Is Brexit actually going to happen?

[Rimbaud]

Er, except that nobody has claimed this. The article in the Guardian merely suggests that we could learn a lot from Singapore. It is way above us in the UN's Human Development Index for reasons that we would do well to take note of.

So you are suggesting we should transform the entire UK into a city-state strategically based for servicing world shipping routes?

 

[Smangus]

If they grew here we would ban them

Pah! You and your wishy washy liberal excuses!

 

[not-bono-ever]

Larry, you obviously have no understanding of how Singers operates.You have no idea of how Singers uses and discards workers from its poorer neighbours - it cannot function a city state and centre of wealth creation ( lolz ) without an unseen army of cheap indentured/ black market labour force - $20 a day is the current going rate for illegals. You know fuck all quite frankly. Stop posting up shite to rile people. its crap.

 

[Supine]

On a more positive spin Singapore's relative lack of corruption and political stability have allowed global corporations to invest there in factories and company offices.

This has had a knock on affect giving Malay people the opportunity to earn good money by crossing the border each day on their corporate sponsored commuter buses. Better to earn $20 per day (sometime much more) rather than $5 per day back home.

 

[butchersapron]

On a more positive spin Singapore's relative lack of corruption and political stability have allowed global corporations to invest there in factories and company offices.

This has had a knock on affect giving Malay people the opportunity to earn good money by crossing the border each day on their corporate sponsored commuter buses. Better to earn $20 per day (sometime much more) rather than $5 per day back home.

Don't you have any non-commercial values?

 

[teqniq]

 

[not-bono-ever]

On a more positive spin Singapore's relative lack of corruption and political stability have allowed global corporations to invest there in factories and company offices.

This has had a knock on affect giving Malay people the opportunity to earn good money by crossing the border each day on their corporate sponsored commuter buses. Better to earn $20 per day (sometime much more) rather than $5 per day back home.

over half of the total population - over 2m IIRC- are not Singapore nationals- there may be more who are not on the books and working black - there are huge differences between the holders of the lower tiers of visa rights and stuff- never mind those that are outside the system. Its great if you are legal & want to pay 10% tax or are company getting credit back for tax paid overseas, but its a bit different for the hordes who keep the place afloat and dont make a fuss

 

[not-bono-ever]

that read like a lecture. its not. apols all if it comes across that way

 

[Pickman's model]

that read like a lecture. its not. apols all if it comes across that way

lectures traditionally last in the region of an hour and that doesn't.

 

[kebabking]

lectures traditionally last in the region of an hour and that doesn't.

and often feature tea and biscuits afterwards. hobnobs, or pink wafers if its friday...

 

[Pickman's model]

and often feature tea and biscuits afterwards. hobnobs, or pink wafers if its friday...

i like the way you're thinking

 

[not-bono-ever]

lectures traditionally last in the region of an hour and that doesn't.

I know< I have to present a paper this week and my mindset is in blunt delivery mode. grr

 

[not-bono-ever]

so there will be a parliamentary vote apparently.

This entire Brexit issue is going to hang over the country for decades like an Albanian blood feud.

 

[hipipol]

Given that the Chuckup Brothers are now mates again after the "Gove for King" debacle it is fair to assume a collapsing stumble across the finish line in the race to see just how bad the obsessive ambition and greed that animates the Tory gut can make life for everyone else - especially for a British citizen, caught in another countries internal political wranglings, end up getting her sentence INCREASED, primarily because, being foreign and having no previous experience with these shysters, they were believed.
Not a mistake the EU will make
They hold them, May, Davis, the whole lying venal incompetent pile of ordure that is "The UK Govt" in complete and total contempt
It will happen as we are going to be evicted, every day and with every idiotic utterance the "Negotiating Team" deepen the dislike and anger and push is towards being the Giant Orange Pillock latest gimp "ally"

 

[Silas Loom]

This entire Brexit issue is going to hang over the country for decades like an Albanian blood feud.

You sound like Boris Johnson addressing the Tirana Chamber of Commerce.

 

[hipipol]

so there will be a parliamentary vote apparently.

This entire Brexit issue is going to hang over the country for decades like an Albanian blood feud.

Is this the famous "After the Event" vote?
Or the clamoured for "Meaningful" vote?
In functional terms, both are synonyms for "Pointless" vote, but there ye, reclaim democracy you lazy buggers, bring it home, with all the chickens for a wee rest

 

[hipipol]

so there will be a parliamentary vote apparently.

This entire Brexit issue is going to hang over the country for decades like an Albanian blood feud.

Sadly more like the US Civil War - 150+ years on, they still aint got the racist bollocks from out of their thought and public life

 

[not-bono-ever]

Thinking more akin to the Miners strike - still splitting families to this day

 

[Silas Loom]

Anyway, this is a bit of con - Davis is saying that it will be policy to have a vote but not statute, so they scupper Grieve's amendment and leave the door open for backsies.

 

[Pickman's model]

Anyway, this is a bit of con - Davis is saying that it will be policy to have a vote but not statute, so they scupper Grieve's amendment and leave the door open for backsies.

is that like handsies?

 

[not-bono-ever]

So this vote it will be like eating in a really shit fake morleys resturant with a "0" hygene rating

1) Accept what slightly whiffy putrescent chicken wings you are given and chum it down, holding your nose and trying to avoid vomiting
2) Walk out and spend the rest of the night with your face pressed up against the oily glass, watching the other diners hold their noses and avoid vomiting

No Option 3)

3) Go to the Ivy and work your way through the evening menu, then start on the cask aged port. Which is what we were promised.

 

[Poi E]

...

 

[toblerone3]

Option 3 is stay in the EU
Option 3 is ask for a negotiating extension.

 

[Supine]

Option 3 is stay in the EU
Option 3 is ask for a negotiating extension.

I think there are only two options on offer

 

[mojo pixy]

And not one of them is a Golden Future

 

[toblerone3]

So MPs get to vote on the deal
Do MPs also get to vote on the option of crashing out of the EU with no deal?

What happens if they reject both?

 

[elbows]

So is this May using Russia against hard brexiteers?

May: EU deal to 'counter' Russia threat

 

[not-bono-ever]

it is likey to be accept or crash out ?

 

[Raheem]

It think it depends on how the bill turns out. It hasn't been drafted yet, and MPs will be able to propose amendments.

 

[Pickman's model]

it is likey to be accept or crash out ?

Yes