Wes Tender

The Withdrawal Agreement Bill has been granted Royal Assent. That was all plain sailing. A week tomorrow at 11pm and we're out. How is everybody on here planning to celebrate our freedom?

I agree, small businesses are the backbone of our economy, so it says a lot about Gavyn that he is so disparagingly contemptuous about them. I read an interesting article this morning and this bit in particular reminded me very much of our Gavyn:- I suspect that to a large extent, this arrogance has led to a feeling among the electorate of us against them, the people against the establishment liberal elite. Their arrogance and threats of project fear helped the leave vote to win the referendum. Their subsequent shenanigans over the past three and a half years since, have ultimately culminated in a huge majority for the main political party pledged to deliver Brexit. The remoaners are now a busted flush, powerless to change the outcome of events that were brought about partly by their own doing. It must be extremely irksome to them that they have been outmanoeuvred by those that they consider to be their inferiors.

The commons has now overturned all five of the amendments the Lords attempted to place on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill. Now let's see if they wish to continue with the Parliamentary ping-pong, or whether they will realise that it is a futile gesture.

He's an ex-python, he's shuffled off this mortal coil, stone dead, deceased, passed on, he is a python no more, he is a late python, a stiff, he rests in peace, he has joined the choir invisible. RIP comic genius.

It's Gavyn's little joke, but gullible Tamesaint believes it to be true. He's a fine one to mock, running his whelk stall.

Fantastic performance. A clean sheet, despite missing Bednarek and having Vestergaard on. Armstrong MOTM, but Redmond also good on the opposite flank and both of them on the score sheet. There were other chances to have scored a couple more goals, especially for Long and Obafemi. Into the top ten.

Armstrong! Get in!

A great half. We've been by far the better team, but could yet regret not scoring one more at least.

We're doing really well apart from Vestergaard. Shame to lose Cedric, who has been in good form recently. Great goal by Redmond.

Did Gavyn tell you what to post whilst he is away in Davos?

Fun and games 2: Fun and games 3:

I know, I can't wait. May and Robbins, Bercow, Benn, Letwin, Hammond, Gauke, Soubry and other remoaners made the whole country look foolish. They're all history, jobless or neutered now, so onwards and upwards, eh, Gavyn?

Because of the remoaner establishment doing their best to thwart Brexit these past three years, the electorate gave the two fingers vertical salute to them and voted for Boris and the pro-Brexit Tory party, giving them the stonking majority they needed to finally get it done. That majority means that there is absolutely nothing that you remoaners can now do to prevent it, although I appreciate that you will continue to bleat on about what a bad dream it has all been for you. As I've said many times before, I've waited for this since 1992, so I'm not bothered about three years, especially because as the result of that delay it brought about the massive increase in the pro-Brexit strength of the Tory Party government.

Your counterparts in the EU also consider it cheap bluster, Gavyn, based on the incompetence of our negotiations under May and Robbins. Very soon, they are going to have to wake up to reality, that not only finally do we have people with a spine negotiating for us, but also that following Boris' stonking majority, we now have the whip hand in those negotiations. The EU is petrified that we will become a major competitor on their doorstep, so naturally they will try to hamstring us into not having a competitive advantage by diverging from any of their rules and regulations that we consider to be petty bureaucracy. I'm afraid that you have the cheap bluster fooling nobody the wrong way about, Gavyn. It's coming from the EU, telling us that there isn't time, this or that must be on the table, we cannot change or cancel any of their rules, etc. If there isn't enough time for a FTA by the end of December 2020, we are out without one on WTO. We are leaving the SM and the CU with divergence from their rules and regulations, therefore something like Canada + will be fine, or we will have made extensive preparations for no deal in these coming months. By "British business" being freaked out, you mean big business, multinational companies who benefited from the EU cartel and their bureaucracy that stifled competition from smaller businesses, rather than all British businesses. Of course, many UK businesses will thrive once we have left the EU. As for your cheap jibe that a negotiating stance is more effective applied to small businesses rather than it is to negotiations between nations, many of the principles and psychology are common to both, and I cannot believe that you would be so stupid as to not recognise that. In particular, we considerably weakened our negotiating hand by having our parliament vote into law that we could not accept no deal, thus inviting a bad deal. Of course, no business equally should negotiate on the basis that they are not prepared to walk away from a bad deal, whether they are selling garden gnomes, cars, or defence weaponry.

Good news in the past few days about our intentions post-Brexit from 1st February. Sajid Javid stating that the UK planned to diverge from EU rules has caused alarm bells to ring in Brussels, particularly from Merkel. What a refreshing change Javid is to Spreadsheet Phil Hammond. Thank God that the likes of him are no longer in Government. Typically, the French are making noises about how the trade deal cannot be negotiated until the question of EU fisheries access to our coastal waters has been resolved. Time to tell them to go and get lost, that it will not be used as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations. https://brexitcentral.com/the-fishing-community-expects-this-government-to-take-back-control-of-our-coastal-waters/ Also it is very encouraging to hear that we will be actively negotiating trade deals with the rest of the World simultaneously with those with the EU. That should keep them on their toes and let them know that we are no longer the patsies we were under the terminally useless May and Robbins.

The hard-nosed attitude that says that if people wish to avail themselves of further education beyond secondary level which ought to result them earning more, that they should contribute to part of its cost? Would you expect it to be free, so that those who did not benefit from it, had to pay for all those who did? LD is right. Before all these tech colleges converted into second rate universities, a degree meant something. The cost of educating the brightest scholars was offset by them paying tax at higher levels because they went on to well paid jobs for the rest of their careers. The system was at the very least self-financing, if not very profitable to the Exchequer. Now the degrees are substantially devalued because the number of universities is massively increased with the number of scholars going to Uni and taking worthless degree courses. As a result, we are at a stage whereby unless a degree is obtained at a top Uni in a subject that has real merit in the jobs market, it is probably a more sensible option to get a decent job on the basis of good A level results rather than going to Uni. Instead of joining the dole queue at the end of three years with a worthless bit of paper saying that you have a degree in media studies and a substantial debt, that individual could have achieved three years of valuable work experience, be a known quantity to their employer in terms of ability and reliability, and therefore a better option as an employee than most post-graduate applicants.

Sound advice, Gavyn. Margaret Thatcher obtained a Chemistry degree and look what she went on to achieve.

As I said, put me on ignore, loser.

So, my posts are tedious, repetitive and humourless? Can I make a simple suggestion? Put me on ignore. If I disappear for a week or two, it is often because. I am often away on business. You might find it surprising, but I do have a life outside of this forum. Sometimes it might be because several of you remoaners gang up and post petty and infantile insults, so I allow you the time to talk among yourselves, knowing how frustrating that must be for you. Thank you for contradicting your earlier post by admitting that I do not in fact make loads of spelling mistakes. Don't attempt to use sarcasm if it is plainly nonsensical and baseless. A word to the wise; don't accuse others of spelling mistakes and then make grammatical errors yourself. Learn the difference between an actual spelling error and the use of an accepted alternative spelling which was illustrated by it's usage in a media article I provided. I have never claimed to have a monopoly of knowledge. You are the tediously, small-minded, nit-picking pedant here, and you use it as a strategy attempting to belittle those with whom you disagree. It isn't a good look, pal. For some reason, you resent me posting several times on a thread about Brexit when it is something I have wanted to occur over several years. If that annoys you, then tough. Happily, we will be out in a fortnight. Suck it up.

Are you deliberately trying to play the fool this morning? I already admitted that I had made a mistake. Greenland arguably, although it was part of Denmark and it left the EEC rather than the EU.

As Weston points out, you don't do grammar, do you? I seem to recall another occasion when you attempted to nitpick on somebody's grammar and then made a howler yourself a couple of posts later. I'm waiting for the list of other spelling mistakes that you inferred I made in that post, in order to justify your assertion that I commonly commit spelling errors.

But I didn't make a spelling mistake. I used a commonplace alternative spelling, just as that Politico article did. Apart from the one spelling that you questioned, were there several other spelling mistakes in those last several paragraphs? Perhaps you will be good enough to list them all, if you wish to uphold your position as the number one forum small-minded pedant.

But I didn't make a spelling mistake. I used a commonplace alternative spelling, just as that Politico article did. Apart from the one spelling that you questioned, were there several other spelling mistakes in those last several paragraphs? Perhaps you will be good enough to list them all, if you wish to uphold your position as the number one forum small-minded pedant.