[Politics] Brexit

[Rdodge30]

I updated our Freeview channels and used the opportunity to delete GBNews/TalkTV. Now I don’t even come across the trash by accident.

Loved it when it got called GBeebies on here

 

[Machiavelli]

Spoke to my pro Brexit Dad earlier. He reckons if it had been Proportional Representation then Farage would be PM as they got more votes than Labour.

I told hom taht was simply untrue. A very quickly Google showed the figures and his defence was It was in the paper and I saw it online.

The indoctrination is frightening.

He was also annoyed that the news (GB?) said Starmer was rejoining the EU without a vote!

It's hardly new though is it. They've been at it at least since the 1980s and it's been one-way traffic. Bendy bananas. European superstate. Up Yours Delors. And so on.

 

[Rdodge30]

Who do you think is best placed to be negotiating?

Given a little more thought I do think that Lord Mandelson is the only Labour member with enough experience, knowledge and gravitas to lead negotiations, he is the very definition of a political heavyweight.

Apart from Yvette Cooper the Labour Party in the commons is extremely light on experience and/or competence, many would be out of their depth.

To be honest there really should be a Parliamentary department with a designated minister if the Prime Minister insists on going down this route, any negotiations with the EU will be hellish and hellish long, no place for a Prime Minister to be spending time at all.

Even a European Union negotiations committee, similar to the one Hillary Benn chaired could act as a second tier scrutiny panel along with something similar in the upper house, There is a House of Lords International Agreements Committee which has 3 Labour Peers on , former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and Barrister Lord Anderson among them.

However I expect that everything will go through the Cabinet Office and the PM’s desk. Edit: (I expect this because it would be the wrong decision)

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Given a little more thought I do think that Lord Mandelson is the only Labour member with enough experience, knowledge and gravitas to lead negotiations, he is the very definition of a political heavyweight.

Apart from Yvette Cooper the Labour Party in the commons is extremely light on experience and/or competence, many would be out of their depth.

To be honest there really should be a Parliamentary department with a designated minister if the Prime Minister insists on going down this route, any negotiations with the EU will be hellish and hellish long, no place for a Prime Minister to be spending time at all.

Even a European Union negotiations committee, similar to the one Hillary Benn chaired could act as a second tier scrutiny panel along with something similar in the upper house, There is a House of Lords International Agreements Committee which has 3 Labour Peers on , former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and Barrister Lord Anderson among them.

However I expect that everything will go through the Cabinet Office and the PM’s desk.

I was right when I said you are on fire.
I think it was you.
Busy day.