Brexit shutdown cuts UK car production by half
A shutdown aimed at mitigating Brexit and less demand from key markets are blamed for the big decrease in car production.

The number of cars built in the UK fell by almost half in April compared with a year ago, according to industry figures.
A number of factories, including Honda and Jaguar Land Rover, shut down for part of April to mitigate against the UK's departure from the European Union, which had been set for the end of March.

Mainly due to this, just under 71,000 cars rolled off production lines in the month, down by 44.5% from April last year.
The "dismal" performance was the 11th consecutive month of decline, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), which produced the figures.
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-car-produc...-month-11731396

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Video evidence emerges of Nigel Farage pledging EU millions for NHS weeks before Brexit vote
The Ukip leader distanced himself from the pledge just hours after EU referendum results became known

Video evidence has emerged of Nigel Farage saying EU cash should be spent on the National Health Service after Brexit.
The Ukip leader on Friday morning denied having endorsed a pledge to spend Britain’s EU contribution on the NHS just hours after the referendum results came in.
He told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that the pledge came from others in the Leave campaign and that it was their “mistake” to loudly earmark £350 million for the health service during the campaign.
However footage from BBC Question Time on 9 June – just weeks before the referendum – shows the Ukip leader claiming the available cash was higher than £350 million and saying money should be spent on hospitals and GPs. ....

...The about-face from Mr Farage comes amid a series of U-turns from the Brexit camp immediately after results came in.
Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, who unlike Mr Farage campaigned with the official Vote Leave group, said he now believed a post-EU settlement should not result in reduced immigration.
“Chaps, look at what I said throughout the campaign: it's all on Twitter, YouTube etc. I was for more control, not for minimal immigration,” he tweeted on Saturday morning.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po...8HSmnEyoAhoR5fY

Das uebliche - trumski buddy und luegnerische Demagogen.

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Lord Heseltine: Tories risk 'being captured by poisonous politics of Nigel Farage'
Lord Heseltine - who was suspended by the Tories after admitting he was going to vote Lib Dem in the European elections - said the party would be out of power for a generation if it becomes the "branch offices of Brexit".

The former Cabinet minister said the Tory leadership contest fills him with "dread" as the candidates battle it out to emulate the Brexit Party leader.

Speaking as he was appointed president of the pro-EU European Movement, Lord Heseltine told the Conservatives: "Turn yourselves into branch offices of Brexit if you wish. But if you do so, you are on your own. Those upon whom you depend to win power in a general election will not come back. Good luck. Goodbye."

"Indeed, the prospect of a new Prime Minister being chosen by perhaps little more than 100,000 Conservative Party members in the current circumstances fills me with dread. There will be an arms race in which candidates vie against each other for who can be the most Faragiste."
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/pol...-being-captured

Looks like there will be a competition in insanity. For a while.

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2353

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Lord Heseltine: Tories risk 'being captured by poisonous politics of Nigel Farage'
Lord Heseltine - who was suspended by the Tories after admitting he was going to vote Lib Dem in the European elections - said the party would be out of power for a generation if it becomes the "branch offices of Brexit".

The former Cabinet minister said the Tory leadership contest fills him with "dread" as the candidates battle it out to emulate the Brexit Party leader.

Speaking as he was appointed president of the pro-EU European Movement, Lord Heseltine told the Conservatives: "Turn yourselves into branch offices of Brexit if you wish. But if you do so, you are on your own. Those upon whom you depend to win power in a general election will not come back. Good luck. Goodbye."

"Indeed, the prospect of a new Prime Minister being chosen by perhaps little more than 100,000 Conservative Party members in the current circumstances fills me with dread. There will be an arms race in which candidates vie against each other for who can be the most Faragiste."
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/pol...-being-captured

Looks like there will be a competition in insanity. For a while.

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2354

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Anyway, the flip-flopping won't do. To me the Tories must get rid of the Heseltines, Majors and other wets. They must abandon the legacy of Edward Heath. They must find a new "narrative" which substitutes the old narratives of the Empire or of the European province of Great Britain. This means they must develop the ressourcefulness and imagination of Benjamin Disraeli who invented the Imperial Crown and who reshaped the old Tory party. Unfortunately, they have no politician of the stature of Disraeli, their best choice under these circumstances may be a political flibbertigibbet.

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Dominic Raab pushes no-deal Brexit and ‘zero tolerance’ for Cabinet doubters
The former Brexit secretary said the negotiations with Brussels could only succeed if the Government works up a proper no deal exit strategy

Dominic Raab has vowed to take a “zero-tolerance” approach to any Cabinet member who does not fully commit to a no deal Brexit should he secure the Tory leadership.

The arch-Eurosceptic also ruled out a further Brexit extension warning it would prove “fatal”, as he continues to take an increasingly hardline approach to the UK’s departure from the European Union.
Mr Raab is hoping his tough stance on the country’s withdrawal from the EU will give him the edge in the increasingly fractious leadership battle.
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/conser...no-deal-brexit/

Wie es aussieht ist besagte Insanity schon in full swing. Das wird noch schwer interessant.

What is a no-deal Brexit? The consequences of the UK leaving the EU without an agreement
Both the UK and the EU have made preparations for a no deal scenario

A “no deal” Brexit does what it says on the tin. It means the UK and the EU has been unable to reach a withdrawal agreement.

If this is the case, it means there will be no 21-month transition period.
Consequently consumers, businesses and public bodies would have to respond immediately to changes as result of leaving the EU.
“The UK would leave the EU and everything associated with that would come to an end,” according to Dr Simon Usherwood, a reader in politics at the University of Surrey. “[A no deal] doesn’t stop the UK leaving but it means there is absolutely no clarity about what happens.”

These are just some of the consequences:

Trade
The UK would revert to World Trade Organisation rules on trade. While Britain would no longer be bound by EU rules, it would have to face the EU’s external tariffs. The price of imported goods in shops for Britons could go up as a result.
Some British-made products may be rejected by the EU as new authorisation and certification might be required.
Manufacturers could move their operations to the EU to avoid delays in components coming across the border.

People
The UK would be free to set its own controls on immigration by EU nationals and the bloc could do the same for Britons. There could be long delays at borders if passport and customs checks are heightened.
The fate of expats – there are 1.3 million Britons in EU countries and 3.7 million Europeans in Britain – in terms of their rights to live and work would be unclear. It is likely that expats will seek to register as residents in whatever country they are living in.

Laws
Relevant EU laws would be transferred over so there would be no black holes in Britain’s lawbook.
Britain would no longer have to adhere to the rulings of the European Court of Justice but it would be bound to the European Court of Human Rights, a non-EU body.

Money
The Government would not have to pay the annual £13 billion contribution to the EU budget. However Britain would lose out on some EU subsidies – the Common Agricultural Policy gives £3 billion to farmers.
It is likely that both the EU and the UK will have to honour financial commitments under the 2019 budget.

The Irish border
The issue of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic would remain unresolved. While physical infrastructure has been vetoed, the border would become an external frontier for the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit. There would be pressure to enforce customs and immigration controls.

https://inews.co.uk/news/brexit/no-deal-...k-consequences/

Zitat von Nante im Beitrag #2355

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2354

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Anyway, the flip-flopping won't do. To me the Tories must get rid of the Heseltines, Majors and other wets. They must abandon the legacy of Edward Heath. They must find a new "narrative" which substitutes the old narratives of the Empire or of the European province of Great Britain. This means they must develop the ressourcefulness and imagination of Benjamin Disraeli who invented the Imperial Crown and who reshaped the old Tory party. Unfortunately, they have no politician of the stature of Disraeli, their best choice under these circumstances may be a political flibbertigibbet.

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Du hältst viel von Disraeli. Hast ihn schon mehrfach erwähnt. Ich habe mich wenig mit der Historie Großbritanniens im 19. Jahrhundert beschäftigt.

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Business lobby group CBI warns Tories over no-deal Brexit
The Confederation of British Industry has warned Conservative leadership candidates over leaving the EU without a deal.

A no-deal scenario would do "severe" damage to businesses, it said in an open letter to all the MPs running to lead the party.
Director general Carolyn Fairbairn warned them that smaller companies can not afford the necessary preparations for leaving without a plan.

"Short-term disruption and long-term damage to British competitiveness will be severe if we leave without one. The vast majority of firms can never be prepared for no-deal, particularly our [small and medium-sized] members who cannot afford complex and costly contingency plans."

The CBI says it speaks on behalf of 190,000 businesses employing a third of the UK's private sector workforce.
https://www.bbc.com/news/48465791

Baby Trump Balloon, Milkshakes Primed for President’s U.K. Visit
Thousands of protesters are preparing to greet U.S. President Donald Trump on his state visit to the U.K. next week, demonstrating against a range of his policies from immigration to climate change.

The plan is for demonstrators to take over Trafalgar Square in central London, with the main Facebook page logging 7,600 attendees and 33,000 interested people as of Friday morning. Organizers are also trying to raise 30,000 pounds ($38,000) to fly a giant balloon depicting Trump as a small-handed, diaper-clad infant -- as they did during his visit last year.

“This is about sending a strong message that people in the U.K. don’t accept the divisive right-wing policies that Trump stands for, and that inviting him for a state visit is totally inappropriate,” the Stop Trump Coalition said in a statement. Another group, Stand Up To Trump, is also organizing the protests.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ent-s-u-k-visit

Over One Million Londoners Could Protest Against Trump's UK Visit Next Month
That's the finding of a YouGov poll, which concludes that 13% of all Londoners are 'totally likely' to take to the capital's streets to voice their disgust at the incumbent president, who's set to be in the country from 3-5 June.

Trump has a 67% negative rating on the YouGov website. Other politicians liked by Trump fans on the site include Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Silvio Berlusconi.

https://londonist.com/london/politics/do...llion-londoners

I BACK BORIS Donald Trump wades into Tory leadership race saying Boris Johnson would do a ‘very good job’
DONALD Trump today throws his weight behind Boris Johnson to be Britain’s next PM — and reveals other Tory leadership hopefuls have also begged for his backing.

The US President spoke glowingly of the ex-Foreign Secretary in a world exclusive interview with The Sun ahead of his three-day state visit to London, starting on Monday.
His bombshell intervention into the Conservatives’ contest — just a few days before MPs start voting — is a major breach of protocol.

It risks sparking a full-blown diplomatic rift between London and Washington if the mop-haired former London mayor fails to take the Tory crown.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9196164/do...ister-uk-visit/

Boris Johnson Is Favourite To Become The UK’s Next Prime Minister. This Is What The World Really Thought Of Him As Foreign Secretary.
Interviews with seven senior US, European and UK diplomats and officials paint a picture of a foreign secretary who at times was woefully unprepared for one of the top jobs in British politics.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli...er-donald-trump

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2362

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I BACK BORIS Donald Trump wades into Tory leadership race saying Boris Johnson would do a ‘very good job’
DONALD Trump today throws his weight behind Boris Johnson to be Britain’s next PM — and reveals other Tory leadership hopefuls have also begged for his backing.

The US President spoke glowingly of the ex-Foreign Secretary in a world exclusive interview with The Sun ahead of his three-day state visit to London, starting on Monday.
His bombshell intervention into the Conservatives’ contest — just a few days before MPs start voting — is a major breach of protocol.

It risks sparking a full-blown diplomatic rift between London and Washington if the mop-haired former London mayor fails to take the Tory crown.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9196164/do...ister-uk-visit/

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Elton John: 'I am a European – not a stupid, imperialist English idiot'
The singer says Brexit has made him ashamed to be British, while performing in Verona during his final world tour
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/m...sh-idiot-verona

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...fec&oe=5D8D6B2D

The Irish Times view on Brexit: enduring fantasies
The contest to succeed Theresa May shows that British illusions persist

The European election results in Britain may have shaken the country’s domestic politics, raising the prospect of a historic realignment in a party system dominated for so long by the Labour-Conservative duopoly. But, contrary to the largely empty claims of most candidates for the Tory leadership, neither the election result nor the imminent change of leadership in Downing Street is likely to change in any material way the stark choices facing the UK as it staggers towards the latest Brexit date of October 31st.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edito...asies-1.3911031

Bis dahin sind nur noch fuenf Monate.

"enduring fantasies" -besser kann man es nicht beschreiben.

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2365

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Elton John: 'I am a European – not a stupid, imperialist English idiot'
The singer says Brexit has made him ashamed to be British, while performing in Verona during his final world tour
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/m...sh-idiot-verona

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William Havard
A rogues gallery of incompetence, shortcomings, flaws, lack of leadership credentials, inability, ineptitude, faults, inadequacy, failings and blustering self-importance.
This leadership contest, where the nation comes secondary to the ambitions of self-serving egotistical political peacocks, will again demonstrate everything that is wrong with a political system entrenched in the past within the Palace of Westminster.
Our political system is no longer fit-for-purpose, and its outdated historically processes need to be scrapped and our legislature moved out of a Palace that retards progress.
We should leave Westminster to the tourists and move our democracy into state of the art facilities where there is a seat for every elected MP, a computer before every seat and electronic voting, as practised in our ultra-modern devolved legislatures, doing away with physical division and click counters.
Confrontational politics, where charlatans both sides blame the other for failing to deliver on their election promises and pledges, and where they make the excuse that at least our governance is better than yours, is tiresome and no longer acceptable.
It is time to move to consensus politics - where centralist policies (accepted by the majority of our electorate) are accepted as the way forward and political extremes (as offered by the above self-serving candidates) have difficulty in achieving their aims.
A leadership contest, where the majority of its process is hidden behind closed doors, and its political membership get an option between two flawed individuals, is open to abuse by its leadership - a leadership that had to defend their actions in the High and Supreme Courts and never accepted the 3 court rulings on the fraudulent way the 2016 referendum was conducted.
What chance democracy in such an environment?

Matt Hancock joins race to be Britain's new Prime Minister
Health Secretary Matt Hancock joins Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Rory Stewart and Esther McVey in running for the Tory leadership.
https://news.sky.com/story/race-for-new-...vr5Rs-oXd6lxqP8

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2369

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William Havard
A rogues gallery of incompetence, shortcomings, flaws, lack of leadership credentials, inability, ineptitude, faults, inadequacy, failings and blustering self-importance.
This leadership contest, where the nation comes secondary to the ambitions of self-serving egotistical political peacocks, will again demonstrate everything that is wrong with a political system entrenched in the past within the Palace of Westminster.
Our political system is no longer fit-for-purpose, and its outdated historically processes need to be scrapped and our legislature moved out of a Palace that retards progress.
We should leave Westminster to the tourists and move our democracy into state of the art facilities where there is a seat for every elected MP, a computer before every seat and electronic voting, as practised in our ultra-modern devolved legislatures, doing away with physical division and click counters.
Confrontational politics, where charlatans both sides blame the other for failing to deliver on their election promises and pledges, and where they make the excuse that at least our governance is better than yours, is tiresome and no longer acceptable.
It is time to move to consensus politics - where centralist policies (accepted by the majority of our electorate) are accepted as the way forward and political extremes (as offered by the above self-serving candidates) have difficulty in achieving their aims.
A leadership contest, where the majority of its process is hidden behind closed doors, and its political membership get an option between two flawed individuals, is open to abuse by its leadership - a leadership that had to defend their actions in the High and Supreme Courts and never accepted the 3 court rulings on the fraudulent way the 2016 referendum was conducted.
What chance democracy in such an environment?

Matt Hancock joins race to be Britain's new Prime Minister
Health Secretary Matt Hancock joins Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Rory Stewart and Esther McVey in running for the Tory leadership.
https://news.sky.com/story/race-for-new-...vr5Rs-oXd6lxqP8

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2368

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2365

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Elton John: 'I am a European – not a stupid, imperialist English idiot'
The singer says Brexit has made him ashamed to be British, while performing in Verona during his final world tour
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/m...sh-idiot-verona

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What kind of illogical nonsense is that? If he is a "European" whatever that means why should he feel ashamed to be British? Anyway, he is neither European nor English, but just another f... dumb anywhere.

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Zitat von Leto_II. im Beitrag #2371

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2368

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2365

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Elton John: 'I am a European – not a stupid, imperialist English idiot'
The singer says Brexit has made him ashamed to be British, while performing in Verona during his final world tour
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/m...sh-idiot-verona

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What kind of illogical nonsense is that? If he is a "European" whatever that means why should he feel ashamed to be British? Anyway, he is neither European nor English, but just another f... dumb anywhere.

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Nun bestimmte Du schon, als was er sich fühlen soll? Sorry, wir haben hier einige Überbleibsel der Rheinarmee, die sich schämen und die sich einen deutschen Pass holen, weder schwul, noch Superstar.

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Zitat von Leto_II. im Beitrag #2371

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2368

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2365

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Elton John: 'I am a European – not a stupid, imperialist English idiot'
The singer says Brexit has made him ashamed to be British, while performing in Verona during his final world tour
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/m...sh-idiot-verona

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What kind of illogical nonsense is that? If he is a "European" whatever that means why should he feel ashamed to be British? Anyway, he is neither European nor English, but just another f... dumb anywhere.

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Nun bestimmte Du schon, als was er sich fühlen soll? Sorry, wir haben hier einige Überbleibsel der Rheinarmee, die sich schämen und die sich einen deutschen Pass holen, weder schwul, noch Superstar.

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