chrisp65 Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 2 hours ago, StefanAVFC said: Quick q. I go to Ukraine from Poland on the 28th March to the 30th. In a no deal, when I try to come back to Poland, what happens? it goes to a VT poll Kiev is nice. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 22, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted February 22, 2019 On 20/02/2019 at 13:06, tonyh29 said: I linked to that yesterday , the noises airbus have been making were that it would be "many, many years" before U.K. employees would be affected in case the company decides to relocate Obviously you're closer to it than most , What are they saying inside the industry , that they aren't saying publicly ? I can't say I know all the details. Disruption to the supply chain in the short term and loss of investment in the industry in this country in the long term are probably the main factors. Our company overall will be fine, but as a UK site in a business unit that also has sites in France, Italy, Poland and the US, it's easy to see how our huge American owned company might see the UK site as a risk. Like I said, I don't pretend to know all the details, but I do know that our VP has explicitly told us that Brexit is the single biggest risk to the business unit at the moment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 3 hours ago, tonyh29 said: poxy google translate OT but googles lack of translate skills reminds me when I was young and in love and used to try and write Hungarian emails to the future Mrs H ...I'd send emails in Hungarian saying something like you smell like a hippopotamus , when I was supposed to be saying I'd like to smoother you in peanut butter of course now we've been married 18 years I don't bother trying to be romantic and just eat the peanut butter from a jar whilst i watch the football on TV Also OT but Hungarian is a pretty weird language. Most European languages overlap with each other to a certain degree but Hungarian is almost unique (though I think there are some connections to Finnish?). Apparently the language might have been brought to Europe buy Mongolian invaders. Fun fact: When writing the Star Wars scripts George Lucas would translate Yoda’s lines to Hungarian and then back to English to get his weird speaking style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enda Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 On 20/02/2019 at 16:36, chrisp65 said: mmmm, maybe. Perhaps if there had been genuine pragmatism, genuine concessions we might not all be in this mess. But the policy of France and Germany to drive and drive and drive towards a United States of Europe just proved too much to swallow. Perhaps our leaving will actually be of benefit to the smaller nations like Ireland and Greece. Perhaps the realisation by France and Germany that countries can leave will cause them not to run the EU for their sole benefit. For a while. As someone from a smaller nation, I strongly disagree that France and Germany run it for themselves. The EU is quite a weak institution. That's not an accident. It's limited in its ability to affect change outside of its narrowly defined remit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 (edited) May apparently confirms that, yet again, the 'meaningful vote' is to be delayed. Beeb: Quote MPs will be able to have a final vote on the Brexit deal by 12 March, Prime Minister Theresa May has said. Speaking to reporters as she travelled to a summit in Egypt, Mrs May ruled out holding the parliamentary vote on her deal this week. ... more on link Next announcement from her on it will be on 10th March to say that it is being delayed until 26th March? Edited February 24, 2019 by snowychap 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 (edited) Not sure what position that puts the likes of Grieve, Letwin and Boles in. If the government aren't holding the vote then there's no Cooper amendment, surely? Edit: Reading Peston's post about it, looks like I'm wrong. There is still due to be a vote on the Cooper/Letwin thing on Wednesday, he says. Edited February 24, 2019 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Just when I thought my contempt for her couldn't sink any lower. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted February 24, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2019 Running down the clock? Moi?! *Insert hideous May 'laughing' like an owl struggling to swallow a mouse GIF* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Well, when she's pissed 2 years up the wall doing nothing of note, what's another fortnight? It's alright, we'll have 17 days left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 (edited) Edited February 24, 2019 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted February 24, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2019 Just now, Davkaus said: Well, when she's pissed 2 years up the wall doing nothing of note, what's another fortnight? It's alright, we'll have 17 days left. And then we'll have a week left. And then we'll have 3 days left. And we'll have a day left. And then it'll be 5 minutes left. And then it'll be too late. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 56 minutes ago, Chindie said: And then we'll have a week left. And then we'll have 3 days left. And we'll have a day left. And then it'll be 5 minutes left. And then it'll be too late. Bet that rejected deal will be looking pretty good towards the end of March. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted February 24, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2019 2 minutes ago, Davkaus said: Bet that rejected deal will be looking pretty good towards the end of March. Well, that's her gamble of course. It's been obvious for months that her game was to hold the country to ransom in the hope Parliament shits itself when the cliff edge appears. Genuinely that gif makes me gag a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 I think the only thing preventing me from wanting her WA to pass at this point is the horrific precedent that she is setting, in acting in these substantively abusive ways towards the legislature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Quote Asked what she would do if she lost the meaningful vote, she said: “Why is it that people are always trying to look for the next thing after the next thing after the next thing? “It is pointless, we should focus on what we are doing now, which is working to get a deal and bring that deal to a meaningful vote, which I want to see passed by the House of Commons and leave on 29 March.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/24/theresa-may-postpones-meaningful-vote-on-final-brexit-deal Agreed, things are going so well, who cares about Plan B? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 24, 2019 Moderator Share Posted February 24, 2019 Latest YouGov poll, highest ever in favour of remain since the referendum, this number never gets lower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 24, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2019 Morrisons' tiramisu is delicious, easily the best of all the supermarket versions. It's actually made in Italy. I'm going to be really pissed off if it disappears off the shelves due to Brexit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 20 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Morrisons' tiramisu is delicious, easily the best of all the supermarket versions. It's actually made in Italy. I'm going to be really pissed off if it disappears off the shelves due to Brexit. fear not, we have our top man working on this top man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted February 24, 2019 Moderator Share Posted February 24, 2019 Theresa May. I genuinely hate her guts. She's further up the arseholometer than any PM in my lifetime. Thatcher may have been evil but at least she had some minerals. May is just an absolute shithouse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted February 24, 2019 Moderator Share Posted February 24, 2019 2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: fear not, we have our top man working on this top man Bring back fox hunting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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