My mother passed away after a long battle with Parkinson’s and I was dealing with the fall out from that, which included my father suffering ill health.

I didn’t have time for this board.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry reading this Twitter thread on Brexit impact assessments by sector.

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My Brexit Christmas wish.

I hope that as we go into 2018 the political parties start to tell us what Brexit really means for them. MY thoughts on what they should be.

Tories
As the government it is really down to them to explain to the electorate their vision. I hope that the Tories make it clear there will be:
- No major changes to current EU law in this Parliament it will just be rolled into UK law.
- I would transfer to the regional parliaments as much EU law as possible including fishing rights and of course the money. This hopefully would kill off Nationalist ambitions.
- Publish an immigration policy that can be debated to be implemented after the next general election. I am not desperate to pull up the draw bridge immediately but would like to know what it is.
- Publish a post Brexit post general election vision.

Labour
- Pick a policy and stick to it. I really do not understand their position. They are asking for things that the EU say are never going to happen. They are quick to state that the Tories are in disarray (true) whilst ignoring they have the same problems. The young who love Corbyn are typically pro EU yet Labour is pro Brexit. They will have to square that circle.
- Be grown up and tell the Tories as long as EU law is passed into UK law without watering it down they will support the government.
- Publish their immigration policy.
- Publish their version of a Corbyn government post Brexit.

Lib Dems
- Don't care they will whine , moan and oppose. If the remainers feel that strongly they should support the Lib Dems but I don't see that happening.

Anyway lets hope that 2018 bring clarity.

One more point

The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) states that Britain will have a bigger economy than France in 2020:

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They also admitted that they got their post-Brexit predictions for the economy wrong.

Who would have thought that?

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

The further away from a Hard Brexit we get and the Softer it appears it will be, the more the optimism rises. Who wouldn't have thought that?

UK = EU lite. In the year 2020 and beyond hopefully.

Big chest and massive boobs

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Best. Spin. Ever.

Alastair Campbell would be proud of that.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

It was also saying that the CEBR misunderstood consumer response to Brexit.

The fact is, regardless of soothsayers, things aren’t as bad as they were made out to be.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

More EU lies.

The EU didn’t exist 60 years ago.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

This is an interesting pic from the archives. Changed their tune.

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Claiming the credit for all of that is hilarious.