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Westminstenders: Distract and divert. Just close your eyes.

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RedToothBrush · 18/02/2019 11:16

This morning Jeremy Hunt declared that, 'With vision on both sides we can find a way through that has the support of Parliament and also works for the EU'

Of course this is 18th February 2019 and the UK has yet to demostrate they understand the problem, much less have the vision to solve it. And we leave the EU next month.

It needs to be stressed at this point: DON'T FORGET TO FOCUS ON WHAT REALLY MATTERS

Everything else is a tactic to make you close your eyes and miss what is really going on. Everything. Brexit looks increasingly like a hypnotist making their subject do ever increasing acts of ridiculousness on stage. Except I do not know if the public or the politicians are that poor sod. It is the magician who uses tricks of slight of hand to make you look the wrong way, whilst they makes all the big moves out of your vision.

There are so many stories that are coming out to try and make you miss what the government are failing to do. Stay focused. We can't ignore all these stories, but understand whether they are really important to the end game too.

A labour split, a march on the 23rd March, talk of a PV, the Brady amendment, the Malthouse Compromise, Cooper-Boles halting no deal?

No we need more than that.

The time for fantasies are gone. Its time to face reality and be pragmatic. The only thing that matters is the approaching cliff. Which we will go over not on the 29th March but in the next couple of weeks. We might not realise the ground disappearing beneath our feet at first. Our momentum as we go forward will carry for a short while before gravity kicks in.

But we can not defy the laws of physics and suddenly be able to fly because we develop magic superhuman powers of vision.

And no one will come to save us either.

Our national humilation will be total, if we don't acknowledge what is coming and stop.

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1tisILeClerc · 18/02/2019 15:06

{Yes - but 3 years is a long notice period.

I suspect you are right - it will coincide with the end of the production cycle of the Civic, but there's nothing to be gained by announcing a closure like this so early on.}

As BCF says it will probably be the end of that model cycle and is approximately when a transition period may end.
I would be concerned about quality of the vehicles going forward as the workforce are effectively on notice now and there is a risk of 'sabotage'.

Sostenueto · 18/02/2019 15:06

To tatiana Мой товарищ сразу же прыгнул вперед и ударил его.

BigChocFrenzy · 18/02/2019 15:07

Also, DG Until Harold Wilson dreamed up the 1975 referendum to get himself out of a political hole,
referenda were very alien to Britain

So it would have been absolutely astonishing if Heath had called a referendum out of the blue.

His party manifesto was very clearly to join the Common Market, so he already had complete justification for doing this, once he had a deal.

Sostenueto · 18/02/2019 15:08

Sabotage????? Shock

BigChocFrenzy · 18/02/2019 15:10

Kevin Schofield@PolhomeEditor

Fairly emollient words about Labour split from Unison boss Dave Prentis:

"Labour’s overriding concern must be to look long at hard at the reasons why the MPs feel they are no longer able to stay in the party.
The party must get its act together over Brexit."

Sostenueto · 18/02/2019 15:11

Ah well, if nothing else, we have had something to talk about todayGrin
Now I wonder what joys tomorrow will bring?

Grinchly · 18/02/2019 15:14

мое судно на воздушной подушке полно угрей

TatianaLarina · 18/02/2019 15:19

Id have way more respect for them if they had come out and said that they dont agree in Labour policies anymore

Well they have haven’t they - specifically Labour policies on Brexit and anti-semitism.

prettybird · 18/02/2019 15:20

I actually did study Russian at Uni for 2 years although that doesn't make me a communist Wink but decided I didn't like it enough and changed to do Economics alongside my French for my Honours degree.

It's easy enough for people to plug things into Google Translate - but it doesn't actually mean anything Hmm

1tisILeClerc · 18/02/2019 15:20

Sostenueto
Classic 'disgruntles employee' activity. If you know you are going to be made redundant in the foreseeable future, would you put 110% of effort and care into your job?

OhYouBadBadKitten · 18/02/2019 15:30

давайте не будем ослами друг друга. Мы все здесь на одной стороне.

PestyMachtubernahme · 18/02/2019 15:31

My hover craft is full of unicorns.
I'm not even gonna bother with Google translate.

Quietrebel · 18/02/2019 15:31

Why is everyone writing in Russian?

OhYouBadBadKitten · 18/02/2019 15:31

I dunno prettybird, I just learned that the word for eel in Russian is possibly the same as the word for blackhead.

bellinisurge · 18/02/2019 15:31

Speak for yourself @OhYouBadBadKitten Grin

Quietrebel · 18/02/2019 15:32

Sorry, not followed the thread and it looks like I've stumbled into an alternative universe (but then I've felt that for a while)

OhYouBadBadKitten · 18/02/2019 15:32
Grin
OhYouBadBadKitten · 18/02/2019 15:33

I did wonder for a moment if we'd been hacked.

67chevvyimpala · 18/02/2019 15:33

I used to know how to say "the fat German in room 305 has spontaneously combusted" in Russian.

Which was useful.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 18/02/2019 15:34

Apparently google translate doesn't understand the difference between an arse and an ass.

Sostenueto · 18/02/2019 15:35

Well I'd be thinking I wouldn't want to be riding along on a faulty bike that might just cause me to have a fatal accident, so no I wouldn't leclerc.
prettybird I couldn't care less whether what I put means nothing ( yes, I googled it,) because putting my comrade in Russian instead of English, (cos funnily enough I'm English) deserves the contempt I feel for writing something knowing that I would have to then go and translate. Hmm

Quietrebel · 18/02/2019 15:35

To all the real enemies of democracy:
Вы должны

OhYouBadBadKitten · 18/02/2019 15:38

You've left us on a cliffhanger there Quietrebel!

Sostenueto · 18/02/2019 15:39

I'm neither an arse or an ass badkitten I just hate it when people quote me out of context and then can't be arsed to comment without adding a bit of russian for no apparent reason when rest of said post was in English. End of boring subject.

Sostenueto · 18/02/2019 15:41

I'm not bothering to google that quiet I prefer cliffhangersGrin