[kreuzberger]

A thread title paying homage to that long-running discussion started by @mattomac before the Great Fire and indeed, before "stupid" grew wings, fledged, and began to shit over the UK - NI partly excepted.

First up, this "once in a generational opportunity to reset relations" nonsense is just that. Nonsense, and as with as much real-world validity as the fat lad's Get Brexit Done horseshit; international relations are a process of development and evolution, (for better or for worse), rather than a singularly identifiable event, and Starmer cannot defy the laws of economics any more that he can avoid the laws of physics. That apple falls on your head as surely as leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union wreaks havoc with your economy.

You want to magic away vast black holes in your finances? I have a cunning plan.

Starmer coming to the end of our street today to shake hands on an - er - oven ready treaty after ten minutes in office, and while most of the RW press are on holiday, looks to me to be the opening initiative of the country edging towards a bespoke variant of the EEA Agreement.

Türkiye managed it, but I still believe that I will be German or dead or both before the damage has been repaired.

[kreuzberger]

No mention yet of my bacon, unless it falls under "other" and "High-Level Talks".



Aside from taking a run at the defence pot before a: it gets allocated and b: Russia attacks, I would not be surprised if HMG is in no mad hurry to get the rest boxed off. There will be nothing like a few days chaos at Dover so galvanise a few minds in favour of Brexin (kinda).

[Killer Whale]

No mention yet of my bacon

Cultural and artistic exchanges, Shirley?

[mattomac]

Good that it seems we are rejoining Erasmus.

[davidjay]

I wish I could copyright the word 'Betrayal', just for tomorrow.

[Oboogie]

No mention yet of my bacon

Cultural and artistic exchanges, Shirley?

There's nothing artistic about the way I eat a bacon butty and it's definitely uncultured.

[satnav]

The Mail has called in the big guns. LittleJohn has phoned in his copy from Florida whilst Andrew Neil filed his copy from his home in the South of France. You really couldn't make it up.

[The Weeping Angel]

A more balanced approach can be found here.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europ ... n-100.html

Th

e EU and Great Britain are realigning their relations after Brexit. Closer cooperation is planned in defense, fisheries, and food controls. However, there are still points of contention.More than five years after Britain's exit from the EU, both sides have agreed to a rapprochement. At the first summit of top politicians from the EU and Great Britain since Brexit, the sides agreed to closer cooperation, the British government announced. The agreement addresses the areas of defense, security, fisheries, food controls, and youth mobility.