Just an aside: Melania will likely have a lower risk not just because of being younger and fitter, but actually already from being a woman as men tend to suffer more severely from COVID than women do, on top of Trump's other risk factors.
Jump to postCOVID-19 is complacency's plus one. Biden should have worn the mask for the debate. Zoom debates are a better option going forward. Me wearing a mask protects others from my viruses (if I have any) much more than it protects me from other people's. So Trump would have been the one needing to wear o...
Jump to postTrump has been working on the side of the virus all along, so let's see if the virus is now as loyal to him as Trump is to his minions.
Jump to postHas already hit several million nicer american people, and killed >200000 of them.
Jump to postThe UK government have shot their excuses from the hip, very clearly: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/916702/UKIM_Legal_Statement.pdf These culminate in this: It is an established principle of international law that a state is obliged t...
Jump to postMs Merkel is more popular then ever. She have all EU behind her and she outlplays UK at the moment. Yeah but how could you not outplay the UK right now? They're hardly playing a blinder! :lol: There's effectively no debate about Brexit in the EU: We're all in agreement that the BoJo government in W...
Jump to postJohnson will put an ultimatum to negotiators this week, saying the UK and Europe must agree a post-Brexit trade deal by 15 October or Britain will walk away for good. That's not from me! I love the threat. The talks are supposed to end in early October anyway, for the result to have any chance of b...
Jump to postGrizzly410 wrote:Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel already commented via Twitter.
Just popped into my mind that UK financial sector thinks it can continue serving EU customers even after no-deal brexit relying on the goodwill from EU to declare equivalence of rules even in the case if rules are not the same and commit to keep that equivalence forever despite whatever UK governme...
Jump to postBoris and his 'friends' keep mucking up Brexit for tor their selfish political reasons. The UK wants to modify the already set exit agreements with the EU over internal UK trade and with Northern Ireland, Ireland, EU trade. The EU, in particular the German's leader is very unhappy. https://www.bbc....
Jump to postYou keep saying the UK economy is screwed, cant be much worse than we are now under a covid- induced economic coma No, the hard Brexit your government is letting your country drift towards will be on top of the COVID consequences, and while all the other countries will climb out of that again, the ...
Jump to postThis is a bit like saying that any contract you make should be ditchable if you realise you should not have signed it. I buy and sell shares. Should there be a facility whereby I can retrospectively cancel any deal on which I lost money and if I make money the seller should be able to cancel the co...
Jump to postHe’s talking about food stuff destined for NI which meets EU standards, And if the food is properly qualified and validated like any other 3rd country import into the EU there won't be a problem. just another attempt by the EU to force the UK into a vassal state. You guys have chosen, nay insisted ...
Jump to postThis could explain the reasoning behind the new legislation Brussels threatened to block British food exports to Northern Ireland in Brexit power play https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12618129/eu-threats-british-food-exports-to-northern-ireland/amp/ That's a very weak attempt of the Sun to deflect the...
Jump to postAt least there is no an admission that the changes will break international law. https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/brexit-news-latest-boris-johnson-eu-deal-update-124433520.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKzdHW6ViH7LodfuuLeNxsHybfaEWVz88vBF-XIvqG2dR0MLQN...
Jump to postA central principle in the WA which Boris Johnson had signed and the respective parliaments had officially ratified and registered as an international treaty is that the UK respects the integrity of the EU Single Market. The proposed stipulations are a stick of dynamite to that agreement, because th...
Jump to postGuardian: Leaked EU cables reveal growing mistrust of UK in Brexit talks Besides the further plummeting trust in this UK government (and it's already been at basement level), this is the most interesting part to me: UK officials on Monday morning repeatedly stressed how minor the changes will be in...
Jump to postBrexitremist truly doesn't care about Northern Ireland, never have and this is just one more signal that this is so. Sad but true. Perhaps the best that Northern Ireland just secretes from the union and have it done with. Johnson hs been quite consistent with his dismissive neglect for Northern Ire...
Jump to postGuardian: Brexit: Johnson to override EU withdrawal agreement Boris Johnson is drawing up legislation that will override the Brexit withdrawal agreement on Northern Ireland, a move that threatens the collapse of crunch talks which the prime minister has said must be completed within five weeks. Joh...
Jump to postIn essence the short term car manufacturing in the UK is safe long term is another thing altogether just like plants across the world, it only takes a change of management which can change the fortunes of a manufacturing plant for better or worse Soo... you're trying to claim that a no-deal Brexit ...
Jump to postApparently senior BBC journalist Andrew Marr thinks Scotland is only a few years away from breaking away from the Union. https://www.thenational.scot/news/18682519.andrew-marr-predicts-scotland-likely-leave-union-2024/ To be honest, if we've learned something over the past few years, it owuld be th...
Jump to postYes sadly or in my eyes Brexit is connected to a world that does not exist anymore. Trump has destroyed both WTO and NATO. WTO does not work without USA and EU actively make it work. Biden would still have a chance to revive both NATO and WTO, but if Trump should remain both will effectively be his...
Jump to postolle wrote:So whom will USA call after the next election in February 2021 when it calls Europe? Will it be London or Brussels? I think this is a very important question to ask.
The quoting function automatically inserts the correct name. It takes an active effort to mangle and misspell it like that, and to do that 6 times in a row at that. I mean, really? Might be one block but you certainty are not a Federation a single entity. It doesn't matter at all to the UK (any mor...
Jump to postDid I say we had incredible strength……..nope; A trade agreement is between two independent sovereign equal nations. If you do not understand that is the basic fundamentals of a trade agreement. But each will obviously be looking to get the best deal it can get Your "equal nations" is comp...
Jump to postSo what’s new, been over this ground before it’s like any negotiations start high and land somewhere around the middle, exactly what the EU are doing with the UK But there are places where you don’t move and those are that’s where we are now The integrity of the foundations of the EU has never been...
Jump to postWe are not asking for better terms, we are asking fair terms as a independent nation. The EU is deamanding more of the UK than any other nation for a FTA For one thing, the UK is asking for preferential access to the single market and for its benefits without sticking to the obligations which only ...
Jump to postWell no, the EU is just another trade agreement that wants to deal with trade with the UK. They may look at other agreements that they can use to enhance its own. But at the end of the day they just see others as competitors in the UK market if they were waiting on the outcome of EU/UK trade agreem...
Jump to postThese nations are in the same boat along with the EU in dealing with trade with the UK, the only difference is the UK is dealing with more nations at once than a single negotiation. Everyone is going to try and take any advantage that they can see, but in the end it’s up to the UK if they accept th...
Jump to postI do not know the detail of M Macron's position but I do think it is economic nonsense to put at risk the welfare of French industries such as wine and auto production by arguing about whether a non-EU country should forego its rights to control of fishing in waters under its control. It's that thi...
Jump to postI suspect once the no deal break is done, if either side wants a trade deal it would be done sooner rather than later, however, since there are opinions that the deal with the EU MUST be done first before a deal with the USA - or is that any other country - it may drag on. The only reason why a dea...
Jump to postSince almost everyone in Europe has been taught English for a couple of decades by now, making it in official language should not be too much a burden. There may be a risk of English overtaking the native language in popularity over time (like in your example of Ireland), but at least the language ...
Jump to postAnd that is in stark contrast to the last indipendence referendum where the Westminster government had presented the Remain option as the exact opposite of what – after winning that option – they have now turned it into in a classic bait-and-switch deception, which makes a new IndyRef a completely f...
Jump to postThat is not an illusion at all but almost a certainty if Scotland wins its independence. It will be a tough road to that goal, but good faith provided (which can actually be assumed from Scotland, contrary to what we're seeing in Westminster nowadays), Scotland is practically certain to win accessi...
Jump to postWhy are you against sovereignty? I’m not I’m all for it, hence why you call me a Brexiter. Sturgeon is appealing to the mass within Scotland for an illusion of independence with the EU. That is not an illusion at all but almost a certainty if Scotland wins its independence. It will be a tough road ...
Jump to postAs the Johnson government pushes for No Deal as they've always done, brexiters' last hopes are dashed in series: https://www.politico.eu/article/failure-of-brexit-talks-as-good-as-inevitable-says-german-business-lobby/ In a statement, BDI Director General Joachim Lang called the outcome of the lates...
Jump to postWell of course he has read both documents it’s just those on here cannot reconcile that Johnson has achieved changes to both documents in the interests of the UK. It has been well established the fundamental difference between the original agreement and the revised and the implications of those Yes...
Jump to postI have kept a eye on the postings on this subject for many a year now and what amazes me is why so many EU members are worried about what the UK does as throughout this topic the Mainland Europeans have told everybody that the UK does not matter Ideology-driven political, cultural and economical su...
Jump to postBut as history showed us it did, the EU was uncompromising to change the WA under PM May until PM Johnson came to power. The EU was gambled on the hostile UK parliament to do its biding for it. Nonsense. Johnson just caved in to the EU's long-standing preference after May had been unable to reach a...
Jump to postThe UK would need a deal with the USA first. But with the way the USA is now, I don't see any deal getting past Congress until at least 2023 (I expect that Congress will be about the same as it is now for 2021-2). No FTA USA No FTA EU No FTA China I heard that WTO is great! What WTO? WTO effectivel...
Jump to postThe UK diplomatic service is top nouche, except for dealing with FTA because they haven't done it in 40plus years, so they do not have any experience within the service and that takes time to rebuild that experience again. But even if they had that, they still wouldn't be able to fetch all those un...
Jump to postThe UK diplomatic service is top nouche, except for dealing with FTA because they haven't done it in 40plus years, so they do not have any experience within the service and that takes time to rebuild that experience again. But even if they had that, they still wouldn't be able to fetch all those un...
Jump to postUK Demands to have veto over EU future; "As an example, the UK wants to have input into any future application by a third party to join the EU, and for the EU to take into consideration UK interests in any such negotiations. This goes beyond audacious. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1...
Jump to postMichel Barnier's deep-chilled response to David Frost's complaint letter is nothing surprising, but it must be seen as a shot across the UK's bow: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/brexit_files/info_site/uktf-20203060790-mb-reply-to-df-wd.pdf Effectively, it says: "UK, get off your del...
Jump to postLooks a lot like the ideology-hardened approach of the last months: "Let us cherrypick anything we like (including unbundled, separate partial agreements) or we'll shoot our own brains out with a hard crash-out Brexit!"
Michel, have the tarps at the ready!
Not surpringly, today it has emerged that the economic strategy of Global Britain is to unilaterally slash a lot of import tariffs, officially to reduce the cost of living, although it would be very surpring to see the omission of tariffs to be entirely passed on to consumers... Profit margins in t...
Jump to postlink to EU statement Comes across as EU/ Barnier are upset because the UK is refusing to accept to align and accede to EU controlled neocolonialism We here in this thread plus all EU leaders have been explaining to you and to your government that access to the EU Single Market requires adherence to...
Jump to postnoviorbis77 wrote:Who knows what will happen.
After CoVID19, many more may be crashing out Those predictions of yours could not have been more wrong all those previous times and they're just as wrong now. Doesn't sustained failure at this give you pause at some point...? It would be utterly pointless and only massively destructive for any EU m...
Jump to postThere will certainly be some delays but the negotiations can of course continue in time. And the UK will still be much worse off if after the Corona crisis it also chooses to crash out hard on top of everything else. That will become even more existential for the UK than it would have been already ...
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