Well Germany has nothing more to be gained from the destruction the Euro has done to less productive countries so why not.
Watching the remaining EU members fight over budget contributions must be great fun if you're a brexiteer.
Maybe but it does show that the EU is not all harmony and that they are unified
Dark clouds gathering for the EU but to be positive let's hope common senses prevails, and as the EU commissioner, Paul Hogan, has confirmed, the Canada deal contains all the safeguards needed and should be the basis of agreement with the UK
I wonder if a few are wondering why they didn't back the UK more often in disputes when we were in.
They backed the UK in a fair number of disputes. But those aren't newsworthy. Us being ganged up on by two dozen angry dwarves is.
... on your way to the zen like calm of the men's urinal?
What???!!!!!
I can relate to that. At a busy show etc the womens queue is massive while the mens queue is quickly moving and complete stoic silence. Get to the urinal and its eyes up, nobody says a word, job done, go.
It makes a difference. Some restaurants I have been to in Manhattan recently had unisex loos and being forced to wait is quite a culture shock.
I also did a double take once at the wash basin afterwards when realising the person next to me was a woman.
Oh sh8t I'm in the ladies!!!
oh no of course its unisex...
That's incredibly common in the US, and has been for some time.
I vaguely recall Belgo having unisex lavatories in the Seven Dials branch in the mid 90s. Perhaps nobody made a fuss either way?
Mr. Mango, you're comparing two nations that are entirely different. Germany was a fusion of various states into a larger whole which is why it has such a peppering of large cities all over the place. The USA was created from the ground up rather than evolving historically.
What you're talking about is cutting England into pieces, something that was never done to Scotland. And do you propose to give these assemblies powers equal to Holyrood? Will you have Lancastrians taxed differently to Yorkshiremen? And, if not, what's the point? You're creating bureaucracy without authority and relegating English devolution to a lower level than Scotland.
Mr. Eagles, that's a different path to assemblies or an English Parliament. I do have a problem with the mayoral position being large cities only and delinquent London politicians preventing the desired Yorkshire-wide mayoral post. A Parliament, however, must be for England, to have powers equal to those of Holyrood. Anything else is carving England to pieces or playing with glorified councils.
I'm sorry the USA was created from the ground up rather than evolving historically?
I mean the USA didn't start off as a handful of colonies then evolved into a 50 state federation did it?
It was an idea that had purchase.
Too subtle for many.
It Gadsden conversation going.
Sewell be next?
It would be a Folly to make any such prediction.
I Alaska not think of further puns about land purchase.
Louisiana is distinctly unsympathetic to punning.
But did Cally phone ya? To tell you what Della wore? And what did Tenny see? What it what Arkan saw?
Well Germany has nothing more to be gained from the destruction the Euro has done to less productive countries so why not.
Watching the remaining EU members fight over budget contributions must be great fun if you're a brexiteer.
Maybe but it does show that the EU is not all harmony and that they are unified
Dark clouds gathering for the EU but to be positive let's hope common senses prevails, and as the EU commissioner, Paul Hogan, has confirmed, the Canada deal contains all the safeguards needed and should be the basis of agreement with the UK
I wonder if a few are wondering why they didn't back the UK more often in disputes when we were in.
They backed the UK in a fair number of disputes. But those aren't newsworthy. Us being ganged up on by two dozen angry dwarves is.
We are all Leavers now, you mean? I have some sympathy for this view. But there are those who wish to continue to argue passionately that Brexit was a grave mistake. Like me, for example. I am still very much arguing that. And given I voted Remain on Dec 12th in a quasi EU Ref2 I am (IMO) perfectly entitled to do so.
This is why a second term would be far more damaging than the first.
Funny how you fail to mention he's the most senior gay man in American politics. Homophobe.
Firstly you're ridiculous, and secondly you're wrong, as Vice President is a more senior position than Director of National Intelligence.
What's ridiculous about pointing out how two-faced lefties are?
And no there have been no openly gay vice presidents.
Where have I been two-faced? I have never called someone a homophobe for criticizing a left wing gay politician, unless the criticism specifically referred to their homosexuality.
You called someone a racist for criticising a left wing politician.
No, (s)he didn't. Speaking as the target of said accusation.
We are all Leavers now, you mean? I have some sympathy for this view. But there are those who wish to continue to argue passionately that Brexit was a grave mistake. Like me, for example. I am still very much arguing that. And given I voted Remain on Dec 12th in a quasi EU Ref2 I am (IMO) perfectly entitled to do so.
We aren't Leavers anymore, we've left. There's no such thing as Leave or Remain anymore, that's history now that Brexit is done.
We are all Leavers now, you mean? I have some sympathy for this view. But there are those who wish to continue to argue passionately that Brexit was a grave mistake. Like me, for example. I am still very much arguing that. And given that I voted Remain on Dec 12th in a GE that was a quasi EU Ref2 I am (IMO) perfectly entitled to do so.
I have at last found a benefit to brexit! Last October I was on the verge of cancelling my health insurance because I had my Spanish health cards but didn’t because I didn’t trust the UK to not screw things up. I now find that it’s giving me multiple options over the next few months that I wouldn’t have had if I’d cancelled it!
We are all Leavers now, you mean? I have some sympathy for this view. But there are those who wish to continue to argue passionately that Brexit was a grave mistake. Like me, for example. I am still very much arguing that. And given I voted Remain on Dec 12th in a quasi EU Ref2 I am (IMO) perfectly entitled to do so.
Of course you are and campaigning to rejoin is going to appeal to many
Well Germany has nothing more to be gained from the destruction the Euro has done to less productive countries so why not.
Watching the remaining EU members fight over budget contributions must be great fun if you're a brexiteer.
Maybe but it does show that the EU is not all harmony and that they are unified
Dark clouds gathering for the EU but to be positive let's hope common senses prevails, and as the EU commissioner, Paul Hogan, has confirmed, the Canada deal contains all the safeguards needed and should be the basis of agreement with the UK
I wonder if a few are wondering why they didn't back the UK more often in disputes when we were in.
They backed the UK in a fair number of disputes. But those aren't newsworthy. Us being ganged up on by two dozen angry dwarves is.
We are all Leavers now, you mean? I have some sympathy for this view. But there are those who wish to continue to argue passionately that Brexit was a grave mistake. Like me, for example. I am still very much arguing that. And given I voted Remain on Dec 12th in a quasi EU Ref2 I am (IMO) perfectly entitled to do so.
There is a tendency to suggest that because we have left, we should accept the Leave arguments. That is pretty silly.
Of course, for many people, unless they go on to experience personally any negative effects which they might attribute to leaving, the debate is no longer of any interest.
We are all Leavers now, you mean? I have some sympathy for this view. But there are those who wish to continue to argue passionately that Brexit was a grave mistake. Like me, for example. I am still very much arguing that. And given I voted Remain on Dec 12th in a quasi EU Ref2 I am (IMO) perfectly entitled to do so.
Of course you are and campaigning to rejoin is going to appeal to many
PS and keep posting by the way
Of course Rejoin doesn't have to be defined by the messy half measures of the UK's membership. We should lead in Europe and be fully in, so we can benefit like Germany.
We are all Leavers now, you mean? I have some sympathy for this view. But there are those who wish to continue to argue passionately that Brexit was a grave mistake. Like me, for example. I am still very much arguing that. And given I voted Remain on Dec 12th in a quasi EU Ref2 I am (IMO) perfectly entitled to do so.
Of course you are and campaigning to rejoin is going to appeal to many
PS and keep posting by the way
Of course Rejoin doesn't have to be defined by the messy half measures of the UK's membership. We should lead in Europe and be fully in, so we can benefit like Germany.
There's about as much chance of Alberta leading America as there is of us leading Europe.
We are all Leavers now, you mean? I have some sympathy for this view. But there are those who wish to continue to argue passionately that Brexit was a grave mistake. Like me, for example. I am still very much arguing that. And given I voted Remain on Dec 12th in a quasi EU Ref2 I am (IMO) perfectly entitled to do so.
Of course you are and campaigning to rejoin is going to appeal to many
PS and keep posting by the way
Of course Rejoin doesn't have to be defined by the messy half measures of the UK's membership. We should lead in Europe and be fully in, so we can benefit like Germany.
Germany is currently wanting to do a 'Maggie' and are demanding rebates
The present budget discussion are in chaos as the EU argue amongst themselves
I have at last found a benefit to brexit! Last October I was on the verge of cancelling my health insurance because I had my Spanish health cards but didn’t because I didn’t trust the UK to not screw things up. I now find that it’s giving me multiple options over the next few months that I wouldn’t have had if I’d cancelled it!
That sounds like a very good decision with hindsight. All the best with it.
There is a tendency to suggest that because we have left, we should accept the Leave arguments. That is pretty silly.
Of course, for many people, unless they go on to experience personally any negative effects which they might attribute to leaving, the debate is no longer of any interest.
Well, yes, that would be silly. My sense, though, is that the argument is going to largely fade away. I think for an awful lot of Leavers, just the act of doing it is sufficient. And for most Remainers, we will adjust to the new reality.
Well, she's demonstrably not Native American, and I had no idea there was such a stereotype. Without that knowledge, I think it's pretty clear that I am mocking Warren, and only Warren. But I am happy to be educated otherwise, and withdraw the comment, with apologies.
I think you just increased the average dignity of the internet by a point or two. Well played.
I'm only really here for the us elections at this point. There's not much which I care about to predict in uk politics for a while except the Labour leadership which looks like a foregone conclusion.
It is I think instructive to compare how the parallel contest to choose the person who leads in taking on the incumbent government are panning out in the US and UK. In the US, the various candidates have resorted to knocking spots off each other in very public debates even though doing so is to the significant benefit of the incumbent Trump. In the UK, by contrast, and to the Labour Party's credit I think, the public debates have been conducted in a way which avoids overt attacks on other candidates (although RLB has made some indirect attacks). Starmer I am sure also realises that he is going to win so is mindful of the next step of ensuring that the party stays together in the wake of his victory.
The problem that Labour has in Scotland is that they have never worked out how to take on the SNP. In Scotland they kept their base docile for decades on the simple mantra of keep the Tories out, even in seats where the Tories were touch and go about losing their deposit.
Focusing on another leftish party as the enemy has proved intellectually just too difficult. Why should someone who is centre left vote Labour instead of SNP. If its centralist, statist bureaucratic, higher tax and economically doomed policies with various freebies thrown in that you want the SNP give you everything you need, probably more. The other difficulty of moving away from KTTO is that you actually need to have some ideas, another intellectual Everest that SLAB have found insuperable.
Through most of my adult life Labour were the party of the Scottish establishment. Their placemen were everywhere, if you wanted to get on in public life you towed the line and signed up to every piece of nonsense that was in vogue. The SNP are now acquiring similar dominance and without these placemen who at least knew something about how society actually works Labour looks totally bereft.
I am not sure that I see a way back. Recent equivocation has even lost them the title of the defenders of the Union. They have absolutely nothing to offer.
Perhaps they will be the repository of some disappointed SNP returners when the upper echelons of that party seem determined to outdo each other in the sleaze scandal stakes.
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So where IS your Remainer badge? It's OK to keep it, I suppose, but what would be a bit rich would be still wearing it.
"Long-read
The use and abuse of ethnic minorities
Why Western elites love some minorities more than others.
SALVATORE BABONES"
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/02/21/the-use-and-abuse-of-ethnic-minorities/
PS and keep posting by the way
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/virgin-voyages-cruise-ship-scarlet-lady-a4367881.html
That is pretty silly.
Of course, for many people, unless they go on to experience personally any negative effects which they might attribute to leaving, the debate is no longer of any interest.
NEW THREAD
The present budget discussion are in chaos as the EU argue amongst themselves
It is not a happy place just now