Ann gets her books and Theresa May makes an impact.
Visited Ann Hales-Tooke today as she was expecting her book The Family That Flew to be delivered from the printer. Living on the second floor and in her nineties, I was there to provide support as the last deliveryman had little or no English.
Just to make life interesting for Ann, the same non English speaking driver came early with one box of books, before I had arrived. But the revisit was painless as he remembered the routine fom the previous time.
Once I was there, we amicably watched the online app showing the second batch of books getting ever closer. In the end, we had a very helpful and cheerful arrival, who delivered without any problems. Poor sod, we were delivery 73 at 2:45; he had to make 120 deliveries by the end of the day.
I therefore returned home late, after PM Theresa May's announcement re the way forward with Brexit.
I read the summaries in the British press, digested the reviews, and read the perspectives across the Channel and the Pond.
It all boiled down to "It's going to be a hard Brexit". Complete exit from the European market.
That left two million British expats, already suffering a 20% cut in the value of the pound since the Referendum wondering who was looking after their interests. Three million EU residents in UK are still left in limbo with regards to their residency status. UK business is to benefit from deregulated markets and industries, but will we?
Full PM May's speech transcript http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/full-text-theresa-may-brexit-speech-global-britain-eu-european-union-latest-a7531361.html
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