We will have less control than we have now cos as we all know we already control our borders. Maybe it’s some kind of meta trolling of leave voters.
So is there anything the UK hasn’t given in on (or kicked the can down the road) in these negotations so far?
So they’ve agreed to something that the DUP said would happen over their dead bodies? That approach went really well just before Christmas…
Surely they could be prosecuted for putting stuff in the Thames? Do we really not have rules on water cleanliness levels?
‘Iconic’.
No mates.
Best case scenario is the EU and UK will try hard af to protect the money, cos that’s what they do best, and just enough people with a stake in it all will be protected so the remaining people left poverty stricken can be safely ignored.
‘MADE IN THE EU’ in large print and a massive EU flag on the back cover.
The fact that the people dealing with it don’t have the slightest awareness of how the EU or trade actually works is the scariest thing.
I enjoyed the guy from the passport company inviting May or Rudd up to Gateshead to explain it to his staff on Today this morning. Top trolling.
This is odd, and funny (the link should take you to the 16.41 status update):
The remoaners plus a random 3.8% of Brexiters?
Do like the fact that even the current BRITISH manufacturer of passports has a french company name.
BRITAIN’S post-Brexit blue passports are to be impregnated with the stench of garlic and snails by their French manufacturers, it has emerged.
The passports, which have been hailed as the only tangible benefit of leaving the EU, will be manufactured by Franco-Dutch company Gemalto and forever tainted by their continental sophistication.
A Gemalto spokesman said: “Our manufacturing process will be entirely staffed by thin-moustached Frenchmen who read Sartre, drink two bottles of wine for lunch and have complicated affairs.
“They will be touching your passport, touching it with their baguette fingers, and consequently it will reek of garlic from 40 paces. Customs officials will cover their noses when you approach.
“The executive level of the business is entirely Dutch, however, high on skunk and office prostitutes, so will print the Royal seal backwards making a mockery of your ‘sovereignty’.
“It will be a passport of shame, of failure, of betrayal. A passport of Brexit.”
Leave voter Roy Hobbs of Barnsley said: “As long as it’s blue. Nothing else matters if it’s blue.”
On a serious note, did anyone read Simon Jenkins’ ‘Britain is heading for Norway’ piece?
Pretty much sums up how I’ve felt since the 24th of June 2016 in that I’ve always thought that the UK will adopt a Norway type deal, in effect remaining an EU member state in all but name. I’ve always thought that the UK will continue to trade within the single market through membership of the EEA and, to circumvent a hard border in N. Ireland, will remain in the customs union.
I have no doubt that that will happen.