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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    We had McCain.

    Too bad he was the only Repug with a spine and a sense of duty.
    once in awhile he did


    he also backed some really evil and stupid stuff in his lifetime

    he picked Palin for jebus sake

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    Brexit: Boris Johnson ridiculed by Luxembourg PM after skipping press conference – live news

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ws-latest-news
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    Boris Johnson
    Incredible Sulk morphs from green to yellow as he is bested by Bettel


    https://www.theguardian.com/politics...sted-by-bettel

    Haw, haw.............................haw.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    It has to be humiliating for your first three votes to fail. I wish our Senate had a backbone.
    It's a seven-vote failure now - and an ' excoriating ' defeat by the Supreme Court Justices, exposed as lying to parliament and his queen, referred to the police for misuse of public funds and a charge of groping.
    ' Britain Trump ' is on a roll ! Haw, haw...........................haqw.
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    Eight-Nil now. Johnson is proving to actually be the clown he projects himself as.

    PM sends EU unsigned request seeking Brexit delay



    Boris Johnson has sent a request to the EU for a delay to Brexit - but without his signature.

    The request was accompanied by a second letter, signed by Mr Johnson, which says he believes that a delay would be a mistake.

    The PM was required by law to ask the EU for an extension to the 31 October deadline after losing a Commons vote.

    EU Council President Donald Tusk tweeted that he had received the extension request.

    He did not provide details of its content, but added that he will now consult EU leaders "on how to react".

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-501129
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    We had McCain.

    Too bad he was the only Repug with a spine and a sense of duty.
    McCain did not have enough of a backbone to say no to Sarah Palin when she was foisted upon him but at least he stood up this dolt after his VP pick was spreading shameless fear mongering BS around about Obama.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    Eight-Nil now. Johnson is proving to actually be the clown he projects himself as.
    So, how does it work over there? You have an election. People vote. Then, as long as
    the losers cry, whine and stomp their feet over the results and scream
    waaah waaah waaah boo hoo...we want a do over!!!...you throw the original
    winning voters under the bus and acquiesce to the tantrum tossers?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    So, how does it work over there? You have an election. People vote. Then, as long as
    the losers cry, whine and stomp their feet over the results and scream
    waaah waaah waaah boo hoo...we want a do over!!!...you throw the original
    winning voters under the bus and acquiesce to the tantrum tossers?
    Funny how Moonshite's new hero Oliver Letwin is a real life hang 'em and flog 'em old school Tory, odious little shit. Corbyn and his cronies are only postponing the inevitable arse reaming Labour will get at the General Election. This is how the Spectator sees events unfolding.


    Boris Johnson has 72 hours to win over a dozen MPs

    JAMES FORSYTH

    Today was meant to be the day that parliament decided on Brexit. But this parliament will always choose to postpone that moment. By voting for the Letwin amendment by 322 to 306, the Commons chose to avoid stating whether it backs the new Brexit deal or not.

    The next key moment will come on Monday when there will be a meaningful vote on the deal. Judging from the vote on the Letwin amendment, Boris Johnson has 306 solid votes both for his deal and a programme motion that would get the legislation through by the 31 October. So he needs to find 14 more votes between now and then. Oliver Letwin and Nick Boles have both indicated that they would back both the deal and the programme motion. This means the whips have 72 hours to find the other dozen votes they need.

    This Saturday has been an anti-climax and Boris Johnson will have to send a letter requesting an extension that he has been desperate not to send. But it is not that bad a day for him. He now has 306 votes in the bank for his deal, twenty more votes than May’s deal ever got, and 72 hours to find the other 14 he needs with his whips knowing precisely which pools to fish in. At the same time, his dream of leaving on the 31 October is still alive.

    I suspect that the large section of the public who just want this matter dealt with will blame parliament not the government for the failure to reach a decision today. If the UK doesn’t end up leaving on the 31st, I now doubt that Boris Johnson would suffer politically for that. Indeed, I think that if he blamed an obstructionist parliament for the failure to leave, he would get a boost in the polls as he is now able to appeal both to those who want Brexit done come what may and those who want to leave but only with a deal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    So, how does it work over there? You have an election. People vote. Then, as long as
    the losers cry, whine and stomp their feet over the results and scream
    waaah waaah waaah boo hoo...we want a do over!!!...you throw the original
    winning voters under the bus and acquiesce to the tantrum tossers?
    Yes- just like Gore versus 'Guantanamo George' Bush- but without the hanging chads.
    " First they came for the journalists...
    We don't know what happened after that . "

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    maggot;
    Boris Johnson has 72 hours to win over a dozen MPs
    You mean a dozen assholes, maggot. No decent Brit is going to associate her/his self with your crippled 8-0 Eton loser. You, on the other hand...........................haw, haw........................haw.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Funny how Moonshite's new hero Oliver Letwin is a real life hang 'em and flog 'em old school Tory, odious little shit. Corbyn and his cronies are only postponing the inevitable arse reaming Labour will get at the General Election. This is how the Spectator sees events unfolding.


    Boris Johnson has 72 hours to win over a dozen MPs

    JAMES FORSYTH

    Today was meant to be the day that parliament decided on Brexit. But this parliament will always choose to postpone that moment. By voting for the Letwin amendment by 322 to 306, the Commons chose to avoid stating whether it backs the new Brexit deal or not.

    The next key moment will come on Monday when there will be a meaningful vote on the deal. Judging from the vote on the Letwin amendment, Boris Johnson has 306 solid votes both for his deal and a programme motion that would get the legislation through by the 31 October. So he needs to find 14 more votes between now and then. Oliver Letwin and Nick Boles have both indicated that they would back both the deal and the programme motion. This means the whips have 72 hours to find the other dozen votes they need.

    This Saturday has been an anti-climax and Boris Johnson will have to send a letter requesting an extension that he has been desperate not to send. But it is not that bad a day for him. He now has 306 votes in the bank for his deal, twenty more votes than May’s deal ever got, and 72 hours to find the other 14 he needs with his whips knowing precisely which pools to fish in. At the same time, his dream of leaving on the 31 October is still alive.

    I suspect that the large section of the public who just want this matter dealt with will blame parliament not the government for the failure to reach a decision today. If the UK doesn’t end up leaving on the 31st, I now doubt that Boris Johnson would suffer politically for that. Indeed, I think that if he blamed an obstructionist parliament for the failure to leave, he would get a boost in the polls as he is now able to appeal both to those who want Brexit done come what may and those who want to leave but only with a deal.
    Thank-you. I've got another question.
    As you said and I heard today watching Parliament, BoJo must by law send that request for an extension.
    OK. I think Juncker said a few days ago he's not interested in giving an extension. Hopefully they'll just say 'no', right?
    In fact BoJo sent 3 letters (none of them were from the heart obviously).

    "an unsigned photocopy of the request he was obliged to send under the Benn act, an explanatory letter from the UK’s ambassador to the EU and a letter explaining why Downing Street did not want an extension." https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-says-brussels

    My opinion is the EU won't get the full 27 votes. I think they're as sick of the whole thing as people in the U.K. are. What do you think?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    You have Starmer, Watson, McDonnell and Corbyn at each other's throats. Can't see them lasting much longer!!
    Britain needs to accept that they are now subjects of the EU. They are not getting out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    Thank-you. I've got another question.
    As you said and I heard today watching Parliament, BoJo must by law send that request for an extension.
    OK. I think Juncker said a few days ago he's not interested in giving an extension. Hopefully they'll just say 'no', right?
    In fact BoJo sent 3 letters (none of them were from the heart obviously).

    "an unsigned photocopy of the request he was obliged to send under the Benn act, an explanatory letter from the UK’s ambassador to the EU and a letter explaining why Downing Street did not want an extension." https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-says-brussels

    My opinion is the EU won't get the full 27 votes. I think they're as sick of the whole thing as people in the U.K. are. What do you think?
    the EU actually benefits greatly from the UK being in their union. They dont want the UK to leave. Additionally, they want to make the idea of leaving the EU seem insurrmountable, so that other nations don't try it in the future. For these reasons, the EU has a great deal of motivation to continue fucking with the UK. The thing is, the UK can fuck them right back in many different ways. So there is that.


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    Quote Originally Posted by 12 days View Post
    the EU actually benefits greatly from the UK being in their union. They dont want the UK to leave. Additionally, they want to make the idea of leaving the EU seem insurrmountable, so that other nations don't try it in the future. For these reasons, the EU has a great deal of motivation to continue fucking with the UK. The thing is, the UK can fuck them right back in many different ways. So there is that.
    Germany is in a technical recession right now, the last thing they need is even more disruption and uncertainty.

    Germany’s ailing economy can’t afford a no-deal Brexit, Berlin is on the brink – and a fresh eurozone crisis is looming

    The UK was the ‘sick man’ when we ‘joined Europe’ in 1973. Now, with Britain on the cusp of leaving, the European Union’s largest economy is decidedly out of sorts. After failing to recover over the summer, Germany is now almost certainly in recession. The state of the fourth biggest economy on earth always matters — but with Germany dragging down the broader eurozone, its declining health could decisively impact Brexit negotiations too.

    Politically, Brussels and Dublin are bullish. They have dismissed Boris Johnson’s proposals, gambling on an extension and perhaps Brexit being cancelled entirely. But such intransigence could yet cause a disorderly no-deal Brexit — which would have a pretty big impact on all major economies on the continent. With the eurozone on the edge of financial meltdown, the EU’s ailing economy needs a no-deal Brexit like a hole in the head.

    Germany has long been the beating heart of the eurozone. But that economic pulse has been getting weaker. The German economy shrank between April and June, the second contraction in less than 12 months. Preliminary data for the third quarter, July to September, shows the country’s mighty manufacturing sector rapidly declining.

    To make matters worse, Germany’s new services sector orders just fell for the first time in five years. Its neighbours look on in horror, knowing what a German slump might mean for them. They want Angela Merkel to embark on a debt-fuelled spending splurge to stave off a region-wide recession. She resists, insisting that Germany’s ‘culture’ is to avoid running up debt.

    Merkel faces the dilemma at the heart of her country’s body politic — and its key role within the single currency. If she is to boost Germany’s economy, spreading growth across the eurozone, the nation’s instinctive economic caution must be overcome. And it’s about more than just Germany. How Merkel responds to recession — allowing a no-deal Brexit to happen or taking steps to prevent it — will impact not only the UK’s EU withdrawal. It could determine whether monetary union survives.

    Germany is, to some extent, a victim of its own success. Its formidable export machine consistently generates trade surpluses equal to a massive 8 per cent of GDP — a projected $276 billion (£225 billion) this year, the biggest in the world. Yet heavy export reliance explains this dramatic domestic slowdown. When the global economy turns sour, there’s less demand for German wares.

    At the last count, German export orders were dropping at the fastest rate for ten years. Tit-for-tat US-China tariffs mean cars made by German firms in America are more expensive when exported to China, at a time when Chinese car demand is plunging. Two-fifths of VW’s global sales are in China, and a third for Daimler and BMW — with German brands accounting for a quarter of all Chinese car sales. All that, plus the emissions scandal, is hammering German carmakers, whose output nosedived last year, weighing on the wider economy.

    China might grab the headlines, but a fifth of German car exports are sold in Britain — the market with the highest profit margins. A no-deal Brexit could halve total exports to the UK, according to Germany’s respected IWH Institute, shattering domestic supply chains and costing 100,000 jobs.

    Things became worse when the World Trade Organisation last week ruled that the aero-plane manufacturer Airbus has received illegal subsidies for the past 15 years, paving the way for the US to hit the EU with goods tariffs of up to 25 per cent as soon as next month. Successive shocks to Germany’s car industry add up to a major problem. The combination of a no-deal Brexit, plus heavy US tariffs, could do systemic damage to an industry vital to Germany and the eurozone.

    Germany’s recent export success has been built — in part — on a cheap currency. Ahead of the euro’s 1999 launch, weaker currencies such as the Italian lira and Spanish peseta were hyped up, while enduing reunification costs tempered the German mark. So monetary union ‘locked in’ Germany’s competitive advantage, while lumbering less productive countries with an inflexible currency that was far too high.

    This initial mispricing explains why the Italian economy has barely grown over the past two decades, with Greece shrinking by 25 per cent. The euro crisis of 2011-12 drove down the single currency against the dollar — extending Germany’s currency advantage to the global marketplace too. As Germany prospered, southern eurozone nations suffered. Then came the ignominy of the Club Med economies being bailed-out by Berlin, which to assuage its own electorate imposed repayment conditions that were inevitably breached — spreading discontent all round. Designed to promote Europe-wide prosperity and unity, monetary union has instead spread nationalism and mutual distrust.

    Now, with Germany itself on its economic uppers, and eurozone bond markets distressed, there is massive pressure for policy stimulus. Having done so well out of eurozone membership, at the expense of others, Germany is now expected to show ‘solidarity’ with weaker states.

    The European Central Bank cut interest rates again last month and returned to quantitative easing, churning out another €20 billion a month for the foreseeable future. But more ECB funny money could easily backfire, spooking financial markets more than it calms. Driving eurozone rates even further into negative territory (the base rate is now minus 0.5 per cent) also makes life harder for the eurozone’s fragile banking sector.

    The region’s stock of dodgy (non–performing) loans is three times higher than in the US and four times that of Japan. The likes of Greece and Cyprus remain the worse culprits, but Germany’s banks are not immune. Shares at Deutsche Bank remain over 90 per cent below their pre-crisis peak, as traders question the stability of this European banking lynchpin. Yet, by eating into profits, the ECB’s latest rate cut makes eurozone bank balance sheets even weaker.

    Such monetary quackery certainly upsets Germany, where memories of inter-war hyperinflation, and resulting political chaos, run deep. A previously obscure ECB internal accounting system known as ‘Target-2’ — showing massive IOUs being racked up between Germany and weaker eurozone members — often features in the popular press. German tabloid Bild portrays Italian ECB supremo Mario Draghi as a vampire: ‘Count Draghila, sucking our accounts dry.’

    Any Berlin-boost, then, will be fiscal — lower taxes and/or higher spending. Germany has pretty low national debt, having run budget surpluses since 2013, so Merkel does have scope to act. She faces, though, a national aversion to borrowing, known as schwarze null, or black zero — a deep-seated cross-party belief in balanced budgets, another reflection of Germany’s tumultuous past. Such caution would limit any German stimulus, to the dismay of the French. Many in Germany now question the black zero logic. ‘In a fragile economic situation, black zero should be put under review,’ says Joachim Lang, director-general of the BDI industry group, a bastion of German conservatism. ‘German fiscal policy must change.’

    After all, with negative bond rates, markets are offering to pay, to lend money to German government. A €50 billion growth package has been officially mooted, but only if recession happens. Waiting for the slump before you act risks serious damage to business and consumer sentiment. And €50 billion isn’t much — less than 1.5 per cent of German GDP.

    What’s clear is that a fresh eurozone crisis is looming — and it could be a lot more serious than in 2011. Back then it was the economic minnows in trouble — Greece, Portugal, Ireland. This time, much bigger economies could face bank runs and crises of confidence. A eurozone implosion sparked by Italy, for instance, would roil global markets, risking a 2008 re-run.

    Italian banks have bought at least €360 billion of domestic government debt, representing over 10 per cent of bank assets. This has created a ‘doom loop’, with the state itself heavily exposed in any banking crisis. Even the eurozone authorities would struggle to fund any Italian rescue-plan — giving Rome kamikaze bargaining power in its ongoing budget rows with Brussels. During the last crisis, too, Draghi could credibly promise to do ‘whatever it takes’, cutting rates and dousing down bond and equity markets with QE cash. Now, government debts, across the board, are much higher. And with rates already negative, and endless QE a given, the ECB’s medicine cupboard is bare.

    Unless Germany takes bold fiscal action, boosting growth elsewhere, we can expect populist Euroscepticism to rise in Italy, France and Germany itself. That could cause bond markets finally to crack, the ECB unable to stop the patient from slipping away.

    Which brings us to Merkel’s dilemma. Driving forward the ‘European project’ is central to Germany’s modern political identity. But so is staunch fiscal restraint. Both orthodoxies have their roots in the extremes and excesses of 20th century German history. But to adhere to one sacred commitment — a balanced budget — Berlin may have to sacrifice the other: preventing a eurozone implosion by unleashing a debt-fuelled spending boom. On cue, the French are cranking up the pressure. Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire just condemned Germany for a ‘total lack of investment in the eurozone’ — only the latest sign of tension between Merkel and Emmanuel Macron. The French President has previously denounced Germany’s ‘perpetual fetish for budget and trade surpluses… always at the expense of others’.

    Amid civil unrest and continued ‘yellow jacket’ agitation (what, you didn’t know?), Paris accuses Berlin of having the money to do more but refusing. ‘We must not wait until the economic situation worsens to make the necessary decisions,’ says Le Maire.

    For several years, France has appealed to Germany to invest more to ‘stabilise’ the eurozone — that is, write off inter-eurozone debts and spread cash across the continent, including to France. Now the Elysée is looking its own furious street protesters in the eye and telling them it’s all Germany’s fault. The European Commission on Wednesday added its voice, calling for ‘pre-emptive, rather than reactive’ fiscal policy — which only Germany can deliver. It is against this background that Berlin, and all EU governments, must consider if they want the additional economic fall-out from a no-deal Brexit.

    ‘The economic sky is not cloudless,’ Merkel remarked when she met Boris Johnson in Berlin over the summer — adding that Brexit is ‘already causing us headaches’, so an ‘orderly withdrawal is preferable in every respect’.

    For the German Chancellor, holding the economic future of the continent in her hands, this is the worst possible time for talks with the UK to collapse. Boris Johnson should remember that. Despite the latest brinkmanship, Merkel remains his best ally in securing any last-minute Brexit deal.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/...o-deal-brexit/
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    Quote Originally Posted by 12 days View Post
    the EU actually benefits greatly from the UK being in their union. They dont want the UK to leave. Additionally, they want to make the idea of leaving the EU seem insurrmountable, so that other nations don't try it in the future. For these reasons, the EU has a great deal of motivation to continue fucking with the UK. The thing is, the UK can fuck them right back in many different ways. So there is that.
    The UK doesn't actually want to embrace separatism . It's a mistake to attempt to base the public mood on a crooked referendum held over three years ago. The result is no longer valid. Many have changed their minds, four million new, young, voters oppose separatism. Yesterday, over a million Brits marched on their parliament demanding a fresh say.
    That's democracy, not the previous stitch-up, which wasn't approved by the majority of Brits anyway. Geez, even Boris Johnson isn't elected.



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