Consequences Of Brexit [Part 8] Read First Post Before Posting

[Mister Gee]

41 minutes ago, L00b said:

You are oh-so-correct : they voted Nicky Morgan and Zach Goldsmith out at the GE2019... 

 

...so Johnson made them life peers, then kept them in his Cabinet 

 

Ah, I've just caught up the news about the French company winning the license to monitor British fishing boats (today's Times). That will explain today's fish-based vitriol, I can safely take it?

Reprendre le contrôle.

[L00b]

21 minutes ago, Mister Gee said:

Reprendre le contrôle.

Not quite. Just a case of the government awarding the contract to the best tender (...I hope, for British taxpayers' sake).

 

But there goes the exceptionalist rethoric that's fuelled Britain's extreme politics since 2016: smack against the cold hard surface of economic pragmatism. After all the union flag'd chest-beating, so much for British workers and tech.

 

Yet again (because we all remember who got the contract for those blue passports, mmm?)

 

If anyone might be busy reprendre le contrôle right now, insistent Twitter noises today have it that it's Airbus. Toulouse is enlarging its wing production in a big way, and also investing on a German production site. I've yet to see an official confirmation about it (it might stay tucked behind Airbus CEO's ear until 1st Feb), but it's not sounding too good for Wales if so.

 

Not that they weren't warned, but well...Brexit omlet, Airbus (etc.) eggs, right?

Edited December 30, 2019 by L00b

[ads36]

6 hours ago, retep said:

explain how you can control the EU.

Er...

 

(assuming we weren't leaving)

 

In the next elections.

[nikki-red]

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Youve had more than enough warnings.

[Car Boot]

12 hours ago, ads36 said:

Er...

 

(assuming we weren't leaving)

 

In the next elections.

The next elections are the local elections in May 2020.

 

Please explain how English local council elections,  directly elected mayoral elections, police and crime commissioner elections and an election for the London Assembly will control the EU?

[RJRB]

4 hours ago, Car Boot said:

The next elections are the local elections in May 2020.

 

Please explain how English local council elections,  directly elected mayoral elections, police and crime commissioner elections and an election for the London Assembly will control the EU?

You are being evasive and obtuse.

We look for a change in 2020.

Happy New Year though.

[El Cid]

9 hours ago, West 77 said:

Nicky Morgan never stood in the 2019 General Election.  Richmond Park chose a Lib Dem MP.  The electorate don't choose members of the cabinet. It's not unusual for cabinet members to be chosen from the house of Lords.

How many previous members of the cabinet have not been elected MPs?

[Pettytom]

21 minutes ago, El Cid said:

How many previous members of the cabinet have not been elected MPs?

Plenty of them. It is perfectly ok constitutionally.

 

The problem is that they aren’t accountable to either the Commons, or the electorate. From that perspective, it is a dirty trick.

[apelike]

17 minutes ago, Pettytom said:

Plenty of them. It is perfectly ok constitutionally.

 

The problem is that they aren’t accountable to either the Commons, or the electorate. From that perspective, it is a dirty trick.

That's not a problem at all, and no dirty trick either. Our civil servants are also not accountable to the Commons or the electorate either and are chosen for their merit for doing the job and the same applies here.

[Pettytom]

6 hours ago, apelike said:

That's not a problem at all, and no dirty trick either. Our civil servants are also not accountable to the Commons or the electorate either and are chosen for their merit for doing the job and the same applies here.

You seem to misunderstand the two very different roles that you are erroneously comparing.