National Unity......will it work?

Dear rest of the world
we should never have done any of this in the first place. Unfortunately an arrogant fool and his friends thought it would be fun to hold a referendum.

Dear rest of the world,
we don't know how to sort this mess. We want it to end as much as you do, so please accept our apology for having elected the biggest bunch of idiots in history.

I would like a government full of entitled toffs who like to wear top hats and cheat and lie.

Oh wait a minute........

GG54 appalled to read your snobbish post at 23.50, what, only posh people educated at expensive public schools suited to govern the country?

Annie According to BBC News

"Nicola Sturgeon is seeking urgent talks with the prime minister over Brexit, the BBC understands.
The first minister has travelled to London in a bid to put her case directly to Theresa May."

No mention of a meeting being granted nor an invitation to the talks given.

James Slack has been the Downing Street Press Secretary, ie the Prime Minister's official spokesman since April 2017. He is a former political editor of the Daily Mail.

Slack wrote the controversial "Enemies of the People" front page article on 4 November 2016 which criticised senior judges in England's High Court of Justice who had made a decision the British Daily Mail newspaper did not agree with.

The headline, written by James Slack and approved by editor Paul Dacre, was in response to the ruling of the High Court of England and Wales in the Miller case that the government would need to gain the consent of Parliament before it could trigger Article 50 and exit the European Union (EU). The government had intended to use the royal prerogative to invoke Article 50, after a referendum in June 2016 had resulted in a slight majority vote to leave.

The Daily Mail claimed the court's decision purposefully blocked the Brexit process and ran the story and headline about the three high court judges – the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas, Master of the Rolls Sir Terence Etherton, and Lord Justice Sales. The Mail's website also initially described Etherton as an "openly-gay ex-Olympic fencer", but this was changed after criticism on social media. Former Lord Chief Justice Igor Judge said the newspaper's attacking comments, particularly the homophobia concerns, were "very unpleasant".

The Independent Press Standards Organisation received over 1,000 complaints about the piece, claiming it violated numerous Codes of Conduct including inaccuracy, harassment and discrimination. A Business Insider report strongly criticised the Daily Mail story as being "distorted" and could be construed as an attempt to harm the reputation and safety of the judges. In November 2016, the Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines said the public should be "very alarmed" over the Daily Mail piece.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemies_of_the_People_(headline)

I think in these circumstances, Theresa May's appointment of James Slack as her official spokesman shows an outrageous lack of judgement, symptomatic of her extreme pandering to the brexitextremists in the Tory pary.

Unity to me includes the EU not just a bunch of tin-pot politicians sitting in Westminster who've argued for 3 years without a conclusion !!

She is also meeting Nicola Sturgeon

Aren't you forgetting, eazybee, that she put Leavers into key positions in her cabinet? David Davis as Minister for the DexEU, who achieved nothing....? And sicked off people like Ivan Rogers whose advice would have been invaluable?

She has floundered all the way through this sorry episode. If her strategy was to ultimately Remain she's gone a very strange way about it.

How can it be National Unity when neither Scotland or NI (whose voters chose to remain) nor Wales have a voice in the 'final solution'?

The Liberals who have been staunchly remain from the outset are also being excluded from these crisis talks.

Theresa May, a remainer, is the person who bears the most responsibility for this mess; she stepped up to it willingly and devised this dreadful Agreement under the guidance of Oliver Robbins, Chief Civil Service adviser, negotiator for Brexit, and a committed European Federalist since university, also completely unaccountable. Apparently he is due to depart for another post, somewhere; it will be most interesting to see where.

The problem is that we, as they say, are where we are and not where we should be. That has to be placed fairly and squarely at the door of TM. She chose to be PM, she chose to call the 2017 election, she chose not to reach out at least 2 years ago across the divide, she chose to buy the DUP and to give the ERG far too much sway in devising her strategy ( and much good those last two sorry groups have done her). It’s impossible for either TM or JC to have an approach not affected by the last 3 years. I don’t suppose many of us hold out much hope for a solution this week but I’m absolutely clear about exactly who got us into this situation.

Unlikely with Mrs May and Corbyn

I suppose any attempt at a cross party solution to this unholy mess would require a mature and open minded attitude.

No one knew three years ago what was ahead following the referendum so unfair to judge Mrs May because of all that has happened since for becoming PM .

He had to wait for McClusky and Lensman to tell him what he should do

Something else that is going on behind the scenes as reported today in The National:

"THE Scottish Conservatives are suspected to be preparing for a snap General Election after campaign material was delivered to constituencies across Scotland.

Leaflets bearing the face of party leader Ruth Davidson have reportedly been delivered in the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey; Central Ayrshire; Argyll & Bute; and Edinburgh South West constituencies over the past few days."

A sign? or just covering all bases?

The leaflet does not mention Brexit. It features a bar chart showing that at the last GE while the SNP polled most votes the Conservatives were 2nd ahead of Labour. The message being that only the Tories can beat the SNP and preserve the Union.

Agree it’s a ploy to blame JC for the mess when there’s no consensus.

Of course it is. There is nothing at all honest,open or straightforward about this woman.

Or polite. She didn't even bother to contact him before announcing to the nation that she was going to involve him. I wonder if his first instinct was to tell her to sod off and sort out her own mess?

Will she bung the Labour Party £1bn ?
As for Boris saying politicians should work for the good of the country not themselves- oh the irony!
Agree it’s a ploy to blame JC for the mess when there’s no consensus.

I agree with others who say that this has come 3 years too late! May has already stated that any agreed deal must include the backstop and as that has always been the sticking point I can't see it working. I also think the EU are very unlikely to give us another short extension.

I can't think of anything worse than a blue collar government.

She should have done this a long time ago, but will she go into any meeting with Corbyn, or anyone else, with an open mind? And will he go in to meet her with an open mind? Will they genuinely try to find a solution? Is there a solution they can both agree on?

Yes, whoever said ‘about three years too late’ is spot on.

Wonder if ‘she who will neither compromise nor consult’ will listen or just demand he backs her ‘deal’? And when he inevitably refuses will she blame him?

Corbyn and Labour have put forward quite clear proposals. How is that sitting on the fence?

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She said she was going to invite him, he is free to refuse

What a waste of time ,while all normal business in Paliament has been sidelined and its cost (according to news reports online) 400 MILLION A WEEK....Thats more than the number on Boris' bus!!She should have taken it back to the country she was never going to bring it together and get a result that pleased all of parliament..who quite frankly haven't a clue about what they or anyone else wants .