we have a positive result please - for the sake of the company!

A E M
Years ago there was a TV show with - I think Enfield with a side kick Tim.
He was always referred to as bright but dim.
Bit like EU rules on light bulbs - were bright - banned - can't find me glasses now?

JR

Are u totally LULU?

Sorry tricky
That was Wee Bernie
Tim was the bright but dim boy - probably brighter than many of the labour MPs in HOC - always remembering that there was an education system at the time of Tim bright but dim.

JR
Your medical condition - or indeed mine - is not really a matter for this BB - though all sorts of cXXp are posted.
TOM jones said what he said - as do we all - with some regrets at times.

Luke Johnson does seem to have run into a few problems recently - latest being Brighton Pier Group. Yet he does not lose out as we PIs do. He seems to milk before the demise.

Pat Val may be still open for business - but there are fraud implications - and Johnson may yet be snared.

Sad to see that the Japan PM has no vision - since he fully endorses Treason Mays no deal death trap.

Shows what you can do with interpreters!

Tricky
looks like a right ding dong today( CC LT etc). Harking back to Harry Enfields mate - bright but dim - puts some of these snowflakes to shame.
What a future with these wizards around.

Please to see the gradual SP uplift. Much more is warranted - of course.

Grievous Grieve and his overweight mate Nicky M think they can pxxs all over HOC. Bercow has surely had his last throw of the dice. What a shxthole.
Dear old BBC won't let me pick up their channels outside the UK -tho' I have paid my Dues!
Another Edmonson classic MP! BBC

Telegraph posts a comment today Middle England won't accept - see below - but our rights are being usurped by treachery.

tried to use my EHIC card cos Paracetamol costs 3.50 euros over here - CF 20p . No joy there!

Is Britain on the brink of nasty civil conflict? One doesn’t need a particularly keen nose to detect in the air the clenched scent of a storm coming. Parliament is working in contempt of the people by trying to wreck plans for a no-deal Brexit, grisly videos of activists ganging up on MPs are ricocheting on social media, and yellow-vest protests are flaring from Somerset to Central London.
But the idea, entertained by an increasing number of Remainers – and threatened by irresponsible Leavers, too – that we knuckle-dragging Brexiteers will plunge the country into France-style riots is nonsense. No smashed windows please, we’re British. Far more likely that, faced with the theft of the Brexit they voted for, the spirited and inventive people of Middle England will find politer ways to make their feelings known.
On Tuesday, I spoke with the Leave Means Leave campaigners who have pitched up to wave placards outside Parliament for the next two weeks. There was not a single fluorescent jacket or yob holler
Such people embody a truth about about Middle England that eludes the defeatists that dominate Westminster. Yes, the Leave voters of the Shires and Home Counties are law-abiding and dislike confrontation. But an almost primal ambition to better both Britain and their own lives flows through their veins as keenly as it did their ancestors’, the people who built this country. And making up a large proportion of the brainworkers that keep Britain going – accountants, doctors, family business-owners, architects – they will not have their intelligence insulted by patronising political bureaucrats.
If MPs revoke Article 50, we could well see Leave voters engage in symbolic, creative acts of civil disobedience. There will be more like the businessman who will cancel his TV license. Some might insist on paying their council tax late – or stop their direct debits and demand to pay it in person, in pennies, at the council offices. Others could choose to ignore motoring fines, or park their cars wherever they want. A few months ago, a barge-owner even told me he would leave all the locks open on the canal he uses if Brexit is stopped.
MPs defy quiet Middle England at their peril. Brexit was their roar for change. And this time they are determined the Establishment will listen

Something new to me. Thought patents were granted- didn't know they were written? Translated ??

I had an audio warning message about postings - whilst trying to post this.
BB looking
Patterson makes a strong point in the Telegraph about kipper Gove - kipper 2faced - is he looking at you or not.
extract of today below

In his speech to the Oxford Farming Conference on Thursday, Michael Gove declared that “science is the future” and advocated “rising investment in agritech, world-leading centres of agricultural science.” This is highly commendable, but the reality is that it will not be possible under the current Withdrawal Agreement.
The Withdrawal Agreement would forfeit the UK’s regulatory independence and see it yoked to the EU’s extreme technological risk aversion. We would not be free to stimulate our own research centres. We would not be able to recalibrate our regulations to focus on outcomes over uniform bureaucracy. We would not be able to improve our environmental and animal health standards. We may not even be able to enact the once-promised ban on live-animal exports.
For all the talk of retaking our seat on world bodies – the WTO, the World Organisation for Animal Health, the Codex Alimentarius Commission – what would be the point if we simply sat as supine rule takers from the EU?
Happily, there is an alternative. Spectacular opportunities await after a clean Brexit in which the UK truly regains its independence. Global population, wealth, and demand for top-quality agricultural products are all growing. We can boost productivity by embracing technology, directing public procurement to domestic producers and offering substantial rural support to reward farmers for public goods. We can take up a meaningful seat on global bodies, working with allies as a powerful voice for free trade and continuing our long history of environmental leadership.
This is all possible under WTO rules. We could break free of the EU straitjacket to make our own democratically-accountable, evidence-led policies. But for all Mr Gove’s ambitions, the Withdrawal Agreement would leave UK farming in a potentially dire situation, remaining bound to the EU so that these vital opportunities would be squandered.

J46
Misguided -not yet a reader - has heard the words - yet to understand - read between the lines or ignore.

Was a newspaper 50 +years ago - sad decline - But for the trust fund would not exist - takes all sorts to make the world as it IS? or is it ISIS to be

Not sure CC is one of Justin Welby's flock - not sure he would be welcome in his house - but he would wish that others do - as he said.

The trades going through suggest just sells .
I have purchased over several years and on each occasion my purchase was shown as a sell. LSE and the other EX INEX? - both have their MMs - HL use both.
So always difficult to fully understand the trades.

Keep the faith!

And further to 16.36
Why are so many persons with "so called physical disabilities" who have blue badges to enable them to park outside the cash point - park on double yellow lines - and scoot across the road in between traffic to pick up their pizza or their cash.
These people are just like the politicians who represent us - absolutely amoral.
Does not auger well.
If we do not exit the EU there will trouble ahead. Take note Treason get a grip - just like you didn't as Home Secretary and as PM - ? elected by who? You can't kill us off with Myxomatosis - animal righters would protest wouldn't they.

JR "Food banks away" - the new all embracing way to modern life ? Really? WHAT ABOUT GET OFF YOUR BUTT AND EARN A LIVING! No need under current guidance - any old association with can't do cos I can't do - now called mental illness. Breed like rabbits tho?
The end result will be NO State Pension for anyone in 20 yrs time!

CC comments are unacceptable. I HAVE FILTERED

We have all uttered in the last month or so - me included - about the dearth of competent politicians able to manipulate Civil Servants to achieve - not just on the Brexit outcome - but generally - to achieve betterment - NOT FOR ALL - treason May - because you can't do that ! That is a lie!

Kate Hoey writes in the Telegraph today - some sensible words that may support many of you - incl me -in the hope that sense will prevail. I cannot understand why this SP has been shafted as it has without the help of Dear George Osbourne and blackrock et al.

KH comments :
Since 17.4 million people voted to Leave the European Union in 2016 the Government has wasted time indulging in feeble negotiations. These have eventually yielded a Withdrawal Agreement that wouldn’t actually withdraw us from very much.
Now, though, a window of opportunity is opening up for the UK. Beyond the smokescreen of confusion within our majority Remain Parliament, a straightforward path to economic development, political stability and true national sovereignty has emerged. If the Government won’t take it, then it is a golden opportunity for the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn should take the lead by calling for the UK to leave the entanglements of the Brussels bureaucracy by discarding Mrs May’s Withdrawal Agreement and opting instead for what is sometimes referred to as a “no deal Brexit”, in other words life within the simpler and more accommodating framework of the World Trade Organisation.
Anyone who reads the detail in the Withdrawal Agreement will realise immediately that the scaremongering about the WTO is as nothing compared to the truly frightening implications of the document the Prime Minister wants us to vote for.
It primarily seems to be a mechanism to imbed the UK in the EU indefinitely. The backstop, which sets Northern Ireland apart from the rest of the UK, has been the focus of most scrutiny and is indeed an outrage.

Will the labour Party get us out of this MAYhem?

If only it were. Years ago there was a TV programme "Your life in their hands"
Reading Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph it seems there are concerns about :

From Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed Bin Salman to the Élysée’s vainglorious mini Napolean, Emmanuel Macron, and Russia’s tyrannical Vladimir Putin, not to mention our own rudderless Government here in the UK, we live in a world led by megalomaniacs, political pygmies, chancers, liars and ignoramuses. But topping the lot in recent weeks with his increasingly unhinged antics has been one Donald Trump.
As a US president who seemed to talk some common sense and had a halfway decent tax reform agenda to promote, it was initially possible to give Mr Trump the benefit of the doubt, despite his less than statesman-like demeanour.
Yes, his style was unconventional and iconoclastic, but wasn’t that what people voted for? And anyway, the upper echelons of the administration were to be filled with more stable, middle of the road conservatives who would ensure that whatever the new President might tweet, wiser counsel would eventually prevail.
Virtually all of those restraining voices have now fallen by the wayside, culminating in the departure of James Mattis as Defence Secretary just before Christmas. As time has worn on, the administration’s underlying characteristics - chaos, stupidity and recklessness - have become ever more apparent.
Investors are only just beginning to wake up to this grim and unsettling reality. Stock markets have admittedly recovered a little since the pre-Christmas sell-off, but if ever there was a dead-cat bounce - market parlance for a less than convincing rally - this looks like one of them.
The final straw was a reportedly classic Trump temper tantrum in which the US president apparently threatened to fire his own appointee as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jay Powell, for daring to raise interest rates.

Nothing stranger tho than John Major becoming PM and notwithstanding his absolute failure - to be given a gong! Worst Tory PM on record up til now?
Redwood - if you listened to him in the HOC debate - was articulate and his position was quite clear - he is not a ditherer - out of this scenario unless we can exit backstop