badgerx16

Plus he got kicked in the head by Dawson.

Home grown VAR :- I think Che's shoulder is just offside.

Missing Ralph.

Nice to see that the "deal" is right on the ball in keeping up with technological developments: "References to decades-old computer software are included in the new Brexit agreement, including a description of Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Mail as being "modern" services." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55475433 I hope that the rest of the agreement has been better constructed. Edit: WSS pipped me by a few seconds

Rails

No they won't, it'll be spun to make BoJo out to be a great national hero, beating those pesky eurocrats into submission. The "deal" falls short of what we were promised, is padded out with caveats and areas yet to be agreed, contains almost nothing to address financial services, and the fishing industry says it is a sell-out.

As I said earlier on the thread, rolling over trade deals to maintain existing arrangements is hardly exhibiting advanced negotiating skills - my 6 year old grand son could do it.

Bowie

You were not right, you didn't contribute an original thought to the starting post of this thread, ( as with almost anything you post ), and you couldn't even spell correctly; From the last line of the OP - "For any miners out there, ignore the name of the centre publishing the paper.."

I hope Wes doesn't read that thread, he thinks we held firm on our "red lines" and at the last minute the EU "buckled" and "gave us more or less what we wanted". Of course if he does read it, it will turn out to be complete bollocks, at least in his eyes.

Not to mention the remains of the UK losing the 80% of total landings that are made in Scottish ports, from the 60% of UK waters that are Scottish. If, somehow, Scotland gains indepence and then votes to join the EU, having considered all the arguments, then I would expect such a keen supporter of the Democratic Mandate as yourself to fully support their decision, and wish them well of it.

Can you not understand that that comment was being posed in a hypothtical future; at the time of the next election campaign it may be that Brexit has turned out to be a turd. Funny how you didn't try to transposition the first scenario, that Brexit might be turning out to be successful, into the present.

Just goes to show how little you know, but then again it shouldn't be a surprise to people reading this thread.

Westie, these 2 statements are both true.

At the run up to the next election it will be the Tories either (a) crowing about how successful Brexit seems to be turning out to be, or (b) trying to find a way to polish the turd that Brexit is turning out to be, and desperately distancing themselves from parts of the deal that have proved deeply unpopular.

When it is allowed again, why don't you go and stand outside a local church at Easter and explain your "truth" to the congregation as they arrive ?

Further up this page you posted; "Easter then turned into the bizarre blood sacrifice story of god sacrificing himself to himself to act as loophole to a set of rules he made up. Deeply flawed, illogical and utter nonsense!" Defo tongue in cheek.

So you celebrate a pagan goddess. Nothing to be ashamed of.

I assume that is a convoluted way of avoiding having to admit that yes, you do give / receive Easter eggs.

Is that all that you took issue with ?

Ducky, you are entitled to your opinions, no matter how wrong they might be. As for where we go from here, waaaaaay back on this thread I posted that as we had voted to leave we should simply do so, and I am perfectly aware and content with the fact that returning to the EU is almost certainly a non-starter. However, we were never going to get everything that was promised from the 'deal', and ultimately most of what seems to have been agreed is a fudge; Yes we no longer have freedom of movement from the EU, but we no longer have the ease of travel to the continent we have become used to, and our students can no longer take advantage of the Erasmus scheme. We can determine our own trade deals, but we now have a 'border' between Ulster and Britain. We have not yet regained control of our coastal waters such that the EU is no longer 'plundering' our waters. Our financial services sector is keeping it's collective fingers crossed over their future rights to access the EU financial sector. But we do now have blue passports.

Matthew - do you give / receive Easter Eggs ?

Not at all, just shows how determined Boris was over his 'red lines', and we end up with more cans being kicked along the Queen's highway. This deal isn't the 'great deal' Boris claims as he tries to pull the wool over the ERG's eyes, but neither is it a truly 'hard' Brexit. Everybody will spin it to claim advantage, but at the last minute both sides fudged it for fear of the cliff edge.

Adams missed a Shane Warne leg break.