# In the news thread
**URL:** https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17
**Category:** General
**Created:** [March 4, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17 "2019-03-04T15:57:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ihatethegeneralpublic](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ihatethegeneralpublic)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/352 "2019-07-23T18:25:06Z")
> [@Les\_Zeppelin](#):
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> That was then and this is now. At least they have a coherent stance on Brexit that I can get behind.
They want a second vote right? What’s the question? Not sure it can be that coherent.
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 7:03pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/353 "2019-07-23T19:03:59Z")
[.] Fuck this. Revoke now.
And that’s it.
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### Author:  [@Mark](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mark)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/354 "2019-07-23T19:08:19Z")
Living in Estonia right now watching the UK plane (actually, it’s not the first plane) crash in slow motion into the mountainside. What the actual fuck.
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/355 "2019-07-23T19:20:16Z")
> [@Mark](#):
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> What the actual fuck.
Immigration.
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### Author:  [@ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ciaran)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/356 "2019-07-23T20:42:28Z")
Looks like BJ won’t be making any more model buses with people inside for a while.
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### Author:  [@ihatethegeneralpublic](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ihatethegeneralpublic)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 10:26am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/357 "2019-07-24T10:26:57Z")
https://www.youtube.com/embed/rcv_c2wZlsE?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque
This can’t be real, the looks on their faces when he said ‘DUDE’.
😬😬😬
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### Author:  [@Mush](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mush)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/358 "2019-07-24T14:32:07Z")
> **[GMB viewers in shock as presenter handles 'phallic lump of clay'](https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/celebs-tv/gmb-viewers-threaten-ofcom-complaints-3128240)**
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> Presenters Richard Arnold and Kate Garraway are under fire after this morning's segment
Watch video.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/359 "2019-07-24T19:05:30Z")
‘I Make Sex Dolls To Help The Bereaved’ sounds like the title of an Anal Michael Fabricant song.
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### Author:  [@Mush](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mush)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 7:46am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/360 "2019-07-25T07:46:09Z")
Quite literally breaking news…
> **[Man trying to cross Channel on hoverboard falls into sea after 10 minutes](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/franky-zapata-hoverboard-channel-crossing-water-jet-powered-france-a9019911.html)**
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> Franky Zapata plunges into water during attempt to refuel mid-flight
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### Author:  [@sotonjon](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/sotonjon)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 8:08am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/361 "2019-07-25T08:08:52Z")
[https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-solar-outlook/global-solar-installations-to-reach-record-high-this-year-research-idUKKCN1UJ371](https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-solar-outlook/global-solar-installations-to-reach-record-high-this-year-research-idUKKCN1UJ371)
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 8:45am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/363 "2019-07-25T08:45:37Z")
Actual baddies.
Smells like Boris is planning a pre Halloween election by trying to skittle the Brexit party.
If he doesn’t he’s just fucked off the members of his own party he will need to get anything done.
We could be in for a very, very shit time.
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### Author:  [@ihatethegeneralpublic](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ihatethegeneralpublic)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/364 "2019-07-25T08:50:40Z")
> [@anon83623327](#):
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> Boris’s cabinet. Fucking hell. What a shower of Michael Fabricants
Horror after horror after horror.
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### Author:  [@ultimateLAD](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ultimateLAD)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 10:01am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/367 "2019-07-25T10:01:53Z")
I don’t think it’s the only possible conclusion.
He’s said he’s going for GATT24 and then to negotiating free-trade terms in a ‘Super Canada’ deal. I think he’s filled his cabinet with leave-loonies to force the EU’s hand towards agreeing to a temporary free-trade agreement which would satisfy the 5b/5c clauses.
Nobody wants no deal.
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 10:08am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/368 "2019-07-25T10:08:17Z")
GATT24.
GAH! KILL GATT24 WITH FIRE.
IT’S **NOT** HAPPENING!
In fact Liam Fox trying to put a bit of reality into Boris land and dispelling the GATT24 myth is probably what got him sacked yesterday.
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### Author:  [@ultimateLAD](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ultimateLAD)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/369 "2019-07-25T10:36:16Z")
It depends what you’re talking about. I don’t think Boris is anticipating ‘No deal’. As far as I am aware he’s still pressing on with getting his Super Canada deal approved in principle with GATT24 applying until settled.
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 10:44am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/370 "2019-07-25T10:44:25Z")
Unless the oodles of trade experts I’ve seen debunking the GATT24 thing over and over and over and over again for the last few years are wrong I don’t think it can apply. It’s only for goods and not services or something as well.
Boris also says he’s not paying the 39 billion which I think is step number 1 to getting the EU to agree with anything.
I dunno. It’s boring and over my head but too many people have said it’s absolute horseshit for me to doubt the experts here. I still trust the experts.
I think it’s generous to think Johnson has a plan.
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### Author:  [@ultimateLAD](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ultimateLAD)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 11:01am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/371 "2019-07-25T11:01:03Z")
Everyone I have seen debunk GATT24 is talking about in the event of no deal. If there’s no deal it doesn’t apply, that seems to be a fact.
But BJ keeps banging on about the possibility to do a deal and that no deal is a ‘million to one’ chance. He had that Super Canada plan last year that seemed on the face of it to be a good thing.
If he can get some kind of deal approved in principle with the EU, then we can use GATT24 terms while we negotiate the detail. For up to 10 years I believe.
The scariest thing is that BJ’s tactic of loading his cabinet with Michael Fabricants and voicing support for a no deal exit if it has to happen is reminiscent of Cameron being Mr Big Balls about Britain having a referendum on leaving the EU if they didn’t give us more of a say. It didn’t end well.
I hope it’s going to work for Boris, because the alternative is fairly bleak.
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 11:10am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/372 "2019-07-25T11:10:03Z")
> [@ultimateLAD](#):
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> If he can get some kind of deal approved in principle with the EU, then we can use GATT24 terms while we negotiate the detail. For up to 10 years I believe.
That’s the kool aid Rees-mogg wants you to swallow.
> **[Why claims about a ‘WTO Article 24’ interim agreement are a red herring](https://uktradeforum.net/2019/01/26/why-claims-about-a-wto-article-24-interim-agreement-are-a-red-herring/)**
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> Deep into January 2019, as the Brexit clock counted down to mere days, an obscure and unnecessary World Trade Organization (WTO) rule was dragged into the heated public debate about Brexit….
> **[The myth of a 10-year grace period, Brexit and trade talks with the EU](https://tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2018/12/27/myth-of-10-year-grace-period/)**
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> Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg was wrong about this but he’s never corrected his mistake, and the myth persists. What is the claim and why is it wrong?
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### Author:  [@ultimateLAD](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ultimateLAD)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/373 "2019-07-25T11:28:46Z")
Yeah those articles are also referring to the application of GATT24 to no deal.
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### Author:  [@voodoo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/voodoo)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/374 "2019-07-25T11:39:18Z")
The DUP are being very quite about it all, considering they are in a strange coalition to keep the Tories in power.
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