Tonight’s London Evening Standard
I firmly believe with my head and my heart that this is a decision which is in the best interests of our entire United Kingdom. pic.twitter.com/dsOaFAcDgj
— Theresa May (@theresa_may) November 14, 2018
Tonight.
Earlier…
Brewing cat fight in Downing St pic.twitter.com/e3CKSErISg
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) November 14, 2018
‘sup?
Earlier
Clockwise from top left: UK Prime Minister Theresa May; former UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, DUP Leader Arlene Foster and Leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom
Minister: “Two members of the Cabinet will resign today”. Me: “Who?” Minister: “Penny Mordaunt and Esther McVey.” #BrexitDeal
— Christopher Hope (@christopherhope) November 14, 2018
This afternoon.
Theresa May and her Tory Cabinet ministers are in No 10 Downing Street to discuss a draft Brexit deal agreed by UK and EU negotiators.
The British Prime Minister told MPs in the House of Commons that the Brexit agreement reached by negotiators took the UK “significantly closer to delivering on what the British people voted for in the referendum.”
More as we get it.
Meanwhile…
Assessment from @MichealMartinTD on where he thinks the numbers lie for @theresa_may pic.twitter.com/90KongPhBm
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) November 14, 2018
Meanwhile…
This afternoon.
“I know for the unionist community in Northern Ireland this is quite a difficult time. Many of them may be feeling vulnerable, many of them might be feeling isolated and many of them may be quite worried about what may be agreed in the coming days.
I want to say to them the GFA [Good Friday agreement] will be protected and that includes a recognition that we respect the territory of the United Kingdom and that we respect the principle of consent, that there can be no change to the constitutional status of Northern Ireland unless a majority of Northern Ireland say so and we are very happy to have that written into any agreement.”
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
Brexit Deal Live (The Guardian)
“Gammon Stakes” surely
Nice :)
T’is a good job by ze Germans to break up the last bit of the British Empire…
That’s quite clever from Varadkar; addressing the Unionists as ‘vulnerable’ (they’re gonna love THAT), and then reassuring them that the GFA will be protected….knowing full well the GFA is not their top priority!
And that the DUP hate it.
Yep, plus he said tomorrow morning, he will be briefing the SDLP, Alliance and Greens (not the Ulster Unionists!). Imagine that, the leader of the Free State sticking his nose into Northern Ireland affairs.
Looks like Leo is trying to keep his promise not to leave Northern nationalists behind (Alliance and Greens aren’t aligned but they are anti-Brexit).
Fair dues Leo!
They’re falling over themselves on the Twitter congratulating Tony Connelly
TBF he provided great Brexit reports
But his biggest achievement for me
Was P1 ssing off that knob Mog
Yeah, the Mogification was a delight.
+1…the stiff upper lip went into spasm…
What? When and where?!
missed that, frillz
could you lash up an aul link to the moggy one?
seconded. any chance to see Moggy defeated
Turded.
Here
This is the more polite of them
https://twitter.com/lisaocarroll/status/1062396672389668869?s=19
Responses on that tweet included @anxiousjimmy who said
Its not good journalism it is direct leaks from the Irish government. If the BBC had followed the same model there would outrage
Difference is the British opinion on Brexit is now looking like one of those courgette spaghetti low carb things you try once from Sainsbury or M&S.
Lidl is doing a really nice seaweed one at the mo btw.
Thanks Frillzer!
Vanessa/ anybody, Can you please tell us when and where this happened?
Moggy was fuming because the draft Agreement was shared with RTE, Connelly running with it, before the Beeb. His words; “the text was shared with the Irish national broadcaster RTE first and not the BBC. … it is discourteous to the nation”.
dav getting vexed that everyone is giving mad props to Leo & the Blushirts
=D
Speaking of “squeaky bum time”, the #thisisnotconsent protests in Dublin and Cork are now making international headlines. Protesters are waving thongs in reference to last week’s rape trial acquittal, and to hammer home the message that clothes don’t give consent.
Looks like the DUP are being told to F.O.so. In my experience, when meetings run so over schedule the main reason is that there is no other posers who need to be seen entering and exiting the room.
Why do you think they’re having the Summit do on the 25th November?
A Sunday?
The Sabbath
Not even I could have come up with a better F U for them
The cabinet has accepted the deal.
What few here or elsewhere have calculated is the fact the EU do not want a precedent of a country leaving. If that was in focus, things would be very different. Exit mechanism was introduced under Lisbon Treaty but was probably more of a token gesture to alleviate concerns from Euroskeptics. Nationally, the cultural reaction to Brexit begs the question as to whether UK functions as a democracy or even as a civil society, nevermind whether there is a democratic will to represent the majority. Again, silence on these is deafening.
UK will stay in the customs union indefinitely so not a clear or hard Brexit. Better to have no deal and go by the WTO rules. Norway, Switzerland and Lichtenstein all share borders with multiple countries so what makes this so hard then? Apart from the insult of trying to leave. After a 40 year marriage I suppose you are more likely to get a boot in the face when it ends, than say having a non-committal relationship.
On the same day, the news is dominated by talk of an EU-wide army, despite the assurances they gave us in recent years lovely – and don’t expect FG to make a fuss about how this compromises Irish neutrality as they find ways to transpose their EPP positions to a national position.
Maybe we should be allowed to be critical of the EU without being called Europhobes…so that they are forced to listen and work for our interests….but no…and we get the politicians we deserve at a higher, dangerous/ideological power-mad level.
There are somewhere between 208 and 275 public border crossing across the 499 km border between Ireland & NI.
This is more than the 137 land border crossings to the east of the EU.
And far more than the 119 border crossings that exist between Canada and the United States, the world’s longest international border (8,891 km).
There are only 94 crossing between Switzerland and the EU (1,852 km).
It’s kinda different.
But does Switzerland have or enforce border control at it’s various borders roads with Italy, Germany, Austria and France? …if not, then we have a working template.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g188045-s602/Switzerland:Crossing.The.Border.html