Quote Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier View Post
We have had this conversation before 59er. For the first time in living memory a Tory Chancellor has said health comes before the economy!

No idea where he is going to get the loot from and I really don't care.

We now have a divided Europe at our mercy, we also have a single currency with some real reserves and clout behind it.

China & South Asia need trusted trading partners, Singapore and South Korea are fully fit and raring to go. I've even been offered an old job back to boost my-ex companies exports. After this layoff I'm as fit as a fiddle and raring to jump back in the saddle. Hi-ho Silver Away!

We have a resolute, determined government who will pump the money back into the economy. By Christmas the fiscal bounce back in the UK will go down in history.

Boris has waited for this moment all of his life. Cometh the hour...
And it gets even better BT, yesterday the Torygraph was saying an extension was likely, but James Forsyth in the Speccy has a more up to date story.


"David Frost, the Prime Minister’s chief Brexit negotiator, has held discussions with the First Secretary of State Dominic Raab and other senior ministers in the last few days. As I say in tomorrow’s Spectator, the conclusion of these discussions has been that the UK will not request an extension to the transition period. Interestingly, I understand that no one in these discussions backed asking for an extension.

The thinking is that a delay would not solve the fundamental policy problems and that a deal is either possible or not. Another factor, I understand, is that the government worries about the cost of any extension. There is concern that extending could drag the UK into the arguments about who pays for the various EU schemes designed to protect the European economy and preserve the Eurozone. It is worth remembering that it isn’t only the UK who can request an extension to the transition period. There is nothing to stop the EU proposing one – though, the EU has acted as if requesting an extension is a decision for London alone.

If the EU did ask for more time, it would put the government in a difficult position. Rejecting the request would sit ill with the idea that the UK wants to be a good neighbour to the EU. Frost and Michel Barnier will video conference today. But it now seems that the only way the transition period will be extended is if the EU requests it."

And Boris was't even involved, when he gets back in the saddle it really will be all systems go for out on December 31st, deal or not. I really wonder when the penny will drop in Brussells that we won't be extending and they'd better start taking our exit seriously. I'm sure they still delude themselves that we'll back down and plead for an extension.