How to explain these 3 things? My theory is simple - the idea is to play to the bigoted, UKIP base to whom the EU is a Nazi super state with which we are virtually at war. Among the advantages of this approach, which has nothing to do with the national ..
.. interest, is it provides a platform for the blame game as our chickens come home to roost. Our trade is crippled by petty fogging EU bureaucracy not by our own wilful decisions.
The message is, if they want to play hardball, so can we. Never mind the pettiness, to ..
.. the base it counts as 2 fingers to Johnny Foreigner & that’s all that matters.
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Two quotes from today’s Observer struck me. The first is from Andrew Rawnsley’s comment piece:
‘Remainers struggled to find ways to make technical-sounding issues matter to the public. Among many voters and many politicians, the great benefits of being inside the ..
.. single market were taken for granted right up until the moment when they vanished.’
The second is from an article on the disastrous impact Brexit is having on small businesses that trade with the EU. Andrew Moss runs a packaging & point of sale marketing display business. ..
.. He employs 37 people in Ely & turns over £3.5M. From the article:
‘The last three weeks, he says, have been a living nightmare. “Soft Brexit – there is no such thing. This is horrific,” he says. “We celebrated the Brexit deal with champagne over Christmas but when ..
Your observation is just. Capitalist Brexit is about deregulation of employment, consumer & environmental protection, all impossible within the EU. In this manner, what I call the shitty entrepreneur can make more money simply by cutting costs.
.. is how to persuade the EU to let us sit on its doorstep undercutting their model. Having our cake & eating it means precisely this & much of what remains of the negotiations is concerned with it.
Demented free market loons like Redwood & Hannan prefer no deal to one in ..
.. which the UK must align its regulatory regime with the EU or submit to the jurisdiction of the ECJ (the former entails the latter) or accept limitations on state aid (which they would use to bribe companies like Nissan to remain while unfairly competing with EU ..
I watch a Dutch TV quiz called twee voor tweelf on Friday evenings. With Dutch sub-titles on I can follow pretty well. This evening I learned the Dutch have a law which obliges companies with 50 or more employees to have a workers council. This council has various rights ..
.. including the right to be consulted on certain matters.
As a result of this flagrant socialism & recognition that employees have rights & may also have something to contribute to decision making, Dutch society is on the verge of breakdown, as you would expect. Not.
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Several things interest me about this:
• it shows EU member states have wide margins to frame their own employment law, something I already knew. Almost all English & Welsh employment law is home made.
• the Netherlands is one of Europe’s more prosperous countries ..
I’m 12 pages into Jo Maugham’s 189-page witness statement. He says in it that he has been litigating against the govt. his entire professional life but has never encountered conduct of the type he describes. I summarise:
Apr 2020 - govt. awards Pestfix a contract to supply ..
The Pennsylvania judgment dismissing the Trump campaign’s lawsuit is quite interesting. The Trump campaign was joined by 2 republican co-plaintiffs each of whom had posted mail in ballots which had been rejected. One had failed to put his ballot paper in the ‘secrecy’ ..
.. envelope as required while the reason for rejection of the other was unknown.
Their gripe was that they should have been told of the rejection & given a chance to cure the defect (‘notice & cure’ in the American parlance). Pennsylvania’s electoral code (each state has ..
.. its own) does not provide for notice & cure but a senior state official had apparently emailed some but not all state counties suggesting it be used. The criticism was that by not telling ALL counties to adopt the procedure, an arbitrary & unequal system resulted with ..
The sheer madness of British life is perfectly encapsulated in this story about two WAGs involved in a libel suit. We are at the preliminary stage at which money is being burned relatively slowly. There has been an interim hearing ..
.. to determine the meaning of the offending words, with judgment to be given this afternoon. We’re still a long way from the trial itself, of course, with hundreds of thousands to be spaffed on settling whether Rebekah Vardy leaked to the press a story about Colleen’s ..
.. flooded basement.
The drama, the excitement, the wigs & gowns, the spiralling cost, all the fun of the fair is here.