Westminstenders: The wrong homework

[HashiAsLarry]

I'm no rtb but I'll give it a shot, though her efforts deserve much more than me.

The August negotiation round has, well, fizzled out in much the same way as any other. It's taken over a year to get to written position papers and there's still no clue as to a direction from the UK government.

Japan, meanwhile, is about to sign off on a deal with the EU. A deal we want to copy.

@faisalislam
^but if post brexit britain's trade deal with third biggest economy in world is to be based on Brussels' deal, what about rest? TTIP? Canada?
...when PM signs off statements like this on primacy of EU-third party deals, one wonders how temporary the temporary customs union will be^

The NHS is now launching a drive to recruit foreign GPs, like the ones that have left thanks to Brexit. It's a good job they'll be £350m a week better off now. Oh hang on...

Thanks for starting this Hashi (or should that be Hasish? )

Found LH's foreign language links very interesting on the last real thread. Enjoyed reading the Le Figaro article (I am after all one of that elite with a degree in French and Economics ) but I will admit to using Google Translate for the other (can't speak Italian; the other language I studied at Uni was Russian )

Thanks Hashi.

Thanks

Hashi lovely and great to be here.

And all the very best to RedToothBrush for the stunning informative, funny, humane, and absolutely incisive threads we have had so far.

What's been wonderful about the last year is how many people from so many different places have come together against this mess. We're not going anywhere.

Great to have Barnier's disappointed deputy head performance today with the idiot DD. I liked it when he said "You will know when I get angry".

May will know when we get angry too.

Oh, thank you hashi.

Thanks Hashi for starting the new thread!

Thank you.

mother what papers do you recommend from Belgium? And what other EU papers do people recommend? Le Figaro was good to read prettybird, in translation. Die Zeit always seems quite good.

Thank you for taking up the gauntlet Hashi

Re translation tools, Yandex is pretty good. But it is Russian

And the garden looks gorgeous, prettybird, nice to see Glaswegian houses peeping out too.

thanks Olenna

Thanks, Hashi.

Oh a new new thread. Lovely.

Ah, glad I found this thread. We can keep the fake one for gardening tips.

The Russian might indeed come in useful - but I'll need to brush up on it - it's over 25 years since I studied it (Dropped it before my Honours years - although I accepted into Honours - in order to study Economics alongside my French).

I do still have my Russian dictionaries and text books though book hoarder

Merci Hashi - haven't posted in ages but still reading every thread.