We pay that every year in interest payments to the (privately owned) BoE so it's hardly a bloody ''national crisis''.
You're 'exaggeration gene' is way too busy for it's own good.

Buy Litecoin.

The main thing to note is that utter incompetence from this government has meant it's taken 18 months for them to agree to pay what we owe, something that should never have been an issue in the first place. They are experts in chaos and uncertainty and not much else.

Sadly the Irish border question was always going to be far more difficult and they've still not come up with any actual plans for this yet.

Davis is too busy being a massive hypocrite and drain on the state (insisting on private air travel) to have any idea what to do in the national interest. Either that or he's actively not acting in our best interest. His record of shouting about abuses of ministerial power and contempt of parliament when on the back benches looks pretty opportunistic and insincere now he's the biggest culprit next to May when on the front bench. He's an embarrassment to the government and our nation and should be replaced.

The country democratically elected May to take us through Brexit. You reap what you sow.

I didn't realise that it was a presidential election

Not to mention the Russian subversion of our democracy and the effort of ministers to subvert parliament at every turn. We're giving away far more power than we're taking back.

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It was always going to be 50. Should've agreed it earlier. The issue I have is that this and a couple of other matters are agreed and filed away from reach before we move onto what we're really waiting for and what the EU was originally set up for. Trade. Well publicly anyway. Then there's open immigration. Something it wasn't set up for, publicly.

Hopefully because we've dragged it out it'll help with the negotiations that'll really attract interest.

COYP