Some pieces of legislation automatically lapse unless renewed, but I think it's unprecedented that Parliament had to vote for an outcome it didn't want (the default to no deal) in order to initiate a process that nearly everyone agreed should take place (to attempt to open negotiations). Normally if Parliament can't agree on anything different, the status quo prevails, which would be to remain.Nice typo
But Parliament voted against every deal put forward, regardless of how useless it was, so the default by Law as I understand it is to leave on 31st October. I realise there were stipulations regarding a deal for that to happen (and it might still happen, who knows), but going behind peoples backs particularly to the EU as Hammond apparently has does not help any negotiations especially given the fact that the EU do not want us to leave either.
No offence taken. You have made sound points. The sort of countries I was intending were Australia*, Canada, South Africa, Japan countries we may already have some sort of relation with. I would have liked to include Brazil but this country appears to have its own difficulties. On leaving the EU we would no longer be a very big fish (yes, I know about us being the nth biggest economy, but that is not what gives you weight - Russia has much greater weight than its economy because it has sway with other countries). I would steer clear of the China and US simply because of the size, there will be a price to pay for both. For the US
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49348062
I wouldn't go so far as to say 'like', more 'prefer over BoJo'. But to be fair I would prefer a bag of dead badgers to BoJo, so that bar isn't very high!
"This is Captain BoJo speaking. Everything is going to be just fine but just in case, adopt the brace position. Also please don't worry about the wings falling off, we are technically in a big tube & when I was at school we used to use big tubes to make rockets, and they flew OK. Oh and the smoke filling the cabin, well we are ignoring that for now, its probably Corbyn smoking something herbal...."
I thought he was actually saying that they were just undermining his "negotiating" "strategy" of threatening a no deal unless the EU dropped the backstop (do what I say or I'll burn my house down). And probably preparing the ground to blame them when it all goes pear-shaped.
Sadly, I am reminded of 'Enemies of the People' https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/daily-mail-nazi-propaganda-front-page-ipso-complaints-brexit-eu-enemies-of-the-people-a7409836.html. I would like to think that on reflection the Prime Minister wished he had used an alternative to 'collaborators', given his proficiency in the English language. They are people who object to government policy and are taking legitimate, legal (as far as I know) measures to oppose it.
Any anxiety about the backstop from Brexit supporters is a frank admission that they do not have confidence that there will be a future UK/EU relationship agreement.
There also won't be one with the US as they have said Congress will vote down any trade deal which threatens the Good Friday agreement.
I have read this thread maybe you have not. Philip Hammond and Mark Carney spring to mind.
Most of the prominent leaver speculators would love us to become the 51st state.
Best to have a referendum every year to make sure.. And ignore the ones you don't like.
I'm talking about Rees-Mogg, Farage, Johnson and of course the dubious backers like Banks. They can't wait to be part of a right-wing country with even less equality than the UK now has.
Or maybe just have the right information out there to start with so people can make an informed choice and not have to wade through tonnes of lies?.
There is not a single country in the world that does what the UK is apparently quite prepared to do, which is to trade solely on WTO terms. Not one, and certainly none of those mentioned, who have multiple trading agreements and are members of trade blocs.
