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ceptimus said:
I'd just like to make it clear that I'm ruling myself out of standing for the Tory leadership. I thought I needed to do that, as I would stand more chance of winning than Jeremy Hunt - and he is apparently thinking of standing.
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And only 20/1, better than IDS.
 
GlennB said:
They're still expecting Cameron to do it, at the current meeting.

European Parliament note, item 5
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Side note: Ignoring EU parliament is however very inadvisable. They too will have to ratify any exit agreements.

Also it looked like if Farage is hell bent on offending as many MEPs as possible. Almost as if he wants torpedo any chances on relatively good agreements.
 
Klimax said:
Side note: Ignoring EU parliament is however very inadvisable. They too will have to ratify any exit agreements.

Also it looked like if Farage is hell bent on offending as many MEPs as possible. Almost as if he wants torpedo any chances on relatively good agreements.
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its nothing he hasn't been saying for years in there, only to booing now instead of the previous laughing and smug/arrogant eye rolling.
 
Another snippet from the BBC news ticker

UKIP MEP Jonathan Arnott dismisses the suggestion that the UK cannot have access to the single market without accepting freedom of movement of people.

He says Liechtenstein has access to the single market and can control immigration. He also argues that controls on immigration was a key reason for the Leave vote last week.
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I thought it wasn't about immigration :confused:

At least that's what they were saying yesterday
 
From the BBC:
UKIP MEP Jonathan Arnott dismisses the suggestion that the UK cannot have access to the single market without accepting freedom of movement of people.

He says Liechtenstein has access to the single market and can control immigration. He also argues that controls on immigration was a key reason for the Leave vote last week.
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So that's the model UKIP are looking at, Liechtenstein. A tax haven with 37,000 people (like the UK, 5% of the population is Muslim, which Arnott might not have realised) I'd laugh if the guy wasn't serious, but he is.
 
McHrozni said:
Why do you think Cameron decided to step down in October and not immediately anyway? British politicians now have three to four months to create some internal stability and fix the disarray. Had Cameron quit immediately, or invoked Article 50 immediately, you'd likely be right. He decided to wait until October however - and I bet it's at least partially to give "think again" a chance.......
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The markets. Whatever you think of Cameron, he has an old-fashioned regard for public service, and duty. He recognises the need for stability. Imagine what the markets would be doing if he and/ or Osborne had quit immediately! Cameron simply wants to make the transition as smooth as possible in the current circumstances. Besides, it is impossible to elect a new leader in less than a couple of months, so all that would have happened if he had quit immediately is that he would have handed over to an interim leader, who would have been a powerless place-holder awaiting the leadership election results. I really do think a lot of this discussion should be in the CT sub-forum, not in politics.
 
Klimax said:
It is in live reporting section, no direct link:
http://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-36570120
At 16:23.
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Thanks. I was kind of being funny, not really expecting they lied about it. I see there is a direct link, though. If you click on one of these green "share" things under an item and pretend you want to share it with twitter, it creates one of those shortcut links, and that has the shared item on top of the live reporting site. Here the item in question: http://bbc.in/28XVwCJ
 
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angrysoba said:
Okay, I think I have found a potential candidate. I think a Leaver will win, but an ambitious Leaver without the baggage of Johnson, Gove and Fox.

Apparently the guy is called Dominic Raab. He's someone considered media savvy, he's a lawyer who's been involved in negotiating human rights and he was involved in the Leave campaign of only in the backroom.

I'm calling it now, he's the next Prime Minister.

(By the way, my predictions in the Brexit prediction thread were extraordinary. Thought I should add that before you mortgage the house and place the money at Paddy Power).
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Raab was the one suggesting visas to keep EU-undesirables out, and therefore vice versa.
 
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