Thursday 7 December 2017

From a reluctant political brexit keyboard warrior Part 2


Well after my last Brexit comments things have moved on – or have they?  No one really seems sure!  Mrs May decided to have a works trip with three colleagues, with entourage of security and civil servants, to the beautiful city of Florence (must add to my bucket list of places to visit as it looks wonderful!).  She made a much-hyped speech about the UK leaving the EU to a small room full of reporters, but no representatives or officials from the EU were present, so why the British taxpayers had to fund this little excursion to Florence instead of her saying it in London I have no idea.  I am tempted to say let’s put an ad on the side of a bus to say we should have spent the money on the NHS instead.
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So, we are still leaving, but…  As Mrs May claims she doesn’t do U turns I won’t say that she has, but she should be dizzy by now from all the about turns!  What is a transitional deal?  Is it viable?  Are the EU negotiators even agreeing to one?  Mrs May says we are having one.  We leave, supposedly, in March 2019 but for two years will still pay our fees, still respect all EU laws and rules and still have all those things that the leavers don’t want, but because we will have left we will presumably have absolutely no say in anything that happens regarding the EU Parliamentary decisions as presumably we won’t have any MEPs for those two years.
I’m a complete layman as far as politics is concerned.  Like I have said previously, I have never been interested until the Referendum was called. So this is entirely my layman’s opinion after reading the speech, which I considered was haughty, condescending and managed to insult just about everyone.  The EU have made concession after concession over the years to the UK yet she says we were never ‘comfortable’ with being European.  It’s a bit like being invited to a party, telling the host and all other guests that you would arrive late, leave early and deliberately spend the evening standing on your own only just inside the doorway, and then accusing the host and other guests of not including you.
Remainers want to remain full members.  Leavers want to leave immediately but most don’t get why that isn’t possible.  There is clearly no middle ground so there will always be one group that isn’t happy.  But to annoy both sides, insult the entire EU Parliament and Commission plus offend all 27 other countries in one short speech was pretty impressive!
Mrs May wants an orderly, red-white-and-blue, have cake and eat it, a non-cliff-edge cliff-edge, hard-n-soft, straightforwardly-complicated style Brexit, plus a transitional deal that mirrors exactly our membership, and the closest possible relationship with the EU after the divorce, with a selected list of benefits of membership but no cost.  You don’t need a politics degree to realise that these demands are impossible to meet.  And that’s before we consider trade deals, the Irish border and Gibralter.
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And what of citizens’ rights?  3 million EU27 nationals in the UK are being treated despicably*.  Around 1.5 million UK nationals in the EU27 are being largely ignored by their own government.  Neither group is being ignored by the EU though who have made people a priority over trade.
Already court cases have shown that the current handling of the whole Brexit process has been illegal at times and there are several cases in progress at present challenging other aspects of the process.  Our MPs are neglecting their duty, alternative facts (LIES) are spouted widely and no one is happy.
As the song says – let’s call the whole thing off!
*Please take time to read “In Limbo” 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Limbo-Brexit-testimonies-EU-citizens-x/dp/1548026085<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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"Minor sea" or "Smaller Sea" Mar Menor


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The Mar Menor means ‘minor (or smaller) sea’.  It isn’t a sea at all, it’s a lagoon, located on the northern stretch of the Murcian coast, just below the border with Alicante.  The lagoon is separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a spit of land 22km long with several breaks where it opens onto the Med.  The spit is between 100m and 1200m wide, so in places the two ‘seas’ lap at beaches the both sides of the road!  The road runs most of the length starting at the southern end and a ferry links the northern point of the spit to Santiago de la Ribera on the mainland side.  Roughly triangular in shape it covers 170km2 with 5 small islands within the lagoon and a total of 70km of coastline.
Generally, the water within the lagoon is several degrees warmer than the Med, making it a popular place for swimming and water sports all year.  At the northern point by San Pedro del Pinatar are the famous mud baths and salt flats.  The salt flats and shallow lakes are noted for their importance to nature and protected by national park status. This area records some of the mildest winter temperatures in Spain.
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Sadly in 2016 the beaches of the Mar Menor lost their Blue Flags, but it hasn’t slowed the rising popularity of the area or the beaches, and the local authorities are working hard to ‘clean up’ the quality of the water and regain their European Blue Flags.
The most popular resorts are (from north to south) San Pedro de Pinatar and Lo Pagan, Santiago de la Ribera, Los Narejos and Los Alcazares, Los Urrutias, Estrella del Mar, Los Nietos, Mar de Cristal and Playa Honda.
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The world famous La Manga Club Golf Resort is Located to the south of the Mar Menor next to the Calblanque National Park.  More information on all to follow so watch this space…!
Calblanque National Park
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