Brexit Secretary Stephen (Barkley) said: "A rigid approach now at this point is no way to progress a deal and the responsibility sits with both sides to find a solution. "We are committed to carving out a landing zone and we stand ready to share relevant texts. But it must be in the spirit of negotiation with flexibility and with a negotiating partner that itself is willing to compromise."
Winters wrote: » https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2019/0919/1076866-brexit-talks/ it must be exasperating dealing with this lot.
Sierra Oscar wrote: » How does that even work? As far as I am aware people don’t self identify as nationalist or unionist at the ballot box.
Sierra Oscar wrote: » If I’m getting this right, Arlene Foster is now saying that if any potential Brexit deal is put to a people’s vote in NI then it must receive a majority backing of both the nationalist and unionist population rather than just 50% +1 of the overall population. How does that even work? As far as I am aware people don’t self identify as nationalist or unionist at the ballot box. It’s unworkable and she knows it. Dangerous rhetoric, especially if the DUP start trying to apply the same logic to any future potential border poll.
London held onto second place in the index, but fell 14 points in the ratings. If London and Paris have similar falls and rises in the ratings in GFCI 27, London would be reduced to a two point lead over Paris and would lie behind Shanghai. Shenzhen, Dubai, and Sydney entered the top 10, easing out Toronto, Zurich, and Frankfurt.
lawred2 wrote: » No deal can pass without Labour and/or the SNP and/or the LibDems The ERG are an irrelevance
trellheim wrote: » https://twitter.com/iain_w_anderson/status/1174222427712380929 now thems real numbers you might not like them but its as accurate as anything else. Also remember that without stormont back in a few weeks , NI gets abortion and gay marriage which will soften the DUP's cough so to speak ( Arlene is extremely well aware of this)
Seth Brundle wrote: » I note the wording "Vote on a revised deal on an 'all-Ireland" backstop..." Are they seriously thinking of voting on the status of the RoI?
Jizique wrote: » That speech from Barclay today sounds like it was written by Sammy Wilsonhttps://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1174626103111168000
trellheim wrote: » They are not an irrelevance. There was an excellent thread on twitter Peter foster linked yesyerday that gave the breakdown which made a majority just in favour of it but the ERG had to be kept onside ... let me see. sorry here it is got caught up in the bile steve barclay is spouting in Madridhttps://twitter.com/iain_w_anderson/status/1174222427712380929 now thems real numbers you might not like them but its as accurate as anything else. Also remember that without stormont back in a few weeks , NI gets abortion and gay marriage which will soften the DUP's cough so to speak ( Arlene is extremely well aware of this)
farmchoice wrote: » it seems to me that those figures are making a lot of wild assumptions about the voting intentions of both the extreme pro brexit types and the rebels who were thrown out of the party. it has 8 tory rebels out a possible 100 (80 erg 20 rebels) now of the 80 erg there are a hardcore of at least 20 who claim they will not accept the WA under any circumstances and of the rebels there are at least 5 to 10 who it is very hard to see voting with this government. also 17 labour pro government votes seems a bit high there have never been 17 yet as far as i know there have been about 5-10 with a few abstentions but those figure call for all 17 to vote with boris.
CelticRambler wrote: » Repeat after me: Project Fear, Project Fear, Project Fear ...New York has extended its lead as the world’s top financial center, with London barely holding on to second place ahead of Hong Kong From a separate article on the same report: It's all very well aspiring to make the City of London a "Singapore-upon-Thames" but there's one serious flaw in that plan: London will never be relocated to Asia. Unsurprisingly, London's geographical position as "half way" between the time zones of Asia and the Americas becomes irrelevant when those economic powers trade directly with each other across the Pacific. And of course, if the City of London is dropping down the world rankings, the much-bragged-about position of Britain's economy as a whole won't be far behind.
ath262 wrote: » the letter Boris sent to Council President Donald Tusk today is here much of the usual stuff - commitment to the GFA and CTA, and retaining benefits of Single Electricity Market then the usual waffle about the Anti-Democratic Backstop, and vague commitment to replace backstop with unspecified arrangements
trellheim wrote: » Very interesting to see what tone Tusk/Barnier comes back with (closed door or ray of light) .... watch eurotwitter like a hawk now
josip wrote: » That article also mentions Frankfurt dropping out of the top 10. I would have thought they'd be rising on the back of London's loss? Unless there's a larger 'rise of the Asian centers' trend taking place that's having an even greater impact than Brexit.
robinph wrote: » The EU saying they are accepting no-deal, doesn't actually mean it is more likely to happen on the 31st October. Unless Johnson gets around the requirement to send the letter to request an extension then extension is what will be happening for now. The EU have already done a test run on the vote of if they will accept an extension request, so basically all that is needed to get the extension is for Johnson to not get a deal before the summit. Who actually makes the request is academic, unless parliament change their mind the request has practically already been made. If Johnson doesn't do it personally then parliament just work their way through the chain of command until they find someone who will. Whilst parliament isn't falling for the vote of no confidence scheme of Johnson at the moment, if it comes to finding someone to send the letter then very quickly they will be able to organise themselves to find someone to stand as PM with the sole purpose of sending the letter if needed.
farmchoice wrote: » yes but finding someone to stand as pm to send the letter would under the fixed term parliament act necessitate the removal of the sitting PM to do this would require a vote of no confidence in the sitting PM followed 14 days later ( if a GE is voted down) by the leader of the opposition being invited to form a government, or al least that is my understanding of it.
Governement QC wrote: A government submission to the Supreme Court has told the 11 justices in the prorogation case that if they rule against the prime minister he may just simply take a new decision to immediate close down Parliament again – thereby stopping it from sitting. The submissions – which the government has so far refused to give the media - set out No 10’s legal-thinking on what the Supreme Court should do, if it were to rule that the prime minister acted unlawfully by shutting Parliament for five weeks. In the documents Sir James Eadie QC, for the prime minister, writes that if the justices quash the original formal order to prorogue Parliament, taken on 28 August, that would mean that Parliament would remain “in session”. In practice that would mean MPs could immediately return to the House of Commons. He continues: “However, depending on the court’s reasoning it would still either be open or not open to the prime minister to consider a further prorogation.”
robinph wrote: » Is this not an admission of guilt by the government regarding if they have prorogued parliament for dodgy reasons or not?
