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Farage spouting cack about being able to use Article 24 again....

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Could you give us the benefit of your wisdom and explain what is wrong with this strategy.

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2016 Leave voter Westminster voting intention:

CON: 58%
BREX: 24%
LAB: 10%

via
@YouGov
, 17 - 28 Oct

2016 Remain voter Westminster voting intention:

LDEM: 34%
LAB: 33%
CON: 16%
GRN: 9%

via
@YouGov
, 17 - 28 Oct

Re: Election 2019, Week 1
 

It's already been done to death but to recap,

Gatt 24 applies if you have an agreement, or an agreement near to completion. It doesn't apply if you decide not to have an agreement, or iif you cannot reach an agreement.

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Is that dated right? Or, should it be 2019. Or is it there for further/future comparison.


Genuine Q ! :)

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Doesn't GATT 24 also rule out the backstop?
NI and GB classed as two separate customs territories.


Then there is:-

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Responding to Mr Farage's speech, a Conservative source says: "A vote for Farage risks letting Jeremy Corbyn into Downing Street via the back door - and the country spending 2020 having two referendums on Brexit and Scottish independence.

"It will not get Brexit done - and it will create another gridlocked Parliament that doesn’t work”.

The Conservatives have repeatedly ruled out any kind of pact with the Brexit Party, with government minister Robert Jenrick saying earlier: "We are not interested in doing any pacts with the Brexit Party or indeed with anybody else."

taken from the bbc

Are they worried ? Or, dismissive...

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Can't remember the last time I saw a sign in a shop window saying " Due to advances in our factories, we can make our products twice as fast at 2/3 the price, therefore everything is reduced by 25%"

:D

. . closing down sales have signs offering goods at reduced prices though ;)

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Mr Farage also says.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ries-live-news

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Are you really saying that books didn't become cheaper and more readily available because of the printing press? Are you really saying that cars didn't become cheaper when Henry Ford introduced the production line?

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1) Does he have the money ?
2) Does he have the people ?

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stop being silly, you'll be telling me next that Primark can sell clothes cheaper than BHS because it's top quality gear made on expensive machinery in Taiwan :p:

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They certainly don't have the party finances that the Conservatives and Labour have but they do have some financiers and former Conservative donors supporting them.

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Personally l don't think they will target every seat but l do see them targeting between 100 to 150 seats.

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If that were to be the case then they’ll be targeting strong labour heartlands where historically the tories have no chance. So north east UK. Parts of Sunderland, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough etc.

That’s the leave vote split if that were to be the case. Hung parliament again !!

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Didn’t say that - I said the companies (and it was mainly institutions that held the vast majority of shares) would be able to write off those losses against tax.

But you knew that, and decided to mischaracterise my comments.

(FYI, I worked in the Telecomms industry at that time, for Cable Companies and BT Cellnet (as was)).

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That is the vexed question though as to what will transpire at the forthcoming General Election as l have just read some quotes from Rob Ford, the politics professor and co-author of a seminal book on the Ukip vote.

Here are several of his quotes from today from his Twitter account.