We are off an running.

[Workingman]

The Queen has given Royal Assent to A50, bless.

May will not enact it till after the EU 60th anniversary next week. To do it before would be petty and only create unnecessary bad feeling, but once she does deliver the letter we are on our way.

OK, it will be full throttle to the scene of the train crash, but at least it will be our train crash.

[cromwell]

We will see. The world has changed an awful lot since I was at school and a lot of it isn't for the better. Big business seem to be the people who are running things. How we will do after Brexit no one really knows. No one seems to know what will happen to the Eurozone either, btw.

[AliasAggers]

The world has changed an awful lot since I was at school and a lot of it isn't for the better.

I agree with you 100%, Cromwell.

[TheOstrich]

Should have slapped the letter in this week. First class stamp. Let's get this turkey over and done with.

[medsec222]

The world has definitely changed and definitely not for the better. Most of us are better off materially now, and most of us have all the home comforts. Things I never had when I was a child.

We had a toilet in the backyard and a tin bath hung on the wall. We used to get washed in front of a roaring fire. No central heating. I used to light the fire when I got in from school, and usually I started the tea before doing my homework. Was food cheaper then? I can remember at home there was no shortage of a joint of meat, usually Welsh lamb. And fresh fish was cheap and plentiful. We never had a car, and a television and a telephone at home came much later.

I feel nostalgic when I watch Call the Midwife. I think its because people helped each other more readily in those days. People had nothing but they shared what they had.

[Suff]

fresh fish was cheap and plentiful

It helps when the rest of the EU is not fishing your waters out...

Ossie, there is nothing to be lost by being Mr nice guy to start with and not trashing their hullabaloo about 60 years of domination... How we deal with it thereafter is the key thing. Two weeks won't make much difference now.

I'm glad to hear that the Brexit office is on the same page with me. Ok EU, we're ready to bang out with nothing... What would you prefer and what are you offering for full access to UK markets and financials?? No begging, no asking, simple attention to whatever the EU wants to put on the table for discussion. We can discuss it or reject it but we won't be proposing as our proposal is to bang out with nothing. Next Move the EU. We're open to listen to all offers, but they had better be offers we're interested in.