Brexit: Article 50 Has Been Triggered !

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Damien

Ok, I get it. The constant strawmanning on here and mockery on here.

I was just making a point about the specific article that started this, a point I thought was fair.

It is a fair point so don't take the ribbing too seriously.

To be honest, I don't need a group to tell me what I have seen/heard with my own eyes/ears over the years when it comes to the BBC. It's just my opinion and thankfully, not being the publicly funded BBC who ought to be as impartial as is reasonably possible, I'm entitled to be as biased as I like.

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Osem

It's just my opinion and thankfully, not being the publicly funded BBC who ought to be as impartial as is reasonably possible, I'm entitled to be as biased as I like.

Even if you are correct

[1andrew1]

Important survey of over 2,000 supply chain managers reveals businesses in the UK and EU are seeking to place contracts in the UK and EU 27 respectively

Businesses Preparing to Sever Supply Chain Ties Between the UK and the EU to Avoid Brexit Tariffs
- 32% of UK businesses who use EU suppliers are looking for British replacements
- Nearly half (46%) of European businesses expect to reduce their use of UK suppliers
- 36% of UK businesses plan to respond to Brexit by beating down supplier prices
- The UK’s “weak negotiating position” is seen as the biggest hurdle in trade talks

https://www.cips.org/en/news/news/bu...rexit-tariffs/

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Even if you are correct

That goes without saying*...



* but I may be a tad biased...

[papa smurf]

'We're a laughing stock!'


A FURIOUS euro MP today branded his own project a “laughing stock” over Brussels’ refusal to grant Britain its fair share of EU assets during the calculation of the Brexit divorce bill.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politi...K-share-assets

[Mr K]

Just an example of some of the good the EU does i.e challenging drug companies trying to rip us off for cancer drugs. They aren't all faceless euroeaucrats....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39933916

The European Commission has launched an investigation into claims that drug company Aspen Pharma excessively increased prices of five life-saving cancer medicines.
The drugs include chlorambucil and busulfan - used to treat leukaemia.
The Commission said it was looking at claims that Aspen imposed "very significant and unjustified" price hikes.
South African company Aspen bought the rights to these from British company GlaxoSmithKline, after the patents expired.
According to figures reported in the Times, the price of the leukaemia medicine busulfan increased from £5.20 to £69.02 per pack in England and Wales after this deal.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

'We're a laughing stock!'


A FURIOUS euro MP today branded his own project a “laughing stock” over Brussels’ refusal to grant Britain its fair share of EU assets during the calculation of the Brexit divorce bill.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politi...K-share-assets

So all the assets belong to Brussels they reckon and all the liabilities elsewhere presumably. How unlike the Eurocrats to want to have their cake and eat it. Mind you they'll need plenty of assets to keep that enormous gravy train on the tracks between Brussels and Strasbourg.

Senior EU officials have said that Britain has “no right” to a single penny of the bloc’s assets because the club is a separate legal entity and everything it owns belongs to Brussels, not the member states.

I wonder what all the other member states think about that, especially the net contributors.

[passingbat]

EU national parliaments won't get Brexit trade deal veto after new ECJ ruling

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7739371.html

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by passingbat

EU national parliaments won't get Brexit trade deal veto after new ECJ ruling

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7739371.html

What you mean we won't get held to ransom by the wallons, just the loons

I don't think I would have liked that ruling had we still been in the club

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by passingbat

EU national parliaments won't get Brexit trade deal veto after new ECJ ruling

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7739371.html

That's more like it! I knew there must be a vestige of common sense within the EU establishment somewhere, although I must admit, I didn't expect to find it there!

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

What you mean we won't get held to ransom by the wallons, just the loons

I don't think I would have liked that ruling had we still been in the club

Agreed. I find it amusing that those who like this ruling which apparently limits the freedom of EU member states is being applauded by some Brexiters.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Agreed. I find it amusing that those who like this ruling which apparently limits the freedom of EU member states is being applauded by some Brexiters.

I presume you find it laughable because it's one of the reasons we want to leave.

I find it laughable that this dictat now makes the process easier!

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by pip08456

I presume you find it laughable because it's one of the reasons we want to leave.

I find it laughable that this dictat now makes the process easier!

The irony is amusing.

[Osem]

What's so odd about wanting out of an organisation, treaty or whatever which on balance causes more problems than it solves? Who's ever said that everything the EU or the ECJ does is bad? By leaving their control we can decide which laws, rules or whatever we wish to retain and which we don't, taking on board to consequences of so doing.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Agreed. I find it amusing that those who like this ruling which apparently limits the freedom of EU member states is being applauded by some Brexiters.

Yes, the EU member states have so much individual freedom to make independent decisions; it is shocking that this one is been taken away from them! What next!? Taking away their individual right to manage immigration control? Thin end of the wedge mate... Thin end of the wedge...