Does anyone who's not whooping like mad in support of Trump believe that comparisons with other fascist dictatorships are inapposite? Consider the infrastructure needed to find 11 million illegal immigrants, detain them, transport them, and deport them within two years, as Trump has promised. The estimated cost is in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Makes sense to make the suckers labour to pay for the scheme, right?
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Are you sure you should be trolling the age group that delivered the Brexit majority?
I can't help it. Brexit doesn't belong to these doddery old Remainers who could die at any time, snapped in half like a twig, snuffed out like a tallow candle by the cruel fingers of time, shat on by the seagull of doom, as they walk the sands of senescence.
Brexit belongs to young people like ME, ME ME ME ME ME ME, thrusting young thriller writers with six different girlfriends under 28, and a brilliant title for their new book, and an income that makes George Soros look like Bob Cratchit.
Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Since you are doing so well, when are you going to start giving money away?
I'm sponsoring some of my girlfriends (about a third of them) to go and do charity work in poor places, for a few months. Literally.
It means I get a respite, and I can write it off against tax.
What more do you want?? Blood????
Never been convinced that sponsored holidays (aka gap year students building schools in nice parts of impoverished countries) really counts, but it's a start I suppose
[I was doing some digging through the archives the other day, and came across a letter which strongly suggests that we had an employee transported to Australia for getting married without permission...]
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Are you sure you should be trolling the age group that delivered the Brexit majority?
I can't help it. Brexit doesn't belong to these doddery old Remainers who could die at any time, snapped in half like a twig, snuffed out like a tallow candle by the cruel fingers of time, shat on by the seagull of doom, as they walk the sands of senescence.
Brexit belongs to young people like ME, ME ME ME ME ME ME, thrusting young thriller writers with six different girlfriends under 28, and a brilliant title for their new book, and an income that makes George Soros look like Bob Cratchit.
Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Since you are doing so well, when are you going to start giving money away?
I'm sponsoring some of my girlfriends (about a third of them) to go and do charity work in poor places, for a few months. Literally.
It means I get a respite, and I can write it off against tax.
What more do you want?? Blood????
Never been convinced that sponsored holidays (aka gap year students building schools in nice parts of impoverished countries) really counts, but it's a start I suppose
[I was doing some digging through the archives the other day, and came across a letter which strongly suggests that we had an employee transported to Australia for getting married without permission...]
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Are you sure you should be trolling the age group that delivered the Brexit majority?
I can't help it. Brexit doesn't belong to these doddery old Remainers who could die at any time, snapped in half like a twig, snuffed out like a tallow candle by the cruel fingers of time, shat on by the seagull of doom, as they walk the sands of senescence.
Brexit belongs to young people like ME, ME ME ME ME ME ME, thrusting young thriller writers with six different girlfriends under 28, and a brilliant title for their new book, and an income that makes George Soros look like Bob Cratchit.
Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Since you are doing so well, when are you going to start giving money away?
I'm sponsoring some of my girlfriends (about a third of them) to go and do charity work in poor places, for a few months. Literally.
It means I get a respite, and I can write it off against tax.
What more do you want?? Blood????
"About a third"? How many girlfriends does one need to have before one can round to "about a third"?
Not quite as harsh as transportation but when I started working for Barclay's in 1987 there was a guy in my branch who had worked for them for c 40 years. I recall him telling me about a memo that came round years ago from Head Office stating that that there had been a number of marriages concerning bank staff that hadn't sought the managers permission and that this practice must cease forthwith!
Cernovich delivery style is a trifle wearing for me, but he makes some excellent points re how the media are trying to make the agenda. It's exactly the same tactics here.
Maybe Amazon who have similar tax issues should hire a load too.
Amazon have no tax issues, they don't make a profit in any country.
Oh I know that, but they have the same sort of tax related PR issues as Starbucks. Announcing they will hire some refugees might improve their image similarly.
Soeone should run a line, or market---whatever the right descriptor may be---on whether this petition will make three million signers duruing its alloted span:
Are they all in Remain constituencies? It would take a brave MP to do that, from a Leaver area.
The voters won't hear about the vote unless the government lose it, and if the government lose it the story will be about their backbench rebellion.
Tell me, when did MPs change from representatives into delegates? If this had applied 50 years ago, the UK would have remained a place where murderers and spies were hung, abortions were banned and homosexuals were jailed.
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Are you sure you should be trolling the age group that delivered the Brexit majority?
I can't help it. Brexit doesn't belong to these doddery old Remainers who could die at any time, snapped in half like a twig, snuffed out like a tallow candle by the cruel fingers of time, shat on by the seagull of doom, as they walk the sands of senescence.
Brexit belongs to young people like ME, ME ME ME ME ME ME, thrusting young thriller writers with six different girlfriends under 28, and a brilliant title for their new book, and an income that makes George Soros look like Bob Cratchit.
Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Since you are doing so well, when are you going to start giving money away?
I'm sponsoring some of my girlfriends (about a third of them) to go and do charity work in poor places, for a few months. Literally.
It means I get a respite, and I can write it off against tax.
Are they all in Remain constituencies? It would take a brave MP to do that, from a Leaver area.
The voters won't hear about the vote unless the government lose it, and if the government lose it the story will be about their backbench rebellion.
Tell me, when did MPs change from representatives into delegates? If this had applied 50 years ago, the UK would have remained a place where murderers and spies were hung, abortions were banned and homosexuals were jailed.
When neither side can afford to lose a bunch of seats which have Remain supporting MPs but a heavy leave demographic. Its not about representatives into delegates, its about realpolitik.
Godfrey Elfwick When the next generation ask: what did YOU do when Trump came to power? I'll proudly say: "I called him a Nazi while dressed like a vagina."
Maybe Amazon who have similar tax issues should hire a load too.
Amazon have no tax issues, they don't make a profit in any country.
Oh I know that, but they have the same sort of tax related PR issues as Starbucks. Announcing they will hire some refugees might improve their image similarly.
Its going to kill them in the mid west, Trump's team won't be able to believe their luck with this sort of right-on virtue signalling being sure to get right up the nose of the blue collar workers that might consider themselves in the running for those jobs, for bonus points the Democrats are associating themselves with this sort of action guaranteeing themselves no chance of recovery in the same areas.
Hmm. England 3.2 for the Grand Slam in the Six Nations with Ladbrokes. Value?
Miss Plato, well, quite. If I were seriously anti-Trump, and a Yankee Doodle, I'd be focusing on the mid-terms and trying to stop Democrats come out with bullshit about shutting white people up.
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Are you sure you should be trolling the age group that delivered the Brexit majority?
I can't help it. Brexit doesn't belong to these doddery old Remainers who could die at any time, snapped in half like a twig, snuffed out like a tallow candle by the cruel fingers of time, shat on by the seagull of doom, as they walk the sands of senescence.
Brexit belongs to young people like ME, ME ME ME ME ME ME, thrusting young thriller writers with six different girlfriends under 28, and a brilliant title for their new book, and an income that makes George Soros look like Bob Cratchit.
Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Since you are doing so well, when are you going to start giving money away?
I'm sponsoring some of my girlfriends (about a third of them) to go and do charity work in poor places, for a few months. Literally.
It means I get a respite, and I can write it off against tax.
What more do you want?? Blood????
"About a third"? How many girlfriends does one need to have before one can round to "about a third"?
Its going to kill them in the mid west, Trump's team won't be able to believe their luck with this sort of right-on virtue signalling being sure to get right up the nose of the blue collar workers that might consider themselves in the running for those jobs, for bonus points the Democrats are associating themselves with this sort of action guaranteeing themselves no chance of recovery in the same areas.
I might be wrong, but somehow I wouldn't expect that blue-collar workers in the mid-west are a particularly important demographic into which Starbucks hopes to sell skinny lattes and Caramel Frappuccinos®.
Maybe Amazon who have similar tax issues should hire a load too.
Amazon have no tax issues, they don't make a profit in any country.
Oh I know that, but they have the same sort of tax related PR issues as Starbucks. Announcing they will hire some refugees might improve their image similarly.
Its going to kill them in the mid west, Trump's team won't be able to believe their luck with this sort of right-on virtue signalling being sure to get right up the nose of the blue collar workers that might consider themselves in the running for those jobs, for bonus points the Democrats are associating themselves with this sort of action guaranteeing themselves no chance of recovery in the same areas.
Trump will re-elected or not re-elected entirely on the back of the success or otherwise of his economic policies.
If he is successful in bringing employment back to the Great Lakes region, and can do this without unbalancing the economy, then he will be rightfully re-elected.
On the other hand, if his policies are seen to have benefited the 1% without improving the jobs prospects of those in the Midwest, then he will likely lose badly.
Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader, has put out a press statement saying that, if Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK does go ahead, as a protest he will not attend the state dinner at Buckingham Palace.
Take that, Trump!
(And isn't it presumptuous for him to assume that Her Majesty would be gracious enough to invite him?)
"The City's top lobby group has performed a dramatic u-turn on Brexit, scrapping its previous campaign to remain in the EU and instead hailing the vote to leave as “unprecedented opportunity” for the UK to develop a powerful new set of trade and investment policies."
The big question is .... will TSE's employers react likewise and, although not City of London based, decide after all that their prospects are best served by remaining within the United Kingdom?
You can do both, of course. That's what we will do.
Hmm. England 3.2 for the Grand Slam in the Six Nations with Ladbrokes. Value?
Miss Plato, well, quite. If I were seriously anti-Trump, and a Yankee Doodle, I'd be focusing on the mid-terms and trying to stop Democrats come out with bullshit about shutting white people up.
Not quite as harsh as transportation but when I started working for Barclay's in 1987 there was a guy in my branch who had worked for them for c 40 years. I recall him telling me about a memo that came round years ago from Head Office stating that that there had been a number of marriages concerning bank staff that hadn't sought the managers permission and that this practice must cease forthwith!
Yes. Conservative though I am by temperament it's easy to forget just how stuffy, stilted and oppressive social convention and the class system used to be in this country. Even 30 years ago.
Whilst not enshrined in legislation, getting a job really did often used to be based on whether you went to the right school, and getting a mortgage dependent on both where you wanted to live and an interview with the bank manager, which was more like a job interview where your class and background could count heavily against you.
Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader, has put out a press statement saying that, if Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK does go ahead, as a protest he will not attend the state dinner at Buckingham Palace.
Take that, Trump!
(And isn't it presumptuous for him to assume that Her Majesty would be gracious enough to invite him?)
Will Trump even come if he knows Farron won't be at the dinner?
Maybe Amazon who have similar tax issues should hire a load too.
Amazon have no tax issues, they don't make a profit in any country.
Oh I know that, but they have the same sort of tax related PR issues as Starbucks. Announcing they will hire some refugees might improve their image similarly.
Its going to kill them in the mid west, Trump's team won't be able to believe their luck with this sort of right-on virtue signalling being sure to get right up the nose of the blue collar workers that might consider themselves in the running for those jobs, for bonus points the Democrats are associating themselves with this sort of action guaranteeing themselves no chance of recovery in the same areas.
Working at Starbucks is not a blue collar job. If all Trump can offer at the end of four years is more jobs in coffee shops he will be blown away if his voter suppression campaigns have not been successful.
Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader, has put out a press statement saying that, if Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK does go ahead, as a protest he will not attend the state dinner at Buckingham Palace.
Take that, Trump!
(And isn't it presumptuous for him to assume that Her Majesty would be gracious enough to invite him?)
I suspect that statement is not for Trump's consumption ;-)
Not quite as harsh as transportation but when I started working for Barclay's in 1987 there was a guy in my branch who had worked for them for c 40 years. I recall him telling me about a memo that came round years ago from Head Office stating that that there had been a number of marriages concerning bank staff that hadn't sought the managers permission and that this practice must cease forthwith!
To be serious, some organisations (though probably not as many as used to be the case) have rules about couples not being allowed to work in the same teams.
Donald J Trump When will the Democrats give us our Attorney General and rest of Cabinet! They should be ashamed of themselves! No wonder D.C. doesn't work!
Not quite as harsh as transportation but when I started working for Barclay's in 1987 there was a guy in my branch who had worked for them for c 40 years. I recall him telling me about a memo that came round years ago from Head Office stating that that there had been a number of marriages concerning bank staff that hadn't sought the managers permission and that this practice must cease forthwith!
To be serious, some organisations (though probably not as many as used to be the case) have rules about couples not being allowed to work in the same teams.
Most have rules that couples can't be in the chain of command above each other (i.e. ability to influence career progression and compensation)
So we now know the date at which we will, very likely, leave the EU entirely.
March 9th 2019.
Will this be the national day of jubilation, the official Brexit Bank Holiday, or will it be June 23rd, the date of the referendum? I prefer the latter, because it is summer.
What do pb-ers think? What should be our July 4th, our Bastille Day? June 23rd looks good to me
Americans celebrate the declaration of their independence rather than the fact of it, and June is a much nicer time of year as you say. March the 9th will be worth marking as well, but less so.
Official holidays
New Year (Jan 1st) Easter (Mar 23 - April 20th) X 2 May Day Whitsun (End of May) August Bank Holiday (last Monday in August) XMas X 2
Couldn't we have a special day when we leave - which is NOT a day of a week i.e. between March 9th and March 10th and one every leap year between June 22nd and June 23rd - again not an official day of the week.
The advantage of this is that every date will always be on the same day of the week - so we would save a fortune in printing calenders.
Soeone should run a line, or market---whatever the right descriptor may be---on whether this petition will make three million signers duruing its alloted span:
Clever move from Starbucks imo, seen lots of my right on friends on Facebook who hate them for the tax issues praising them for this. Free PR and very effective PR at that.
Bad move. Starbucks will lose a chunk of their customer base.
And the FBI/ CIA etc will be continually checking to make sure that there are no illegals - and probably trying to entrap them into hiring them. The left have got to learn pretty quickly that the law enforcement in America is no longer pandering to their beliefs.
Are they all in Remain constituencies? It would take a brave MP to do that, from a Leaver area.
John Woodcock is MP for Barrow so he's really going to struggle to justify that vote. I'm sure it won't escape the attention of those nextdoor in Copeland and could be used by the Tory campaign to suggest a Labour vote is a vote against triggering Article 50.
Geraint Davies in Swansea and Ann Coffey in Sheffield were closer results and obviously hard to break down the vote into constituencies.
Soeone should run a line, or market---whatever the right descriptor may be---on whether this petition will make three million signers duruing its alloted span:
Two questions as I'm not very knowledgeable about these parliamentary petitions:
1. What controls are in place to prevent someone from voting in support any number of times?
2. How does one oppose this petition, i.e by. voting against it? .... It appears only possible to register one's support.
1) Basically none.
2) You can't
Which is why no one in government appears to take them terribly seriously I would imagine. It gives the Twitterati somewhere to vent without actually changing anything, wins all around
Are they all in Remain constituencies? It would take a brave MP to do that, from a Leaver area.
The voters won't hear about the vote unless the government lose it, and if the government lose it the story will be about their backbench rebellion.
Tell me, when did MPs change from representatives into delegates? If this had applied 50 years ago, the UK would have remained a place where murderers and spies were hung, abortions were banned and homosexuals were jailed.
They became delegates when they put the question to the country. If they wanted to take the decision themselves, they should have done so in the first place.
Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader, has put out a press statement saying that, if Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK does go ahead, as a protest he will not attend the state dinner at Buckingham Palace.
Take that, Trump!
(And isn't it presumptuous for him to assume that Her Majesty would be gracious enough to invite him?)
Although his ilk were happy to attend for Chinese President Xi. The country of Labour camps, dictatorship, no Internet and where people are not allowed to leave their own region, let alone travel abroad. Liberals hypocrites.
Soeone should run a line, or market---whatever the right descriptor may be---on whether this petition will make three million signers duruing its alloted span:
When you vote they take info. Your email address. Your postcode, if I remember. Then you must activate the vote through an email message they send. Maybe if youve got several email addresses you can cheat, but I don't know. You tell me. P/S I don't think you can express support on that petition itself.
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Are you sure you should be trolling the age group that delivered the Brexit majority?
I can't help it. Brexit doesn't belong to these doddery old Remainers who could die at any time, snapped in half like a twig, snuffed out like a tallow candle by the cruel fingers of time, shat on by the seagull of doom, as they walk the sands of senescence.
Brexit belongs to young people like ME, ME ME ME ME ME ME, thrusting young thriller writers with six different girlfriends under 28, and a brilliant title for their new book, and an income that makes George Soros look like Bob Cratchit.
Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Since you are doing so well, when are you going to start giving money away?
I'm sponsoring some of my girlfriends (about a third of them) to go and do charity work in poor places, for a few months. Literally.
It means I get a respite, and I can write it off against tax.
What more do you want?? Blood????
"About a third"? How many girlfriends does one need to have before one can round to "about a third"?
Sean has a Harem.
*ahem*
These days it's called polyamory, darling. It's quite the thing amongst us young sexy people.
It's certainly a great way to screw people up emotionally.
Not quite as harsh as transportation but when I started working for Barclay's in 1987 there was a guy in my branch who had worked for them for c 40 years. I recall him telling me about a memo that came round years ago from Head Office stating that that there had been a number of marriages concerning bank staff that hadn't sought the managers permission and that this practice must cease forthwith!
To be serious, some organisations (though probably not as many as used to be the case) have rules about couples not being allowed to work in the same teams.
I've found those rules to be fairly common. It's more to do with holiday cover etc.
Does anyone who's not whooping like mad in support of Trump believe that comparisons with other fascist dictatorships are inapposite? Consider the infrastructure needed to find 11 million illegal immigrants, detain them, transport them, and deport them within two years, as Trump has promised. The estimated cost is in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Makes sense to make the suckers labour to pay for the scheme, right?
So we now know the date at which we will, very likely, leave the EU entirely.
March 9th 2019.
Will this be the national day of jubilation, the official Brexit Bank Holiday, or will it be June 23rd, the date of the referendum? I prefer the latter, because it is summer.
What do pb-ers think? What should be our July 4th, our Bastille Day? June 23rd looks good to me
March is too close to Easter, so June is preferable.
We really could do with one in October/November, though. Most inconsiderate of Dave to hold the referendum in June and Theresa to trigger Brexit in March. What were they both thinking?
I genuinely sincerely think we should do this. Make Brexit Day a national holiday. We need a unifying holiday that isn't religious or royal (Mayday never really took off). Brexit is perfect.
The Remoaners, until they get over it, can treat it like the Day of the Dead, and walk around in skeleton costumes, the rest of us can eat Helford rock oysters and drink lots of British fizz.
Doesn't it strike you as deeply un-British though?
We're building a NEW Britain. It needs NEW institutions. And NEW holidays.
No we’re not. We’re trying to revive a world that has gone.
Although I feel that the country has to make the best of a bad job, and I really hope it doesn’t turn out too badly, like many Remainers I think we’re making a terrible mistake.
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Ah, but my genes will survive, in the persons of my children and grandchildren, all of whom (at least those qualified tio vote) are, I’m happy to say, are Remainers.
FastFT Trump’s top trade adviser accuses Germany of currency exploitation https://t.co/YTFv18jxAX
He is sort-of right. The German Euro is undervalued; the Greek Euro overvalued. What is more interesting in the story is Trump's advisor also complains about German non-tariff barriers like their quaint insistence on high-quality food. That does not bode well for the terms of any UK/US deal.
Are they all in Remain constituencies? It would take a brave MP to do that, from a Leaver area.
John Woodcock is MP for Barrow so he's really going to struggle to justify that vote. I'm sure it won't escape the attention of those nextdoor in Copeland and could be used by the Tory campaign to suggest a Labour vote is a vote against triggering Article 50.
Geraint Davies in Swansea and Ann Coffey in Sheffield were closer results and obviously hard to break down the vote into constituencies.
I imagine John Woodcock has decided to retire at the next election, so he doesn't care.
Soeone should run a line, or market---whatever the right descriptor may be---on whether this petition will make three million signers duruing its alloted span:
When you vote they take info. Your email address. Your postcode, if I remember. Then you must activate the vote through an email message they send. Maybe if youve got several email addresses you can cheat, but I don't know. You tell me. P/S I don't think you can express support on that petition itself.
Pulling email addresses out of thin air is quite straightforward these days. There are several services like https://www.guerrillamail.com/ around.
Maybe Amazon who have similar tax issues should hire a load too.
Amazon have no tax issues, they don't make a profit in any country.
Oh I know that, but they have the same sort of tax related PR issues as Starbucks. Announcing they will hire some refugees might improve their image similarly.
Its going to kill them in the mid west, Trump's team won't be able to believe their luck with this sort of right-on virtue signalling being sure to get right up the nose of the blue collar workers that might consider themselves in the running for those jobs, for bonus points the Democrats are associating themselves with this sort of action guaranteeing themselves no chance of recovery in the same areas.
That was exactly my response when I saw the story. Those who think of themselves as left-behinds will just see themselves as even more left behind by big business whose actions are inimical to what they see as their interests.
Soeone should run a line, or market---whatever the right descriptor may be---on whether this petition will make three million signers duruing its alloted span:
When you vote they take info. Your email address. Your postcode, if I remember. Then you must activate the vote through an email message they send. Maybe if youve got several email addresses you can cheat, but I don't know. You tell me. P/S I don't think you can express support on that petition itself.
Vladimir Putin just texted me to say that Fancy Bears have only one petition-signing email address, and no interest in influencing British politics, so that's all right then.
Soeone should run a line, or market---whatever the right descriptor may be---on whether this petition will make three million signers duruing its alloted span:
When you vote they take info. Your email address. Your postcode, if I remember. Then you must activate the vote through an email message they send. Maybe if youve got several email addresses you can cheat, but I don't know. You tell me. P/S I don't think you can express support on that petition itself.
Vladimir Putin just texted me to say that Fancy Bears have only one petition-signing email address, and no interest in influencing British politics, so that's all right then.
This is all too complicated for me. If the Russians wanted to influence things wouldn't they want Trump to visit the UK?
Are they all in Remain constituencies? It would take a brave MP to do that, from a Leaver area.
John Woodcock is MP for Barrow so he's really going to struggle to justify that vote. I'm sure it won't escape the attention of those nextdoor in Copeland and could be used by the Tory campaign to suggest a Labour vote is a vote against triggering Article 50.
Geraint Davies in Swansea and Ann Coffey in Sheffield were closer results and obviously hard to break down the vote into constituencies.
I imagine John Woodcock has decided to retire at the next election, so he doesn't care.
You'd think at 38 he might want a few more years in parliament, but he'll probably get some cushy job at a think tank. At least he got to date Isabel Hardman.
FastFT Trump’s top trade adviser accuses Germany of currency exploitation https://t.co/YTFv18jxAX
He is sort-of right. The German Euro is undervalued; the Greek Euro overvalued. What is more interesting in the story is Trump's advisor also complains about German non-tariff barriers like their quaint insistence on high-quality food. That does not bode well for the terms of any UK/US deal.
Surely the US, UK and Canada eat the worst food in the world? The US possibly leads with plastic hormone-filled cheese and bland tasteless beer, plus corn syrup in everything instead of just cane sugar.
If German food is 'high quality', that's extraordinary. Has he not visited France or Italy?
Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader, has put out a press statement saying that, if Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK does go ahead, as a protest he will not attend the state dinner at Buckingham Palace.
Take that, Trump!
(And isn't it presumptuous for him to assume that Her Majesty would be gracious enough to invite him?)
Will Trump even come if he knows Farron won't be at the dinner?
Fallon will be there and Trump will probably think he is the Lib Dem leader. So no problem.
Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader, has put out a press statement saying that, if Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK does go ahead, as a protest he will not attend the state dinner at Buckingham Palace.
Take that, Trump!
(And isn't it presumptuous for him to assume that Her Majesty would be gracious enough to invite him?)
There'd be more cutlery in front of him than LD MPs - wise to opt out before making a fool... oops that ship sailed as well
Donald J Trump When will the Democrats give us our Attorney General and rest of Cabinet! They should be ashamed of themselves! No wonder D.C. doesn't work!
I remember that the first year of Obama's presidency, he sounded half-candidate and half-senator. Trump is still sounding half-candidate and half-TV personality.
I'm still trying to work out if he's genuinely got no idea how politics works or whether he's five moves ahead of everyone.
Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader, has put out a press statement saying that, if Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK does go ahead, as a protest he will not attend the state dinner at Buckingham Palace.
Take that, Trump!
(And isn't it presumptuous for him to assume that Her Majesty would be gracious enough to invite him?)
There'd be more cutlery in front of him than LD MPs - wise to opt out before making a fool... oops that ship sailed as well
Probably old hat but I've just seen "Minor Fart" as a very appropriate anagram for our Timmy.
Soeone should run a line, or market---whatever the right descriptor may be---on whether this petition will make three million signers duruing its alloted span:
2. How does one oppose this petition, i.e by. voting against it? .... It appears only possible to register one's support.
You can 'appose' it in one form here http://tinyurl.com/hbjac99, if you're not over delicate about putting your name to a crime against the English language.
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Are you sure you should be trolling the age group that delivered the Brexit majority?
I can't help it. Brexit doesn't belong to these doddery old Remainers who could die at any time, snapped in half like a twig, snuffed out like a tallow candle by the cruel fingers of time, shat on by the seagull of doom, as they walk the sands of senescence.
Brexit belongs to young people like ME, ME ME ME ME ME ME, thrusting young thriller writers with six different girlfriends under 28, and a brilliant title for their new book, and an income that makes George Soros look like Bob Cratchit.
Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Since you are doing so well, when are you going to start giving money away?
I'm sponsoring some of my girlfriends (about a third of them) to go and do charity work in poor places, for a few months. Literally.
It means I get a respite, and I can write it off against tax.
What more do you want?? Blood????
"About a third"? How many girlfriends does one need to have before one can round to "about a third"?
Sean has a Harem.
*ahem*
These days it's called polyamory, darling. It's quite the thing amongst us young sexy people.
What's the penis count in this polyamory? Unless it's more than one, it's a harem.
Not quite as harsh as transportation but when I started working for Barclay's in 1987 there was a guy in my branch who had worked for them for c 40 years. I recall him telling me about a memo that came round years ago from Head Office stating that that there had been a number of marriages concerning bank staff that hadn't sought the managers permission and that this practice must cease forthwith!
To be serious, some organisations (though probably not as many as used to be the case) have rules about couples not being allowed to work in the same teams.
I've found those rules to be fairly common. It's more to do with holiday cover etc.
Married couples are a risk where collusion between two employees could authorise money transfer or open safes for example.
I recall a national car hie company where the wages manager and the wages clerk ran off together with the company's monthly salary bill. They were just in amory rather than married though.
FastFT Trump’s top trade adviser accuses Germany of currency exploitation https://t.co/YTFv18jxAX
He is sort-of right. The German Euro is undervalued; the Greek Euro overvalued. What is more interesting in the story is Trump's advisor also complains about German non-tariff barriers like their quaint insistence on high-quality food. That does not bode well for the terms of any UK/US deal.
Surely the US, UK and Canada eat the worst food in the world? The US possibly leads with plastic hormone-filled cheese and bland tasteless beer, plus corn syrup in everything instead of just cane sugar.
If German food is 'high quality', that's extraordinary. Has he not visited France or Italy?
I eat around the world for a living. German food is some of the worst on the planet. Like British food in the late 1970s. Banal, insipid, stodgy, flavourless. Too much meat. Horrible horrible pigswill.
I did a press trip to the Rhineland a couple of years ago and some of the food was actually inedible (and these were meant to be "good" restaurants). What amazed me was that the Germans were proud of it! They didn't realise it was shite.
I had one goodish meal in a week, in a humble little restaurant which just grilled some riverfish, and that was it.
The wine was OK, but nothing special.
Nice beer tho.
Some German food is great!
Haxe with potato dumpling and saurkraut The Grunkel festival in Northern Germany served with little fat sausages Bratwurst with mustard and bread, almost anywhere
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Are you sure you should be trolling the age group that delivered the Brexit majority?
I can't help it. Brexit doesn't belong to these doddery old Remainers who could die at any time, snapped in half like a twig, snuffed out like a tallow candle by the cruel fingers of time, shat on by the seagull of doom, as they walk the sands of senescence.
Brexit belongs to young people like ME, ME ME ME ME ME ME, thrusting young thriller writers with six different girlfriends under 28, and a brilliant title for their new book, and an income that makes George Soros look like Bob Cratchit.
Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Since you are doing so well, when are you going to start giving money away?
I'm sponsoring some of my girlfriends (about a third of them) to go and do charity work in poor places, for a few months. Literally.
It means I get a respite, and I can write it off against tax.
What more do you want?? Blood????
"About a third"? How many girlfriends does one need to have before one can round to "about a third"?
Sean has a Harem.
*ahem*
These days it's called polyamory, darling. It's quite the thing amongst us young sexy people.
What's the penis count in this polyamory? Unless it's more than one, it's a harem.
The penis count is usually one, or alternatively (but less commonly) n-1.
(Frank Veaux is the main man of Quora on Polyamory, it isnt my cup of tea, but it seems to be the in thing these days, I must be too "old", even if I am half a decade younger than Sean )
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Are you sure you should be trolling the age group that delivered the Brexit majority?
I can't help it. Brexit doesn't belong to these doddery old Remainers who could die at any time, snapped in half like a twig, snuffed out like a tallow candle by the cruel fingers of time, shat on by the seagull of doom, as they walk the sands of senescence.
Brexit belongs to young people like ME, ME ME ME ME ME ME, thrusting young thriller writers with six different girlfriends under 28, and a brilliant title for their new book, and an income that makes George Soros look like Bob Cratchit.
Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Since you are doing so well, when are you going to start giving money away?
I'm sponsoring some of my girlfriends (about a third of them) to go and do charity work in poor places, for a few months. Literally.
It means I get a respite, and I can write it off against tax.
What more do you want?? Blood????
"About a third"? How many girlfriends does one need to have before one can round to "about a third"?
Sean has a Harem.
*ahem*
These days it's called polyamory, darling. It's quite the thing amongst us young sexy people.
What's the penis count in this polyamory? Unless it's more than one, it's a harem.
Not if some of the girls are seeing other men, (or women) which one or two of them are. Other girls do like to be more exclusive, to be fair.
AILING Prestwick Airport is to target increased "military business" including US Air Force flights as new figures show it generated a pre-tax loss of over £9.2million.
The latest accounts for the airport show passenger numbers have dropped to 624,000 - around a quarter of the business it was attracting less than a decade ago.
Around £40 million of public money will have been ploughed into the airport by the year end, which means it will have exhausted its share of state funding five years early, watchdogs have claimed.
Soeone should run a line, or market---whatever the right descriptor may be---on whether this petition will make three million signers duruing its alloted span:
Two questions as I'm not very knowledgeable about these parliamentary petitions:
1. What controls are in place to prevent someone from voting in support any number of times?
2. How does one oppose this petition, i.e by. voting against it? .... It appears only possible to register one's support.
The Petition to support Donald Trump's state visit is now up to 93, 000 nearly up to the 100, 000 requirement needed to be considered in a debate in Parliament
Donald J Trump When will the Democrats give us our Attorney General and rest of Cabinet! They should be ashamed of themselves! No wonder D.C. doesn't work!
I remember that the first year of Obama's presidency, he sounded half-candidate and half-senator. Trump is still sounding half-candidate and half-TV personality.
I'm still trying to work out if he's genuinely got no idea how politics works or whether he's five moves ahead of everyone.
President the Donald is not so much ahead of the game as playing a different one. He has no interest in policy. He wants to run the country like he ran his companies, by issuing proclamations that would be acted on by COOs and project teams lower down -- who would fill in the details themselves.
Of course, the administration of the United States is not set up for that. The president's executive orders are little more than aspirations or even slogans. Replace Obamacare (with what?). Cut regulations (which ones?). Even the Mexican wall, which is nearest to Trump's day job as a property developer, shows no sign of his having thought about what this will mean for the price of bricks or cement, or even who owns the land.
Plato and the Dilbert guy have misread Trump. His stream of tweets and executive orders is not designed to bewilder the MSM or opposition groups. President Trump really does intend to run the country this way.
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Are you sure you should be trolling the age group that delivered the Brexit majority?
I can't help it. Brexit doesn't belong to these doddery old Remainers who could die at any time, snapped in half like a twig, snuffed out like a tallow candle by the cruel fingers of time, shat on by the seagull of doom, as they walk the sands of senescence.
Brexit belongs to young people like ME, ME ME ME ME ME ME, thrusting young thriller writers with six different girlfriends under 28, and a brilliant title for their new book, and an income that makes George Soros look like Bob Cratchit.
Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Since you are doing so well, when are you going to start giving money away?
I'm sponsoring some of my girlfriends (about a third of them) to go and do charity work in poor places, for a few months. Literally.
It means I get a respite, and I can write it off against tax.
What more do you want?? Blood????
"About a third"? How many girlfriends does one need to have before one can round to "about a third"?
Sean has a Harem.
*ahem*
These days it's called polyamory, darling. It's quite the thing amongst us young sexy people.
What's the penis count in this polyamory? Unless it's more than one, it's a harem.
Not if some of the girls are seeing other men, (or women) which one or two of them are. Other girls do like to be more exclusive, to be fair.
Modern sexual morals are flexible and complex....
With you, Sean, I'm pretty sure we're talking about mores, not morals. Keep up the good work.
Oh yes, some of the worst food I've eaten is in rural France, tete du veau anyone?
Andouillette (sp?)
I ordered it by mistake once. The waitress (obviously seeing through my execrable French) did try to talk me out of it, but I felt committed by then. I told myself the honour of my nation was at stake and that anything a frog-eating Frenchman could eat, an Englishman could eat. Eugh. Luckily it came coated in a thick sauce so I couldn't actually see what I was putting in my mouth which helped. And I didn't throw up. But never again.
AILING Prestwick Airport is to target increased "military business" including US Air Force flights as new figures show it generated a pre-tax loss of over £9.2million.
The latest accounts for the airport show passenger numbers have dropped to 624,000 - around a quarter of the business it was attracting less than a decade ago.
Around £40 million of public money will have been ploughed into the airport by the year end, which means it will have exhausted its share of state funding five years early, watchdogs have claimed.
Donald J Trump When will the Democrats give us our Attorney General and rest of Cabinet! They should be ashamed of themselves! No wonder D.C. doesn't work!
I remember that the first year of Obama's presidency, he sounded half-candidate and half-senator. Trump is still sounding half-candidate and half-TV personality.
I'm still trying to work out if he's genuinely got no idea how politics works or whether he's five moves ahead of everyone.
I think he's both, the reason he's sometimes five moves ahead of everyone else is because he's approaching politics in a totally different way, his own way, with his own rules, and this is because he doesn't know or care how normal politics works.
Hence the sometimes horrific blunders, which he shrugs off, and the weirdly clever moves, which blindside everyone else
As you say, he seems not to care about the former so long as he gets the latter. His focus is entirely on serving his own constituency, making no real attempt to hide his contempt for his opponents, who are going ape-shit; which I find amusing as much as disconcerting.
Plato and the Dilbert guy have misread Trump. His stream of tweets and executive orders is not designed to bewilder the MSM or opposition groups. President Trump really does intend to run the country this way.
If he eventually pulls his head out of his ass and looks around he might discover it is sort of possible to play the game that way. There is nothing wrong with being a big picture aspirational broad brushstrokes sort of president, and hiring the right people to do the detail for him. There was a time when we thought that Pence was going to fill in the detail of Trump's bold colours, but it seems to have gone a bit quiet from him, probably keeping his nose clean in case a promotion is in the offing
AILING Prestwick Airport is to target increased "military business" including US Air Force flights as new figures show it generated a pre-tax loss of over £9.2million.
The latest accounts for the airport show passenger numbers have dropped to 624,000 - around a quarter of the business it was attracting less than a decade ago.
Around £40 million of public money will have been ploughed into the airport by the year end, which means it will have exhausted its share of state funding five years early, watchdogs have claimed.
Oh yes, some of the worst food I've eaten is in rural France, tete du veau anyone?
Andouillette (sp?)
I ordered it by mistake once. The waitress (obviously seeing through my execrable French) did try to talk me out of it, but I felt committed by then. I told myself the honour of my nation was at stake and that anything a frog-eating Frenchman could eat, an Englishman could eat. Eugh. Luckily it came coated in a thick sauce so I couldn't actually see what I was putting in my mouth which helped. And I didn't throw up. But never again.
plus AlanBrook
Tripe and intestines yuck All washed down with a horrendous mixture of stale bread mixedwith red wine and sugar
AILING Prestwick Airport is to target increased "military business" including US Air Force flights as new figures show it generated a pre-tax loss of over £9.2million.
The latest accounts for the airport show passenger numbers have dropped to 624,000 - around a quarter of the business it was attracting less than a decade ago.
Around £40 million of public money will have been ploughed into the airport by the year end, which means it will have exhausted its share of state funding five years early, watchdogs have claimed.
Soeone should run a line, or market---whatever the right descriptor may be---on whether this petition will make three million signers duruing its alloted span:
When you vote they take info. Your email address. Your postcode, if I remember. Then you must activate the vote through an email message they send. Maybe if youve got several email addresses you can cheat, but I don't know. You tell me. P/S I don't think you can express support on that petition itself.
Vladimir Putin just texted me to say that Fancy Bears have only one petition-signing email address, and no interest in influencing British politics, so that's all right then.
This is all too complicated for me. If the Russians wanted to influence things wouldn't they want Trump to visit the UK?
He will come of course.
I'm not sure the Russians care very much either way. The point is the whole online petition system is trivially open to manipulation. And don't get me started on how the cyclists invariably win BBC SPotY but can't muster enough fans to watch the so-called sport on its own channel.
Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader, has put out a press statement saying that, if Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK does go ahead, as a protest he will not attend the state dinner at Buckingham Palace.
Take that, Trump!
(And isn't it presumptuous for him to assume that Her Majesty would be gracious enough to invite him?)
There'd be more cutlery in front of him than LD MPs - wise to opt out before making a fool... oops that ship sailed as well
Probably old hat but I've just seen "Minor Fart" as a very appropriate anagram for our Timmy.
Yes, old hat, but can't resist anagrams. 'Aye, Mrs Hate' or 'Shy Tea Mare'
Can someone please get a message to Peter Bone and tell him, as a priority, to stop wearing that fashion crime against humanity of a Grassroots Out! tie?
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I recall him telling me about a memo that came round years ago from Head Office stating that that there had been a number of marriages concerning bank staff that hadn't sought the managers permission and that this practice must cease forthwith!
https://www.periscope.tv/w/a18UjzFvTmpseEdOSnBqd1J8MXlOR2FkZ3JZV3FLavnAMihsWFSoDrbpY8hGfMOj8ds37sepBzRsgTnzCEX-
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/171928
While we are on betrayal, many seem to have forgotten the Steele dossier.
Godfrey Elfwick
When the next generation ask: what did YOU do when Trump came to power? I'll proudly say: "I called him a Nazi while dressed like a vagina."
Miss Plato, well, quite. If I were seriously anti-Trump, and a Yankee Doodle, I'd be focusing on the mid-terms and trying to stop Democrats come out with bullshit about shutting white people up.
If he is successful in bringing employment back to the Great Lakes region, and can do this without unbalancing the economy, then he will be rightfully re-elected.
On the other hand, if his policies are seen to have benefited the 1% without improving the jobs prospects of those in the Midwest, then he will likely lose badly.
Take that, Trump!
(And isn't it presumptuous for him to assume that Her Majesty would be gracious enough to invite him?)
Whilst not enshrined in legislation, getting a job really did often used to be based on whether you went to the right school, and getting a mortgage dependent on both where you wanted to live and an interview with the bank manager, which was more like a job interview where your class and background could count heavily against you.
Mr. Eagles, fair enough. Got to say I'm not fond of having a captain with disciplinary problems (not that I follow rugby very closely).
Donald J Trump
When will the Democrats give us our Attorney General and rest of Cabinet! They should be ashamed of themselves! No wonder D.C. doesn't work!
https://twitter.com/rinka_dog/status/826375530706530304
New Year (Jan 1st)
Easter (Mar 23 - April 20th) X 2
May Day
Whitsun (End of May)
August Bank Holiday (last Monday in August)
XMas X 2
Couldn't we have a special day when we leave - which is NOT a day of a week i.e. between March 9th and March 10th and one every leap year between June 22nd and June 23rd - again not an official day of the week.
The advantage of this is that every date will always be on the same day of the week - so we would save a fortune in printing calenders.
1. What controls are in place to prevent someone from voting in support any number of times?
2. How does one oppose this petition, i.e by. voting against it? .... It appears only possible to register one's support.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/31/francois-fillons-office-french-parliament-raided-investigators/
FastFT
Trump’s top trade adviser accuses Germany of currency exploitation https://t.co/YTFv18jxAX
Geraint Davies in Swansea and Ann Coffey in Sheffield were closer results and obviously hard to break down the vote into constituencies.
2) You can't
Which is why no one in government appears to take them terribly seriously I would imagine. It gives the Twitterati somewhere to vent without actually changing anything, wins all around
This seems to be the anti-antiTrump petition.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/178844
When you vote they take info. Your email address. Your postcode, if I remember. Then you must activate the vote through an email message they send. Maybe if youve got several email addresses you can cheat, but I don't know. You tell me.
P/S I don't think you can express support on that petition itself.
It's more to do with holiday cover etc.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/31/francois-fillons-office-french-parliament-raided-investigators/
Police raid office.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/
I don’t much loike your books, either! LOL
French parliament raided by investigators in Francois Fillon probe https://t.co/6tyWS3AcdC https://t.co/ksceBG8JL4
He will come of course.
If German food is 'high quality', that's extraordinary. Has he not visited France or Italy?
Fallon will be there and Trump will probably think he is the Lib Dem leader. So no problem.
I'm still trying to work out if he's genuinely got no idea how politics works or whether he's five moves ahead of everyone.
Betting on 100 outsiders each at 100/1 does not sound like a winning strategy.
I recall a national car hie company where the wages manager and the wages clerk ran off together with the company's monthly salary bill. They were just in amory rather than married though.
Haxe with potato dumpling and saurkraut
The Grunkel festival in Northern Germany served with little fat sausages
Bratwurst with mustard and bread, almost anywhere
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160623-polyamorous-relationships-may-be-the-future-of-love
(Frank Veaux is the main man of Quora on Polyamory, it isnt my cup of tea, but it seems to be the in thing these days, I must be too "old", even if I am half a decade younger than Sean
AILING Prestwick Airport is to target increased "military business" including US Air Force flights as new figures show it generated a pre-tax loss of over £9.2million.
The latest accounts for the airport show passenger numbers have dropped to 624,000 - around a quarter of the business it was attracting less than a decade ago.
Around £40 million of public money will have been ploughed into the airport by the year end, which means it will have exhausted its share of state funding five years early, watchdogs have claimed.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15058591.Prestwick_bosses_target_business_from_US_military_as_annual_losses_hit___9_2million/?ref=twtrec
Just as well no one has been disobliging about the Commander in Chief then.....
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/178844
Of course, the administration of the United States is not set up for that. The president's executive orders are little more than aspirations or even slogans. Replace Obamacare (with what?). Cut regulations (which ones?). Even the Mexican wall, which is nearest to Trump's day job as a property developer, shows no sign of his having thought about what this will mean for the price of bricks or cement, or even who owns the land.
Plato and the Dilbert guy have misread Trump. His stream of tweets and executive orders is not designed to bewilder the MSM or opposition groups. President Trump really does intend to run the country this way.
I ordered it by mistake once. The waitress (obviously seeing through my execrable French) did try to talk me out of it, but I felt committed by then. I told myself the honour of my nation was at stake and that anything a frog-eating Frenchman could eat, an Englishman could eat. Eugh. Luckily it came coated in a thick sauce so I couldn't actually see what I was putting in my mouth which helped. And I didn't throw up. But never again.
http://whatukthinks.org/eu/does-mrs-mays-brexit-plan-meet-voters-expectations/
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/178844
95,000 so far.
Commander in Chief bases his personal fleet at Prestwick.
Tripe and intestines yuck All washed down with a horrendous mixture of stale bread mixedwith red wine and sugar
'Aye, Mrs Hate'
or
'Shy Tea Mare'
https://petition.parliament.uk/