union and only slavery's demise can ensure the union's survival. here is my word of caution, my soapbox. although race and slavery were : 19lutely intertwined century americans understood that slavery and race were two different things. slavery was an institution. uniontitude of white veterans toward slavery, african-americans and race were exceedingly complex and varied. white veterans admitted black veterans into the post. in some cases, white women worked alongside the wives, widows and daughters of united states colored troops. and from boston's famed memorial at 54th massachusetts to what i is the largest civil war monument in the country, if we leave aside the lincoln memorial, the grand monument in the center of indianapolis. this too plays homage to the role of slavery in the war. albeit in paternalistic ways. union veterans knew that the war had been about slavery. they had not forgotten that african americans slavery had been part of the war. this does not mean that most white union veterans or white northerners in general soft civil and

he's the union man. the union health to catalog the union in pennsylvania winning that district.he way. all i get pensions and i live here in florida. you want to talk about right to work dates? come to florida. lots of jobs for $12.50 per hour. as far as mr. trump, he never supported unions ever. am i still on the line? host: we are still listening. caller: he never supported unions. he bought everything from china. and as far as these sanctions go, he is kicking and screaming all the way to do these. the congress is putting these sanctions out, not him. he doesn't but these on. congress is forcing the unions. int: let's go to jeff merrimack, new hampshire. jeff, good morning. caller: good morning. host: you are on the air. i'm alone three construction worker out of boston, massachusetts. i will be voting republican again. when barack obama was up her reelection i paid attention and he was talking about a cadillac tax on the health insurance. a 40% tax on health insurance. to me that so most of $5,000 tax year. there was no way i was going to vote for that and i never will , lea

we fought for union in liberty. they fought for union and slavery. nothing can gloss over the difference. the rebellion had not a redeeming feature. it was wholly bad. not uncertain what the war was about not reconciliation in nature. now while union veterans certainly celebrated reunion, reunion meaning the reunification of the country, that is precisely what they fought for. of course they celebrated it. reconciliation, was of a different. many of them openly rejected sentiments that caused trauma call for them to forgive their former enemies or forget that there was a right side and a wrong side. confederates committed treason they maintain. and for many unitrin veterans this is much more important than the role of slavery. at least in the 1880s and 90s. we should not forget they committed treason they said. now all they conceded defeat, many confederates to be as fierce at announcing their former enemies as unionists were. at the dedication of the richmond area soldiers and sailors monument in 1894, confederate private turn reverend robert ck had

union and confederate. union veterans, though, seethed at the lost cause with its distorted and reimagined renderings of the confederacy. here i want to point out that most of the time that veterans are getting together, whether we're talking about confederate veterans or union veterans, they're doing so with their brethren. they're doing so with other union veterans or other confederate veterans. they're not often in these mixed group settings. i'll come back to this in a few moments. but in the 1880s, there's hundreds of monuments going up. at gettysburg, each of the states would often have a day in which they would dedicate numerous regimental monuments and this is a picture, as you can tell, from michigan day in 1889. and speaking to a crowd of union veterans on that day, former u.s. congressman and union officer edward mcpherson warned that, "it must never be forgotten that the force which was the deciding one between combatants so nearly equally matched was the strength of our cause and the moral weak

can be clearly david and goliath battles small unions against large multinationals do you think the success in kenya has emboldened other unions to stand up for their rights or yes i think it has i mean so far there are about eighty agreements in place across africa i mean that is a little more than than than the famous drop in the ocean but nevertheless i think for many unions that is quite a starting point as you said it often is a david versus goliath battle and unions often felt powerless they felt they simply were not strong enough to negotiate with multinational companies like these and i think these these agreements have have shown them and they're actually able to do something so you're fed eighty agreements a starting points in this case which were referring to you were talking about east africa is that bolder approach or means the same across the continent you know unfortunately it is not it really depends what country you're looking at the problem is in or through tarion countries in africa unions do not have enough breathing space to start challenging chinese companies a

wheatfield, 53 union regiments fought. 22 -- 20 of their kernels will go down. 13,000 union soldiers will die and just under 8000 confederates. almost one half of long streets attack. if you think about it, the fight that takes place in the wheatfield saps the strength of one brigade. it is amazing what they do and how far they move until he is wounded and will die on the battlefield. what the confederates lack, think about the wheatfield. one half of your soldiers are tied down in one spot with nobody to extract them and get them any direction. they say go up to the road, try to do something else. these guys would on their engaged with an enemy in front of them. they got tunnel vision and that will benefit the union forces. they are able to keep moving troops from one end to the other and hold the line. to close, i want to read one quote. i really use notes and i am using my phone, i am not looking something up, which people have accused me of. i want to read one of my favorite quotes. this is how i soldier described the battle in the wheatfield. i think it gives you the chaos and t

i love union square. i used to love in union square -- used to live in union square. i am here to support san francisco hometown creamery's bid to deploy their beautiful vintage van here. i just think that -- i mean, my real feelings, and i will say them -- save them for the very end, my initial feelings as there needs to be finality that this permit was already granted. it is not fair for young and struggling businesses to not be able to rely on governmental decisions. i think finality is very important. i don't think dredging up pedestrian traffic counts from 2,009 qualifies to exempt, as a special new circumstance. it is a 2009 study and it was not even mid block. so it seems like this is just, you know, sadly a game and i would like to say to the developers, i've seen this game before, the landlord's. i think, having a quality ice cream product in a vintage van near your facility will increase business. are you crazy? that is what people come here four. in san francisco, they want something organic and native to this place. you go to macy's and everything is made

in the long—term, the prosperity of the european union and jobs in the european union depend on the integrityre not going unpick it. but i return to the raw data put out by the imf. of course, it's a little bit speculative, but one must respect the strength of their economics. they say that if there is a cliff edge, a hard crash—out brexit, that will cost the eu as a whole probably around i.5%, if not more, of gdp. some countries will be much worse, like ireland who could lose 4% of gdp. it will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, possibly over a million, across the eu as a whole. some countries in particular, and this is where we get to you, some countries in particular, like the netherlands, are extraordinary vulnerable because of the strength of your trading relationship with the uk. yes. but we also have trading relations with the eu internal market. i think if you make the same calculation for the disintegration of the internal market you would get figures that are even worse. i think to now one—sidedly try and make the eu responsible for the fallout of brexit is a bit the world on its h

i don't want to join a union. i don't want to be forced to join a union. i don't want to join a union. i like having my wages go to myself or my wife and kid. i don't want to have to pay dues to the union, have a portion of the check go to the union for dues and have multiple bosses. i just like being nonunion. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners. jim lazarus, san francisco chamber of commerce. we have supported in the past project labor agreements. we've endorsed them when they've come before the board of supervisors for approval when they meet the test of the boston harbor case from the u.s. supreme court which said major projects that are time sensitive that meet the federal requirement can have a union bid. boston harbor gig, airport terminals, clearly the type of programs multimillion dollar or billion-dollar programs that project labor agreements were designed to serve, and to serve the public interest. what we have here is an obvious conflict between serving the interests of small business and local hire and

union members, private-sector unions are not being pulled this. in the last election you read 42 percent of union families voted for president trump despite unanimous big labor support for hillary clinton. that includes government union members. if you took the government out, it's more like 65 percent of union families supported president trump. union workers, private-sector union workers are not fooled by what's happening. these are the strongholds in our society and it's what they've used to insinuate themselves into our lives and to really educate a generation of americans through the internet entertainment industry and the education system into the virtues of socialism, trying to attack the evils of capitalism. the characterization of capitalism is simply wrong and if you're out there defending this, there's a very easy explanation for this. a very easy argument you can make. this isn't gordon gecko, greed is good. you remember that wall street movie? they tried to rely on an interview that milton friedman did with phil donahue years ago wher

we represent a union and nonunion. as it is right now, we have a difficult time for the union contractors to win contracts in san francisco. having this type of p.l.a. will be difficult for the smaller nonunion members to partition -- participate and grow their business in the city of san francisco. there are a few things we would like to exempt the l.b.e. participation from ple ordinance. the threshold should be under 20 million. we will local hire an p.l.a. that is equity focused and we want higher court employees. >> my name is aaron. i work for a paving company. i am also the merchant association president. my family has been in san francisco since 1984. and we are very happy to be part of the l.b.e. program. we are a prounion contractor and we think this p.l.a. is written and it definitely means -- needs a lot more in its. i would like to talk at length with anyone about that. i hope to talk to you soon but i am opposed to the p.l.a. as it is currently written. >> thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name

workers union amcu says it won't accept the job cuts and is considering mass action a concern for many is that the job cuts could further escalate simmering labor and social unrest for me al jazeera rustenburg northwest province. all right let's bring in our panel who are joining us from johannesburg level hong picco is a senior research fellow at trade collective a nonprofit organization promoting social justice well i call pocket he is the deputy general secretary of the south african federation of trade unions and ralph might there is a researcher and lecturer at the university of the western cape welcome to you all routh let me start with you why are these job cuts and cutbacks necessary what is the rationale behind them. well i think first of all there is pressure when it comes to the price of commodities mining companies are feeling a great deal of pressure they're off so they cannot carry on as they see with their maintaining their jobs within dot said tom but i also think there is another factor as well because one could say that they should be willingness on the side of mining

union members in private sector unions are not being fooled by this. in the last election you probably read 42% of union families voted for president trump despite unanimous big labor support for hillary clinton. that includes government union members. if you took the government out and just look at private sector unions it's more like 65% of union families supported president trump. union workers private sector union workers are not being fooled by what is happening with big labor. these are the strongholds that the progressives have in our society. and it's what they've used to insinuate themselves into our lives and to really educate a generation of americans through the entertainment industry and through the education system into the very tours of social jim, trying to attack the evils of capitalism. the characterization of cap calism is based on greeds is simply wrong. and if you're out there defending this, there's a very easy explanation for this, very easy argument to make that will disspell that. the isn't gordon geck dough, greeds is go. the

-- soviet union. i don't believe that they consider themselves dominated by the soviet union. each of those countries is independent. the united states does not concede that those countries are under the domination of the soviet union.>> the last point was what he was trying to make. they picked up on the president did not acknowledge that the soviet union existed. for conservatives in his party it was confirming the idea the president ford was out of touch with the reality oversee. carter went on to win the election and a narrow victory but a victory nonetheless and we have unified democratic government starting in 1977 pick conservatives continue. campaign that was primarily about trust in government. he argued that he was willing to experiment not simply with the orthodox domestic policy but foreign policy as well. farm policy was not his main concern. carter supported many policies. he placed more emphasis on the human rights then did fort or nixon. he did not believe they were incompatible. carte

and unions in africa stand up to chinese construction companies accused of exploiting their workers. and business german industrial giants scaling back its operations in iran to avoid the impact of u.s. sanctions it's the latest in a string of european companies withdrawing from the country. and have already said they're pulling out and airlines british airways and air force will no longer be fine to tehran in a tweet us ambassador to germany richard no welcome the news of just saying it was proof that sanctions are working. is that the case let's get the view from frankfurt our financial correspondent is standing by daniel cope daniel the sanctions working i mean obviously this is hurting european companies in the business they were generating in iran so it's also hurting the iranian people but is it meant to be about a nuclear deal. well then one thing is very clear this strong rhetoric that we heard for example from the u.s. president and also from the u.s. ambassador here to germany has made many companies extremely ward we have to remember the interview where the u.s. ambassador

that again will lay the guarantee for that is that we have strong trade union and unions and a decent labor party i mean i think beijing was an apt absolutely massive phone call in the long term a lot of rains are been be opened i think the environmental damage that the pitching coach have done probably at the be assessed so i think that we're looking forwards with think we need a democratically controlled railway system is properly invested and that's cheap i mean when people are paying five times less on a continent people in this country are getting really ripped off for a terrible service and of course some of the biggest places other than the london commuting ones i mean did you think when you came in to trade union politics you'd be standing shoulder to shoulder with some of these bull hearted commuters coming into the city of london lived in london for thirty years. and the seven says have never been fantastic but the level of overcrowding now is something else and that again that boils down to lack of investment because they technology is there not that you could grow more tra

and how do we reconstruct the union. and that is why this period is known as reconstruction. it is not that well-known in american history as the civil war. so so far we've been talking about the civil war, right? before the midterms, we covered the civil war and everyone knows about the civil war, it has kind of a p of -- a triumphant end if you are not a confederate and the union wins and slavery is destroyed. reconstruction on the other hand does not have a happy ending. it is a great experiment in interracial democracy and it is over thrown and maybe we like happy endings and that is the reason we don't know much about reconstruction but it is a crucial period in american history. extremely crucial because many of our modern ideas about citizenship, what constitutions democracy, about equality, all comes from reconstruction. in a way it is like the second founding of the american republican. you have three constitutional amendments, you don't have that since the bill of rights. right? that is just when the constituti

, i don't think government unions -- i don't think government employees should be unionized. i think it's inappropriate and by the way, franklin roosevelt agreed with that. [inaudible] >> yes. i think we need to get rid of those unions and if people aren't doing the job, they need to be held accountable like in the private sector. it used to be that we would attract people in public sector to take lower salaries because they would have job security and great benefits when they retired. guess what, they are now making more than the private sector on average and the justification has disappeared. i'm the supporter of private-sector unions, i think they are good. i'm not a supporter of government unions, i think with state and federal level they should be abolished. for the recent supreme court ruling -- >> that will help. >> direct impact on that? >> that will help. that will actually help a lot and there's also hhs came out with a ruling just last week that said, it's a proposed rule that just came out that says that state unions can't take medicare phones or medicaid funds fr

that's a union officer. there's a bunch of southern white there is with plaquers saying, kkk, looking at those pictures can you talk about what may have been some of the issues with reconstruction? >> probably was like need for federal troops to rights in the south because they fear that cop confederates would retake or take back and almost force slavery back on in freeman. >> kphrept, excellent, that's exactly what i think the pick hrur el -- excellent, excellent, that's exactly what i think the picture shows. that is the real danger. and the fact that the rights of black people are so connected with the presence of the federal government, of these troops in the south tells you something about the issues of reconstruction. black citizenship. what would freedom mean for black people. they're no longer slaves, are they going to be given citizens? are they going to be receiving a grant. quite clearly we're getting a new sense of the nation's state. of the federal government. its powers. old ideas about princip

when on december 27, the soviet union invaded afghanistan. crossing the border, and moving for the first time into a country that was not part of the warsaw pact. the invasion confirmed everything that conservatives had been saying about the soviets. and undermined the very premises of ditente. the neoconservative, ben walsenburg, wrote supporters of his coalition for a democratic majority, people keep saying all those lies people have been telling us our true. carter acknowledged -- would go nowhere once the soviets had invaded. and it was something that truly took him by surprise. even though the president [ inaudible ] about the soviets and ramped up defense spending in response to the invasion, conservatives were not pleased. the public -- republicans blamed carter by saying it was his foreign-policy that had emboldened the soviets into taking action. conservatives said the soviet invasion of afghanistan [ inaudible ] the decades of the broken policy of ditente. in january 1980, bill roch, the director of the republican national committee

their toll we see this i see this is a continuation of outside forces really pushing the european union pushing individual member states to rethink their priorities we have a situation where the last piece falls into place of speeches that were made along the lines of the european union really having to focus its energies on defense policies on critical policies that underpin the european value system not least the points that you've already mentioned around the paris climate accord and the validity of international institutions like the w.t. oh so you mention president my call he gave a speech number of months ago that was immediately where he stressed the importance of european defense independence and that was immediately followed and buffeted by the german chancellor so in some respects this speech by michael moss follows a specific tradition almost now rethinking rethinking what europeans can do and what we need to see now is rapid and focused action in some of these areas and there i share my colleague's skepticism that we can do this quickly enough to tackle the plethora of chang

representation of when you're the largest of the real workers' union by some distance but it will be an argument for having a single union operating for real we workers so's we didn't have disputes among. as well as disputes between units of management and we're absolutely we're an industrial union we're not for about a privilege for the higher pay grades or about a privilege for people who were awake already work we organized right across the railway industry and would encourage everybody to join in i am today. but without that for you know can i thank you for begin now it's time to show and i don't know if there's going to be a single really want because union steve but i know we're going to present you with the exam and quickly you know the drill and you don't have to wait your next visit to scott real. quick and then toast to your fellow workers ok thank you very much it's lovely great pleasure steve thank you for coming up after the break i speak to a story in michael fry a man who was made up of tecla study of the course lying to scotland which is via a back and forward between

no and i think you've seen cohesive action at least you know for the european union large steps they agreed last year on particularly in the defense dimension on what they call permanent structured cooperation the european union is working with nato to define in which areas the european union could have strategic autonomy mr maass added to his op ed if you will yesterday in his speech to the collected diplomats of germany that he is vested it also creating a civilian for so to enhance civil military cooperation so there are different areas in which the european union has the legal way both legally and politically to do more it needs to figure out very clearly its relationship with nato and it cannot sit out what the trumpet ministration plans to do in fact we have known since the beginning of the tram campaign that one of the goals of mr trump himself and some few people within his administration to pick european european union apart strategically because then that would allow him to negotiate with in ideally that's what he believes none of that is true and under european law but to

he thought the union should be upheld, but his vision of the union never included blacks. he was from the south. so he was for the union and thery no other democrats like that. who were for the union, but didn't want anything to do with black rights. so you know johnson, has racism is what really impels him. and you will see this in his actions. and this is the failure of johnsonian reconstruction. he is not a continuation of linken. people said he's presidential, congressional reconstruction. there was a conflict of interest involved between the president of the united states and congress, who will control reconstruction. but lincoln worked with congress, he worked with his party. the republican party. johnson was really a man without a party. he does these things, he revokes these land grants that have been made by the freedman's bureau. all the abandoned lands that free people had settled on, sherman's 40 acres in low country, georgia. all those lands, he takes it and gives it back to the parkers. southern whites complain, they don't want black union army troops around.

he thought the union should be upheld, but his vision of the union never included black rights. he was never an anti-slavery guy. he was from the south. so there were northern democrats like that who were for the union, didn't want anything to do with black rights. so johnson, his racism is what really impels him. and you will see this in his actions. and this is the failure of johnsonian reconstruction. he is not a continuation of lincoln. people have said, oh, presidential versus congressional reconstruction. yes, there was a conflict between the president of the united states and the congress, who will control reconstruction. but lincoln worked with the congress, right? he worked with his party, the republican party. johnson was really a man without a party. and he does these things like wholesale parties, he will revoke these land grants that have been made by the friedman's bureau, and remember field order number 15, all the abandoned lands that they had had free people settle on, in lowcountry, georgia, all of those lands, he takes that and gives it back to the planters. s

and unions in africa stand up to chinese construction companies accused of exploiting their work has. been physical and let's do business it seems like they're both fighting. control of the u.s. federal reserve drug power is in charge but don't trump hasn't kept quiet as most presidents would about his distain for interest rates but powell isn't taking it lying down at an annual gathering of central bank is in jackson hole wyoming the fed chief signaled that he expects to continue raising interest rates if the american economy remains robust powell also said the fed needs to balance maximizing employment with keeping prices stable let's bring in our financial correspondent in frankfurt he is very interesting watching these two having these indirect a very public squabble about how to run an economy especially when trump was the one who had and power wasn't me. yeah exactly i mean when he decided to nominate powell and let janet yellen the previous has to go donald trump could not praise his candidate enough and now this what he has said is really like an open criticism of his own cand

union members and private-sector unions are not fooled by this. in the last election you probably read 42% of union families voted for president trump despite big labor support for clinton. that includes government union led-- leaders. if you just look at present to unions it's more like 65% of union families supported president trump. union-- private sector union workers are not fooled b by what's happening with big labor. these are the strongholds that the progressives have in our society. it's what they've used it to insinuate them selves and our lives and it to really educate a generation of americans through the entertainment industry and through the education systemys into the virtues of socialism try to attackin the evils of capitalism. now, the characterization of capitalism as based on greed is simply wrong. if you are out there defending this, there is a very easy explanation for this, very easy argument you can make that will dispel that. this is not gordon gecko, greed is good. you remember the movie "wall street" p when they try to re

and then there is the union have political influence given the size of union membership. private sectorha union membership is even worse they would in the near 10% for the more government the more we spend the bigger government is the better they do. so government leaders or labor leaders continue to support democrats overr republican even though candidates like donald trump was very much in line with what unions try to promote nonetheless gave a hundred million dollars to hillary clinton so why would that be? i don't want people to think i am antiunion. they did a lot of good back in the 20th century. wanted kids working in coal mines? but the problem they ceded their authority in the good that they could to they gave to the government. looking at the roosevelt administration looking at the roosevelt administration the wage and hour division and i could go through 30 more that are in place to protect american workers unions and their responsibility for protecting american workers to the federal government sent out to accomplish something they go through the government re

we are the european union. we have the internal market.lationship but we will not re—negotiate the eu because, yes, brexit will be damaging, even if there is no cliff edge, no crashing out of the eu. if there is a crashing out, it will be even more damaging. but unpicking the internal market will be the worst scenario and we will not do that. if you say bluff... i have noticed that in recent weeks, in the british media, and you are actually making the same point here, they are trying to kind of intimidate the eu into, oh, if you do not accept our terms and it will be terrible for you. i think we should be... maybe it is time for little bit of honesty in politics and maybe people should have been told before the brexit referendum what reality was going to be like. the vote has taken place, that is clear. that is the situation we have to deal with. and it will hurt. but we are not going to undo the internal market. far be it from me to intimidate anybody, i am looking at the the reality of what is happening. not in terms of economics, but al

we're here to protect the workers, union and non-union workers. we're going to do that. >> thank you. >> honorable supervisors, alex lanesburg. i want to be quick. there's a bunch of information and misinformation. it's on there. i'm sorry this isn't bigger. my computer died. there were numbers being thrown around about apprentices and diversity. i want to share facts. the blue line is ibw local 6. the orange line is sbc. another bad contractor. >> they cannot match the apprenticeship numbers of lb6. number one. when we take a look at graduation rates, again, we don't see these guys coming anywhere close to what we do. when we take a look at total enrollment over the past 16 years, over northern california, over the entire northern california -- >> it's okay if he can just finish this last slide. >> this is the last slide. local apprentices, blue line, light blue line, women. gold, abc. again, 40 times the number of apprentices done in these union programs. the abc is another bad contractor. >> thank you, mr. lanesburg. [applause] >> good morning,

the block the report paints a paltry picture of the state of fundamental rights within the european union it's a mixed picture it's a picture of what's working and what's not working we have to stay very vigilant in europe just like everywhere else in the world to protect the incredible institutions we develop but the second world war as every work in the word our foundation the idea of the european union human rights democracy and it's not getting better it's changing we have some improvement it's a very diplomatic world changing to a good changing to the bad change to the good in some places but right i am very concerned about the situation of human rights in europe today we have a lot to do across so many issues so many groups migrants. older people at the disabled there's a huge program of work to be done but much of the challenges with the achievements but you have said that quote twenty seventeen was not a great year in terms of respect of protection and the promotion of human and fundamental right not a great year that's an understatement now i agree it was a it was a very very cha

i mean you talk to trade union such as i'm cool as well they have taken a very. clear position in relation to government they're not interested in having an intimate relationship with god i'm done not interested in going into government and i believe this is house of to also understand itself so there is a very serious realignment within the labor sector and i think but something that is even more interesting as well is that even trade unions that are related to cause side to that is close to government it's really trying to build a relationship with clay do new ones for the nation such as south to that are not aligned with that realizing that that classical alliance but they have had with government it's not improving the condition of where causes or trying to learn since all africa i really i think taking and they're fired for that that are lying to civil society organization which i think it is very much interest in them beginning to try to redefine that labor space but they're confronted with the reality that there that declining membership that is the realit

unions charge you one percent of that income. i think it's a good investment in this do you just get josie and marcus do you want to spend one percent of your income on a union or go back to since we're already in the. great that's what i'd like to hear. or joining unions or other organizations or something xclusive to human beings machines by contrast have no need or use for a group to look after their interests so what will become of us when the world in the future. human factory staff will be replaced by robots that will work efficiently and communicate via an intricate network. products will be packed on to self driving delivery trucks computers will be able to detect heavy traffic allowing drones to take over transportation when needed. home robots will recognize their colleagues from the delivery sector elect the goods discard the packaging and carry on with their domestic duties. back to the factory here only three d. printers will be spitting out devices and appliances like a washing machine tailored to a customer's wish

i deeply regret that the uk isn't leaving the european union andi uk isn't leaving the european uniont i have to a cce pt had a different outcome but i have to accept that leave means leave. if you leave the european union, that is your choice and we also accept the red lines the british government has drawn. note to the single market and customs union given that we now have a certain framework where we can operate, and we want to get this orderly brexit deal done, in the end it means both sides will have to show a compromise at one thing is clear, a country that leaves the european union and the single market cannot be in a better position than a country which is a member. this is nothing to do with being nasty, nothing to do with being nasty, nothing to do with being nasty, nothing to do, as i often hear in london, that people in brussels are interested in punishing the uk. no, it is in our interest to get the deal done but we should concentrate on the work we should do. 80% of the british withdrawal agreement have probably been concluded but it leaves 20%. .. also, also on the tabl

now, if you leave the european union, if you decide to leave the european union, that is your choice,the british government has drawn: no to the single market, no to a customs union but, given that we now have a certain framework where we can operate — and we want to get this orderly brexit deal done — and in the end this means that both sides will have to show a compromise, but one thing is clear, a country that leaves the european union and the single market can't be in a better position than a country which is a member. this is nothing to do with being nasty, this has nothing to do with — as i often hear in london — there people in brussels interested in punishing the uk — no, it is our interest to get the deal done just as much as the uk side and that's why we should concentrate on the work we still have to do. 80% of the british withdrawal agreement have now been probably concluded but it leaves 20%, we'r still not there yet and that's why the next two and half months will be crucial. also on the table from the british government is a deal struck, drawn up at chequers, called the