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Page 1 Immigration Attorney Steven Landaal • Green Cards through Marriage and Family • Employment Visas • Monthly Payments Available Tel: (310) 395-2828 Year’s jail for would-be Trump shooter (p4) See our ad on Page 3 California’s British Accent ™ - Since 1984 Saturday, December 17, 2016 • Number 1657 Always Free £50bn to leave? n Brussels plays hardball, demanding UK payments to continue for four more years Britain will be presented with a £50 billion “exit bill” that bill to be as close to zero as possible.” by the European Union as soon as Theresa May triggers Arriving in Brussels, Article 50, the chief negotiator for Brussels is warning. Mrs May said: “We will be leaving the EU, and Michel Barnier has told questions about the expect a bill worth tens we want that to be as colleagues that the UK position of Sir Ivan of billions of pounds, Mr smooth and an orderly must keep paying “tens Rogers – who helped Prouza said: “Definitely. process as possible. It’s of billions” annually negotiate David This is what the UK not just in our interests, into the EU budget until Cameron’s EU deal has already committed it’s in the interest of the 2020. ahead of the referendum to pay, and we would rest of Europe as well.” The bill would – and said he was expect that the UK would Mr Barnier has been include the UK’s “completely out of his honour its commitments criticised in recent share of outstanding comfort zone” after he ... it will be one of the weeks after appearing pensions liabilities, warned that a trade deal first issues coming up on to dismiss David Davis, loan guarantees and may not be completed the table.” the Brexit secretary, in spending on UK-based until the mid-2020s, a series of tweets after ‘total rubbish’ projects. despite those claims later TOUGH TALK: The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier their first meeting in The demands, which being contradicted by the Mr Duncan Smith Brussels. He described came as the Prime European Commission. said: “It’s playing to for Wycombe, said: the EU has resulted in the meeting as a Minister held meetings It was reported the gallery to try and “You would expect a us accruing liabilities, “courtesy visit” and said with other European on Thursday that persuade Britain to beg negotiator to make a high for example pension he told Mr Davis there leaders before being Mr Barnier, who has for mercy. We will not. demand, if he had come rights for staff who will be “no negotiation” excluded from a dinner previously suggested This is based on their in with a low demand I have worked for the EU, before Mrs May triggers at an EU summit, were that the Brexit fevered imagination, not think we would all have so there will be some Article 50. dismissed by senior negotiations should be reality. The remainers been very surprised. discussion about this but Mr Baker added: “I Conservatives who conducted in French, will use this to try to Our membership of I would obviously like cont. on page 2, col. 3 refuted the idea of has told a number of EU stop Brexit, it’s project paying such a bill. leaders about his plans fear all over again. It Others shrugged for a £50 billion bill for is utter, total rubbish ROYAL ROMANCE off the demands and Britain. from Mr Barnier. You claimed they were Tomas Prouza, Czech expect more. He will simply the EU’s opening Republic’s Europe keep trying to get his Lonely this Christmas for Harry as position in an attempted minister, told Sky News: mouth into the media. negotiation. “I understand why There are real questions Meghan flies home to California the Eurosceptics call it about what we owe, it’s SEE PAGE 3 ‘dreadful joke’ an exit fee. But this is probably peanuts. He Iain Duncan Smith, agreeing the bills that the is deploying the tactics the former work and UK has already agreed of project fear. People pensions secretary and to pay. won’t believe it.” Leave campaigner, “We’re talking Dominic Raab, a said that the figure is a about payments to the former justice minister, “dreadful joke” and that existing budget that commented: “Good the true amount will be the UK already voted luck with that. I’m not “peanuts”. for, pensions of British sure Monsieur Barnier It came as Britain’s EU citizens working at the has quite mastered ambassador was accused EU. This is only things the art of expectation of being a “gloomy the UK has already management, but it’s pessimist” after telling committed itself to good to know he’s got a the Prime Minister that paying”. sense of humour.” Brexit will take a decade. When asked whether Steve Baker, the Conservatives raised British taxpayers should Conservative MP Inside: News from Britain 2-6; Meet a Member 7, Crossword 7, Stargazing 9, Book Review 9, Brits in LA 10, Sean Borg 11, Legal Notices 12-17, Sport 18-20 Page 2 The british Weekly, Sat. December 17, 2016 News From Britain Jim Prior, former Conservative cabinet minister, dies aged 89 n Leading ‘Tory Wet’ was made Northern Ireland secretary under Margaret Thatcher, Lord Prior took up the post at one of the most volatile periods in the region The Conservative former outside Harrods in the as Northern Ireland cabinet minister Jim Knightsbridge area of secretary. For three Prior has died aged 89, the city in 1983. Also in months in the early days according to the official 1982, the Irish National of office, Prior was not website for parliament. Liberation Army allowed to sleep over in Lord Prior served for murdered 17 people the region because, in five years in Margaret in a bomb attack on his own words: “They Thatcher’s cabinet. the Droppin’ Well bar [republicans] were trying Originally appointed and disco in Ballykelly, to blow me up.” PRIOR: represented the Norfolk constituency of Lowestoft from 1959 to 1987 employment secretary County Derry. when she became In 1982, Prior had prime minister in tried in vain to hand Top Scots sleep out for homeless charity 1979, he was moved to back some power to Sir Chris Hoy and hairdresser Jennifer work in their cafes and backgrounds”. the post of Northern politicians in Northern hundreds of other Cheyne. restaurants. Social Bite has Ireland secretary two Ireland with his plan prominent Scots sleept They bedded down in “The money raised from attracted support from years later. for “rolling devolution” out in Edinburgh Charlotte Square at 19:00 this event will go towards Hollywood stars George The move was widely at Stormont. But the Thursday night to help a on Thursday and were their groundbreaking new Clooney and Leonardo Di regarded as a sign of her plan failed because the homeless charity. scheduled to stay on site homeless village which Caprio, who have visited frustration at his refusal main nationalist party The group spent until 7am Friday. will help break the cycle its projects in Edinburgh. to press ahead more at the time, the Social the night in the city’s Speaking before she of homelessness.” Social Bite co-founder quickly with her trade Democratic and Labour Charlotte Square in aid was due to help serve Social Bite started as a Josh Littlejohn said: union reforms. Thatcher party, boycotted the of the Social Bite Village breakfast to those taking sandwich shop on Rose “There’s a beautiful was deeply suspicious assembly. project. part, Ms Sturgeon said: Street in Edinburgh in symmetry that the of his “wet” tendencies The scheme aims to “Tackling homelessness is August 2012 and has now country’s most wealthy and opposition to her strict security raise £500,000 to build 10 a priority for the Scottish grown to five shops in and influential people are monetarist economic The SDLP’s line was in small homes in Granton government and we Scotland. braving the freezing cold policies. large part in response to that would offer a safe collaborate closely with It also runs two large for one night to help fund Prior was sent to the rise of modern Sinn environment for 20 people local government and a staff canteens in the city, a a long-term solution to Belfast just a month Féin, which was rising for a 12-month period. range of national and local central production kitchen homelessness. after the 1981 republican on the tide of nationalist First Minister Nicola partners to work towards in Livingston and one “The Social Bite Village hunger strike in Maze anger over the deaths Sturgeon was scheduled ensuring everyone has of the country’s leading will tackle the problem prison and spent the next of 10 hunger strikers at to help serve breakfast access to a warm and safe independent corporate of homelessness full three years in the region. Maze prison. The party to the group on Friday place to stay. catering businesses. circle by putting roofs His tenure as secretary also opposed Prior’s morning. “Social Bite has done The company over people’s heads, a of state came at one of plan because the political The group taking incredible work to employs more than 100 supportive environment the most turbulent and agreement contained part in the sleep out help homeless people people, with a quarter around them and giving violent periods in the no input from the Irish included business leader in Scotland by giving of these drawn from links to employment Troubles. government and did not Sir Andrew Cubie and them the opportunity to “homeless and excluded opportunities.” During his time in result in a power-sharing the post there were settlement like the has been indifferent to it remained a member for the UK to take a number of high- failed 1974 Sunningdale BREXIT: the anxiety of citizens of of the EU – but any moving forward,” a profile Provisional IRA agreement.