The Thread of BREXIT

[Animavore]

[rainbow]

She does have huge hands, gosh.

Donald Trump must be envious.

[Scot Dutchy]

Huge hands huge ...

[rainbow]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... t-persists

[Brian Peacock]

Boris Johnson secret newspaper column favoured UK remaining in EU

Boris Johnson MP
Boris Johnson warned Brexit could lead to the breakup of the UK. Photograph: Steve Back/Barcroft Images
Press Association
Published: 09:31 BST Sun 16 October 2016
Boris Johnson said that Britain remaining in the European Union would be a “boon for the world and for Europe” in an unpublished newspaper column in which he wrestled with his decision to back or oppose Brexit.

In an unpublished Telegraph column, written days before a published version in which the foreign secretary backed leaving, Johnson wrote of the EU: “This is a market on our doorstep, ready for further exploitation by British firms. The membership fee seems rather small for all that access. Why are we so determined to turn our back on it?” ....

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ning-in-eu

[Scot Dutchy]

Yes this was the Bullingdon boys at work. Brexit was Cameron's idea to solve the tory party's internal problems but his Bullingdon clubmates thought it was time to have some fun but like many of their pranks it went completely wrong. The plan was not to win.

[Brian Peacock]

That's the image with the brown guys, the Jews, and the Arabs removed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... party.html

[Strontium Dog]

Boris Johnson secret newspaper column favoured UK remaining in EU

Boris Johnson MP
Boris Johnson warned Brexit could lead to the breakup of the UK. Photograph: Steve Back/Barcroft Images
Press Association
Published: 09:31 BST Sun 16 October 2016
Boris Johnson said that Britain remaining in the European Union would be a “boon for the world and for Europe” in an unpublished newspaper column in which he wrestled with his decision to back or oppose Brexit.

In an unpublished Telegraph column, written days before a published version in which the foreign secretary backed leaving, Johnson wrote of the EU: “This is a market on our doorstep, ready for further exploitation by British firms. The membership fee seems rather small for all that access. Why are we so determined to turn our back on it?” ....

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ning-in-eu

It's bizarre that this is the top news story in the UK at the moment, because it's been known about for months that Johnson wrote two articles arguing opposite sides, and only made his mind up at the last minute which one to run with.

[Brian Peacock]

I think it's just because the 'other' article has now been published in The Times.

In other Brexit news, UKIP's deep-pocketed bank-roller and major donor to the leave Leave.EU campaign, Aaron Banks, has had his off-shore holdings revealed in the Panama Papers: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... xit-backer

[Brian Peacock]

Theresa May is to warn her 27 fellow European Union leaders over a working dinner in Brussels that Britain’s decision to leave is irreversible and there can be no second referendum.

Thursday’s meeting of the European council will be the prime minister’s first opportunity to address the leaders of all the other member states since the UK voted to leave the European Union in June.

Donald Tusk, the European council president, has insisted Britain’s future relationship with the EU will not be on the formal agenda for the two-day meeting, but he will give May the opportunity to set out the “current state of affairs in the country” over coffee at the end of the meal.

A No 10 source said she would tell her fellow EU leaders: “The British people have made a decision and it’s right and proper that that decision is honoured. There will be no second referendum. The priority now has got to be looking to the future, and the relationship between the UK, once we leave”.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... referendum

[JimC]

Ilea jacta est.

[Brian Peacock]

Et domino mundi, sic tuesdi.

[rainbow]

Biggus Dickus.

[Svartalf]

Romanes eunt domus, but let the brits stay in France, the Southwest would be a desert without them.

[JimC]

My latin master would be turning over in his grave...