kuro68k wrote: » The British government is going to take it right to the cliff edge and hope that someone else compromises. Of course they have their excuses already lined up if no-one does, only real question is who they will blame.
breatheme wrote: » But you're not a SF voter. Their voters want them to abstain from Westminster politics. You know that. Can we please stop bring up SF in Westminster?
Mc Love wrote: » How could you vote for a party that wont even take their seats in parliament, might as well not vote.
Akrasia wrote: » If the state of politics is this bad, that whole political movements would emerge just to vote the opposite of what Sinn Fein want, then there truly is no hope for the UK.
Capt'n Midnight wrote: » And then there's the voters who voted against immigration. And then there's the voters who voted against immigration from the EU in order to get more immigration from third countries. You could probably swing a new referendum by pointing out that Brexit won't change the amount of immigration, just where people come from. Has any major UK employer recommended May's deal over remain ?
Curry restaurant owners, who as an industry backed the campaign to leave the European Union after assurances it would lead to more visas for South Asian cooks, feel betrayed. They're angry that they helped deliver the vote to Leave only to have the government fail to deliver on promises to help save their industry. Rather than easing the shortage, Brexit is likely to make the situation worse by cutting off the flow of East European workers who have increasingly filled the gaps in recent years. "What's happening since Brexit is even more restaurants are closing; we can't get people from anywhere," said Oli Khan, the senior vice president of the Bangladesh Caterers Association UK and a celebrity chef. "Curry houses are in danger."
cml387 wrote: » It's a technical amendment I believe, and was passed. It may be DUP posturing on a non-vital amendment to the finance bill. However it is a straw in the wind.
lawred2 wrote: » The DUP can do their union loving pantomime to full effect while still privately banking on the Irish government delivering an open border situation..
BonnieSituation wrote: » It's also the business of their constituents who voted for them not to take up their Westminster seats. Blanch, you'd be the first to criticise SF for flip flopping and taking their seats. So hop off the horse.
blanch152 wrote: » SF in Westminister is a question that is being asked all over the place. Their voters wanted them to lead a government in Stormont. That didn't happen.
Mortelaro wrote: » Ah now,was stormont ,the Dáil and Strasbourg a flip flop? Anyway it wouldn't be a flip flop if they held information meetings in their constituencies regarding their new strategy and the limit of it It's *not* that difficult
Leroy42 wrote: » There was some leader of the NI Chamber of Commerce, or business executive or some such, on Six1 yesterday, stating that NI has been left in limbo, no clarity, the government aren't listening, the agri sector will be hit really hard etc etc. The thing that stood out for me is why have they sat by so idly throughout all of this? Where are the protests, the marches etc when the DUP continue to spout that they would rather a no deal that any split from the UK? There has hardly been a peep out of the population in regards to the very real possibility of a hard border.
BonnieSituation wrote: » You seem to have all the answers. Get on to Mary Lou there.
Mortelaro wrote: » Isn't my point,that there's not much point in doing that unless there's a eureka Damascus m50 moment Political anorexia Its exactly like having food in front of you when you're hungry and saying oh no I won't eat that,I might be seen or get fat Meanwhile you starve Pointless
BonnieSituation wrote: » Let it be asked. Haven't SF answered it? Repeatedly! Who's keeping them out of Stormont... I'll give you a clue, they're propping up the Tories at the minute.
blanch152 wrote: » People are forgetting that for the economy of Northern Ireland, a hard border on this island is the second worst option. The worst option is a hard border on the Irish Sea.
Tinder Surprise wrote: » I see Theresa May now scrapping the barrell with her comments today on immigrants. proper UKIP that! fook her... she gets everything she deserves now as far as I am concerned. Not that I was holding any sort of hope for her just there was no need to stoop that low when she herself knows the real issues here.
BBC wrote: Theresa May is facing a backlash after she said EU workers would no longer be able to "jump the queue" after Brexit. SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said the PM's words were "disgraceful" and EU citizens living in the UK said they would fuel hate crimes against them. The comments came in a speech to business leaders on Monday, in which she vowed to end EU free movement after Brexit.
Theresa May wrote: It will no longer be the case that EU nationals, regardless of the skills or experience they have to offer, can jump the queue ahead of engineers from Sydney or software developers from Delhi
blanch152 wrote: » A government could be formed any time if Sinn Fein withdrew their red lines. May has already learned how difficult putting down red lines can be, a pity she hadn't seen how it could mess up Sinn Fein and learn from it.
Tell me how wrote: » DUP are being eviscerated by business and Industry groups in the North at the moment. True unionists in Northern Ireland must feel very lonely at this moment.
LeinsterDub wrote: » https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1064915386569760768 Excellent thread here on the revival of Max Fac in which the author proposes that May is aware it's nonsense but is playing along.
