Lords Howard and Owen yesterday as well...this won't be a re-run of 1975 as Cameron and Osborne hoped
I do wonder - pace @Casino_Royale - whether this steady drip drip of big names coming out for Leave has been planned and sequenced. Big names - surprise leftie, then big Tory, then... etc etc
You'd think so but then you remember the shambles that is the leave campaign and wonder who on earth might be organising it.
They are not one campaign, but several. We have the dysfunctional UKIP with their usual shambles whenever Farage meddles in the organisation and then the personality problems of Cummings and then the dad's army of Bone's grassroots. Apart from that, no problem.
I note Ted Cruz graduated from Harvard Law School and has taught Supreme Court litigation. I wonder whether he might like to be Rubio's running mate - not as VP (Kasich?), but as SC-nominee-designate (a role I fancy both Presidential candidates may well name in advance).
This is all probably moot but things are going to have to come to a head after Super Tuesday if they're going to have any chance of stopping the Donald.
I thought The Revenant was overrated, very good but not a great.
If it were up to me my choice for best film would be from The Martian, Room, Spotlight or The Big Short. The ending of The Big Short was chilling. But The Martian won it for me, scifi films don't get the honours they deserve, plus this had some awesome 70s music in it including ABBA.
Best actor, Matt Damon for me, and Mark Rylance for me.
Actress wise I enjoyed Brie Larson.
Can someone explain to me why Samuel L Jackson wasn't nominated for his role in The Hateful Eight, because that was the performance of the last year for me
I think Samuel Jackson wasn't nominated because his performance was a bit too pantomime. You could say the same for javier Bardem in 'No Country...' but there was some serious menace with it! I thought Brie Larson was good but I'd really like Saoirse Ronan to win. I thought she was exceptional and just unlucky that a film like Room was in the same year.
Thanks. I enjoyed Brooklyn a lot thanks to Ms Ronan and Julie Walters.
I've been thinking a bit about the idea that the other members of the EU might, post-Brexit, encourage Scotland to secede from the UK and join the EU. Quite apart from the practical difficulties with such an idea, direct incitement of this type would contravene the international law principle that states should respect the territorial integrity of sovereign states. This type of action would be a massive step change from the recognition of the likes of Kosovo (which remains controversial even within the EU, for example). Respectable democratic countries should not be going anywhere near this type of behaviour.
So I don't see anything that unsubtle happening.
Sure. It would be simple. SNP clamours for Indyref2
The EU "lets it be known" that they would welcome Scotland as a member.
Job done.
(My guess, though, is it was really just a threat that France was making, not a real option. But Cameron didn't want to call their bluff)
I don't think anyone doubts that an independent Scotland would be welcomed as a member of the EU. It would be the only state west of the river Bug that the EU spurned if it wasn't.
I agree, it would be a pretty empty threat.
Wouldn't Spain veto membership of an Indy Scotland because of their problems with Catalonian secessionists ?
That's the debate:
- If the UK is part of the EU, absolutely no way they would accept an iScot membership - If the UK leaves the EU, then breaks up, all they are doing is extending the hand of friendship to a newly independent nation. It's no different to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia or Croatia
I've been thinking a bit about the idea that the other members of the EU might, post-Brexit, encourage Scotland to secede from the UK and join the EU. Quite apart from the practical difficulties with such an idea, direct incitement of this type would contravene the international law principle that states should respect the territorial integrity of sovereign states. This type of action would be a massive step change from the recognition of the likes of Kosovo (which remains controversial even within the EU, for example). Respectable democratic countries should not be going anywhere near this type of behaviour.
So I don't see anything that unsubtle happening.
Sure. It would be simple. SNP clamours for Indyref2
The EU "lets it be known" that they would welcome Scotland as a member.
Job done.
(My guess, though, is it was really just a threat that France was making, not a real option. But Cameron didn't want to call their bluff)
I don't think anyone doubts that an independent Scotland would be welcomed as a member of the EU. It would be the only state west of the river Bug that the EU spurned if it wasn't.
I agree, it would be a pretty empty threat.
Wouldn't Spain veto membership of an Indy Scotland because of their problems with Catalonian secessionists ?
A post UK-Eu-exit-IndyScotland is a very different beast from an UK-in-Europe-IndyScotland.
Merkel's decision to encourage the migrant crisis will make a great film one day, though the premise might be thought a little far fetched. Let's just hope they aren't remakes of westerns
I've been thinking a bit about the idea that the other members of the EU might, post-Brexit, encourage Scotland to secede from the UK and join the EU. Quite apart from the practical difficulties with such an idea, direct incitement of this type would contravene the international law principle that states should respect the territorial integrity of sovereign states. This type of action would be a massive step change from the recognition of the likes of Kosovo (which remains controversial even within the EU, for example). Respectable democratic countries should not be going anywhere near this type of behaviour.
So I don't see anything that unsubtle happening.
Sure. It would be simple. SNP clamours for Indyref2
The EU "lets it be known" that they would welcome Scotland as a member.
Job done.
(My guess, though, is it was really just a threat that France was making, not a real option. But Cameron didn't want to call their bluff)
I don't think anyone doubts that an independent Scotland would be welcomed as a member of the EU. It would be the only state west of the river Bug that the EU spurned if it wasn't.
I agree, it would be a pretty empty threat.
Wouldn't Spain veto membership of an Indy Scotland because of their problems with Catalonian secessionists ?
A post UK-Eu-exit-IndyScotland is a very different beast from an UK-in-Europe-IndyScotland.
After a hypothetical secession by Scotland from the UK, there's no obvious reason for Spain to treat Scotland differently from Slovenia or Croatia. The huffing and puffing would be before independence, mainly, not after.
The entry terms would still need to be negotiated, of course.
A post-UK-EU-exit-IndyScotland would find itself in a very uncomfortable position, wanting full access to two different markets that might very well be at loggerheads for years (one of which it itself would have further alienated). It would be doing the diplomatic equivalent of the splits.
I thought The Revenant was overrated, very good but not a great.
If it were up to me my choice for best film would be from The Martian, Room, Spotlight or The Big Short. The ending of The Big Short was chilling. But The Martian won it for me, scifi films don't get the honours they deserve, plus this had some awesome 70s music in it including ABBA.
Best actor, Matt Damon for me, and Mark Rylance for me.
Actress wise I enjoyed Brie Larson.
Can someone explain to me why Samuel L Jackson wasn't nominated for his role in The Hateful Eight, because that was the performance of the last year for me
I think Samuel Jackson wasn't nominated because his performance was a bit too pantomime.
A bit? There was more ham there than a pig farm! His worst performance in a Tarantino movie, IMHO.
Apologies if already posted, but what a fine school with excellent staff, they should be praised for flagging up one of their students visiting an extremist site.
PC gone mad: Outrage as school calls police after pupil looks at Ukip website in class
A SCHOOLBOY was hauled out of class and interrogated by detectives after politically correct teachers reported him to the POLICE for visiting the UKIP website.
so it is of concern to look at a website of a party which has MEP's, an MP and four million voters at the last election. talk about thought police and erosion of our freedoms to have political views. the worlds gone mad!
Good job! Barbaric and backward attitudes to sex that have no place in the western world. Let's hope there aren't thousands more entering the EU on a daily basis...
Good job! Barbaric and backward attitudes to sex that have no place in the western world. Let's hope there aren't thousands more entering the EU on a daily basis...
Apologies if already posted, but what a fine school with excellent staff, they should be praised for flagging up one of their students visiting an extremist site.
PC gone mad: Outrage as school calls police after pupil looks at Ukip website in class
A SCHOOLBOY was hauled out of class and interrogated by detectives after politically correct teachers reported him to the POLICE for visiting the UKIP website.
so it is of concern to look at a website of a party which has MEP's, an MP and four million voters at the last election. talk about thought police and erosion of our freedoms to have political views. the worlds gone mad!
"Police said the contact with the teen was not solely sparked by accessing the Ukip website."
So there is presumably more to this story than the Express has suggested.
I've been thinking a bit about the idea that the other members of the EU might, post-Brexit, encourage Scotland to secede from the UK and join the EU. Quite apart from the practical difficulties with such an idea, direct incitement of this type would contravene the international law principle that states should respect the territorial integrity of sovereign states. This type of action would be a massive step change from the recognition of the likes of Kosovo (which remains controversial even within the EU, for example). Respectable democratic countries should not be going anywhere near this type of behaviour.
So I don't see anything that unsubtle happening.
Sure. It would be simple. SNP clamours for Indyref2
The EU "lets it be known" that they would welcome Scotland as a member.
Job done.
(My guess, though, is it was really just a threat that France was making, not a real option. But Cameron didn't want to call their bluff)
I don't think anyone doubts that an independent Scotland would be welcomed as a member of the EU. It would be the only state west of the river Bug that the EU spurned if it wasn't.
I agree, it would be a pretty empty threat.
Wouldn't Spain veto membership of an Indy Scotland because of their problems with Catalonian secessionists ?
That's the debate:
- If the UK is part of the EU, absolutely no way they would accept an iScot membership - If the UK leaves the EU, then breaks up, all they are doing is extending the hand of friendship to a newly independent nation. It's no different to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia or Croatia
If we leave the EU I cannot see it surviving in it's present format. Even before the referendum we are going to see a cataclysmic fall out between Germany, Austria and the Balkans with Greece hung out to dry. No one, absolutely no one, has an answer. Listening to Martin Schultz on BBC Hardtalk I was amazed how he was incredulous that a Conservative Prime Minister would be campaigning on the EU's side and became extremely agitated over the accusation of Merkel's open door disaster and the near civil war breaking out. I expect within a month Schengen will be suspended for two years and the internal discord throughout the EU will see such a level of unrest that it may well run out of control with no one knowing the end game. As far as the referendum is concerned I am pulled both ways but in the event of EU chaos being inside and having a big influence on outcomes may well be better than being on the outside with no control and with an EU that really would not be interested in accommodating the UK
Lords Howard and Owen yesterday as well...this won't be a re-run of 1975 as Cameron and Osborne hoped
I do wonder - pace @Casino_Royale - whether this steady drip drip of big names coming out for Leave has been planned and sequenced. Big names - surprise leftie, then big Tory, then... etc etc
Perhaps but big names declining to join Remain isn't the same as declaring for Leave.
Personally, I think Vote Leave needs to organise a 'big bang' of 30-40 top names all announcing for Leave in one go to grab the headlines and a news cycle or two.
Remain must be put on the defensive and, right now, the impression being given is that business is for Remain.
I thought The Revenant was overrated, very good but not a great.
If it were up to me my choice for best film would be from The Martian, Room, Spotlight or The Big Short. The ending of The Big Short was chilling. But The Martian won it for me, scifi films don't get the honours they deserve, plus this had some awesome 70s music in it including ABBA.
Best actor, Matt Damon for me, and Mark Rylance for me.
Actress wise I enjoyed Brie Larson.
Can someone explain to me why Samuel L Jackson wasn't nominated for his role in The Hateful Eight, because that was the performance of the last year for me
I think Samuel Jackson wasn't nominated because his performance was a bit too pantomime.
A bit? There was more ham there than a pig farm! His worst performance in a Tarantino movie, IMHO.
Nonsense. His winding up of the General alone deserves an Oscar and the warm drink he gave the General's son.
Roger. Thanks very much for doing this. And thanks to Peter from Putney - the Sage of PB - for identifying the value bets.
Peter politely requested that Roger underwrite his betting liabilities on these tips. Roger hasn't responded to this request but I think we can safely assume that Roger's silence indicates tacit agreement.
Hi StJohn and thanks. I missed that from PtP! I think you might be assuming wrongly!
I thought The Revenant was overrated, very good but not a great.
If it were up to me my choice for best film would be from The Martian, Room, Spotlight or The Big Short. The ending of The Big Short was chilling. But The Martian won it for me, scifi films don't get the honours they deserve, plus this had some awesome 70s music in it including ABBA.
Best actor, Matt Damon for me, and Mark Rylance for me.
Actress wise I enjoyed Brie Larson.
Can someone explain to me why Samuel L Jackson wasn't nominated for his role in The Hateful Eight, because that was the performance of the last year for me
I think Samuel Jackson wasn't nominated because his performance was a bit too pantomime. You could say the same for javier Bardem in 'No Country...' but there was some serious menace with it! I thought Brie Larson was good but I'd really like Saoirse Ronan to win. I thought she was exceptional and just unlucky that a film like Room was in the same year.
Thanks. I enjoyed Brooklyn a lot thanks to Ms Ronan and Julie Walters.
Lords Howard and Owen yesterday as well...this won't be a re-run of 1975 as Cameron and Osborne hoped
I do wonder - pace @Casino_Royale - whether this steady drip drip of big names coming out for Leave has been planned and sequenced. Big names - surprise leftie, then big Tory, then... etc etc
You'd think so but then you remember the shambles that is the leave campaign and wonder who on earth might be organising it.
Judging by the number of invitations I get to Vote Leave events around the country (none of which I've managed to go to just yet!) plus campaign briefing breakfasts every week I suspect they are paddling furiously under the surface...
I think they are, but they need to paddle above the surface too.
The Revenant was pretty but dull. The Big Short is a better film imo. Joy was the worst film I saw in the last 12 months - why Lawrence was nominated I've no idea. Sad to see Sicario being so shortchanged - we bought the DVD and it still held up to a second viewing.
Joy was awful - trying to shoe-horn the Silver Linings cast into a film that was all wrong for them. Bradley Cooper in particular was a spare prick at a wedding.
Sicario looked great - Roger Deakins' cinematography elevated it into a great action-thriller.
Black Mass was my biggest WTF? in the nominations. Nowhere. It was one of the best gangster movies I've ever seen. Depp was a revelation.
Apologies if already posted, but what a fine school with excellent staff, they should be praised for flagging up one of their students visiting an extremist site.
PC gone mad: Outrage as school calls police after pupil looks at Ukip website in class
A SCHOOLBOY was hauled out of class and interrogated by detectives after politically correct teachers reported him to the POLICE for visiting the UKIP website.
so it is of concern to look at a website of a party which has MEP's, an MP and four million voters at the last election. talk about thought police and erosion of our freedoms to have political views. the worlds gone mad!
"Police said the contact with the teen was not solely sparked by accessing the Ukip website."
So there is presumably more to this story than the Express has suggested.
There's more to any story than the Express suggests.
Apologies if already posted, but what a fine school with excellent staff, they should be praised for flagging up one of their students visiting an extremist site.
PC gone mad: Outrage as school calls police after pupil looks at Ukip website in class
A SCHOOLBOY was hauled out of class and interrogated by detectives after politically correct teachers reported him to the POLICE for visiting the UKIP website.
so it is of concern to look at a website of a party which has MEP's, an MP and four million voters at the last election. talk about thought police and erosion of our freedoms to have political views. the worlds gone mad!
"Police said the contact with the teen was not solely sparked by accessing the Ukip website."
So there is presumably more to this story than the Express has suggested.
There's more to any story than the Express suggests.
If we leave the EU I cannot see it surviving in it's present format. Even before the referendum we are going to see a cataclysmic fall out between Germany, Austria and the Balkans with Greece hung out to dry. No one, absolutely no one, has an answer. Listening to Martin Schultz on BBC Hardtalk I was amazed how he was incredulous that a Conservative Prime Minister would be campaigning on the EU's side and became extremely agitated over the accusation of Merkel's open door disaster and the near civil war breaking out. I expect within a month Schengen will be suspended for two years and the internal discord throughout the EU will see such a level of unrest that it may well run out of control with no one knowing the end game. As far as the referendum is concerned I am pulled both ways but in the event of EU chaos being inside and having a big influence on outcomes may well be better than being on the outside with no control and with an EU that really would not be interested in accommodating the UK
"As far as the referendum is concerned I am pulled both ways but in the event of EU chaos being inside and having a big influence on outcomes may well be better than being on the outside with no control and with an EU that really would not be interested in accommodating the UK"
So you would stay on the Titanic to try and steer the ship going down, rather than take the lifeboat?
Apologies if already posted, but what a fine school with excellent staff, they should be praised for flagging up one of their students visiting an extremist site.
PC gone mad: Outrage as school calls police after pupil looks at Ukip website in class
A SCHOOLBOY was hauled out of class and interrogated by detectives after politically correct teachers reported him to the POLICE for visiting the UKIP website.
so it is of concern to look at a website of a party which has MEP's, an MP and four million voters at the last election. talk about thought police and erosion of our freedoms to have political views. the worlds gone mad!
"Police said the contact with the teen was not solely sparked by accessing the Ukip website."
So there is presumably more to this story than the Express has suggested.
If he was on Leave.EU as well then it all starts to make sense.
If we leave the EU I cannot see it surviving in it's present format. Even before the referendum we are going to see a cataclysmic fall out between Germany, Austria and the Balkans with Greece hung out to dry. No one, absolutely no one, has an answer. Listening to Martin Schultz on BBC Hardtalk I was amazed how he was incredulous that a Conservative Prime Minister would be campaigning on the EU's side and became extremely agitated over the accusation of Merkel's open door disaster and the near civil war breaking out. I expect within a month Schengen will be suspended for two years and the internal discord throughout the EU will see such a level of unrest that it may well run out of control with no one knowing the end game. As far as the referendum is concerned I am pulled both ways but in the event of EU chaos being inside and having a big influence on outcomes may well be better than being on the outside with no control and with an EU that really would not be interested in accommodating the UK
My analysis is the same but the conclusion totally different.
In the event of EU chaos far better to be outside. Let them sort it out as suits them, while we focus on growth markets.
I thought The Revenant was overrated, very good but not a great.
If it were up to me my choice for best film would be from The Martian, Room, Spotlight or The Big Short. The ending of The Big Short was chilling. But The Martian won it for me, scifi films don't get the honours they deserve, plus this had some awesome 70s music in it including ABBA.
Best actor, Matt Damon for me, and Mark Rylance for me.
Actress wise I enjoyed Brie Larson.
Can someone explain to me why Samuel L Jackson wasn't nominated for his role in The Hateful Eight, because that was the performance of the last year for me
I think Samuel Jackson wasn't nominated because his performance was a bit too pantomime.
A bit? There was more ham there than a pig farm! His worst performance in a Tarantino movie, IMHO.
Nonsense. His winding up of the General alone deserves an Oscar and the warm drink he gave the General's son.
The tragedy was Pulp Fiction and his non-winning then. Everything else is sadly seen in that context. Everyone is waiting for his next Jules and if his latest at any time doesn't quite measure up, they try to shoehorn it into being as good.
I seldom watch films so I wouldn't dare to offer tips, but on the way to San Francisco I watched a film (on the back of the seat in front) starring Johnny Depp (I didn't recognise him at first). He played Whitey Bulger, and I thought he was very impressive. I assume that's 'Black Mass'?
He radiated an air of menace without overdoing it.
I've been thinking a bit about the idea that the other members of the EU might, post-Brexit, encourage Scotland to secede from the UK and join the EU. Quite apart from the practical difficulties with such an idea, direct incitement of this type would contravene the international law principle that states should respect the territorial integrity of sovereign states. This type of action would be a massive step change from the recognition of the likes of Kosovo (which remains controversial even within the EU, for example). Respectable democratic countries should not be going anywhere near this type of behaviour.
So I don't see anything that unsubtle happening.
Sure. It would be simple. SNP clamours for Indyref2
The EU "lets it be known" that they would welcome Scotland as a member.
Job done.
(My guess, though, is it was really just a threat that France was making, not a real option. But Cameron didn't want to call their bluff)
I don't think anyone doubts that an independent Scotland would be welcomed as a member of the EU. It would be the only state west of the river Bug that the EU spurned if it wasn't.
I agree, it would be a pretty empty threat.
Wouldn't Spain veto membership of an Indy Scotland because of their problems with Catalonian secessionists ?
A post UK-Eu-exit-IndyScotland is a very different beast from an UK-in-Europe-IndyScotland.
A post-UK-EU-exit-IndyScotland would find itself in a very uncomfortable position, wanting full access to two different markets that might very well be at loggerheads for years (one of which it itself would have further alienated). It would be doing the diplomatic equivalent of the splits.
And one of the markets accounts for a lot more of its trade than the other one......
Apologies if already posted, but what a fine school with excellent staff, they should be praised for flagging up one of their students visiting an extremist site.
PC gone mad: Outrage as school calls police after pupil looks at Ukip website in class
A SCHOOLBOY was hauled out of class and interrogated by detectives after politically correct teachers reported him to the POLICE for visiting the UKIP website.
so it is of concern to look at a website of a party which has MEP's, an MP and four million voters at the last election. talk about thought police and erosion of our freedoms to have political views. the worlds gone mad!
"Police said the contact with the teen was not solely sparked by accessing the Ukip website."
So there is presumably more to this story than the Express has suggested.
There's more to any story than the Express suggests.
No, there's usually far less....
Unless its Princess Diana's Cancer Breakthrough for Hard Pressed Second Home Owners in the coming Big Freeze/Scorching Summer (delete as appropriate)
Just watched QT, we all know how dreadful Abbott is but if Truss is the best the tories can put forward our politics is at an all time though. Stuffed dummies parrotting rehearsed lines.
I like that vicar.
Truss is absolutely dreadful. I cannot forget (or forgive) that awful conference speech.
I do not know why some folk rate her as a future Leader. To my mind Andrea Leadsom is a lady of real substance. She comes across as a very able manager. Telling Osborne to eff off takes real cojones.
She's done a downright awful job at Energy though. Worse than Huhne and Davey.
why?
Well for one she wants to u-turn on wind subsidies. She has put through new legislation to shut down our last coal fired plants sharpening our energy crisis and she has made CCGTs completely and utterly uncompetitive, despite very low gas prices. Her stopgap plan is a bunch of dirty diesel generators to stop the lights from going out in 2017-2019.
Honestly, the department is pretty farcical. The duality of having both energy and climate change in a single department is crazy, that's not her fault. Not ignoring climate change in favour of short term energy security is her fault though. I don't think people are going to care about carbon emissions if the lights go out during Christmas.
If lights are going out in 2017 that would be based on decisions taken up to 10 years beforehand. So we are looking at the last 3 years of the Labour Govt and those made under Huhne & Davey in the Coalition. Correct me if I am wrong but wind farms are still going in and it is just plans for ones that would become operational in 2020+ that would be affected by cutting back wind subsidies now. There is a very long period of design/approval/build/install/grid change to overcome. Not something that gets delivered in 12 months.
After a hypothetical secession by Scotland from the UK, there's no obvious reason for Spain to treat Scotland differently from Slovenia or Croatia. The huffing and puffing would be before independence, mainly, not after.
The entry terms would still need to be negotiated, of course.
A post-UK-EU-exit-IndyScotland would find itself in a very uncomfortable position, wanting full access to two different markets that might very well be at loggerheads for years (one of which it itself would have further alienated). It would be doing the diplomatic equivalent of the splits.
That is a very pessimistic view, Mr. Meeks. An independent Scotland trading with a post exit rUK would be in a very similar position to that of Ireland and as far as I am aware no one is prophesying major problems for them.
Additionally none of this would happen overnight, a Leave vote in June would be followed by up to two years of negotiations to settle terms of trade and the details of the break. An independence vote by Scotland, which could probably take place only towards the end of that period, would also be followed by a long period of negotiation. So there would be lots of time to come to an amicable set of arrangements.
May I also say that I find the idea that the UK and the EU could be a loggerheads for years a bit far fetched. Trade is trade, neighbours have to be neighbours, there is just too much (money), at stake for us to be anything other than on friendly terms (well, as least a friendly as they are now).
'In any case, the SNP is trying to hold the line against SINDYREF2.....'
With oil at $30 a barrel & forced to join the Euro with it's strict borrowing limits, no chance despite all the bluster from the SNP.
Sadly as a ScottieIndie supporter I fear that a referendum on these $30 prices would fail. So yes no 2nd referendum until the oil price is $100+. If ever?
I seldom watch films so I wouldn't dare to offer tips, but on the way to San Francisco I watched a film (on the back of the seat in front) starring Johnny Depp (I didn't recognise him at first). He played Whitey Bulger, and I thought he was very impressive. I assume that's 'Black Mass'?
He radiated an air of menace without overdoing it.
Regarding the negotiations with the EC after/if we have a LEAVE vote.
Qn So Mr EC, you want full access to our fish and to sell us all the german cars, french produce etc etc and allow our people to spend billions around the Med on holiday in your countries? Ans:Yes Qn So for these privileges you want us to also pay you £11billion a year and allow anyone of the 450m EC citizens the right to come into our country and compete for every job the same as a UK citizen and that you will dictate how we make and build every product and service we produce and to carry on creating half our laws for us? Ans Yes Anyone spot the problem?
THE BBC is to launch a £10m probe into claims of sexually suggestive language in its 1970s cartoons.
The inquiry will focus on previously false allegations that popular children’s programme Captain Pugwash included references to masturbation, under-age sex and seminal fluid.
A spokesman said: “We’ve decided that a ‘Pugwash’ means being urinated on simultaneously by four Radio One DJs.”
... in the event of EU chaos being inside and having a big influence on outcomes may well be better than being on the outside with no control and with an EU that really would not be interested in accommodating the UK
I am struggling with this idea that the UK has a big influence on what the EU decides to do. When has it ever happened before? Someone posted on here a while back figures that showed the UK was the most frequently out-voted country in the EU. We seem to have had remarkably little influence over the years and once the EuroZone countries start voting as a block we will have even less.
After a hypothetical secession by Scotland from the UK, there's no obvious reason for Spain to treat Scotland differently from Slovenia or Croatia. The huffing and puffing would be before independence, mainly, not after.
The entry terms would still need to be negotiated, of course.
A post-UK-EU-exit-IndyScotland would find itself in a very uncomfortable position, wanting full access to two different markets that might very well be at loggerheads for years (one of which it itself would have further alienated). It would be doing the diplomatic equivalent of the splits.
That is a very pessimistic view, Mr. Meeks. An independent Scotland trading with a post exit rUK would be in a very similar position to that of Ireland and as far as I am aware no one is prophesying major problems for them.
Additionally none of this would happen overnight, a Leave vote in June would be followed by up to two years of negotiations to settle terms of trade and the details of the break. An independence vote by Scotland, which could probably take place only towards the end of that period, would also be followed by a long period of negotiation. So there would be lots of time to come to an amicable set of arrangements.
May I also say that I find the idea that the UK and the EU could be a loggerheads for years a bit far fetched. Trade is trade, neighbours have to be neighbours, there is just too much (money), at stake for us to be anything other than on friendly terms (well, as least a friendly as they are now).
There's a lot of concern in Ireland what Brexit could mean for it, for example:
"Most analyses suggest that Ireland would bear a heavier economic cost than the U.K. itself from a British exit, or “Brexit,” from the EU—and would lose out even under the most optimistic scenarios. Yet citizens of the Republic of Ireland—other than the 400,000 residents in the U.K.—will have no say in the referendum."
After a hypothetical secession by Scotland from the UK, there's no obvious reason for Spain to treat Scotland differently from Slovenia or Croatia. The huffing and puffing would be before independence, mainly, not after.
The entry terms would still need to be negotiated, of course.
A post-UK-EU-exit-IndyScotland would find itself in a very uncomfortable position, wanting full access to two different markets that might very well be at loggerheads for years (one of which it itself would have further alienated). It would be doing the diplomatic equivalent of the splits.
That is a very pessimistic view, Mr. Meeks. An independent Scotland trading with a post exit rUK would be in a very similar position to that of Ireland and as far as I am aware no one is prophesying major problems for them.
Additionally none of this would happen overnight, a Leave vote in June would be followed by up to two years of negotiations to settle terms of trade and the details of the break. An independence vote by Scotland, which could probably take place only towards the end of that period, would also be followed by a long period of negotiation. So there would be lots of time to come to an amicable set of arrangements.
May I also say that I find the idea that the UK and the EU could be a loggerheads for years a bit far fetched. Trade is trade, neighbours have to be neighbours, there is just too much (money), at stake for us to be anything other than on friendly terms (well, as least a friendly as they are now).
There's a lot of concern in Ireland what Brexit could mean for it, for example: http://www.wsj.com/articles/irish-question-looms-large-over-british-eu-exit-debate-1452712128 "Most analyses suggest that Ireland would bear a heavier economic cost than the U.K. itself from a British exit, or “Brexit,” from the EU—and would lose out even under the most optimistic scenarios. Yet citizens of the Republic of Ireland—other than the 400,000 residents in the U.K.—will have no say in the referendum."
The data on the impact on Ireland may be obscured by the impact of the UK acting as a transhipment point for Ireland.
After a hypothetical secession by Scotland from the UK, there's no obvious reason for Spain to treat Scotland differently from Slovenia or Croatia. The huffing and puffing would be before independence, mainly, not after.
The entry terms would still need to be negotiated, of course.
A post-UK-EU-exit-IndyScotland would find itself in a very uncomfortable position, wanting full access to two different markets that might very well be at loggerheads for years (one of which it itself would have further alienated). It would be doing the diplomatic equivalent of the splits.
That is a very pessimistic view, Mr. Meeks. An independent Scotland trading with a post exit rUK would be in a very similar position to that of Ireland and as far as I am aware no one is prophesying major problems for them.
Additionally none of this would happen overnight, a Leave vote in June would be followed by up to two years of negotiations to settle terms of trade and the details of the break. An independence vote by Scotland, which could probably take place only towards the end of that period, would also be followed by a long period of negotiation. So there would be lots of time to come to an amicable set of arrangements.
May I also say that I find the idea that the UK and the EU could be a loggerheads for years a bit far fetched. Trade is trade, neighbours have to be neighbours, there is just too much (money), at stake for us to be anything other than on friendly terms (well, as least a friendly as they are now).
There's a lot of concern in Ireland what Brexit could mean for it, for example:
"Most analyses suggest that Ireland would bear a heavier economic cost than the U.K. itself from a British exit, or “Brexit,” from the EU—and would lose out even under the most optimistic scenarios. Yet citizens of the Republic of Ireland—other than the 400,000 residents in the U.K.—will have no say in the referendum."
Thanks for that, Mr. Meeks. Unfortunately I couldn't read the article you posted - it wanted me to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal in order to see beyond the headlines. However, I shall go in search of these "most analyses" (sounds like a wallpaper phrase to me).
After a hypothetical secession by Scotland from the UK, there's no obvious reason for Spain to treat Scotland differently from Slovenia or Croatia. The huffing and puffing would be before independence, mainly, not after.
The entry terms would still need to be negotiated, of course.
A post-UK-EU-exit-IndyScotland would find itself in a very uncomfortable position, wanting full access to two different markets that might very well be at loggerheads for years (one of which it itself would have further alienated). It would be doing the diplomatic equivalent of the splits.
That is a very pessimistic view, Mr. Meeks. An independent Scotland trading with a post exit rUK would be in a very similar position to that of Ireland and as far as I am aware no one is prophesying major problems for them.
Additionally none of this would happen overnight, a Leave vote in June would be followed by up to two years of negotiations to settle terms of trade and the details of the break. An independence vote by Scotland, which could probably take place only towards the end of that period, would also be followed by a long period of negotiation. So there would be lots of time to come to an amicable set of arrangements.
May I also say that I find the idea that the UK and the EU could be a loggerheads for years a bit far fetched. Trade is trade, neighbours have to be neighbours, there is just too much (money), at stake for us to be anything other than on friendly terms (well, as least a friendly as they are now).
There's a lot of concern in Ireland what Brexit could mean for it, for example:
"Most analyses suggest that Ireland would bear a heavier economic cost than the U.K. itself from a British exit, or “Brexit,” from the EU—and would lose out even under the most optimistic scenarios. Yet citizens of the Republic of Ireland—other than the 400,000 residents in the U.K.—will have no say in the referendum."
Thanks for that, Mr. Meeks. Unfortunately I couldn't read the article you posted - it wanted me to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal in order to see beyond the headlines. However, I shall go in search of these "most analyses" (sounds like a wallpaper phrase to me).
Thousands spent on headhunters but nobody wants to be the new boss of 'toxic' RSPCA: Charity in leadership crisis after nearly two years without a chief executive
Poor Boris, getting kicked by his own side, again.
Boris Johnson came under savage attack today from his own Tory deputy mayor in charge of policing, who warned he will endanger London if he succeeds in his campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
Stephen Greenhalgh, who oversees the Met, hit out at politicians who “think that sovereignty is more important than public safety”. He also suggested a “Brexit” would make Britain more vulnerable to a Paris-style terror attack.
Poor Boris, getting kicked by his own side, again.
Boris Johnson came under savage attack today from his own Tory deputy mayor in charge of policing, who warned he will endanger London if he succeeds in his campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
Stephen Greenhalgh, who oversees the Met, hit out at politicians who “think that sovereignty is more important than public safety”. He also suggested a “Brexit” would make Britain more vulnerable to a Paris-style terror attack.
Stephen Greenhalgh, who oversees the Met, hit out at politicians who “think that sovereignty is more important than public safety”. He also suggested a “Brexit” would make Britain more vulnerable to a Paris-style terror attack.
A rather difficult claim to back up past the initial handwaving. Intelligence sharing will continue. ID documents will be inspected on borders where they now are not. We will be much freer to chuck out undesirables. The irony is we are the big player for intelligence in Western Europe, so its the other countries that are likely to suffer this problem not us if anyone get pissy.
You are either open or secure, you can't have both.
Poor Boris, getting kicked by his own side, again.
Boris Johnson came under savage attack today from his own Tory deputy mayor in charge of policing, who warned he will endanger London if he succeeds in his campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
Stephen Greenhalgh, who oversees the Met, hit out at politicians who “think that sovereignty is more important than public safety”. He also suggested a “Brexit” would make Britain more vulnerable to a Paris-style terror attack.
You would think that countries with a vested interest in keeping Britain in the EU would be straining every sinew to avoid us been outvoted 72 times and wondering if the whole thing was worth the candle.
They didn't. And so they deserve everything they get. Vote with the French and take the consequences.
And the BBC website top story is about a republican primary...
That's the real BBC bias -- concentration on American domestic stories because the staff have the US news channels on. It is particularly noticeable at weekends and early mornings. The BBC also had the Kansas shooting story.
Stephen Greenhalgh, who oversees the Met, hit out at politicians who “think that sovereignty is more important than public safety”. He also suggested a “Brexit” would make Britain more vulnerable to a Paris-style terror attack.
Silly argument, of course. As is the opposite argument, which Leave sometimes attempt to make. But you can see, from a political point of view, why both sides would try to play on this issue.
Poor Boris, getting kicked by his own side, again.
Boris Johnson came under savage attack today from his own Tory deputy mayor in charge of policing, who warned he will endanger London if he succeeds in his campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
Stephen Greenhalgh, who oversees the Met, hit out at politicians who “think that sovereignty is more important than public safety”. He also suggested a “Brexit” would make Britain more vulnerable to a Paris-style terror attack.
Poor Boris, getting kicked by his own side, again.
Boris Johnson came under savage attack today from his own Tory deputy mayor in charge of policing, who warned he will endanger London if he succeeds in his campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
Stephen Greenhalgh, who oversees the Met, hit out at politicians who “think that sovereignty is more important than public safety”. He also suggested a “Brexit” would make Britain more vulnerable to a Paris-style terror attack.
Poor Boris, getting kicked by his own side, again.
Boris Johnson came under savage attack today from his own Tory deputy mayor in charge of policing, who warned he will endanger London if he succeeds in his campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
Stephen Greenhalgh, who oversees the Met, hit out at politicians who “think that sovereignty is more important than public safety”. He also suggested a “Brexit” would make Britain more vulnerable to a Paris-style terror attack.
Just watched QT, we all know how dreadful Abbott is but if Truss is the best the tories can put forward our politics is at an all time though. Stuffed dummies parrotting rehearsed lines.
I like that vicar.
Truss is absolutely dreadful. I cannot forget (or forgive) that awful conference speech.
I do not know why some folk rate her as a future Leader. To my mind Andrea Leadsom is a lady of real substance. She comes across as a very able manager. Telling Osborne to eff off takes real cojones.
She's done a downright awful job at Energy though. Worse than Huhne and Davey.
why?
Well for one she wants to u-turn on wind subsidies. She has put through new legislation to shut down our last coal fired plants sharpening our energy crisis and she has made CCGTs completely and utterly uncompetitive, despite very low gas prices. Her stopgap plan is a bunch of dirty diesel generators to stop the lights from going out in 2017-2019.
Honestly, the department is pretty farcical. The duality of having both energy and climate change in a single department is crazy, that's not her fault. Not ignoring climate change in favour of short term energy security is her fault though. I don't think people are going to care about carbon emissions if the lights go out during Christmas.
If lights are going out in 2017 that would be based on decisions taken up to 10 years beforehand. So we are looking at the last 3 years of the Labour Govt and those made under Huhne & Davey in the Coalition. Correct me if I am wrong but wind farms are still going in and it is just plans for ones that would become operational in 2020+ that would be affected by cutting back wind subsidies now. There is a very long period of design/approval/build/install/grid change to overcome. Not something that gets delivered in 12 months.
There is no serious scenario for a Sindy ref 2 to pass other than $200 a barrell.
Brexit makes it even less likely to succeed as would involve the Euro.
If you want an independent Scotland you need Gulf War 3 - perhaps explains what McGarry was up to.
Stephen Greenhalgh, who oversees the Met, hit out at politicians who “think that sovereignty is more important than public safety”. He also suggested a “Brexit” would make Britain more vulnerable to a Paris-style terror attack.
Silly argument, of course. As is the opposite argument, which Leave sometimes attempt to make. But you can see, from a political point of view, why both sides would try to play on this issue.
Only silly in an EEA solution. The full kipper solution would have prospects of being substantially more secure, since we could kick out all the malcontents (since they propose withdrawing from the ECHR) and we would have full control over who we let it.
Yes, lots of people will bang on about how that would damage trade by X%, but that might start to look rather hollow if there was a major terrorist incident in London. I have always thought we are about three terrorist incidents away from a kipper government and Fortress UK.
... in the event of EU chaos being inside and having a big influence on outcomes may well be better than being on the outside with no control and with an EU that really would not be interested in accommodating the UK
I am struggling with this idea that the UK has a big influence on what the EU decides to do. When has it ever happened before? Someone posted on here a while back figures that showed the UK was the most frequently out-voted country in the EU. We seem to have had remarkably little influence over the years and once the EuroZone countries start voting as a block we will have even less.
Dan the Man wrote a piece that contended that the UK's 'influence' was actually negative when it came to European decision making.
Regarding the negotiations with the EC after/if we have a LEAVE vote.
Qn So Mr EC, you want full access to our fish and to sell us all the german cars, french produce etc etc and allow our people to spend billions around the Med on holiday in your countries? Ans:Yes Qn So for these privileges you want us to also pay you £11billion a year and allow anyone of the 450m EC citizens the right to come into our country and compete for every job the same as a UK citizen and that you will dictate how we make and build every product and service we produce and to carry on creating half our laws for us? Ans Yes Anyone spot the problem?
Yup. What about all the Brits who’ve gone to live and very often work or study in other member countries. Too many leavers seem to assume that migtration in the EU is one way traffic.
Poor Boris, getting kicked by his own side, again.
Boris Johnson came under savage attack today from his own Tory deputy mayor in charge of policing, who warned he will endanger London if he succeeds in his campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
Stephen Greenhalgh, who oversees the Met, hit out at politicians who “think that sovereignty is more important than public safety”. He also suggested a “Brexit” would make Britain more vulnerable to a Paris-style terror attack.
THE BBC is to launch a £10m probe into claims of sexually suggestive language in its 1970s cartoons.
The inquiry will focus on previously false allegations that popular children’s programme Captain Pugwash included references to masturbation, under-age sex and seminal fluid.
A spokesman said: “We’ve decided that a ‘Pugwash’ means being urinated on simultaneously by four Radio One DJs.”
... in the event of EU chaos being inside and having a big influence on outcomes may well be better than being on the outside with no control and with an EU that really would not be interested in accommodating the UK
I am struggling with this idea that the UK has a big influence on what the EU decides to do. When has it ever happened before? Someone posted on here a while back figures that showed the UK was the most frequently out-voted country in the EU. We seem to have had remarkably little influence over the years and once the EuroZone countries start voting as a block we will have even less.
The point I was making is that the EU in civil war with each other is an opportunity to have an influence if we are in. How long can even the Eurozone survive if they are at war with each other. A very different EU is likely to evolve over the next few years with possibly Merkel and Hollande gone next year.
Regarding the negotiations with the EC after/if we have a LEAVE vote.
Qn So Mr EC, you want full access to our fish and to sell us all the german cars, french produce etc etc and allow our people to spend billions around the Med on holiday in your countries? Ans:Yes Qn So for these privileges you want us to also pay you £11billion a year and allow anyone of the 450m EC citizens the right to come into our country and compete for every job the same as a UK citizen and that you will dictate how we make and build every product and service we produce and to carry on creating half our laws for us? Ans Yes Anyone spot the problem?
Yup. What about all the Brits who’ve gone to live and very often work or study in other member countries. Too many leavers seem to assume that migtration in the EU is one way traffic.
Because no one did that before 1972. Or indeed does it now in non-EU countries... Oh wait.
Boris Johnson came under savage attack today from his own Tory deputy mayor in charge of policing, who warned he will endanger London if he succeeds in his campaign for Britain to leave the EU. Stephen Greenhalgh, who oversees the Met, hit out at politicians who “think that sovereignty is more important than public safety”. He also suggested a “Brexit” would make Britain more vulnerable to a Paris-style terror attack. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/mayor-s-own-police-chief-warns-him-quitting-eu-will-place-capital-in-peril-a3189926.html
Is he aware of the Five Eyes group of countries? One of which is not France, or Belgium or......
Andrew Sinclair Interesting revelation from @BBCr4today ; russian TV shows pics of Jaywick in Essex as sign of how grim life is in UK
I saw 'Grimsby' yesterday with Sacha Baron Cohen. I don't know what the Russians did to Jaywick but what SBC did to Grimsby is a wonder to behold! His location finder deserves an Oscar for one scene alone. It looked like it was taken during the blitz after a sewage works had been emptied over it... and made funny by the line 'Of course he wouldn't recognize it now it's been gentrified'
... in the event of EU chaos being inside and having a big influence on outcomes may well be better than being on the outside with no control and with an EU that really would not be interested in accommodating the UK
I am struggling with this idea that the UK has a big influence on what the EU decides to do. When has it ever happened before? Someone posted on here a while back figures that showed the UK was the most frequently out-voted country in the EU. We seem to have had remarkably little influence over the years and once the EuroZone countries start voting as a block we will have even less.
The point I was making is that the EU in civil war with each other is an opportunity to have an influence if we are in. How long can even the Eurozone survive if they are at war with each other. A very different EU is likely to evolve over the next few years with possibly Merkel and Hollande gone next year.
One of the reasons why I would have liked to see the Referendum delayed is to see what indeed takes place, after the French and Dutch elections.
Regarding the negotiations with the EC after/if we have a LEAVE vote.
Qn So Mr EC, you want full access to our fish and to sell us all the german cars, french produce etc etc and allow our people to spend billions around the Med on holiday in your countries? Ans:Yes Qn So for these privileges you want us to also pay you £11billion a year and allow anyone of the 450m EC citizens the right to come into our country and compete for every job the same as a UK citizen and that you will dictate how we make and build every product and service we produce and to carry on creating half our laws for us? Ans Yes Anyone spot the problem?
Yup. What about all the Brits who’ve gone to live and very often work or study in other member countries. Too many leavers seem to assume that migtration in the EU is one way traffic.
Most of those are retirements within the EC. If Spain does not want wealthy self funding retirees anymore it could change its mind but it welcomes retirees and holiday home purchasers from outside the EC such as Russians.
Poor Boris, getting kicked by his own side, again.
Boris Johnson came under savage attack today from his own Tory deputy mayor in charge of policing, who warned he will endanger London if he succeeds in his campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
Stephen Greenhalgh, who oversees the Met, hit out at politicians who “think that sovereignty is more important than public safety”. He also suggested a “Brexit” would make Britain more vulnerable to a Paris-style terror attack.
... in the event of EU chaos being inside and having a big influence on outcomes may well be better than being on the outside with no control and with an EU that really would not be interested in accommodating the UK
I am struggling with this idea that the UK has a big influence on what the EU decides to do. When has it ever happened before? Someone posted on here a while back figures that showed the UK was the most frequently out-voted country in the EU. We seem to have had remarkably little influence over the years and once the EuroZone countries start voting as a block we will have even less.
The point I was making is that the EU in civil war with each other is an opportunity to have an influence if we are in. How long can even the Eurozone survive if they are at war with each other. A very different EU is likely to evolve over the next few years with possibly Merkel and Hollande gone next year.
One of the reasons why I would have liked to see the Referendum delayed is to see what indeed takes place, after the French and Dutch elections.
Agreed - I never really saw the reason for the hurry except that Cameron thought it was politically expedient to get it out of the way. By Sep 2017 we might have had a far clearer idea of what we will or will not be voting for.
... in the event of EU chaos being inside and having a big influence on outcomes may well be better than being on the outside with no control and with an EU that really would not be interested in accommodating the UK
I am struggling with this idea that the UK has a big influence on what the EU decides to do. When has it ever happened before? Someone posted on here a while back figures that showed the UK was the most frequently out-voted country in the EU. We seem to have had remarkably little influence over the years and once the EuroZone countries start voting as a block we will have even less.
The point I was making is that the EU in civil war with each other is an opportunity to have an influence if we are in. How long can even the Eurozone survive if they are at war with each other. A very different EU is likely to evolve over the next few years with possibly Merkel and Hollande gone next year.
One of the reasons why I would have liked to see the Referendum delayed is to see what indeed takes place, after the French and Dutch elections.
It would have been sensible but no doubt David Cameron wanted to resolve the issue quickly in the economic interest of the Country and no doubt to provide him with a handover of power earlier if he wanted. As a matter of interest can someone confirm to me that by being out we will not come under the European Courts of Human Rights
... in the event of EU chaos being inside and having a big influence on outcomes may well be better than being on the outside with no control and with an EU that really would not be interested in accommodating the UK
I am struggling with this idea that the UK has a big influence on what the EU decides to do. When has it ever happened before? Someone posted on here a while back figures that showed the UK was the most frequently out-voted country in the EU. We seem to have had remarkably little influence over the years and once the EuroZone countries start voting as a block we will have even less.
The point I was making is that the EU in civil war with each other is an opportunity to have an influence if we are in. How long can even the Eurozone survive if they are at war with each other. A very different EU is likely to evolve over the next few years with possibly Merkel and Hollande gone next year.
One of the reasons why I would have liked to see the Referendum delayed is to see what indeed takes place, after the French and Dutch elections.
It would have been sensible but no doubt David Cameron wanted to resolve the issue quickly in the economic interest of the Country and no doubt to provide him with a handover of power earlier if he wanted. As a matter of interest can someone confirm to me that by being out we will not come under the European Courts of Human Rights
Depends how far out. It's a separate concern, but some (UKIP have it in their manifesto) propose to withdraw from the ECHR at the same time, precisely because its the only way we can expel terrorist sympathisers and fellow travellers with UK dependents or relatives. As it is we have to spend a LOT of money and resources monitoring known bad eggs because we can't throw them out.
And the BBC website top story is about a republican primary...
Thanks for reminding us of this anomaly. Portia Simpson Miller lost the Jamaican election and Labour are back in power there having promised a silicon valley revolution....
Imagine if Nigel Farage declared that police should be ready to shoot migrants trying to make it from Calais to Britain; saying: ‘I don’t want to do this, but the use of armed force is there as a last resort.’ And imagine that in spite of this — or perhaps because of it — Ukip were to overtake the Labour party in a national poll to become the most popular opposition party. This, in effect, is what is happening in Germany.
THE BBC is to launch a £10m probe into claims of sexually suggestive language in its 1970s cartoons.
The inquiry will focus on previously false allegations that popular children’s programme Captain Pugwash included references to masturbation, under-age sex and seminal fluid.
A spokesman said: “We’ve decided that a ‘Pugwash’ means being urinated on simultaneously by four Radio One DJs.”
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This is all probably moot but things are going to have to come to a head after Super Tuesday if they're going to have any chance of stopping the Donald.
- If the UK is part of the EU, absolutely no way they would accept an iScot membership
- If the UK leaves the EU, then breaks up, all they are doing is extending the hand of friendship to a newly independent nation. It's no different to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia or Croatia
https://twitter.com/mailonline/status/703128135634583554
The entry terms would still need to be negotiated, of course.
A post-UK-EU-exit-IndyScotland would find itself in a very uncomfortable position, wanting full access to two different markets that might very well be at loggerheads for years (one of which it itself would have further alienated). It would be doing the diplomatic equivalent of the splits.
Since then, average UK real earnings have fallen.
Oh wait.....
https://twitter.com/standardnews/status/703146312468828161
We should be told!
So there is presumably more to this story than the Express has suggested.
Personally, I think Vote Leave needs to organise a 'big bang' of 30-40 top names all announcing for Leave in one go to grab the headlines and a news cycle or two.
Remain must be put on the defensive and, right now, the impression being given is that business is for Remain.
'In any case, the SNP is trying to hold the line against SINDYREF2.....'
With oil at $30 a barrel & forced to join the Euro with it's strict borrowing limits, no chance despite all the bluster from the SNP.
The air war is dominated by Remain at the moment.
Sicario looked great - Roger Deakins' cinematography elevated it into a great action-thriller.
Black Mass was my biggest WTF? in the nominations. Nowhere. It was one of the best gangster movies I've ever seen. Depp was a revelation.
"As far as the referendum is concerned I am pulled both ways but in the event of EU chaos being inside and having a big influence on outcomes may well be better than being on the outside with no control and with an EU that really would not be interested in accommodating the UK"
So you would stay on the Titanic to try and steer the ship going down, rather than take the lifeboat?
In the event of EU chaos far better to be outside. Let them sort it out as suits them, while we focus on growth markets.
I seldom watch films so I wouldn't dare to offer tips, but on the way to San Francisco I watched a film (on the back of the seat in front) starring Johnny Depp (I didn't recognise him at first). He played Whitey Bulger, and I thought he was very impressive. I assume that's 'Black Mass'?
He radiated an air of menace without overdoing it.
Unless its Princess Diana's Cancer Breakthrough for Hard Pressed Second Home Owners in the coming Big Freeze/Scorching Summer (delete as appropriate)
Additionally none of this would happen overnight, a Leave vote in June would be followed by up to two years of negotiations to settle terms of trade and the details of the break. An independence vote by Scotland, which could probably take place only towards the end of that period, would also be followed by a long period of negotiation. So there would be lots of time to come to an amicable set of arrangements.
May I also say that I find the idea that the UK and the EU could be a loggerheads for years a bit far fetched. Trade is trade, neighbours have to be neighbours, there is just too much (money), at stake for us to be anything other than on friendly terms (well, as least a friendly as they are now).
Interesting revelation from @BBCr4today ; russian TV shows pics of Jaywick in Essex as sign of how grim life is in UK
Come to think of it, haven't a couple of regulars gone silent recently?
Qn So Mr EC, you want full access to our fish and to sell us all the german cars, french produce etc etc and allow our people to spend billions around the Med on holiday in your countries?
Ans:Yes
Qn So for these privileges you want us to also pay you £11billion a year and allow anyone of the 450m EC citizens the right to come into our country and compete for every job the same as a UK citizen and that you will dictate how we make and build every product and service we produce and to carry on creating half our laws for us?
Ans Yes
Anyone spot the problem?
THE BBC is to launch a £10m probe into claims of sexually suggestive language in its 1970s cartoons.
The inquiry will focus on previously false allegations that popular children’s programme Captain Pugwash included references to masturbation, under-age sex and seminal fluid.
A spokesman said: “We’ve decided that a ‘Pugwash’ means being urinated on simultaneously by four Radio One DJs.”
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/bbc-to-investigate-pugwash-rumours-2012102946725
Well they would say that, wouldn't they? Unfortunately they have a fair bit of recent form in this area.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/irish-question-looms-large-over-british-eu-exit-debate-1452712128
"Most analyses suggest that Ireland would bear a heavier economic cost than the U.K. itself from a British exit, or “Brexit,” from the EU—and would lose out even under the most optimistic scenarios. Yet citizens of the Republic of Ireland—other than the 400,000 residents in the U.K.—will have no say in the referendum."
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/14304854.Schoolboy_questioned_by_police__after_looking_at_UKIP_website_/
Very worrying.
Dead women are such a rich seam of sexual innuendo to mine
There's a general election in Ireland today.
And the BBC website top story is about a republican primary...
Whatever next? They'll be letting them adopt kids next.
Whatever happened to Joyce Thacker?
It's bizarre.
http://openeurope.org.uk/today/blog/how-would-brexit-impact-ireland/
Boris Johnson came under savage attack today from his own Tory deputy mayor in charge of policing, who warned he will endanger London if he succeeds in his campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
Stephen Greenhalgh, who oversees the Met, hit out at politicians who “think that sovereignty is more important than public safety”. He also suggested a “Brexit” would make Britain more vulnerable to a Paris-style terror attack.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/mayor-s-own-police-chief-warns-him-quitting-eu-will-place-capital-in-peril-a3189926.html
A stupid claim.
You are either open or secure, you can't have both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuwNU0jsk0
They didn't. And so they deserve everything they get. Vote with the French and take the consequences.
I would guess a decent number were multi-claimers.
*shakes head in wonder*
Brexit makes it even less likely to succeed as would involve the Euro.
If you want an independent Scotland you need Gulf War 3 - perhaps explains what McGarry was up to.
Yes, lots of people will bang on about how that would damage trade by X%, but that might start to look rather hollow if there was a major terrorist incident in London. I have always thought we are about three terrorist incidents away from a kipper government and Fortress UK.
Remain think the same applies to the EURef, people won't vote for Leave if it is seen as a threat to national security.
Portia Simpson Miller lost the Jamaican election and Labour are back in power there having promised a silicon valley revolution....
Gianni Infantino,
Prince Ali bin al-Hussein,
Tokyo Sexwale
and Jerome Champagne
Best names ever