The UK is a parliamentary democracy. Shutting down parliament and sending elected MPs home so he can bulldoze through a no deal brexit which he has no mandate for is the epitome of a smash and grab on democracy. It was ruled as such unanimously 11 -0 by the supreme court. Maybe you missed the link on the way in.

With the new EU tax avoidance laws coming into effect on January 1st, the brexiteers that started this mess are really starting to squirm. Once that law comes into effect and the public can see just how much money these people are hiding to avoid tax, there's no putting that genie back in the bottle, even post brexit.

@sancho_panzer: So UK farmers receiving zero subsidies is an "even playing field" when they have to compete with subsidised farmers else where. How does that make any sense? CAP favors larger farmers as a consequence not by design. The US has a similar problem with the majority of funding getting hoovered up by mega farms. All you can really do is keep trying to tweak and change it to make sure the little guys can get a fair share.

Scrapping agricultural subsidies outright leads to a massive increased price on store shelves, and food is not something you want your population struggling to buy.

So companies around the world will continue to take advantage of Chinese cheap labour and the close proximity to other needed manufacturing materials but US companies can't? Watch as competing products can undercut US ones by massive margins.

The guy really is an imbecile.

Breaking news: China just submitted a bid for Oregon and Canada bought Mexico.

@jeezers: The UK does secure its borders, what a load of nonsense. As an island you have to present a passport and even as an EU citizen you can be refused if you have a criminal record. If you are a non EU citizen you can and will be flat out refused entry if you don't have the right paperwork/visa. Any EU citizen can also be deported within 90 days if they don't have the means to support themselves or haven't secured work.

This concentration camp needs to be scrapped and something else sorted out. How many children have died already? People not even allowed a bar of soap or toothpaste. Disgusting and something you'd only expect to hear happening in North Korea.

Any deal signed by the US under the Trump administration isn't worth the paper it's written on. Not a good look for any country.

I had a great laugh reading this nonsense from someone that "follows politics".

Northern Ireland is a ticking time bomb for the UK and even the UK government has given up on the idea of it remaining as part of the UK. The latest proper poll done shows Remain in the UK at 45% and reunite with the rest of Ireland at 42.1% and undecided at 12.7%. And because of the population change in Northern Ireland, unionist parties have been losing numbers each and every election like clockwork., and in 2017 for the first time since the creation of Northern Ireland a unionist party no longer had the numbers to have direct control over Stormont. Also, in 2021 protestants will no longer have a majority, not that religion is even that big a deal in Ireland any more. Good video on the subject.

The UKs GDP is also misleading as its boosted by UK companies having to stockpile goods to avoid a massive increase in price and a disruption to supply.

In Scotland, almost every second person you meet on the street voted for independence in 2014 (45% voted out). And you don't think England forcing Scotland out of the EU against its will isn't going to increase that? The largest party in Scotland each and every election is an independence party, and not by a small margin either . That seems like a stable union to me lmao

Ya the UK is going to be booming in 5 years alright .....

Brexit is the catalyst that is going to destroy the UK, even if it some how gets reversed the damage has already been done.