The last week has seemingly been eventful but not in the way that's on the surface.
It's what's going on behind the scenes and the little comments in less high profile speeches that's more telling.
On the one hand the Norths think the May speech is a laying down "an offer" that the EU can not accept, in order to set up a no deal situation.
On the other hand Telegraph Journalist Peter Foster thinks there things going on in Brussels with the EU set to compromise in someway and help May present a deal acceptable to the British. You have to wonder whether the "presentational" stuff is about a deal to essentially be in the EU but not in the EU. A Brexit Existing in A Name Only. Beano.
It's difficult to tell, and it will come down to brinkmanship over timing. For both a deal and for the Repel Bill as the two sides in parliament try to push things to their limit for their own ends.
In this vacuum of uncertainty CBI and their "arch enemies" the TUC have put out a joint statement saying no deal is nuts and will screw every one and the way EU cits have been treated has been dreadful.
As it stands it does look like May is serious about a deal and Davis is also acting in this way. Johnson and Hannan have launched their Institute for Free Trade (at the foreign office breaking ministerial code, but hell there's no consequences these days anyway cos May dare not let Johnson off the Brexit hook) in retaliation to try and retell the Brexit story as always being about free trade rather than racist. Unfortunately leavers seem to have bust that by admitting they are considerably more racist than Remainers by their own admission.
Then there's Trump and Bombardier. Just as Brexiteers are pushing for this closer relationship with the US in trade, despite May personally lobbying Trump he fucks her over slapping 220% tariff on Bombardier and putting the future of 4000 jobs at risk. This was inevitable as Trump fucks everyone for his own gain. The US won't ride to the aid of the British capitalists. They'll just eat them alive.
This week sees an important vote by the European Parliament on Brexit red lines. One of the votes states that the UK has to either stay in the customs union and internal market or NI has to have a special arrangement and stay in the customs union and the internal market in order to protect the EUs border integrity. Neither is compatible with what the Cons and the DUP have said they want.
It's also the Tory Party conference.May's big speech, in which she must throw red meat to the swivel eyed loons on right, is on Weds. There are of course, no debates at ConParty because, well, they can't behave like good little children without supervision. Instead the conference is to, erm... yeah we'll find out next week.
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RedToothBrush · 29/09/2017 21:33
Another great OP to summarise events. Thanks, red 
Much to my surprise, I think May's Flo speech did indeed reboot the negotiations.
Maybe because she used the exact words about the exit bill that the EU Commission wanted to be openly said.
That could have been Olly Robbins using his contacts to find out what the EU wanted to hear, then match it up with what May was prepared to give
.We do seem to be living in heading towards a dystopian world that is a combination of "1984" and "Animal Farm" with elements of "The Handmaid's Tale" 
Big Brother does indeed seem to be watching us and attempts are made to re-write history via the Internet or lazy journalists not challenging politicians re interpretation of "facts" - was it Orwell rather than Jules Verne who had a time machine 
- while all people are equal but some people are more equal than others (DUP supporters versus the rest in NI, UK compared with EU citizens - ex-pats gracing countries with their presence if you're UK citizens, or nasty immigrants if they are EU citizens in the UK 
).
Thanks for the new thread, RTB.
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