Brian Dixon
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kimmie, leave the eu god forbid.
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Guest 3065- Registered: 10 Jan 2019
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But the man thing Howard is we will still leave the EU
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Courtesy of the Times.
Up to 4,000 civil servants are being asked to abandon their day jobs to work on no-deal Brexit preparations under plans being rolled out across Whitehall. Officials in education, justice and welfare are among staff in five government departments being asked to take up new roles within weeks, The Times has learnt. None will be replaced and the secondments are expected to last at least six months. Whitehall sources said ministers were being told to reduce demands on their departments.
Jonathan Slater, permanent secretary at the education department, told staff yesterday that the priority was ensuring that “key services continue to operate” but other areas of the department’s work are likely to be mothballed.
“Please, if you feel able, put yourselves forward to help the civil service with the vital work that needs to be done now to minimise the consequences of a no-deal exit,” he said, adding that he was “in discussion” with Damian Hinds, the education secretary, about “what this could mean for our work”.
Three cabinet ministers warned yesterday against no deal. Michael Gove, the environment secretary, said in the Commons that if MPs rejected Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement it would be “undeniably the case that there will be economic turbulence and damage that our citizens and constituents face”. Greg Clark, the business secretary, refused to say whether he would stay in government if Mrs May pursued a no-deal policy. David Lidington, her deputy, said he opposed leaving the EU without an agreement.
Boris Johnson, the former foreign secretary, used a speech in Dublin to say that “Project Fear” was being used to “keep the UK in the customs union, in the single market and therefore really to make a nonsense of leaving the EU”. He joked about the risk that the UK could run out of drinking water and “two crucial ingredients for Mars bars — sucrose and whey, apparently”. “It’s not the job of politicians to go around moaning of potential shortages of Mars bars,” he said. “It’s our job to meet those challenges and to mobilise people and to lead. It’s not the job of the British government to continually tell the people they can’t do something. It’s our job to tell them they can do it.”
The Times understands that in total 4,000 no-deal Brexit roles in Whitehall have been identified as necessary to cope if Britain leaves without an agreement in March. Some involve diverting staff within departments and others mean boosting numbers in other parts of Whitehall, such as Revenue & Customs and the agriculture department, that will be under most pressure. Some will be filled by consultants and external recruitment is taking place, but the vast majority of the roles are expected to be filled internally. Five departments in particular — defence, justice, education, international development and work and pensions — have been found to have spare capacity.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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If Boris says this is all merely Project Fear, then I guess he must be right. I mean, who would ever question the objectivity of that man's judgment?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Brexit is all ready working, people are leaving going back to there home countrys, and now big firms are following suit jlr have a car plant for jags and land rovers [slovacia] dyson have a factory in swizterland,other big companys are doing the same.soon there will be industry here to employ people. happy universal credit days are here.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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According to the bookies it is odds on that Article 50 will be extended, at least that will help Seaborne get their act together.
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Reginald Barrington
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Brian JLR announced The Slovakia plant when a referendum was just a wet dream for farage and Dyson stopped manufacturing in this country 15 odd years ago!
Both absolutely nothing to do with brexit!
Arte et Marte
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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Brian you should also note that since the referendum Dyson have purchased and opened a technology and research facility in an old RAF base creating hundreds of jobs and are expanding it again this year.
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Arte et Marte
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Our friend, the Hun, is well placed for every eventuality.
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Weird Granny Slater
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Project Fear, the Brexiteer version (Theresa May variant). Grayling, never the sharpest tool in the box, manages to suggest that all EU exiters wear black shirts for political occasions. Perhaps Saatchi & Saatchi'll be hauled in to unleash ominous images of hordes of dark-clad figures staging nightime torchlit marches through Westminster.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46847169'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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far right, far left men in skirts, what ever next. politicos blacking up and waring pantomime dresses.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Guest 3065- Registered: 10 Jan 2019
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Howard don't right of farage he's still going
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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kimmie wrote:Howard don't right of farage he's still going
I thought I said that in my post Kimberly but more importantly the people that funded the leave campaign now admit that it is most likely we will stay in the EU, so we can all sleep well in our beds tonight.
Guest 3065- Registered: 10 Jan 2019
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No your wrong we are coming out they wouldn't dare not
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Courtesy of the Sunday Times.
Theresa May has been warned that her government “will lose its ability to govern” after Downing Street uncovered a bombshell plot by senior MPs to seize control of Brexit negotiations and sideline the prime minister. A cross-party group of senior backbenchers — including former Tory ministers — plan what one senior figure branded a “very British coup” if May loses the crunch vote on her Brexit deal on Tuesday. At least two groups of rebel MPs are plotting to change Commons rules so motions proposed by backbenchers take precedence over government business, upending the centuries-old relationship between executive and legislature. Downing Street believes that would enable MPs to suspend article 50, putting Brexit on hold, and could even lead to the referendum result being overturned — a move that would plunge the country into a constitutional crisis.
May’s team got wind of the plot on Thursday evening when one of the conspirators — a former cabinet minister — was overheard by the government chief whip Julian Smith discussing the plan in the MPs’ cloakroom. He commissioned written advice from legal experts, who warned May her government’s future was at stake. Smith briefed May on Friday on the explosive document, which says: “Such an attempt represents a clear and present danger to all government business.
“Without control of the order paper, the government has no control over the House of Commons and the parliamentary business and legislation necessary to progress government policies. The government would lose its ability to govern.”
A senior government source said that May and her aides were “shellshocked” and declared: “This could be game over for Brexit.” Another added: “This sounds very like a very British coup — and one that has profound implications for democracy.” Crucially, Commons sources say the Speaker, John Bercow, is likely to allow the gambit to proceed. It can now be revealed that one of the rebel ringleaders, the former attorney general Dominic Grieve, visited Bercow in his official residence on Tuesday, the day before the Speaker tore up Commons rules to help remainer MPs. Last night, Grieve refused to deny he was examining plans to seize control of the Commons timetable. He said: “I have no doubt that lots of people may be looking at all sorts of ideas since we are in a deepening national political crisis.”
Britain will leave the EU on March 29 unless there is a new act of parliament overturning existing Brexit legislation. Senior Brexiteers assume this is not possible as the government controls the timetable of Commons business. The plot, which May’s aides believe is being orchestrated by Sir Oliver Letwin, an ally of David Cameron, would torpedo that assumption. If, as expected, May loses the crunch vote on Tuesday evening, she must table a new plan by the following Monday. Tory whips believe plotters would then table an amendment to May’s plan (or the business motion that precedes it), proposing that future motions setting out the business of the House could be tabled by non-government members. If that passes, MPs, not ministers, could shape the future of Brexit.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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BBC Parliament viewing figures are going to go through the roof!
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