{"id":178409,"date":"2018-12-06T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/06\/dropping-the-a-word-on-brexit\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T01:17:00","slug":"dropping-the-a-word-on-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/06\/dropping-the-a-word-on-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropping the “A Word” on Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, has gone there, likening Theresa May’s Brexit deal to Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement during the late 1930s<\/a>.<\/div>\n

This is rather evocative language within the context of British Politics, and what it evokes is well deserved loathing of May and her Evil Minions\u2122<\/sup>:<\/p>\n

Mervyn King, the former governor of the Bank of England, has launched a stinging attack on Theresa May\u2019s Brexit deal<\/a>, likening it to the appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s. <\/p>\n

In a sweeping attack on No 10, the Treasury and his successor, Mark Carney<\/a>, the Brexit-supporting King said the political elite was allowing the UK to become a vassal state that would be forced to accept Brussels diktats. He described the deal negotiated by the government as \u201cincompetence of a high order\u201d. <\/p>\n

King\u2019s comments came as Carney told the Treasury select committee on Tuesday that the price of food could go up by 10% if the UK left the EU with no deal and with no plans to avoid chaos at the country\u2019s ports. <\/p>\n

He said Britain\u2019s ports were not ready for a shift to World Trade Organization rules for the country\u2019s exports and imports with the EU. <\/p>\n

King, however, slammed May\u2019s deal as \u201ca muddled commitment to perpetual subordination from which the UK cannot withdraw without the agreement of the EU\u201d. <\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt simply beggars belief that a government could be hellbent on a deal that hands over \u00a339bn while giving the EU both the right to impose laws on the UK indefinitely and a veto on ending this state of fiefdom.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

May’s Brexit deal is so bad that it could have been negotiated by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, has gone there, likening Theresa May’s Brexit deal to Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement during the late 1930s. This is rather evocative language within the context of British Politics, and what it evokes is well deserved loathing of May and her Evil Minions\u2122: Mervyn King, the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[627,630,588,394,578,417,406,403],"class_list":["post-178409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brexit","tag-european-union","tag-fail","tag-foreign-relations","tag-incompetence","tag-international-commerce","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}