The UK had already made some concessions on the status of EU citizens in the UK during Brexit.
Donald Tusk and Michel Barnier emphasise that with UK red lines, there is no chance of the promise of a border free Ireland being realised.
Theresa May holds cabinet meeting in preparation for her great speech planned for Friday.
David Davis blusters that if EU does not change its stance on legal demands that would keep Northern Ireland within EU rules, the UK will threaten to withdraw from paying the £39 billion Brexit divorce bill.
Theresa May recorded as saying that a open border in Ireland is not possible if the UK leaves the EU.
President Trump in the meantime is ruffling waters on two separate counts. The first is his call for a bipartisan deal on introducing some gun control measures such as greater checks and raising gun ownership age limit for certain types of guns. This put the republicans on the spot and also ran counter to the NRA interests.
The second, the announcement that strong import tariffs (25%) will be imposed on imported steel and aluminium next week, to protect US jobs in the sector. The announcement ted to a 400 point drop in the Dow Jones index as manufacturers worry about the increas in production costs.
Cambridgeshire seems to be one of the few spots in the UK relatively unaffected by the snow chaos hitting the South and the North. After the Beast from the East, we are now awaiting storm Emma hitting the South and west of the UK. Again, it looks as if Cambridgeshire will be unaffected. Tomorrow will tell. I'll go to St Ives but give Huntington a miss just in case there is a sudden change.
At tonight's artists and Craftists, finished off my letter D illustration and started E, which will incorporate an echidna.
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