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Reality has dawned on Varadkar, and Ireland is now bricking it in case of a No Deal Brexit: The Government will seek hundreds of millions of euro in special aid from Brussels if the UK crashes out of the EU without a deal. Dublin has already alerted the EU Commission that it will be lobbying for emergency aid to cope with the fallout to Irish trade, particularly for the beef, dairy ...
I see May has been telephoning Merkel to plead for concessions in order to get her treasonous deal through parliament. When it comes to these negotiations it is always Merkel calling the shots, never the Dutch, Spanish or any of the other leaders of EU member states. Which just about sums up what the EU is all about. ...
The EU Commission recently rejected Italy's 2019 budget for breaking EU fiscal rules, the Italian government had to do a climbdown and submit a new budget. A couple of weeks later Macron produced the French budget which similarly breaks the rules, yet is allowed to get away with it. The EU continually states it is a rules based organisation, except when those rules are inconvenient for favoured ...
@majorp If we "leave" with the deal that is on the table then that is not leaving at all, we will be tied to the EU until it decides otherwise, which will be never because Brussels fears a truly independent trading nation on its doorstep. It is essential Treason May's deal is rejected and we leave on WTO terms if necessary.
HAPPY BREXIT NEW YEAR! 87 days and counting!
Treason May really is getting desperate ahead of next month's vote. I can't see that most ardent Brexiteer, John Redwood, being swayed to change his stance because of his knighthood.
Juncker blames his regular unsteadiness on "sciatica", I don't see how that excuse explains his other eratic behavior.
A rubber dingy to cross the Channel seems to be the new favoured route of the econonic migrants.
You can laugh as much as you like, but if the legal positon stated by the House of Lords EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee is correct, then that is what it is. You seem to be having difficulty getting your head around the fact that if we leave without a deal then at 11 pm on March 29 next year we become independent of the EU. Some people like to call it "hard Brexit", I just call it Brexit.
If we leave with no deal being agreed, after March 29th our relationship with the EU will the same as with any other non-EU country, furthermore we will not be obliged to pay them a penny: (The) House of Lords EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee said in a report published today that “under international law the UK will not be legally obliged to contribute to the EU budget if an agreement is ...