2:02:24 I think I've tasted buttermilk once as a kid, was disgusted and I don't think I've ever had it since. Yeah well that's the place to have it okay you have to have the right attitude yes or no what anyway just continuing with what you were saying you don't need to be a buttermilk guy Brexit. I have received quite a few sarcastic scoffing notes on email and other social platforms that go something like this, Oh! You guys said it would never happen! Brexit! Do over! How about you now? Huh?! Have you received any of that, kind of similar type feedback? No but I see it on Twitter. Yes yes no i haven't as a matter of fact that you're the guy that gets these sorts of notes. I will say this Brexit hasn't happened well thank you and the big thing is that they they'd signed the deal so the paperwork
2:03:17 The signature has been put in but the rest of the paper is blank and they have to have this done by the 23rd December. Here's the problem that we're seeing in the EU, the Euro lands, the United States of Europe so they are doing their budget for next year And there's a hole in the budget, dear Liza. So they're trying to fill up this hole and no one wants to chip in anymore especially because they know where the money is going and this has led to quite What would the... The friction, in fact they came out of the EU ministers. The members of Parliament came out of the meeting no budget! The summit ended? No budget! So as predicted it looks like we're heading into another at least one round of budget talks
2:04:07 Is there any movement that we've seen in positions or are both sides really digging in here? Well I think the only positive that Charles Michel could see from this summit was that everyone was able to put on the table what they wanted to see, Oliver. From this latest round of budget negotiations but my word how long have you got in terms of a list of demands and the gap The chasm being quite so big between the different sides of all this. For Emmanuel Macron, the French president it was the common agricultural policy he was not happy with potential cuts to that for Angela Merkel it was not a strong enough clause on rule-of-law issues particularly involving countries like Poland and Hungary therefore those frugal four countries and the budget will simply going to be... Sorry, the frugal 4 is Austria, the Netherlands
2:04:56 and Sweden, I think Norway. Too high and for countries... Norway's not in the EU! I'm sorry? Then it wasn't Norway but there are four including the Netherlands and Austria Countries and the budget was simply going to be too high and for countries in the south and east that rely on EU funding to transfer from those wealthier nations to the poorer ones at the cuts were simply too deep so So, essentially everyone could find a complaint with the proposal that was on the table. Are we any closer to a deal? In many regards we're not but I think Charles Michel does have a point in that everyone understands their positions a little bit better and also
2:05:43 You know what may have scuppered this deal also in the end is the fact that for probably the first time EU leaders are having to seriously contemplate at the views of MEPs. Ultimately they have got a say in this process, they're pretty belligerent in this Parliament it's a pretty fractured parliament and its clear that there was a real possibility if they couldn't get a good compromise deal then MEPs in the end would simply veto it Sounds to me like the UK was paying more than we really We really knew I would say more than their fair share sounds like it Yeah, so that was outlay with no not no incoming exactly now you said they all At the beginning of this thing. You said they knew where it was going and you never what are you talking about? What do you mean? They knew what was going you said at the very beginning
2:06:37 You said they can't get anyone to chip in more because they know where it's going. Oh, I'm sorry the money is going you heard that in the middle of the clip that the rich north are pissed off that they're gonna send money to those poor schlubs down south! I see you Greece I see you Italy, I see you Spain. That's what they're all pissed off at because that's what Britain was good for UK was good hey have them send the money over there they vacation in those countries anyway that's a but i can imagine that's what they're pissed off about now to what now we have to send the money to those low-lifes let's scupper de deal scupper this is not uh this is not what I'd call one happy family
2:07:22 No, at all. And then somehow and this is what I found interesting in the report somehow that the members of European Parliament have some power in this but I don't think so. Don't they just have to approve or not approve and eventually it goes to Starfleet command? He used the word veto! Yeah but yeah they can use the red card I think they have a red card veto and then it has to go back to the commission who do it in secret. It's very vague where they go from here, but I see this as part of the Brexit problem! They need to soak up some stuff from UK on this exit deal and its going to be a big ass bill I think. Well the thing is that it's apparent if you look at this clip
2:08:17 That the UK has more money than brains. And they were like paying for a lot of stuff that the EU is soaking them for, and they were doing it stupidly! Now that they've pulled out its become apparent what the problem was... They were a bunch of dumb... dummies throwing money at the EU as part of their, well we're all part of the same team. Oh you mean the Brits? The Brits were doing that? Yeah, the Brits! You said the EU but you meant the Brits... yeah of course! Well I should have said they were throwing money to the EU or giving money to the EU that they shouldn't be because they were just being soaked
2:08:55 The problem is they still have a deadline. The actual Brexit deadline is December 23rd, 2020. It could be no Brexit. I don't think it's going to be. No Brexit deal? Oh no our no-deal Brexit. A crash! It will crash out. Crash out! They won't do it. They haven't got the guts to do it. They've lost their way. You were bitching about this when you were living over there. Yeah, you were talking about how the Brits are just a bunch of drunks and they lost their way. I don't know if I characterized it exactly like that but... That's my summary What i saw in society having lived there for five years I saw no family unit very poor, very poor family unit where kids would always stay over at other people's houses and wherever was basically warmer had great good food
2:09:51 And the rest of the time they did spend drunk. A lot of it, and that's part of its culture but now... You're coming from Holland saying this! I know oh no it's not to be compared. It's incomparable how in my experience and young people too you know My daughter was Christina was 15 growing up there so I saw a lot just like ho my goodness So, yeah well what do they really have going on for them? There's nothing. What does the UK actually do? Well apparently they produce enough so that they have excess to give to the EU! Well that was the banking stuff... The banking part of the business. That's all gone