scrubbedexpat141

I just booked my Xmas flights and my return is 29th March (just in case more wedding venues need viewing, it's Easter hols for her and week after my birthday).

It would be certainly interesting to be in the UK and on the conveyor belt to sharks.

DXBtoDOH

Very unlikely rumour (or fake news) but the latest is that May has a secret deal with SNP. They will abstain from the Brexit deal vote in exchange for a second Indy referendum.

If true it gives her a much bigger safety margin for DUP abstaining if they are being sold down the river. May will be gambling that she can win a second Scottish referendum. However, the risk is the Scottish Tories will go berserk, including Davidson and Mundell.

Rumours, rumours, rumours! Frankly, this one opens up too many cans of worms to even take seriously. Then again, we live in a time when every day seems to be opening a new can of worms.

Pongo

Brains1983

like 52% happy and 48% not so?

littlejimmy

Peston saying on FB/Twitter tonight that May has to choose between Party and Country. The EU won't back down on the backstop, and the only way to solve it is to keep the UK in the/a Customs Union. It could well get through Parliament with Labour support but that would not go down well with the ERG lot and could tear the Tory party asunder (boo-hoo). If she goes no deal...well, whether you believe it's Project Fear or not, it's XXXXXX risky and could end up with the UK splitting up.

Not a fan of hers at all, but I do not envy her right now!

DXBtoDOH

Labour ain't supporting whatever deal May negotiates with the EU. None of them bar a tiny handful including Corbyn want to leave. So they will also be putting party before country in voting down the deal. frankly, nobody will want the deal May comes up with, Tory or Labour or DUP or SNP. And that's the tricky bit.

I do tend to be amused at people accusing the opposite party of putting party before country. The truth is that different people have very different ideas for what's best for the country. ERG's stance is no more morally wrong or better than the arch-remaining diehard believers in the EU ideology. Just very different ideas for what's better for the country.

littlejimmy

I don't believe for a minute the ERG have the country's best interests at heart at all. They are interested in making as much money as possible out of this situation, and the optimum position is to have a completely deregulated economy with lower standards and no workers rights and the NHS privatised. Kerr-ching!

But my commie opinion isn't important here. The only way this whole argument will be settled is for a full crash out and then we'll see what happens. If it goes terribly, the Tories are screwed. They're basically screwed whatever they do and they don't have the numbers to get anything through parliament. But this is all of their own doing, so my sympathy for them is somewhat limited. There's a good meme I've seen doing the rounds of a picture of the Tory cabinet with the words: "Promise everything, deliver nothing, blame everyone else". Bang on (and yes, it probably applies to every government ever, whatever colour tie they wear).

DXBtoDOH

The ideal function of a democratic government. Keeps them from becoming troublesome so we can get on with life.

Irishbeekeeper

scot47

i notice lots of remarks from those resident South of Tweed and Solway telling us in Scotland what we think and what we should do. The whole point of the New Politics in Scotland from the 1990 ois that we are realising that we should decide for ourselves - like grown-ups. Using abusive nicknames for the First Minister will not resolve anything, Mr Jammypants !

DXBtoDOH

Are you one of those cybernats?

Actually, come to think of it, I bet you are. Hiding behind your computer screen. It would explain a lot.

scrubbedexpat141

From 1990 onwards we've allowed you to pick which days your bins get collected. I mean, what more do you want?

jam25mack

How do you know i'm from South of the Tweed?

I thought the 'Mack' bit in my user name would give you a clue to my heritage.....

As for Sturgeon, shes a right boot. Same mould as that snake oil salesman Salmond.

And why is there a fish theme for SNP leaders?

scrubbedexpat141

Has Salmond got off the hook (geddit?) yet for those accusations?

Charismatic

Bit early for a Brexit deal, it'll be some time after March when the EU has optimum leverage to get the best deal based on past precedent. Also I expect there may be a series of interim deals to allow the British government to fall back progressively by applying pressure over an extended horizon. The EU want the best deal not to trigger a change in government.