Lets see what deal he pushes through though.

After all, he no longer has to listen to the DUP so he can choose whether to violate the good friday accords or to put a customs check between NI and the rest of the UK.

President Trump will insist on a "no-deal" Brexit as a prerequisite for a UK/US trade deal. Even though the EU is far more important to the UK from a trade perspective, the "project" requires a complete split from Europe.

We know it is the bill he got through last time. So we know there will be the custom checks, Johnson simply lied when he said there wouldn't be.

But does Johnson care for that? He wanted to be PM with full power. He has that now, so he no longer has to keep his promises.

Now he has full power, he can put the "project" into full effect.

This will make an interesting test case. We have been conditioned to believe that if there isn't open slather on international trade then the result will be an apocalypse.

Boris now has the mandate to test this theory.

The Donald commenting on Boris’s election victory: [Source: BBC Breakfast, 14/12/19, 08:32.]

But how long will Trump be there?

I was rather sad to see 'hang-dog'-faced Nigel Dodds go. He was quite erudite speaking in the Commons, unlike the ravers and ranters (one thing I can't stand).

At least we know why Sinn Fein have been celebrating. One step closer.

He also said that trade with the US will be more profitable and bigger than any trade with the EU.

So when is the next "Okay 3rd mulligan, we're going to ask you yet again DO YOU WANT BREXIT and we mean it this time" vote/election/referendum going to happen and what's the plan when that one comes back "Yes" as well?

Brexit is one of the dumbest things that has happened in modern politics but the "Okay the original non-binding resolution was just a fluke that didn't count" thing has officially been killed by this point.

There won't be anything else.

Now that the likes of Johnson and Mogg are no longer stopping us leaving the EU we will be leaving on 31/1/2020.

Brexit is a formality now. But that doesn't mean it won't be a continuing story.

The bill Johnson pulled because MPs wanted more than 30 seconds to debate it will go through unamended. We enter the transition period at the end of January.

This is especially interesting (;)) in this house, as our Greek NHS booklets have to be renewed in February. There's a fair chance that some bureaucrat will decide that the UK 'has left the EU, so no renewal for them'.

We are leaving, so next is to see what sort of deal and other arrangements we will have with the EU.

My main issue is, planned holiday to Germany next year, what will we need to do re passports and a visa, or will we need to do anything? Also, what queue will we need to join when we get to the airport?

We leave the EU so "non EU citizens" unless you have dual nationality with an EU country.

We will have left. Midnight 31/1/20 and we are no longer in the EU. We have a transition deal that will help mitigate some things.

Not sure what your exact circumstances are but in the transition deal May and Johnson agreed the only terms that I think will cover you is that UK pensioners already living in the EU can continue to use the S1 and EHIC.

Does that help you?

On paper our S1 would be valid to the end of 2020, meaning we'd have the right to access the NHS here. On paper. And I've read analyses that suggest that the S1 system is already guaranteed to last longer. But then Theresa May assured Brit expats that they could always return to the UK for treatment if they lost EU healthcare, so the waters are very muddy indeed.

But if we renew in Feb for the Mar 2020 to Feb 2021 period then it might be thought that this can't be allowed as it goes beyond the transition period. Plus, Greek bureaucrats sometimes are as awkward as they can manage. If Greeks in the UK start to encounter problems there could easily be unofficial 'reprisals' towards Brits here.

Want to buy a house? Bargain price! :)

Meanwhile:

"EU negotiators will offer British people the chance to individually opt-in and remain EU citizens as a proposal in Brexit negotiations, the European Parliament’s chief negotiator has confirmed.

The plan, first revealed in its early stages by The Independent last month, was being considered as a long-term aim by the European Parliament – but has now been fast-tracked to the negotiating table by Guy Verhofstadt, who is in charge of thrashing out a post-Brexit deal."

I won't provide the link as it's to The Independent, which has to be the most vile newspaper website imaginable.

I am hoping that we can have some sort of arrangement whereby we have the same type of passport and we have remained in the likes of the customs union, we can still use those lanes.

I suspect not.

From the Metro, in March 2017 mind;

https://metro.co.uk/2017/03/29/eu-ne...firms-6540810/

"The European Parliament’s chief negotiator has confirmed that EU negotiators will offer British people the chance to individually opt-in and remain EU citizens. Speaking to The Independent Guy Verhofstadt said he had ‘fast-tracked’ the idea to the negotiating table – although it remains to be seen if it will be accepted as part of the final deal. Verhofstadt said that the ‘very important’ proposal had ‘captured the imagination and hopes’ of the British people. The idea of ‘associate citizenship’ of the EU was first mooted in November by Charles Goerens, a liberal MEP from Luxembourg. Although slightly vague on fine detail, His plan would guarantee rights, such as residency, to people who pay a fee."

Damn, yes, it's an old article. I was fooled by it being surrounded by links to current stuff. I blame the poxy Independent.

At least there's one good thing about Brexit: when the UK leaves it might revise the law regarding tobacco products and allow the sale of Swedish Snus. Current EU laws prohibit the sale of snus, with Sweden being the exception.

Likely 5 years. Boris needs a deal very soon.

It is still an excellent idea, joint UK and EU nationality for individuals, so that those people have freedom of movement etc around the EU to travel, work and live.

Still clinging to that one, even if it only counts for people born before the UK leaves the EU. Luckily, Analyst Junior Ver 2.0 is due on 25 January...

Something I hope comes of leaving the EU will be more trade with Australia. I've always found it odd how little produce we buy from them, despite the fact that much of it (for e.g. preserves/jams, tinned fruit) is some of the best you'll ever find, and for which their should be no logistical/economic problems with shipping, despite the distance. I believe they could quite easily compete with the (expensive) continental brands that dominate in the UK.

However the US Congress may disagree.

I'm not sure that, lovely as Australia is, a country 10,000 miles away with a population of 25-million is going to replace a market with a population of 450-million (excluding the UK) and sharing a land border with the UK.

I didn't say anything about "replacing" European suppliers - the fact is that, as far as I'm aware, literally the only Australian produce to be found in a UK supermarket is Vegemite (and wine, of course). I'm guessing that the Australians export surpluses to closer territories, and believe me, when they have a surpluses they can be enormous, and often of quite high-value crops likes pistachios and kalamata olives (both of which I've found to be among the best I've tried anywhere). They're a huge exporter of wine to the UK, why nothing else?

ETA >> Oh, and the apricot jam (my favourite) over there ...

Plenty of Australian wine in the supermarkets.

We already have sources of olives and pistachios. Supermarkets have multi year supply contracts. A short term surplus isn't going to make them switch.

Not just more pistachios and olives than we need but more than more than we need!?! Wow! Brexit looks rosy already! Oh, and apricot jam as well.

That certainly makes up for losing zero tariffs on businesses trading with the EU, freedom of travel and opportunities for work. Instead British people can pay even more for the apparently overpriced European goods and speed up climate change getting apricot jam shipped over from Australia!

Glad I don’t live in the UK anymore. I have no interest in apricot jam.

Following Brexit, the little-Englanders are going to get a heck of a shock when they go on their first "booze cruise" to France to find out that instead of an entire car full of wine and beer, they can only bring back 4 litres of wine, 16 litres of beer and a couple of bottles of spirits.

The asylum seekers camps in France and Belgium will likely be transferred to England as well. Now there's a lovely surprise for the Dover Brexiteers!

Congratulations!

As a wine seller that would be the one small ray of light for me, except that I'm expecting most of my customer's discretionary spending to be further restricted. That and I have this nagging feeling that Johnson will find some way of ensuring that you can bring back a RangeRover full of French wine, otherwise it will annoy his base.

No deal is the clear answer for what deal. Crashing out is on!

Well the Trump 2024 campaign is starting.

Although, as has been pointed out by others. No deal would be just the start of a years (decades ?) long process to agree a post-Brexit set of deals across a variety of subjects, including trade.

Donald or Ivanka ?