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5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Trick or treat? The Ha... · 9 replies · +1 points

But no deal means that we still have to meet our financial commitments and sign up to the backstop if we ever want a trade agreement with the EU. Or maybe you think that we shouldn't trade with one of the world's largest trading blocs?

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Antoinette Sandbach: D... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well said! I have to say it's so refreshing to read some sense in the comments on Conservative Home for a change.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Antoinette Sandbach: D... · 2 replies · +1 points

I fear that by 'punishing the party' you will end up punishing yourself if Mr Corbyn takes power.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Antoinette Sandbach: D... · 0 replies · +1 points

But I thought the intention was to go for a trade deal with the EU after we leave with no deal? In which case, as the article correctly points out, we would still have to sign up to the backstop. So why not make the deal now on the more advantageous terms on offer?

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Antoinette Sandbach: D... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well said! I just wish some acknowledgement of the facts would cut across the shouty rhetoric of the 'no deal' fanatics.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Our survey. Eight out... · 1 reply · +1 points

You say 39% say she should go now, when the table shows 34.9%. 35% if rounded up, so a lower figure than last time?

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Hard lessons for May f... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hear hear!

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Hard lessons for May f... · 0 replies · +1 points

Couldn't agree more. Members don't want the disruption of a leadership contest right in the middle of second stage EU negotiations. Time is short, we can't afford to waste it with that.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Our survey. Big rise i... · 3 replies · +1 points

Hear hear! As Justine Greening said recently, negotiating a satisfactory exit from the EU is an almost impossible task. As to an exit that everybody would call satisfactory? Impossible task.

Theresa May has weaknesses, like any other leader, but her strength may lie in her quiet but dogged perseverance and power to endure the slings and arrows being fired at her from all sides, especially from Europe. Changing the leader at this moment would be self-indulgent and damaging for both the Party and the country. Maybe everyone should just calm down and let her get on with it.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Stevenson: Why st... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is a really daft proposal for all the reasons given by other commentators, and sounds like some completely impracticable think tank idea. Having moved twice in the last five years, I can testify how grim and expensive a process it is. Charges which are graded by house price cost, e.g. stamp duty and estate agents' fees, are ridiculously out of step with current house price inflation.

Rather than keep piling on the agony for beleaguered house buyers and sellers, why not energetically promote faster and cheaper house building techniques. In the late 1940s and early 1950s large numbers of people were housed quickly in prefabs. Obviously I'm not advocating these particular dwellings, but using the example to illustrate that you can create imaginative solutions to old problems if the will and energy are there.

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