Brexit

[RSL]

Check this Brexit.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155177039898438&set=a.53931638437.76770.510863437&type=3

[Alan Goldhammer]

Rolls Royce aircraft engines and McVitie's biscuits are in high demand, too.

I believe GE sells more jet engines in the US than RR.  RR of course has (had???) the captive Airbus market.  Maybe the EU gets mad at England and Airbus switch to GE engines.  Good for me as a GE shareholder!!!!

[Alan Goldhammer]

Scotch whisky especially malts. To be absolutely accurate they come from Scotland but because Scotland is still part of Britain - unfortunately - it answers your point. 

I prefer a good US small volume bourbon to Scotch any day of the week.  England better hope that Scotland don't go independent as they lose all the export money brought in by those wonderful distillers.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Will I still be able to buy Weetabix after Brexit is finalized?   

[Manoli]

For me it's having a sensible discussion that will hopefully further the understanding of the issue.

Well, I wish you good luck with that !

Now that Jeremy and I have finished playing 'handbags at dawn', news comes that what we interpreted as irrevocable yesterday, today seems may not be quite as 'irrevocable' as we originally thought.

" .. leading constitutional lawyers revealed that the French government legal service has informed the French government that the UK would be entitled to rescind a notice to withdraw even though it had invoked article 50".

And when many in the UK thought the UK would now lead the world in forcing the breakup of the EU, Bloomberg reports : “ EU Support Surges in Denmark as Brexit Scare Spreads in Nordics “

According to a Voxmeter poll published by Ritzau on Monday, 69 percent of Danes now back EU membership, up from 59.8 percent in a poll held prior to the U.K. vote. The poll also found that the proportion of respondents wanting a U.K.-style referendum had fallen to 32 percent from 40.7 percent.

“This poll confirms that nobody wants to put themselves in the kind of mess the British have created for themselves …

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-04/eu-support-surges-in-denmark-as-brexit-scare-spreads-in-nordics

As though the above wasn't enough, Ken Clarke, a Conservative grandee, is recorded on camera describing Michael Gove, one of the architects of this maelstrom, present Justice Minister and currently bidding to be the next Prime Minister, as "being so wild that ... as prime minister we’d go to war with at least three countries at once.”

Fun times.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

There is surely but one fact that we can all agree on: That the solution to the Brexit Problem will be served up here on the LuLa Forum.   

[Zorki5]

There is surely but one fact that we can all agree on: That the solution to the Brexit Problem will be served up here on the LuLa Forum.   

We're almost there, Eric! Just give it 20 (or so) more pages...

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

There is surely but one fact that we can all agree on: That the solution to the Brexit Problem will be served up here on the LuLa Forum.   

And here's how:  Do not file a notification under article 50.

The referendum was not legally binding but advisory, although through the political spin around it there is a moral obligation side to things, but hey, we're talking politics.

Cheers,
Bart

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

... the solution to the Brexit Problem will be served up here on the LuLa Forum.   

And why not? We are supremely qualified. We have at least two experts with a first-hand experience of witnessing their state entities disintegrate (Yugoslavia and USSR) 

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

And why not? We are supremely qualified. We have at least two experts with a first-hand experience of witnessing their state entities disintegrate (Yugoslavia and USSR) 

as well as a chorus of arm-chair pundits each willing to believe six impossible things before breakfast.

"I can't believe that!" said Alice.
 "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."
 Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things."
 "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

(From Through the Looking Glass, L. Carroll)

[Robert Roaldi]

And just in case this thread hasn't gone on long enough, here's a

[Paulo Bizarro]

For those who are football fans:)

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Thank you Robert and Paulo.
This thread is getting better now.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

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[Christopher Sanderson]

We knew it would be jolly good fun...

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Looks like Boris is back in the game, as Foreign Secretary:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36789972

[Justinr]

It was noted on here before that it is Germany that is the real power behind the the EU throne and it would be their response which would determine what the the post Brexit landscape would look like. While that clown Juncker has been posturing and snorting at the British his real boss has been quietly moving in another direction altogether -

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday she had invited Britain's new prime minister Theresa May for talks in Berlin and that she was looking forward to working with her.

"It's our task to work very closely with governments of ally countries," Merkel told a news conference after talks in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, adding there were many problems in the world that made such close cooperation necessary.

The chancellor said she spoke to May on the phone late on Wednesday and invited her for talks in Berlin. "I look forward to working together," she added.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-germany-may-idUSKCN0ZU0J1

So, are two women leaders going to sit down and sort it out over a nice cuppa or will it be left to the menfolk to start another war?

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

... So, are two women leaders going to sit down and sort it out over a nice cuppa or will it be left to the menfolk to start another war?

Only Falklands could tell

[Justinr]

Only Falklands could tell

I always felt that Thatcher was more of a man than most in her cabinet, or just a bigger nutter, which was definitely the case later on. She certainly disproved the feminists case that a kinder gentler world would follow if only we had women as leaders, mind you, that might now change, especially if you lot throw Clinton V.2 into the mix but I am not at all sure that it will. 

[Nick Walker]

Another good female politician, Mo Mowlem.

Mo Mowlem, Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams of the Sinn Fein/IRA, and Senator George Mitchell

Mo Mowlam chairs a meeting with Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams of the Sinn Fein/IRA and Senator George Mitchell (to chair the Peace Talks). Both sides are point scoring. Mo Mowlem defuses the situation by removing her wig .
 
Mo Mowlem: 'Sometimes aren't there just times when all you want is a bloody good scratch'. (she was suffering from a malignant brain tumour at the time).
 
Martin McGuinness: 'I suppose so'.

Mo Mowlem: 'I tell you what, boys. Let's start this meeting again. Only this time, no cocks on the table'.

After the meeting.

Mo Mowlem: 'How did I do, George'?

Senator George Mitchell: 'I have to say you have the most unorthodox negotiating technique I've ever seen in my life. My answer is: "brilliantly". I think we're in business'.