'The terms of Obama’s proposed TPP ‘trade’ treaty with Asian countries won’t be made public until the treaty has already been in force for at least four years. The terms of Obama’s proposed TISA (Trade In Services Agreement) with 52 nations won’t be made public until the treaty has already been in force for at least five years. Obama’s proposed TTIP treaty with European countries has been so successfully hidden, that even the number of years it will be kept from the public isn’t yet known.'
There's a lot of ammo there to destroy the perception of 'remain' as the 'safe' option. There's also a lot of ammo to at least attempt to sell 'leave' to a left-leaning audience.
Mr. Thompson, I wonder if we could see weird things in Scotland. SNP types might vote Out to try and trigger Referendum 2: Refer Harder, and unionists might vote In to stop that. Northern Ireland should vote In as a potential Scottish vote (and leaving the EU whilst the Republic remains) could be problematic.
Mark Carney is going to make an intervention on the Brexit debate
I reckon that might swing a not an insignificant amount of voters depending on what he says.
Lest we forget his contribution during the Indyref
Why is he speaking out now though? It is months, maybe years until the referendum. Maybe just getting it out of the way when it will have little impact?
The principle of giving a voice to the vulnerable and abused against the high and mighty is right, of course – what is so revoltingly wrong is being able to wreck people’s lives and reputations without the evidence to back it up.
But for a tribal politician like Mr Watson what greater and more seductive defining mission could there be than bringing to book Thatcher-era Tories for sexual crimes? And so, in the case of Leon Brittan, he seized on the words of unreliable “witnesses”; took the word of a man who has since claimed he is “right up for witch-hunts” against Conservatives; smeared Brittan as being “as close to evil as any human being can get”; urged the Crown Prosecution Service to re-open a long-closed rape case; and pushed for the interrogation of a dying man.
"In general the younger and more middle class you are the greater the chance that you’ll be in the remain camp. Another big divider is education with graduates far more likely to want to stay in the EU. "
So it's 'OLD THICKOS FOR OUT'!. Needs a bit of polishing but there's a logo in there somewhere......
No one was born old. Perhaps having lived both outside the EU and inside the EU has something to do with it.
Only a really second rate thinker (and that's being generous) would draw satisfaction from being in the 'got a degree innit' category of some spurious poll.
I am confident that leaving the EU is the right thing to do based on my assessment of the ample available evidence. I'm delighted that so many of Britain's blue collar workers share my view, but it doesn't influence me either way.
Do tell us the last time your assessment (of anything) was misguided. We're all agog...
I was misguided in my thoughts about the lack of a scientific case for the greenhouse effect. A PBer highlighted information that changed my views - it hasn't converted me to climate change alarmism, and indeed I feel the jury is still out on the effects of CO2 emissions, but I feel I have greater understanding of the subject now, and consequently my views are more nuanced. Things like that happen a lot - I'm always happy for new information to alter my perceptions.
Mr. Eagles, disagree. The Martin Freeman PPB approach will help Out, but In will need a more significant cock-up than that to give Out a serious chance.
If Out are serious, they need to recruit Blair and Miliband (for the In campaign), whilst locking Farage in a shed for the next few years.
I agree with this, Farage is way too divisive and an easy target for the Remain mob.
Eagles comment is I hope sarcasm, if not then it sums up the smug attitude of the likes of Blair and Mandelson. That would be great news for Out, as no-one trusts smug liars like those two.
Incidentally, why does every Remain scare story begin with a three? Three million jobs, £3,000 per household etc.
Mr. Eagles, disagree. The Martin Freeman PPB approach will help Out, but In will need a more significant cock-up than that to give Out a serious chance.
If Out are serious, they need to recruit Blair and Miliband (for the In campaign), whilst locking Farage in a shed for the next few years.
I agree with this, Farage is way too divisive and an easy target for the Remain mob.
Eagles comment is I hope sarcasm, if not then it sums up the smug attitude of the likes of Blair and Mandelson. That would be great news for Out, as no-one trusts smug liars like those two.
Incidentally, why does every Remain scare story begin with a three? Three million jobs, £3,000 per household etc.
Mr. Eagles, disagree. The Martin Freeman PPB approach will help Out, but In will need a more significant cock-up than that to give Out a serious chance.
If Out are serious, they need to recruit Blair and Miliband (for the In campaign), whilst locking Farage in a shed for the next few years.
I agree with this, Farage is way too divisive and an easy target for the Remain mob.
Eagles comment is I hope sarcasm, if not then it sums up the smug attitude of the likes of Blair and Mandelson. That would be great news for Out, as no-one trusts smug liars like those two.
Incidentally, why does every Remain scare story begin with a three? Three million jobs, £3,000 per household etc.
I think Out should counteract that with FREE.
Three is a magic number. Wise Men etc.
Armaments, chapter two, verses nine through twenty-one.
If the young and the bright want to stay in, should not the older generation think VERY carefully before voting to leave.
Re-inforces, as an OAP, my intention to vote to stay in.
If the mature and experienced want to leave should not the younger, inexperienced generation think VERY carefully before voting to stay in?
It depends. In my personal view as a young, metropolitan Conservative (since that seems to be the term used as abuse) ... on social issues the old are more likely to be stuck in the past and "wrong", but on economic issues the old are more likely to be experienced and "right".
So are the old wanting to leave for social or economic reasons?
If the young and the bright want to stay in, should not the older generation think VERY carefully before voting to leave.
Re-inforces, as an OAP, my intention to vote to stay in.
If the mature and experienced want to leave should not the younger, inexperienced generation think VERY carefully before voting to stay in?
It depends. In my personal view as a young, metropolitan Conservative (since that seems to be the term used as abuse) ... on social issues the old are more likely to be stuck in the past and "wrong", but on economic issues the old are more likely to be experienced and "right".
So are the old wanting to leave for social or economic reasons?
If you were a young metropolitan leftie you would think the old were "wrong" in both respects, but would have just elected a 67 year old as your leader in the teeth of belief.
If the young and the bright want to stay in, should not the older generation think VERY carefully before voting to leave.
Re-inforces, as an OAP, my intention to vote to stay in.
If the mature and experienced want to leave should not the younger, inexperienced generation think VERY carefully before voting to stay in?
It depends. In my personal view as a young, metropolitan Conservative (since that seems to be the term used as abuse) ... on social issues the old are more likely to be stuck in the past and "wrong", but on economic issues the old are more likely to be experienced and "right".
So are the old wanting to leave for social or economic reasons?
If you were a young metropolitan leftie you would think the old were "wrong" in both respects, but would have just elected a 67 year old as your leader in the teeth of belief.
Mr. Eagles, disagree. The Martin Freeman PPB approach will help Out, but In will need a more significant cock-up than that to give Out a serious chance.
If Out are serious, they need to recruit Blair and Miliband (for the In campaign), whilst locking Farage in a shed for the next few years.
I agree with this, Farage is way too divisive and an easy target for the Remain mob.
Eagles comment is I hope sarcasm, if not then it sums up the smug attitude of the likes of Blair and Mandelson. That would be great news for Out, as no-one trusts smug liars like those two.
Incidentally, why does every Remain scare story begin with a three? Three million jobs, £3,000 per household etc.
I think Out should counteract that with FREE.
Three is a magic number. Wise Men etc.
If the Three Wise Men are Blair, Mandelson and Rudd then Out will walk it!
As a verified old sad thicko I will be voting out..just to get rid of the corruption that is the EU..
Indeed. Sadly the option that the majority of voters would support isn't available. Being in a non-fscked up EU with supremacy of UK law, control of their own borders (at least to the extent of controlling rate of immigration and being able to properly deport undesirables), and make our own trade deals without having to sit there watching Brussels kick the China FTA into the long grass.
If the young and the bright want to stay in, should not the older generation think VERY carefully before voting to leave.
Re-inforces, as an OAP, my intention to vote to stay in.
If the mature and experienced want to leave should not the younger, inexperienced generation think VERY carefully before voting to stay in?
It depends. In my personal view as a young, metropolitan Conservative (since that seems to be the term used as abuse) ... on social issues the old are more likely to be stuck in the past and "wrong", but on economic issues the old are more likely to be experienced and "right".
So are the old wanting to leave for social or economic reasons?
I don't know if it's social issues specifically relating to the EU - but on immigration I suspect the social side of things is an important driver. I myself am more concerned about the economics of the EU (and immigration). But if the oldies are voting the same way as me for a different reason, I really don't mind.
Mr. Roger, reasonably? If I were any svelter I'd probably be ill. Although, that said, I did weigh about 3st less when more or less the same height when I was 14-15. I was monumentally skinny then, though. Rib-viewing, spine-through-the-stomach-touching, skinny.
We could save a lot of taxes if OFSTED just rated schools according to the pupils' parents' bank accounts.
We could save even more if we scrapped OFSTED. What's the point of their ratings system if this is how it's operated? Do they not think that parents in poorer areas have the right to know how good their schools are too, relative to those elsewhere?
I can see a justification in rating as "good" if challenging pupils are brought up to a better standard, but "excellent" or "outstanding" should mean great attainment.
I've been reading Roy Jenkins' autobiography at odd moments - just got to the negotiations on the EMS (which led directly to the Euro). He says that it was Callaghan that blocked British entry, because of concerns that tying down our exchange rate would lead to difficulties in economic management down the line. Jenkins regrets Callaghan's "short-sightedness" and identifies the move towards a single currency as the greatest event of his Commissioner role: he assumes the reader agrees, and clearly doesn't feel he's saying anything about which there might be doubts.
Now, it's quite possible that if 20 years we'll see the single currency as a great achievement and the recent problems as a hiccup, or that it'll be seen as a disaster. But it's an example of how routine assumptions of accepted wisdom are sometimes unwise.
We could save a lot of taxes if OFSTED just rated schools according to the pupils' parents' bank accounts.
We could save even more if we scrapped OFSTED. What's the point of their ratings system if this is how it's operated?
"Sir" James Munby doesn't live in the real world.
Don't knock him. Munby is one of the more interesting Family Court judges in that he is very much for opening up the system and having less secrecy, and believes that the rights of fathers are equally important.
We could save a lot of taxes if OFSTED just rated schools according to the pupils' parents' bank accounts.
We could save even more if we scrapped OFSTED. What's the point of their ratings system if this is how it's operated?
"Sir" James Munby doesn't live in the real world.
Don't knock him. Munby is one of the more interesting Family Court judges in that he is very much for opening up the system and having less secrecy, and believes that the rights of fathers are equally important.
Just because you're right in one area doesn't make you right in all. I'd very much hope this decision would be appealed but I don't know if there's any recourse to that.
“I was completely innocent but the people who need to be questioned are the ones who brought this case to trial. As far as I am concerned they are the real criminals.
“I faced a real prospect of going to jail for something I did not do.
“The police charged me with not one shred of evidence apart from this boy’s word.”
The article by John Curtice seems entirely banal to me. Basically he has found that the view that most people have on the EU is determined by how it affects them. So those with a university level education are less threatened in the jobs market than those who have lower qualifications and are less concerned about the immigration of workers from other EU countries as a result.
Similarly, those who have been brought up in a multicultural and multiracial society and never known anything else are less concerned about it than older people who remember when society was more homogeneous and who find the change frightening.
It suggests to me that most peoples' views on leave and remain will be driven by the perceived advantages and disadvantages to them. This is actually not great news for the fanatics on each side who are much more interested in amorphous concepts like sovereignty and the supremacy of laws, issues to which I suspect the vast majority are totally indifferent.
The campaign that will be successful will be the campaign that can drag itself away from these interesting but theoretical concepts and make the issues real to those who will vote. So Out needs to explain how having eastern Europeans coming here to work might be good for the economy as a whole but it is seriously bad for those hoping to get employment in those trades. In needs to explain how the minimum standards necessary to underpin a common market have given and will continue to give actual concrete rights in the workplace.
The campaign that focuses most on the high faluting stuff will lose.
But for the rest of us it is a moment of wondrous clarity. One of those times when you think, By Jove, he’s actually only gone and done it. Fair enough, perhaps. Nothing is too bonkers to be unthinkable these days. Life in Corbynvania will never be dull.
At the same time, appointing as your chief spin doctor – your principal conduit to the admirable rotters who constitute the parliamentary lobby – someone whose views are, if anything, even more extreme than your own modestly outlandish prejudices is, well, interesting. Also brave. Undoubtedly bold too.
The Netherlands and Luxembourg should also be fined. Tangentially related, I have no idea why we didn't insist Ireland harmonised it's corporation tax with us when we gave them that loan. As @Dair pointed out we had real, and rare, leverage on the matter at that point.
Patrick said: I'm guessing that immigrants at sea in the Med are not, in the first instance, going to land in the UK but Italy. So...for the UK to be spending money on helping them to make their trips safer is not easy to defend as value for UK taxpayer's money. The left is already getting all excited about this. I'm not sure I want my tax money spent helping immigrants sail to Italy.
Electorally I suspect Dave will benefit from this decision.
I know we can't expect blockbuster Select Committees like Batman & Yentob very often - but I do feel we're being wonderfully spoiled with yet another scheduled for this afternoon with Watson & Met.
If only we could enjoy more like these every week. There must be plenty of candidates infinitely more deserving of public opprobrium than the tepid stuff we normally see.
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Patrick said: I'm guessing that immigrants at sea in the Med are not, in the first instance, going to land in the UK but Italy. So...for the UK to be spending money on helping them to make their trips safer is not easy to defend as value for UK taxpayer's money. The left is already getting all excited about this. I'm not sure I want my tax money spent helping immigrants sail to Italy.
Electorally I suspect Dave will benefit from this decision.
Legally if they've come straight from Syria then they're our responsibility (It is their first country of asylum seeking).
We should quietly knock the total that arrive on the island off of however many we're going to take and get cracking on giving back the territory to the Cypriots (whilst leasing the base and not owning the territory going forward). They may not want it back now however !
Looks to me to be our very own potential 'Lampedusa'.
Plato I guess all we will get from Watson will be prepared statements about how he was acting in the public interest... If he gets away with hat will depend on how many buddies are on the committee..
But for the rest of us it is a moment of wondrous clarity. One of those times when you think, By Jove, he’s actually only gone and done it. Fair enough, perhaps. Nothing is too bonkers to be unthinkable these days. Life in Corbynvania will never be dull.
At the same time, appointing as your chief spin doctor – your principal conduit to the admirable rotters who constitute the parliamentary lobby – someone whose views are, if anything, even more extreme than your own modestly outlandish prejudices is, well, interesting. Also brave. Undoubtedly bold too.
One also wonders whether he'll be temperamentally able to do the job. At some point, he and Corbyn will disagree on something (in all probability, on lots of things). The Chief Spin doctor's job is to have no personal views and to be the mouthpiece of the leader on behalf of the party. For someone who's been as vocal and outspoken as Milne, that's going to be quite an attitudinal leap.
If he can't do it - and one suspects he can't - there'll be all sorts of fun when Corbyn is repeatedly asked if he agrees with his official spokesman on this, that or t'other.
Well that's one of the famous 'three' myths rubbished, time for the rest now.
As this campaign goes on and the reasons to remain are exposed as lies, vested interests and complete bollocks I genuinely think Out has a fair chance.
But we only have a little bit of the island, right?
Greece/Cyprus is in a far worse economic state than the UK. If I was fleeing Syria, and had the means I'd probably head for Akrotiri... you haven't passed through any previous 'safe' countries, so you're on a sound legal basis to apply for asylum in the UK. Whereas if you're in Calais - well that's very different.
But we only have a little bit of the island, right?
Greece/Cyprus is in a far worse economic state than the UK. If I was fleeing Syria, and had the means I'd probably head for Akrotiri... you haven't passed through any previous 'safe' countries, so you're on a sound legal basis to apply for asylum in the UK. Whereas if you're in Calais - well that's very different.
From the Beeb article I linked to -
"A number of Iraqi Kurds landed at RAF Akrotiri in 1998 and still live in a second British base on Cyprus, Dhekelia, in former military accommodation. They have tried to apply for asylum in the UK, but have been repeatedly turned down by the government."
Plato I guess all we will get from Watson will be prepared statements about how he was acting in the public interest... If he gets away with hat will depend on how many buddies are on the committee..
And how assiduously Mr Vaz (then a local candidate) wishes to delve into the Elm Guest House....
But, as Mr. Pulpstar suggested, if so, that should be included in the 20,000 limit. We also ought to increase security to minimise the risk of it recurring.
"A number of Iraqi Kurds landed at RAF Akrotiri in 1998 and still live in a second British base on Cyprus, Dhekelia, in former military accommodation.
They have tried to apply for asylum in the UK, but have been repeatedly turned down by the government."
Iraqi Kurds would have had to pass through Syria/Jordan/Lebanon, which at the time were safe countries.
A syrian refugee OTOH this time has to pass through no other countries to reach the base, it can be shown to be the first safe country. They have a very strong asylum case on us imo.
Edited extra bit: incidentally, I hope to put up a piece later today which may be of great interest to those who have a completed story in the sci-fi/fantasy [broad definition] genre.
I wrote a piece years ago saying that Waterloo in terms of our thrashings of the French was Primus inter pares simply because ABBA did a song about it.
Oh, I don't know. Naming a major railway station with links to Channel Ports surely counts for more.
Didn't the French do something of the sort, with the Gare Austerlitz?
I've been reading Roy Jenkins' autobiography at odd moments - just got to the negotiations on the EMS (which led directly to the Euro). He says that it was Callaghan that blocked British entry, because of concerns that tying down our exchange rate would lead to difficulties in economic management down the line. Jenkins regrets Callaghan's "short-sightedness" and identifies the move towards a single currency as the greatest event of his Commissioner role: he assumes the reader agrees, and clearly doesn't feel he's saying anything about which there might be doubts.
Now, it's quite possible that if 20 years we'll see the single currency as a great achievement and the recent problems as a hiccup, or that it'll be seen as a disaster. But it's an example of how routine assumptions of accepted wisdom are sometimes unwise.
Considering what happened to Sterling between the late 70s and mid-80s (never mind later), one might have thought that Jenkins would have revised that opinion by the time he wrote it. The original Snake was blown out of the water by the oil price shocks in the early 70s, and the violent currency swings that went with them; Britain's own oil-related appreciation should have been foreseeable, even if the interest rate-related changes weren't at the time.
In any case, while the EMS was a step on the road to EMU, the former didn't directly lead to the latter; it needed the Maastricht Treaty to complete that journey.
Mr. Rata, saw on Twitter today that a single race produces 150GB of data (per car, I think).
That's teeny. A mate works for one of the major research organisations into human genome mapping, and the amount of data they produce daily is truly humongous.
The design has proved highly successful and today far exceeds its original design capacity. We now have 17,000 cores of compute predominantly in blade format, and approximately 40 petabytes of raw storage capacity (25 PB usable); four times the density of equipment for which it was designed.
(A petabyte is 1,000 terabytes, which is 1,000 GB)
But that's nothing compared to the amount of data that'll be produced by the SKA when that project starts on anger. It might be in the order of an exabyte, or 1,000 petabytes, each day.
This might be more than the entirety of all the data on the Internet ...
Why does the UK need to have a steel industry? It will sadly never be said, but does it actually make sense for us to be making metal when it can be bought so cheaply elsewhere.....
Mr. Rata, saw on Twitter today that a single race produces 150GB of data (per car, I think).
That's teeny. A mate works for one of the major research organisations into human genome mapping, and the amount of data they produce daily is truly humongous.
The design has proved highly successful and today far exceeds its original design capacity. We now have 17,000 cores of compute predominantly in blade format, and approximately 40 petabytes of raw storage capacity (25 PB usable); four times the density of equipment for which it was designed.
(A petabyte is 1,000 terabytes, which is 1,000 GB)
But that's nothing compared to the amount of data that'll be produced by the SKA when that project starts on anger. It might be in the order of an exabyte, or 1,000 petabytes, each day.
This might be more than the entirety of all the data on the Internet ...
You mean my 300,000 word (trimmed down from 400,000), part 1 of 5, epic fantasy tale has a slim slim hope of seeing the light of day?
I think I'm right in saying such large submissions, from first times, almost always go straight in the bin, not without cause - that's a big gamble to take on.
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-20/europe-secretly-starts-imposing-ttip-despite-public’s-overwhelming-opposition
'The terms of Obama’s proposed TPP ‘trade’ treaty with Asian countries won’t be made public until the treaty has already been in force for at least four years. The terms of Obama’s proposed TISA (Trade In Services Agreement) with 52 nations won’t be made public until the treaty has already been in force for at least five years. Obama’s proposed TTIP treaty with European countries has been so successfully hidden, that even the number of years it will be kept from the public isn’t yet known.'
There's a lot of ammo there to destroy the perception of 'remain' as the 'safe' option. There's also a lot of ammo to at least attempt to sell 'leave' to a left-leaning audience.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11941398/Bank-of-England-Governor-Mark-Carney-to-intervene-in-Brexit-debate.html
(Proud to be an OLD THICKO)
Mr. 1983, I wonder if that might be more of a factor for leftwing voters.
Again needs refining......
So are the old wanting to leave for social or economic reasons?
Doesn't make me run any faster (or at all) though.
THE YOUNG THE BRIGHT THE THIN-VOTE IN
That's pretty inclusive for those who worry about that sort of thing
Mr. Thompson, neither, I'd say. It's about sovereignty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qKps7uG6eM
What on earth is with the clip showing him stripping off to his vest ?!
Was it supposed to dissuade voters from voting for him ?
I am OLD. STOUT and BRIGHT
How should I vote?
Thanks
'So it's 'OLD THICKOS FOR OUT'!'
I thought you liked the EU ?
I'm told.
"Mr. Roger, it's unlikely I'll be voting in."
I take it as a Morris dancer your figure is reasonably svelte? I said the lines needed working on....
Mr. Roger, reasonably? If I were any svelter I'd probably be ill. Although, that said, I did weigh about 3st less when more or less the same height when I was 14-15. I was monumentally skinny then, though. Rib-viewing, spine-through-the-stomach-touching, skinny.
"Dear Roger
I am OLD. STOUT and BRIGHT
How should I vote?
Thanks"
Dear BIG
Thanks for your enquiry
Unfortunately after this latest research from John Curtice our operators have been inundated. Your call is important to us though so please call again
Yours
https://twitter.com/dailymailuk/status/656749075728113664
The words 'not fit for purpose' spring to mind.
Rip it up and start again seems appropriate.
In other news WTF? Parents who tried to join Isis can keep their four children, judge rules http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/law/article4591755.ece
Apparently, the parents have "put the incident behind them" well that's all right then.
When David Cameron Asked Brian Blessed To A Government Meeting
David Cameron had a very special request, when he met Brian Blessed one time at 10 Downing Street...
http://mentalfloss.com/uk/entertainment/34732/when-david-cameron-asked-brian-blessed-to-a-government-meeting
No?
Excellent !
Good!
"The best thing about him is that he's gone [dead]."
They tried to make kids go to jihad
I said no no no*
*when asked whether this was sufficient for the children to be removed from their care.
Now, it's quite possible that if 20 years we'll see the single currency as a great achievement and the recent problems as a hiccup, or that it'll be seen as a disaster. But it's an example of how routine assumptions of accepted wisdom are sometimes unwise.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34591476
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34590635
Similarly, those who have been brought up in a multicultural and multiracial society and never known anything else are less concerned about it than older people who remember when society was more homogeneous and who find the change frightening.
It suggests to me that most peoples' views on leave and remain will be driven by the perceived advantages and disadvantages to them. This is actually not great news for the fanatics on each side who are much more interested in amorphous concepts like sovereignty and the supremacy of laws, issues to which I suspect the vast majority are totally indifferent.
The campaign that will be successful will be the campaign that can drag itself away from these interesting but theoretical concepts and make the issues real to those who will vote. So Out needs to explain how having eastern Europeans coming here to work might be good for the economy as a whole but it is seriously bad for those hoping to get employment in those trades. In needs to explain how the minimum standards necessary to underpin a common market have given and will continue to give actual concrete rights in the workplace.
The campaign that focuses most on the high faluting stuff will lose.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/21/starbucks-and-fiat-tax-deals-with-eu-nations-ruled-unlawful
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/20/lotus_f1_data_centre_and_telemetry/?page=1
http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/back-in-the-ussr-jeremy-corbyn-hires-seumas-milne/
October 2014 What if they land here? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Base_Areas "
http://politicalbetting.vanillaforums.com/discussion/comment/449631/#Comment_449631
Only took a year..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34590635
"Migrant crisis: Boats land at UK base RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus"
If only we could enjoy more like these every week. There must be plenty of candidates infinitely more deserving of public opprobrium than the tepid stuff we normally see.
http://politicalbetting.vanillaforums.com/discussion/comment/449631/#Comment_449631
Only took a year..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34590635
"Migrant crisis: Boats land at UK base RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus"
Legally if they've come straight from Syria then they're our responsibility (It is their first country of asylum seeking).
We should quietly knock the total that arrive on the island off of however many we're going to take and get cracking on giving back the territory to the Cypriots (whilst leasing the base and not owning the territory going forward). They may not want it back now however !
Looks to me to be our very own potential 'Lampedusa'.
But we only have a little bit of the island, right?
It’s #TrafalgarDay! We’ll be tweeting ‘live’ news from the battle at the approx. times it happened 210 yrs ago… https://t.co/6bDIlRw1jM
http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/a-british-bill-of-rights-would-protect-our-liberty/
One also wonders whether he'll be temperamentally able to do the job. At some point, he and Corbyn will disagree on something (in all probability, on lots of things). The Chief Spin doctor's job is to have no personal views and to be the mouthpiece of the leader on behalf of the party. For someone who's been as vocal and outspoken as Milne, that's going to be quite an attitudinal leap.
If he can't do it - and one suspects he can't - there'll be all sorts of fun when Corbyn is repeatedly asked if he agrees with his official spokesman on this, that or t'other.
Ships lost:
French and Spanish fleet: 22
British: 0
At least it's one way to get the unknowing youngster to learn about something so fab from our history!
Well that's one of the famous 'three' myths rubbished, time for the rest now.
As this campaign goes on and the reasons to remain are exposed as lies, vested interests and complete bollocks I genuinely think Out has a fair chance.
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Nelson hoists famous signal: England expects that every man will do his duty #TrafalgarDay https://t.co/1KmP9MetIN https://t.co/857X6wlFJ5
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34590635
"A number of Iraqi Kurds landed at RAF Akrotiri in 1998 and still live in a second British base on Cyprus, Dhekelia, in former military accommodation.
They have tried to apply for asylum in the UK, but have been repeatedly turned down by the government."
"A number of Iraqi Kurds landed at RAF Akrotiri in 1998 and still live in a second British base on Cyprus, Dhekelia, in former military accommodation.
They have tried to apply for asylum in the UK, but have been repeatedly turned down by the government."
I'd imagine this lot might have more luck..
http://thaddeusthesixth.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/three-open-windows.html
But, as Mr. Pulpstar suggested, if so, that should be included in the 20,000 limit. We also ought to increase security to minimise the risk of it recurring.
A syrian refugee OTOH this time has to pass through no other countries to reach the base, it can be shown to be the first safe country. They have a very strong asylum case on us imo.
Didn't the French do something of the sort, with the Gare Austerlitz?
In any case, while the EMS was a step on the road to EMU, the former didn't directly lead to the latter; it needed the Maastricht Treaty to complete that journey.
(A petabyte is 1,000 terabytes, which is 1,000 GB)
But that's nothing compared to the amount of data that'll be produced by the SKA when that project starts on anger. It might be in the order of an exabyte, or 1,000 petabytes, each day.
This might be more than the entirety of all the data on the Internet ...
That's a lot of floppies.
(A petabyte is 1,000 terabytes, which is 1,000 GB)
But that's nothing compared to the amount of data that'll be produced by the SKA when that project starts on anger. It might be in the order of an exabyte, or 1,000 petabytes, each day.
This might be more than the entirety of all the data on the Internet ...
The SKA needs to be pointed straight at
-> http://s248.photobucket.com/user/Pulpstar/media/exocomets 1st guess.jpg.html
I think I'm right in saying such large submissions, from first times, almost always go straight in the bin, not without cause - that's a big gamble to take on.
I wish it was politically possible to say steel in the UK is a dead duck business in the main. But it isn't.
Corbyn over - thought he was better at follow ups this time but still batted away.