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A thank you to Brexiteers.

not true
at all

bilateral trade agreements signed by the UK in its own right, rather than as a member of the EU, contain specific restrictions on state aid.
and membership of the WTO imposes general restrictions on state aid also.

Useless.

The WTO rules explicity allow subsidies as long as they do not confer an unfair benefit on domestic producers.

That’s clearly not the case here. Fuck me, remainers are thick.
 
Useless.

The WTO rules explicity allow subsidies as long as they do not confer an unfair benefit on domestic producers.

That’s clearly not the case here. Fuck me, remainers are thick.
Exception is also made both by WTO and EU for steel production for ships of war.
 
The issue at Port Talbot is the viability of blast furnaces vs electric arc furnaces (plus, in the case of the latter, UK electricity prices). The idea that the WTO could block state aid for the conversion of blast furnaces or could intervene to prevent a cap on electricity costs in steel mills so that there is a level playing field for UK mills is frankly mental.

I try to keep off this thread because it’s full of bad faith remoaners…this is a classic example. So, bye…
 
I don't get it. Are we ridiculing him for being against brexit, for conducting polling, for trying to oust sunak, or just for being young?
I think one obvious cause for ridicule is the juxtaposition of being a (former?) 'remoaner' activist and now working for the Trussite-loon fringe of the far right of the vermin?
 
I think one obvious cause for ridicule is the juxtaposition of being a (former?) 'remoaner' activist and now working for the Trussite-loon fringe of the far right of the vermin?
Yeah OK, but maybe he's working against Sunak because he personally can't stand the guy. Maybe there's a group of people already organising such opposition that he feels he might be able to contribute to. It doesn't mean he's sympathetic to any wider scheme of theirs, though obviously he might be. I think most importantly, politics at a high level (wherever real power is) is addictive. And actually the only really rebellious thing in parliament just now is the loon far right. There's no kind of rebellion worth talking about on the left anyway. Not in Westminster.
 
Yeah OK, but maybe he's working against Sunak because he personally can't stand the guy. Maybe there's a group of people already organising such opposition that he feels he might be able to contribute to. It doesn't mean he's sympathetic to any wider scheme of theirs, though obviously he might be. I think most importantly, politics at a high level (wherever real power is) is addictive. And actually the only really rebellious thing in parliament just now is the loon far right. There's no kind of rebellion worth talking about on the left anyway. Not in Westminster.
Probably modelling himself on the psychopathic/narcissistic personality disorder model of spadding offered by Cummings rather than any actual belief system or ideology.
 
Jesus are people still using "remoaner" as an insult? Guys it's fine that you've got an opposing view but that shit was schoolyard cringe when it first became popular, let alone years down the line.
It was in inverted commas; I have no dog in that fight, tbh
 
I think one obvious cause for ridicule is the juxtaposition of being a (former?) 'remoaner' activist and now working for the Trussite-loon fringe of the far right of the vermin?
and implementing a hard right wing Brexit. The woman activist in the Guardian article btw is now a journalist at The Times
 
Smokeandsteam didn't though. I think I must have insulated myself a bit too successfully from some of the more childish end of that argument because I've not seen it in a while.
Well, as one of the lexit faithful, I'm not surprised that Smokeandsteam would use the term, tbh. I think they last paid a visit to this thread to tell us all how brexit had saved the UK steel industry.
 
Yeah OK, but maybe he's working against Sunak because he personally can't stand the guy. Maybe there's a group of people already organising such opposition that he feels he might be able to contribute to. It doesn't mean he's sympathetic to any wider scheme of theirs, though obviously he might be. I think most importantly, politics at a high level (wherever real power is) is addictive. And actually the only really rebellious thing in parliament just now is the loon far right. There's no kind of rebellion worth talking about on the left anyway. Not in Westminster.

Maybe ? More like " Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
 
So there is a new deadline of the 8th of February to restore devolved government in Northern Ireland.

Those who voted leave have created this situation.

Saying the bastard DUP don’t want to be a minority in power sharing, or the Windsor arrangement is a solution, or leave voters has a secret plan for a United Ireland is manifest bollocks from those leave voters.

They can’t accept that voting for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to leave the European Union would create two different systems either side of a land border, a situation directly in conflict with the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement.

Unionists want to be in the same leave situation as the rest of the UK, that is their reason for existing, but the quite deliberate creation of a land border by those who voted leave has brought Unionist aspirations into sharp focus and their solution would be a hard controlled land border (which would be dangerous and impractical) as the other external borders of the UK are.

The problem is the same today as it was the morning after the leave referendum.

It is almost a bit of nostalgia remembering those who promoted a technological solution, something else that couldn’t happen. Whatever happened to that ‘solution’?

Whichever way I look at it always comes back to the vile leave voting bastards have fucked things up in Ireland, hence no decent governance right now in Northern Ireland.
 
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