This is the third year in a row we spend a long weekend in the Scotish higlands hiking.
Tjis year we are doing the wonderful West Highland Highway.
Here outside Drovers Inn, a wonderful local pub from 1705 on invernanan where famous Rob Roy McGregor used to drinknin the 1700s.
I love hiking, it is wonderful way to relax from daily business and reliad your batteries.
The Scottish Highlands or “the place of the Gaels”) is the rugged northern and north-western portion of Scotland.and it is absolutely amazing, beautiful and fascinating.
The West Highland Way is a linear long distance footpath in Scotland. It is 154 km (96 miles) long, running from Milngavie north of Glasgow to Fort William in the Scottish Highlands, with an element of hill walking in the route.
Here with my best friend in the world, Vidar Gundersen a.k.a Saul Berensen.
We are walking the West Highland Way, like always when hiking, two families together.
The track goes from Milngavie to Fort William, taking in a huge variety of scenery along the way,
For me it is one of the most beautiful tracks I have ever done.
i really recommend this route for everybody that likes hiking and nature.
The Confederation of British Industry has warned Conservative leadership candidates over leaving the EU without a deal.
A no-deal scenario would do “severe” damage to businesses, the body – which supported Remain – told all the MPs running to lead the party.
Director general Carolyn Fairbairn warned that smaller companies cannot afford the necessary preparations for leaving without a plan.
She invited them to meet her members.
The UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but Theresa May asked for an extension and the date was pushed back to 31 October.
The official race to succeed her gets under way after she stands down in early June, but jostling between Tory candidates has already begun.
Esther McVey, the first of the 12 confirmed contenders to stand in the Tory leadership race , said earlier this week in a column for the Daily Telegraph the UK needs to “actively embrace leaving the EU without a deal”.
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and ex-Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab have said they would like to renegotiate the terms of Mrs May’s withdrawal agreement with Brussels, but would enforce the current October deadline.
The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has said the deal reached between the UK and the EU was “the only option” if the UK wanted to leave “in an orderly manner”.
In its open letter the CBI says: “Firms large and small are clear that leaving the EU with a deal is the best way forward.”
“Short-term disruption and long-term damage to British competitiveness will be severe if we leave without one. The vast majority of firms can never be prepared for no-deal, particularly our [small and medium-sized] members who cannot afford complex and costly contingency plans.”
The CBI says it speaks on behalf of 190,000 businesses employing a third of the UK’s private sector workforce.
Business has traditionally been important to the Conservative Party as one of its main sources of financial support.
However, overall donations to the party collapsed in the first quarter of the year, according to figures published by the Electoral Commission . The party received £3.7m in donations and public funds in the three months to March. For the fourth quarter of 2018, it was £7.5m.
British business has issued a challenge to the next prime minister to prove that the Conservatives are the party of business. That can only be achieved, says the CBI, if the next leader commits to leaving the EU with a deal.
The lobbying group insists that firms large and small are clear that leaving the EU with a deal is essential to protect the economy, jobs and living standards.
However, of the 12 candidates (so far), at least half say they are prepared (in fact some of them are determined) to leave the world’s largest trading bloc as scheduled at the end of October – with or without a deal in place.
That includes the current favourite, Boris Johnson who, when foreign secretary, had a message for business leaders during the Brexit negotiations that ended in “ck” but wasn’t “back”.
That expletive – directed to a community that had traditionally seen the Conservative Party as its natural partner – shocked some in the business world and for others merely highlighted the dwindling influence of business in the politics of Brexit.
That gulf still seems very wide with business saying it can’t work with anyone who contemplates no deal – and a party which may find it hard to contemplate a leader who won’t.
Source: BBC News
Mr Hammond says “national interest trumps the party interest” and vows to “act in what I believe is the best interest” of the UK.
In an exclusive interview with Sky News, he left open the option of backing a no-confidence vote against the next prime minister to stop them pursuing something “not in Britain’s interests”.
Mr Hammond admitted it is not a move he would make “lightly or enthusiastically”, but warned that “national interest trumps the party interest”.
Tory MPs vying to replace Theresa May have been jockeying over whether they would ensure the UK leaves the EU on 31 October regardless of whether or not parliament passes a withdrawal agreement.
Three former cabinet ministers have committed to doing so – Esther McVey, Dominic Raab and Boris Johnson.
Mr Hammond said he was meeting all the candidates this week to decide who to back.
“I would not support a policy of no-deal by choice,” he told Sky News.
Source: Sky News
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