Yesterday started off with a bit of excitement as a car transporter turned onto the guided busway, just as I was approaching the Science Park stop. I ran shouting and waving and fortunately, the driver stopped just before hitting the car trap across the busway and was able to persuade him that there was no entry to the car show rooms. You did have to admire the way he was able to back up his transporter with trailer back out of the busway track. By the end of the day, a deep tiredness overcame me and I unusually went to bed early. The somnolence persistence persisted today.
Britain can apparently default on any financial obligations with Brexit, was the considered judgement of the House of Lords. They also pointed out that that might not be a wise strategy if wanting to keep some goodwill int he negotiations with the rest of Europe. Ingeborg Grässle, a German centre-right MEP who chairs the European parliament’s budget control committee, said:
“Do you start with a view to let everything go straight to the wall or do you want a result?” she asked. She suggested the UK was not taking Brexit talks seriously. “The EU feels that we have to organise a real divorce and we have to sort out the money, the kids, who gets the dog and the cat … and for the British, it is as if they are leaving a golf club.”
The news was rapidly eclipsed by President Trump's incredible tweets in the US morning (newest on top):
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!
Just out: The same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the Obama White House 22 times, and 4 times last year alone.
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
By this evening the claims by Trump had been refuted in a tweet by a former Obama advisor Ben Rhodes :
No president can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you,
There is speculation that the FBI might have been monitoring links to Russia and that Trump tower then came into the circle of contacts to monitor.
Cynics are suggesting that this might be a strategy to divert interest from the continuing investigation into links with Russia during the Presidential election.
Thank you for running out and saving the vehicle from the guided bus way. It is very easy for visitors to Cambridge to get confused at a junction, needs better signage.
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