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from the somebody-didn't-think-this-all-the-way-through dept.
At least one UK businessman is attaching a condition to his continued support of the ruling Conservative Party:
A major Tory donor has threatened to stop funding the party if Theresa May plans to remove the UK from the "critical" single market after Brexit. Sir Andrew Cook, who has given more than £1.2m to the party, told BBC Radio 4 that ending single market access was "chronic and dangerous" to the economy. The engineering firm chairman said at least one of his factories was almost "entirely dependent" on access to it.
Sir Andrew backed the Remain campaign in the EU referendum. "There are barriers to entry without the single market, there are tariffs," said Sir Andrew, who chairs William Cook, his family's firm which makes components for the rail, energy and defence industries. "One of my factories has 200 people employed making engineering parts that go to France, Germany and Italy," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Also at Reuters. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has offered to take a Scottish independence referendum off the table in exchange for a "soft Brexit" involving access to the single market.
The BBC reports that while the EU's presence in London is likely to shrink, organizations like the European Banking Authority (EBA) might stick around if the UK remains in the single market.
Finally, have you applied for your Irish passport yet?
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Sunday January 08 2017, @09:51PM
I like this comment because there's so many directions it can go.
If you're sexist and judge people's worth by their genitalia and if you hate white men then you'd prefer women (probably?) so the response would be that Hillary was not a wimmins but some kind of hellspawn possessed by a demon, which is somehow even worse than "Fucking white males"
If you're not sexist and just want the best leader, well, the sexists got their way in those countries and those countries are all Fed up, so we did dodge a bullet. If we got ourselves a woman she'd come with 10M invaders killing and raping their way across the country and a semi-civil war. So pretty glad we got Trump.
You can go with the Stein angle where until she became a money grubbing hypocrite at recount time she was at least semi-respectable. I wouldn't vote for her now knowing what she really is, but before the recount I liked her.
Or you can go for comedy that if our inferior lapdogs who ask "how high?" when we tell them to jump, then electing a guy who wants to grab em by the pussy is extremely appropriate.
Like the day after the election I started seeing memes for Ivanka Trump to get elected in 2024. I'm sick of decades of Bush and Clinton so Ivanka would be OK.
So there's at least five directions to take from that one post, not bad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @10:23PM
Nice catch. I think I will try to keep my eyes open for this sort of open ended argument starter.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday January 08 2017, @11:17PM
Because straight women, queers, and dykes never engage in locker-room talk discussing sexual hyperbole and the features and sexual mannerisms of their partners.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @01:36AM
You only wish you could find a feisty cock grabber who doesn't want to twist your nuts off and make you eat them.
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Monday January 09 2017, @10:11AM
It's more like "people who have a small amount of respect for other human beings don't joke about their power and wealth allowing them to sexually assault their genitals without resistance or consequence".
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