LemonDrizzle posted:

The German newspaper FAZ has an account of the midweek dinner meeting between May/Davis and Juncker, which is really not complimentary at all of the PM; the Economist's Berlin bureau chief did a translation of the highlights on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe/status/858810953353367552


e: the Reuters writeup of the article is here: http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-may-idUKKBN17W09L

Unfortunately, this is likely to be an ongoing feature of the brexit farce, with the EU perspective on the proceedings being primarily reported in non-English language sources and thus less visible to the UK public. Also, the bit about expecting every aspect of the talks to leak no matter how much May rabbits on about wanting to avoid giving away Britain's hand or whatever is spot on - the exact same thing happened during the "negotiations" between the EU/eurogroup/troika and the Greek government, which is the most similar situation I can think of.

Zephro posted:

Britain has the smallest houses of any rich nation, so probably

GaussianCopula posted:

https://twitter.com/AlexWhite1812/status/866601403078389761

LePen is now officially more reasonable than the current government of the UK - I guess the only hope for the UK is that Trump doesn't fall to soon otherwise they will the shittiest government in the west.

Jippa posted:

I heard a thing on the radio a while back where they interviewed a load of leavers together about the election and then a load of remainers. In the remainers section they had a load of labour voters and a load of people that had voted lib dem previously.

Two of the previously lib dem voting ones didn't know who farron was and didn't even seem particularly embarrassed that they didn't. These were (by the sound of it) people in their 30s/40s with decent jobs.

GaussianCopula posted:

The EU will never allow the four freedoms to be divisible, because they are the core trade off in the EU, where the stronger economies get market access to the weaker ones in trade for opening their labor market to migrants from those countries.

The only solution for the UK would be to actually educate it's population that freedom of movement is actually a benefit for the UK as a whole, which seems to be a lost cause.

Gonzo McFee posted:

Working class black woman makes it to Cambridge, survives 30 years in HoC as a socialist, rises to shad home sec. So maybe deserves respect?

Gonzo McFee posted:

Gonzo McFee posted:

lol get hosed.

Namtab posted:

That said though a lot of the right's comments about her are "is black" "is fat" & "slept with corbs" which is not ok.