Mrs May Live ....well, Nearly.

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-41359581

[jno]

"Rather than carry on like blinkered Labour voters", Ymb?

But you do exactly the same as they do: you vote for the party of your choice. Your criticism counts for nothing; only your vote counts, and May can count on yours, as you both well know.

[Davemano]

All I wish to say on this is, If you don't like or disagree with what you're hearing - don't listen

[jim360]

Or do. Because, you know, that's how to understand what people you disagree with are saying.

Also, NJ, we had that already. Or didn't you notice the changes in how this country was governed in, eg, 1997 and 2010, and again in 2015?

[Gromit]

The Conservatives want to delay Brexit by 2 years.

Why?

The electorate voted to leave, so we should, at the earliest possible opportunity, not prevaricate forever about it.

[New Judge]

"...so we should, at the earliest possible opportunity, not prevaricate forever about it."

But the poor multi-national businesses, with their CEOs and directors on mega-bucks, cannot handle a "sudden" (i.e. 33 months' notice) departure, Gromit.

[fender62]

sounds like the money men win yet again, like the banking fiasco
17 million voted out, but i guess they don't count...politicians are rotten to the core.

[mikey4444]

Mrs May had no choice but to ask for a transition period.

David Davies has achieved precisely nothing, since the day after the Referendum, and 2019 is fast approaching. We are no nearer a resolution of all the outstanding problems, than we were back then.

Europe knows that we have a dead woman walking in the shape of May, and that she will not step aside and trigger a leadership contest.

Europe holds all the cards. All that May has done today, is to kick the can a few more miles down the road, knowing that it won't be her that will have to go and pick it up again.

[youngmafbog]

//Europe holds all the cards//

No it doesnt, you have bee listening too much to remoaners like Hammond.

In an ideal World we would part and for mutually beneficial items we would come to an agreement, but that is not going to happen as the EU needs to be seen to 'punish' us in order to stop others leaving. In addition the EU needs our money (all it has ever needed from us is truth be told).

So the sooner May & Co get a grasp of that and just get on and leave the better. Dragging it out wont help us and it wont help the EU either long term.

No deal is not a problem. We already pay a huge tariff to the EU to 'free' trade. All that will happen is that the tariff will be applied to goods bought and paid by the individuals buying those goods rather than them being subsidised by the Tax payer. Individuals will have the choice to buy that item or not. The tax payer will gain as they wont be paying for the items those individuals buy.

[mikey4444]

YMB....well, at this rate, my prediction that we might not leave after all looks like it might come true.

Your only hope is that May has another fit of the vapours, and resigns, leaving the Grey Wolves to tear each other to pieces in the bid to succeed her.

Then you might have someone more to your taste in Number Ten.....lets hope it isn't DD though !

[naomi24]

I admire Mrs May. I think she has the most difficult job of any Prime Minister since at least World War II and she's doing it with dignity. I don't, however, see what her choice of jewellery has to do with anything at all.

[DTCwordfan]

it's her chain-mail, naomi, it goes down her back to protect her from BJ and PH knives.

[Gromit]

// I admire Mrs May. I think she has the most difficult job of any Prime Minister since at least World War II and she's doing it with dignity. //

I completely disagree. She is worse than Cameron who was utterly terrible. She inherited a good working majority and translated that into a deficit, so her judgement is suspect, and her authority is zilch.

Does anyone really want Brexit to drag on for 2 years longer than it needs to?

At this rate, she will be gone in weeks.

[albaqwerty]

Can't we just leave now and have an end to all this hoo-haa?

Tell Junkers And Tusk and others to go to pot?

Interesting to see what the result of the German election will be......

[weecalf]

Well that's it then We are staying ?Next ref?

[-Talbot-]

Does anyone really want Brexit to drag on for 2 years longer than it needs to?


Yes ... the hierarchy of the EU. they desperately want to ignore the referendum result.

[Gromit]

Talbot
You are saying that May is doing exactly what the EU want her to do.
Does that not make her a traitor, selling out the British Public, and ignoring the Referendum result ?
How can she possibly survive the Party Conference, or much longer, if what you say is true ?

[naomi24]

Gromit at 20:43, yes, she grossly misjudged the common sense of the electorate but any comparison between her and Cameron is non-existent. He abandoned the task that she accepted.