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  1. By unlawfully bypassing parliament.
  2. It might be more prestigious being a former Tory MP whilst the party are still in power and they can take advantage of their contacts for 'consultancy', but after the party's been eviscerated after the next election? Not so much.
  3. And for non pensioners who don't have spare money to invest in the stock market?
  4. How much do you need to have invested in FTSE 100 companies to offset the increase in prices due to higher costs of imports due by the weak pound?
  5. That does change things a bit. TfW and TransPennine could get you to Doncaster. From there, LNER to London and Thameslink to Brighton should be doable.
  6. You might be lucky. According to here these are the companies affected on the 8th. And going by this, for the single change journeys, the train companies you'd use are Transport for Wales and TransPennine Express - neither of which are affected by strikes that day.
  7. Doesn't matter. He's going to be standing as an MP at the next election. "Candidate financially benefits from family's slave ownership" isn't going to be a net positive for his chances, nor his party's.
  8. It makes much of the small quota left to the UK fishing fleet whilst we were still in the EU but fails to mention anything about UK fishers selling the quotas they'd been allocated to foreign companies and UK governments taking to action to prevent them from doing so. (UK governments could, for example, have specified that the quotas remain property of the UK state and will be reallocated if no longer used by whoever it was allocated to.) The UK fishing industry shot itself in the foot with that, just as they did by becoming a figurehead for a brexit which cut them off from their main market - because in the main, British people don't eat British fish.
  9. If you're feeling nostalgic about Ceefax...
  10. Read the whole of it yourself - particularly this bit: The UK government first proposed mobility deals, the EU's proposal is a response to that. Sorting out the issues around borders/custom checks between RoI, NI and GB demonstrated that the UK tries to have it's cake and eat it and eventually accepts it can't. The same will happen with this.
  11. You are the one who has misinterpreted the situation. It was the UK government who first proposed a youth mobility scheme. They may be unrealistic in their hope that it would allow them to undermine the integrity of the EU single market[1] but it was they who first proposed allowing some freedom of movement. Having demonstrated that they know some form of freedom of movement with the EU is in this country's interest, it will only be a matter of time before they accept that it will have to be with all EU countries. [1] And let's face it, every time they have tried to undermine the EU single market they have failed.
  12. Then why did the Tory UK government propose youth mobility schemes to some EU countries?
  13. I didn't accuse them of regret, I said realism. A hard brexit was always going to be softened over time as the reality of the problems caused by it came to light. I didn't think the Tories would have been the ones to start it or so soon though.
  14. The UK can cherry pick which countries they try to make arrangements with, but if those countries are in the EU and the agreement is for something that is an EU competency, any agreement will be with and cover the EU as a whole not individual countries. Still. The important bit is that the UK government is finally showing signs of realism about the benefits that freedom of movement brings.
  15. The PO staff definitely seem to be preparing the groundwork for an 'I was incompetent' defence ahead of any police investigations.
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