How Long Before Sir Nigel Returns?

[youngmafbog]

As expected the stage is being set to sell the leavers down the river.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4620652/Brexit-deal-jobs-says-Chancellor-Hammond.html#comments

[EDDIE51]

When David Davies ( or whatever his name is?) boasted that he would get 'a deal like no other in history ' he was 100% correct but NOT in the way he intended!
The 'deal' if you can call it such ! will be so bad that Parliament will be forced to reject it!
All more fuel to my theory that Theresa May has been intentionally set up as a sacrificial lamb to try but fail at getting us out of the EU!
So we will stay in just as the government want us to!

[douglas9401]

As my good friend Monty Burns might say, excellent. :)

[cassa333]

Sir Nigel?

[Old_Geezer]

Since soft Brexit is no exit that's not something a responsible minister should be pushing for. I suspect phased departure exposes Hammond's desire for a permanently stalled departure. As for shutting down immigration, that's feasible since any system will have provision for assigning some requests as special cases. We are overpopulated, we need to avoid increase. World deals should already have been agreed in principle and triggered on exit.

To me Mr. Hammond sounds the kind of person who finds it difficult to cope with potential short term risk in order to gain something vital, such as self determination. They'd rather feel secure with the status quo. Maybe it's the Chancellor in him talking. Do nothing no matter what the benefit in case the economy slows for a bit before it takes off and soars for whoever comes after me.

All's well as long as others have a steady hand on the tiller.

[youngmafbog]

Yes, in my eyes anyway cassa and more deserved than many who get it.

I agree OG. Hammond seems like a conniving weasel to me.

[ToraToraTora]

Have a day off eddie! Perlease!

[cassa333]

Who is sIr Nigel?

[youngmafbog]

Now how many Nigels are involved in getting us out of the EU ?

[cassa333]

Doh. Totally threw me that one. I thought perhaps there was another one somewhere lol

The Conservatives should have got him involved from the start. He is the nay one who has ever been consistent about getting out of the EU.

[whiskeryron]

I have said it all along. DO NOT TRUST THE TORIES. `````````````````mark my words. Whatever Theresa does we will still be tied to Europe. Lap dogs to the glorious EU Empire.

[naomi24]

Ron, bearing in mind that every major political party wanted this country to remain in the EU, I don’t think it would have mattered a jot who was handling it. I’ve always suspected the ‘Leavers’ would never get what they wanted. No surprise to me if the whole thing turns out to be one massive stitch up.

[naomi24]

I'd welcome Nigel on the front line. He's the only one with the guts to tell it like it is - and to do what should be done.

[whiskeryron]

Well said naomi, hear hear

[mikey4444]

I can't see any reason why Farage, who has never been elected to Westminster, should be involved with any Government business at all.

But if Mrs May were to admit defeat and bring him in, how would he address the situation....face to face, or would stand with his back to everybody, and show them his backside instead ?

[naomi24]

Mikey, he wouldn’t be the only government advisor who has not been elected to Westminster – but he’d get the job done. And speaking of backsides, he frightens the pants off you! Can't think why. ;o)

[Old_Geezer]

You do not have to be elected to Westminster in order to be a minister, just get your sovereign to agree.

https://www.quora.com/Do-UK-Ministers-have-to-be-MPs-or-Lords

"There are those who have been in the Cabinet without being a Lord or elected member at the time. Frank Cousins and Patrick Gordon Walker in Harold Wilson's Cabinet in 1964 for example, and Peter Mandelson for a period of 2008 (he was swiftly granted a peerage)."