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Stories of the week 3rd January 2019

Japan has warned there is no future with no deal. A Cabinet minister states that May’s plan C is going nowhere as Germany and Ireland dismiss the idea of replacing the backstop with technology. Barclays moves £160bn to Ireland.

There are record rises in stock piling in the UK and, believe it or not, May’s secretly negotiating a customs union. Our old friend, Nigel, returned to Politics this week or, at least, a certain kind of politics. And, oh yes, as almost a perfect metaphor for No Deal Britain, the post Brexit landscape will be full of rotting rubbish. Just some of the headlines and stories this week.

There were chilling reports this week that plans for martial law were being drawn up in the event of No Deal.

In more alarming Brexit news, whatever Brexit we get will leave the UK unstable for decades to come with the break-up of the Union highly likely.

What all sides are beginning to agree on is the fact that Article 50 will need to be extended.

Back at Westminster, May has been accused of ‘pork barrel’ politics by trying to bribe Labour MPs to back her deal in return for money for their constituencies. Brexiteers are beginning to play the blame game say the Press. They demand impossible requests then blame Brussels for being inflexible.

1 in 20 or 2.6m Britain’s are holocaust deniers according to a very disturbing new report. People are also becoming meaner and angrier.

This week was full of surprises in the news but Donald Trump being at the centre of major world news stories wasn’t one of them.

Firstly, Trump’s involvement in the Venezuelan crisis deepened as UK Government Ministers urged the EU to follow suit with sanctions.

Just to lighten the mood a little, Donald Trump also said this week that being President was costing him a fortune. We don’t think he meant in bribes.

It was announced this week that pharmaceuticals are going to be given millions of pounds to develop new anti-biotics to combat drug-resistance. At the same time, ‘superbug’ genes have been found in one of the last Artic wildernesses.

Stories of the Week 27 January

In more shocking proof of the incredible global inequality we find ourselves in, figures released this week show that 26 people – think about that number for a moment – that number of people wouldn’t even half fill a single decker bus but they have the same wealth as 3.8 billion people. That’s right, 3.8 billion people. That’s a lot of buses. The Press wonder how long this inequality can and will continue.

If Brexit was a motorway, the carriageways in both directions would be littered with pile ups but still no delays.

Theresa May’s deal is seemingly even further away from parliamentary approval and there are reports of her withdrawing the Human Rights Act. Germany would like the UK to think again.

Airbus, Ford and Sony are among a host of companies either pushing the exit button or threatening to leave with a NO-Deal Brexit. Some Leavers are actually leaving too with Brexit hero Dyson becoming Brexit zero after jumping ship to Singapore.

Theresa May attempted to fix the tricky back stop issue by trying to rewrite the Good Friday Agreement. In other worrying reports there are 700 MI5 Officers in Belfast and Ireland has pointed out the potential for uniformed guards on a hard border.

Now at long last after the pile ups come the consequences. All sides of the Press and all sides of Brexit are coming to an uneasy agreement that Article 50 will need to be extended. Now there’s a surprise.

It all became too much. So much so that the Queen intervened although Rees-Mogg said NO 10 asked her to get involved.

An old friend of Brexit, Nigel Farage, returned this week with talk of a new party.

Borders seemed to be the centre of attention outside Ireland too. Trump’s US Government shutdown came to a temporary end for three weeks even though there is still no movement on financing his border wall.

President Trump also decided to exercise his powers across borders by backing the opposition in Venezuela creating civil unrest and a political upheaval along the way.

This week saw new moves to combat the rising and deadly problem of drug resistant superbugs that could bring medicine back into the dark ages and savagely reduce human life expectancy. In what is seen as a two-pronged approach, Doctors have been set targets to reduce antibiotic use and pharmaceutical companies are to be given large financial sums of money to produce the next generation of antibiotic drugs.