And this is why @Tassotti is a forum legend.
There is a cracking article and series of comments (1762 at last count) on Brexit on the financial times.
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Google … Gideon Rachman Brexit Humiliation
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The Pouca
In understanding why Brexit is a bad idea and the Brexit negotiations unlikely to end well it is still useful to avoid hyperbole like: “That will mean that Britain agrees to pay a bill of up to €100bn in gross terms, merely to get trade negotiations going.” I don’t think anyone on the EU side even expects the bill to be €100bn, which is a headline number built by throwing in even dubious and unlikely liabilities as well a highly-unlikely contingent liabilities. The reality is in the €40-60bn range, which is still a lot to explain to a British public who thoygh the UK could walk away ‘scot-free.’
Similarly, “[t]he EU is confident and uncompromising” fails to accurately portray the problem. The UK’s posture is that of a child who threw his ice-cream away, but now demands another nearly identical one. The UK is leaving the EU, but is seeking to negotiate back most of the benefits of membership, while spurning key obligations. It’s like resigning from the golf-club in a huff, but demanding the right to keep playing the course, still have the best tee-times, use the bar, tennis court and parking – and pay nothing for the privilege, because you are special.
Trade deals with the US are similarly a problem. The UK has a £37bn trade surplus with the US in goods and services. Donald Trump’s view of trade agreements is that they must reverse any US trade deficit – so a deal for the UK cannot improve its current arrangements (WTO terms plus a share of EU/US agricultural quotas and use of EU/US technical and mutual recognition agreements (it loses the EU/US stuff on Brexit.) Worse, the administration’s current Trade Promotion Authority (i.e., ‘Fast-Track) expires in June 2018, and although it is theoretically renewable by Congress through 2021, the collection of legislative ingénues and dolts in the Trump administration will probably not pull that renewal off.
However, the biggest single problem confronting the UK is its deficit of competent and credible leaders. Theresa May and the Conservative’s have pulled off a remarkable feat – they have managed to make the fractious and half-crazy Labour party look like a more credible government than they are. That a Corbyn administration can seem plausible in light of the current claque is itself remarkable. The UK lacks credible leadership on both side of the aisle in Parliament and no-one is levelling with the British public about what Brexit really means in economic terms – what the consequences will be.
Indeed, apart from occasional article in the Guardian and this newpaper, neither is the British media. The BBC is woefully incapable of extracting anything from pro-Brexit politicians other than ‘I believe in Britain[, don’t you?]’ type guff, vague attempts to channel Churchillian rhetoric and the now widely used ‘Wall of Waffle™’ where Boorish, Gove and assorted ministers run out the clock on Radio 4, while never making any concrete statements. There is a near total absence of detail in discussions of Brexit.
To this can be linked a tendency for a near myopic, autistic refusal to ask the key question – what do the EU 27 think. Maybe this is because too many British (and American) journalists are incapable of reading newspapers in anything other than English. But survey articles of the EU 27 are as rare as ‘hens’ teeth – no one in the UK seems to realise that the rest of the EU is not straining to shed its shackles (despite predictions that the Netherlands, French, Austrian and German elections would have this result in the Mail, Telegraph, Times, Express, etc.) but rather drawing closer together. They are under the impression the UK will be missed from the party, after insulting the food, the house and the children, calling the host names, groping the hostess and kicking the dog – indeed they’d like to take a few bottles for the road, and ‘will you spot us cab fare!’
I don’t know where this is going to end up – but humiliation is probably a safe guess. What is also a good guess is that while the right will try to blame the EU, the politicians who called for Brexit and predicted a rosy result may want to be very careful – there may be a lynch mob atmosphere directed against them before long.
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One can only hope so.
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it would be more in his line to sort out the security situation and Grenfill tower, the facking uselss khant, London has fallen apart under his “leadership”
They should change the announcement to “Ladies, Gentlemen and fucking saps who don’t know”. That would capture all. 
I’m offended by the term “good morning everyone”. I’m mood fluid and reject societies attempts to categorise my feelings in jaded mood based categories.
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It’s PA gorn mad
Khant was sharia law established in London, he should be arrested and held in the tower of London
some craic, some state of affairs
The Brits have gone soft. They are going to be taken over by ISIS at this rate.
The Tower of London will probably burn down shortly with him in charge
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It will be called the Minaret of London soon at this rate.
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And big ben will be playing the call to worship
They will hand the keys over for fear of causing offence