If Labour Were In Power

[emmie]

how would you see them coping with all the Brexit talks, negotiations that are ongoing.
i haven't any link, just a question.

[Gromit]

The whole fiaso over the border with Ireland should have been sorted out in a morning (because there was only one realistic answer). It took May and Davis weeks because the DUP had to be placated, because May called a pointless and stupid election and lost its majority.
Even if it was trying its very hardest, I doubt Labour could have been as incompetent has the Tories have been.

[emmie]

Gromit
not sure you are right, every time i see Corbyn and co i shake my head in amazement at their incompetence, shaking hands and back slapping local activists, Anti Semitic members,
and the like.

[Gromit]

Emmie,
The reason behind the Conservatives incompetence, inertia and shamblolic negotiating is due to the party being fairly evenly split between Leavers and remainers. May was trying to please everyone, and succeeded pleasing no one.
The split in Labour is less even. 90% of Labour MPs were/are remainers. Unfortunately the other 10% are the current leaders. So a similar paralysis may have occurred.

[emmie]

it could well have done, at least Mrs May seems a bit more relaxed over these hard fought negotiations..

[HansUrbancka]

Brexit is likely to drag on for a few years because there are good financial returns for all who are involved with negotiations.

The UK could say to the EU, "We are leaving today without any withdrawal fee, unless you can put forward excellent reasons for us remaining a day further and what cost you put upon such a position which you require."

Why should we be begging from the EU when the whole world is our oyster and waiting for us to be free of all ties with Europe.

Hans.

[Gromit]

// Mrs May seems a bit more relaxed //

Really?

Perhaps its her zen garden...



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[fender62]

they would sell us down the river, open the floodgates to legal and illegal migrants..calais point in question, anyone with spares room would be made to house migrants, hamas would have an embassy.
they would charter a cruise liner dock off libya and let all and sundry on for a new life in money tree britain, as for brexit corbyn would give them a blank cheque and say fill in what you think is fair.

[emmie]

fender
that's a rather bleak outlook lol

[HansUrbancka]

The EU should be making deals with the UK. Not the other way around.

We can survive without the EU. So is this now a case of the EU avoiding the fact that it require the UK far more than it is willing to admit.
Technologically the UK is well in advance of any European country.

Hans.

[Old_Geezer]

There are no details re the border issue it's been fudged. NI won't be treated as an unimportant minor province that can be treated with disdain. Had to be fudged really because Eire kept demanding guarantees from the UK who was already trying for a soft border, instead of their bosses in the EU who were refusing to relax their border.

But true, it could have been sorted in a morning if the EU were reasonable, and Eire capable of understanding who they had to convince. Unfortunately it's been demonstrated neither will ever be likely.

[Old_Geezer]

We also clearly have plenty of time for trade talks. We must have as the EU have been happily squandering time on demands for ransom, and refusing to progress onto the trade talks. And no sane individual would do that if there wasn't oodles of time they just didn't know what to do with.

[fender62]

emmie, it goes for the tory party as well, if they could..they would sell the uk to china, everyone would be forced to work 23 hrs a day, rupert murdoch would have shares, we would all be forced to have sky tv
with murdoch rambling after dinner drink jokes....

[emmie]

fender, an even worse scenario,, gosh its cheerful on here, lol..

[whiskeryron]

For those of us who wanted our country back, has it really done us any good ? Brexit keeps rambling on & on. I am tired of hearing all this rubbish about paying the EU for us to leave, for goodness sake we owe them nothing. Please let us close the channel tunnel & just leave. Furthermore all of the MPs in Parliament who deliberately keep fudging the issue in order that the will of the people will be ignored, let us force them out of office.It is time for us to be heard loud & clear.