Westminstenders: Waiting for Sanity

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We could be waiting a long time, but that's what we have to wait for as that's what the EU is waiting for.

The EU has requested we expand on our plans for 'alternative arrangements' with regard to the backstop.

We need to do so before the next HoC vote on 14th Feb. The EU see no point in shifting their position before than. And the UK will struggle to provide the info the EU want before then. So there is now some doubt as to whether the vote will go ahead as planned.

About a third of the Cabinet now believe that Brexit will have to be delayed due to legislation not being ready for exit date. However we don't have power over this and we might still exit without it.

There is no Brexit related business next week in the HoC to prevent pesky amendments. The recess has been cancelled but MPs have been told its OK to go on their ski holidays so it's just a PR stunt.

Meanwhile No Deal is in full effect as businesses trigger their exit strategy in the absence of certainty. No Deal is reality for many even if we do have a last minute deal...

We are all about to get poorer. As that's what we voted for.

singing they're fruits?!!!
Very sad about the deli owner. It's not fair, he deserves government compensation.

born if you have the time that'd be great and very interesting.... I suspect we might be on similar pages.

I am not surprised Labour are losing support among remain supporters, but the poll shows Lib Dems are only up 1% while Conservatives are up 4% and no other changes - doesn’t make any sense to me. Has anyone got any insight into why this is?

I'm not really keen on the parties splitting but there are a lot of MPs who are likely to be deselected. I know Nick Boles is expecting to be. And they are the more sensible and pragmatic ones on the whole. If they are replaced with candidates on the more extreme edges of the parties we are screwed. So they might as well split and give us an alternative.

I agree pesty.
As someone allergic to penicillin it's a big issue for me

Other products would be winging their way over soon post new shiny US trade deal
The only 'safe' food would be cooked from scratch. I'm a decent cook and have the necessary skills for it but lots of people wouldn't have the time or patience.
I'm also worried about school meals in such a situation. Food in US school cafeterias is usually pretty grim.

Tomorrow's newspapers - Torygraph & Indy

singing - they are fruits?

hazard - it’s a vegetable?

Well you live and learn, as my grandma used to say.

I forgot to ask, when people were chatting about money earlier, and governments seizing same, would money in a PayPal account be safe and transferable, I wonder?

The Times...

Brexit plan to protect Brenda!!!

Observer...reporting the Labour split...

Where are they planning to evacuate Brenda to?
Hanover?

Pumpkins and squash are fruit too! Fruits - grow on the plant from flowers/contain seeds. Veg - it is the plant. Peas and beans are the seeds.

Did you know that the bumpy bits on the surface of your head of broccoli are flower buds?

1. Let's Brexit because we fear riots.
2. Let's pretend we agree with Brexit because we fear not being elected.
3. Let's make it a really hard Brexit because of 1. and 2.
4. It still looks like riots, let's bring in the army.

Apile I was thinking are all squashes fruits because courgettes are a summer squash. So thank you for answering my internal ponderings!

Summer squashes keep for a wk or two in the fridge.
Mid squashes like butternut can last a month.
Winter squashes like Prince crown have thicker skins and can keep for 6 months on a kitchen shelf if they are kept dry.

So fresh veg for brexit? Winter squashes.

Brenda will be kept in a safe place with the rhubarb.

Butternut keeps for months, a bit dry maybe. I have never found one in the back of the press/cupboard that I had completely forgotten about.

Went to my local Waitrose tonight.
Some organic cold meats have been replaced by a selection of Haggis!

Hazard I have half a dozen winter squashes in the attic, they last well if kept cool. Check out this one, last May.
Plus 50+ more at the farm, they are good winter fodder (we may have started prepping last spring).

pest I have 3 or 4 dotted about the house as "decoration" forward purchases

apile I've eaten butternut squash past a month - very dry!

Apile I didn’t know that but now ‘broccoli florets’ makes perfect sense. Florets = small flowers.

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apile - thank you!

Where are they planning to evacuate Brenda to?

Not Scotland.

Went out for a rare night out and found the wonderfully articulate maryjoyce has been entertaining you all.

Buteo. The op is obviously a reporter for some rubbish rag or other. Keeping up there rubbish scare mongering and shit stirring daily which sadly mums net are allowing.

I’m not sure if the fabulous maryjoyce was referring to RTB (as OP for the thread, but that would be quite weird as it would be nothing to do with what I had posted) or whether it was directed to The Times, although given Murdoch’s pro Brexit stance and Trump chumminess I would concur that it’s a “rubbish rag”.

borntobequiet Sat 02-Feb-19 19:52:48
Well they won’t need to export all their shit to us, will they, when we’re drowning in millions and millions of gallons of home produced slurry. At least it’s one thing we’ll be self sufficient in

You win the internet, Borntobequiet

Once we have deals with other country’s well have decent fruit and veg that tastes as it should do in happy to wait.
MaryJoyce
You've never tasted American frankenstrawberries, have you?

The idea that the UK will have any leverage anywhere after No Deal is preposterous.
Once No Deal is reality, the UK will accept the terms dictated to it by the US, including the clause that the UK will not strike trade deals with any other state without running them past the Commerce Department first. The UK will be in a worse position than Puerto Rico.