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Jo Johnson the patriot's patriot.
Meanwhile, Michael Cohen has arrived unexpectedly in DC with his lawyer...http://kwbe.com/abc_politics/michael-cohen-president-trumps-former-personal-attorney-mysteriously-arrives-in-washington-dc-abcid36128860/
I can find reference to an ECJ case being brought by Scots MPs, is this the one?
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/722391453599723520
Found it:
https://www.indy100.com/article/people-are-really-really-hoping-this-theory-about-david-cameron-and-brexit-is-true--bJhqBql0VZ
I still firmly expect it to happen. Now might be a good time to ungreen myself on this market.
(You are right about Clarke and VAT, incidentally. He had to cut welfare spending to plug the gap.)
However, no briefings are coming out of Brussels so that contradicts that...
I don’t know what to make of it yet. There’s an eerie silence from over the channel that certainly doesn’t suggest “endgame” to me...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/12/california-metal-band-faked-army-fans-record-label-secure-uk
It emerged in August that two women had made complaints to the Scottish government about Mr Salmond.
Airport bosses confirmed that they were "assisting police with inquiries" into a separate alleged incident understood to date from 2008.
I think they lead in 5, I think all would be flips
I think of those poor quarrymen when I pass through quickly. Must have been a dreadful life.
Would be great shame if area doesn't get assistance.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the EU must become an Empire to rival the US and China but projecting its power to promote peace and protect the environment.
'Power will make the difference: technological power, economic, financial, monetary, cultural power will be crucial. Europe should no longer shy away from playing its power and being an empire of peace.'
It comes after President Macron last week called for 'a real European army' to protect the continent from growing military threats - including the United States.
The French President said China and Russia were becoming increasingly powerful, and that the US under President Donald Trump could not be relied upon for defence.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6381521/France-calls-Europe-Empire-rival-China-US.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUNoj2nSaUc
Little Rocket Man still at it.
Seriously, just a few miles up the road and you are in the Conwy valley which is a totally different landscape. Both Blaenau and Conwy well worth a visit, train or car.
A fictional finance committee meets to discuss a £220 million contract to build a nuclear reactor, plus a £5,000 bicycle shed for the clerical staff.
The £220 million number is too big and too technical, and it passes in two and a half minutes. One committee member proposes a completely different plan, which nobody is willing to accept as planning is advanced, and another who understands the topic has concerns, but does not feel that he can explain his concerns to the others on the committee.
The bicycle shed is a subject understood by the board, and the amount within their life experience, so committee member Mr Softleigh says that an aluminium roof is too expensive and they should use asbestos. Mr Holdfast wants galvanised iron. Mr Daring questions the need for the shed at all. Holdfast disagrees.
The debate is fairly launched. A sum of £5,000 is well within everybody's comprehension. Everyone can visualise a bicycle shed. Discussion goes on, therefore, for forty-five minutes, with the possible result of saving some £250. Members at length sit back with a feeling of accomplishment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/12/rules-are-clear-whitaker-cant-supervise-muellers-investigation/
...Our founders recognized that “men were not angels” and that checks and balances in government were critical to avoid threats to the rule of law. The Whitaker installation does violence to our most basic principles — enshrined in the Constitution, laws enacted by Congress, the ethics rules that govern our prosecutors and the special counsel regulations themselves.
It is lawless and unprincipled.
It must be stopped.
So, "Teebs". Exactly what you'd call yourself if your initials were TB.
Hmmm.....
Because it is an interesting example of how EU money is spent.
There was a 4.5 million pound regeneration project in Blaenau Ffestiniog that was partly funded by the EU.
The project was managed by Miller Research (UK). The architect was MacGregor Smith (based in Bath, England) and so on. Lots of slate paving stones were put down in Blaenau with Welsh words. As they had been carved by an English person, there were lots of mistakes, and so they had to be replaced.
Of course, when a town like Blaenau Ffestiniog is regenerated by "EU millions", little of the money is actually spent in the town. It mainly goes on consultants and architects, lawyers and planners, who have little actual contact with Blaenau.
Having been to Blaenau Ffestiniog many times over the last few years, the regeneration project has certainly improved the town.
But it certainly doesn't look like 4.5 million pounds was spent. It looks like at most hundred thousand pounds was spent.
If we stayed.
And then we left.
This video is Clegg visiting South Wales after the vote.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-39425373/nick-clegg-why-did-ebbw-vale-in-wales-vote-brexit
By buying a half share in an Aston Martin and parking it outside the town hall?
Blaenau Ffestiniog is wet and wild and proud and strangely beautiful, it just doesn't look like 4.5 million pounds of EU money has been spent on it.
Ebbw Vale has also been regenerated by "EU millions". It looks desperately poor and dilapidated, with a high street of pound shops and pawnbrokers and tanning parlours.
The only well-kept building, trim and newly-painted, is the Conservative Club.
In what is called the shopping centre, there are some statues of emaciated Welsh dragons, poor and fed on scraps.
God knows what the planners and architects and lawyers spent the EU millions on. Lunches, probably. Ebbw Vale really doesn't even look as though any money has been spent on it in the last twenty years.
Good ole Million Pound Cleggy. And the LibDems actually don't understand why everyone laughs at them.
How much do you think that should cost?
The library in Blaenau Ffestiniog is now shut, but when I was there over the summer, the community has set up (unpaid) a wonderful museum on the history of the area (with a magnificent photographic record of the 1986 Gloddfa Ganol slate mine strike).
There was more integrity & vitality in that single amateur exhibition than the EU could provide with all its 4.5 millions of funding for architects and planners who live many miles away.
I will await the call in Cumbria-Les-Deux-Eglises........
https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/1062042089263894528
https://www.google.com/amp/s/inews.co.uk/news/uk/next-welsh-town-4800-got-millions-eu/amp/
If the ECJ rule A50 is unilaterally revocable all hell will break loose. Though of course they might well decide A50 isn't revocable at all ! The case has been brought by a group of Scottish parliamentarians, the Good Law Project and backed by £165k worth of crowdfunding. They feel confident A50 is revocable and want a ruling to let parliament know there is a legal alternative to No Deal. But of course only the ECJ can tell us.
The UK government is dying in the ditch and asking the UK Supreme Vourt to vacate the 27th Nov hearing by withdrawing the referal rven though the Scottish courts have refused permission to appeal.
I've chipped in to the Crowdfunder as extra facts are always useful in decision making and I hooe the result goes Remainers way. But like all litigation it's a gamble.
The way the market is worded " by 29/3/29 " means any extension of A50 even by a day means you lose your money even if we still then leave.
Note worthy I think today's interventions from Gordon Brown and the Spanish PM envision the ' People's Vote ' taking place during the transition - publically conceding we'll leave in March - and effectively rejoin before we reach End State.
I think these are astute interventions. Having discharged the referendum result but stuck in the quagmire of trandition with none of the big ticket items sorted rejoining-before-we-properly-leave could be the compromise that saves us.
I'm in the featured market backing leave on time but I'm more confident than ever the second referendum campaign has already begun. In the longer term this simply isn't over.
Most of politics (particularly at local level) is so constrained by the need to balance complex, interconnected and conflicting considerations or interests, and hemmed in by existing decisions and legal, practical or financial constraints, and so it is on the small isolated and relatively trivial issues that politicians can really 'let themselves go'.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/12/poll-biden-bernie-beto-lead-2020-dems-983995
Of course it is a lot about name recognition at this point, but name recognition does matter...
Which means this will be a wide open election.
If Ojeda makes the TV debates - which is far from a sure thing - then they will be extremely entertaining.
According to https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/statistics-blaenau-gwent-blaenau-gwent-4028.html it has a declining population, of low skills, high benefits dependency and only around 1% not born in the UK.
Around a century ago Ebbw Vale was a boom town, but hard to see why that should return with Brexit, particularly a WTO Brexit.
https://voteojeda.com
I just visit Blaenau regularly, so it is lovely to be corrected by an "expert" who can Google and lives hundreds of miles away.
There is no lifelong learning centre in Blaenau Ffestiniog. There is one in Maentwrog in the Council building at Plas Tan Y Bwlch. It is not "new". There is no public transport between Maentwrog and Blaenau Ffestiniog, so not easily accessible without a private car.
It looks like the Council rebadged the money to support its existing facility.
I am not aware of any art gallery in Blaenau. There is a small commercial framing shop that sells some poor pictures that calls itself a gallery. Is that what you mean?
There is the commercially owned Antur Siring downhill bike centre. When I was last there, it was very quiet. More to the point, why on earth create another downhill bike centre for tourists when there is already an enormous and very successful one at Coed Y Brenin between Maentwrog and Dolgellau. How many downhill mountain bike centres does Gwynedd need?
The Ffestiniog railway has long predated the EU.
The article on Blaenau Ffestiniog and the EU reads as if Topping, Alastair Meeks and William Glenn wrote it after a wine-laden five course restaurant meal in Central London.
I'm not sure what kind of President he'd make, but am sorely tempted to put a few quid on next time I'm in the UK...
I'm happy to believe the local councillor that the EU money has helped. It's also notable that the county was the only one in N. Wales that voted remain. That's suggestive of the idea that at least some of the local people think the money has been beneficial.
If you were going to spend money on Ebbw Vale, the first thing it needs is better transport out of Ebbw Vale to Cardiff or to the M4. Look at a road map. Even Merthyr Tydfil is better positioned for a recovery, as it at least has good road links.
Some colossal fuckwit has spent money -- perhaps EU money or Welsh Assembly money-- on an Industrial Park north of the town. When I was last there, it was derelict and deserted. I was lost and I could not even find someone to ask directions to get out of Ebbw Vale.
Given the lousy transport links down the Valley, you would have to be insane to build a small factory there.
If there was millions of pounds of EU money spent in Ebbw Vale -- which I frankly doubt -- it would have been better spent giving the ~ 15,000 people who live there a cash gift of 1000 pounds.
https://www.traveline.cymru/uploads/OmniPDF/OWPDF__Merged_OT_Files-3_3B_X3_-_Porthmadog_-_Pwllheli_(ACYM_&_CAEL)-5/003MGY5.pdf
You said "As a result, tourists now spend 100x per head more than they used to. " Please provide some statistical evidence.
There is more to research than sitting thousands of miles away googling.
He has declared that he's running.
An outsider might visit a town as part of a holiday trip, or even whilst owning a nearby holiday home, and see only the 'good' bits: they go to a few cafes, visit a museum, go to an outward bounds centre. They don't have to rely on the public transport, or the services, and rarely, if ever, go the dingy parts of the town.
I feel quite favourably about Blaenau Ffestiniog, based solely on a visit to the Llechwed (sp?) slate caverns as a child that I loved and remember fondly (we still occasionally use the late coasters I bought there). It has been my only interaction with the town. I also know it as a terminus of the Ffestionog Railway. Put together, this means I have a generally positive feel for the place, based on totally spurious information.
On the other hand, locals can get a rather negative and unfair view of a place they live in - some see only the bad, and the good is ignored, or sadly sometimes even inaccessible to them.
The Plas is the former home of the Oakleys. Like many such homes in North Wales, it is a white elephant, and has large maintenance costs for its owner, Gwynedd Council, which maintains an administrative centre there.
The only point I am making is that the Lifelong Learning Centre that rkrkrk talks about so breathlessly is not in Blaenau Ffestiniog, nor is it easily accessible from Blaenau Ffestiniog without a private car.
It has not been designed for the residents of Blaenau in mind. It is a pre-existing, former home of the local landowner that is mainly used by Gwynedd Council & the SNP authority.
When you reach ten, with one still open, you realise this town really isn't taking in the big tourist bucks.
Can also be done with 'For Sale' signs vs the number of derelict houses.