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Only 31% of voters say Die Hard is a Christmas movie @yougov finds. Not surprising, The Empire Strikes Back has more snow in it than Die Hard. pic.twitter.com/E2e8RIqpNg
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Talking to a local councillor today, who observed that a much larger number than usual of incumbent Conservatives on our local council are standing down this May, and that the local party is finding it hard to identify good quality replacements (for what are, in many cases, shoo-in wards).
There might be local factors, but if so I don't know of them. It might be coincidence. Or it could be the cumulative effect of a botched GE17, year-on-year cuts to local government funding (why put yourself through all this just to defend service cuts you can't change), and a surprisingly rampant Labour party.
I genuinely don't know. But what I do know is that hollowing out the local council activist base usually presages further decline in a party. Ask the LibDems.
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/477421/Zulu-is-50-Relive-the-story-of-the-British-defence-of-Rorke-s-Drift-in-1879
Zulu !
"Mange tout, Michel. Mange tout."
To be honest, I didn't have the energy to write a full thread tonight, so I did this.
It was really good having the thread a couple of days ago which, by happy chance, made no mention at all of the 'B' word in the comments section. I see this one has already failed on that score but I will try to maintain that spirit.
I am somewhat concerned with your apparently integral association of snow with Christmas movies. After all, The Thing has probably more snow in it than any other I can think of but is certainly not a Christmas Movie.
For example, what Barnier said here: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-17-3404_en.htm
https://twitter.com/BBCScotlandNews/status/937774773303623682
By Yougov's definition though It's a Wonderful Life wouldn't count as a Christmas movie either. Most of the film isn't even set at Christmas.
Bush Christmas doesn't have any snow either but then it is set in Australia.
Strangest one is Stay another Day by East 17 being widely regarded as a Christmas song because of a few bells on it near the end and some fake snow in the video.
They're shameless. Even with the head of the Met saying that they're investigating the release of confidential information as a crime, the BBC is continuing to parrot the very information which they were an accessory in the potentially illegal release of. They can't mention the case without naming him, and talking about 1000s of pictures.
I hope, but obviously can't imagine will happen, that the result of the investigation by the Met is that these two bent cops almost certainly fabricated the information, and nothing was actually found on the computer. That is the only result that would be fair to the DPM. If the bent cops won't shut up, they should be locked up.
I want to do it justice.
1) Snow
2) Set around Christmas
3) Have mention of God, Angels, Jesus, Joseph and Mary.
4) Santa
5) Have good Christian values in it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDt3u2Ev1cI
The movie is about Christmas. It is specifically about his adventure while getting home to see his family for Christmas. It may not be your classic Christmas adventure but it is one.
I wouldn't do it in a million years although I've been asked several times. I'd have to resign for the sake of my own sanity after about a week.
And Gremlins is my Christmas movie.
In the Bleak Midwinter
Silent Night, Silent Day
O come all ye Brexiteers, joyful and triumphant
- Brexit Carols
Any decisions to allow the UK to join EFTA and/or the EU Customs Union are political ones that depend on the other party's calculation of the benefit to them. If EFTA doesn't work out for the UK, the EU and the UK can create parallel structures that recreate the main benefits, if they so wish.
We should make the decision to join the EU Customs Union on a cost/benefit calculation. The benefits are frictionless (as today) borders at places such as Dover and the Irish border. The second in turn helps protect the Good Friday Agreement. We can partially link into 60 existing preferential trade agreements that have already been set up through the Customs Union.
Being in a Customs Union, however, removes much of our leverage in trade talks with third countries. Offering lower tariffs or better access is the currency of trade negotiations. You use that currency to get the other side to offer you better access. To be clear, being in a Customs Union doesn't prevent us having trade deals. In fact we have to negotiate our own deals under any Brexit scenario. But it does constrain the contents of those trade deals. OTOH we don't have much leverage anyway outside the Customs Union. We will be signing up to degraded third party arrangements, compared with those we had as EU members
The Customs Union protects our farmers' main export market and prevents a flood of cheap imports undermining their home market. OTOH, protectionism does result in more expensive food prices. I guess that can be argued either way.
In summary, being in the Customs Union would bring bigger advantages to a greater amount of trade than being outside it. On a cost/benefit it's a clear winner.
'God rest ye Jerry Mentalmen'
https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/937780442513764357
On the 2nd Year of BREXIT...........
I saw three shits (come flailing in)
All piss off back to Lodz /
Remainers cross the land did laugh /
At May's unholy bodge
Keeping the welfare state efficient, responsive, comprehensive and universal is the political challenge of our time. People shouldn't have to fight for stuff, it should just happen.
My hope when - labour take power - is we can create a smarter welfare state. My slightly off-the-wall suggestion is to integrate a national social care service into a new national service - that both teenagers - and the able newly-retired - can participate in.
45 mins....
On the first day of merger
The soggies gave to me,
Well, not much actually.
On the second day of merger
The soggies gave to me,
Absolutely zilch,
Well, not much actually
3. ..Sweet F.A.
4. ..A very small amount.
5. ..BUGGER ALL.
6. ..Very little really.
7. ..Nothing you would miss.
8. ..Just a meagre smidgen.
9. ..Nought that they would miss.
10. .,Not a bleeding sausage.
11. ..Mere peccadilloes.
12. ..Just a meagre helping.
Die Hard 2 is also a Christmas movie.
The first is more Christmassy than Miracle on 34th Street and It's a Wonderful Life.
And now you are officially my mortal enemy as you made me break my promise not to discuss Brexit on this thread.
Seven of the nine justices have granted the administration's request to lift injunctions imposed by lower courts blocking the ban.
.....Protests incoming....
That was the biggest thrashing I've ever been on the end of. Over a hundred, against our five. Our changing room was their weights room, and the first time any of us had been in a weights room for years. Their front row looked like two of Victor Obogu's wider, much more violent cousins, and their hooker looked a wrongun; he had a six inch scar across his face and a very unsettling twitch.
But he was an awful hooker. I've never won more scrums against the head. And I've never known that to be so damaging to my own team. Their scrum was so big, and drove us back so quickly, that I was extending the ground we lost by keeping the scrums alive as I kept hooking it back, and realised (far too late!) that I was better off just booting the ball through the scrum so their scrum half would struggle to pick it up.
Our backs were actually quite well matched with theirs, it was up front that they were murdering us, and to be fair to the backs (which I'm not usually!) they did pretty well at picking up on the new tactic and we finished quite well and scored a try from one of the booted through scrums.
I said the score was well over a hundred, but didn't mention how terrible their kicker was. After the first try, which was under the posts, they all cheered really loudly when he got the kick. I remember thinking how weird, and a bit scary, that was. Were they that desperate to score? But then he missed the next twenty or so kicks. He got the very last one over, and we all cheered too!
They played a very clean game though, I think it's only fair to mention. We had no injuries at all. Their scrum half put the ball in the middle of every scrum; one time it landed in the middle but bounced their way and the ref (who was obviously their coach) gave us a penalty for feeding, the scrum half said "But.." and went back 10!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVd_VLO9xcc
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/there-is-bipartisan-support-in-washington-for-irish-position-on-the-border-1.3314931
This week the House Foreign Affairs Committee will be holding a hearing on the implications of Brexit. As two members of the committee, we will be addressing the issues faced by the people on the island of Ireland. The potential return to a hard border is sparking fears of renewed political violence. We believe the United Kingdom must come to an agreement on a written declaration outlining its plans to avoid a hard border before entering “Phase 2” of the Brexit negotiations, for the good of the ongoing peace process on the island.
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