We pay that every year in interest payments to the (privately owned) BoE so it's hardly a bloody ''national crisis''.
You're 'exaggeration gene' is way too busy for it's own good.

Buy Litecoin.

The main thing to note is that utter incompetence from this government has meant it's taken 18 months for them to agree to pay what we owe, something that should never have been an issue in the first place. They are experts in chaos and uncertainty and not much else.

Sadly the Irish border question was always going to be far more difficult and they've still not come up with any actual plans for this yet.

Davis is too busy being a massive hypocrite and drain on the state (insisting on private air travel) to have any idea what to do in the national interest. Either that or he's actively not acting in our best interest. His record of shouting about abuses of ministerial power and contempt of parliament when on the back benches looks pretty opportunistic and insincere now he's the biggest culprit next to May when on the front bench. He's an embarrassment to the government and our nation and should be replaced.

The country democratically elected May to take us through Brexit. You reap what you sow.

I didn't realise that it was a presidential election

Not to mention the Russian subversion of our democracy and the effort of ministers to subvert parliament at every turn. We're giving away far more power than we're taking back.

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It was always going to be 50. Should've agreed it earlier. The issue I have is that this and a couple of other matters are agreed and filed away from reach before we move onto what we're really waiting for and what the EU was originally set up for. Trade. Well publicly anyway. Then there's open immigration. Something it wasn't set up for, publicly.

Hopefully because we've dragged it out it'll help with the negotiations that'll really attract interest.

COYP

I don't agree with that. Why exactly are we going along with 50?

In fact I prefer a no deal to this.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

It'll be 50 spread over several years and the trade agreements and, if done fairly and successfully, should dwarf this figure over many many years compared to no deal, which is why we voted leave. For the longer term. Well a lot of us did.

It's not this I'm concerned about but I am that it's decided and filed away without being part of other aspects of our future relationships. That's how the real world works. It's like we're the school children being allowed a short say and to then shut up and accept whatever, regardless of fairness.

If they continue to try and stitch us up then I might agree to walk away.

COYP

It is paying back our commitments but those commitments aren’t clear and transparent, the best analogy I’ve heard is that we have all been out to dinner and we know we have had the steak dinner which are prepared to pay for , we also happy to pay for the wine but we are not sure how much of the wine we have had and in any case we wanted a nice bottle of wine while the Romania’s only wanted the house wine. We also promised to chip in a bit extra for the meal next month because we know some of the others guest are a little bit skint and they have a mate who can do our garden for us but so now a few others are going to have to stump up a bit extra.
It’s also a bit irrelevant for remainers, of which I’m one, to say that if people had known the cost of leaving would they have voted out, well, they are our commitments we would have been paying them and would continue to be paying them into the future had we remained.

One supporter of hacking argued that without it "you will do away with the courage and pluck of the game, and I will be bound to bring over a lot of Frenchmen who would beat you with a week's practice -Blackheath secretary at first meeting of the F.A

We know what we're going to be negotiating so we're not as in the dark as you think, and no, it's nothing like a general election.

Paul Mason was in favour of leave but under a labour government. You've just done okay because of the EU privileges and think it applies to 60 million of us too. You might live to see your offspring want to return to Britain. Remember me saying it to you now.

COYP