by John Ward Just when you thought Brussels had petulantly shot itself in the foot, details began to emerge this evening of a Seven Card Trick designed to convert the soft (and struggling) Withdrawal Agreement into pure BRINO – Brexit in …
“In addition to uncertainty about what’s going to happen, now there’s uncertainty about when it will happen.” By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. With each passing day, the fog of uncertainty surrounding Brexit thickens, with myriad knock-on …
by Martin Armstrong After months of political deadlock, the House of Commons voted by 413-202 last week to ask the EU to delay Britain’s exit. Prime Minister May has simply refused to listen to advice and keeps hoping that …
via bnnbloomberg: (Bloomberg) — Germany’s upper house approved a law making it easier for lenders such as Deutsche Bank AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to fire top earners, adding flexibility for Frankfurt to lure financial companies unsettled by Brexit. …
via spectator: I had lunch yesterday with a friend from London who brought grim tidings from Albion. Like me, he is an advocate of national sovereignty. He thinks the people of the United Kingdom ought to be allowed to govern themselves. …
It seems the deals are so bad, that they have to keep going back to repackage them. My two cents as to what is happening in regards to brexit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1qsEIh_2vA
UK lawmakers gear up for vote on delaying Brexit LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers were voting Thursday on whether to scuttle the already dwindling chances the U.K. will leave the European Union this month as scheduled, but EU officials warned …
by John Ward In the antimatter world inhabited by Theresa May, everything is possible. Just when everyone has the table cleared for a dog’s breakfast, in walks TM the PM and all the plates fly out of the cupboard, careening around …
BRITAIN was tonight plunged into chaos once again as MPs voted to kill off Theresa May’s Brexit deal by 391 votes to 242. Now 993 days after the referendum, and with just 17 days before Brexit, Brits are still in …
via CNBC: Brexit could be reversed if lawmakers reject the government’s exit deal, British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Sunday after two major eurosceptic factions in parliament warned that Prime Minister Theresa May was facing a heavy defeat. Just …
by John Ward May’s vote tomorrow will fail, and Parliament will move to ensure No Deal is taken off the table and thrown in the bin in short order. Dominic Raab talks a good game about that making for an …
by John Ward Just when you thought that, if nothing else, we had control over the decision to extend Article 50, Barnier told key European press titles yesterday that it was inevitable…thus rendering at least two UK Parliamentary votes before March …
by John Ward Sometimes, we have to desist from valour in favour of discretion. The Parliamentary, media, EU, Leftlib and Whitehall élites are not going to let any meaningful (today’s new word for pointless) form of Brexit happen. If they can’t …
by John Ward The late arrival on Platform Commons scheduled for Tuesday March 12th is the ‘meaningful’ Brexit vote originally scheduled for December 16th. Despite the insistence by many optimists that No Deal will be impossible to avoid “because we can’t …
The EU [CB] are panicking, they do not want the UK to break away, this would be a disaster for the EU and it would expose the EU and other countries would follow. The [CB] plan, keep the UK in …
by Claudio Grass via Claudiograss.ch One of the most commonly cited arguments initially against Brexit, and now against a no-deal scenario, is the towering threat of businesses leaving the UK. A great many campaigners and leading figures of the Remain camp have warned …
No one can afford even the smallest hiccup in derivatives. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. After months of furious lobbying, the City of London Corporation has finally got what it wanted: recognition by the European Securities …
by Martin Armstrong Physicians were unable to reach a consensus on whether or not Brexit should take place. The Allergists were in favor of scratching it, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves. The Gastroenterologists had sort …
by John Ward I’m grateful to a threader at The Slog for reminding me that the media censorship between the UK and the EU at the moment is a two-way street….or barricade, depending on your viewpoint. He’s right: all élites are …
by jameilious Brexit has been a real omnishambles from day 1, only happening after a gambit from David Cameron failed horribly. I have a theory that it’s on purpose. Very few politicians want brexit so why not ruin it so …
by Martin Armstrong We are approaching 31.4 months this February from the original Brexit referendum on June 23, 2016.After such a period, the British government’s incompetence is shining through. The EU wants a hard border in Ireland all because …
by Golem XIV While everyone is endlessly told about the world-ending dangers of Brexit, I wonder if we should be paying a little more attention to “Deutsche-it”. If the UK leaves the EU the EU will survive. But what happens …
by John Ward The Western world’s élite media set are not obsessed with Brexit: they are hell-bent on the destruction of everything Brexit is about. Cast adrift by the very politicians who claim to represent them, the People of Britain have …
by John Ward “Yesterday” as Franklin Roosevelt said after Pearl Harbor, “is a day that will live in infamy”. Although the header to this post says ‘Analysis’, it is the kind of analysis a midbrow six year old could make – …
A UK Brexit minister has warned the EU that if new arrangements on the Irish backstop cannot be agreed to seal a deal, then Britain will refuse to pay the divorce bill, as PM Theresa May prepares for showdown talks …
by GoldCore – Investors need a ‘Plan B’ to protect against Brexit, currency, property and other risks – Brexit uncertainty is impacting Irish and UK consumers, companies and economy – London home asking prices slump below £600,000: Lowest since 2015 …
by Daisy Luther Prepping is no longer just a thing us “crazy Americans” do. The popularity of stocking up and being prepared for future events is spreading across the globe as people everywhere are losing faith that the way things …
by John Ward The Cabinet having failed to get past Plan A (iii) on Brexit, the Bercow-Grieve empowered Commons foodies have been engaging in febrile sorcery. Plans B to F are the result. Together, they represent amendments demanding a seat at …
BY JOHN MAULDIN Many analysts doubt a n0-deal Brexit is likely. They think some last-minute agreement will emerge. In theory, a “hard” Brexit is in no one’s interest. It makes no sense, the logic goes. So it won’t happen. The problem …
via WSJ: Britain’s problem with the EU goes back decades. From the 1957 Treaty of Rome to the present day, Europe has been both the opportunity Britain cannot embrace and the problem Britain cannot solve. In the 1950s, Britain stood …