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Johnson says prepare for no-trade deal Brexit; cancels talks

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"No Deal please! It's the only way a clean break can be achieved."

Could not agree more.

At the same time, (please Japan), deport ALL the retired Brexiteers.

They must come back to experience, "in loco" what is coming.

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"A tumultuous "no deal" finale to the United Kingdom's five-year Brexit crisis would sow chaos through the delicate supply chains that stretch across Britain, the EU and beyond - just as the economic hit from the coronavirus pandemic worsens."

I like how some people seem to think this is surprising, and not deserved. It's neither, and I hope all those who supported Brexit simply out of xenophobia and arrogance realise it, and realise they are suffering at their own hands.

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Quelle surprise! The Brits residing in the Tory Fawlty Towers B&B have now made their lumpy Brexit beds and will have to lie in them and they'll soon get their full English Brexit (over)done and served up as promised by barmy Boris and his shower of incompetents. Guten Appetit!

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This spells the end of the UK, not only as an economic power but as a nation. Scotland will leave and Northern Ireland will revolt after being pressed into poverty.

Johnson and his cronies are still thinking that “ Britain rules the waves” and that illusionary platform will doom the country.

He will go down in history alright but For all the wrong reasons

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@Mickelicious

Excellent response to Johnson's typical pipe-dream bombast.

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With high hearts and with complete confidence, we will prepare to embrace the alternative and we will prosper mightily as an independent free trading nation, controlling and setting our own laws

Boris's Churchill moment?

Never in the field of human conning have so many been so duped by so few.

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Yakyak. Your comment seems based on your opinions and NOT facts. You wrote about how bad a politician Macron is and how he is making France unliveable. What is the source of your information? Name one country in the world which has not suffered from no tourists due to Covid. Do you honestly think Boris Johnson is a better leader? You sound like a BrexItear with a lot of anger. Please get your facts right before you write in such an impulsive manner.

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I fully expect to see the dissolution of the UK in my lifetime. Once a hard border goes up between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and the Scots declare independence, UK will be consumed by internal civil wars. At that point the terms of trade with the EU will be of only minor importance in the larger scheme of things.

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Um, okay. Back in the real world, business will always find a way and things will carry on.

This has little to do about business. It is a political problem. The Scots have made it pretty clear that if the UK leaves the EU, they want out of the UK. As for Northern Ireland, a hard customs border will of necessity go up if there is no agreement between UK and the EU. That is a direct violation of the Good Friday Accords and will lead to a resumption of the Troubles. The EU has already hinted that it will support Irish reunification so expect a lot of outside help to the Catholic rebels in Northern Ireland. A UK shorn of Northern Ireland and Scotland isn't much economically. Business goes where there is money to be made and politics are stable. Good luck UK but I honestly expect to see the end of the UK within the next ten to at most twenty years. They have nobody but themselves to blame.

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wipeout, thank you for your reply.

My question is conjectural. 

Yes, I am intrigued, mostly in respect I was being nosey. apology's I am working on that flaw.

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I choose to be hold a Japanese passport when the time required me to.

So I was not eligible to vote in UK referendum.

What I am requesting without any requirement to divulge your nationally, hypothetically.

Would you vote to join such a Union.

If yes I would like to debate that.

No trickery.

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continuing.....

yakyak, I spent my early students (economics) years in Caluire (Lyon).

I adored the couture, the culture, the people, the country, the cuisine.

My beef, for want of a better word, is well, Macron.

And his petty politicking.

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No Deal please! It's the only way a clean break can be achieved.

It won't be a No Deal, though. Boris will cave as usual.

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robert maes, your point, indeed there’s a deference between debate on governance and definition of the democratic mandate.

I am a firm believer in Scottish independence.

And I also believe that a positive vote by the people of Scotland to break, no, choose to decide course as a independent nation, to manage its own affairs, give Scotland it best chance to succeed.

That could mean swallow Scotland national debt.

Help with the currency issue, be friends not foes.

Be disappointed, but never belligerent. I have learnt that in business.

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continuing ......

Tangerine2000, yes, but I believe it wont, the tone and bureaucracy is tethered to an Mary Poppins sing a long

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Let's be in no doubt there be a hordes of private funded, registered, fishery protection vessels armed to the teeth.

Not with fisherman but with ex military service man, in essence mercenaries.

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wipeout, I am obviously not aware your birth place, formal country of origin.

A Country/State has to apply to become a member. So lets assume for a moment that the Country has a formal democratic process to ask the people.

My question, wipeout, is simple, if you are a member of a third country do you believe your people would be prepared to join?

If so, would it then not, if the situation prevailed/omit be allowed without fear or favor the democratic choice to leave?

xenophobes? come on please

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Desert Tortoise,

That has to be a parody of some comical sketch. a short of brain dead Monty Python.

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Once a hard border goes up between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and the Scots declare independence, UK will be consumed by internal civil wars.

Um, okay. Back in the real world, business will always find a way and things will carry on.

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Blablabla...there will be some sort of deal. Johnson's plan will work. Trust me. EU is shaking their pants and already push Barnier to keep going. Markel cannot disappoint car industries in Germany and Macron big man who has been saying about no more talk with UK since year 3 I guess will curl like a baby when Markel slap him to shout up. It's all about business.

Bedides, worrying about Irish border shouldn't be EU concern. If UK put hard one there then they will have to deal with consequences.

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Number 10…… “Lord Frost has spoken to Michel Bernier to update the EU on the Prime Minister’s statement. as the PM had made clear, the European Council’s conclusions yesterday had left us without a basis to continue the trade talks without a fundamental change in the EU’s approach to these negotiation.so accordingly no basis for negotiations in London as of Monday”

Can you seriously imagine either the US or Japan politically joining such a Union?

That’s parliament is nothing more than a fake democracy, whose own ombudsman has demanded reform of the Council of Ministers opaque secretive legislative process. only to be ignored.

Do you really believe that either the America or Japanese electorate would vote to join?

And yet to democratically  vote to leave, is an act akin to xenophobia?

Remarkable

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Something that cannot be said about the cretinous posturing French President

Yes ,the French President is what is really bad about politics in Europe. He is slowly but surely making France an un-livable and no-tourist destination in the world.

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Continuing....

The only Prime Minster without his own head up his backside (not rude) is Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte…..

“We’re ready to compromise. We will not get what we want 100 percent – that’s impossible in a negotiation, you always have to find a compromise.”

Something that cannot be said about the cretinous posturing French President

 

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