What's happened to Brexit?

[inwood]

Just that really, it's gone oh so quiet. Are we still leaving? It's bizzare how it was all we heard about on the news for months and now, nothing!

Hmmm, yes, has there been anything else happen recently that’s been in the news/the papers constantly? Thinks, thinks.......

Weird isn't it! Now Boris has a huge majority, no-one is reporting on Brexit. The Bill was passed by the house of lords with amendments that will get voted down when it returns to parliament. It's going ahead. 31st Jan.

As we speak, the Lords are discussing that the Withdrawal Agreement appears to have been drafted in such a way as to take powers away from Scotland, Wales and NI governments.

And have been debating the fact that EU citizens with the right to live in the UK aren't allowed any physical evidence of their right to be here. Which is causing them massive insecurity.

No shocks there then

So the sheep don't notice wasn't actually going on and get distracted over the drama about Prince Harry and Meg.

*what's

Do you think Megxit was all timed to overshadow Brexit?

In case you missed it, Javid made comments a few days ago saying that there will be no alignment with the EU, we will not be in the customs union or the single market, and this will all happen by the end of the year.

Well I don't know about you guys, but I can't wait [/sarcasm]

Yes I do inwood, very convenient. Brexit has dominated all our lives for the past three years, and now it’s gone all quiet. Weird really.

Gosh how I miss all those brexit threads and media scaremongering,,,

The reason it's gone quiet is because now it seems it won't be a no deal Brexit so there will be a transition period until at least the end of the year where nothing will change.

And you can stick your conspiracy theories about Harry and Meghan's announcement. I've heard it all now!

Call me cynical, but I'm pretty sure the refusal to give resident EU citizens actual physical proof of their "digital identity" is enable more Hostile Environment shit to perfectly legit UK residents.

How are landlords, etc, going to check this "digital identity"? Website (that's slow or keeps going down), or phonecall (that keeps them on hold)?

That's one level. It's all extra hassle when dealing with an EU citizen compared to a UK one, even if the website is working.

And then, given this is coming from the Cummings government, we can also be pretty sure data of landlords, etc using the website will also be collected. How do you think that will mix with the Tory party's previous plans to "name and shame" companies which employ foreign workers?

Government U-turns on plan to force firms to list foreign employees after just a week
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/foreign-workers-u-turn-list-shame-companies-theresa-may-amber-rudd-justine-greening-a7352466.html

That was 2016, but I doubt that thinking has vanished. Sideways pressure put on landlords and other companies providing services to furriners? Who knows.

Sounds mad, but I cannot think of any other rational explanation for not issuing a physical card linked to the digital ID, and this government has form.

The reason it appears to have ‘gone quiet’ is that after three years of chaos, the big political drama is over. It ended at 10pm on 12th December when the Tories won a huge majority at the election. We will officially leave the EU a week on Friday. Very little will actually change on that day because we will enter the transition period.

A new drama then starts as we begin negotiating a trade deal with the EU....

Yes, we're looking at a likely No Deal scenario in a year's time. The extreme right-wingers have won and will cause havoc after the end of the transition period.

It’s changed already for me. I’m an elected councillor in France. I no longer have the right to stand for re-election, vote in local or European elections. As an elected official, I counted ballot papers and signed official documents for the presidential election amongst others. All gone now.

I’m going to take French nationality, pay for French and British passports for the dc so we can travel together, and give up the idea of moving back to the uk as a family, dh is French, and worry what will happen if my mum ever needs looking after.

It wouldn't have to be about them in particular- it could have been anything really latest TV show etc.

Survival of the richest now.

The Harry and Meghan stuff has been very helpful timing worse without it they would be reporting more on what is going on. Also handy to take the spotlight away from Prince Andrew.

It wouldn't have to be about them in particular- it could have been anything really latest TV show etc.

This.

If it hadn't been this particular piece of celeb news, it would have been something else. The volume of airtime being directed at Harry & Meghan is completely disproportionate, especially given we're bang in the middle of actual constitutional change being voted on in Parliament.

Suddenly the media aren't interested in Brexit...

Johnson ordered that his government will not talk about Brexit now as the people are "bored of it and don't understand" the minutiae.

Yep, expect a resumption of the chaos end of this year when we haven't negotiated a trade deal in the shortest time ever. Looks like a hard Brexit is still planned as Jarvis has said no alignment- much harder than May's deal.