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Us lot sorted it out, we voted Leave.......
The conservatives rebels will not support Corbyn in a 2nd referendum news on Sky..........
So that will be defeated.......maybe ......it will solve nothing anyway parliament should find a way to come up with a leaving deal - then it's dependent on the EU accepting any deal ........
May is playing for time .......
May is unable to come up with another deal Joey ... she’s treading water and is winging her job... absolute disgrace of a woman
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Sony to move European HQ from UK to Amsterdam over no-deal Brexit fears
Firm follows in the footsteps of Panasonic
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3069630/sony-brexit-hq
JAPANESE TECH FIRM Sony plans to shift its UK headquarters to the Netherlands as it fears the potential consequences of a no-deal Brexit.
The move will see the firm register its £3.3bn European business in Amsterdam, moving it from its current location of Weybridge in Surrey. According to documents seen by the Telegraph, the move could be completed as soon as 29 March 2019.
Sony said the merger was to "continue business as usual without disruption" and would not result in job losses.
The relocation sees Sony following in the footsteps of fellow Japanese outfit Panasonic, which also last year announced plans to move its European HQ to Amsterdam.
The firm said at the time that it planned to relocate in order to "pursue improved efficiency and cost competitiveness while having easy access to the different markets within Europe".
Panasonic European CEO Laurent Abadie said the company was concerned about possible upcoming changes to tariffs and taxes as a result of Brexit, and the consequent competitiveness of its sole UK factory in Cardiff, South Wales.
"The big risk for Japanese companies are factories based in the UK that are importing and exporting parts," Abadie told the Telegraph.
"We have a factory in Cardiff which is producing appliance products, which imports a lot of parts. That could be an issue, so we are studying it... At the moment there is no decision."
It is believed that one of the tax issues Panasonic is concerned about is the fear that, post-Brexit, the Japanese government could declare the UK a tax haven and whack the company with a hefty tax bill.
The company's UK HQ employs around 30 staff and around 20 of them will be expected to up sticks for the Netherlands or work remotely. Given that the company's HQ is currently in Bracknell, that's probably not so bad for the staff concerned.
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lollollol
Tory Britain... when you can't compete because your tax rates are too low!!!!
Firm follows in the footsteps of Panasonic
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3069630/sony-brexit-hq
JAPANESE TECH FIRM Sony plans to shift its UK headquarters to the Netherlands as it fears the potential consequences of a no-deal Brexit.
The move will see the firm register its £3.3bn European business in Amsterdam, moving it from its current location of Weybridge in Surrey. According to documents seen by the Telegraph, the move could be completed as soon as 29 March 2019.
Sony said the merger was to "continue business as usual without disruption" and would not result in job losses.
The relocation sees Sony following in the footsteps of fellow Japanese outfit Panasonic, which also last year announced plans to move its European HQ to Amsterdam.
The firm said at the time that it planned to relocate in order to "pursue improved efficiency and cost competitiveness while having easy access to the different markets within Europe".
Panasonic European CEO Laurent Abadie said the company was concerned about possible upcoming changes to tariffs and taxes as a result of Brexit, and the consequent competitiveness of its sole UK factory in Cardiff, South Wales.
"The big risk for Japanese companies are factories based in the UK that are importing and exporting parts," Abadie told the Telegraph.
"We have a factory in Cardiff which is producing appliance products, which imports a lot of parts. That could be an issue, so we are studying it... At the moment there is no decision."
It is believed that one of the tax issues Panasonic is concerned about is the fear that, post-Brexit, the Japanese government could declare the UK a tax haven and whack the company with a hefty tax bill.
The company's UK HQ employs around 30 staff and around 20 of them will be expected to up sticks for the Netherlands or work remotely. Given that the company's HQ is currently in Bracknell, that's probably not so bad for the staff concerned.
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lollollol
Tory Britain... when you can't compete because your tax rates are too low!!!!
Barrel needs changing Pete.
The binman chronicles
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Fake news, project fear...and even if it's true we will survive, we didn't have the EU before 70 something and we did fine then (*even though our economy was tanking and industry has radically changed)...blah blah
Which would be great, except that isn't what the bill does at all. Far from Brexit destroying democracy, I'm inclined to think without stringent regulation to stamp down on such blatant lying, democracy in Britain will be destroyed from within.
......and don’t forget we won the World Cup before we entered the EU.....we ain’t won it since.
Coincidence?
I think not.
I live in Bolton, and the place is pure Brexit.
It's either cavemen hooligan types, or eastern european types.
Think most towns are the same tbh.
It's either cavemen hooligan types, or eastern european types.
Think most towns are the same tbh.
Strangely not reassuring, as the Brexit bus rolls on towards the no deal precipice:
Downloaded by me just now from https://www.parliament.uk/business/...ritten-statement/Commons/2019-01-17/HCWS1254/ :
Downloaded by me just now from https://www.parliament.uk/business/...ritten-statement/Commons/2019-01-17/HCWS1254/ :
Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler...
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Don’t be fooled, Jeremy Corbyn’s “move towards a second referendum” doesn’t make one any more likely
https://www.newstatesman.com/corbyn-brexit-second-referendum-peoples-vote-labour
For Labour, it’s clever politics. But for the People’s Vote campaign, it’s mostly bad news.
Pop open the champagne at the People's Vote campaign? Jeremy Corbyn has tabled an amendment calling for a series of indicative votes on ways to resolve the Brexit stand-off, including the option of holding a public vote on parliament’s final deal with the European Union.
For Labour, it's clever politics: it makes it harder for critics of the leadership to argue that Corbyn is the major impediment to another referendum but it means that they don't have to actually take the hit for supporting a referendum re-run either.
But for the People's Vote campaign it is mostly bad news. Why? Because its biggest problem has never been Corbyn: but the substantial minority of Labour MPs who say they would vote against another referendum. By my count, Melanie Onn, a junior shadow minister, has become the 23rd Labour MP to explicitly state that they would vote against a second referendum. Remember that to overcome the government's majority you need seven more Conservatives to vote against the government than Labour rebels voting for it, which brings the minimum requirement to 30.
And the reality of course, which is conceded by everyone at Westminster, is that there are many more Labour MPs than those publicly declared who are against a second referendum. The great hope for the People's Vote campaign is that no other option can secure agreement either and that, in desperation, at the eleventh hour, a second referendum might become the only way out. But for that to happen they need to be the last alternative standing.
But the campaign’s reckoning might yet come too early. A cross-party amendment by official backers of the People's Vote campaign is set to be tabled as well, with the consequence that by the end of next week a second vote will have been repudiated twice: once when Labour's amendment is voted down and once when a cross-party amendment goes up in smoke too.
https://www.newstatesman.com/corbyn-brexit-second-referendum-peoples-vote-labour
For Labour, it’s clever politics. But for the People’s Vote campaign, it’s mostly bad news.
Pop open the champagne at the People's Vote campaign? Jeremy Corbyn has tabled an amendment calling for a series of indicative votes on ways to resolve the Brexit stand-off, including the option of holding a public vote on parliament’s final deal with the European Union.
For Labour, it's clever politics: it makes it harder for critics of the leadership to argue that Corbyn is the major impediment to another referendum but it means that they don't have to actually take the hit for supporting a referendum re-run either.
But for the People's Vote campaign it is mostly bad news. Why? Because its biggest problem has never been Corbyn: but the substantial minority of Labour MPs who say they would vote against another referendum. By my count, Melanie Onn, a junior shadow minister, has become the 23rd Labour MP to explicitly state that they would vote against a second referendum. Remember that to overcome the government's majority you need seven more Conservatives to vote against the government than Labour rebels voting for it, which brings the minimum requirement to 30.
And the reality of course, which is conceded by everyone at Westminster, is that there are many more Labour MPs than those publicly declared who are against a second referendum. The great hope for the People's Vote campaign is that no other option can secure agreement either and that, in desperation, at the eleventh hour, a second referendum might become the only way out. But for that to happen they need to be the last alternative standing.
But the campaign’s reckoning might yet come too early. A cross-party amendment by official backers of the People's Vote campaign is set to be tabled as well, with the consequence that by the end of next week a second vote will have been repudiated twice: once when Labour's amendment is voted down and once when a cross-party amendment goes up in smoke too.
OnlyBlueWillDo
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It's disgusting what is going on here, MP's trying to pass laws to stop a no deal brexit, vast majority of them all remainers trying to keep us in the EU.
There was 2 years to sort a deal, if the deal isn't good enough and it can't get support, then no deal it is, someone once said no deal is better than a bad deal didn't they?, can't remember who it was?
There was 2 years to sort a deal, if the deal isn't good enough and it can't get support, then no deal it is, someone once said no deal is better than a bad deal didn't they?, can't remember who it was?
An idiot. Don't believe idiots.
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