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One of the huge problems for US broadcasters is that so many people have declared themselves as contenders for the Republican party nomination. The current count is about 16 or 17 which clearly is far too big a number for a TV debate to be manageable.
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malcolmg said:
Pity no federal structure is on offer then
No point creating a federal structure until Scotland has left the UK.
Scottish departure is inevitable anyway.
If you try to create it BEFORE Scotland leaves then you have to include Scottish input into the process - which is unwise since you don't want the influence of a member who is going to leave anyway. Plus it will need rework after "Screxit".
If you create it AFTER Scotland leaves then you can just set it up for the interests of the remaining member nations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4wM5KvUGEc
I suspect she may well be able to tackle Trump too, but that'd be monumentally unwise at this stage for her. If she thinks she can clobber Trump then let the others do the hard work and wait for the right time to administer the killer blow.
The slight difficulty is that her HP record is patchy. I rather think that it was a tricky task and she did quite well, but I know that's not a view shared by others. If she couldn't run HP then she certainly can't run the USA.
Mind, we would have to do something about those islands around the world that for whatever reason refuse to become independent. The Falklands would have to stay with the England and we ought to hang on to Gib. The Caribbean territories we could divide up - the Cayman's stay with England whilst Ireland, Scotland and wales can draw lots over the rest, though maybe Ireland ought to take the British Virgin Islands. I think there is a place or two in the pacific which still look to the UK (on one if memory serves they worship the Duke of Edinburgh as a god), if that is correct they should be given to Scotland. The islanders of St. Helena should be given a choice who to belong to. Any I have missed like Ascension, the Yanks can have, since they are probably there already.
All this faffing about with a federal structure, forget it. HMtQ will probably be a bit miffed, though.
EDIT: It gets worse! She's moaning that FPTP favoured the Conservatives. No **** Sherlock, it's called winner's bonus. She's a professor at the University of Manchester and yet she doesn't grasp this fundamental point of our electoral system.
The current price of oil is irrelevant because Scotland is not dependent on the price of oil to be a successful, prosperous country,.
What does matter is what happened historically, where Scotland;'s Hydrocarbons generated massive amounts of cash both in private sector profits and government revenue. With profits a significant portion of that never benefited Scotland because the companies are HQed in London or internationally and the biggest benefit from the capital investment flowed overseas. For the government revenue it is trivial to demonstrate that it did not benefit Scotland at all, was sucked up by Westminster and spent on London.
Similar cases can be argued for other successful Scottish industries like Whisky (where Diageo based in London sucks up most of the RoI as it owns 50% of the industry) and Life Science where the breakthroughs and benefits developed at Dundee, Aberdeen and Strathclyde are owned by the commercial partners based in London and overseas.
This is the logic. It is irrelevant what future oil has. A good future means Scotland will lose out, a bad future makes no difference. But any successful future industrial success can expect the same outcome as has been seen historically - and that is not good for Scotland.
Give it to France.
Compare Edinburgh with York. Much the same.
BBC – “Notting Hill Carnival bands have taken to the roads of west London for the second day of what is thought to be Europe's largest street music festival.
Up to 60 bands in colourful costumes took part in the Grand Finale street parade. There are also 38 sound systems to entertain crowds.”
SKY – “More than 300 people were arrested during the two-day Notting Hill Carnival, which saw a police officer stabbed and another bitten in two separate incidents.
By late Monday, there had been 314 arrests at the traditional bank holiday festival, which was dogged by heavy downpours with almost an inch of rain falling.
These were for a range of offences including assault, criminal damage, theft, carrying weapons and drug possession.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34109619
http://news.sky.com/story/1544621/hundreds-of-arrests-at-notting-hill-carnival
Jeremy Clarkson was spot on – now if this had been a football match….
It might actually work quite well, we get camembert and cider they get some decent wine and lamb.
[End of trumpet blowing]
The only programme which would succeed would be : -
1. Fully Federal UK with individual Nations holding vetos on all joint policy decisions in a Senate which replaces the Lords.
2. An apology for the lies over oil since the 1970s and the pillaging of money to the South East.
3. A waiver to Scotland over any contribution for the current UK debt, an agreement that the Federal Budget should always be in balance and for each devolved Nation to issue its own debt through the BoE.
4. A subvention/reparation agreed to be paid to Scotland probably in the region of £5bn per annum currently, combined with a limit to Scotland's contribution to the Defense budget (about 1.2% of GDP would reasonably in line with neighbouring nations)
5. Scrapping Trident.
Anything less and it is certain the UK will be dissolved. Probably any one of those would make a Westminster party toxic with the English electorate who have lapped up the lies about Scotland for years.
Business success or failure though has to be a bad guide. Trump is successful, and it's blindingly obvious that he's not someone you want representing you.
Commercial success translating into good public service is a pretty hard thing to find. Arnie?
As one of the Tims (T I think) said at the time, she had proven herself ready for the "top table".
After trading in my Corbyn bet at 30/1, I'm tempted to let this run for a while.
If I didn't know better, I'd think it was a piss-take.
Anyway, off to watch Horizon to see how childlike the BBC can make it.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/02/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership-shadow-cabinet-elections
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/nicola-sturgeon-s-secret-meeting-with-murdoch-1-3874663
I'd also note that there are quite phenomenal efforts put in by Westminster council to clean the streets up very quickly. I think it's an incredibly effective police tactic. Teams of people working hard to clean up after you tends to suggest that you shouldn't have been so messy in the first place.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3220045/Hard-left-Corbyn-supporters-planning-cull-Blairite-MPs-Simon-Danczuk-cross-hairs.html
http://blogs.channel4.com/michael-crick-on-politics/farleft-preparing-purge-careerist-labour-mps-corbyn-wins/5063
And it is a carnival, so I'd expect it to be a bit messy with many people on the streets.
I suspect he means the love parade.
http://berlinloveparade.com/
Mann, Danczuk, Kendall would top my list.
"Most successful project ever, hugely profitable
Dair"
'When Labour won the 1997 general election, Powell told his wife, Pamela Wilson, "They have voted to break up the United Kingdom." '
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell
The execution was quite woeful, naive and stupid.
'When Labour won the 1997 general election, Powell told his wife, Pamela Wilson, "They have voted to break up the United Kingdom." '
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell
isam, what is it with you and Enoch Powell?
I regard him as an often unfairly maligned politician (although often justly criticised too), but you seem to have him as your lodestone.
Her answer on "cyberwalls" was 100% verifiable bullsh*t. But on foreign policy she had an approach which was a good deal more internally consistent, and although I disagree, it was not badly explained in a limited format.
I wasn't blown away, but some of the others were just dreadful.
[Edit: you can see my comments in the original if you want to trawl back!!]
So, hipster probably. I have started wearing a hat in the past year as well.
I'll get my passport.