Fun Online Polls: The 'price' of Single Market access & Refuelling the Admiral Kuznetsov

The results to last week’s Fun Online Poll were as follows:

Which ‘price’ is worth paying to retain tariff and quota free access to the EU Single Market?

Freedom for EU workers to come to the UK to work – 15%
A market access fee of about £5 billion a year – 8%
Both – 2%
Either/or but not both – 1%
Neither. I prefer Hard Brexit – 72%
Other, please specify – 2%

Good, that’s that settled then. I hope the government is on message. Exactly 100 people took part (thanks all) so no ‘differences due to rounding’ this week either
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A strange quandary again today. From the BBC:

Spain has said it will review the permit for refuelling it gave to Russian warships expected to support a bombing campaign against rebel-held eastern Aleppo, in Syria.

The decision to allow the use of the port of Ceuta was criticised. Nato expressed concern that the ships could be used to bomb civilians…

That’s more than a tad hypocritical of ‘Nato’ (when did it stop being called ‘NATO’?) if you ask me, and it  serves the Russians right for not having seen this coming and built a nuclear powered aircraft carrier (lack of easy access to the oceans was always the Russian Navy’s Achilles’ Heel), but hey.

The whole concept of allowing foreign warships to use your ports has always puzzled me, there is a very strange legal status to all these things and it’s always surrounded with diplomatic flummery, but AFAIAA, Spain is not in any way at war with Russia and it’s entirely up to Spain whether they want to allow it or not.

So that’s this week’s Fun Online Poll: “Would it particularly bother you if Spain allowed a Russian warship to refuel in a Spanish-controlled port?”

Vote HERE or use the widget in the side bar.