Umm wtf…We are back to asking for frictionless trade without freedom of movement? Again?! “Ho ho I know they’ll go for it this time because German cars. Ho ho” Is this merry-go-round ever going to stop? Please make it stop.
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More cheese or a move toward chocolate?
The caller got it slightly wrong. I mean the clue is on the name…Han-COCK
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Nah, that would be an oven ready deal and if it’s no success you could of course renegotiate something completely different whenever the next PM is in office. No biggie.
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Calm down son we`ll send you some milk chocolate(it’s shit in comparison to Swiss) and a “Rolex” from the Market(it’s worse than our chocolate)
My Rolox was cheap as and only loses 5mins a week.
I recommend them very highly.
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My Bolox keeps regular 6 minute intervals.
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Thats your bladder soft arse.
Wait until you get really old.
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Got to admit I am partial to a Swiss Roll.
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Quite something that we went from Norway plus, to Canada style, to bugger that, and then Oven Ready, and ending up with UK special shrivelled in the microwave.
Kind if encouraging that we might look at somewhere else where they have an actual working relationship. Won’t sell though.
Looking forward to seeing Rishi’s reverse gear.
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Yeah, true. It’s more of a mad circle, they ended up where they started. A fantasy.
I do hope it came across that I was being sarcastic in my previous post. This idea that you can just keep renegotiating the entire working relationship with the EU every couple of years is fascinating to me.
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My son said when he was in New York he saw a street vendor selling watches… “roll up roll up” was the guys call… “get your Crolex watches here… 5 dollars”
My son said he laughed to himself and bought one just to show appreciation to the guy’s ingenuity :0)
The thing keeps good time as well…!
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Most certain did.
I think it was always the plan. To everyone bar the most ardent believer the UK needs a working relationship with the EU. So you start off hard and gradually work your way backwards. It’s massively disingenuous to both the UK public and the EU to be fair. I think they twigged though.
You think there was ever a plan?
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Yeah not me. The people negotiating had the same mindset as the general public on social media thinking we had all the power and the EU would cave in, completely disregarding not just the entire framework of the EU, but the risk to the EU of all existing deals with third countries if the UK came up with a favourable deal where they got everything they wanted (wouldn’t have happened regardless of third countries).
It kind of reminds me when my parents didn’t buy me the Lancaster bomber model plane kit I really wanted when I was a 9yo kid, so stopped talking to them as punishment, realised it wasn’t working so sweet talked them a few hours later before making a second approach, which also didn’t work.
At least I can say I’ve grown up since then.
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More of a reward for them
I do.
If you look at the Boris messaging it was oven ready, then Frost went for a deal ASAP in full knowledge they would renegade on it. Literally days after signing of the deal he negotiated, Frost was saying it was a shit deal.
Everything in the previous versions of this government was about get the headline, forget the detail, we can review afterwards.
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When we were working in Nicosia one time some of us went over the border to Northern Cyprus. Like the Turkish resorts I’ve been to they had their ‘cheap copies’ shops. Like @SBYM alluded to things lik Noke trainers and Timmy Holfoger perfume. 
As we were doing building work back at the job some of us bought cheap watches to wear on the job and save our own watches from being ruined. I got a Lacoste watch (which actually lasted me years and kept perfect time). The others bought various watches but Tony Collins bought a Ferrari branded watch. The next morning he was up and dressed before the rest of us were out of bed. He was first on parade, hurrying us along so as not to be late (even though we had loads of time). He downed tools at 11.00 AM ready for lunch. So someone told him to check his watch? It had gained an hour over the course of the morning. He adjusted it but it kept creeping ahead and he was ready to get going or go for meals way ahead of anyone else. It culminated in the bar that night when he suggested getting a double round in before last orders (it was 9.30PM).
When it was pointed out to him he said “I’m feckin sick of this piece of crap gaining time”. To which one of the lads replied “It’s a Ferrari. It’s supposed to be fast”.
Well it made us laugh anyway. 
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