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Ah, but do you wear non-prescription specs Infinite?!
That's the true mark of a hipster...!!

Yes Informal I do and moreover voted Leave with the full expectation of that scenario.

Ah no my reading glasses are prescription I've failed the hipster test

And how many years will negotiating new WTO tariff agreements take? And who will negotiate them for the UK?

What Good news to wake up to this am. Great news. Huge. Personally with everything going on in Trumps crazy life I am amazed that little old UK and Brexit seems to be so much on his agenda.

Brilliant back up in the face of the EU.

It's only 10am, but I could probably muster a white wine spritzer?

I'm new to the thread. Have the Bremainers yet made sense of all the good economic news we're hearing post-apocalypse?

@Informal as long as they take but and its a big but those trade talks will be conducted with an end result wanted by both parties; talks with the EU are with one side trousering large sums to keep the talks going and no desire to end the status quo and the other side (us) continuing to foot a large part of the bill for both sides. As for who I personally am not qualified to answer that, have no need to answer that and think it's a pretty asinine question. I imagine we will find someone unless you actually believe we are a nation of cretins?

Philip Hammond was pretty awesome yesterday as well just had this posted on my FB page

Have the Bremainers yet made sense of all the good economic news we're hearing post-apocalypse?

Yes.
It's all shit apparently.
Armageddon is still pencilled in...

Love that meme Infinite

Great poster - meme - Infinite.

Just reading about Hammonds interview in "Welt am Sonntag" described as a bomb going off in Berlin.

"I’m told the Welt am Sonntag journalists were so surprised by the tone of these remarks that they called the Treasury afterwards to check that the Chancellor really wanted to say all this on the record. The response was: Yes, he does"

And as I said yesterday "it is also, in part, a negotiating tactic. The main reason David Cameron got such a pathetic deal in his so-called ‘renegotiation of our EU membership’ was that he was never prepared to walk away from the table. And Brussels knew it"

No we are not a nation of cretins. But nor are we a nation of experienced trade negotiators.

"I imagine we will find someone". So that's OK then.

I'm sure the EU would be quite happy to start negotiations - it's up to the UK to trigger that and therefore it's the UK that controls how long we continue to pay in.

Great so we are agreeing bring on A50 and lets get going. for me green if poss bit early for a drink but there's definitely a positive mood at Sheldon Towers

I'm not agreeing to anything, just pointing out that it's up to the UK to commence the process.

I can't have green tea so early Infinite, English Breakfast for am then later on a few cups of Green Dragon Wells, leaf tea. I also purchased a new matcha green tea powder.....which is interesting.

Ooh I'll have to find that a got some white tea leaves and a Pukka clear glass teapot and mug for Christmas blooming gorgeous

white tea leaves...hmmm. Never tried.

Lots of discussion on the ethics of Goves interview with Trump on Westminders and nothing on the innards of that interview.

Morning all. Got a posh new teashop on the school run. Serves the tea in clear glass teapot with accompanying mug you speak of.

Spreadsheet Phil was a hipster way before it was a "thing".

For all you wannabe hipsters...

This should be essential reading for all wannabe hipsters:

Oh no gutted I'm actually not a rare breed the lesser spotted hipster Brexiteer I don't drink coffee and boycott Starbucks

Peter Brookes cartoon earlier on thread excellent too, big fan of his work its brilliant he has been having a field day with Trump/Putin/Merkel etc. I got his year in pictures in the Times mag - excellent.

Same here Infinite, not a coffee fan, not a star bucks fan.

Samira Ahmed musing on the need for a Ladybird approach to Brexit

www.samiraahmed.co.uk/ladybird-books-constructing-the-future-past-of-modern-britain/

"Ladybird books remind Brexit Britain how it was people who’d endured horror who had the ambition not to focus on fear, but to build a brighter, fairer future."

That's a brilliant article howabout, thanks for that!