Government Watch - 2

Just heard Martin Amis describe May as 'limping in a straight line'.

Anyone watch her speech in US? No one else did. The room was practically empty.

Irrelevant to all is Maybot

He did start by saying she was weak. The 'limping in a straight line' seemed to be the best he could say about her.

The speech May is unlikely to make tomorrow in Florence:

amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/21/theresa-may-brexit-florence-speech

I wish!

If only, Maizie.

If nobody turns up again, will it be very short --I resign.

Just reading about the 70 million bank accounts to be investigated.

Truly this is getting more like a fascist state by the day.

I am not at all clear how this investigation is going to tell the fascists anything.

I do not recall giving my nationality when I opened my accounts.

What are they being checked against?

I trust the government isn't supplying the banks with information!!

Data protection and all that. I am sure May/ Rudd would not want to break the law.

Checking immigration status.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/22/home-office-errors-already-leading-to-people-being-denied-bank-accounts

Lots of immigrants are denied bank accounts because of mistakes being made by the home office.

My daughters in law hope that the government will pay for them to be sent back home, as they both want to visit their parents.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/21/uk-banks-to-check-70m-bank-accounts-in-search-for-illegal-immigrants

Lots of mistakes are expected to be made.

www.fareshare.org.uk/fareshare-welcomes-tescos-partnerships-with-suppliers-to-tackle-food-waste/

One good thing to happen today. For those who have to use fareshare. It's getting Tesco to look at food waste.

This excuse for a government would find it very difficult to persuade many people that the economy is safest in their hands.

Caroline Lucas's thoughts on the speech.

After days of speculation Theresa May’s speech was extremely underwhelming. Though she has finally started to face the fact the Britain will need to contribute to EU bill in order to unlock a decent trade deal, she still hasn’t been honest about how much we’ll need to pay. She should be less afraid of the hardliners in her own cabinet, and more truthful to the British people.

When it comes to the transition period it is welcome news the Prime Minister finally has recognised this will be needed. But a cliff edge doesn’t become less treacherous because it’s two years away in the future.

Continued membership of the single market and freedom of movement will be essential pillars of a successful transition and it’s good to see the Government acknowledge this – but the Prime Minister should have laid down a real plan for the long term protection of the rights of EU citizens in Britain, instead of simply offering warm words.

The Prime Minister also, spectacularly, failed to give any more details about the kind of Brexit she’s leading us towards. The noises from some in the cabinet suggest we’ll be cast out into the Atlantic begging Trump for a trade deal, while more moderate ministers reject this economic catastrophe.

Theresa May is, in theory at least, this country’s leader – yet like so many Tory Prime Ministers before her she’s hamstrung by a group of ministers with ambitions, all of whom put furthering their views on Europe above the national interest, while at least one seems far more intent on his own prime ministerial aspirations than with standing up for what’s best for Britain.

theconversation.com/theresa-may-in-florence-little-room-and-no-view-84534

Further to the AFD

Dunt argues that when Cameron invited them to become part of the Conservative MEP parliamentary group he gave them a legitimacy that they had not previously had and they were able to build from that to get 13% of the vote in Germany.

Thanks Cameron yet another of your misguided decisions. Is there anything you did that we can look back on and say that was good?

Fallon seems to have managed to do a u-turn in about an hour must be a record.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/article-127-brexit-stop-what-is-it-single-market-eu-eea-theresa-may-article-50-a7955806.html

This is interesting. I wonder if May realises that we haven't got an agreement to leave the EEA yet.

Maybot due to make a speech today -according to my paper, on needing a strong and regulated free market.

We have it of course with the EU, but that seems to be overlooked at the moment.

Free trade, in order for it to work for everyone needs quite a bit of state intervention, to regulate tax, working conditions etc. Otherwise the weak go to the wall. That is what we do as part of the EU.

My worry is that the loonier part of the Tory right, want more of a model after Brexit that reflects the type of free trade so beloved by the Victorians, the ultra neo-liberal model that Thatcher flirted with but abandoned after quickly understanding its consequences in a modern world capitalist system so we know where that will take us, but the loons are so hell bent on their project that they appear to be an unstoppable force. Most Brexiters realise the dire consequences in following that model, parliament must play its role in stopping that idiocy at the very least.

"May set out clearly for the first time in her Florence speech that the U.K. wants to continue current trading conditions and that existing rules would apply during any transition. She also offered to keep paying into the EU budget over the same two-year period, linking the divorce settlement to the transition deal for the first time. British businesses see a transition as vital to avoid a so-called cliff-edge Brexit in March 2019.

Still, the European Parliament offered a reminder on Wednesday of just how far apart the two sides remain. The parliament, which has a veto over a final deal, will demand that the European Court of Justice has jurisdiction in the U.K. during the transition—something that U.K. Brexit Secretary David Davis rejected as recently as last weekend. The ECJ is loathed by pro-Brexit campaigners and has taken on emblematic importance in the debate. The assembly will also insist that free movement of people continues during the transition, according to a summary of a draft resolution to be voted on next week.

We'll get a better sense of how it's gone inside the negotiating rooms today when Davis and Barnier hold a press conference at the end of the talks, probably around midday. "

Bloomberg's Brexit bulletin.

I reckon it will not the ECJ, ECJ

Vienna is the favourite to get EU banking; Copenhagen favourite to get the EU medicines agency.

"The UK’s exit from the EU is likely to have far-reaching effects on health in the UK and the NHS, according to a Health Policy review published in The Lancet today. It cites issues such as threats to the NHS workforce and finances, the licensing of medical products, governance issues on competition and health regulation, the provision of care for UK citizens living abroad and scientific research. "

Pleased I didn't vote for this.

Maybot due to make a speech today -according to my paper, on needing a strong and regulated free market.

I don't understand. I thought that one of the reasons we were going through all this economic pain, and destruction of our national reputation, was to free ourselves from regulation.

Brexit seems to become even more pointless by the hour.

durhamjen
Your link @Wed 18.21.
Simple solution.
All TM has to do is open the old word file of the original letter saying we are leaving ..... change the article No, give notice ( since it's still over a year to brexit anyway) and they can coincide nicely. Job done, simples.