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...

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Gosh, I don't have access to the full article by Guy Verhofstadt in the telegraph, but just the first couple of paragraphs are pretty cutting. Can anyone on here are the rest?

For years the EU bent over backwards to please Britain. Now you ask for 'flexibility'?
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/31/years-eu-bent-backwards-please-britain-now-ask-flexibility/amp/

Dunno about that, but the bots are out ...

twitter.com/GuyVerhofstadt/status/903563692272472064

but the bots are out

Sadly, many of them are not bots but actual, apparently permanently angry, people.

David Davis speaking in Washington at the moment.

To himself, from the sounds of it.

My DB (US citizen) says that Brexit is what no one is talking about in the US. Any reporting is purely for UK consumption.

Sadly, many of them are not bots but actual, apparently permanently angry, people.
With some sort of tiny hive mind.

old news but:
@J_amesp Mar 7

1. I've had some information on Brexit from a source close to Number 10. They are well placed and reliable...

@J_amesp
"May has already made plans to walk away from negotiations, but not until after the French and German elections...

Mother, I was thinking exactly the same as you.

However, the French elections didn't go the way the Brexiters planned, and May has since then thrown away her majority. Which might or might not make a difference.

Well, I don't know, but I think it's why Jo Maugham has written this, apologies, posting it yet again:
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@JolyonMaugham Aug 31

How do we go forward if the talks break down?

waitingfortax.com/2017/08/31/what-happens-if-the-talks-break-down/

And thanks for the Belgian newspaper link mother

If it's right that that tweet was march 7th, I think the fiasco of the election plus Corbyn coming out for a long EEA transition may have focused minds slightly.

Without wishing to give too much hope to momentum etc, they probably are more likely to benefit in an election if we've walked away from a deal than the tories are and with no guarantee that the Tories will get back into power, especially if there are party splits. Look at the liberal party up to the 1920s!

Key bit, is watching/lobbying parliament to see if they vote in right of a minister on his own to decide date of brexit.

I have a very important announcement....I made courgette jam!

It is delicious

I am low fodmap due to severe IBS so get very excited about any recipe I can actually make. I have been looking for a chutney/savoury jam I can manage for ages. Thank you AnnieKenny

Well spotted artisanjam, but Maugham is concerned, it's not so much brexit, it's the executive power grab is problematic.

bigly

Hopefully that's somewhere the other parties will do their job and stand up for parliament. I'd better start writing again!

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A poster @anyabike on twitter about Jacob Rees Mogg

"I wouldn't call Rees-Mogg the MP for the 18th century. I'd call him the MP for the people who would have had a vote in the 18th century."

So does that count as artisan jam, bigly?

Can you put courgettes in cake , like you can with marrow ? makes them moist .

Thank you for the threads over the last two weeks , had erratic Wi-Fi but have enjoyed reading them as and when I could

Bigly

Very happy to help! I love cooking and honestly embrace those of my friends on restricted diets as great cooking challenges! (Yeah - I need to get out more) so feel free to make extra requests.

the MP for the people who would have had a vote in the 18th century

Both of them ...

Vegetables in cake???

Courgette cake is lovely. Same principle as carrot cake.

Nooooooooo
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