Westminstenders: 1001 Ways to wait for EUCO - Sprouts, Nits and Brexit

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Not much more to say other than, all we can do is wait to hear our fate.

Which seems to lie in the hands of Macron.

I think these tweet sums a lot of it up from a couple of jaded soft leavers

Iain Martin @ iainmartin1
This terrible farce in Brussels tonight is like being British during the eurovision song contest. British entrant awaits fate, watching humiliating results come in, trying to smile for the audience back home.

George Trefgarne @georgetrefgarne
To be honest I think Buck’s Fizz and Cheryl thingummy would have made a better job of it

My advice: Don't wait up!

Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar
EU source on Macron: "He is in a bit of a schizophrenic situation - (his) domestic audience demands that he is tough on Britain for historic reasons. On the other hand, France is among the most-hit in any no-deal Brexit. It will take hours before we pull him down from his tree."

So Macron may end up being the one who gets the UK what it wants but is doing it to be tough on us. I'm not sure I understand EU politics.

Yes Rufus it's still on.
www.facebook.com/events/170606467158673/
Nottingham - 9 going
Cardiff - 13
Portsmouth - 15
Plymouth - 14

Just had a YouGov survey asking me if I think we'll have left the EU by October 31st. Things seem to be turning.

The "winners" have compromised among themselves in as far as the TM deal exists.

Hardly. May goes off on her own to negotiate a deal. Comes back with something and half her party immediately say, no, don't want that. However, when they had the chance to negotiate, (David Davis remember?), he ran away.

My Labour MP has been brilliant. I'm usually a Lib Dem voter, but would happily switch to Labour if it meant an end to this interminable Tory shambles and austerity.

I can't see how JC is a threat to anything after the last 10 years of cock-ups, U-turns, defeats, ruinous democracy and mis-use of public funds. Look at how we were perceived when the Tories came in and contrast it to today. Enough said.

Regarding Assange I'd forgotten he's Australian and they washed their hands of him.
The cost of policing him for three years alone was reported to be £12.6 million.The Ecuador cost millions too.

That's for one foreign man yet a few foreign children arrive by boat and the press go ballistic - weird.

Yet

Yes Assange has been a PITA.
The beard makes him look a little Rasputin-esque, no? Interesting choice.

DGR - I am wondering if we have enough to charge him with here. I am sceptical as to what Trump would do although I suspect death penalty would look like an easy option for someone like Trump having just 'cleared' his name and wonder if UK is using that to squeeze.

@davidallengreen
David Allen Green Retweeted Åklagarmyndigheten

Statement by Swedish Prosecution Authority:

"A preliminary investigation can be resumed as long as the suspected crime is not time-barred. In this case, the suspected crime of rape is time-barred in mid-August 2020. "

(My assisted translation.)

‏ @ElisabethMFritz
My client and I have just recieved the news that Assange has been arrested in London. It did understandably come as a shock to my client that what we have been waiting and hoping for since 2012 has now finally happened.

We are going to do everything we possibly can to get the swedish police investigation re-opened so that Assange can be extradited to Sweden and prosecuted for rape. No rape victim should have to wait 9 years to see justice be served.

My Labour MP has been brilliant.

So has mine - I'd be more than happy to re-elect if they aren't standing on this "respect the referendum" canard.

DG Before extraditing to the USA, where the possible penalty might include execution,
the Uk always makes "no execution" a legally binding condition before extraditing

This will not change .....

although a No Deal Brexit might bring a 1% chance that the Tories reintroduce capital punishment, if they go full Millwall and are desperate for populist policies that don't cost money.
(remembering Peter Wimsey books, executions used to be about 1 month after conviction)

DGR - let's hope they've seen the tide is changing and come out as more actively PV or revoke.

No one voted for the WA and the longer the Tories use it as a stick to beat everyone with the faster they loose leave support. The funny fact is that the EU won't accept anything else, which should have been made clear from the start (that's definitely all on the Tories for not explaining that to the public and peacocking about 'easiest deals' instead). Other than blaming Corbyn they've really got nowhere to move and it's all of their own making.

Oh, I missed this on fb - posted by a leaver - it's not Obama today but this that is the distraction.

DG Before extraditing to the USA, where the possible penalty might include execution, the Uk always makes "no execution" a legally binding condition before extraditing

Is that convention or law ?

www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/23/is-the-uk-governments-stance-on-the-death-penalty-shifting

www.theguardian.com/law/2018/jul/24/uk-may-face-legal-challenge-over-us-extradition-of-isis-pair

I can't tell you how much that - and by extension Javid - disgusts me to my core. Just the sort of thing a Tory would do. Outsource murder.

I am Labour.
Would be absolutely delighted to vote for any Remain Labour candidates in EU elections and subsequent UK elections.

Assange's arrest seems to have upset a few folks.
Secret Police.

Around 2pm Westminster Magistrates court is where he'll be charged. We will know more then.

Fucks sake, Leadsom is in cloud cuckoo land about European Elections.

'None of us want European Elections' she just claimed in Parliament. Such an unpleasant, venal politician.

I love the idea that we send out our secret police in uniform... 😂

Yes, ever so secret, Edward. That's not how it went, dear.

Met Police confirm:
Julian Assange, 47, (03.07.71) has today, Thursday 11 April, been further arrested on behalf of the United States authorities, at 10:53hrs after his arrival at a central London police station. This is an extradition warrant under Section 73 of the Extradition Act. He will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court as soon as possible

Extradition request from US confirmed
Scotland Yard has confirmed that Assange was arrested on behalf of the US after receiving a request for his extradition.

Julian Assange, 47, (03.07.71) has today, Thursday 11 April, been further arrested on behalf of the United States authorities, at 10:53hrs after his arrival at a central London police station. This is an extradition warrant under Section 73 of the Extradition Act. He will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court as soon as possible.

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So, we are doing US a sudden favour...wonder why?

When I was in Washington DC outside the Whitehouse was a Secret Service van with Secret Service written on the side. There were lots of blokes in bullet proof vests that had Secret Service written on them.

They were definitely offering a service not so much of the secret though.

I wondered if it was just me.

No idea lonely

Another thread already, I really do have to run to keep up 😜

Rafael Correa, who was Ecuadorian president when Assange was granted asylum, has strongly condemned his successor’s decision.

He tweeted that Lenin Moreno was the “greatest traitor in Ecuadorian and Latin American history

But it sure is kicking off. Weird timing..