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Article 50 has been triggered (finally!).
Now we move onwards to the future 🍻

All welcome, as ever...

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What a lovely sunny day today!

Alls well. A bit of whittering from the media about the pro-brexit Queens Speech, but greater interest in Her Maj's hat. Excellent. (I loved the hat, and thought she looked fabulous at 91 god bless her)

It appears JC and John McDonnell are still reliant on Diane Abbot for numbers, as JD repeats his message of a government in waiting. They really do need to do their maths.

TM appears to be playing a DUP blinder. Its not enough for the DUP (so far right pro brexit they make UKIP look positively left wing) to abstain, they would have to join Corbyn and vote against TM, and thats as likely as Sinn Fein taking up their seats. Never.
So its fair to say the QS is through, if TM holds her nerve. If she doesnt, well she'll deserve to get what she gets. The march of, newly declared out of the single market Corbyn. (Those rebel MPs are going to have an anxious week!)

In wider news, poor Macron has had 4 members of his cabinet resign in less than 48 hours. Im sure its just teething issues. In Italy, not only are they dealing with what is now an almost nationwide banking crisis, (yes its another one...yes theyve been bailed out before) but police have raided 5 banks over diamond fraud. Oh dear again Italy.

So in general, nothing to grumble about here. Oh and TM hasnt been toppled by the Day of Rage protests today.

Sorry, wrong pic. TM hasnt been toppled by the Day of Rage protest today.

I love this by Brendan O'Neill

From Brexit to Grenfell

www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/from-brexit-to-grenfell/19995?utm_content=buffer00418&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.WU12O-xuIdf

I agree with everything he says.
Love him.

He's fab surfer isn't he? He seems to manage to extract and express the core of any issue I have read him on in remarkably few words.

Yep. He nails it every time

I feel sorry for you all.

Blimey, hold the front page! Person who doesn't want to leave the EU feels the need to tell people who do that they feel superior to them. I really never thought I'd see the day

It's funny, whenever this thread goes quiet someone we've never heard of pops on with a comment like that.
< yawn >

Jesus wept! You read that and thought it was good and accurate?

No wonder you bought all the bullsh!t about Brexit!

I'm not going to bother trying to explain the difference between fact and opinion...and (shhh) politics....

That article is horrible. David Lammy lost a friend at Grenfell. Really distasteful for O'Neill to be having a pop at him for wanting to speak up about it. Ugh.

I disagree Quentin

O'Neill did not have a pop at Lammy for wanting to speak up about the disaster. He was criticising what he sees as Lammy's attempts to politicise the fire, and pointing out the contradiction between Lammy saying he wants the poor and voiceless to be heard when he has campaigned voiciferously for the voices of these people to be ignored and dismissed with reference to the referendum.

Lammy is an MP and was speaking about one of the major issues of the day. I find the suggestion that he shouldn't be subject to political critisism because a friend of his died in the fire a bit off. If a politician is too close to an issue to be able to face scrutiny and challenge to what they say, then perhaps they should refrain from opining about it publicly.

He said This is most clear in the increasingly ridiculous figure of David Lammy. Lammy has pushed himself to the forefront of politicising Grenfell
Calling someone a "ridiculous figure" is having a pop.
Lammy is justifiably angry about a public scandal that's killed one of his friends and affected his community.
Political criticism is fine, name calling because he has a different view to you on Brexit isn't. It's really unpleasant.

Political criticism is fine, name calling because he has a different view to you on Brexit isn't.

Indeed. I think that is one of the points O'Neill was trying to make.

I need a drink 😤

Are you okay surfer?

Yeah just made a massive mistake. I got into a conversation with champagne socialists about Glastonbury.

Have a large one

Cheers.
I needed that, because you know what, all tories are ugly, & have no culture or artistic appreciation - but worst of all - we're not 'groovy' - & there was me thinking I was such a groovy cat.

Just popping by for a quick to celebrate another milestone reached. Cheers all.

Hello again everyone, I've had a tonight too! Saw JC at Glasto (on TV) and LOL'd massively. When have ageing hippies ever been the future?

I don't believe the supposed drop in EU migrant numbers - let's face it, the guy with the clipboard might have had a day off and missed a few ferries and coaches. Those so-called statistics are fiction. Just yearning for the day when we can vet and select who comes in.

...and 637 days to go. That clock just keeps on ticking.

Heres a nice little snippet from Savills IM this week (27/6/17)

London named as most dynamic city in Europe despite brexit.

http://www.savillsim.com/2017/london-tops-new-index-ranking-europe-s-most-dynamic-cities.aspx

"The report concludes that London’s position atop the index comes down to its range of knowledge-based industries, infrastructure investment, population growth forecasts and diversified workforce, and predicts that London will remain the pre-eminent European city despite short-term turbulence because of Brexit."

Ill defo drink to that

Cheers Carolines