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the austerity affects mainly the poorest 20% - a lot of brexiters have higher income than them. Also, the effect of 17 years wage stagnation (as you said, as reported, eg past stagnation) is going to be mitigated by the 3% inflation. Don't count on it to change people's vote.

I am for a moderate anti dumping on Chinese e-bikes. It will pay for the eventual additional cost of assembling e-bikes in the UK.

I watched the BBC Daily Politics today at lunch time. They took their yellow balls to Eltham, the only place in London that voted for brexit. The vast majority 'go bananas' at the news that our government has agreed to stump up £50 very large ones. Most people who voted for brexit still could...

actually, yes. The current level is 3 times more sustainable compared to before. The weakness of the Pound also helps. People who come here are more likely to to stay long term.

that day may never come. brexit is unlikely to be a disaster, not economically anyway. Immigration is down 100,000 since the vote, brexit has delivered its first result.

the last one, which counts. remainers didn't and still don't fight hard enough.

they do what the do best, spin. they may have lost the argument but still won the vote.

This picture explains what's going on inside the divorce bill. The red portion at the bottom explains the difference of opinion between the UK and the EU.

the vote was a straightforward choice. The majority chose to get out. We just have to wait a little bit for the poll to show if the divorce bill causes any shift.

we are more likely to go Swiss or Norwegian than returning to the EU club after the transition period. in any case, it's not wasted money. That bill would have eventually grown with the length of time we stay in the club. As far as I can make out, TM only wants to negotiate the transition so she...

you can find the counter argument in this submission of the Collective of European Importers: http://bike-eu.com.s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/11/Submission-Collective-European-Importers.pdf

there can't be a full and final settlement, because a lot of agreed projects were put on hold and liabilities on staff pension that would last may be for 70-80 years. All this agreement does is to prove that: a) the real cost of membership is substantially higher than the net contribution b)...

you have already given us the clue: that's exactly that. All the hard brexiters can come up with is more threats to throw up public tantrums.

No, but the threat of cancelling the rebate that MT negotiated was enough to bring the UK side to concede on the principle of joint unlimited liabilities. We'll pay the bills as they come in. Meanwhile, TM gets to keep the likely tally secret and us in the dark about where we are going.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is sounding out colleagues and donors about a possible leadership bid, the Sunday Times reports. Hunt has publicly switched sides on Brexit after campaigning to remain last year and is lining himself up as an alternative to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson should...

she (TM) is despised by brexiters and remainers in equal measure. When she goes, nobody will feel sorry for her.

what if TM is dethroned tomorrow? who do you think will replace her?

very neat! lovely job! well done!

I have the DNP screw-on freewheel 8-speed 13T-32T, it solves most of these problems: low lost, high torque, simple tooling. I also have rear 36V BPM code 13 on 700C rim and 20A controller, not the HL version because it can't take 9 FETs, but the LS947 that mounts onto the seat tube like this...

it's not so bad, is it?