Unthreaded
The "joint legally binding instrument" can be found here:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/785121/2019-03-11_Instrument.pdf
It's very short, so worth a read, and IMO adds/changes nothing of any significance. It's smoke and mirrors. Then there's the joint statement about the future UK/EU relationship, here:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/785120/2019-03-11_Statement.pdf
It's also very short, and again worth a read. IMO this is a bit better. Para 6 is probably the crucial one. It does demonstrate a degree of goodwill that has previously been lacking, but it doesn't change the Withdrawal Agreement, and it doesn't do what May claims, IMO. Furthermore, it only addresses the backstop. There is so much more than that wrong with the Withdrawal Agreement.
I believe the vote in Parliament should be delayed for at least 24 hours to allow time for the new documents to be read and fully digested. At the moment, the situation stinks. It smacks of a May/EU stitch-up, deliberately making apparent (not real) changes at the very last moment, giving Parliament no time to consider their effect in any detail, and then trying to force it through Parliament in a rush. Shabby - very shabby.
Mark Hodgson
https://order-order.com/2019/03/12/eyes-dup-now/
golf charlie
Did a lot of trekking once but sadly for personnel reasons cannot break away for very long.
I am in a HRP dreamtime mode.
It's a springtime thingy I guess.
The Dork of Cork
Dork, you're very lucid at the moment and positively interesting. Are you unwell? ;-)
TinyCO2
The trail report last year .
The PCT relatively easily traversable .
This guy follows in the best traditions of the British amateur observer now sadly corrupted by the forces of usury.
Precise ,methodical , balanced and clipped enough to convey information without excessive drama.
https://sanjacjon.com/2018/03/12/trail-update-12-march-2018/
The Dork of Cork
@tomo
Well up very high I should think the snowpack is so compacted that it will not melt fast even in warm weather.
Perhaps in the foothills seen in the video but not the High Sierra given the weight of the snow and ice .
This is the guys blog and video channel.
https://sanjacjon.com
The Dork of Cork
Dork
iirc floods have been as bad as earthquakes in the land of fruits and nuts - all that snow will have to melt.
tomo
Great interview of this British guy doing trail reports of the southern California mountains .
There is a massive snow pack in California .
These are just the foothills of the Sierras and not the real mountains .
I follow PCTers every year and cannot remember such heavy snow and ice resistance so close to the Mexican border.
m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=yMhFfPPxReM
The Dork of Cork
Mrs May in Strasbourg is a toe curling embarrassment - what on earth possessed her to clamber into a get up that wouldn't be out of place in a Skegness pantomime - was it run up especially for the occasion?
Obviously intended to make an impression.... has to be up there with Broon clambering out of his official car at The White House with his trousers tucked into his socks - I wonder if Junker's people made sure he had the same coloured shoes on tonight?
What an absolute shitshow.
- and then The President of The European Parliament makes comments about punishing the UK - as if having May as PM isn't punishment enough.
tomo
Politico's take on it all is here:
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-government-announces-legal-brexit-assurances/
I agree with this point made in the comments to the article:
"This ‘addition’ contains nothing. All we are being offered is a different flavour of fudge, the WA is dreadful and the backstop agreement unacceptable. Nothing has changed."