couldn't be reformed both the european union and the soviet union are trapped inside an ideological minor set which makes them intellectually incapable of reforming and that mindset is of course post nationalism globalism and so on and michael is the greatest example of this he thought that with that force of his personality and his good looks and whatever he could change things but since he never wanted to change the most important things namely the european policy the euro and so on yet his country and the rest of the european union just like the soviet union will remain mired in decline for as long as it takes to break up ok mark let me go to you how do you react to went to john laughlin had to say yeah i don't see that mccrone was ever intended as a voice for reform i think he was more intended as a last desperate hope of the technocrats and brothels to buttress. the status quo to prevent a radical reform is such as that as the lumpen from gaining power with the collapse of the socialist party due to the unpopularity of a large. mccraw in the literal ross trial banks there was b

the war in afghanistan was start to bring the end to the soviet union it. made many people within the soviet union to question its moral foreign foundations didn't the war in libya play exactly the same role for the west because it did engineer it did produce the migration crisis that definitely energized. the opposition to the liberal world order and there it may have not have collapsed but it has been undermined i don't see it quite as a peril because the afghani war within seventy nine and that was much more traumatic for the soviet union than the middle east has been for the west but i do agree i do agree that the facets the and saw to the treatment of iraq and syria you can observe in something is turkey three million refugees definitely but it doesn't show the western system the western system and the european union is that finitely pressed by the migration but they have bigger problems like the brics for one thing they have nationalism and hungry so the test on the european union now is a very very sinister one dimension many differences that russia

the end of foreign policy however russia today is not the soviet union. arguments against the soviet union that was on. it was the absence of the liberty of fates. and the speech freedom those three rights have been restored. has disappeared from russia there are partly censorship it on that is that not believe me so it's unfair to say that putin has restored the soviet union there are so many publications i have been my bookshelves. fifteen volumes of the weekly reports from k.g.b. to stalin from twenty six to thirty four about everything that happened in the service society it's so much has been published in communist russia that only. idiots can believe that as a way back in the one once now you mention put his name in the e.u. had your introduction to that man long before many other people did because i read somewhere that you were served coffee by him when he was still deputy mayor or perhaps even an assistant to the mayor of st petersburg administration what was so memorable about that event that made you remember why would you. buy his boss the man

from the european union. setting out details of our future relationship, the political declaration does just that and makes it very clear is the set ofthis instructions that the future relationship will put into place what is in the political declaration. stands, therently majority of honorable and right honorable members in this place will not vote in favor of the prime minister's deal, despite her very best efforts. she needs plan b. what is the prime minister's plan b? is that norway plus of the single market, the customs union, which some of us have been arguing for for over two years? throughout the last 18 months of negotiations, people have said to me it was not going to be possible for me to be able to negotiate a deal with the european union. no sooner do i negotiate a deal then people are saying, what is the next thing you are going to do? we will havesness, a number of days of debate in this chamber prior to the meaningful vote on this deal. i believe it is important that when people look at this d

local union. it is building and construction trade. we updated the time period which the sty administrator needs to work with all parties, l.b.e.s and everyone affected would be over initially nine months extended up to one year. it is discretion. the goal is to have this negotiated in one year or less at a minimum mun. clarification contractors and subcontractors and lb participation on affected projects up to $5 million on page 7 section 3. we clarify the time period between which the all parties would have a pathway for entry into city wind and direct entry. we clarified that on page 7, section 7. we talked about the previously agreed upon language regarding journallal districts we incorporated that on page 8, section 8. we clarified the p.l.a. coverage not affected to the parent and subsidiaries unless performing covered work page 8 section 11. these were discussed earlier annual reporting and the request on four year period from the controller's office, request for presentation for all of the

see also i still saw that yes there is a deep feeling in european union that number one european union does not protect. the people from two phenomenons invasion by chinese manufactured goods that destroys. industries in your office and immigration that's for sure and but also i think that the maj auriti of european citizens and a stand that if you don't have a strong united europe no way that you can resist so. for america but if i mean. you're saying you need more of europe right more brussels i don't i think that we have to have a united europe ready to resist yes to that so there's a matter of probably surest to the chinese rich and readier to also not to upset the american pretension to impose us there. their loads like the way they all are good. company european to leave it is like a tap dance to washington's two they've been doing it for decades in this is what you get from a crown wants to privatized everything on the american model and look at those results here john in edinburgh jump in. we have to understand what the utopian union is it's early incarnation the european cool

the backstop is bad for the union. tell us what is so bad for the union?resa explains why the u.k. would not want to enter the backstop. >> we want to have a trade policy. one of the issues is whether or not we would be able to do that. >> mps wanted to see all the legal advice behind the withdrawal agreement. the government's chief law officer asked questions on that summary. advice would be fundamentally in the interest of the country. it is no use shouting. what i am trying to do is guard the public interest. it is time they grew up and got real! >> here, here! >> opposition mps were not satisfied. ministers were found in contempt of parliament. ministers weren meanin iron, but it did the government backed down. third defeat for ministers in the commons. this had more significance for brexit's future. mp'sss party group of allowed mps to make changes to what was put before them. theresa may's brexit was voted down. >> it is disrespectful of the role of this house we should end up with a situation in which we of a motion ofen consideration. 321.e ayes to

single market and custom union. the challenge this poses must be but withwith rhetoric, real and workable solutions. businesses operate across that border. people live their lives crossing and re-crossing it every day. i have been there and spoken to some of those people. they do not want their everyday lives to change as a result of the decision we have taken. they do not want a return to our hard border. and if this house cares about preserving our union, it must listen to those people because our union will only endure with their consent. we hope that the changes we have secured for the backstop would reassure members that we could never be without it indefinitely. i take a moment to remind of the changes. it is now u.k. why. it no longer splits our country into two custom territories. it also means the backstop is now an uncomfortable arrangement for the eu so they will not want it to come into use or persist for long if it does. both sides are now legally committed to using best endeavors to have our new relati

would have to be agreed with the european union. i have been clear, i have been clear that what i believe is the right course of action having triggered article 50, undertaken negotiations, ensure we leave european timetable on the time we set out. >> thank you very much, indeed, mr. speaker. prime minister in her statement talked about empowering this house but the trouble is she's asking this house to accept a deferral for several weeks, meaningful vote on agreement on the basis of further assurances can be agreed with the european union but there's nothing in what she has said today what's being reported in eu council, those further assurances are likely to be given and i say to somebody that is going to vote for her draft agreement on the basis that she has set out the businesses need certainty and the country needs reassurance. i honestly do not think businesses and employers and contingents that house will be on holiday for 2 weeks. >> thank you to right honorable friend. what i believe is right what the government is doing ha

ations to leave the european union. ations to leave the european union. brussels, i read should deal with the leaders of the other 27 eu member states. it will ensure our departure on the 29th of march next year. there is a political declaration unambitious future partnership on national interest. it is the right deal for britain because it is for the british people. it takes back control of our borders. it

the european union. troubles. do. more a former deputy prime minister and minister for foreign affairs and trade welcome to the show it's great to have you with us today lots to talk about so the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland has become a key issue that you know that convincingly has to choose between staying in the customs union with you or putting up a hard border isolating northern island are this really the only choice is is there a third option that could work. no i think. i think that summer summarizes a really the agreement. it was made twenty years ago between our london the united kingdom the good friday agreement which provided for the settlement of the conflict in northern ireland regulates all the relations between the main relations between our land and the united kingdom and arising from that both the irish government and the u.k. government and indeed all of the political parties in northern ireland and in the south of ireland all do not want to see a hard border we do not

this isa by relevant union mechanisms.ned the approach to the negotiations. we could have approached them by saying we are going to take the models that already exist and we are in all cases going to say that we have to be in those models in the same way that we are today. what we have said is that we look to ensure that we have the capabilities that we have where we need them, and that is what we are delivering. and that is exactly what we have got in this political declaration. i will give way on that point and then i will make further progress. the prime minister knows, she tried to get the exact same thing, she tried to get sis2 and she failed. she got other ones but i ask her to whether she got to sis2. the honourable lady isn't suggesting that the prime minister is not being honest. she is encouraging forthrightness?|j certainly am and i would not challenge the prime minister's integrity because i know she has worked hard but i'm asking for her to give accurate information to the house. did she tried to get sis ii ra

has become a key issue that you know that convincingly has to choose between staying in the customs union with the e.u. or putting up a hard border isolating northern island are this really the only choice is is there a third option that could work. no i think that i think that summer summarizes that really the agreement that was made twenty years ago between our london the united kingdom the good friday agreement which provided for the settlement of the conflict in northern ireland regulates all the relations between the main relations between our land and the united kingdom and arising from that both the irish government and the u.k. government and indeed all of the political parties in northern ireland and in the south of ireland all do not want to see hard border we do not want to see a return to the days when there were customs posts when there were soldiers police when there was a real physical border there right now there is perfectly free movement between both parts of the island people travelling between dublin and belfast for example. most times don't even know where the border

what are the implications that the european union offers much greater rights and standards for living? those rights are now jeopardized for people within northern ireland. what would you say would be the most worrying aspect of brexit for the future of civil rights and perhaps peace in northern ireland? amb. mulhall: look. i've been in this business now for 40 years. european union membership as part of a kind of ofgressive evolution ireland, north and south, because, first of all, it gave us the opportunity to develop our economic potential, which we had failed to do before we joined, for various reasons. secondly, it exposed us to influences from outside the british irish scene, which i think are helpful and positive. i think in northern ireland -- and i can remember, by the way, back in the 1990's, when i was irish rep at brussels. there was a degree of cooperation between the deadly political enemies that, in the northern ireland context, would not see eye to eye handily. but in strasbourg, there was a certain degree of cooperation across the orange-green line. i remember in those

half were union contractors and the other half were non-union contractors. when they say core workers can't work. that is not true. i can show you all of the union contractors had workers on the project that are workers. i wonder why the workers for the non-unions don't know this. are they being told lies to come up here and say something not true. next door to my house there was a project that was prevailing wage. i would speak with the workers. they had no clue what prevailing wage was. they were doing different trades. they cannot ask for stuff. if they do, they will get fired. on a p.l.a. job, the vehicle is there to take care of that. our workers would tell us and we could take action against the people being taken advantage of. i wonder why l.b.e. contractors are so against the p.l.a. i ask to you move this along. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am t un ica with local 38. i am a san francisco resident living in bayview. the p.l.a. is important to me to make it where i can afford to work and live in the city. i am a single parent with an 11-year-o

union and russia was. through with these. bags of french super fast so what they were trying to do is something really been if not just for us and then also for the reasonable course of that also for the european union as well sure i mean i wouldn't expect any other answer from a foreign minister than this but i just you know what's the big effort with well but it's just like for for us it is interesting to observe how different members of the european union. within this big family are men no ring or reacting to to this or that project especially they got to have lines where it has when it comes to russia because you know that historically gas pipe pipelines that go from russia to europe have met opposition and resistance but first as lately south from pipeline another gas project went down thanks to ia commission's opposition. look who we have some fundamental you know or foreign policy respect to fit the national low of utopia low a following. but we says that we're going to see that the only way to sett

moment nobody wants to see a return of that and of course if the united kingdom leaves the costumes union as part of its levy of the european union that would in effect mean that a border would return and that's something that we don't want to happen so the discussions that have been taking place over the past two years yet. so i talk we're simply to this british m.e.p. william that more and he actually told me that the irish border issue is a trap set up by the e.u. for incompetent u.k. negotiators to trick them into a better deal for the e.u. do you share that view. no i don't share that view at all the border issue is a very very real issue is he is the only left it would be the only land border between the united kingdom and the european union after a break such it's obviously special in that sense but it is also special in the sense that resolving the border issue was a key part of the good friday agreement which was negotiated twenty years ago between our land and the united kingdom it's an international agreement which provided for the relationships between northern ireland garland

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they were infiltrating the various unions. the cameramen's union, the grips union. they tried to also take over the screen actors guild. ronald reagan literally let all -- led all of those unions in defeating the communists. that got him interested in the subject. he read a great deal about it, both domestic communism, communist theory, and international communism. he had formed his own ideas by the time he became governor and already was talking about these ideas of how do we overcome what was then our enemy in the cold war? >> i'm embarrassed to admit this, but the way you put it had never occurred to me before. we listened this morning to the panel talk about what communism was like. obviously for ronald reagan in hollywood in those days it was not like living in poland. but he had direct experience of them. >> yes he did. even to the point where he would come to work at the studios armed because there were threats on his life. >> a man with a plan. that me quote your memoir, with reagan. quote, reagan was more than simply anti-communist. he was an anti-communist

been happy to be a european union us. it's all the incredible anomaly of being a northerner and a southerner at the same time for me. while at first i could not happily claimed to be a unionists, i can happily claim to be a european unionists. i know the great advantage of what we ended up with is one of the great advantages. it guarantees -- >> how does brexit look from over here? >> it looks like lunacy. i do not think there is anything -- from where i sit, i think that the labour party is dealing in its role. this is a tory fight with the majority party. this was a referendum that was advisory at the time, not binding. thats to settle a score cameron thought was paving its way home. it did pave its way home. john gave a speech here after he left his role as ambassador. about what the european union meant in terms of european history. the importance of the european ason, not to be looked at one of those little things that you could be annoyed about the bureaucracy in russell's or any of the other annoyances that anybody

union.ked by the tuc and the cbi. it is necessary to defend jobs and have access to a strong single market. we cannot be told that this is the only thing we can do. the process of negotiation is to be accountable. the government will be held to account. i hope the deal is rejected in which case we will force the government to go back and negotiate. all right, ok! government to go back and negotiate. all right, 0k! cheering order. iwant all right, 0k! cheering order. i want to hear the intervention. i wanted to agree with my honourable friend. i agree this isa my honourable friend. i agree this is a bad deal. doesn't he agree that out is a bad deal. doesn't he agree that our country would be better off remaining in the european union than exiting on the basis of this deal? the referendum took place, we fought the election respecting the result of the referendum. we are opposed to this deal. we think there's a possibility of getting an agreement which would be betterfor the country and giving

the main pillar within the european union but nevertheless. each chance. to be interested in a very close of. the president's europe be successful only if france and germany stick. to the parsed it will be true in the future as well therefore the question might be who will take the lead will it will appease a french president or the german chancellor. it depends who is more courageous who has more ideas and better ideas and who can mobilize the other members for his position also angle america has been the driver european unity and interglacial for most of her term at the head of germany will her departure empower the euro skeptic forces inside the union. mrs merrett. or was interested to keep the european union members together but she was not really a driving force for more integration she has said several times we need you know europe. but she never explained to the public what does it mean i think. president my call was quite small spoke and expecting. by the german government while. he got. several months. just a few months ago but. this was not reall

union. that he favors but i accept. the fact that they put in his. will now the european union he is supporting it he started to question nato meanwhile he's said he's in favor of nato but nato has to spend more money on defense. and as you know a. we are interested in good relations between the united states and russia as well nevertheless. united states is a democratic country. they have. legal system which works and therefore a lot of similarities between united states and the europeans in the parsed united states very close. therefore i do hope. we will. do very we still have a close relationship because what you have to know. there are members european members who would not be happy just being dependent on the europeans alone they want to have the americans in europe that's true for example for the baltic countries it's true for poland and. yeah ok i mean i'm not i don't think i don't think anyone i don't think anyone is talking about cutting the ties between europe and america completely but it's you know light of the recent events people are s

the united kingdom leaving the european union there are lots of complex issues involved there's the issue of customs there's the issue of. environmental issues there's the issue of the single market all of these issues are involved i think it was probably an issue that needed to have been addressed more clearly before the referendum took place but we are where we are and it has to be addressed now so northern island and island have lived without a hard border for a long time although of course they are they use different currency different rules so it is a hard border really necessary to control the flow of goods back and forth. well this is a decision really that has been made by the united kingdom which is to believe the the european union at the time that the good friday agreement was negotiated twenty years ago and the present arrangements were put in place the working assumption was that both states where would remain members of the european union and the whole construction at that time which recognized the british identity recognised the irish identity made arrangements are on the b

then there's the unions who have outsized political influence given the size of union membership in unionmembership is at historic lows that 10%. private sector membership is even worse than that, about 6%. it wouldn't even even be near 10% but for government union membership and, of course, government employees want bigger government. the more government, the more we spend government that the government is, the better government employees do. so it makes sense they would be democrats. but government leaders, big labor leaders continue to support democrats over republicans even though in many instances candidates like donald trump who on trade and immigration was very much in line with what unions try and promote. nonetheless, they give about $100 million to hillary clinton and it'll think they did anything to donald trump are discussed big labor. why would that be? i do want people to think i'm antiunion. i think the unions did a lot of good back in the 20th century. who wanted kids working in coal mines? i don't want that. the problem is that they seated much of their authority, -- seat

if he wants a meaningful date i will give them one. 29 march, 2019, when we leave the european union. >> absolutely unacceptable. this house agreed to a program motion, 5 days of debate, this house agreed when the vote was going to take place. the government tried to unilaterally pool that and deny this house, deny this house the chance of a vote on this crucial matter. the prime minister and government were found in contempt of parliament. her behavior is contemptuous of this parliament. mister speaker, the prime minister's appalling behavior needs to be held to account by this house and the people of this country are more and more concerned about ongoing chaos at the center of the government. when she made her lancaster -- >> order, order, order, call on both sides of the house. order. questions will be heard however long it takes and so will the answers. they tried to shut down, all you do is where all your voices and you won't succeed, amen, end of subject. >> when the prime minister made her lancaster house speech, she set out her negotiating objectives, looking at and quoting th

left clear that after we the european union, the u.k. will work closely with our european partners to uphold the international rules-based system and keep all of our people safe. that is why it is right that her brexit deal includes the security partnership that has been agreed with the eu. i reflected the concerns of this house over the northern ireland backstop. i explained that the assurances were insufficient for this house and that we had to go further ensuring that we never want to use this backstop and if it is used, it must be a temporary arrangement. some of the resulting exchanges were rebuffed. i make no apology. i make no apology for standing up for the interests of this and the interests of our whole united kingdom. 27 made cleare eu that it is there from determination to work speedily on a subsequent agreement that establishes by the 31st of december 2020 alternative arrangements so that the backstop will not need to be triggered. the house will forgive me, but i think this bears repeating. the backstop will not need to be