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Lived there for 17 years. Let’s see if it actually happens or it’s just an empty announcement rushed out to try and dodge the accusations of hypocrisy. Ps he was a crap Chancellor. A debt fuelled consumer and housing bubble swiftly followed by the inevitable and predictable crash.

Still insisting the Emperor really does have very fine new clothes.

Probably sniffing them

Triumph of marketing over reality. Bit like Brexit

71% of voters in Northern Ireland voted for the Good Friday Agreement on 81% turnout and 94% voted for it in the Republic - which essentially ended sectarian violence in NI. The DUP were the only party in NI to campaign against it. May is unfit to be PM is she doesn't understand that messing with the GFA approved by the overwhelming majority of voters in Ireland is gutter moral free politics. And for what? - to suck up to the 'No Surrender' DUP AND giving a £1billion sweetener of other peoples money to garner votes for discredited and voted down 'deal'.

Yep. Britain is pretty narcissistic but in reality nobody really pays much attention to the local politctical difficulties in other countries

Nice try but a single market with a single set of regulations across 27 countries gives an advantage to smaller companies because they only have to master one regulatory regime

Threatening no deal is an empty vacuous gesture bought by almost no one. You seriously think the EU believe Brits are stupid enough to leave without a deal?. Well obviously one or two are but they’re just the comedy routine on a football forum The EU know there is no majority in Parliament. All they have to do is watch tv or read the papers. Pretending otherwise weakens your position not strengthens it

Maybe he’s crafted an amazing Machiavellian plan to stop brexit and claim the votes of the majority whilst simultaneously forcing the Tory party to tear itself apart. Or he’s a fivkwit

I could burn my house down. Doesn't mean I should

Its true that at the time DM was standing there was a backlash against Blair and middle class professionals running the 'working mans' party. DM was seen as too similar to Blair, hence ED's lame attempt to 'labourer' himself up with the bacon butty. Now though, after Corbyn and and ED failing to make any progress at all against historically weak Tory leadership DM would seem like manna from heaven.

Exactly

Not stood against his much more electable brother.

If he'd gone straight to a call for a second referendum he would have carried a lot of Tories with him. Now many will be back in their party loyalty trenches again

Yep. Ed M is more culpable than Jezza

Yeah i get that, but on balance i still think it was better not too. Depends if you want gesture politics or results

A poll of voters asked randoms in the street who they thought should be the new leader and the most cited name was David Miliband. Says something that a guy who has been out of politics for three years is seen as better than any of the current front bench it

Exactly why Jezza shouldnt table one. Its what May wants, the chance to force the Tories to rally behind her again

Should have taken advantage of the moment when the Tories were in no mood to follow my leader and put forward some kind of compromise proposal.

and the threat to keep bringing it back till they 'got it right' . Odd thing to do for a woman who thinks second votes are undemocratic

Sad thing is we know Jezza cant beat a woman who just lost a vote 432:202

Barely 230 votes in it. A couple of tweaks and it will sail through

“financial services sector shifts £800bn in assets to Europe”. Tells you all you need to know

or be 19. He's learning and he'll learn from this. Most of our fans never had to learn, they knew it from the off

There is greater defence against shifting production to cheaper locations as part of the EU than as a standalone high wage economy. The EU has rules about poaching of companies from one member state to the other. They're not perfect, but a hell of a lot better than nothing. Honda, Toyota and Nissan all set up in the UK because they needed access to the EU single market without having to pay import tariffs. If we leave that reason disappears. Unless we stay within the single market and customs union we can kiss goodbye to a massive chunk of British manufacturing, not just cars, but aerospace, pharmaceuticals and electronics. Its not project fear its basic economics. Why would you locate in the UK if you can have tariff free access to a much larger market by manufacturing in a country with lower wage costs and that country is prepared to offer you massive subsidies to relocate?