Westminstenders: Summer Season

[RedToothBrush]

No its not the weather making your brain rot and stop thinking.

Thats just Brexit.

Raab sweating heavily and bricking it ?

@DGR
Of course. Brexit is a 'non event' so come Brexit day all the 'furriners' will magically disappear, Blue passports will be dropping through peoples letterboxes and the sun will be shining but nothing else will change.The UK government have it all under control and it will be fine. Delegations of Chinese, Russian and USA businessmen will be clogging up the smart hotels with their briefcases stuffed with great trade deals that will be WAY better than the old ones from those meanies across the channel.
The construction pixies will have finished off HS2 so now you can get from London to somewhere 'north' really quickly, not that there is anywhere north of London really.
Maybe I should either start or stop drinking!

I feel the need for a new national football chant:

"What a load of Raabish !"

I wonder what sort of 'split brain' you must have to be in front of the worlds press and be able to spout complete bollocks that even he can't possibly believe?
Maybe the ERG have cornered the market in red hot pokers (not the plant variety) and the possibility of him making a slip up made him sweat?

Not sure if today is a red letter day, but the front page of the BBC News website manages to avoid the word Brexit completely. Seems dehydrated hedgehogs are the bigger story ....

(Rather small screenshot shows 0 occurrences of "Brexit" on page ....)

I wonder what sort of 'split brain' you must have to be in front of the worlds press and be able to spout complete bollocks that even he can't possibly believe?

i don't know about that, but in threads not a million miles from here, there's still a plucky "they'll sort it all out" attitude.

Of course that attitude isn't being completely voiced. What it really means is they'll sort it all out - without us Which, sadly, seems to sum up the English way.

I wonder what sort of 'split brain' you must have to be in front of the worlds press and be able to spout complete bollocks that even he can't possibly believe?

Well a small one, presumably ?

As a Brit in France I am a bit cross that I don't seem to be able to sign. It won't let me do it as a UK citizen in France and then wants me to sign with a French passport or identity card which I haven't got.
A citizen of nowhere, clearly. 😨

And WTO DG has said er no, you can't trade under WTO from March

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/no-deal-brexit-uk-trading-wto-under-wto-rules-not-realistic-roberto-azevedo-a8505946.html%3famp

As a Brit in France I am a bit cross that I don't seem to be able to sign. It won't let me do it as a UK citizen in France and then wants me to sign with a French passport or identity card which I haven't got.

Er, isn't that discriminatory ????

When I had to prove to GiffGaff I was over 18, I used my Italian passport (ready for a bunfight if it didn't recognise it). Amazingly it did. I also used it when an agency wanted to check my UK employment eligibility ... (although they suggested it).

Is it tied to the electoral system ? Although even then, an EU resident in the UK has the right to vote without a UK passport ? (Unless I am very much mistaken - in which case I apologise for my ignorance).

Have now made it work DG. You basically had to do it about 6 times until you eventually got a box that said something like this is my passport number so jolly well accept it.

@Missclimson
If it was the EU site linked on a previous page you can use a UK passport as your validation even though you are in France (as am I).
It threw up a 'not valid' passport number when I first tried. I then added the GBR before my number then saw at the bottom of the page another tick box in red had appeared which says something on the lines of 'accept this passport number' as the computer is obviously looking for particular number formats.
HTH

I signed it but as a UK citizen resident in the UK and it didn't ask for a passport number I'm now worried that I've somehow missed a step!

I didn't have to put in a passport number either prettybird .. it's probably an extra step they put in if you're a citizen of one nation living in another.

I signed it a day or so ago from the UK and it definitely didn’t ask for a passport number. Did ask for address. Gave me a ‘statement of support receipt’ too.

Hi
Signing the petition the requirements are different depending where you are, I started reading some of the notes.
If you are British in Britain the system will verify you from your address only so doesn't need an ID/passport.

I did get there in the end Motherof4dragons. The FB group I am on explained how to keep doing it until you got the box to say "accept my passport number anyway". I think it is a software glitch. Not good though. We don't need that on top of everything else.

Please can someone post the link to the EU Citizenship Initiative?
I somehow missed it. Thanks.

I signed as a UK citizen resident in the UK and it didn’t ask for my passport number.

eci.ec.europa.eu/002/public/#/initiative

Does this link work Hester?

EU Exit Analysis Cross Whitehall Briefing (Jan 2018)

Warning: the Brexiter dream of how to profit - their Bonfire of Regulations - was in the official Whitehall briefing for the HoC

Is this now fully govt policy ?
That would explain the push to no deal - it can't be done otherwise, as the EU won't allow trade that produces a race to the bottom

https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Exiting-the-European-Union/17-19/Cross-Whitehall-briefing/EU-Exit-Analysis-Cross-Whitehall-Briefing.pdf

Page 15:

"leaving the EU would provide UK the opportunity to regulate differently."
...
The highest estimated gains (e.g. 0.7% by Open Europe) rely upon policy changes in areas of high sensitivity
like employment, consumer protection and environment

"Repeal of elements across social, environmental, energy, consumer protection, consumer protection and product standards

High end of the range include changing climate change policies, air safety and banker bonus caps