Consider it a bit like a divorce, then a future agreement on how to divide parenting duties

It does. Thank you. Sounds fair on its face. Here's to hoping they reach a favorable outcome for the people.

It’s amusing that they take a weakness of the EU, the fact that it takes years to negotiate trade deals, and assume that it’s the norm

Provided such a deal doesn't impose restrictions on immigration policy, and provided the European Courts aren't deciding anything other than specifically trade issues, msot brexiters would be happy

Y'all certainly seem to be enjoying more civil politics over there than here. It's a fucking nightmare in the U.S.

It was very uncivil here until the election

It was pretty close to violence

The election helped a lot

The -politicians- in opposition seems to have quietened down now they have got BTFO'd

It was the left-wing politicians inciting revolt and violence before the election

We got a Parliament that works now.
And with its big majority the conservatives can actually enact change

I don't think your lot in America is going to get any better until the Republicans retake both houses

We're experiencing very much of the same. I hope the 2020 election will bring us a similar calm.

But your republicans don't seem terribly effective or competent right now

While Democrats are pissing around with pointless withhunts, Republicans -ought- to be putting together a set of policy plans to really fix some of the issues fucking people over, and including in California and urban areas, that they can hit the ground running with

I don't see Trump as terribly important to it - he's transient, either way he's gone in 2024

Taking them is one thing. Doing something with it is another matter entirely. They didn't do so much from 2016-2018 but there's been a slight changing of the guard so who knows. I'm not thrilled about this Defense spending bill he's signing today.

They really fucked up, 2016-2018

-really-

i understand why, they were scared of Trump because they got their arses handed to them

but it was a massive wasted opportunity

(as an outside observer)

the democrat propaganda goes almost unchallenged in the UK

a future republican president wants to make himself popular with the uk press if he can

and with the people

> retarded black people

Is there any other kind?

that's unkind, unpronouncable

Yep. Didn't mean to derail the UK pol room with US stuff. But from a colonist to the mother empire, my hat's tipped to you. Well done

Whether it works here remains to be seen

I don't feel like there's a cult of support like with Trump

It feels more like there's collective relief at dodging a comminst bullet

i.e. we're giving him the benefit of the doubt

but he's basically being called, to give a poker analogy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTul7Lk7Aik

Possibly because Trump at least had a profile that was -seen- to be successful from a layman's point of view, in business and on tv

Boris, by contrast, was an OK but eccentric mayor, and a tv/media personality

It's not concrete

Trump's appeal is that he makes the autistic left screech in pain and fear and it's provided massive amounts of entertainment. Politically however, I don't think much is getting done. We're still spending at unsustainable rates and the debt continues to skyrocket. Sure we're better economically today than when Obama left but I don't see what's being done to rein in the government to help maintain that prosperity. If anything it's bigger than ever which is what he ran against.

If you're going to run that level of deficit, you want to be able to show somethign for it. A transient amount of improvement in the economy is all very well, but he'd better off imho doing something for long term improvement

Same here - infrastructure

"Making the fucking trains run on time" is a good start