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Great ⁦@SophyRidgeSky⁩ show live from conservative conference - ⁦@BrandonLewis⁩ says he’s not preparing for a snap General Election next one is 2022 - currently preparing for 2019 locals...
Ruth Davidson leader lays into Boris Johnson: says its “strange” BJ was “praising what PM brought home last December”... was sitting round Cabinet now says he was deceived... “I knew what was being said around Cabinet table in Dec not quite short re how former Foreign Sec didn’t”
David Davis doesn’t repeat Boris Johnson’s critique of the PM’s Chequers plan as “deranged” says instead “it’s wrong” if it was done “the Europe issue would not go away, the toothache we’ve had for 30 years would still be there for another 20 years” #Ridge
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EU sources say there will be “no summit” and there are “no actual talks”, some discussions on reassurances. Another diplomatic source tells me even those will not come before the vote next week. /1
Still not entirely sure whether the Meaningful Vote debate that resumes tomorrow will be the continuation of the one curtailed last month or a new one. Former more likely. Would have to make special provision for previous speakers to speak again /2
Tory MPs who attended the Downing St drinks were expecting a bit of a rousing unity speech from PM - surprised there wasn’t one at all even “none of you will be back here” type cajoling. On the way out none I spoke to had changed mind.
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22 Tory MPs including PPSs, trade envoys, grandees among 209 MPs signing joint cross party letter from Caroline Spelman/Jack Dromey “must not crash out of EU without a deal. We urge the Government to agree a mechanism that would ensure a ‘No Deal’ Brexit could not take place”
... Tory 22 include Spelman, Boles, Soames, Letwin, Vaizey, Keegan, ex Trade Minister Garnier, Trade Envoy R Graham... more than enough rebels to win vote. As opposing No Deal is manifesto policy of Labour, LDs, Plaid, SNP and Greens it seems highly likely there’s a Commons maj..
At this stage the 209 MPs are
162 Labour,
22 Tory,
18 SNP,
5 Lib Dem
and 4 Plaid.

“we had to send a clear message tomorrow before a fortnight of key debates commencing on Tuesday with the Finance Bill” said one signatory.
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Ramsgate port approach now being dredged (NB by a Dutch dredger) in preparation for the potential taxpayer-funded ferry service to Ostend as a part alternative to anticipated No Deal Brexit blockages on the main Dover-Calais / Channel Tunnel routes
Meanwhile the first stages of “Operation Fennel” which we reported last month are now taking place - @TomBoadle has obtained this DfT letter about live testing Manston Airport Monday as another lorry park, in addition to 13 miles of M20 AND the M26 for No Deal Brexit disruption
Here is Operation Fennel - storing 10,000 cross channel lorries - the 5000 headed for Dover Port at Manston and 2000 For Eurotunnel on the M20 with a further 2000 on the M26 and then potentially stage 5 is for storage outside of Kent, if all that gets full...
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Hello everyone, welcome to @Nairametrics Corporate News roundup for the week ended October 13, 2018. This thread is BTU by @BluechipTechNG

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Salzburg Thread.

1. What part of No, do you not understand?

That was the message EU leaders delivered to Theresa May
2. You could see it at her press conference : she hadn't been hit so hard since the general election.

This was not supposed to happen.
3. But the surprise was in the timing, and perhaps the directness, not the content of Tusk's and Macron's statements
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Some thought on Brexit.
We are witnessing the greatest and most dangerous game of chicken in history.
On one level, the UK has triggered A50. They are negotiating with EU in the belief that EU will accede to their demands because it will be worse for EU than UK.
2. At the next level, the Conservative Party (Tory) leavers are running a game of chicken with the very vocal remainers. Inside of this is another game between the rabid leavers and the moderate leavers (May).
3. At the next level, we have Tory vs the Opposition party (Labour) in that Tories know beyond a doubt, that Brexit will be brutal to UK for first several years (it is why they are frantic about contingency plans) and they need to blame someone for this failure.
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22 May 2014. It was the day that Royal Thai Forces seize power and overthrew the elected prime minister by committing a coup d'etat. Their reasons for this coup are to protect peace, order ,nation, religion, and monarchy. And to fight against the corruptions.
Before the coup, there was a political crisis from 31 October 2013 to 22 May 2014. The reason of that crisis is came from Amnesty bill that pardoning wrongdoings of all sides from 2004. The People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) led by Suthep Thaugsuban was head of protest
The bill was criticised from almost everyone because it pardoned all political crimes from 2004 including 2010 military crack down. After the bill was cancelled, most people have cease the protest except PDRC and The United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD)
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The Unholy Corruption Behind Brexit: What Do Brexiters want?
Brexiters lie about everything. Johnson, Gove, Davies, Mogg, Baker - they have all been caught lying. And why? Because the truth about their desire for Brexit is too unpalatable for the electorate to swallow. It involves the complete destruction of the post war consensus.
The extreme wings of both @conservatives & @UKLabour want this, for different reasons. I will start with the Tories.
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Oh the geezers are hard at it grafting media, it's always great to have easy scapegoats "North Korean cyber gangs.." a.msn.com/01/en-ie/AAt9g…
2/"Mr Murphy’s firm was the first in the world to liaise with computer giant IBM over the use of the super-computer ‘Watson’ for real-time--
3/artificial intelligence-based defence against cyber criminals." Bear with me, I'm about to post a few more links in #THREAD #CyberSecurity
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