General Chat

It seems Brexit has been agreed.

Thank goodness for that :-D

The new shoes will pinch.
Before long they will be intolerable.

It is a terrible deal for the UK and may well drive the disintegration of the Union. Like most bad deals it will start to come apart before the ink is dry.

Ursula van de Layen has done a good job for the EU.
She has made no concessions vis a vis the Single Market or Customs Union. The EU fishermen retain full rights for 5.5 years by which time anything could happen. The EU can vary UK trading rights at the drop of a hat though the idiot Frost has not noticed as yet. There is a forest of obstacles against free trade with the EU for both physical goods and agriculture. What is there for the massive UK services sector ?

Johnson & Co have made the classic beginners mistakes with negotiations of playing weak hands face up and then trying to win all of them. It is difficult not to think that the recent French blockade was not a show of force designed to scare Johnson into a deal - though they deny it of course.

We will suck it up and get on with it

Obviously an incredibly fast reader. Didn’t think the agreement had actually been published yet.

Crossed the red line. Peace at last.

Now what else can we discuss interminably ?

Maybe it is on youtube or google already :-D :-D :-D

Funny how no one seems to question where the new strain of the virus may have come from....any chance it may have come in over the channel? In which case pointless doing a blockade.

Anything cheerful and not depressing Dermot,life is too short without doom and gloom overshadowing it

LaGooner - some fail to acknowledge peace & harmony following years of stressed deliberations.

Some people are just doom and gloom merchants. Life is never easy and never has been for me but I always keep positive :-D

Good for you LaG. We’re not unrealistic. We can see trouble ahead. We all know it’s not the deal we would have wanted and fwiw I voted Remain, but it’s what we’ve got so let’s stop moaning and get on with it.

Too right Vera life is always troubled in one way or another but I for one and I think I speak for many, don't want it pushed down our throats all the time.

Dermot. You don't discuss anything! You spam 'chat' with random comments and quickly move on to your next 'offering'.
I'm glad you deleted yesterdays badly timed topic though. Well done.

LG <3

Island <3 back at yer :-D

About time gone on long enough lets leave it to the so called EXPERTS lets get on with the future & lives xx ITS CHRISTMAS ;-)

Viruses mutate all the time, (think of flu) it doesn't have to 'come' from anywhere!

Did anyone take up Boris's suggestion of reading the deal document after Christmas lunch?

Certainly not. Why depress myself further on Christmas Day.

It will all come to light in the fullness of time. :-(