Brexit delay
Remainers are still plotting to delay Brexit says the Mail.
Tory rebels are plotting to sabotage Boris Johnson’s Brexit by forcing a delay to the October 31 leaving date – even if the Prime Minister wins Commons support for a deal with the EU next weekend.
Former Cabinet Ministers Philip Hammond and Dominic Grieve are central to moves to compel Mr Johnson to send a letter to Brussels asking for an extension to the UK’s membership, regardless of the outcome of this week’s high-stakes Brexit diplomacy.
The plot, which threatens to throw the Prime Minister’s plans for a snap post-Brexit Election into disarray, caused fury in No 10, which last night accused Mr Hammond of trying to ‘sabotage’ Mr Johnson’s ‘do or die’ Halloween exit date.
The Sun says they’ll act even if the PM gets a deal.
TORY rebels are plotting to sabotage Brexit with a delay to the leaving date – even if Boris Johnson secures an exit deal with the EU, reports claim.
Former Cabinet Ministers Philip Hammond and Dominic Grieve are calling on the PM to send a letter to Brussels asking for an extension to the Halloween deadline.
The move has caused fury in No 10, which has accused Hammond of trying to “sabotage” Johnson’s exit date, reports Mail on Sunday.
No deal
And if the sabotage doesn’t work, perhaps a court case might, reports the Mail.
Labour has warned Boris Johnson it is ready to take action through the courts if he tries to push through a No Deal Brexit against the will of Parliament.
Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the party would do ‘whatever it takes’ to prevent the UK leaving the EU at the end of the month without an agreement.
Addressing the Co-operative Party conference in Glasgow, Sir Keir said if the Prime Minister was unable to secure a deal at next week’s crucial EU summit, he must comply with the so-called Benn Act and seek a further delay.
‘If he can’t – or I should say won’t – get a deal we will take whatever steps are necessary to prevent our country crashing out of the EU without a deal,’ he said.
The Guardian also reports the shadow Brexit secretary’s plans.
Labour will take action in the courts to prevent Boris Johnson from pushing through a no-deal Brexit against the will of parliament, Keir Starmer has pledged.
The shadow Brexit secretary said that if the prime minister is unable to reach an agreement with Brussels by 31 October, he must comply with the Benn act and seek a further delay.
In a speech at the Co-operative party conference in Glasgow, Starmer said: “If he can’t – or I should say won’t – get a deal we will take whatever steps are necessary to prevent our country crashing out of the EU without a deal.
Ireland
And even if those two tactics don’t work, the DUP says it won’t agree to Boris’ plans, reports the Mail.
The Democratic Unionist Party has threatened to torpedo Boris Johnson‘s make or break Brexit deal if Northern Ireland does not remain part of the UK customs union.
Nigel Dodds, the party’s deputy leader, today warned that Johnson’s eleventh-hour solution ‘cannot work’.
The DUP, which supports Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives in Westminster, will play a key role in deciding whether Britain can agree a new withdrawal agreement with the European Union before the departure deadline of October 31.
According to EU diplomats, Johnson has proposed keeping Northern Ireland in a UK customs union and some form of EU customs partnership.
The province must stay in the UK, reports BBC News.
Northern Ireland must stay in a “full UK customs union” after Brexit, the Democratic Unionist Party’s (DUP) deputy leader Nigel Dodds has said.
His comment came as UK and EU officials held what were described as “intense” talks in a bid to secure a new deal.
Neither side has given details about the common ground that has reportedly been found on the Irish border issue.
Mr Dodds said: “There is a lot of stuff coming from Brussels, pushed by the Europeans in the last hours.
“One thing is sure – Northern Ireland must remain fully part of the UK customs union and Boris Johnson knows it very well,” he told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
BoJo’s plans have been trashed reports the Evening Standard.
Boris Johnson‘s reported compromise on the Brexit backstop has been trashed by DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds.
Reports suggested the PM has revived a compromise Brexit plan which would see Northern Ireland remain politically in a customs union with the EU, though it would be administered by the UK.
However, Mr Dodds said such a scheme would not be acceptable to the DUP.
The party’s votes would almost certainly be needed if Mr Johnson was to get a deal through Parliament.
“Northern Ireland must stay in a full UK customs union, full stop,” he told the Italian La Repubblica newspaper.
And the Independent calls it another blow to the PM’s plans.
Boris Johnson‘s hopes of securing a Brexit deal have been dealt a blow after the DUP‘s deputy leader warned that the plan reportedly being considered by UK and EU officials “cannot work”.
Nigel Dodds, who also serves as the party’s Westminster leader, dismissed any suggestion that Northern Ireland could in effect remain in the EU’s customs union when the rest of the UK leaves.
The Express claims the deal is very similar to the May(Merkel) WA.
THE DUP has warned Boris Johnson against a reported Brexit compromise with the EU to break the deadlock over the controversial Irish backstop.
Reports from Brussels claim the Prime Minister is bringing back a proposal first put forward by Theresa May for a customs partnership between the UK and the bloc. The make-or-break compromise would see Northern Ireland remain politically in a customs union with the EU but it would be administered by the UK.
But Boris simply refuses to confirm the plans, says the Mirror.
Boris Johnson has refused to rule out Northern Ireland remaining in the EU’s customs union as negotiations with Brussels intensify.
Earlier today EU chief negotiator Michael Barnier confirmed that the UK and EU were entering ‘tunnel negotiations’ – meaning an intense period of discussion.
It came among rumours that Mr Johnson was shifting his offer to Brussels, potentially abandoning opposition to a Northern Irish backstop arrangement that would keep it in the EU for customs purposes.
EU
‘Remain Central’, aka the Times, claims the EU is to receive a take-it-or-leave-it offer.
Boris Johnson is to offer EU leaders a historic grand bargain on Brexit — help deliver his new deal this week or agree a “no-deal” departure by October 31.
The prime minister will speak to the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, and the European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, in the next two days and say: “Let’s finish this off.”
Johnson’s intervention comes on the eve of a crunch week for his premiership ahead of a Brussels summit on Thursday and a historic Saturday sitting of parliament next weekend, the first since the Falklands War.
And on a different tack, the Sun reports on the cash the UK pays to Romanian children.
ALMOST £1million of UK taxpayers’ cash is paid yearly as child benefit to youngsters in Romania.
Under EU rules a European working in the UK can claim weekly benefit of £20.70 for the first child and £13.70 for all others — even if they left their kids behind.
The official tax figures show 615 Romanians claimed child benefit for a total of 1,000 children.
Last year it was revealed a court ruled a Romanian divorcee, who had never been to the UK, was allowed to keep her £150-per-month child benefit from the UK despite her husband disappearing.
Brexit
The Reuters news agency, which tends to be less biased than the MSM, reports the two sides are still well apart.
Britain remains a long way from agreeing a final Brexit deal and the next few days will be critical if it is to agree departure terms with the European Union, a Downing Street source said on Saturday.
Negotiators for Britain and the EU have entered intense talks over the weekend to see if they can break the Brexit impasse before a crucial summit next week and a deadline for Britain to leave the bloc on Oct. 31.
News of progress in the talks sent financial markets surging on Friday after Johnson and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar identified a pathway to a deal following months of acrimony.
Several of the media report an appeal by Jacob Rees-Mogg to trust the PM. The Telegraph says:
Jacob Rees-Mogg today issues an appeal to Leavers to back Boris Johnson’s efforts to secure a Brexit deal, warning that “compromise will inevitably be needed”.
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, the leader of the Commons insists that “as a Leaver Boris can be trusted”.
Invoking an idiom that appears to concede Mr Johnson may make concessions unpopular with Brexiteers, Mr Rees-Mogg states: “If he thinks the ship of state is worth an extra ha’porth of tar he deserves support.”
More compromises? But the Mail says not too many.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned Brexiteers the Government will have to make compromises to get a deal but insists they can trust Boris Johnson not to concede too much to Brussels.
The Leader of the Commons had been a thorn in the side of Theresa May over Brexit before joining Mr Johnson’s administration.
He said that the Prime Minister had dedicated his political career to the cause of EU withdrawal.
The Express claims he ‘implored’ Brexiteers.
JACOB REES-MOGG, the leader of the House of Commons, has implored fellow Brexiteers to trust Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his attempts to secure a Brexit deal, insisting “compromise will inevitably be needed”.
Mr Rees-Mogg wrote in The Sunday Telegraph that Mr Johnson can be trusted as he is a Brexiteer. The MP for North East Somerset did note that Mr Johnson might have to make concessions unpopular with Brexiteers. Mr Rees-Mogg wrote: “If he thinks the ship of state is worth an extra ha’porth of tar he deserves support.”
But even if he can persuade Tories to back a deal, the Labour Party might not, says Sky News.
Jeremy Corbyn says he is unlikely to support a deal agreed between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the EU.
The Labour Party leader was speaking during Sky News show Sophy Ridge on Sunday when he said: “I think the problem areas are of regulation and deregulation which come from whatever trade arrangement there is with Europe and the wider world but also perhaps very seriously is the Irish border issue.
The Telegraph has an up-beat story about a post-Brexit boom.
Investors in the UK’s stock market are expected to enjoy a £240bn “deal dividend” if Boris Johnson can seal a last-gasp Brexit agreement before the Oct 31 deadline.
Stocks in London would rise 10pc and the pound would claw back 8pc against the dollar if a Brexit deal is reached, according to market stress tests conducted by data giant MSCI.
Sterling and UK-exposed stocks skyrocketed into the weekend amid resurgent hopes of a breakthrough in talks between the UK and EU.
Labour Party
Is Corbyn still in charge? The Times says perhaps not.
John McDonnell has been accused of leading a “silent coup” against Jeremy Corbyn amid claims that he has replaced the Labour leader in all but name.
The shadow chancellor has put himself in daily charge of the Labour operation as the party moves to an election footing. Insiders claim he has also launched his own policy platform and drawn up a list of appointments he wants in the leader of the opposition’s office, known as LOTO, to surround Corbyn with his allies.
“McDonnell is now basically the leader of the Labour Party,” said one insider.
The Mail claims the old man is tired.
John McDonnell is now effectively the Labour leader as a ‘tired’ Jeremy Corbyn prepares to step back, senior party insiders claimed last night.
They said the Shadow Chancellor is in day-to-day charge of the party with Mr Corbyn happy for his long-term ally to ‘run the show’ and maintain the Left’s grip on the party.
There are even suggestions the Labour leader would formally stand aside to let pro-Remain Mr McDonnell become interim Prime Minister in an anti-No Deal coalition ‘unity government’ if Boris Johnson fails to seal a Brexit deal.
Not only leaderless but broke, according to the Independent.
Members of Labour’s ruling executive have privately voiced fears that the party could be bankrupted as a result of an official inquiry into antisemitism, The Independent has learnt.
Members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) have expressed concerns that a damning verdict from the equalities watchdog about
Scotland
If there’s another indyref north of the border, the independence movement could win, reports the Times.
Support for an independent Scotland has risen to 50%, with a clear majority preferring Scottish independence in the EU to remaining in the UK after Brexit, a poll reveals.
The result suggests the highest support for independence recorded in more than seven years of Panelbase surveys for The Sunday Times.
It represents a five-point gain on the 45% support the pollster registered on average in its surveys last year, and in the independence referendum in 2014, and is up from 49% in our last poll in June.
When expanded to include England and Wales, the poll of 2,013 voters put Boris Johnson’s Conservatives on 33%, Labour on 30%, with the Lib Dems on 17% and the Brexit Party on 12%.
Voter fraud
An attempt could be made to counter electoral fraud, says the Telegraph.
Voters across the country will have to show identification such as driving licences or passports before casting their ballot, under plans to be unveiled in the Queen’s Speech.
Ministers are planning to introduce a legal requirement for voters to produce photographic ID, in order to safeguard against electoral fraud.
A new Electoral Integrity Bill will also limit the number of relatives for whom anyone can act as a proxy, and outlaw the “harvesting” of postal ballots by political parties and activists.
Fisheries
Post-Brexit, our fishing fleet could be tracked by a French firm, reports the Times.
Brexiteers have long hailed the “sea of opportunity” that awaits British fishermen and women after the UK leaves the EU — but now it has emerged that their boats will be monitored by a French company.
The business that won the tender to track UK fishing vessels wherever they operate, as well as foreign-licensed boats in British waters, is Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), a French maritime surveillance provider.
But the industry can only boom again under no-deal, reports the Express.
BRITAIN’S fishing industry is buckling under the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and will not have a chance of thriving unless a no deal Brexit is delivered, according to a Brexit Party MEP.
June Mummery, dubbed the First Lady of Fishing, said a complete revival of coastal communities across the UK is long overdue as small-scale fishermen struggle to earn a living due to the restrictions of the bloc’s quota system. The MEP for South East England claimed she witnessed how the struggle has had a domino effect on businesses in fishing towns and villages during a recent tour of seaside areas up and down the country, from Ramsgate in Kent to Grimsby in Lincolnshire. Ms Mummery told Express.co.uk: “It is killing them.
HS2
The high-speed train service is currently under review says the Times .
A plan for direct train links between Manchester and Leeds is being considered as part of the government’s review of the £88bn HS2 high-speed rail project.
Trains from London would run through Birmingham to Manchester and then to Leeds, creating a journey time between Manchester and Leeds of just 20 minutes. The average now is 1hr 11 min.
The plan is an alternative to the proposed HS2 route, which splits into east and west legs after Birmingham. The eastern line, which goes to Leeds via Toton, a new station between Nottingham and Derby, is at risk of being dropped, saving up to £10bn.
NHS
It seems our health service is branching out into homelessness, says the Times.
Homelessness has become so endemic in Britain that the NHS is launching specialist services for rough sleepers in seven of the worst-hit areas.
Despite repeated pledges by consecutive governments to tackle the housing crisis, about 320,000 people are homeless.
The problem is so acute that rough sleepers will be offered health advice and direct access to mental health care and GPs.
The specialist care will be offered in Birmingham, Hull, Brighton, Lincoln, Luton and Haringey and Lambeth, both in London, as part of a £30m drive. A further 13 areas are due to follow suit by 2023-24.
And the Mail reports on the difficulties making a GP appointment.
A staggering 15million GP appointments were delayed by a month in the past year.
Doctors and MPs last night slammed the Government for ‘running the NHS into the ground’ for the past nine years.
Some 15million appointments have been delayed for more than 28 days since last August and a similar number were delayed for between 22 and 28 days.
And an astonishing total of 55million GP visits took longer than two weeks to book.
Cocaine
Drugs are a big problem in London, reports Breitbart.
London has a cocaine problem bigger than that of Europe’s next three largest cocaine-consuming cities combined, according to an analysis by King’s College London.
Forensic scientists at the London university undertook a study of wastewater in cities across Europe, analysing it for the compound produced when the body breaks down cocaine, benzoylecgonine.
The study, seen by Sky News, revealed that Londoners consume 23kg (51lbs) of the Class A drug every day, more than half a million doses. The research estimates that London’s cocaine market has a street value of £1 billion.
Extinction Rebellion
The Mail has found an interesting story about the current demo in London.
Extinction Rebellion is paying activists up to £400 a week to lead the protests that have brought chaos to the streets of Britain, documents seen by The Mail on Sunday reveal.
Protesters have received payments totalling more than £70,000 in four months alone.
Particularly Nigel Evans has cheered me up. Thanks.
So it seems the fate of our legitimate democratic right to a passage to Brexit may be frustrated under the banner of “Security”
How can this be so?
I am not aware of any fresh outside invasion threat to our coastline or airborne threat to our land territory, surely the Argentinians are not lying off the coast seeking revenge or the Caliphate have not mustered an army of kamikaze pilots and I don`t really believe Putin is that daft.
So it`s not from an outside source as I read in the above account
“…..an upsurge in terrorism by dissident Republican Groups…………and sectarian violence in Glasgow …………and no one would go down that route”
“That route” being the twin internal threat of terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland and the mainland as well as sectarian violence and disruption in cities in England.
Luckily I am not called to comment in this particular instance on the pathetic capacity of our Army, Airforce and Navy and their capacity to defend anything beyond our shores, nor indeed on our soil, nor the fact that it and all attendant services and provision of equipment have been handed over to a soon to become foreign power.
I trust our Government will recognize these threats are either manufactured propaganda or real (recognized from intelligence sources subject to COBRA) and in the first case dismiss them as part of the FEAR campaign or in the second case authorize punitive action to stop terrorism in its tracks.
In the case of the latter action I would expect the Southern Irish Government to take part in smashing these gangs at source as I am sure they have no wish for any tittle or implication of blame for the rupture of the Anglo Irish agreement to emanate from their territory ..
I would also not like to think the EU would hide behind these threats and in continued bad faith frustrate this nation`s Democratic RIGHT to a COMPLETE BREXIT. If we didn`t vote for a NO DEAL in the Brexit Referendum, we certainly didn`t vote for a BRINO Deal in fact we were informed the consequences of leaving (remember the Government`s letter to the WHOLE electorate) we would be leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union
Sorry to butt in again Debbie, but I just tried to post this on another thread, it was about Viv`s “Security” warning on N.Ireland. Luckily since my postings have had a habit of disappearing I kept a copy.
I don’t know about your postings ‘disappearing’ Roger, but we editors can’t always get to comments immediately and sometimes there’s a time lag before they are approved – we don’t spend 24/7 on INDD, just coming back to it as often as we can.
I have now approved your comment on Viv’s Daily Brexit Betrayal, which was written at 3.13pm, and this one that was timed at 3.26pm.
Thanks Debbie, I`m not complaining about postings that have actually landed in your lap, but longer ones I have half of them typed and they disappear or there have been a couple I have got to the end, hit the “reply” box and they have just disappeared.
To be honest I think those problems are my end. I hope no outside influence is looking over my shoulder and when I look controversial cancels me.
Too fancifull `eh?
“What Ann Widdecombe Said In EU Parliament And How Media Treated Her”
These interviewers are lost. You cannot argue with people so emotionally committed to their PC agenda. The cloak of political correctness is their superpower. It bonds and protects and validates their moral superiority.
Anne Widdecombe does very well in these interviews. Of course, the focus on slavery avoids any real discussion of issues to do with the UK’s relationship with the EU or EU accountability or democracy. Trifling matters in the PC world of the media and Westminster.
Just an afterthought, could we be going to get a return of terrorism anyway, I`ve heard mention of reunification is on the cards, it won`t happen without terrorism
The question is ….. how long more can the coup against the Executive, the legitimate government, go on?
If the coup succeeds what then?
There are now only two options if chaos is to be avoided and leaving the EU on 31st Oct is to be achieved.
1. There is a deal and there are sufficient members of Parliament to support it.
2. The only way an extension can be granted is with the agreement of the EU and the State. It seems the Remainers made the mistake of thinking that the Prime Minister is the State. But in Britain the State is represented by the Executive under the umbrella of Cabinet. The government can stand its ground and refuses to allow the Prime Minister to write a letter seeking an extension. If the Remainers refuse to accept this and get away with it then Parliamentary democracy as we know it is finished and chaos prevails ………. which would suit the globalist agenda.
Scotland:
“Scottish independence in the EU” That’s an oxymoron if ever there was one. Do the Jocks still believe that the EU is democratic as many English do?
If the Scots vote for independence in a Referendum can we just overturn it as they’re trying to do with ours? Or, maybe it would be better to let them be EU vassals, go for a hard border, and “build that wall” (Hadrian’s that is.)
Yes Ken P. I rather fancy rebuilding Hadrian’s wall.
“Extinction Rebellion is paying activists up to £400 a week to lead the protests that have brought chaos to the streets of Britain, documents seen by The Mail on Sunday reveal.
Protesters have received payments totalling more than £70,000 in four months alone.”
Viscount Christopher Monckton Speech -: Debunking the Climate Change Myths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi7ZFlCKoj0
Here he is introducing new science which has the potential to put an end to this scam once and for all.
And here is Piers Corbyn: ‘Superfloods, hellish heat normal, sellout science is not’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRRXZ1B5foE
This man provides long-range forecasts for a living. I found his closing comment at the very end of the clip very interesting.
Meanwhile our social security pays out child benefit to Rumanians, living in Rumania. Is there any sanity left in the world or would the end be a good thing.
No deal:
“against the will of Parliament” – A frequently spoken mantra but never a mention of “against the will of the people” or against the democratic vote. The longer this goes on the greater my belief that it will only be solved to our satisfaction by a violent uprising. Of course no one wants that but it might be a case of rise up or lose our democracy for ever.
Extinction Rebellion:
Another interesting story would be to identify those who are funding these people in addition to the obvious culprit Soros. Maybe we need an insider.
This is a must watch video:
“UKIP Q&A: Has Theresa May already signed away the independence of our Military?”
https://youtu.be/ycg4iy4qmRo
It seems to me that a succession of governments and politicians have give away what was not theirs to give.
Indeed flyer. Arguably this handover of our military and related assets is a more important issue than Brexit itself. I can visualise the situation after yet another delay on 31 October whereby our remaining in the EU is enforced by martial law. Ridiculous one might think but it is necessary to realise that the EU command will not cease in its efforts to create a unified Europe where democracy simply does not exist.
When are people going to waken up?
I’ve been predicting this turning into a full on coup for some time. The way our police behave with their enforcement of hate speech, it just about is martial law, then there’s Eurogendfor, maybe still EU troops on our soil and so on. Let’s face it our government is castrated and may never recover. Our country is ripe for a coup I’d say and the EU have form, they’ve been undermining governments all over Europe.
I’m getting the feeling I’m banging my head against a wall ranting about this.
Have a look at this video interview with Nigel Evans MP. We have a massive trade deficit with the EU and a very large trade surplus with the US. Donald Trump has offered Britain a trade deal that would increase this surplus by around three times: how can anyone justify a so called deal that keeps us tied to the EU and prevents us having trade deals elsewhere?
We voted to leave the EU, nothing was said about a deal. We’re constantly subjected to mainstream media lies and propaganda, they think if they shout loud enough for long enough, black will become white and we’ll take there lies as the truth.
In the US, they think that if they yell impeachment for long enough, people will believe them, despite there being absolutely no grounds for impeachment.
Here they believe that if they yell for a deal for long enough, people will be convinced that we can’t live without one despite it being the absolute worst thing that could happen for our people.
That the government has been getting away with this dishonest propaganda for so long is an absolute disgrace, it is criminal behavior.
This video was made a day or two ago and things have moved on but listen to Nigel Evans.
“Boris’ Brexit Plan is Finally Working | Interview with Nigel Evans MP”
https://youtu.be/O6SdBdXSXK8
Here’s a good example, look at how Ann Widdecombe was treated by the media after her speech at the EU Parliament.
“What Ann Widdecombe Said In EU Parliament And How Media Treated Her”
https://youtu.be/N233TWMs09E