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21 hours ago, robblok said:
There is a clear commitment not to lower standards on the environment, workers' rights and climate change from those that currently exist and mechanisms to enforce them, the BBC reported.
However, it added that there is also a mutual right to "rebalance" the agreement if there are "significant divergences" in the future capable of "impacting trade".
Seems the Brexit die hards on the forum did not get their wish the UK needs to keep up their standards and can't diverge easily. If the EU later has better standards new negotiations can be done so in the end the UK will have to keep following the EU its standards to keep access. Something the die hards here hated. Seems BJ has given in.
Happy that there is a deal and it will help both sides.
You assume, as often, that the EU has much higher standards. IME, having worked in several EU countries, for British, American and French businesses, that isn't the case.
Certain countries aren't as bothered about adhering to EU rules and some standards are implemented very uniquely with some interesting interpretations.
The climate change lobby is very strong in the UK, as is UK legislation on consumer rights, sales of goods and services, quality, health and safety etc etc. There is no suggestion that will be changed. And any government trying to do so would likely get a shock at election time.
This myth and rumor of low cost cutting business avoiding all rules, tax avoidance (like Luxembourg and Ireland) for businesses etc etc is just conspiracy fuelled by German paranoia about actually having to compete, and those trying to paint Brexit as something it's not.
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3 hours ago, welovesundaysatspace said:
What is “it” that proves that? To my knowledge (I may be wrong) the UK hasn’t negotiated many (any?) own trade deals so far but mostly (only?) rolled over existing EU trade deals. That’s the sensible thing to do (as I wrote before) but it’s hardly proof for how long it takes to negotiate a trade deal when someone else negotiated it for you and it isn’t tailored to your economy.
Don't disagree with the sensible idea of rolling over existing EU deals where possible.
But, did you miss that the EU and UK have just negotiated the biggest and most complicated trade deal in decades? And it took how many years?
Barnier, Frost and their teams have shown what very hard work can achieve. Hard work and long hours. Barnier in particular because he has had to contend with changes in UK PM's, with very different views, and changes in UK negotiating team; plus pressure from his own President. Hats off to them all, him in particular!
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On 12/25/2020 at 4:47 AM, Hi from France said:I know fishing is not important, but even then I'm at a loss to see what the UK got in exchange for these (mainly Scottish) fishing quotas.
The EU will keep 75% and for what?
You need to read the 2,000 pages to understand the detail. As do we all.
Fishing is emotive, and a political hot potato. Economically unimportant in the scheme of things.
To be fair, fishermen have to finance boats and equipment which needs time. The period in which the reduced catches are allowed has been significantly reduced and then will revert to Britain to decide. The fish caught in the waters in question is sold mainly to mainland Europe, by British and EU fishermen. British fishermen will still have access to this market. Ironically, the different tastes in types of fish mean not much of these are sold into the UK.
To get a balanced view, the whole document needs reading, But on this thorny issue I would congratulate Barnier and Frost and their teams on coming up with a workable compromise.
You won't get a balanced view from many MSM sources. Certainly not the BBC and most definitely not politicians like the SNP. TVF isn't likely to be better. So at some point, everyone interested has to read the detail and small print. Happy New Year.
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On 12/26/2020 at 8:32 AM, Berkshire said:
They still haven't figured out who did this. But if the bomber(s) turn out to be white nationalists, Proud Boys, or some other Trump supporting group, I'll bet Trump won't condemn them. Trump never criticizes his hardcore supporters, regardless of how heinous the act. He might even cease on it...."Re-elect me or more bombs will go off!"
There's are lot of speculations there.
If, a small word with a big meaning, it turns out to be Antifa or BLM supporters, or some other left wing supporting group, do you think Biden and Harris will condemn them?
Or it it turns out to be Islamic terrorist, do you think the nice Muslim ladies in Congress will all condemn it?
Your last speculative sentence is too ludicrous.
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20 hours ago, Crossy said:
And just yesterday:-
Looks like they've been reading the Boris Johnson play book on U-Turns!
Deny, deny, deny...................... implement 555! Seriously, no country wants lockdowns because of the economic impact. But, governments have to react to changes. And Covid can cause changes rapidly.
Although to be fair, Thais are much much better at following the sensible requirements than a large portion of the British and other Westerners seem to be,
I notice the malls, some individual shops therein and supermarkets have tightened entry checks in response. And I didn't see any arrogant Westerners swaning around in the malls without masks which had become noticeable.
The danger seems to be the movement of people for New Year. The tourism people were forecasting 2 million movements of people. Wonder if some provinces will introduce strict entry and quarantine regimes like before. Burriram was pretty strict last time for one.
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1 hour ago, Prairieboy said:
To travel the 384,400 km to the moon at 11 kph will take 4 years - many of the cars on the highways have already attempted flight but at a much greater speed. (Note: They all failed to achieve orbit!)
In theoretical terms, the escape velocity at the surface of Earth is 11.2 km per second (6.96 miles per second). The lunar orbital speed for Apollo 11 was about 1.6 km/sec
I wonder if Minister Anek Laothamatas may have confused the rate of speed? I hope the space ship designers are more astute!
There are some experts at calculating speeds readily available!
Plenty for the Minister to choose from 555!
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On 12/26/2020 at 9:44 AM, Jingthing said:
Why?
Just think of the budgets, large contracts up for negotiation and awarding, jobs that can be created for the right people etc etc etc.
Almost endless opportunities! ???? Happy days for some.
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16 hours ago, 7by7 said:
She could have held a press conference in which she gave the most feeble excuses for breaking the rules.
Probably less time than a 50 mile round trip on one's spouse's birthday takes.
At least she has admitted her error and apologised for it; as have many of the politicians, such as Stephen Kinnock and Robert Jenrick, caught breaking the rules; plus others such as the Prime Minister's father.
But, but, but....................................what about, but, but.
All she had to do was apologies and say she made a mistake. No need to qualify it with "briefly".
She wouldn't hold a press conference because she wants it swept away. Accountability has never been one of her strong points.
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On 12/23/2020 at 10:59 PM, RuamRudy said:You sound so bitter. Is it because almost 60% of Scots are sick to death with your country and want shot of you?
Please show your accredited source for your assertion.
Ironically, if the UK held a referendum on Scotland leaving the UK, the English, Welsh and Northern Irish vote might surprise you. Because I'd guess many people there are fed up with the constant child like whining from the Scottish nationalists. Which is a shame as at the last referendum held in Scotland, the once in a generation one, the majority didn't want to leave.
This try, try again and keep trying till you get the result the nationalists want is like a broken record - boring, iritating and needs throwing away.
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22 hours ago, RuamRudy said:
If you think that both incidents are equivalent in terms of the actual events and each individual's subsequent response to them then your judgement must be called into question.
Nice that you throw in a bit of stereotyping at the end there.
And your judgment isn't the universal standard and is equally questionable.
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22 hours ago, RuamRudy said:
This one is an MP, sadly
When and where was this taken?
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20 hours ago, RuamRudy said:Of course I don't and nor do I pretend to.
At the moment, entirely academic, but absolutely none of the business of those who will not, when it comes to pass, be involved.
Of course, leaving the UK is not in our hands. We need the permission of English and Welsh MPs to even ask the question, what with the vast majority of Scottish MPs obviously ready to enact referendum legislation if it was granted. If only the UK was as democratic a union as the EU...
All of your posts, and this is a good example, are tinged with your constant denial of reality, expresses in your choice of wording.
It is the British parliament, the government of the UK, that gives permission. They are the elected government of the UK which consists of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
It is not a trading bloc of countries, that is morphing into a closer union. Nothing like. So pretending the UK and EU are organizationally similar, claiming both are countries, is simply false equivalence.
But of course it suits your agenda to deny reality.
As for democracy, it isn't democratic for a small minority to dictate they have the right, whenever they fancy, to tell the vast majority how it's going to be and make hugely significant decisions that affect the majority.
More and more, Scottish nationalists look like spoilt children who throw their toys out of the pram when they can't get their own way. Some of the biggest history revisionists ever.
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19 hours ago, RuamRudy said:You must remember that in 2014, we were repeatedly told that an independent Scotland would be out of the EU. This influenced a lot of people to vote to remain in the UK.
Academic research has been published which shows that a narrow majority of Scottish-born voters voted for independence in 2014, however a significant majority of English and Welsh people who were resident in Scotland at the time voted to keep us in the UK. The same goes for EU nationals. Those votes in favour of the union were sufficient to overturn the majority Scottish vote.
An independent Scotland would be out of the EU - fact. Scotland has never been a EU member because the UK is the sovereign nation, and the former EU member which chose to leave. An independent Scotland would be free to apply for membership and follow the criteria all applicants must follow. The EU made that very clear.
Please supply links to the academic research you mention.
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On 12/23/2020 at 7:48 PM, billd766 said:
She made a mistake and admitted it. It is not the end of the world.
That is a lot more than many politicians would do.
Nobody is perfect.
I don't even like her or her policies though I do support her 100% with this.
Seeing as how she was photographed, and that photo appeared in a national newspaper, she could hardly deny it, now could she?
She said "briefly" but no one knows what her idea of briefly is of course.
Joins a long list of politicians and politically connected who simply don't think the rules they make for others apply to themselves.
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On 12/21/2020 at 10:42 AM, Sujo said:
All countries should ban everyone from US and UK until they come to their senses and face reality.
Don't you think other countries are experiencing problems with Covid, including variants? Do you think all the other countries are telling the truth?
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On 12/21/2020 at 10:09 AM, welovesundaysatspace said:
This must be the dream of all Brexiteers; the clear-cut Brexit they wished for.
Still swigging down the Kool Aid then.
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On 12/21/2020 at 5:45 AM, Hi from France said:
another interesting thing to follow : maybe this time we'll getter a better coordonation
although this won't stop the new strain, we can hope to slow it down during the vaccine roll-out
So will France be shutting it's borders to all travelers from Denmark, the Netherlands and Australia too?
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On 12/21/2020 at 8:05 AM, Chomper Higgot said:
And the response from your boy was, defend Russia, blame China.
So the response from Trump and the Biden camp was both wrong, no?
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1 minute ago, Jeffr2 said:Sadly, many are accepting of lies by politicians. Just look at Trump and his supporters. Clueless. I'm stunned so many get so worked up over lying politicians.
The bane of our times. Social media and lying politicians.
Yep. All this lying getting worse, accelerated be social media, and now by MSM too as they try to stay relevant and compete with SM.
The danger, and a very underestimated big danger, is that all these increasing lies and increasing acceptance drives more extreme views, widens the divide and leads to worse not better governance.
Johnson, a proven serial liar got elected in the UK, with a massive majority, supported by many former diehard opposition supporters, because he was the least worst of a rotten lot. Sturgeon, praised by some on here, was exposed ruthlessly by Andrew Neil, but again gets away with it because of a lack of credible opposition and rides the scandals within her party.
Trump hasn't provided one shred of evidence, not one iota, to his claims of election fraud and manipulation. But some of his supporters believe it to be fact because he says so. Maduro claims there's no shortages of basics in Venezuela when tv shows he lying while his family get richer.
And so it goes on and on. It's become almost fashionable now to denounce those whose politics you don't like whilst turning a blind eye to those you do. Hypocrisy and dual standards are being made fashionable acceptable traits by those who supposedly lead.
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15 minutes ago, welovesundaysatspace said:I guess only a Little Englander applauds a remainer bingo as “innovative thinking”.
But it’s Christmas, and you guys across the channel don’t have much left to be proud of these days, so let me congratulate you for your achievement: well done, my little innovative thinker.
How easy the sneers and attempts to divide the UK they despise so much; envy and jealousy are such powerful emotions. How quickly the memory forgets.
And do tell, what does your homeland have to be proud of these days?
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On 12/21/2020 at 8:52 AM, welovesundaysatspace said:Blue passports and sufferinity.
Clueless really. Which is why the EU bureaucrats and politicians rule you so easily. Sheeple like to be fed and led!
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On 12/21/2020 at 8:14 AM, welovesundaysatspace said:That would have been sensible from the very beginning on. But Brexiteers have made it clear that they care more about their blue passports than the well-being of their fellow countrymen.
Would you like to provide citations to support your assertion? Or is it something you just made up and pretend to be factual?
You know, like saying all EUers are only worried about loosing one of the cash cows that keep their bureaucratic inefficient state managed countries afloat.
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23 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:
Already explained to you, the law in other countries is irrelevant to what constitutes a crime in the United States.
And once again you bring your disgusting assertion that the victims are some how complicit in the crimes against them.
They were minors raped and sexually abused by adults, Maxwell procured these minors to be raped and sexually abused.
You are cementing a reputation for blaming the child victims of rape and sexual abuse for the crimes against them.
Get a grip of yourself.
I see you ain't bothered about actual trials. No siree. Get a rope.
Whatever the circumstances, everyone is entitled to a fair trial, competent representation, and to be tried by their peers i.e. jurors.
That's also the law.
How easily some perceive the law to something that can be applied selectively when it suits their agenda.
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On 12/18/2020 at 1:14 PM, Jingthing said:
My world huh? How about the real world?
The real world, which isn't the one politicians desire it to be for their own agendas, is sadly full of lying and cheating politicians. Have they got worse? Or does it seem so now because of the easier access to information? An access which unfortunately can also be flooded with fake information.
Just because many politicians are dishonest, lie and treat their electorates with content doesn't mean the people should accept it. And just because some politicians are members of a political party or broadly support an ideology you like, doesn't mean their lies should be accepted any more than those who don't. Until people stand and refuse to apply dual standards, politicians will continue to put themselves above laws.
BBC says obtained full copy of post-Brexit trade deal
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Yes, you probably are.
Do you have any evidence that English will be replaced as the EU common language?