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This needs to happen

Slightly off kilter but in the same vane, but aren't the EU refusing to allow British & European planes to stop flying empty or near to empty aircraft because the airlines are worried they'll lose those slots.

Pro USA & Israel

I don't have an issue with this you are supposed to look after your own. My problem is with the people who can't see that and think we are bad to want to do the same.

Within the EU every country is looking after their own interests and if that coincides with the interests of the EU then fine but ultimately national interests will override the EU when it is really important as this shows.

How many EU countries are willing to help Greece with the refugee crisis? lots of warm words but very little practical help.

One more point

With the current crisis dominating our thoughts, and the headlines, it is totally understandable that the subject that did last year, Brexit, is now very much running at the back of the field.

Whether the need to concentrate on the crisis, both at home and in the EU, means that the timelines will be forced to be extended remains an open question but it would not surprise me. Events change plans. Or at least if you are wise they do.

This was published by the BBC yesterday and it again raises two questions. Firstly, when will the Intelligence and Security Committee report on interference be published, and secondly, if Johnson had not suppressed it last year would we still have had a Tory government with such a large majority?

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Whilst I am no fan of some of WE's posts he has made it quite plain that he is no supporter of either Corbyn or the Labour Party

I thought Cryst was referring to Jesus Christ and the Bible,..

If your mate JC was in he would already of spent it on the bulls*** in his story book

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (14 Mar 2020 6.21pm)

I disengage, I turn the page.

I, I, I, me, me, me.

Yawn.

Simply, and only, because it was my attitude that was questioned.

Yours, and others, can be found in countless other comments.

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Your perception of my political bias is evident. And evidently wrong, as I have explained on numerous occasions.

Late me state it in very straightforward words. I dislike left wing politics every much as I dislike right wing politics. Just because I am not a member of the right wing club that populates this place doesn't mean I am leftish in any way at all. I am a centrist. Most seem to understand that, even if they still disagree with it.

In the very unlikely event that Labour ever returns to power under the kind of leadership and policies as characterised by Corbyn then you can be 100% sure they would be opposed by me just as strongly as I opposed the right wing cabal who forced Brexit over the line.

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It just wasn't "that simple" though was it? There were many strands which, when knitted together, meant we ended up with the kind of deal we got and an 80 majority Tory government of the type we have.

This really isn't though the time to get into another long argument over Brexit. As I hinted in my earlier post I suspect that the negotiations will have to be put on the back burner whilst we all deal with this crisis. It will certainly prove to all, I hope anyway, that acting together delivers better results than trying to stand alone. Maybe that lesson will soften the British approach whenever they resume because we are going to see a very changed world at the end of all this.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.