Is Britain about to leave the EU?

[Kozmos]

They are quite credible if they are riding on a wave of xenophobia. But I think his appointment is more of a sign of quid-pro-quo deals we're not aware of yet.

 

[Verbose]

‘Not being Nigel Farage’ is a good thing now? Boris Johnson is now in charge of the UK's foreign relations. The same who said Barack Obama hated the UK because he was ‘part-Kenyan’. The man who went out of his way to annoy as many foreign governments as possible.

How the hell is a government credible if they make such an appointment?

His limerick about Turkey's Erdogan has been circulated in international media of late.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/0...esident-erdogan-offensive-poetry-competition/

 

[EnglishEdward]

I am beginning to wonder if Theresa May has simply merely given
Boris Johnson a job with enough rope for him to hang himself.

 

[Verbose]

I am beginning to wonder if Theresa May has simply merely given
Boris Johnson a job with enough rope for him to hang himself.

If so, I'm confident BoJo will be perfectly able to make it stretch long enough to string up the UK alongside himself.

 

[Kyriakos]

I am beginning to wonder if Theresa May has simply merely given
Boris Johnson a job with enough rope for him to hang himself.

Why? Boris already was self-hanged. She effectively resurrected him. Imo it is just another party-before-country/people kind of thing by May.

I liked it happened, for one reason: Bbc can now shut up about how happy supposedly 'europeans' were about May becoming PM. I mean the lies have to stop sometime

 

[Takhisis]

They are quite credible if they are riding on a wave of xenophobia. But I think his appointment is more of a sign of quid-pro-quo deals we're not aware of yet.

Theresa May making BJ take the fall for Brexit when she wanted it all along? Sounds almost too convoluted for Tories.

His limerick about Turkey's Erdogan has been circulated in international media of late.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/0...esident-erdogan-offensive-poetry-competition/

What a display of poetic non-talent.

I am beginning to wonder if Theresa May has simply merely given
Boris Johnson a job with enough rope for him to hang himself.

As Kyriakos says, he was already politically dead when his face showed that he was dismayed that the side he backed had won. Gove just made sure he was dead. I'm more inclined to believe Kozmos' theory at this point, but I saw Boris coming out on the telly, and he looked surprised.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Theresa May making BJ take the fall for Brexit when she wanted it all along? Sounds almost too convoluted for Tories.

What a display of poetic non-talent.

As Kyriakos says, he was already politically dead when his face showed that he was dismayed that the side he backed had won. Gove just made sure he was dead. I'm more inclined to believe Kozmos' theory at this point, but I saw Boris coming out on the telly, and he looked surprised.

The opinion polls told us that Remain was going to win.

I went to bed early and I was quite surprised to be told by my wife
when I was about to drive the kids to school that Leave had won.

Surprised is not the same as dismayed.

 

[Takhisis]

You were surprised, yes. Boris was trying to find somewhere to crap other than his pants.

 

[Zelig]

https://twitter.com/JonathanEley/status/754952768159440896

 

[GoodSarmatian]

https://twitter.com/JonathanEley/status/754952768159440896

Yup, read it this morning.
The pound has lost 30% against the Yen since the vote. A golden opportunity for Japanese investors to take over British companies. The Chinese will no doubt have their share too.

 

[Arakhor]

It's good for big business. I thought that that was all that mattered.

 

[Tahuti]

Yup, read it this morning.
The pound has lost 30% against the Yen since the vote. A golden opportunity for Japanese investors to take over British companies. The Chinese will no doubt have their share too.

So, Japanese and Chinese take over Britain because Britain voted to leave the EU - from its own perspective a very dumb move - and then doesn't go further with it to boot!

The Brexit referendum was worse than useless for the British electorate!

 

[Arakhor]

The will of the people cannot be denied!!

Except when it's politically advantageous almost every damn time over the last century or so.

 

[Mega Tsunami]

Britain has always been one of the most ‘open for business’ countries in the world.
Our companies have been taken over by foreign investors over and over again for years. It is how we work.
Off the top of my head: Harrods, Cadbury, Rolls Royce cars, Bentley, Jaguar, Asda, Manchester United … I am sure there are hundreds and hundreds of such companies. And you know what, all the above (and more) are doing very well, thank you very much. Still all very much a “British” marque that people round the world seem to like.
Yes sometimes these takeovers have gone wrong, but that is, I reckon, the exception rather than the rule.
This ‘open for business’ attitude is what might just make Brexit work for us. I recall Cameron some year ago saying something like “I get my electricity from a French company, my gas from a Russian company and my water from a German company. So what?”
According to the BBC the head office of ARM will still be in Cambridge and they plan to double the staff in the next 5 years.
This is a shot in the arm for Britain imo in that it shows how much faith the investing world has in the UK post-Brexit.

It's good for big business. I thought that that was all that mattered.

And jobs.

 

[Arakhor]

A government spokesman felt the need to point out that deals like this proved that we could make a success of it outside the EU. Two things that sprung to mind:

1) If you're so certain we can make a success of it, why keep mentioning at every opportunity?
2) What happens when we run out of major companies to sell?

 

[bathsheba666]

Britain has always been one of the most ‘open for business’ countries in the world.
Our companies have been taken over by foreign investors over and over again for years. It is how we work.
Off the top of my head: Harrods, Cadbury, Rolls Royce cars, Bentley, Jaguar, Asda, Manchester United … I am sure there are hundreds and hundreds of such companies. And you know what, all the above (and more) are doing very well, thank you very much. Still all very much a “British” marque that people round the world seem to like.
Yes sometimes these takeovers have gone wrong, but that is, I reckon, the exception rather than the rule.
This ‘open for business’ attitude is what might just make Brexit work for us. I recall Cameron some year ago saying something like “I get my electricity from a French company, my gas from a Russian company and my water from a German company. So what?”
According to the BBC the head office of ARM will still be in Cambridge and they plan to double the staff in the next 5 years.
This is a shot in the arm for Britain imo in that it shows how much faith the investing world has in the UK post-Brexit.

And jobs.

This seems to me to be naive beyond belief.

The 'open for business' attitude has been there a while, and is what makes it easier to fire british workers and close down divisions or entire businesses, and move it to either lower cost countries, or now, to other countries that were not dumb enough to vote to exit the EU.

ARM intellectual property can now vanish, and 'according to the BBC' probably means 'according to the company doing the buying', in much the same way that the company buying Cadbury promised not to close down factories until a full few months later when they changed their mind.

The promise that jobs in the UK will double is as enforceable as the Leave promises that we could leave the EU without any expert predicted economic shocks, and have full access to the single market with no migration.

 

[Takhisis]

It's good for big business. I thought that that was all that mattered.

Erm, no. It's not ‘all that matters’. It's simply ‘all’.

Congratulations, England, you've gotten yourselves a Tory government not even restrained by the European Union.

 

[really]

David Davis the minister for getting out seems to have missed some history lessons while he was in school.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/07/brexit-minister-david-davis-thinks-republic-ireland-part-uk

 

[Arakhor]

Generously speaking, perhaps he's referring to the current agreements where the Irish can live and work in the UK even without EU regulations.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Seems a bit more likely than the time traveller theory.