James Godfrey

Mars Express that is, not the other one

Used to be mine too - sniff

How is continuing to pander to the politics of Reform, dragging the Overton window inexorably to the right "fighting for the soul of the nation"?

Slightly off topic, but I once received a 14 page CV. They didn't get the job

You'd have thought he would have noticed

This has developed into a bit of a long thread for what was just a throwaway comment about any new agreement never approaching the benefits of EU membership 😁

Well ... many countries are members of one or the other, but yes, none is member of both. And while I don't think there is any legal or administrative obstacle, it would be so close to full membership that the members might say "just rejoin already!"

Ahhh - it's been a long day. They might still be easier to get unanimity than full membership - "might" could be doing a bit of heavy lifting here - but also moot for the aforementioned reason

It's not clear to me what you mean

This German would be in favour

True and given the choice, a lot of EU members what rather have a net contributor be a member rather than a net beneficiary. However, it's a bit moot until a UK government decides to rejoin ...
Single Market & Customs Union might be easier, but also require unanimity, of course

I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.

In theory, there would be the same application process as any new member. In practice the UK is still the 2nd largest economy in Europe & the EU economy was also negatively affected by Brexit (though less than the UK) so exceptions would most likely be made to ease the process

I think I implied that rejoining the EU and the Single Market and the Customs Union would be a lot more effective in easing trade with Europe than any other measures that the Government is planning. Would the UK be able to walk straight back in? Well, no, but neither would it be that difficult

Did I say that?

You know what would make it much much easier to trade with Europe?

außer dass die ICE-Schläger zu fett sind, um ihn zu fangen

So here we are again. More peddling of watered-down Reform policies, because that's been working so well up to now

No fan of #bbclaurak, but Starmer most definitely is in trouble, in the Country and behind (not very) closed doors, in the Party

They are going to make bugger all from ticket sales as, let's face it, no one in their right mind is travelling to the US from overseas right now. On the plus side that will reduce carbon emissions

The photo is a just a stock pic of Tina herself - which explains why it actually looks like her - the statue, not so much

You think that many people haven't been saying similar things behind the scenes for months?

and you think no one has been doing that? - to no avail!

It's always a lovely day for a bike ride, but some days are lovelier than others

!Buen provecho!

Agreed, but this is from The Third Man

What about natto?

And stupid

Voting for Brexit and then voting Reform would also not be very smart