Westminstenders: A photo opportunity

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Johnson likes publicity.

Any attention is good attention. Whilst you are talking about how crazy his idea is, the less you come up with your own.

And there it is. The lack of plan to stop no deal. Just a bunch of idiots who argue over who is more right about politics without offering up a practical solution.

Unable to see their own flaws.

And leading us ever closer to the cliff edge and operation Yellowhammer.

The fact that Ireland would have to change and bend to our will to comply with this fits the Brexiteer narrative of what a powerful country we are very well and Johnson is well aware it will score him brownie points in some quarters . Given he’s on an election footing not a lot is surprising at this point.

You can open a foreign currency account here.

Opening a bank account abroad without an address there is tricky. Technically you should be able to open a bank account in any EU country as per EU rules. But in practice it doesn’t work like that. You can get expat accounts with certain banks.

For me personally coming of hrt would be pretty disastrous and cost the nhs ££££ as I have cardiac issues due to low oestrogen- fun!!
Ambulance, resus, cardiac unit stay = ££££
All for the sake of a few hormone patches.

Farming Today: despair over availability of labour post Brexit
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007r0j

QueenofThorns - South Africa used to have exchange controls to stop the flight of its white population. Apparently possibly apocryphally one way to get money out was to buy a yacht and then the family would decide to have a sailing "holiday" to Australia

How would we go about moving money overseas now, if we wanted to? Is it expensive/difficult? We presumably couldn’t open bank accounts in the EU, but could we give the money to the PIL to hold for us? Or maybe buy gold? Anybody got any bright ideas?

If you already have the right to live in another EU country (eg dual passport holder, EU spouse) and have firm plans to move there, open a bank account there.

If not, consider any investment that provides a natural hedge against the euro and/or dollar - ie, buy euro or dollar denominated assets in sterling.

I have a chunk of my U.K. assets in commodity ETFS (not for the inexperienced investor) plus a Europe (ex-U.K.) tracker, a world equity tracker, and a high income fund that is not U.K. focussed.

I know of at least one charity which collects goods for somewhere in Africa, sends them out in shipping containers and then converts the container into a classroom.

You can get a multi currency card like Transferwise, Revolut (Monzo? Not sure) which also opens a physical current account abroad (the Euro one is in Germany, I think). But check carefully the details and what is covered, I’m no expert so I don’t know the risks. If international transfers of money for private citizens will be regulated, that will just enable to access your money when you’re abroad, not to move it to your current account...
My boss recommended diamonds and watches, as they’re high value, small and easy to transport. But I hope he was joking when he told me that!!! (I don’t think he was very good at history)
We have Brexit security on the agenda for this week Allotment commitee meeting. Apparently there’s theft of produce already, people worry it’ll get worse. And I can’t get plug plants of brassica from any of my usual retailers. I missed the timing to plant from seed. A combination of brassica farmers desperate after the flooding, and busy preppers planning ahead for winter?

with transfer services - check that their oversight is the fca.
some aren't which would be fine for holiday money but not for serious amounts.
plus banks hate them. our bank account was blocked after we tried to use one to transfer savings to a eu account.

I have just written to my DS consultant requesting a repeat prescription of his ADHD meds. No mention of them so far, but I did ask if there were concerns re shortages then could she advise us what to do as he cannot cope in a mainstream school without them. Hopefully, she will give us a longer script! Usually, it is just three months, which takes us just over the Brexit deadline.

I am lucky enough to have an EU spouse,* but we have no firm plans to go at the moment. We will have to look into whether we can open an account in civilisation somewhere.

Alternatively, Australia is a bit far, but we could perhaps get a boat and have a sailing holiday to Ireland!

*Lucky because it gives us a possibility of getting out of here, but said spouse has finally woken up to what might happen and is now becoming extremely pissed off with the whole thing

DS is in France. Fortunately DIL has Irish and UK nationality, but I think she went in on British nationality. Still they should be OK, I would hope.

Ehi, now, have you seen some social housing?? Been inside? I’d take a newly converted container over a post-war built, crappy conditions social housing

Things that are normalised:
poor children in industrial containers
school children sanctioned by solitary confinement 'booths' for days and weeks for being too poor to afford school uniform
british tv programme advocating and training courses on 'training children like dogs'.
groomed children being deprived of their citizenship. etc etc

Very very Hannah Arendt.

But worst of all, apparently ordinary people are condoning and advocating barbarity.

The country is well weird right now.

Hoo so glad you can get hold of the HRT.... albeit .privately.

I think Leave supporters should look carefully at the way the Government thinks they can boss Ireland around.

That’s how the US regards us - we will be the smaller nation that’s expected to roll over and capitulate to their demands.
Luckily for Ireland, they have the EU to back them up.

I see that Trump has cancelled his state visit to Denmark explicitly because they've told him that Greenland is not for sale not that it ever was

He really does think that it should just have been a real estate deal and stuff the Inuits - and that everything in the world is for sale

Nah, Peregrina, what are you talking about? He’s just so humble and self-effacing, he even twitted the CGI of the golden trump tower he’s NOT going to build there!!
:-D

The independent Pharmacy currently have stocks of Evorel Conti and sequi but no oestrogen only if anyone is desperate, the drawback is 3months supply is £81.

Trump has now cancelled his Denmark visit because they won't sell him Greenland. The Danes ought to go further and kick out the US bases there!

Oh yes- if he's cancelled his trip citing that as a reason, it shows he was deadly serious.
If social media could influence a nation of Britain's size, what chance does a population of 50000 stand against it? Could they be influenced? How long til the next will of the people?

Well, the Danish prime minister replied with a very elegant “Greenland doesn’t belong to Denmark, Greenland is greenlandish”

Many other leaders could take lessons

But the Greenland business shows how we need to be friends with our neighbours, not try to cosy up to America because of the 'Special' relationship, which probably never existed.

I see that Trump has cancelled his state visit to Denmark explicitly because they've told him that Greenland is not for sale

Watch out for more of this. Climate change provides massive opportunities for some - all that Arctic ice disappearing opening up new shipping lanes, new oil and gas exploration opportunities.

Just because it seems like a joke it doesn’t mean that there are some serious exploitation intentions behind it.

aren’t some serious exploitation intentions

woman you forgot allowing police to prostitute teenage girls to entrap offenders

I have a friend who thinks BoZo plans to delivery Brexit then swan off to US with early retirement on speeches. I personally think he will want power for longer.

My DB knows a lot of lawyers (one of the by products of starting a company in the US). Something that has come up (so you have to ask why ?) is whether Boris famous revocation of US citizenship may be easily reversible, since it's specifically granted under the constitution, it's a grey area apparently. He could yet still be president ...