UK: Give us a good deal to walk away or else we’ll walk away!
EU: okay
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So who’s next, after May?
Lots of snark, but I think the best line has to be:
He’s been praised by the Guardian for having “the seemingly basic virtues of being apparently competent and broadly similar to a normal human being.”
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See how much of Boris you can take.
He seems to attempt to surf on streams of words, hoping he can outrun your comprehension.
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“Won’t get fooled again!”
Got it. Remember it. Not fondly.
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Oh Boris.
I mean, recommending (not forcing) new immigrants to learn the language used between ethnic groups, on signs, and in most available books makes sense. I know of an Italian woman who moved to Canada in her 20s, lived in an Italian community her whole life, and then in her 70s moved in with one of her sons after her husband passed away… and wasn’t able to have a conversation with her daughter-in-law or any of her neighbors because she’d never learned English.
And yes I also think all those British people who retired to Spain should, as a best practice, become fluent in Spanish. But again, leave out the “forcing” part.
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I know, right? People who are obsessed that new residents learn English never seem to support the provision of language tuition, or social and community groups to promote integration.
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Well, they should just pay for those classes themselves! SEE, now they want to come here AND get paid to learn english! /s
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In an interview in March 2019 with the BBC’s Nick Robinson, Mr Timmermans said he found it “shocking” how unprepared the UK team was when it began negotiations.
“We thought they are so brilliant,” he said. “That in some vault somewhere in Westminster there will be a Harry Potter-like book with all the tricks and all the things in it to do.”
But after seeing the then-Brexit Secretary David Davis - who resigned over his disagreements with the deal - speaking in public, his mind changed.
"I saw him not coming, not negotiating, grandstanding elsewhere [and] I thought, ‘Oh my God, they haven’t got a plan, they haven’t got a plan.’
"That was really shocking, frankly, because the damage if you don’t have a plan…
“Time’s running out and you don’t have a plan. It’s like Lance Corporal Jones, you know, ‘Don’t panic, don’t panic!’ Running around like idiots.”
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Congratulations, UK, you have achieved peak Boris.
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Boris is the poster boy for falling upwards.
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I wouldn’t call it that until he botches Brexit even further and then blames “moose and sqvirrel” for his own incompetence.
So, Thursday or so.
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Well that was fast.
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Is this how they think, then? I was just passing through here, wondering what would be said about Boris, then scrolled up. Your post made me think of Basil and Manuel instantly. However, I was just looking for a “Que?” moment, but found this instead:
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Love this except for the first part. I don’t know about the UK as a whole, but if a national referendum in Canada passed 51-49 or 52-48 or whatever it was, say for Quebec to separate, I wouldn’t call it a mandate, even if my choice did win. That’s a quiz score, not the will of a populace.
There’s a constitutional issue here that a simple majority could even decide such a thing.
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His cunning plan is to tell them the UK must have a better deal.
His thought patterns indicate two-dimensional thinking.
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The Tories can’t imagine the EU is serious when it says don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out
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