Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "EU ultimatum to UK over Brexit plan in breach of international law - BBC News" video.

  1. The UK left 7 months ago. And the current benefits and rules ends in 4 months automatically. Congrats you have won. The question now is, how badly should the recession (actually contraction) be next year, bad or very bad.
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  2. Go to bed, take your pills.
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  3.  @alanraptor2569  Maybe it is an idiom but wording is important. And this is agressive language. LK also used "The EU would be mad". EU diplomats are never "mad" especially not the EU ones. LK is a drama queen she likes to inflate things. It just diminishes her work and credibility. She does more damage to the BBC and the standing and reputation of the BBC in the world than they realize.
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  4. Funny. Johnson actually wants to renage the divorce. Do you realize what this means? The UK is still married. Notice: I really don't like this comparison with a "divorce" it's a completly wrong interpretation of realities.
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  5. I suggest you look at the British Economy first. -20% this year, twice what the other G7 have and far from over. Debt double in the last 10 years despite the promise to reduce them and to stop Austerity at some point which hasn't been done yet. And Corona is just heating up gain. Furlough ending next month. And the consequences of Brexit in 4 months.
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  6. Do you want to say the UK is too weak to make good trade deals on it's own? Do you really want to moan about your own decission to vote leaving the EU who protected and fought for you in the last 47 years and now making them a rival instead?
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  7.  @Grahamgusbull  Who is we? You mean the US? Sure. But not the UK. The UK almost lost the hole army and almost got invaded if it weren't for the americans. Besides this nonsense is 85 years old. There is almost noone alive from that period and things have changed a lot since then. The EU was made to prevent exactly that.
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  8.  @Grahamgusbull  The UK did leave the EU 7 months ago. And in less than 4 months the transition period ends and the EU safety net with their benefits and rules is gone too. Congrats you won. Noone can change that, well unless Johnson is betraying the Leavers. Now we talk about what comes after this actually still the very same thing Remainer are talking about for years. Nothing changed, besides the fact that Remainer have lost the battle last december and now can't prevent anything anymore. They are now on board while Leavers drive the bus - and the Leavers drive terrible so far 12 U-Turns. And the only thing Remainer want is that you are not crashing the bus. So excuse me if Remainer will continue to complain about the driver if they drive so badly, but Remainer don't want to end up dead on this bus.
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  9. On the most basic level: That the executive can decide over the rules of the law according to their own interpretation. It's a power-grab by the government and undermining the rule of law. For now only on UK Market related things, but you find those tendencies across the board. And it's another power-grab by weakening the Union because devolved governments have after this bill less rights than before it and transfering power from the devolved governments and even from Westminister to the executive (government). It's just very hard to see, because it's tainted with Brexit and with all intention to divert attention and make people want it.
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  10.  @chrisodonnell1269  There is a good explanation video on the Financial Times Channel. Search for "Can the government breach the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement?" for excellent legal details. And there is a Twitter Feed from the person who resigned from the Civil Service over this Bill. Search for "davidallengreen" on Twitter. I will not try to post links here because Youtube tends to delete those comments or hide them.
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  11. Look for "TLDR News" please for more explanations. It's a little to complex to explain it in one paragraph. Oh and there is an excellent video from the Financial Times about it with detailed legal references.
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  12. The EU will not come back anytime soon if this here and the last round at Sep-28 fails. The EU promised trade talks in the Withdrawal Agreement (the same Johnson is now torpedoing) and 9 rounds have been set until the end of this month. Brexit is a waste of time and money now in the 5th year. The EU will only come back for new talks if the UK specifially asks for it and until than trade based on WTO is happening and the border will come with the paperwork. The border would even be coming in case of Free Trade Deal, but noone is mentioning this right.
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  13. 3200 new cases every day. Is twice the amount of Germany and the levels of March again.
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  14. Keep them, they are way to Tory-friendly in the political department.
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  15. Wrong. May's deal had no Irish Protocol. The current nonsense would not be necesarry and the trade deal with the EU would be easy peasy.
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  16.  @specialkgb1980  Oh simple: If you are in the Single Market and Customs Union a trade deal is really easy to make. May's solution would have preserved the frictionless trade which is now taking place. And it would have prevented building border infrastructure and getting 50.000 customs officers (BTW those are more burocrats that Brussels have for all EU matters, happy paying I wonder how fast you use up the 8.9bn EU membership fee).
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  17. I see it's pointless talking to you. You are way to far gone. Enjoy next year. I hope you learn a thing or two.
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  18.  @specialkgb1980  I'm studying and analysing Brexit for over a year now the puzzle is set together from all kinds of sources, listening to different people, reading agreements, treaties, laws, learn about function, procedure and intentions, following the current events. And whenever I found a piece not fitting in I try to find out why if my puzzle has wrong pieces or the new puzzle piece is the problem. And the pieces which extremly rarly fit in are pieces from Brexiteers. 1/3 are outright lies, 1/3 are only half-truth and 1/3 are things I didn't know about, but also don't fit into the puzzle leading me to learn about it too. So they expanding the puzzle creating new connections which new and existing pieces have to match. Finding Danny Dorling recently actually helped me connecting three larger chunks of the puzzle I had problems finding any connecting pieces for.
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  19. Funny Ex-Remainer don't like the BBC very much and see it as government mouthpiece or to be fair the political department with Laura Kuennsberg in particular.
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  20. I hope it comes. Otherwise Brexiteers will never understand what grave mistake they made in trusting Johnson and vote-leave.
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  21. Funny you fall for this lie from Brexit-media. They yesterday spread this misinformation to look how much of it will stick and it worked on you at least. The Internal Market Bill wasn't even known in 2017. It's new this year, this month actually. I'm sorry you have been conned. But it proves how they manipulate the people into believing misinformtion and it shows how easy and far it spreads.
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  22.  CrouchyTV  The UK is already a tax haven, a tax avoidance paradise and a major money-laundring center. Why Do you think the 1% wanted to leave actually, they don't care about immigrants, but the EU was planning to give UK tax officials the right to look through their accounts for illicit money and tax-avoidance. All the fraud, all the hidden and untaxed money would have been discovered and we talk about trillions of pounds here. It could have solve the money issues currently but now they can keep doing that ... and the average UK citizens is paying for that and was even helping them by voting Brexit and Johnson.
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  23.  CrouchyTV  This has nothing to do with level of Corp-Tax, this has something to do with how easy it is to cheat the state and how easy it so to get away with it and how easy it is to transfer money between offshore-account and normal ones.
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  24. I spotted some exaggerations of Laura here and there as usual, but no misinformations. You really need to learn that sometimes the truth sucks but it is the truth no matter how you think about it.
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  25. Funny the world is asking now if the Johnson government are gangster or not. Remember they are the same people who unlawfully wanted to suspend parliament just a year ago.
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  26. Who Do you think will have more issues. For the EU the UK bussiness is 8% (372 bn £ per year), for the UK the EU bussiness is 43% (300 bn £ per year) the 372 bn of the EU are 51% of all imports of the UK. Next year the new border will become active regardless if there is a deal or not. This alone will increase the costs for hauliers, importers and exporters because there will be new export/import declaration necesarry, security declarations, potentially checks at the border all this will make the costs of transport and the needed time increase on it's own. And when there is No Deal available everything goes back to WTO trade meaning 772 bn worth of goods will go from 0% to something between 2% and 40% tariffs in both directions. You still think this will have no consequences? THIS is what Remainer are warning about for 5 years.
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  27.  @squizza28  Number games to making you feel better about a terrible outcome. Looking forward to No-Deal and Next year. Maybe you learn something.
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  28. The worst thing is, it's already to late the damage is done just by announcing it.
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  29. Only the fish because it's usually swimming around don't caring about borders.
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  30.  @sethandruby  Only fish because it's a moving resouce. What's this nonsense with Oil and Gas? There is no dispute about them because they are static and firmly in the UK besides maybe that Oil belongs to Scotland as most of the fish does.
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  31.  @tonyb9735  I even think it's designed to somehow make the EU break up the talks for the last round in 2 weeks. That way Johnson can blame No-Deal on the EU ... which he will do anyways somehow, but like that it looks better.
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  32. Rubbish it's Johnsons mouthpiece, but they don't want you to know that and they want you to continue to believe it's EU friendly. What better way to manipulate people when they are believed to support the opposit.
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  33. Wrong. The Irish Protocol is to allow Britain to make own trade deals without breaking the GFA in Northern-Ireland. Britains very home-brewed problem which has nothing to do with the EU. And Johnson even introduced it again after May found a solution without the need for an Irish Protocol.
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  34. International law also applies to international bodies ... like the EU. The EU is an international organization working only on international treaties. They don't make laws they make treaties, agreements and make directives all international without exception. It's so obvious like the nose in your face that here is not any problem.
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  35. It may look like that for you conned by the Brexit-media but this Bill is actually undermining the rule of law with much much wider implications ... and you don't even see it and want it. Tragically misguided. That the UK is losing international standing and trust is even harmless against that, but will have consequences now regardless if this Bill passes or not.
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  36. It is and always was even while in the EU, but even they are bound to the rules of law.
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  37. Laura Kuenssberg is a terrible drama queen and a disgrace for the world recognized BBC.
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  38. As it currently stands the UK is much more likly to break apart. Scotland now 56%, Wales jumped from 15% to 35% since Johnson, NI is Custom-Wise in the EU next year to preserve the peace and reunification with ROI is only a matter of time.
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  39. The trade of the EU with the UK is valueable, but not more valueable than the EU Single Market. Trade deficit, trade volume of 772 bn £ ... it all pales in comparison with the losses when the Single Market loses integrity.
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  40. "Boris" is screwing you over and you even cheer for him. I hope you wake up next year.
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  41. First of all it's not the 1st. It's the 22nd. All together cover 11% of the trade the UK does still under EU deals. Meaning next year 89% of the trade will drop from a deal to WTO-Level amongst that EU trade worth 772 bn every year. 2nd: I've read through the details of this deal. The deal is barely better than what the UK had while in the EU. It will impact UK GDP by +0.07%. Congrats a real game changer. But I read a little more in the details. And it turns out the deals is almost a 1:1 copy of the of the EU treaty but tuned down to only UK relevant points. So yes 99% of goods from UK to Japan will stay tariff free and that's good, but it's not better than now. And the agriculture part is even more strange. The UK can fill-up quotas the EU is not using. Meaning if the EU can export 20.000 ton of Olive-Oil to Japan every year but only exports 19.000 ton, the UK can if it wants to export the remainin 1.000 tons. Not exactly free isn't it. I was wondering why Johnson not made a larger press conference on it to brag about it. But than I read the details and if you compare before and after than there is not much to cheer on. Yes it is a little better for the UK than the EU conditions, but not the big burner Brexit promissed. And the deal is not final yet, not signed. I wonder if Japan will think about it once more with the Internal Markets Bill around. It would be major humiliation if Japan say now no because of the current ramblings. Well that's my explanation for why Johnson not made it a big announcement.
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