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Ha! fair cop. I knew it was someone famous ))

This is a powerful speech by Donald Trump. Both Brexiteers and Remainers should watch it to understand the EU's thinking - cut through the spin of both the the right and left wing media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9rQGlZ_dQs

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-free-beacon/

Its not what you announce that counts. Its what you do. May has signally failed to deliver on all her major promises.

You don't need to buy back the railways, they were never sold, only franchised.

If the choice was a no deal Brexit and the Tories or staying in and Labour for five years big business would opt for Labour. You cant actually make that much change in one term anyhow, its not enough time to formulate a policy, consult, publish green papers and white papers, get the legislation through Parliament then implement it.

T would never get to the membership. The MPs would ensure their preferred candidate and a no hoper were the final two

I honestly think they were trying to do Britain a favour - to snap May out of her delusion whilst there is still time to actually come up with a workable deal for approval in November. None of what they did was new, they simply restated collectively what has been said individually for two years. Barnier even wrote pieces for all the major newspapers in the EU stating Chequers was a non runner. Still May didnt listen. May's problem was that she thought she could pick them off one by one. She was wrong and has always been wrong. This is from early August: "So, it has finally happened. Theresa May’s genius plan for Brexit, the fabled Chequers deal, is finally dead. A couple of days ago on this website I outlined the government’s chaos and predicted that EU negotiator Michel Barnier would finally kill Chequers after the summer break. Everyone deserves a holiday, after all. But it turns out I was being too optimistic about it. The Frenchman only went and butchered it yesterday. Just in time, cheeky observers may note, for May’s meeting today with President Macron in the south of France. In an op-ed published in twenty European newspapers, Barnier wrote: “Some UK proposals would undermine our Single Market which is one of the EU's biggest achievements. The UK wants to keep free movement of goods between us, but not of people and services. And it proposes to apply EU customs rules without being part of the EU's legal order. Thus, the UK wants to take back sovereignty and control of its own laws, which we respect, but it cannot ask the EU to lose control of its borders and laws.” No need to ask for whom that bell tolls, prime minister. It was loud, clear and humiliating enough for everyone to understand. This parrot is so dead it is hard to ascertain if it was ever even born. The Chequers plan was always going to be unacceptable because it flatly ignored two of the EU’s mile-deep red lines: no special treatment for the UK and no cherry-picking of EU rules. The customs plan would have involved the EU surrendering control of tariff collection, at vast economic, technical and bureaucratic cost, simply so the UK could have its cake and eat it with its own (inferior) trade deals. The ‘common goods rulebook’, meanwhile, demanded that the EU give the UK key benefits of the single market while letting it scrap the free movement of people. To be fair to May, it is possible that she did not hear EU leaders when they told her repeatedly for two years that the UK could not implement one freedom of the single market (goods) without implementing the other three (services, capital and people). But that never referred to a specific UK plan. Now it does. And May has no plan B. So what now? For the moment, nothing changes. The UK government’s Brexit delusions have been slain and zombified many times before now. The usual response in London is to either feign deafness or blithely re-state Britain’s negotiating position, as though the EU will finally agree to an unacceptable proposal if if the UK can simply repeat it often enough. But this moment does feel different, and more serious. In the past the government could say that it was an ongoing negotiation. But our negotiating partner has now categorically rejected the UK’s formal document, on which, to boot, May has effectively staked her premiership. She will either have to agree to a full single market and customs union, or a Canada-style trade deal which splits the UK’s own single market with a regulatory border in the Irish Sea. Needless to say, she cannot survive either - but neither she nor any successor will ever have better cards to play. Barnier initially appeared reluctant to dismember the corpse of Chequers too early in case he brought down May’s government with it. Perhaps he now reasons (correctly) that this government is finished anyway. Or maybe it was just too embarrassing to pretend that something so dead was in fact a little bit alive. But rest assured, it is dead, and with it the government’s only plan for Brexit. The post-mortem will be lengthy, brutal and exhausting".

Yay. We could swap one hopelessly divided party with no clear direction for another one.

He really didn't. He's said from day 1 as a package its unacceptable. A few warm words about parts of it being okay have been built up by May as some kind of chink of light, a negotiating gambit ahead of the 27 caving in to the one. http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2018/08/03/barnier-has-finally-killed-chequers-and-with-it-the-uk-gover

Why? because they're sticking to what they have always said? You're either in the single market and play by the rules or you're not. You cant have single market with one country wanting play by different rules and wanting a different court to decide disputes. We can have a third country free trade agreement, we can be an associate ala Norway or we can be a member. All easy quickly deliverable options. Its just the f'kin deluded May Government and the Brexiteers that think we're somehow entitled to demand whatever we want no matter the implications for the other 27 and if they don't give in to us then they're being dictatorial.

Poisoning of Kremlin critics is almost routine within Russia. Im not sure why anybody finds it so hard to believe they do it overseas as well The Putin Regime Is Poisoning Itself https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-13/pussy-riot-activist-s-suspected-poisoning-damages-russia

I know very little about Zionism but I found this video very interesting

They all come with a minimum 1 year warranty which you can increase to up to three years. A 3-4 year old business class machine will be far better specced and capable than whatever you could buy new for £200.

This place is great. I got a Dell business class machine which was over £2,000 new for £180 (I-7 with 256gb SSD) https://www.tier1online.com/3rd-gen-i5/?sort=bestselling

The typical 24 hour fare for the 5 miles from Portsmouth to Fishbourne are roughly double the 20 mile trip from Dover to Calais

Actually i didnt read your post properly, sorry There are different rules for smaller pots - but im not sure what they are. You might get a better deal

You can, but only 25% will be tax free. The rest will be treated as income and subject to tax, presumably at 40% or 45% if its substantial

The two I took the 25% from are private pensions which I had when I was with previous employers - they used to make contributions but no longer do. As I understand it if you take just the 25% tax free then you dont fall foul of the recycling rules (ie you can still make contributions and get tax relief on them) , but if you crystallise the rest by taking an annuity then you do. I would have thought the recycling rules would still apply even if you start a new pension, but I guess thats where you need an expert for a definitive view. ps why not just ask the administrators of your scheme, they'll be able to tell you

Im no expert. I can only tell you what I did earlier this year (Im 56). I have three pension pots - one final salary and the other two PP. I took the tax free 25% from the two PPs and am able to continue to contribute to them and still get tax relief. As I understand it (but you should check) you only lose tax relief on the proportion you 'crystallise' - ie if you start to take an income from the capital.

He actually voted for Brexit. We argued about it before the referendum. Now he just laughingly says "see I told you I'd be better off"

A friend of mine is a lean manufacturing consultant, formerly of Toyota. His company is awash new business - companies looking to cancel investment in Britain and instead develop their plants within the single market and CU.

How the Jihadists have fallen. They've moved from 'The EU will come begging mighty Britain' to claiming the Norway option, which is worse than staying in (90% of the obligations without any control) - is some kind of victory.

Will be pretty tight though. The leave deal will be agreed by early November and will be voted on in Parliament shortly after. Depending on whether its voted in or down May will either be confirmed in her job or will resign the same day, triggering a leadership election almost immediately after. I dont know the exact Tory election rules but whether you get to vote will probably depend on if you have to be eligible at the start of the process (eg mid November)

Dogma. Public services which by their nature are monopolies shouldn’t ever be privatised