We knew Johnson would be shit. And he is a shit. And he even goes and puts his feet on Macron's table and manspreads.
And doesn't listen to Merkel properly, and makes a sort of commitment out of 30 days.
And most of the British press are also shit, especially the tabloids.
No, Merkel did NOT offer Johnson a solution. Or more time. Or, actually, anything. She basically - politely - said go away little boy and do a bit of thinking.
And then the Daily Fail sees it as *progress*?
What, because she didn't tell him to his fat little face "Look you jerk, stop wasting my time, and Macron's time, and all of our time - you are the ones Brexiting, not us, and none of us wants a hard border in Ireland - so what have you got?"
And the British press, and British politicians, got so much the wrong end of the stick that Merkel had to put out a clarification:
And the UK's Ambassador to Germany goes on Welt TV too, and that's also shit. He is not stupid, but has to defend the indefensible, and hence comes across as shit.
And Nick Boles tries to justify why he wants to stop No Deal Brexit, but has no alternative whatsoever, and is too shit scared of an election, and shit scared of Corbyn (who on Brexit is also shit) to actually propose a way forward
And the settled status stuff for EU citizens in the UK thing is also complete and utter shit. Even folks like Rob Ford's mum who worked for the NHS for years cannot make the shit work.
And so it goes round and round and round and round.
And gets more absurd and more shit and then shitter still. And all the players in it, UK side, get more duplicitous and less moral as it all goes along.
It's pretty simple.
No Deal is the biggest shit of all. Stop it.
Johnson is facilitator of No Deal. So stop him with VONC.
There being no solution from this House of Commons, have election to get another one. It might be less shit. Or more shit, but at least decisively shit.
(Sorry for the rant, but I am at the end of my tether here - and we have another two months of this shit to go. At least.)
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This morning I’m one of the first new regional trains Maubeuge 🇫🇷 - Charleroi Central 🇧🇪 #CrossBorderRail
It was a bit of a #fail at the station. I needed a ticket to Erquelinnes, the first station in Belgium. But prior to today trains from Maubeuge didn’t stop there!
Ticket machine ⛔️
Ask at the ticket office. “Le train ne s’arrête pas à Erquelinnes!” I politely told the SNCF employee that yes, it did stop at Erquelinnes. I explained the situation to the SNCB train manager and he laughed, confirmed it did stop there, and I bought the ticket online!
Delays in my favour. Maybe? S-Bahn to FFM Flughafen. Get a late running ICE to Köln Messe/Deutz there. Then try to blag my way onto a Thalys Köln Hbf to Bruxelles? It’s a long shot but it might work…
ICE 612 Frankfurt Flughafen to Köln Messe/Deutz.
This is why accurate live running data in apps matters. Were this not running 10 min late I’d not have caught it… but live data allowed me to plan a connection that’d otherwise not work
Already on the 2nd train of the day: TGV Montbard - Paris. All being well I’ll be in Denmark tonight… but that feels a long way off just now! #EGPCongress#crossborderrail
Across Paris RER Gare de Lyon to Gare du Nord, walk to Gare de l’Est (faster than changing into a Métro to Est) and it’s onto the TGV to Mannheim. So far so good, but I banked on this bit working 🙂 #EGPCongress#CrossBorderRail
Franco-German train service. Very French prices! And no, it’s too early (and expensive) for #beerontrains 😉
Jeez. It could take until 2025 until TGVs are approved for the line.
And the whole effing point of Stuttgart21 - of which this line is a part - was to create a Paris-München high speed corridor!
Really, how can everyone mess up *so badly*?
And to those going “yeah but there are few TGVs anyway” true, but so it goes on and on. International services are the lowest priority - even when *they were the stated rationale for building the line*