Any Trade Deal with the US would be on their terms not ours
The ill fated TTIP was an awful deal with some VERY bad parts in it.
It would very definitely not be a trade deal amongst equals
Yeah I'm definietly a no sauce man but I'm not really a beans person either. They aren't a deal breaker, I'll eat them if they are there but when I make one at home, no beans. I also prefer the grilled tomato to tinned
Not quite, still needs ratifying by Slovenia (due in parliament end of month), Hungary (FM announced today that they will) and unfortunately Turkey who still appear to be kicking it into the long grass
Where they will get picked up by a taxi driver and driven to the middle of nowhere and dumped. It's happened at least twice already, there ws even a court case where the taxi drivers defence appears to have been little more than "they were Russian" and the jury aquitted him
EDIT: The serious answer is Bribe, Bribe, Bribe and Bribe some more
Me and @blandy went to a gig a few weeks ago and there was a queue for the bar, this was not an organised thing, no-one was there telling people to queue, there was no signage indicating that queuing was the done thing, it just formed
My battle hardened gig elbows were most disappointed. They've taken all the skill out of getting served
My reading of it was that they both buggered off to Israel as he husband (also a singer) had been highly critical of the war and she was just saying much the same now to show they both had the same stance. Everything I read said they were still in Israel
And here's what just the talk of mobilsation does to the Russia Stock Exchanges
EDIT: This is in response to the Duma announcing it will be changing the penal code for wartime offences tomorrow, not for it passing a general mobilisation order. Essentially they've just published a bill to be voted on tomorrow.
Given the choice of ten years hard Labour (The proposed penalty for not joining the military under the proposals) or getting blown to bits in Ukraine, I suspect a lot will take the hard labour.
Either way, general mobilisation has been avoided thus far by Putin for a reason. It won't be popular with anyone. It isn't just a conscription issue, it puts every company in Russia on a war footing and they must make or do as the government tells them to. It will bugger the Russian economy more than the sanctions the rest of the world has imposed on them.
I don't forbid anything But TV viewing figures are nothing more than wild estimates. You get more accurate figures from the Met Police over attendance at large political rallies
Quoting viewing figures as some sort of evidence of anything is daft, it's a daft as claiming the billions of pounds that flow into the country as a result of having a Royal Family.
Why do I link the two together? Because they are both based on totally bogus methods of estimation.