President Biden; impact on UK, Ireland, Brexit, trade etc..
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Let's wait for trump to fall first, he's still in charge for 2.5 months
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Oh yeah, but the transition team will already be functioning and some of our key deadlines fall before then.
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
You really think Trump will facilitate any sort of transition?
He'll try everything to fuck up the transition as much as possible.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
You think trump will cooperate with a transition team?
He didn't cooperate with the Obama administration and refused to engage with their transition efforts when he'd won. So I put it to you it is unlikely he will assist in any way biden and harris
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I assume they'll be working as a parallel state tbh.You think trump will cooperate with a transition team?
He didn't cooperate with the Obama administration and refused to engage with their transition efforts when he'd won. So I put it to you it is unlikely he will assist in any way biden and harris
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
There is a handover period
But trump won't be handing over
Biden will be starting from scratch on 21/1/21
Perhaps his experience in the wh will stand him in good stead tho
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
It'll be a no deal Prexit.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
If he's Ireland friendly, it's a bonus.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
At least he has some clue, because his predecessor certainly didn't.
WATCH: Donald Trump calls Ireland 'basically the UK' in meeting with Leo Varadkar
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
It will kill off, quickly and starkly, the illinformed fantasy of some that the US will come riding to the economic and political rescue in a no-deal scenario with the EU.
It will make NATO far more cohesive, and make Europe more receptive to US concerns as well as vice versa. European states and institutions will be far happier to be seen engaging with the US, and the US will lose (some of) the short term, nakedly transactional approach it takes to European security and revert to a much more medium/long term view.
Putin won't like it. At all.
Johnson will become even less attractive to Tory MP's, his obviously being cold shouldered by Biden will probably hasten his retirement.
It will make NATO far more cohesive, and make Europe more receptive to US concerns as well as vice versa. European states and institutions will be far happier to be seen engaging with the US, and the US will lose (some of) the short term, nakedly transactional approach it takes to European security and revert to a much more medium/long term view.
Putin won't like it. At all.
Johnson will become even less attractive to Tory MP's, his obviously being cold shouldered by Biden will probably hasten his retirement.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
We'll be negotiating with someone sane so we'll get utterly fucking shafted. We won't even get the faint hope that president loonspud Trump will just accidentally let us sell them rocks for 300 quid each.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i am not sure your 3 is consonant with your 4
Years and years ago, Pickman's model, when I was a more rufty-tufty boatie type and we were still fearing some nuclear disaster, I seriously considered South Georgia as a possible anchorage. A miserable summer spent bird-ringing on St.Kilda quickly removed my delusion of fortitude but, for an anti-social misanthrope, the idea of a little getaway down the more temperate eastern coast still features in my more paranoid 'gotta flee' fantasies.
Years and years ago, Pickman's model, when I was a more rufty-tufty boatie type and we were still fearing some nuclear disaster, seriously considered South Georgia as a possible anchorage. A miserable summer spent bird-ringing on St.Kilda quickly removed my delusion of fortitude but, for an anti-social misanthrope, the idea of a little getaway down the more temperate eastern coast still features in my more paranoid 'gotta flee' fantasies.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Pickman's model
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Anyway,Pickman's model, since discovering megaherbs, I would be off to the NZ subantarctic islands now (Campbell, Macquairie). I have grown a couple of specimens of the Campbell Island carrot (anisotoma latifolia) but lacking giant wetas as pollination partners, this has been a bit of a fail. I would definitely break my self-imposed travel ban for a horticultural tour if I had the spare £££
more thread derailing - apols
more thread derailing - apols
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Back OT...here's the Barclay brothers' favourite swivel-eyed loon's view (along with some tame 'academics' & commentators):
tl/dw ? Everything's gonna be fine and the US doesn't really understand the GFA.
That's ok, nor does hmg
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
No one likes us we don't care
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
The SE16 of the "global community".
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Homestly I don't get why you're trying to send all the wrong 'uns there, it looks lovely to me. Send em to fucking Peterborough and make them work at Shoe Zone, that'll teach them.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
No penguins in Peterborough.
Not wild ones anyway
The former people will expiate their sins through labouring on a range of projects including the drainage of falkland sound and the construction of the grytviken - buenos aires friendship bridge. And the wildlife population of the Falklands, south georgia and the south sandwich islands is projected to boom after the construction and opening of the penguin pellet food factory in grytviken. It will be the literal final refuge of the jingos
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