at bolded: that gave me a laugh when I heard it first a couple years ago. Now I can only shake my head in disbelief that anybody fell for it...

Yeah, as if the UK had the same negotiating power as the EU does. The one Trump sended to the UK should have been a wake-up call on that front: All take and no give and all, just demands and nothing in return. The EU was able to negotiate on equal terms due to their size and might, but the UK lost that power a long time ago, when it lost it's colonies. Still living in the past is becoming the UK's downfall. Maybe they'll wake up when Scotland and Northern Ireland leave the Union - but for hardcore Brexiteers, I have my doubts.

Things continue to go spectacularly well for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. After mocking his Labour Party rival Jeremy Corbyn as a "chicken" for weeks and recently comparing himself to the Incredible Hulk, Mr. Johnson ducked out of his planned press conference with the EU negotiator...for fear of being booed! You can't make this shit up.

Like I said, age of the man-child.

#neverthelesshepersis...whoops!

Yeah, he had a bad day in my home country. And I love how our Premier Minister Xavier Bettel pointed at the empty podium next to his every time he was talking about him. Or, like the Luxembourgish News said: The day the uncredible Hulk took to his heels (Yeah, we can have our news in multiple languages). Or as they say in Luxembourg:

Yesterday: The Incredible Hulk. Today: The Invisible Man.

Or if you like Monty Python: 

Brave Sir Boris ran away.
("No!")
Bravely ran away away.
("I didn't!")
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
("I never!")
Yes, brave Sir Boris turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
("You're lying!")
Swiftly taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat.
Bravest of the brave, Sir Boris!

But at this rate he gets what he wants: To leave without a deal, even if he would break a law by doing so. But by the time he would be judged for it, the damage is done already.

Personally, the best phrase I saw was "The Invisible Sulk".

He really is embarrassingly pathetic.

Another one I found was "The Incredible Hulk punched out by Ant-Man" (referring to the tiny size of Luxembourg).

Really, reporters had a field day with him in Luxembourg

Total EU spending in Luxembourg: € 1.827 billion
Total Luxembourg contribution to the EU budget: € 0.307 billion

I can understand why those protesters are so angry at losing one of the biggest net contributors.

Just FYI, those were British nationals living in Luxembourg, not Luxembourgers. There are a couple thousand Brits living in Luxembourg, and they are overwhelmingly against Brexit.

Also, expenditures in Luxembourg are so high because of all the European Institutions there (the European Court of Justice, the Secretariat of the Assembly, the European Investment Bank and the Court of Auditors), which cost 1.6334 billion Euro in 2018. If you were to count those out, then Luxembourg would also be a net contributor since it depends on the GDP per capita as to whom spends more and whom gets more. But Luxembourg is so small that the costs of running the Institutions outweights what Luxembourg has to spend.

Also, due to the rebate the UK already had, they were spending less than half of what Germany does for the EU. UK even contributes less than Italy despite that country being much poorer than the UK. That's a full 5 billion that the other countries have to pay more already due to the rebate.

I'm surprised he doesn't know some easy speaker (or teacher) tricks, actually there is a very effective way to make the majority of polite listeners shut up a few that are booing, making other noises or in any way disturbing, one just need to speak lower and lower until those interested can't hear anymore, they'll do the job and the booers will cut a sorry figure (they'd do it anyway if they don't allow someone else to speak, but this way they'll clearly realise it).
For the trick to work, the booers must be a minority and the speaker must remain calm and never look angry, the gentler and calmer he or she'll remain, the harder booers will unwillingly hit themselves.

Brexit chaos takes it first big victime. Thomas Cook went bankrupt.

https://simpleflying.com/thomas-cook-goes-bankrupt/

I think brexit at most, just caused investors to rethink pooring funding into a rescue plan.

Though what really caused it was just tough competition in the travel space.
There goes supposedly one of the oldest "travel company's" in the world, its been around for 178+ years.