The collapse of UKIP continues

bwfc1874 wrote:From what I've been reading from European leaders in recent weeks, they'll be looking to take a very tough stance on Brexit.

The attitude of the Europeans seems to be that they won't allow their market to be flooded by cheap British imports (the irony!) so British exporters will be told they have to pay an import tarriff to remove any advantage from a weak pound and they are going to shove it to the Brits "when you come begging for a deal cap in hand".

Most of all they can't seem to believe that the PM has been naive enough to spell out what the UK wants and when the UK needs it by before the negotiations have even begun. It's like playing poker with a blind man who has his cards in full sight but can't see his opponents cards. Dutch guy I spoke to on Tuesday reckoned the EU can now just stall negotiations until the UK is so desperate we'll take anything we're given and that Hammond has already started to try to explain away the damage by telling us to expect a rough ride, knowing full well we are at the mercy of Europe now.

Personally, I don't know how it will turn out but I have to agree that it looks like the EU has Theresa May's Government by the metaphorical balls at this stage.

Really doesn't help when the Chancellor bases an economic strategy on future exports without even knowing if there will be any profit in exporting after an increase in raw material costs and a trade tariff. Not that he cares having made a commitment to borrow his way out of trouble regardless of how much we are shafted.

Apparently Woolfe had a couple of epilepsy - type fits after a scrap with another MEP.

I don't care if this makes me a bad person but I can't help giggling like a kid every time I look at this:




Wonder what's in that briefcase because he wasn't letting go, was he...?




And kudos to Lusty for giving this thread such a prescient title.

Irony!

British politics at its best!

It's European Politics actually - He's an MEP.

Kid.

No, he's a grown up.

49 today, as it turns out.

Happy Birthday, Steve - Knock yourself out, mate.

Oh.....you already have.

The UKIP meetings are still the best place for a drunken fight. It is their brand of democracy, and you could probably buy some stolen trainers too. This was in Europe? it seems to have had a more Australian outback theme.

Wasn't his half brother on our books?

Yes, Nathan.

I couldn't help but think of the chalk outline you see in murder scenes. They always have this exact pose.

gloswhite wrote:I couldn't help but think of the chalk outline you see in murder scenes. They always have this exact pose.

 

I saw it as him being a boxer whom has been knocked out and the man leaning down is the ref counting him out 4-3-2-1

sunlight wrote:

gloswhite wrote:I couldn't help but think of the chalk outline you see in murder scenes. They always have this exact pose.

 

I saw it as him being a boxer whom has been knocked out and the man leaning down is the ref counting him out 4-3-2-1

I though it was one of SKD's trademark dives outline in and around the box.

The bag that he is refusing to let go of, even unconscious, contains all his loot that he carries around in the boot of his 1970`s Jag.

I always thought that UKIP's popular appeal was based on attracting a wide range of people to a set of vacuous concepts such as "controlling immigration" which means so many different things to so many people - i.e. they don't all agree what they're supposed to be agreeing about or what should be done about it.
It seems inevitable then that when they finally had to agree on a way forward and some actual policies there was never going to be consensus.
When push comes to shove (or jab, cross, uppercut) this happens and frankly I think the other parties should also consider taking political debate to the next level. It could certainly liven up PMQs.
That said, I don't think Corbyn could punch his way out of a wet paper bag, so maybe it's time for 2 Jags to make a comeback and show us his moves? And someone needs to give Hammond  a slap.