More Brexit lunacy

What don't you understand about the difference between THE and A, POGS?

The Independent 9th January:

"MPs will be able to vote for Britain to rejoin the EU customs union after Brexit without further legislation, a minister has revealed.

The surprise admission delighted pro-EU MPs, but will alarm Brexiteers who will view it as a back door to remaining within the trading rules, despite EU withdrawal.

Ken Clarke, the former Conservative Cabinet minister and leading anti-Brexit rebel, said he was “considerably reassured” by what the Government was proposing."

Well that's a nice surprise!

Here's the link:

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-customs-union-mps-vote-uk-back-in-single-market-legislation-ken-clarke-a8149161.html

Yes POGS this customs union thing is confusing. I too wish Corbyn's position was a bit clearer. It all sounds like Gobbledygook - you have to wade through treacle to make any sense out of it.
Being in the Customs Union is different from being in the single market though.
And "a" customs union means an individual agreement -more complicated and time consuming to sort out than staying in "the" Customs Union. (I'm not an expert on trade agreements, you and other Gransnetters might know more than I do - apologies if you do)

That's brilliant, mostlyharmless.
Best to keep quiet about it, though. Not that many voters will notice. Just been reading that 1 in 3 people have no idea what unuversal credit is.

Corbyn doesn't need to make his position any clearer, particularly if what you say in your last posts is true.

Well the Government obviously don't want anyone to know dj.

Not lunacy at all

Found on twitter and I think some of you might enjoy this. Tony Blair tears a strip off Farage at the EU parliament 2005

twitter.com/damocrat/status/950771268558688261

Comments are quite predictable but if you scroll down a little way there's an amusing troll teasing exchange

Have you heard that Nigel Farage is now calling for a second EU referendum when the terms of the deal are known?

I imagine his friends in the Leave camp are apoplectic. Tony Blair is delighted.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5257959/Nigel-Farage-calls-Brexit-referendum.html

Being in the Customs Union is different from being in the single market though.
And "a" customs union means an individual agreement -more complicated and time consuming to sort out than staying in "the" Customs Union.

I think that it has to 'a' Customs Union, individually negotiated, because we're not contemplating joining the EEA or EFTA (but I could be wrong); and our membership of the Customs Union ends on Exit Day.

Nigel Farage warming to second EU referendum

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage says he is close to backing a second EU referendum to end the "whinging and whining" of anti-Brexit campaigners.

Mr Farage told Channel 5's The Wright Stuff a fresh vote could "kill off" the Remain campaign for a generation.

Why does that man get so much tv coverage ...

Farage is missing being in the limelight.

I should keep up to speed with what he's saying but I can't bear to see/hear the man . At least I get to hear what he's up to on here and facebook...

It would have to be a campaign with no 'dark advertising', no Russian intervention and no dubious 'donations' designed to exceed spending limits... Otherwise we have the same problems all over again.

But Farage probably has Cambridge Analytica lined up already... just in case...

Oh, and no 'government' leaflets...

...no buses....

Oh, I don't know..

How about a big red one with:

'We're paying £350 million a week to leave the EU. Lets give it to the NHS instead' written on the side...

Well I have to say I didn't expect THAT from Fartage?!?

Would he accept a 48/52 result, I wonder.

Seven things that have changed since the last referendum.

infacts.org/farage-wants-second-referendum-bring/

I see Brian May has described Maybot as being driven by vanity and thirst for power, in an interview to a German publication. He went on to say that the vote to leave Europe was one of the dumbest things that the U.K. has ever done.

That's what I thought when she announced her war on plastic waste. Why now?
Why not earlier?
Why do we need to lead the world?
We were in a better position in the EU, not out of it, to get rid of plastic waste.

www.theweek.co.uk/90881/may-s-war-on-waste-a-bid-to-save-the-planet-or-the-tories

Strange to think that Brain May and Peter Stringfellow are now singing from the same songsheet; who'd've thought a few years ago that politics would throw up such strange bedfellows...

LOL took me a few seconds ...

Brain May lol oh lol (got it now)

...I meant 'Brian' ....fat finger syndrome again...