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Of course, Narses soon had control of Byzantium's Italian possesions, and was such an arse that the Exarchate diminished rapidly once his unpleasant but competent self was removed.
I'm afraid I know sod all about cars, beyond stuff from Top Gear, obviously.
(2)The referendum must be held before 31 December 2017.
(3) The Secretary of State shall by order, and before 31 December 2016, appoint the
day on which the referendum is to be held.
(4) The question that is to appear on the ballot papers is: “Do you think that the United Kingdom should be a member of the European Union?”
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2013-2014/0063/lbill_2013-20140063_en_2.htm#l1g1
That is it: that is Conservative policy, voted for by virtually the entire Tory parliamentary party, but killed off by Labour and the LibDems, as you would expect. We need a Conservative majority to be sure.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-vows-to-continue-fight-for-eu-referendum-after-lords-block-bill-9101068.html
Only the Bugatti Veyron will do. It has ten radiators.
Parking it outside will also smarten up your street: A pic to show why.
http://bit.ly/1fbNq6G
Here is a race: A video to clinch your purchase.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NZ9X9A2efA
http://bit.ly/1fUmtIT
Also, attacking Farage's character might be more difficult than the character of other politicians because one of his selling points is not being an identikit politiclone.
I have provided some service sector productivity data on the previous thread.
Your analysis is required and I warn you I'm harder to impress than your tutors at Eton and Oxford were.
I wonder how much coverage for example Godfrey Bloom would have had in a similar situation.
It is a bit tight in the back, but ok for fairly young kids.
It is in many ways a reinvention of the 240Z, the car that took the US sports car market from us Brits.
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/toyota/gt86
Rather classic with RWD, perhaps a bit tricky in the snow, but with global warming who worries about that? A little firm on the suspension but great to drive.
You're past the 30-45 age range for virility-recapturing sports cars (my brother was an exception: he bought an Elise at 29). You are now into the corporate family's-left-the-roost age range, where you buy safe but sure cars that show your increased status. Nothing showy or salesmany, something of prestige and comfort that highlights your true position in the world. You are a doer (*). You are successful. You are above the minions. You no longer need a Chelsea tractor to tow the eldest daughter's horse to gymkhana.
Next comes the 60-75 car range, suitable for day trips to the beach and occasionally taking grandkids. And if you are of a certain mindset, a motorbike that soon kills you.
(*) From what you've written on here, a doer of everything.
Ed Miliband all over the screens - does Yougov show a Labour surge, a dip or total irrelevance... let's wait and see as a taster for 2015 coverage....
0-60 is for traffic light racing, and top speed is for the autobhan.
The GT86 is about delivery, it is about classic handling and midrange performance.
Like ALP the figures on paper tell only part of the story!
With manufacturing, output per input labour hour is a reasonable metric.
With services, especially those where output value varies by a large amount (e.g financing mergers and acquisitions) then hourly productivity figures don't really help our understanding of change.
This is why the increasing granularity of recent productivity changes by the ONS statisticians is to be welcomed.
We need to compare like with like.
The same applies to comparing aggregrate productivity growth on a decade to decade basis. The changes in growth rate will probably tell us more about sectoral changes in output mix than they will about productivity. At present 79 out 100 hours worked in the UK are in the services sector. The output of a burger flipper will will be covered as will that of a City forex trader: the value of the burger flipper's output will vary within a very narrow range and will on the whole reflect his personal productivity but a forex trader's output will vary within a large range mostly determined by market conditions beyond the trader's direct control.
I am in favour of increased analysis of the UK's productivity 'problem' but we need meaningful comparisons to learn anything valuable.
The big-wigs of the MSM have decided to throw in everything to hurt UKIPs chances at the forthcoming elections. Will it work? Thats the question.
You don't do a front page expose on an ant's antics. You do of a tiger.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead falls to just two points: CON 35%, LAB 37%, LD 9%, UKIP 13%
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YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead falls to just two points: CON 35%, LAB 37%, LD 9%, UKIP 13%
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Ed Miliband suffers backlash from own party over referendum pledge: http://bit.ly/1fuBXSG
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London to host Crimea talks between America and Russia: http://bit.ly/Pu0rSC
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YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead falls to just two points: CON 35%, LAB 37%, LD 9%, UKIP 13%
Obviously the lead will be back up close to 7 tomorrow.
If property doesn't float your boat, better still pass the spare cash onto a competent investment/tax manager.
You bought a new car last year. Annually suffering first year depreciation costs on new motors is no way to stay rich.
But you know all that. You are just missing your youthful risk fixes.
Silly boy!
Ladbrokes Politics @LadPolitics 23s
When will the next UK EU In/Out referendum happen?
2014 33/1
2015 20/1
2016 16/1
2017 2/1
Not before 2018 1/2
You can feel the cold fear in every word compouter utters.
(On a sad note, I am serious about motorbikes. Several of my dad's friends killed themselves in their sixties on motorbikes. They had learnt to ride on small motorbikes when young in the 1950s and 1960s, but gave up when wives and kids came along. Then after they retire they felt like reliving their youth and bought motorbikes. Except they are now so much more powerful. In one case he went for a test ride on a secondhand bike and never made it back to the showroom. My dad's lost more friends to motorbikes than any other unnatural cause).
Eriksen to score at any time 4/1
http://www.oddschecker.com/football/europa-league/tottenham-v-benfica/anytime-goalscorer
Diffident understatement, modesty and perfect manners are much preferred.
Peter Brookes @BrookesTimes 6m
My cartoon Thursday @TheTimes: Ed's EU referendum policy is all arse about face
pic.twitter.com/DDRrrPeYVa
It will probably cost you oodles to run but you can pose and ponce round London till your heart's content.
Less can be more.
Now here's a few ideas I've had:
1) The government subsidising consumption by £100bn per year provides no incentive for increasing produtivity in wealth consuming sectors. Note that public sector productivity has started to improve now that the endless increases in government spending of the Labour years have been reduced.
2) Low interest rates have stopped the malinvestment and low productivity zombie firms from being cleared from the economy - creative destruction is a necessary part of productivity growth.
3) The availability of endless numbers of willing and cheap but low productivity economic migrants acts as a disincentive for business to invest in new technology and equipment.
4) Ever increasing numbers of regulations, QA crap etc is causing an increasing proportion of labour overheads without increasing output.
As I travel about talking to people especially in the business community (pubs mainly), I am told that there has been a DEFINITE upturn in the last few weeks. I do hope the overconfidence of Nick Palmer, Compouter et al will suffer a severe setback very soon..
Just for Compouter... Crossover is coming..
On a strict reading of the letter of the law, rather than its spirit, you are permitted a new car on evidence of mortgage repayment.
As for your point about excluding the bad stuff before you look at the numbers: if there is a secular trend that will not be affected by government action, then to make a direct comparison of the impact of policy (and remember productivity stats are an output not an input) you need to strip out the background trend to make sure you are comparing like with like.
Makes Ed look like a kn..without Balls.
PS a belated nod to Nick Palmer for a comment he made yesterday
Slightly surprised BBC ten o'clock news ran an item on Nigel Farage affair allegations. On the basis that Qs were asked by ex-UKIP MEP?
The bias against ukip by the bbc is a disgrace to supposed impartial political coverage,where's the Ian lavery story on the beeb news,if this had being a kipper or tory,god help them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577920/Labour-MP-racist-photo-Backbencher-criticised-posing-alongside-son-blacked-fancy-dress-party.html
You can only have a classic (or any scratchable car) if you have off-street parking.
A Morgan could have been the solution otherwise.
You also need a pair of Hunter Wellingtons or at least Trickers brogues, to drive those.
I still have my licence and about a decade ago went for a test ride on a friends new Kawasaki four. I took off like I was on my old RD, along an A road. I thought to myself that it was not as fast as I expected. I looked down at the speedo, and was ton up already. It felt as smooth as my old bike at 30. Even an apparently straight road becomes very curved at that speed.
It would have been impossible to have the same edgy fun on that bike at less than top whack. It was a better bike in every way, but much less fun.
Unfaired, naked bikes with no more than two cylinders are the way to go.
You only live once: be frugal and leave something for your children to remember you by...
Tonights poll is too early to tell on the referendum, it takes weeks for these speeches to percolate through to the polls.
Staggered to hear BBC News at Ten ran an item based on Nikki Sinclaire smear
*titters*
But your expectations are unrealistic with regard to the speed and scale of change.
The Admin and Support sub-sector changes in productivity are though a significant achievement and almost certainly relate to improved public sector productivity caused by headcount reductions.
All the same it is easier to achieve increases in the ratio if only the input side varies and the output remains fixed (as is the case mostly with public services).
But I am not convinced. a drift back to a five point Labour lead more likely.
I even remember back when Cameron and the Conservatives were still in Opposition, certain media organisations tried to get a journalist into a job at CCHQ.
A wafer thin mint, perhaps.
So true. RT @AshleyWills "People who say nobody cares about the EU tend to care an awful lot for it themselves..."
Search for Atlantis (or something equally cool).
Long article with Chinese Government satellite pictures of what could be the Malaysian Airliner after crashing into water.
http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b
A lot of credence being given to photos but still not proven yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch
Basically, you cement your status as an overlord by a massive party with gifts and by destroying items in public. It is the logical form of conspicuous consumption. Sports cars just to show off are a bit naff aren't they?
If you are looking for a machine to give a slight rise in the adrenaline level can I suggest this as you can probably afford it
http://www.marineturbine.com/press/miami/06062002.pdf
*should you buy one I demand a go on it
1. Give it away to a good cause
2. Buy a "private plate"
3. Get your teeth sorted
4. Invest in wine (if it goes tits up, you can drown your sorrows in style)
5. Put it on a Hung Parliament 2015
6. Invest in Startups for the taxbreaks (satisfaction of paying no tax to the Taxman)
7. Lend to small companies
8. Buy some gold and silver
9. Buy a cheapish 60s classic car, Frogeye Sprite, 250SL, Jensen CV8
10. "Invest" in Liverpudlian DSS tenants for a (unleveraged) 14% annual return.
Really interesting, they were set up by the Tories and terribly led by a communist with a huge agenda. People know me on here as a kipper but I supported the miners in principle, they were a hugely proud group of men led by someone who was and still is a fool.
I used to deliver into the NCB headquarters in Victoria on a Monday afternoon, but I refused to cross the picket line manned by the Kent miners. I used to get the guy on the gate to let the NCB kitchen staff know I was there and they came out to collect the goods, I got to know the Kent miners on the picket and no way would I cross the line, though I nearly lost my job over it.
At the time my job had a, erm, black market attached to it, basically we were on the fiddle. So I used to give the boys on the picket line as much as I could, which was as much cheese and dairy products as I could it and at least £20 every week, which when you think my third daughter was born in May that year means that as far as I am concerned I did my bit.
The one thing I was a little disappointed with was that none of the people in the programme condemned Scargill, when he led them to virtual poverty to suit his own agenda.
One thing that did stand out though was how the South Yorkshire police falsified statements after the disgrace of Orgreave, and then did the same after Hillsborough. Nice bunch.
I was thinking that - if you succeeded - would go in the history books like a lost city or a yeti or something.