Yes, but if you read that it quickly becomes clear that it means leaving with a deal and a free-trade agreement. However Boris continues our headlong rush to the no-deal cliff-edge.

I understand that you come to this conclusion if you have to rely on the Mails and others headlines, but in reality and when you are a native german speaker you come to a different conclusion.
In a very Merkelesque (sp?) she said: 'if you think, you can come up with a solution in the next thirty days then tell us about it.' Has Boris come up with something? Thought not...

Lamentably, Merkel's answers in that press conference were entirely dubbed over in English on BBC, so we didn't get to hear what she said. That being said, the translation that I heard said pretty much what you say she said in German. The UK media appear, not unusually, not to have listened, or been deliberately misleading.

"Clearly an anonaly as have flown out of Belfast on loads of occasions to various UK airports and only occasion getting met by anybody was Anti Terrorist police who knew who they wanted."

I was stopped a couple of years at ABZ coming from LHR - they wren't terribly happy when someone stated in a loud voice that they were practicing for SEXIT

A point made last night in a Tweet from the Economist's ( German speaking) Jeremy Cliffe:

the eu are worried we will leave sans deal and do well which will bring into sharp focus their raison d'etre [or lack thereof]

the remoaners are worried they will be found wanting; that their strategy of delay, obfuscate, frustrate hasn't worked; that they were duped

Thank you for reading.

Pontius Navigator: you posted You are referring to what I posted: .

What I meant was that in straightforward EU budgetary terms, Ireland is now a net contributor (payments to EU budget exceed receipts). The benefits from the Single Market and Customs Union are quite distinct from this: greater trade opportunities have brought gains form new export markets, gains to consumers and producers from lower trading costs, and arguably dynamic gains over time as enhanced productivity growth has lead to a rise in real incomes.

It is worth noting that since the SM and CU have become more effective, Ireland's Income per head has converged on Western European levels. Ireland's GDP per head is much greater than "normal", due to the distortion arising from multinational firms' operation, which has been a nightmare for our Central Statistics Office, who have devised a new measure GNI* to strip out these distortions. (Please don't ask for the boring details!)

The EU doesn't need to make an example. We have made ourselves the example by leaving.

Both the UK and the EU will be damaged by Brexit. The EU, being much bigger and stronger, will be damaged much less.

The EU doesn't owe anything to an ex-member.

And yes I know you aren't listening.

Agreed, the victim card is being much played this morning...

Oh dear, people with their heads stuck in the past still. Did you know that Cromwell is no longer the Lord Protector? Things have moved on (except inside some of those peoples' heads). However, it seems that they are happy to submit to The President (based in the capital of that hugely divided country between the Netherlands and France). Oh, and if The President's Men ask you a question and you don't give the correct answer, they ask again until you do give the correct answer (not referring to just one country there as a more than one has suffered that 'version' of 'democracy').

I fully understand that English might not be your first language (going on your 'Location'), but please work out exactly what "in the next thirty days" actually means. It would probably be fair to give you the next 29 days to answer that.

I don't want to live in the past, but wasn't another image conscious Frenchman annoyed about similar some time back? We shouldn't live in the past, but we should learn from it, especially if the parallels become too close.

Really? Your constant Posting seems to indicate the opposite!
Go on, demonstrate that you don't care, by not Posting!

A lot of people will chuckle at your inevitable response to this!

Jack, are you suggesting that things might be done better outside the EU? Go and wash your mouth out!!!

It really is in some ways very simple.
The UK voted to leave the "club"
The remaining members of said club maintain the UK cannot continue to enjoy the benefits of being in said club.
Calling that vindictive is simply playing the victim.

I expect that will be happening a lot more in the next few weeks..
If people are perceiving that as 3