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Ddog is gorgeous. Do his ears always do that?

Infinite your ddog is adorable.

Sadly both his ears are up now, he's actually wearing a sock with holes cut in for his head and legs as he was too small for any of the coats. He's a bit bigger now and has cleared the garden of foxes and cats. Chihuahuas are amazing, loyal loving cute intelligent hard working I loved that analogy

oh my goodness a sock that is so sweet.

A sock?!

I expect there will be money to be made in a low tax/low workers rights economy. The thing to do, for those who can, will be to focus on looking after your own, and to use whatever social capital you can lay your hands on so that your children can claw their way to the top of the pile, the old fashioned way.

The commitment to workers rights is just for this parliament (and arguably just for the length of TM's premiership) - rights will be 'guaranteed' under 'my' government etc.

In practice, the commitment to workers rights is hot air without the repeal of tribunal fees, so it's an easy promise for politicians to make - tribunal claims are down 80% since the introduction of fees in 2013.

Brilliant speech. It's Almost as if she asked me what I wanted for my birthday present. Best birthday.
Thanks for all the happy birthday greetings. Didn't get any on the other thread! Wonder why?
I am going to write to TM at Downing Street to tell her I support her. I think we all should.
Pulls up chair.....champagne all round please. We are going to be richer and independent. YES!!

Very pleased with Theresa May's speech, and looking forward to a future freed from the shackles of the EU! Genuinely think this is the beginning of the end for the EU, business never has and never will kowtow to the politicians.

guess what day is my bday?
inauguration day!!!!!!

Limer do you think Merkel can offer German car makers something to make them back her?

Why would they want too?

I agree Figment, and ironically any pride I had in the UK is ebbing away. It seems clear that May's plan is for us to become poorer and nastier as a country, all to make the many Daily Mail reading pensioners (her voters) feel good and powerful one last time.

I am feeling pretty hopeless about the situation from our country's perspective to be honest. When it comes to it, I think I'll manage to claw my way to a decent spot, if not the top, and I'm becoming resigned to it. Our children will have to cope with a much more difficult and aggressive economy than us and will need to have a high level of skill to ensure continuing employment at a decent level. They will just have to suck it up I'm afraid, and I have confidence in mine. How sad though.

Our children will have to cope with a much more difficult and aggressive economy than us

Thanks to successive neo liberal governments over the last 30 years the socio-economic climate has got worse for ordinary people starting with privatisation, the selling off of industry, council house sell off, tuition fees, union rights curtailed etc. Brexit is the final nail in the coffin. A Tory wet dream.

None of the above were caused by the EU but hey ho its always somebody elses fault. The EU will have to take the blame for British political shortcomings.

Well, Ghost, we will now have neoliberalism with bells on.

At least Trump will be our friend.

Debbie

Limer do you think Merkel can offer German car makers something to make them back her?

Why would they want too?

Merkel's a busted flush. Problem with the EU, of course, is that by its very nature she couldn't do anything on her own. The EU would have to offer the same to all the EU car makers, plus all the other industries crying foul at the prospect of their markets disappearing behind a wall of tariffs.

Maybe she can offer VW/Audi another million "Syrian" "children" "refugees" - after all, that went well.

Trio by Edwin Morgan. A poem all about looking forward with optimism and finding the pleasures of the simple life and featuring a chihuahua.

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/trio

Yes forgot she couldn't just offer her own car makers something - silly of me.
I am struggling to understand why she is asking them to stand by her though and what their motivation to do so may be.
Perhaps its a case of loosing UK market or literally loosing the whole EU project itself? Maybe it really is that delicate?

how that's lovely!

When it comes to it, I think I'll manage to claw my way to a decent spot, if not the top, and I'm becoming resigned to it.

How very, very tragic for you - and for the people you are going to claw on your way to "decent if not the top"

Why not just fuck off somewhere else???? If this country is going to be some sort of hellhole for you and yours, do yourselves and the rest of us the grace of seperation. We really really don;t want you here bewailing your lot and moaning like a banshee. The world is a very large place - find yours with those who you can relate to. Byeee.

Hear, hear, BMW6. I'd've expected half of MN to already be living in Frankfurt by now, clutching their Irish passports, if they actually believed in any of their post-Brexit apocalyptic prophecies.

Frankfurt is in Germany

HTH.

Hey BMW6, that's a bit harsh! I'm 100% British. Does the new sovereign UK strip people of their citizenship for wanting a socially inclusive country? I actually don't think Theresa May has gone that far.

You have to look to really nasty dictatorships to see deportation for not being supportive enough of the regime.

'Why not just fuck off somewhere else????'

Such a bad tempered bunch! But always quick to claim they're being victimised. Tut tut.

Telling your fellow country folk to fuck off elsewhere if they dare to have a different opinion is considered patriotic now?

Socially inclusive to whom though? Everyone within the EU white fortress?
Anyone who can get their hands on EU passport - legally and illegally?
Socially inclusive to everyone bar the white British Male who is now at the very bottom of the social heap in the UK?

Such a bad tempered bunch! But always quick to claim they're being victimised.

Expect alot more on that over the coming years when the evil EU (colluding with the remoaners no less!) refuse to liberate the UK to the land of milk and honey..