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The banning EU mineral water story is surely a spoof – politicalbetting.com
The banning EU mineral water story is surely a spoof – politicalbetting.com
From 7th January the UK will cease to recognise and allow import of mineral water from the EU and EEA. In order to promote Britain's clean, healthy and delicious natural mineral waters. https://t.co/RHoF8b1Gpm
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You can still import it, if you fill in more Brexit paperwork.
Another example of Brexit making life more complicated, difficult and expensive.
Yay!!!
I completed a survey by Opinium and one of the supplementary questions are what words I would use to describe Prince Charles.
I think I was fair and balanced.
Meaning: Something is proving a mild inconvenience; typically used to describe slightly heavy traffic, or the internet not working
“It’s not ideal”
Meaning: Something terrible has happened and life is almost certainly ruined
https://twitter.com/SoVeryBritish/status/1451896363722199046
Last week the government was hinting about changing the rules to make sure you can have your jab after five months instead of six.
This morning I go on the website to book some people's booster jabs and it now says it has changed from six months to six months and a week.
#JoinedUpGovernment #CouldNotOrganiseAPregnancyOnACouncilEstate
I look forward to the inevitable slew of pieces in the Brexit-supporting press about how dysentery is a fair price for freedom and might even reveal the true meaning of Christmas. ~AA
https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1452617221709180933
Becoming a third country screws up the legal remedies for British companies against EU countries.
Brussels is hitting British companies with extra charges of as much as £100,000 just to take a case to EU court, sparking fears that small firms could be cut off from justice.
The bloc is forcing UK businesses to pay so-called “security bonds” of at least £50,000 to courts in the EU in order to bring forward a claim after Brexit. Higher-value and more complex cases can require a bond of £100,000 or more, according to legal sources.
While the legal sector was one of the only branches of the professional services industry to have a dedicated section in the post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement, British firms have found themselves being treated by EU civil courts in the same way as businesses from other “third” countries, such as China.
Ministers have been in talks with EU officials about removing the requirement for UK litigants to lodge a security bond, but discussions have stalled in recent months, the Telegraph understands.
The introduction of the bonds have created fears that smaller British businesses will be unable to defend themselves in courts on the Continent due to the significant upfront costs.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/10/24/brussels-stings-british-firms-extra-legal-charges/
It's a silly bit of bureaucracy rather than a ban. A more sensible arrangement would be that all previously approved products remained approved, so Evian etc. would only need approval if they introduced a new "super-Evian" water. Precisely the same applies in reverse - if we hitherto exported Kit-Kats to Belgium, they will now need to apply for approval.
Since we all have the same standards at the moment, mutual recognition would be better still. But, you know, freedom.
Petrol prices have hit a record high across the UK in what the RAC has described as a "truly dark day for drivers".
The average daily price per litre hit 142.94p on Sunday in data reported on Monday morning by RAC/Experian Catalist, which is separate from the weekly average record price reported by government.
https://news.sky.com/story/truly-dark-day-for-drivers-as-petrol-prices-hit-record-high-in-uk-12444079
I know @tlg86 believes the Tory victory in 2015 was down in part to falling petrol prices.
No longer having an established church, it is a postantidisestablishmentarianist society.
Fillico Jewelry Water surely?
https://twitter.com/davidshukmanbbc/status/1452614864803930121
I can see the UK courts taking the same view of EU plaintiffs.
Global Britain leading the way ahead of COP26.....
This is just replicating the regime that the EU has in place for exports of mineral water from here since the start of this year.
Here's the Government Guidance about it:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/recognition-of-natural-mineral-water-inside-and-outside-the-uk
And here is the EU Guidance:
(Directive 2009/54/EC)
https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/brexit_files/info_site/natural_mineral_waters_en.pdf
Telegraph report from July
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/02/eu-mineral-water-exports-uk-will-need-authorised-next-year/#:~:text="The automatic recognition for EEA,," a Defra spokesman said.
Expect an outrage bus from the FBPE corner.
Mineral water imports is the perfect territory to reinforce the anti metropolitan elite message.
Can recall what the Speaker said last week about government giving information to the press instead of parliament. https://twitter.com/parlyapp/status/1452610184099123202 https://twitter.com/PARLYapp/status/1452613601005555714/photo/1
I drink Perthshire sparkling from Tescos and even that makes me feel guilty. I kind of justify it because it is sparkling and not just plain water. It is an alternative to cans of fizzy drink. Also the delivery distance is about 25 miles. Guilt.
Just nonsense from the #FBPE lot again tbh.
There are some advantages of not being linked to municipal water and sewage. Except when the power goes out. Future projects include wind and solar power generation, and a whole house battery.
I'm a devout Muslimbecause a beer drinking friend of mine came up with analogy for alcohol free beer which I have never been able to forget."A 2004 analysis by the French Society for Radiation Protection confirms the spring water emits 70 becquerels per liter of radiation before treatment, containing 58 mg/m3 of uranium, 350 Bq/m3 of radium-226 and 713 Bq/m3 of radium-228. After treatment, it contains 5.45 mg/m3 of uranium, 28 Bq/m3 of radium 226 and 44 Bq/m3 of radium 228."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badoit
But all they have to do is register and supply relevant information by the look of it.
Is this all a hangover from the Benzene in Perrier scandal?
I can see that it might be a poke in the ribs for Mons. Macaron. Which is perhaps what we need to be doing a bit more, given his behaviour.
The tap water in Sheffield is fine. Stop whingeing. We'd all be better off if people stopped buying bottled water.
They are making it more complicated, difficult and expensive.
Brexit in its purest form...
Thinking about the waste from my household we generate more recycling than non-recycling. The non-recycling is mostly the thin plastic that cannot be recycled. I am surprised that we have not done more in that area. One simple way would be to ban selling of fruit & vegetables in non-recyclable packaging. We would likely go back to the days where these were sold by loose by weight and put in paper bags. Some inconvenience is required to improve things.
There’s a decent export market for Highland Spring and the like, which we would surely lose.
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I'd argue having a good teacher is way more important than having a teacher who is the best expert in the subject.
Chemistry is physics is not at all misleading, although it might be better expressed as 'chemistry is the emergent properties of physics, and biology is the emergent properties of chemistry, and behaviour is the emergent properties of biology' etc...
My bit:
Trying to predict the effects of molecules based purely on the laws of Physics has not had a good track record. For biology that is even more of an issue (if it weren’t we wouldn’t have to muck around with all that clinical testing of drugs; we would be able to calculate which would work and why).
I struggle with imperial measurements apart from the few areas of daily life in which it's used such as driving distances and speed, height in ft and in and weight in stone because my school didn't bother to teach anything but metric.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io33h4CShi0
Medieval types were very good on recycling, due to necessity.
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https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/27/22696836/babylon-5-reboot-j-michael-straczynski-warner-bros-the-cw
"Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Zathras have sad life, probably have sad death, but at least there is symmetry."
That thin plastic around your cucumber makes it last much longer.
Obviously this isn't the case for all plastic food packaging, and we could massively reduce it without causing food waste, but banning all non-recyclable materials would have consequences other than the being brilliantly green one.
I've never seen any analysis on that.
The problem with plastics is that they have serious (non-)decay issues.
As a Brexiteer, you should be happy. After all, you voted for this.
I note that my window envelopes now seem to be recyclable.
Handling well: 34% (-8 from 14-15 Oct)
Handling badly: 59% (+8)
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/international/articles-reports/2020/03/17/perception-government-handling-covid-19 https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1452627605669167106/photo/1
64% of Britons now say the COVID-19 situation in the UK is getting worse, up from 35% less than two weeks ago
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/international/articles-reports/2020/05/26/perceived-national-and-global-covid-19-outlook https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1452627611214131206/photo/1
Mpg gives much bigger numbers than mpl so looks better.
His stupid tactics yesterday have screwed Liverpool.
Antonio Conte would be open to discussing taking over at Manchester United if Ole Gunnar Solskjær were sacked, while it emerged on Monday that several players are questioning whether the Norwegian can take the team any further.
Several dressing-room sources have told the Guardian that Sunday’s 5-0 capitulation to Liverpool at Old Trafford has crystallised a lack of belief in Solskjær being a good enough manager for United. The 48-year-old is considered tactically underwhelming, while being well-liked by the squad and within the wider club.
United are thought to be seriously considering Solskjær’s future after taking one point from their past four Premier League games. Joel Glazer, who heads the American family’s ownership, resides in Florida, five hours behind the UK, so any decision may be taken later on Monday. The managing director, Richard Arnold, is understood to have cancelled all appointments on Monday to hold talks with Glazer.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/oct/25/antonio-conte-keen-on-manchester-united-job-as-players-doubt-solskjaer-capability-tactics
Klopp's record is astonishing, it would mean two Everton managers and two Manchester United managers sacked after getting shellacked by Klopp's Liverpool.
But I have absolutely no idea of the balance between food waste and packaging waste as it applies to business users.
"As a consequence, all natural mineral waters which obtained their recognition in or by an
EU member state will no longer be authorised for import into England as natural mineral waters, unless they are recognised as such by a responsible authority of the United Kingdom
with the exception of Northern Ireland."
Interesting that it only applies to England. Are Scotland and Wales going to be able to have their own trade policies?
Yep. That would be the way to go.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wD79NZroV88
Then divide by your mpg and you've got fuel cost per mile.
If your answer is <10p you are doing very well!
Using 6 litres at £1.42 per litre to drive 100 miles is a cost of £8.52 while 5.5 litres to drive 100 miles is £7.81.
No multiplication and division around 4.54 as at present.