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Good ol Brexit

On 29 Dec 2018 at 8:59am bored2 wrote:

�95miliion to foreign ferry operators to provide emergency ferry services in case we leave with no deal. What a pack of jokers we have running the show.

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On 29 Dec 2018 at 9:07am Bert wrote:

No Deal is better than a Bad Deal ! We were never going to get a Good Deal anyway. Let's just get on with it. The sooner the break the quicker we can move on.

On 29 Dec 2018 at 9:14am bored2 wrote:

Theresa, is that you? You missed the 'will of the people' line out

On 29 Dec 2018 at 9:16am open your eyes wrote:

we will never have half a good deal as we had in 2016
personally i am with Sir Winston Churchill in believing " this great country's future belongs in the heart of the european family"

On 29 Dec 2018 at 10:16am nancy wrote:

Why has the word FOREIGN wrongly appeared in the opening post? Some of these ferries are British.

On 29 Dec 2018 at 10:56am bored2 wrote:

Hi Nancy. Afraid not, �94 million pays for the foreign ferries. �14m on top goes to the British ones. �108 total. It's in the article.

On 29 Dec 2018 at 6:15pm Clifford wrote:

'Jean Claude-Juncker, then president of the European Council and prime minister of Luxembourg, when news flashed up on the TV screens of the astonishing rejection by French voters of the draft European Constitution in their 2005 referendum could have responded in so many ways, to try to understand why the voters in traditionally one of Europe�s most Europhile countries emphatically rejected further EU integration. But his immediate response, without drawing breath, was: �They will just have to vote again.� In fact, the French voters weren�t trusted to give the right answer second time around, and so the treaty was pushed through the French parliament instead. Dial forward 13 years, and Juncker is now president of the European Commission...'

Never changes, does it?

On 29 Dec 2018 at 7:00pm Clifford wrote:

Downvotes for a simple description of what happened in France in 2005? It also happened in Ireland in 2008. Seems like our local Remainers also have trouble with democracy.

On 29 Dec 2018 at 8:32pm inthegutter wrote:

@clifford The French and Dutch rejected the EU's European Constitution. The EU made changes (not just in name) and proposed what became the Lisbon Treaty. The Irish rejected the initial Lisbon Treaty by a relatively small margin and the EU responded by making changes requested by the Irish which the Irish then overwhelmingly supported in the second referendum.
To me, this seems like a sensible process of compromise. To claim that the French, or Irish, or simply presented the same question is just plain untrue.