Yup.
London 20 year bond yields at 1.495 normally drops when people search for a safe harbour for investments. Unless I’ve been misinformed. Expectation that no deal more likely?
From Peston,
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-03-21/what-a-brexit-minister-was-told-to-say-about-the-brexit-mess/
We watched that fiasco on Parliament tv and even the opposition were saying that they felt sorry for him.
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From BBC live feed 
UK ParliamentCopyright: UK Parliament
A petition calling on Theresa May to cancel Brexit by revoking Article 50 has attracted more than 980,000 signatures.
Parliament’s petitions website crashed earlier because of the high volume of traffic. It is now back up and running.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told BBC Radio 4’s Today that revoking Article 50 was possible but “highly unlikely”.
Commons leader Andrea Leadsom said she had been made aware of technical problems with the site, but she dismissed the petition as not being on the same scale as the pro-Brexit vote in the 2016 referendum.
“Should it reach 17.4 million respondents then I am sure there will be a very clear case for taking action,” she told MPs.
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This headline might create some kind of comic replies:
The German firm Wepa said it had been storing an extra 600 tonnes of toilet and kitchen roll in the last three to four months to safeguard supplies in Britain, in case the UK crashes out of the EU without an agreement on 29 March.
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I don’t think megalomania is a mental health diagnosis, although it featured in 19th century descriptions of lunacy, meaning irrational claims to superhuman powers, like the ability to raise the dead or destroy the world. Its modern use puts it in the same category as homophobia, just a made-up word that’s neat and fills a lexical gap in the English-speaking vocabulary.
BTW I am not an authority on anything, just a gobby Brummie.
No Brexshit!
(Re German toilet-roll relief of UK wipe-famine)
Oh go on Peter, set it in “motion” with a “cheeky” “big one” of your own. I’m “flushed” with excitement myself and can’t “hold it in” much longer.
And there must be many a joke about the self-sanitising toilet seats as found in many German Autobahn rest-rooms.
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Germans come to the rescue of British arseholes?
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I think they’ve disabled this for the revoke A50 petition to help with website performance.
Edit: Oh, I take that back - seems to be working again.
God bless you, what I would give to live in a world full of them 
What an amazingly delightful and kindly thing to say, Mick. I am so pleased by it and by you. And I do love Brummies, I never feel more at home than there.
Well they invaded my home town back in the early seventies with the Birmingham overspill program, it was never the same again, took awhile to get used to them, but you just can’t help but like them and their wonderful family values.
Sorry to go off subject everyone but just so pissed off with it all !!!
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You couldnt make it up!!!
BBC reporting that the MOD has set up a bunker to deal with No Deal.
Anyone would think nuclear war was about to break out - talk about scare-mongering!!
No-deal operations room set up
Jonathan Beale
BBC defence correspondent
The Ministry of Defence has set up a new operations room to deal with a potential no-deal Brexit under the banner “Operation Redfold”.
The MoD insists it is just part of the wider cross-government preparations for a no-deal Brexit that have already been announced.
The new operations room is being run from the bunker in the bowels of the MoD main building.
An MoD spokesperson said: “We are always willing to support wider government planning for any scenario, and we have committed to holding 3,500 troops at readiness to aid contingency plans.”
I agree Carl, I work for the MoD and this is just contingency planning nothing sinister. MoD has a large Civil Servant population that is not customer facing like many Government Departments are. Therefore the MoD has set up a number of regional centres with several hundred civil servants taken from within the MOD to provide them additional training to support urgent operational support. This is to assist with help to ease and border controls issues , and logistical support for moving goods etc. And I guess in support of any civil unrest should it occur, highly unlikely but prepared for it. The MoD Civil Servants are used to dealing with fast changing events and urgent operation such as the recent Salisbury incident so are very well equipped to support, these civil contingency activities. It’s a sensible preparation but the press are always more than happy to exploit these things to add to the drama and chaos.
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