Brexit the economy and house prices part 7: Brexit Harder

wintersunshine

Watching Brexit Behind Closed Doors. What were the EU thinking making this? Totally unedifying for them on every level.

Fodder for Brexiters no doubt.

As a Remainer very disappointing.

Guy Verhofstadt looked like an alcoholic. Sitting at his desk drinking wine and spirits! Who does that? Having his secretary bring him drinks from his private stash.

Thrugelmir

wintersunshine wrote: »

Watching Brexit Behind Closed Doors. What were the EU thinking making this? Totally unedifying for them on every level.

Arrogance. Comes from being unelected peoples representatives.

wintersunshine

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Arrogance. Comes from being unelected peoples representatives.

Guy Verhofstadt is an elected politician.

melanzana

wintersunshine wrote: »

Watching Brexit Behind Closed Doors. What were the EU thinking making this? Totally unedifying for them on every level.

Fodder for Brexiters no doubt.

As a Remainer very disappointing.

Guy Verhofstadt looked like an alcoholic. Sitting at his desk drinking wine and spirits! Who does that? Having his secretary bring him drinks from his private stash.

I doubt our own are saints either in the Commons Bar.

But I can understand EU’s total frustration with the absolute mess that has been going on in UK for over three years now.

Those trade deals will be done in an instant though. Got to remember that. And the immigration will continue to be primarily from non EU anyway.

Mess is right. and Farage/Putin/Trump will have had nothing to do with it all, of course not.

Takedap

wintersunshine wrote: »

Guy Verhofstadt looked like an alcoholic. Sitting at his desk drinking wine and spirits! Who does that? Having his secretary bring him drinks from his private stash.

I believe that one of our Prime Ministers used to like a tipple.

movilogo

But that is what usually happens in elections. Incumbents get voted for on their record, challengers get voted for on their promises.

Using same line of thinking, the challenges against No-Deal are also based on "very bad things will happen" claims.

mayonnaise

Good piece by John Crace on a Nigel rally...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/13/nigel-farage-brexit-party-event-terrifying-glimpse-future

...He told them a no-deal, World Trade Organization Brexit would turn Yorkshire into the land of milk and honey.

Others came and went promising much the same. The local MPs Yvette Cooper and Jon Trickett were booed and openly denounced as traitors. The person to my left to whom I had been chatting before the event advised me not to mention I worked for the Guardian. As if I needed telling. This was the blitz spirit being whipped up into a lynch mob....

The gullible keep lapping up his demagoguery.
They're going to be really disappointed when this post-brexit land of milk and honey doesn't materialise. Oh well...more fool them...

SouthLondonUser

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Arrogance. Comes from being unelected peoples representatives.

Who exactly are you referring to?

Guy Verhofstadt was elected as MEP in Belgium.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/97058/GUY_VERHOFSTADT/home

Maybe it's useful to remind Brexiters that:

• the UK has the House of Lords
• British PMs are NOT elected directly by the electorate; if the leader of the main party changes for whatever reason, he/she will become PM and the electorate will have no say whatsoever
• British Ministers are not elected as Ministers; most are elected as MPs, but this doesn't change the fact that the electorate has no say whatsoever in who gets to be minister of what
• civil servants are not elected, and for good reason

Tromking

mayonnaise wrote: »

Good piece by John Crace on a Nigel rally...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/13/nigel-farage-brexit-party-event-terrifying-glimpse-future



The gullible keep lapping up his demagoguery.
They're going to be really disappointed when this post-brexit land of milk and honey doesn't materialise. Oh well...more fool them...

Good to see that Leftist metropolitan journalists are finally getting a tad nervous about the wave of anger induced populism that is sweeping the UK at present. It's as if they thought the near three year period of ongoing Brexit denial would not induce the reaction from Leave voters we are witnessing at present.
The Journo's are as out of touch with 'real' Britain as the politicians are.

lisyloo

mayonnaise wrote: »

Thruggy probably meant that Verhofstadt was never elected by the Great British Voter.

Why on earth would he be?
He doesn’t represent us.