The Poverty of Brexit

Eurovision Song Contest pre-dates the EEC/EU.

I think you slightly missed the point, annodomini

It has those dreaded letters 'euro' as a prefix...

Sorry, I think you're right mostlyharmless. It is so easy to get confused with very large figures. I suppose writing £2000 m cost on this bus makes it easier to make a comparison with the non-existant £350m "saving" on the lying leavers bus. These huge sums of money are beyond the ken of most folk, but it is not difficult to grasp the comparison.

I’m not querying the amount varian just the way it is written. A billion is a thousand million. Has been used that way in UK since 1970s. I just wondered why they chose to call it £2000 billion instead of two billion. Perhaps £2000 bn sounds a bigger number.
A billion is nothing nowadays really is it???

varian but isn’t £2000 million the same as two billion?

Varian I see that the Tories are offering the Lib Dem’s a day debate providing they don’t talk about Brexit!!

Good grief.

No mostlyharmless the new red bus has the right figure - £2,000m per week. This is from the Governments own figures of the cost of leaving with no deal.

The estimated cost of different deals is different, but all estimates show a huge cost - certainly not the £350m per week saving promised by the lying leavers bus. Of course it would not take long for the weekly cost to accumulate to billions (about £1bn every five week)

Lib Dem MP Tom Brake said today: "The point that is being made on the side of this red bus is that as a result of us leaving the European Union and the impact it will have on growth and the economy, the figures suggest the loss to the UK could be as high as £2,000m per week . What we're trying to do is to remind people this is not a done deal."

The Brexit Facts Bus is touring 33 locations across the UK for eight days and has been paid for through crowdfunding £16,000 in cash from more than 600 people

Yes ww they degrade very quickly

An MP asked a question about Euratom during PMQ this week. She mentioned the speed of delivery needed with the isotopes - as usual no good answer given.

Eurovision Song Contest pre-dates the EEC/EU. It was a child of the European Broadcasting Union of which the UK was a founder member. There are plenty of non-EU contestants, especially from the East - and I think Australia was taking part a couple of years ago!

Well the EU migrants have seen the light and like rats leaving a sinking ship - good for them

We are all immigrants now! Time to head back to our own country
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Losing Eurotom is an inevitable consequence-

To me that was one of the early indicators that May was a loose cannon. That was pone of the very first things she announced once she became PM.

Why TF Euratom specifically among all the other EU agencies?

Presumably because it had 'Eur' in its title and could produce a nice dogwhistle response.

Shame we've never managed to leave the Eurovision Song Contest, though ... that would have been worthwhile

My daughter also works with isotopes and without a constant uninterrupted flow - they degrade very quickly -drug production and research will be stymied.

To be worn by all those who support remain

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Losing Eurotom is an inevitable consequence- I wonder how all the leavers who will not be able to receive cancer treatment in future will react.

Remainiacs podcast has been nominated for best podcast of the year

I see Best for Britain has raised over 190k towards stopping Brexit. Only a bit more and it will be matched by a rich donor to help the cause.

Total opposition in the House of Lords over losing Eurotom.

Including all the Tories who spoke.

Maybe she will not let them leave Chequers tomorrow until they have agreed to what she wants.

Brexit transition plans revealed in the Telegraph. May's Transition Strategy document from what I can gather. Guardian has the wording apparently and it says that "the UK believes the periods duration should be determined simply by how long it will take to prepare and implement the new processes". So an open ended transition. I can't see JRM giving his approval for that although it sounds pragmatic to me. Apparently the cabinet did not agree to TMs negotiating strategy for the Brexit transition period before it was sent to other EU nations. Interesting.

I hope it is driven slowly so that people can read the whole message, mostlyharmless.

Anti Brexit bus on streets of London. Isn’t that two billion?

www.politico.eu/article/brexit-threat-to-eu-health-early-warning-prevention-system-serious-infectious-diseases/

This is an article about the relationship between Switzerland and the EU, and what could happen to us once we leave.

The following reported in the Guardian and gleaned from the other place.

This is an unpublished report about hygiene failings in the USA production of meat.

Diseased and condemned poultry found in the same container as poultry for the market
Pig carcasses piled on factory floors and contaminated with grease, blood and other filth
Meat destined for human consumption found to be diseased and pus filled
High powered hoses used to clean next to uncovered meat
Floors flooded with dirty water after drains blocked with animal bits
Dirty chickens contaminated with filth and faeces simply rinsed briefly in chlorine and put back.

Professor Milstone food safety expert said that the food poisoning incidents in USA is significantly higher than in EU

Unilever to move to Holland post Brexit according to the FT