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Good News about Brexit! ✅

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Urmstongran Sun 17-Mar-19 20:09:55

Hi everyone -

If you are at all politically minded and would like to share any GOOD NEWS about Brexit, or would just like to post some optimistic thoughts - this is the thread to love.
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Most of us are weary of the gloom and doom on GN! Let’s share positive news and views. Its time to look for compromise, be kind and inclusive with one another if we can. Life’s too short to be scared or miserable!

Stop peeping. C’mon in! We’d love to hear from you.
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Urmstongran Thu 28-Mar-19 11:38:40

Some GOOD NEWS!

BMW is mulling taking on Honda’s ­giant Swindon plant that the Japanese carmaker plans to close in 2021.

BMW has expressed an interest in the site, which would ­allow the German company to boost production in the UK.
A source confirmed that BMW had made preliminary investigations about using the Swindon site.

“BMW is definitely interested,” the source said. “It is an immensely logical move for BMW once the political situation [around Brexit] has calmed down.”

Urmstongran Thu 28-Mar-19 17:07:41

Speaker Bercow has just allowed the vote on TM’s deal to go ahead tomorrow because it has ‘changed substantially’. It has been split in half. MP’s will vote on the Withdrawal Agreement (Brexit) and not the part that outlines trade.

Chris Bryant and Keir Starmer looked shocked.

It might get through! I am quietly confident. Andrea Leadsom has read the motion to the House with Geoffrey Cox sat beside her.

Urmstongran Thu 28-Mar-19 18:41:13

Oh no! The difference 90 minutes makes!
I’m not at all confident now that the government motion will pass tomorrow after all.

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lemongrove Thu 28-Mar-19 19:04:10

Watching idiotic MP’s in HOC today, jibing, sneering and political point scoring makes you realise they won’t reach a consensus on anything at all. What a shower.On all sides.

mcem Thu 28-Mar-19 19:18:10

So that would be Boris then?
Even the chaos we're currently enduring would pale into insignificance if he became PM!

mcem Thu 28-Mar-19 19:22:17

She had no intention of reading the full motion until she was put on the spot, hoping that it could be sneaked through without the devious motive behind it being noticed.
As she read the full motion it became clear they were employing manipulative tactics in an attempt to twist the agreed intention.

MamaCaz Thu 28-Mar-19 19:50:03

What a complete and utter dogs dinner this whole thing is.

It's hardly surprising that MPs can't agree what to do for the best.

Let's face it, if we leave, it will almost certainly be with a 'compromise' deal - in other words, a deal that surely absolutely no one wanted when they cast their votes.

Remainers wanted to remain, and all the Leavers that I know wanted to completely break all ties with the EU.

Any sort of compromise deal will mean that no one will have got what they wanted! Is that really going to solve the problem, or unite the country again?

What a way to run a country.

Well done Mr Cameron - not!

varian Thu 28-Mar-19 20:32:41

We are in desperate need of serious political leadership that can explain to the country how we got to here and how we can move forward.

The untold truth is that our problems are our own. We live in an age of profound social and economic injustice caused by decisions made in Westminster, not in Brussels. Brexit has been a colossal distraction from confronting them and has only further eroded trust in the capacity of our institutions to solve them.

It’s time for politicians to ask the people for their forgiveness, to take responsibility for their mistakes, and to guide the country out of the void that they have steered us into. But that wasn’t on the ballot paper in the indicative votes last night, and won’t be in the government’s motion tomorrow.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/28/withdrawal-agreement-separation-brexit-theresa-may-election

lutongranny Thu 28-Mar-19 21:03:21

good news indeed....

and tomorrow

varian Thu 28-Mar-19 21:14:40

Tomorrow and the day after the UK will still be a member of the EU.

Labaik Fri 29-Mar-19 11:15:28

Can I wish everyone a Happy Not Brexit Day (thus far, anyway...) Good news indeed.

Jalima1108 Fri 29-Mar-19 11:18:38

Is there cake Labaik?

123coco Fri 29-Mar-19 11:23:52

GOOD NEWS. YAY We’re still in. Long may it last

Urmstongran Fri 29-Mar-19 12:15:06

It won’t.
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Lily65 Fri 29-Mar-19 12:38:17

A lot of people laughed at me when I said I fearful. I really do worry that the country is unstable and that instability may provide opportunities for civil unrest, racism and/or terrorism.

Lily65 Fri 29-Mar-19 14:20:36

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-brexit-riot-violence-far-right-tommy-robinson-leave-ukip-eu-met-scotland-yard-a8844181.html

Framilode Fri 29-Mar-19 15:08:21

Great news at last.

mcem Fri 29-Mar-19 15:13:54

Oh dear! Does this mean we can't have the English champagne and the hog roast with Welsh lamb which we were promised a few weeks ago?

crystaltipps Fri 29-Mar-19 15:17:49

I thought they had the caterers booked. ?I’m sticking to the Prosecco.

GillT57 Fri 29-Mar-19 17:13:08

Do any of you Brexit supporters feel even just a little bit disturbed at being associated, by default, with morons and criminals like Tommy Robinson?

Smileless2012 Fri 29-Mar-19 18:10:54

I feel very disturbed as a Brexit supporter at the vast number of morons in Parliament who have just voted, once again, against TM's deal.

Lily65 Fri 29-Mar-19 18:17:35

Gill, some people here like to be associated with him and praise him and then deny it.

GabriellaG54 Fri 29-Mar-19 18:27:46

I hope we leave without a deal.
Go...just blooming well leave and to heck with all this testosterone-fuelled bickering between mostly male MPs.

Day6 Fri 29-Mar-19 18:28:20

What now?

It will be good news if the EU stick to their guns and tell us to go and do one. They want no more negotiations.

One has to hope with no agreement from Brussels we are out with no deal. I feel that is preferable to TM's deal anyway.

No deal is better than a bad deal and our MPs seem to have voted for a stalemate. The Labour Party, to its shame, has let down millions and millions of working class people who voted to leave the EU.

I do hope gutless Corbyn (anti-EU all his political career) and co get their just deserts should they get the GE they are angling for. Corbyn wants the keys to No 10 more than his political integrity. Shameful man!

Remainer MPs (who agreed to Article 50) ought to lose their seats. I sincerely hope the end of their political careers is nigh.

GabriellaG54 Fri 29-Mar-19 18:30:28

Lily65
Would you care to name them or is hinting as far as you're prepared to go?
Have the courage of your convictions and name and shame instead of making veiled insinuations.