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[Smangus]

I don’t understand what happened yesterday, they voted to deny themselselves (parliament) any say in future trade deals? Why? Just don’t get it at all.

Its so they can do what they want without being accountable to anybody, least of all Parliment.

Johnson and his goons have a real issue with being held to account by anyone, see the ISC chair debacle. That was all about trying to avoid scrutiny. It's a very dangerous culture at the heart of Gvt.

 

[editor]

Totally corrupt. Britain's future decided on this fucking farce.

Russia report: UK 'badly underestimated' threat, says committee

Russian influence in the UK is now "the new normal", according to a parliamentary committee.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[cupid_stunt]

Totally corrupt. Britain's future decided on this fucking farce.

Russia report: UK 'badly underestimated' threat, says committee

Russian influence in the UK is now "the new normal", according to a parliamentary committee.

www.bbc.co.uk

Thread here...

The Russia report.

So for nine months this report has been put on hold. It is to be published at 10.30am tomorrow 21/7/20. Do you think it will actually reveal anything or have more lines of redaction than actual print. Are you expecting a dead cat story overnight? If not I expect it won't reveal too much but...

www.urban75.net

 

[bimble]

And the majority of MPs in the place happily voted for that yesterday, sat there &voted to not allow themselves a vote. That’s the bit I’m struggling to get my head round.

 

[quiet guy]

To be fair some won't have realized what they were voting for, some will have been persuaded to vote due to their financial considerations and the rest are cunts, just CUNTS.

 

[two sheds]

Another step along towards presidential rather than parliament style government. I saw recently Johnson wants to reorganize the NHS so he gets more control as this will be more efficient . Aside from his fuckups already having been responsible for a lot of the excess deaths.

 

[ska invita]

Hold on a minute. Much though I adore taking the piss out of the Cornish, they're not actually cookie cutter copies of each other. They didn't all vote the same way or think the same way. And there is a serious situation with regard to people's livelihoods; people will actually be hungry at the end of all this, and I'm not entirely sure that I like the deckchair-and-popcorn attitude. It doesn't feel very Urban to me. Sorry.

Of course no county is full of people all the same.
However as a county they voted Tory by a vast majority


I'm not laughing at anyone. We live in a country full of majority Tory voters. Theres no punchline.

 

[Badgers]

 

[gentlegreen]

Sadly I doubt that will make my ex-copper uncle in Brixham take all the UKIP crap off his facebook ..

 

[SpookyFrank]

To be fair some won't have realized what they were voting for, some will have been persuaded to vote due to their financial considerations and the rest are cunts, just CUNTS.

If they voted for it without knowing what it was that puts them firmly in the 'cunt' category.

 

[editor]

 

[gosub]

Watch BBC News live - BBC iPlayer

Watch BBC News live on BBC iPlayer.

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Kind of busy this morning but walked past as saw a strapline - clear agreement won't be reached in July -

Best endeavours? Its 23/7 or are they planning on working in August

 

[Raheem]

21 October is the date now, apparently.

ETA: It's not actually the date now, obvs.

 

[Badgers]

 

[two sheds]

flooding hasn't half changed the landscape

 

[Anju]

Another inevitable consequence of brexit. Not the Gove is a liar part which would obviously be true regardless.

Gove branded 'liar' as MPs vote down animal welfare amendment

 

[Badgers]

My heart bleeds for Helen Whately

'It cannot become a lorry rat run'

A Kent MP is calling for robust plans to ensure a key A-road does not become a rat run for HGVs when a huge post-Brexit lorry park opens.

www.kentonline.co.uk

 

[brogdale]

My heart bleeds for Helen Whately

'It cannot become a lorry rat run'

A Kent MP is calling for robust plans to ensure a key A-road does not become a rat run for HGVs when a huge post-Brexit lorry park opens.

www.kentonline.co.uk

Article does not, of course, mention that the Whately's have just purchased an old Manor house & farm just 50m off the A251.

 

[Badgers]

Article does not, of course, mention that the Whately's have just purchased an old Manor house & farm just 50m off the A251.

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Hope that helps her through the hard times

 

[brogdale]

Though, tbh the A251 is a shite road and route that hold limited appeal for most international HGV drivers. It's a typical, unimproved East Kent road that is very narrow, quite twisty with blind spots notorious for RTAs & climbs up the North Downs scarp slope very steeply just North of Ashford. Then getting to the M2 East of Medway is no great thing; its mid 60's dual track infrastructure feels more like an old trunk road than a motorway. Any lorry driver in their right mind would plough on up the M20 using the Swanley junction to get to the tunnel.

 

[SpookyFrank]

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Without Norway Sweden and Finland look even more like a droopy cock and balls.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Article does not, of course, mention that the Whately's have just purchased an old Manor house & farm just 50m off the A251.

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Looks like she's got parking space for three or four HGVs right there. Kind of her to chip in like that.

 

[Badgers]

Looks like she's got parking space for three or four HGVs right there. Kind of her to chip in like that.

Knowing the Tories she will charge them a premium.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Without Norway Sweden and Finland look even more like a droopy cock and balls.

This is the kind of insightful political analysis missing in most of today’s media. We need more of this!

 

[Badgers]

No-deal Brexit would 'kill' Welsh lamb trade - Farmers Weekly

A major importer of Welsh lamb into France has warned industry leaders that import tariffs on sheepmeat products in the event of a no-deal Brexit would

www.fwi.co.uk

 

[Badgers]

Boris Johnson's dream of a 'Global Britain' is turning into a nightmare

Six months ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson celebrated Brexit by describing Britain as the Superman of global trade.

amp.cnn.com

Six months ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson celebrated Brexit by describing Britain as the Superman of global trade.

Now, the country risks becoming an also-ran, losing its easy access to the huge EU common market, unable to strike a groundbreaking deal with the United States and on the brink of a trade fight with China.

Trade experts fear this will leave the United Kingdom more isolated than it has been for decades as it fights an unprecedented health and economic crisis. It's already on course for the deepest downturn of any major economy, in part a result of persistent uncertainty tied to Brexit.

 

[Pickman's model]

Boris Johnson's dream of a 'Global Britain' is turning into a nightmare

Six months ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson celebrated Brexit by describing Britain as the Superman of global trade.

amp.cnn.com

We'll be the Clark Kent of global trade.

 

[Pickman's model]

My heart bleeds for Helen Whately

'It cannot become a lorry rat run'

A Kent MP is calling for robust plans to ensure a key A-road does not become a rat run for HGVs when a huge post-Brexit lorry park opens.

www.kentonline.co.uk

Any relative of the dunwich whateleys?

"The Dunwich Horror" by H. P. Lovecraft

'The Dunwich Horror' by H. P. Lovecraft

www.hplovecraft.com

 

[not-bono-ever]

We'll be the Clark Kent of global trade.

 

[brogdale]

Then and now...