Regular readers may remember a television genre I dubbed "Shit Brexit Telly", where some minutae of Britain is examined each week by a minor sleb, and usually terminates with "...our wonderful British countryside" whilst the drone pans overhead and the sleb quaffs cider whilst staring at a white cliff. Examples I knew of at the time was that stupid villages thing with Penelope Keith and that really stupid railway thing with Michael Portillo.
Problem is, examples are beginning to pile up. Leaving aside the ones about canals (yes really) and underground cables/pipelines (yes, really really), I now find to my horror there exists a program called 'Rivers with Jeremy Paxman'.
Oh. My. God.
There has to be some kind of Shit Brexit Telly Generator, along the lines of [subnational British characteristic] with [media twit/luvvie/ex-pol]. Things like:
Lakes with David Dimbleby Great British Mountains with Bear Grylls Our Beautiful National Parks with Felicity Kendal Dogs! Crufts finalists with Paul O'Grady Antennae with Peter Snow Wonderful Wonderful British Flowers with Miranda Hart
If you can think of more examples of Shit Brexit Telly, real-life or not, please make them known.
Great English canal journeys with Timothy West & Prunella Scales Northamptonshire on five bob a day with Nick Owen
Regular readers may remember a television genre I dubbed "Shit Brexit Telly", where some minutae of Britain is examined each week by a minor sleb, and usually terminates with "...our wonderful British countryside" whilst the drone pans overhead and the sleb quaffs cider whilst staring at a white cliff. Examples I knew of at the time was that stupid villages thing with Penelope Keith and that really stupid railway thing with Michael Portillo.
Problem is, examples are beginning to pile up. Leaving aside the ones about canals (yes really) and underground cables/pipelines (yes, really really), I now find to my horror there exists a program called 'Rivers with Jeremy Paxman'.
Oh. My. God.
There has to be some kind of Shit Brexit Telly Generator, along the lines of [subnational British characteristic] with [media twit/luvvie/ex-pol]. Things like:
Lakes with David Dimbleby Great British Mountains with Bear Grylls Our Beautiful National Parks with Felicity Kendal Dogs! Crufts finalists with Paul O'Grady Antennae with Peter Snow Wonderful Wonderful British Flowers with Miranda Hart
If you can think of more examples of Shit Brexit Telly, real-life or not, please make them known.
Its a fair punt they have either signals, human or both intelligence of fair detail regarding both methodology & execution details of an attack being considered. Best guess is that this isn't just a new method but also a cluster of rapid fire incidents scenario.
Regular readers may remember a television genre I dubbed "Shit Brexit Telly", where some minutae of Britain is examined each week by a minor sleb, and usually terminates with "...our wonderful British countryside" whilst the drone pans overhead and the sleb quaffs cider whilst staring at a white cliff. Examples I knew of at the time was that stupid villages thing with Penelope Keith and that really stupid railway thing with Michael Portillo.
Problem is, examples are beginning to pile up. Leaving aside the ones about canals (yes really) and underground cables/pipelines (yes, really really), I now find to my horror there exists a program called 'Rivers with Jeremy Paxman'.
Oh. My. God.
There has to be some kind of Shit Brexit Telly Generator, along the lines of [subnational British characteristic] with [media twit/luvvie/ex-pol]. Things like:
Lakes with David Dimbleby Great British Mountains with Bear Grylls Our Beautiful National Parks with Felicity Kendal Dogs! Crufts finalists with Paul O'Grady Antennae with Peter Snow Wonderful Wonderful British Flowers with Miranda Hart
If you can think of more examples of Shit Brexit Telly, real-life or not, please make them known.
Inner City Sumo with Alan Partridge.
Sunil's Great British Railway Journeys
Apparently it doesn't work unless you have a stripey blazer for the Full Portillo.
Regular readers may remember a television genre I dubbed "Shit Brexit Telly", where some minutae of Britain is examined each week by a minor sleb, and usually terminates with "...our wonderful British countryside" whilst the drone pans overhead and the sleb quaffs cider whilst staring at a white cliff. Examples I knew of at the time was that stupid villages thing with Penelope Keith and that really stupid railway thing with Michael Portillo.
Problem is, examples are beginning to pile up. Leaving aside the ones about canals (yes really) and underground cables/pipelines (yes, really really), I now find to my horror there exists a program called 'Rivers with Jeremy Paxman'.
Oh. My. God.
There has to be some kind of Shit Brexit Telly Generator, along the lines of [subnational British characteristic] with [media twit/luvvie/ex-pol]. Things like:
Lakes with David Dimbleby Great British Mountains with Bear Grylls Our Beautiful National Parks with Felicity Kendal Dogs! Crufts finalists with Paul O'Grady Antennae with Peter Snow Wonderful Wonderful British Flowers with Miranda Hart
If you can think of more examples of Shit Brexit Telly, real-life or not, please make them known.
Inner City Sumo with Alan Partridge.
Sunil's Great British Railway Journeys
Apparently it doesn't work unless you have a stripey blazer for the Full Portillo.
The Portillo railway show is great! I'm hurt someone dislikes it
Fry's Fry's Fried: Stephen Fry visits chip shops nationwide that fry Cadbury's Creme Eggs (this is a real thing). The fryer explains to Fry each week what a chip is. Each program ends with Fry holding a portion of chips whilst staring into the sunset and sussurating "Britain, Britain, Britain..."
Regular readers may remember a television genre I dubbed "Shit Brexit Telly", where some minutae of Britain is examined each week by a minor sleb, and usually terminates with "...our wonderful British countryside" whilst the drone pans overhead and the sleb quaffs cider whilst staring at a white cliff. Examples I knew of at the time was that stupid villages thing with Penelope Keith and that really stupid railway thing with Michael Portillo.
Problem is, examples are beginning to pile up. Leaving aside the ones about canals (yes really) and underground cables/pipelines (yes, really really), I now find to my horror there exists a program called 'Rivers with Jeremy Paxman'.
Oh. My. God.
There has to be some kind of Shit Brexit Telly Generator, along the lines of [subnational British characteristic] with [media twit/luvvie/ex-pol]. Things like:
Lakes with David Dimbleby Great British Mountains with Bear Grylls Our Beautiful National Parks with Felicity Kendal Dogs! Crufts finalists with Paul O'Grady Antennae with Peter Snow Wonderful Wonderful British Flowers with Miranda Hart
If you can think of more examples of Shit Brexit Telly, real-life or not, please make them known.
Inner City Sumo with Alan Partridge.
Sunil's Great British Railway Journeys
Apparently it doesn't work unless you have a stripey blazer for the Full Portillo.
It's a pity Tony Marlow isn't around to present it.
But one of the principles of Christianity (even the semi-Pagan variant known as Catholicism) is Redemption. Without Redemption we are all doomed (atheists excepted, obviously).
No redemption without confession of sins, sincere contrition and attempt to make restitution. And atheists don't go to heaven: good works and a sinless life are not enough, there must also be belief in God. This is why deathbed confessions and conversions are a *really* good idea.
Leaving it till one's deathbed is a risky strategy. None of us is party to MMcG's confession so we only have his public life to go by. He 'buried the hatchet' and sought peace - that's all. It does't excuse anything, but it makes him a better person than he would otherwise have been. My point about Norman Tebbit (with whom I have immense sympathy and broad political agreement) is that he invoked Christianity to damn McG. This is not how Christianity works.
Regular readers may remember a television genre I dubbed "Shit Brexit Telly", where some minutae of Britain is examined each week by a minor sleb, and usually terminates with "...our wonderful British countryside" whilst the drone pans overhead and the sleb quaffs cider whilst staring at a white cliff. Examples I knew of at the time was that stupid villages thing with Penelope Keith and that really stupid railway thing with Michael Portillo.
Problem is, examples are beginning to pile up. Leaving aside the ones about canals (yes really) and underground cables/pipelines (yes, really really), I now find to my horror there exists a program called 'Rivers with Jeremy Paxman'.
Oh. My. God.
There has to be some kind of Shit Brexit Telly Generator, along the lines of [subnational British characteristic] with [media twit/luvvie/ex-pol]. Things like:
Lakes with David Dimbleby Great British Mountains with Bear Grylls Our Beautiful National Parks with Felicity Kendal Dogs! Crufts finalists with Paul O'Grady Antennae with Peter Snow Wonderful Wonderful British Flowers with Miranda Hart
If you can think of more examples of Shit Brexit Telly, real-life or not, please make them known.
Inner City Sumo with Alan Partridge.
Sunil's Great British Railway Journeys
Apparently it doesn't work unless you have a stripey blazer for the Full Portillo.
Not stripey, silly - it has to be pastel-coloured!
Regular readers may remember a television genre I dubbed "Shit Brexit Telly", where some minutae of Britain is examined each week by a minor sleb, and usually terminates with "...our wonderful British countryside" whilst the drone pans overhead and the sleb quaffs cider whilst staring at a white cliff. Examples I knew of at the time was that stupid villages thing with Penelope Keith and that really stupid railway thing with Michael Portillo.
Problem is, examples are beginning to pile up. Leaving aside the ones about canals (yes really) and underground cables/pipelines (yes, really really), I now find to my horror there exists a program called 'Rivers with Jeremy Paxman'.
Oh. My. God.
There has to be some kind of Shit Brexit Telly Generator, along the lines of [subnational British characteristic] with [media twit/luvvie/ex-pol]. Things like:
Lakes with David Dimbleby Great British Mountains with Bear Grylls Our Beautiful National Parks with Felicity Kendal Dogs! Crufts finalists with Paul O'Grady Antennae with Peter Snow Wonderful Wonderful British Flowers with Miranda Hart
If you can think of more examples of Shit Brexit Telly, real-life or not, please make them known.
Inner City Sumo with Alan Partridge.
Sunil's Great British Railway Journeys
Apparently it doesn't work unless you have a stripey blazer for the Full Portillo.
The Portillo railway show is great! I'm hurt someone dislikes it
We shall have to politely disagree. I can't watch it without sticking my fist down my throat and tearing my own stomach lining out.
Regular readers may remember a television genre I dubbed "Shit Brexit Telly", where some minutae of Britain is examined each week by a minor sleb, and usually terminates with "...our wonderful British countryside" whilst the drone pans overhead and the sleb quaffs cider whilst staring at a white cliff. Examples I knew of at the time was that stupid villages thing with Penelope Keith and that really stupid railway thing with Michael Portillo.
Problem is, examples are beginning to pile up. Leaving aside the ones about canals (yes really) and underground cables/pipelines (yes, really really), I now find to my horror there exists a program called 'Rivers with Jeremy Paxman'.
Oh. My. God.
There has to be some kind of Shit Brexit Telly Generator, along the lines of [subnational British characteristic] with [media twit/luvvie/ex-pol]. Things like:
Lakes with David Dimbleby Great British Mountains with Bear Grylls Our Beautiful National Parks with Felicity Kendal Dogs! Crufts finalists with Paul O'Grady Antennae with Peter Snow Wonderful Wonderful British Flowers with Miranda Hart
If you can think of more examples of Shit Brexit Telly, real-life or not, please make them known.
Inner City Sumo with Alan Partridge.
Sunil's Great British Railway Journeys
Apparently it doesn't work unless you have a stripey blazer for the Full Portillo.
The Portillo railway show is great! I'm hurt someone dislikes it
I love it too, of course! Regarding England, only have Cumbria/north Lancs, Teeside, bits of East Riding, bits of Lincolnshire, bits of the Welsh borders, western Devon, and Cornwall left to do
It's amazing how so many Brexiteers managed to see (rightly) how insulting the Obama "back of the queue" comments were to Brits, yet don't see by the very same logic how insulting this kind of sabre-rattling is to other EU countries.
It's amazing how so many Brexiteers managed to see (rightly) how insulting the Obama "back of the queue" comments were to Brits, yet don't see by the very same logic how insulting this kind of sabre-rattling is to other EU countries.
Regular readers may remember a television genre I dubbed "Shit Brexit Telly", where some minutae of Britain is examined each week by a minor sleb, and usually terminates with "...our wonderful British countryside" whilst the drone pans overhead and the sleb quaffs cider whilst staring at a white cliff. Examples I knew of at the time was that stupid villages thing with Penelope Keith and that really stupid railway thing with Michael Portillo.
Problem is, examples are beginning to pile up. Leaving aside the ones about canals (yes really) and underground cables/pipelines (yes, really really), I now find to my horror there exists a program called 'Rivers with Jeremy Paxman'.
Oh. My. God.
There has to be some kind of Shit Brexit Telly Generator, along the lines of [subnational British characteristic] with [media twit/luvvie/ex-pol]. Things like:
Lakes with David Dimbleby Great British Mountains with Bear Grylls Our Beautiful National Parks with Felicity Kendal Dogs! Crufts finalists with Paul O'Grady Antennae with Peter Snow Wonderful Wonderful British Flowers with Miranda Hart
If you can think of more examples of Shit Brexit Telly, real-life or not, please make them known.
Inner City Sumo with Alan Partridge.
Sunil's Great British Railway Journeys
Apparently it doesn't work unless you have a stripey blazer for the Full Portillo.
The Portillo railway show is great! I'm hurt someone dislikes it
We shall have to politely disagree. I can't watch it without sticking my fist down my throat and tearing my own stomach lining out.
But one of the principles of Christianity (even the semi-Pagan variant known as Catholicism) is Redemption. Without Redemption we are all doomed (atheists excepted, obviously).
No redemption without confession of sins, sincere contrition and attempt to make restitution. And atheists don't go to heaven: good works and a sinless life are not enough, there must also be belief in God. This is why deathbed confessions and conversions are a *really* good idea.
Leaving it till one's deathbed is a risky strategy. None of us is party to MMcG's confession so we only have his public life to go by. He 'buried the hatchet' and sought peace - that's all. It does't excuse anything, but it makes him a better person than he would otherwise have been. My point about Norman Tebbit (with whom I have immense sympathy and broad political agreement) is that he invoked Christianity to damn McG. This is not how Christianity works.
Regular readers may remember a television genre I dubbed "Shit Brexit Telly", where some minutae of Britain is examined each week by a minor sleb, and usually terminates with "...our wonderful British countryside" whilst the drone pans overhead and the sleb quaffs cider whilst staring at a white cliff. Examples I knew of at the time was that stupid villages thing with Penelope Keith and that really stupid railway thing with Michael Portillo.
Problem is, examples are beginning to pile up. Leaving aside the ones about canals (yes really) and underground cables/pipelines (yes, really really), I now find to my horror there exists a program called 'Rivers with Jeremy Paxman'.
Oh. My. God.
There has to be some kind of Shit Brexit Telly Generator, along the lines of [subnational British characteristic] with [media twit/luvvie/ex-pol]. Things like:
Lakes with David Dimbleby Great British Mountains with Bear Grylls Our Beautiful National Parks with Felicity Kendal Dogs! Crufts finalists with Paul O'Grady Antennae with Peter Snow Wonderful Wonderful British Flowers with Miranda Hart
If you can think of more examples of Shit Brexit Telly, real-life or not, please make them known.
Inner City Sumo with Alan Partridge.
Sunil's Great British Railway Journeys
Apparently it doesn't work unless you have a stripey blazer for the Full Portillo.
Not stripey, silly - it has to be pastel-coloured!
From memory, he did do the yellow blazer/red trousers thing once. Death's too good for him...
It's amazing how so many Brexiteers managed to see (rightly) how insulting the Obama "back of the queue" comments were to Brits, yet don't see by the very same logic how insulting this kind of sabre-rattling is to other EU countries.
Um, probably because Brexiteers ARE Brits?
But we're about to go into talks with EU countries. The logic seems to be that these threats will incentivise the EU to give us a good deal, by showing them how supposedly bad their situation will be if they don't do as we want - but that was exactly the kind of logic behind Obama and the like's "interventions" during the referendum. The likelihood is that the Europeans will react to what they perceive as British threats, in the exact same way as Brits reacted to perceived Obama/EU threats during the referendum - i.e. with a big "f**k you" anger at the idea of attempts at blackmail.
Fry's Fry's Fried: Stephen Fry visits chip shops nationwide that fry Cadbury's Creme Eggs (this is a real thing). The fryer explains to Fry each week what a chip is. Each program ends with Fry holding a portion of chips whilst staring into the sunset and sussurating "Britain, Britain, Britain..."
Regular readers may remember a television genre I dubbed "Shit Brexit Telly", where some minutae of Britain is examined each week by a minor sleb, and usually terminates with "...our wonderful British countryside" whilst the drone pans overhead and the sleb quaffs cider whilst staring at a white cliff. Examples I knew of at the time was that stupid villages thing with Penelope Keith and that really stupid railway thing with Michael Portillo.
Problem is, examples are beginning to pile up. Leaving aside the ones about canals (yes really) and underground cables/pipelines (yes, really really), I now find to my horror there exists a program called 'Rivers with Jeremy Paxman'.
Oh. My. God.
There has to be some kind of Shit Brexit Telly Generator, along the lines of [subnational British characteristic] with [media twit/luvvie/ex-pol]. Things like:
Lakes with David Dimbleby Great British Mountains with Bear Grylls Our Beautiful National Parks with Felicity Kendal Dogs! Crufts finalists with Paul O'Grady Antennae with Peter Snow Wonderful Wonderful British Flowers with Miranda Hart
If you can think of more examples of Shit Brexit Telly, real-life or not, please make them known.
Inner City Sumo with Alan Partridge.
Sunil's Great British Railway Journeys
Apparently it doesn't work unless you have a stripey blazer for the Full Portillo.
Not stripey, silly - it has to be pastel-coloured!
From memory, he did do the yellow blazer/red trousers thing once. Death's too good for him...
It's amazing how so many Brexiteers managed to see (rightly) how insulting the Obama "back of the queue" comments were to Brits, yet don't see by the very same logic how insulting this kind of sabre-rattling is to other EU countries.
Completely different. Obama was patronising, he was coming over here telling us how to run our country (without actually living here).
Sure, sabre rattling may or may not be a good idea, but unconvinced on the comparison.
* the allegation that he trousered $54K to fix a meeting between a Lebanese billionaire and Putin
* the extension of the judicial investigation's remit to cover allegations of aggravated fraud and forgery
* the resignation of interior minister Bruno Le Roux, who paid his daughters parliamentary money for work they did while they were still students (Fillon made similar payments to his own children when they were students too)
What on earth happens if Fillon withdraws? :innocent face:
* the allegation that he trousered $54K to fix a meeting between a Lebanese billionaire and Putin
* the extension of the judicial investigation's remit to cover allegations of aggravated fraud and forgery
* the resignation of interior minister Bruno Le Roux, who paid his daughters parliamentary money for work they did while they were still students (Fillon made similar payments to his own children when they were students too)
What on earth happens if Fillon withdraws? :innocent face:
Given how stubborn he has been so far even if they locked him in the Bastille and threw away the key I expect Fillon would still insist his name was on the ballot
It is very good, not least because it reads very much (apart from the autobiographical bits!) like Maggie's oft-misquoted 'no such thing as society' interview.
All this highbrow documentary stuff is all well and good for you BBC4 watching types but what about the common man and woman? Sport, we need more sport.
Then when the moment came, in the Dynasty Grande hotel in Bangkok, in late January, I typed the first sentence: "The dead birds are neatly arranged in a row."
All this highbrow documentary stuff is all well and good for you BBC4 watching types but what about the common man and woman? Sport, we need more sport.
It's amazing how so many Brexiteers managed to see (rightly) how insulting the Obama "back of the queue" comments were to Brits, yet don't see by the very same logic how insulting this kind of sabre-rattling is to other EU countries.
Um, probably because Brexiteers ARE Brits?
But we're about to go into talks with EU countries. The logic seems to be that these threats will incentivise the EU to give us a good deal, by showing them how supposedly bad their situation will be if they don't do as we want - but that was exactly the kind of logic behind Obama and the like's "interventions" during the referendum. The likelihood is that the Europeans will react to what they perceive as British threats, in the exact same way as Brits reacted to perceived Obama/EU threats during the referendum - i.e. with a big "f**k you" anger at the idea of attempts at blackmail.
It's ABYSMAL negotiating tactics. Our EU partners are somewhat irritated with us. Most importantly they are indifferent to whatever deal we might offer. That's because the EU has a raft of issues. Getting a good deal with the UK isn't on that list, rightly or wrongly. The only way we're going to get their attention is if we make life easier for them (in the context of Brexit making things more difficult) or we offer something over and and above what they had already.
Then when the moment came, in the Dynasty Grande hotel in Bangkok, in late January, I typed the first sentence: "The dead birds are neatly arranged in a row."
All this highbrow documentary stuff is all well and good for you BBC4 watching types but what about the common man and woman? Sport, we need more sport.
Celebrity Crocodile Baiting for Sports Relief
Crazy Golf - Live!
Pro-Am Celebrity Badger Baiting with Noel Edmonds.
Or perhaps that should be Pro-Am Celebrity Bungie Jumping.
All this highbrow documentary stuff is all well and good for you BBC4 watching types but what about the common man and woman? Sport, we need more sport.
Celebrity Crocodile Baiting for Sports Relief
Crazy Golf - Live!
Bowls! With Fred Truman!
Have you ever seen Fred's tv show from the 1970's -The indoor league,that was classic tv ;-)
Almost certainly now there will be tariffs or customs duties on most EU goods and services coming to the UK and most UK goods and services going to the EU given May is taking us out of the single market to introduce work permits for EU workers and the EU is in no mood to rush a free trade deal for us, probably we will get some bilateral agreements in a few key areas like financial services and car manufacturing in return for some limited continued EU budget contributions
All this highbrow documentary stuff is all well and good for you BBC4 watching types but what about the common man and woman? Sport, we need more sport.
Celebrity Crocodile Baiting for Sports Relief
Crazy Golf - Live!
Bowls! With Fred Truman!
Have you ever seen Fred's tv show from the 1970's -The indoor league,that was classic tv ;-)
It's ABYSMAL negotiating tactics. Our EU partners are somewhat irritated with us. Most importantly they are indifferent to whatever deal we might offer. That's because the EU has a raft of issues. Getting a good deal with the UK isn't on that list, rightly or wrongly. The only way we're going to get their attention is if we make life easier for them (in the context of Brexit making things more difficult) or we offer something over and and above what they had already.
Not at all. What we need to do is help them see that their own interests are to give us a good deal, in return for which - and this is the crucial step which commentators both in the UK and on the continent don't seem to be able to get their heads around - we will give them a good deal.
In principle, they shouldn't need much persuading, by their own logic, repeated this very day:
"The EU is open for business," European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday, before heading into a meeting convened to push for a swift conclusion of a free trade agreement between Japan and the EU by the end of this year.
In what conceivable world does it make sense for the EU to be really keen on a free trade deal with Japan, on the other side of the world, but not with the UK, the world's fifth-largest economy, which is right on their doorstep, is already 100% compatible in terms of regulatory issues, and with which they have a huge trade surplus?
Of course, sense might not trump politics. But that is the line we should be shooting.
All this highbrow documentary stuff is all well and good for you BBC4 watching types but what about the common man and woman? Sport, we need more sport.
Celebrity Crocodile Baiting for Sports Relief
Crazy Golf - Live!
Bowls! With Fred Truman!
Have you ever seen Fred's tv show from the 1970's -The indoor league,that was classic tv ;-)
It's ABYSMAL negotiating tactics. Our EU partners are somewhat irritated with us. Most importantly they are indifferent to whatever deal we might offer. That's because the EU has a raft of issues. Getting a good deal with the UK isn't on that list, rightly or wrongly. The only way we're going to get their attention is if we make life easier for them (in the context of Brexit making things more difficult) or we offer something over and and above what they had already.
Not at all. What we need to do is help them see that their own interests are to give us a good deal, in return for which - and this is the crucial step which commentators both in the UK and on the continent don't seem to be able to get their heads around - we will give them a good deal.
In principle, they shouldn't need much persuading, by their own logic, repeated this very day:
"The EU is open for business," European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday, before heading into a meeting convened to push for a swift conclusion of a free trade agreement between Japan and the EU by the end of this year.
In what conceivable world does it make sense for the EU to be really keen on a free trade deal with Japan, on the other side of the world, but not with the UK, the world's fifth-largest economy, which is right on their doorstep, is already 100% compatible in terms of regulatory issues, and with which they have a huge trade surplus?
Of course, sense might not trump politics. But that is the line we should be shooting.
In what conceivable world does it make sense for the EU to be really keen on a free trade deal with Japan, on the other side of the world, but not with the UK, the world's fifth-largest economy, which is right on their doorstep, is already 100% compatible in terms of regulatory issues, and with which they have a huge trade surplus?
In the world where the UK already has a far better deal and is intent on throwing it away and threatening tariffs.
The UK government has forfeited any right to speak for the people of the whole of the UK and deserves every minute humiliation it has coming.
In what conceivable world does it make sense for the EU to be really keen on a free trade deal with Japan, on the other side of the world, but not with the UK, the world's fifth-largest economy, which is right on their doorstep, is already 100% compatible in terms of regulatory issues, and with which they have a huge trade surplus?
In the world where the UK already has a far better deal and is intent on throwing it away and threatening tariffs.
The UK government has forfeited any right to speak for the people of the whole of the UK and deserves every minute humiliation it has coming.
In what conceivable world does it make sense for the EU to be really keen on a free trade deal with Japan, on the other side of the world, but not with the UK, the world's fifth-largest economy, which is right on their doorstep, is already 100% compatible in terms of regulatory issues, and with which they have a huge trade surplus?
In the world where the UK already has a far better deal and is intent on throwing it away and threatening tariffs.
The UK government has forfeited any right to speak for the people of the whole of the UK and deserves every minute humiliation it has coming.
The UK government speaks for the 17 million who want to regain control of their borders which the EU has refused to compromise on
In what conceivable world does it make sense for the EU to be really keen on a free trade deal with Japan, on the other side of the world, but not with the UK, the world's fifth-largest economy, which is right on their doorstep, is already 100% compatible in terms of regulatory issues, and with which they have a huge trade surplus?
In the world where the UK already has a far better deal and is intent on throwing it away and threatening tariffs.
The UK government has forfeited any right to speak for the people of the whole of the UK and deserves every minute humiliation it has coming.
The UK is not 'threatening tariffs'. Quite the opposite, the UK government has made it 100% clear that it wants a deal with zero tariffs and as few non-tariff barriers as possible. All it has said it that it might have to plan for the worst case in which the EU27 create unreasonable difficulties, such as demanding a ludicrously high exit payment or refusing to discuss the package as a whole.
There is no getting away from the fact that the ball is in the EU's court on this. They can have a comprehensive free trade agreement with the UK if they want. Or not, if they want to damage themselves in the hope of damaging us.
It's either a win-win, or a lose-lose. There is no scenario which is a win for one side and a lose for the other, whatever the more excitable elements both in the UK and in the EU27 may think.
Completely O/T and apologies in advance but on the Irish question:
Sometimes you have to do deals with bad people and McGuinness – eventually – played his part in trying to sort out the mess he created. But let's not imagine virtues that did not exist. Whatever he did in the peace process did not involve saying sorry for what the IRA did. Nor did it involve justice for the dead and wounded and the widows and widowers and orphans and all those deprived of people they loved. They should not be forgotten, today of all days.
Making this simple point somehow seems controversial. As if it is somehow not done to look past the cheery smile. All that killing and pain. And for what? A NI still in the UK and what has been achieved could have been achieved decades ago if the men of peace had been as celebrated and fawned over and supported as much as the men of violence.
We live in a meritocracy where people with no experience or knowledge whatsoever can be appointed to senior jobs and where any notion that man is a moral animal and can make a choice between good and evil and be held accountable for his/her choices is seen as something quaintly old-fashioned if not downright perverse.
All this highbrow documentary stuff is all well and good for you BBC4 watching types but what about the common man and woman? Sport, we need more sport.
Celebrity Crocodile Baiting for Sports Relief
Crazy Golf - Live!
Bowls! With Fred Truman!
Have you ever seen Fred's tv show from the 1970's -The indoor league,that was classic tv ;-)
I normally agree with you, and Norman Tebbit's opinion is entirely and utterly understandable, but hmmm. I do think Martin McGuinness showed a degree of personal courage in driving Republicanism towards peace. If he WAS a British double agent (which I seriously doubt) this is even more the case, paradoxically.
I am sure McGuinness personally murdered - or personally ordered the murder - of innocent people in his youth. But so did Winston Churchill. So does every prime minister or president who authorises bombing.
On the day of his death, I'll honour the passing of Martin McGuinness. It is complex. And every man's death diminishes me.
I very much agree with those sentiments. Tony Blair was responsible for the deaths of more innocent people than McGuinness.
In what conceivable world does it make sense for the EU to be really keen on a free trade deal with Japan, on the other side of the world, but not with the UK, the world's fifth-largest economy, which is right on their doorstep, is already 100% compatible in terms of regulatory issues, and with which they have a huge trade surplus?
In the world where the UK already has a far better deal and is intent on throwing it away and threatening tariffs.
The UK government has forfeited any right to speak for the people of the whole of the UK and deserves every minute humiliation it has coming.
It's either a win-win, or a lose-lose. There is no scenario which is a win for one side and a lose for the other, whatever the more excitable elements both in the UK and in the EU27 may think.
It depends whether you're talking about politics or economics. If you're talking about economics, the win-win is to carry on as we are, and if we're talking politics, then the win-lose is to carry on as we are (with Brexit as the loser).
There is no scenario which is a win in both the politics and the economics columns for Brexit UK.
In the mid-1990s we were allowed to carry a birthday helium balloon onto a flight from the USA to the UK. It was stored in the overhead compartment. Amazing to think that was deemed acceptable, unremarkable, a relatively short time ago.
In what conceivable world does it make sense for the EU to be really keen on a free trade deal with Japan, on the other side of the world, but not with the UK, the world's fifth-largest economy, which is right on their doorstep, is already 100% compatible in terms of regulatory issues, and with which they have a huge trade surplus?
In the world where the UK already has a far better deal and is intent on throwing it away and threatening tariffs.
The UK government has forfeited any right to speak for the people of the whole of the UK and deserves every minute humiliation it has coming.
It's either a win-win, or a lose-lose. There is no scenario which is a win for one side and a lose for the other, whatever the more excitable elements both in the UK and in the EU27 may think.
It depends whether you're talking about politics or economics. If you're talking about economics, the win-win is to carry on as we are, and if we're talking politics, then the win-lose is to carry on as we are (with Brexit as the loser).
There is no scenario which is a win in both the politics and the economics columns for Brexit UK.
The win is to impose the border controls Blair failed to do, even if only from 2019 until 2025 and a Labour government, perhaps, returns us to the EEA that would almost match the 7 year work permit controls Germany had from 2004-2011
In what conceivable world does it make sense for the EU to be really keen on a free trade deal with Japan, on the other side of the world, but not with the UK, the world's fifth-largest economy, which is right on their doorstep, is already 100% compatible in terms of regulatory issues, and with which they have a huge trade surplus?
The UK government has forfeited any right to speak for the people of the whole of the UK and deserves every minute humiliation it has coming.
I know you are not happy with how things have gone down the last year, and I cannot say May's been as good as I had hoped, but what are you talking about? Who else is able to speak for the whole of the UK if not the government of the UK?
Economically and long term politically it would be great if humiliation was to be avoided for both sides in this, but there will be calls on both sides to humiliate the other which will need to be overcome. You seem downright eager for humiliation to occur!
In what conceivable world does it make sense for the EU to be really keen on a free trade deal with Japan, on the other side of the world, but not with the UK, the world's fifth-largest economy, which is right on their doorstep, is already 100% compatible in terms of regulatory issues, and with which they have a huge trade surplus?
The UK government has forfeited any right to speak for the people of the whole of the UK and deserves every minute humiliation it has coming.
I know you are not happy with how things have gone down the last year, and I cannot say May's been as good as I had hoped, but what are you talking about? Who else is able to speak for the whole of the UK if not the government of the UK?
Economically and long term politically it would be great if humiliation was to be avoided for both sides in this, but there will be calls on both sides to humiliate the other which will need to be overcome. You seem downright eager for humiliation to occur!
I am hoping for peak williamglenn at some point.....
It's amazing how so many Brexiteers managed to see (rightly) how insulting the Obama "back of the queue" comments were to Brits, yet don't see by the very same logic how insulting this kind of sabre-rattling is to other EU countries.
Um, probably because Brexiteers ARE Brits?
But we're about to go into talks with EU countries. The logic seems to be that these threats will incentivise the EU to give us a good deal, by showing them how supposedly bad their situation will be if they don't do as we want - but that was exactly the kind of logic behind Obama and the like's "interventions" during the referendum. The likelihood is that the Europeans will react to what they perceive as British threats, in the exact same way as Brits reacted to perceived Obama/EU threats during the referendum - i.e. with a big "f**k you" anger at the idea of attempts at blackmail.
We weren't going into negotiations with America, we were in a middle of a domestic election.
The apt comparison for what Obama did would be if May went to Paris and declared that the future of the Entente Cordiale depended Upon Fillon getting elected.
It's either a win-win, or a lose-lose. There is no scenario which is a win for one side and a lose for the other, whatever the more excitable elements both in the UK and in the EU27 may think.
Lose - Lose is politically preferable for both sides.
I normally agree with you, and Norman Tebbit's opinion is entirely and utterly understandable, but hmmm. I do think Martin McGuinness showed a degree of personal courage in driving Republicanism towards peace. If he WAS a British double agent (which I seriously doubt) this is even more the case, paradoxically.
I am sure McGuinness personally murdered - or personally ordered the murder - of innocent people in his youth. But so did Winston Churchill. So does every prime minister or president who authorises bombing.
On the day of his death, I'll honour the passing of Martin McGuinness. It is complex. And every man's death diminishes me.
I very much agree with those sentiments. Tony Blair was responsible for the deaths of more innocent people than McGuinness.
Yes, but Tony Blair was responsible for 600,000 Iraqi deaths.
Then when the moment came, in the Dynasty Grande hotel in Bangkok, in late January, I typed the first sentence: "The dead birds are neatly arranged in a row."
That's a jolly good first sentence.
Let me know if you need any help with the ending.
I certainly will, because I am writing the last sentence, tomorrow. A brief 1000 word, final chapter epilogue is required, and shall be written, when I wake up. I will call upon your inestimable talents! If required.
"And that's how the dead birds came to be neatly arranged in a row. The End"
Do we know what the current SNP membership is after their post 2014 Indy Ref spike?
According to the latest available estimates from political parties’ head offices, press releases and media estimates • The Labour Party has around 528,000 members, as of March 2017. • The Conservative Party had 149,800 members as of December 2013, the latest available estimate published by CCHQ. • The Scottish National Party has around 120,000 members, as of July 2016. • The Liberal Democrat Party has 82,000 members, as of February 2017. • The Green Party (England and Wales) has 55,500 members, as of July 2016. • UKIP has around 39,000 members, as of July 2016. • The Plaid Cymru has 8,273 members, as of July 2016.
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Its a fair punt they have either signals, human or both intelligence of fair detail regarding both methodology & execution details of an attack being considered. Best guess is that this isn't just a new method but also a cluster of rapid fire incidents scenario.
https://twitter.com/LeedsNWLibDems
Corbyn on jam
We'll do anything to be on telly with Paul Ross and Keith Chegwin
New deal will send a message to European leaders that the PM will walk away from talks without a new UK-EU trade deal
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3145643/theresa-may-tariffs-on-goods-from-eu/
Death's too good for him...
Roy Chubby Brown in the lead role and Trump playing himself.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robbie-Coltranes-B-Road-Britain-Complete/dp/B000TQLITW
Lab 272,951
Con 163,537
LDem 42,945
UKIP 59,774
Green 31,330
Sure, sabre rattling may or may not be a good idea, but unconvinced on the comparison.
* the allegation that he trousered $54K to fix a meeting between a Lebanese billionaire and Putin
* the extension of the judicial investigation's remit to cover allegations of aggravated fraud and forgery
* the resignation of interior minister Bruno Le Roux, who paid his daughters parliamentary money for work they did while they were still students (Fillon made similar payments to his own children when they were students too)
What on earth happens if Fillon withdraws? :innocent face:
Celebrity Crocodile Baiting for Sports Relief
Crazy Golf - Live!
Didn't you get the Thomas the Tank Engine reference?
Bulgy the Bus wanted to rip up the railways and turn them into roads!
http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Bulgy
Let me know if you need any help with the ending.
"Poop, poop!" whistled Gordon
Or perhaps that should be Pro-Am Celebrity Bungie Jumping.
I'll see thee
In principle, they shouldn't need much persuading, by their own logic, repeated this very day:
"The EU is open for business," European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday, before heading into a meeting convened to push for a swift conclusion of a free trade agreement between Japan and the EU by the end of this year.
http://en.europeonline-magazine.eu/1st-leadeu-open-for-business-leaders-say-as-japans-pm-pushes-trade-dealby-naveena-kottoor-dpa_527631.html
“This agreement is necessary. It is necessary because we believe in free, fair and rules-based trade.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-21/eu-japan-trade-talks-at-decisive-stage-as-trump-gives-impetus
In what conceivable world does it make sense for the EU to be really keen on a free trade deal with Japan, on the other side of the world, but not with the UK, the world's fifth-largest economy, which is right on their doorstep, is already 100% compatible in terms of regulatory issues, and with which they have a huge trade surplus?
Of course, sense might not trump politics. But that is the line we should be shooting.
https://fullfact.org/europe/where-does-eu-export/
The UK government has forfeited any right to speak for the people of the whole of the UK and deserves every minute humiliation it has coming.
There is no getting away from the fact that the ball is in the EU's court on this. They can have a comprehensive free trade agreement with the UK if they want. Or not, if they want to damage themselves in the hope of damaging us.
It's either a win-win, or a lose-lose. There is no scenario which is a win for one side and a lose for the other, whatever the more excitable elements both in the UK and in the EU27 may think.
First one to mention "Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!" wins...
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/844337847649763328
There is no scenario which is a win in both the politics and the economics columns for Brexit UK.
Economically and long term politically it would be great if humiliation was to be avoided for both sides in this, but there will be calls on both sides to humiliate the other which will need to be overcome. You seem downright eager for humiliation to occur!
The apt comparison for what Obama did would be if May went to Paris and declared that the future of the Entente Cordiale depended Upon Fillon getting elected.
July 2016 - 554,000
December 2016 - 528,000
But 40,000 are now in arrears - number up to date with payments is only 483,000.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/21/labour-membership-expected-to-fall-below-half-a-million
• The Labour Party has around 528,000 members, as of March 2017.
• The Conservative Party had 149,800 members as of December 2013, the latest available estimate published by CCHQ.
• The Scottish National Party has around 120,000 members, as of July 2016.
• The Liberal Democrat Party has 82,000 members, as of February 2017.
• The Green Party (England and Wales) has 55,500 members, as of July 2016.
• UKIP has around 39,000 members, as of July 2016.
• The Plaid Cymru has 8,273 members, as of July 2016.
http://tinyurl.com/krb2vnt