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This is no “strong and stable” Brexit Deal
It is a wholesale betrayal of the biggest democratic vote in our history.
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The one thing that is becoming clearer by the day is that “No Deal is better than a bad Deal”.Theresa May is the worst Prime Minister in living memory.
She is consigning her country to a state of political paralysis, locked in the orbit of the EU.She should put her country before her party and resign.
In the name of God, Go
Concise and accurate. If May had any honour she'd resign, as Estelle Morris did, saying "I can't do job".

Nov 20, 2018 at 8:18 PM | Mark Hodgson
Solheim sets a wonderful example that other Environmental Activists should follow, con trial by con trail.

She will never say it directly but I feel Francis Coppola is hinting of a great Sterling Crisis.
http://www.coppolacomment.com/2018/11/some-governments-really-are-like.html

Poor Brits put their faith in liberal free traders disguised as conservatives.

@TinyCO2, Nov 20, 2018 at 2:08 PM
+1
We're also regaled with claims we need more immigrants to care for rising old&sick people .
Guess what, immigrants grow old too. Another Ponzi scheme.

Over at CBI yesterday:
CBI director-general, Carolyn Fairbairn, very much a Remainer, complained that Brexit was going to hit jobs.
Yet at the same time she argued for easier immigration so there would be no labour shortage. Those positions seemed a bit self-contradictory.

Unlikely though it may be, wouldn't it be a delicious irony if the Withdrawal Agreement fell because of opposition from within the EU?
"Borders & barriers: Could Spain derail Brexit because of Gibraltar?"
https://www.rt.com/news/444482-spain-vote-brexit-gibraltar/

Pcar: The very British Coup - I read that. Littlejohn is a bright guy and he could have a point. The thing is, in order to gainsay him I have to believe that May is playing a very cunning hand of bluff: she wants the WA to fail so she can fall back to WTO and screw the EU (I know, it's against our beliefs we have of her loyalties). But how else has she managed to stave off the 48 letters; the likes of Gove, Johnson, Davis and Raab et al? These are big beasts. Why have they folded up their tents?

I think we've discussed this before, but it's actually on the front page of the BBC website just now (hurry, hurry,it probably won't be there for long):
"UN environment chief Erik Solheim quits amid expenses row"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46281051
"UN environment chief Erik Solheim has resigned amid a row over his travel expenses.
A recent draft internal audit, obtained by Britain's Guardian newspaper and seen by the BBC, said he had incurred costs of $488,518 (£382,111) while travelling for 529 out of 668 days.
It said this harmed the reputation of UN Environment - a body that highlights green issues and sustainability.
There was "no oversight or accountability" to monitor this travel.
Mr Solheim, a Norwegian former environment minister, says he has paid back the money where "instances of oversight" occurred.
On Tuesday, Mr Solheim himself confirmed his resignation, Norway's NRK broadcaster reported.
A formal UN announcement is expected shortly.
The amount spent on travel by UN Environment, a Kenya-based agency, doubled between 2014 and 2017.
The report was particularly critical of the travel undertaken under Mr Solheim, UN Environment executive director since 2016. A total about $58m was spent in the two years since then.
While all UN staff are expected to complete "mission reports" within two weeks of travel, the audit found that these were often missing.
When they requested reports for 596 trips undertaken by 32 managers and staff, 210 mission reports were not provided, while around 200 others were only completed after the request was made.
The audio was carried out by the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).
It says Mr Solheim's leave and travel were approved by a member of his office who reported directly to him - in contravention of UN rules.
On one occasion, it says, "he made an eight-hour trip from Washington DC for a weekend in Paris, before taking another flight to New York city.""

Bish has a new article in the Speccie
The threat to the environment that the green lobby tries to ignore
… The problem is that as soon as you start looking for solutions to possible climate change, it very quickly becomes obvious that the cure is far, far worse than the disease.
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