It’s official - we are leaving the customs union.

[BlasterBates]

The UK government is clearly now in disarray and is effectively being governed by the EU.

EU lays down the condition that Northern Ireland is to stay in the single market

UK ministers are too incompetent to run their own affairs, so it's good to see the EU stepping into the breach.

[darmstadt]

Brexit means Brexit doesn’t it? Are we leaving, or what?

“To coin a phrase, they are going to tell the world that Brexit does not mean Brexit”

“It is not great for our credibility as a reliable negotiation partner”

https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...od_-_CLEAN.pdf

What was the ******* point, please explain?

[Mordac]

The UK government is clearly now in disarray and is effectively being governed by the EU.

EU lays down the condition that Northern Ireland is to stay in the single market

UK ministers are too incompetent to run their own affairs, so it's good to see the EU stepping into the breach.

Not sure I agree with the use of the word "effectively".

[shaunbhoy]

Not sure I agree with the use of the word "effectively".

Yeah. Wrong context.

Now had he said "Arsenal are now effectively out of the running for a CL spot this season", then that would have been more correct.

HTH

[Mordac]

Yeah. Wrong context.

Now had he said "Arsenal are now effectively out of the running for a CL spot this season", then that would have been more correct.

HTH

Thanks Shaun, I really needed that...

[darmstadt]

Marcus Fysh (Winchester College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford) has been Tory MP for Yeovil since 2015. He is firmly in favour of Britain leaving the EU. His example of how frictionless and trouble free trade can be outside such an arrangement is the border between the USA and Canada. This he claims to have seen for himself:

“Visited this week. V efficient border: only 3% of trucks are pulled aside of which 99% just x-rayed further, adding 5-10 mins to the v short normal clearance time. Need for ‘hard’ border gateways on the border itself is driven by immigration ie people movement controls”.

Someone took exception to the 3% of trucks claim:











And the last word goes to someone who has to work on trade: