Penny Mordaunt's incredible US trade trip has ended in triumph! With a "process memoranda of understanding with" ... er four states... epic stuff
"A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) records international commitments, but in a form and with wording which expresses an intention that it is not to be binding as a matter of international law."
The equivalent of bumping into the street and saying "we must do lunch sometime"
She'll be getting likes on Facebook next you mark my words
People are telling me that individual US states cannot make bespoke trade deals with another country. I have no idea if this is true or not - so experts please advise
"U.S. Constitution, through the Commerce Clause, gives Congress exclusive power over trade activities between the states and with foreign countries" - so basically Mordaunt's trip was a complete fools errand. Is that right?
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Millions of us obeyed the rules. Did our best. Tried to slow and stall this nightmare but Boris Johnson with his entitlement and privilege clearly didn't think it applied to him.
Random question - does anyone know how much the fine is for travelling abroad with a GB sticker on your car instead of a 'UK' one? The government brought this weird and pointless law in back in September but I'm struggling to find how much the fine is.
Seems they were insistent on including NI in the sticker hence the 'UK' over GB thing.
Ah yes of course - depends on where you are driving to
Does this mean that Rodd Liddle can only understand the people he so frequently lambasts, if he first sits through an after dinner speech by one of them? Or does it only go one way?
People have always walked out on stuff. In the 90s I saw people walk out 'in disgust' at the in-yer-face plays of Ravenhill and Kane. In the 80s someone invited an ANC representative to my school and several right wing boys walked out on him... go back in time and you get same
In January 1969 students at Rutherford College of Technology disrupted and then walked out on a speech by racist Enoch Powell radicaltyneside.org/events/protest…
Excellent piece. All that is wrong essentially boils down to Johnson's utter contempt for "ordinary" people. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
In a 2019 interview with the Spectator Johnson said that the problem with the UK was: “loads of people in parts of… Oppidan Britain [having] a sense that their lives and their futures weren’t… important”. I thought that extremely telling. "Oppidan" essentially means "townie"
... or outside the elite. Johnson views the nation in public school terms. It's "us" the "elite" and "them" - "the townies". These things are firmly inculcated into the products of public schools. It's deep set.
I cannot think of a government in modern history that has visited so much grief and division on this country. For almost 12 years it's been chaos and disaster of Conservative misrule.
They've stoked nationalism, culture wars, regional division and inequality. They've made Britain a pariah on the world stage and a laughing stock in Europe. They've increased inequality and done nothing at all to level up the country beyond hot air. Meanwhile cronyism is rife...
..peerages are doled out to their mates like candy. There's no vision. There's no big plan. Brexit continues to be nothing more than a pyramid scheme that only the gullible still buy into. It's like a bad joke or a terrible nightmare