Theresa May

Just had the tall ships up here, Badenkate. They train youngsters how to sail them, no need for pressgangs any more.
I'm sure they'd love to go to Australia - and back of course, now.

Isn't he still MP for Witney, Jess? And he has no plans to retire in 2020. Of course, he has three and a bit years to change his mind.

Cameron was a bungling fool and I hope that he has a very very quiet retirement during which nobody wants to talk to him.

Ah; the good old days.....

Maybe she wants to be remembered for grammar schools. A diversion from Brexit. Whichever way you look at we are harking back to the 1950s - outside Europe, grammar schools, bad food, poor health care, though maybe there was better health care in the 1950s?

I caught the end of a programme about the Cutty Sark, and apparently when the tea trade declined, they used her to transport bales of merino wool from Australia to the UK. Now wouldn't that be wonderful to see and very ecological: clippers flying through the water doing trade with Australia.

The only way they can have tariff free with Australia is if the prices go up anyway, I would have thought.

Yes, Tegan, not very environmentally friendly. However, we will have control! And a level playing field, whatever that is.

Isn't it bad for the environment trading with a country so far away when we could be trading with countries much closer? Or doesn't that matter any more ? Yes, I'm almost feeling sorry for Theresa May [almost being the operative word]. Bet her dreams of being PM one day never envisioned this this #becarefulwhatyouwishfor

We can trade with Australia Jess but I think they are talking low tariffs or tariff free which is what they cannot do now.

Having just read this resume of Brexit, I am actually beginning to feel a bit sorry for Theresa May, and possibly more dislike for Cameron leaving her with this mess.

ukandeu.ac.uk/a-run-through-of-the-brexit-mess/

I hope he didn't get the photo from anywhere in this country.

I've just been reading this by the UN human rights commissioner. There's stuff in it that Theresa May should take notice of.

www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights/zeid-ra-ad-al-hussein/demagogues-and-populists-must-be-challenged-un-high-commissio

Most probably [but doubt if I'd remember!]...

Thanks, Tegan. I think unopened they should keep forever. Don't know about opened. Never kept an open one for very long.

Did you ever taste the really strong one that they keep for themselves instead of exporting? I think it's called raka or raki, something like that.

Which one do you want, jen? I assume it keeps forever; leftovers from holidays in Greece many years ago [don't they use it as a cure all for everything over there?]

I prefer Ouzo to Pernod, but can't always get it.

Can we choose what we get drunk on? I prefer Pernod to whisky.

According to Wiki, Marmite. The Aussies developed Vegemite, because they couldn't get Marmite after WW1.

If the UK's financial service sector is disrupted by Brexit and affects American exports (and who knows what will happen?), the whole world is going to have to get very drunk!

The Australians who stayed in my guest house often argued about which was invented first, Marmite or Vegemite.

I think the Aussies do eat vegemite dd but maybe Brits living there want Marmite?
I think the whole world loves Scotch!

PS. I thought Australians ate Vegemite.

Australia accounts for only 1.9% of UK exports and we export more services than goods:

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tTGg-rZIMG0J:https://www.pwc.co.uk/assets/pdf/ukeo-section4-exports-november2015.pdf+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

The UK's biggest export market, by far, is the US (17.6%), followed by Germany, the Netherlands, France and Ireland.

The UK has a trade surplus with the US (surprisingly). About half the exports are services. The UK will be in real trouble if it loses those markets, because it's going to have to pick up a massive amount of trade in countries like China, Japan, Australia, India and Canada to compensate. Let's hope they all have a taste for whisky!

No, but it is the children who are going missing. Some of them in the jungle should be here with families. Others should be here because they have no family over in France, and Cameron said we would allow so many in.
We should be allowing them here as part of the Dublin agreement which we signed up to.
www.wemove.eu/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=11679&qid=11868364

Is spending £1.9 million on a wall going to stop people wanting to come here?

These are not children doing these things.

The French want a wall which will make it harder for the men presently living in 'the jungle' to come out and threaten/intimidate/injure lorry drivers and then clamber into their lorries.We have to pay for it, I would have thought a 50/50 arrangement fairer, but if it improves things, security wise, then so be it.

Welshwife there is nothing to prevent trading with Australia now, just as there is nothing to prevent us buying NZ lamb and dairy products (Anchor brand) and wine.
In fact we do, of course, drink megalitres of Australian wine every year. And they, presumably, drink Scottish whiskey if it is their tipple of preference. When visiting there I don't see much evidence of them buying much from us other than niche food products (Marmite for expats...)
The prices would be slightly different if we had a different arrangement with them over trade.
One of the interesting things I notice about Australia is that if you go to the town centre or the mall, hardly any of the shops are familiar brands from UK or USA. Same in NZ. Really not worth major chains starting up there, I guess, as it is so far away, and where clothes are concerned, their seasons are opposite to ours.

Apologies, Jalima. 3p, not £3 for the wall.
The wall is supposed to cost £1.9 million, as part of £17 million altogether.
We worked it out based on 65 million population, not the number of taxpayers. Just me that transposed the 3p to £3 on here, thinking the wall cost £190 million.
Not a lot, but it's the principle.
If we can afford to build a wall, why can't we afford to help those without parents who are living there?