Mezla PigDog, on 18 January 2019 - 12:22 PM, said:
What do people think about Corbyn refusing talks unless May rules out a no-deal Brexit? I think he is so right. The Tories are spinning it into Labour refusing to play nice but the Government have had two years to play nice and not even tried. May is still playing to the MPs from ERG and DUP which means she thinks she can find a deal that will win the votes of all Tory MPs and the DUP. Which also means she is mad - it's time to castrate the ERG and forget the DUP and play to the moderate majority of the house. She can't do that because if she loses the DUP then she loses the confidence of Parliament to run the government and that means a General Election. She spouts off about an election being unsafe because of the risk of Corbyn which shows an inherent lack of respect for the electorate and the process but then she has to respect the referendum result. Goddamned hypocrites. I'm having an aneurysm here.
I work daily with EU regulatory agencies across Europe. I just heard that various EU governments are seriously ramping up their preparations for no-deal. In the medical device industry they have to ensure the devices that are regulated via the UK - which is about 75% of all medical devices used in Europe - can still get into the EU on 30 March or they will have a huge public health crisis. The risk doesn't run the same direction into the UK as the UK government have said in the event of a no-deal Brexit they will respect the EU Regulatory approval anyway until further notice. We're talking pace makers, hip implants, devices that screen blood donations for infection, baby incubators, MRI machines, condoms, contact lenses, pregnancy tests etc etc etc - absolutely crucial stuff.
Just think of the EU tax payers money that is being spent on this stuff that is all for a scenario that could be ruled out if Teresa May and the Tories weren't twats.
In effect - yes, it's a reasonable standpoint. In negotiations, you don't give and not take - especially not when your position is flimsy. I wouldn't expect to present a claim to a defendant without giving them something (i.e. evidence) in return. Ultimately she's done this U-turn to try and save face because as your rightly state, they've had (over) two years (30 months) to play nice and outright refused to do so. Ultimately siding with the DUP has already caused instability (see: the Troubles) and her comments around "we will never allow him (Corbyn) to take office" quite clearly show that even if an election was won by Labour, they'd not respect the result.
The UK is beginning to run out of medications already due to this, which is reassuring. But then again, poor folk dying is in line with the Tory pogroms, so I suppose it fits.
I'm leaning more and more towards the Carcanos as the best way to deal with the Tory party at this stage. Perhaps Nico's not actually so far removed from reality as we'd thought.
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