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another_Richard and Mortimer are spot on re George Osborne. Osborne is liked among the circle of socially liberal centrists within the Westminster Village. As this demographic appears to make up a significant portion of political journalists in Westminster, at times it may appear that Osborne is more popular than he actually is in London.
I also thought that TSE’s comments on people who go on buses was very snobbish and wrong. Such an outlook is hardly likely to appeal to many of the C2DEs who vote Tory, who may not all be travelling purely by tube or car, and certainly not to many younger voters especially those in cities - a lot of us do travel on public transport, and I am not ashamed to say so - whenever I’m in London I take buses and tubes.
'Verum est quod legitur
Fronte capillata
Sed plerumque sequitur
Occasio calvata'
@OldKingCole Exactly! And many of those OAPs will undoubtedly be Conservative voters. My grandparents generally get around via public transport, and they’ve done pretty well in their lives. They also share the same political affiliation with TSE.
@MikeSmithson I agree that it’s a great way to get around. Especially in London - having lived in Watford for sometime now, I’ve actually come to appreciate London transport! In contrast with Watford buses, buses in London generally arrive at a reasonable time, and bus stops are pretty much everywhere there, so it’s easy to get around. I generally love travelling by tube more than any other form of transport, but in parts of London - especially central London - if you’re going to get anywhere, you generally have to take bus. Among my family and friends not many of them could imagine driving into central London and tubes at times can only take you so far....
Liverpool agree world-record £75m deal for Virgil van Dijk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/12/27/liverpool-agree-world-record-75m-deal-virgil-van-dijk/
Michael Heseltine is spot on with his analysis of Brexit, it is worse than a Labour government headed by Corbyn. My only reservation about Corbyn is on security and National Defence. This Tory Brexit is going to wreck the economy without a good deal with the EU. If the government negotiate a deal for free trade on goods (which the EU has a very healthy surplus against the UK) and does not get a free trade agreement on services then the UK will be in a very dark place economically. I cannot see the trade deals the EU has signed with over 70 third party countries being easily transferred to the UK either after Brexit, so the gale of economic discontent heading for the UK is going to be breath-taking in its ferocity and indiscriminate selection of victims.
It has certainly been (partially) blamed in rural Wales & England as one of the main causes of bus company bankruptcies. There have been a lot of these.
http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/buses/blog/our-buses-are-crisis
"The insanely unfair system of reimbursement for English National Concessionary Travel (ENCT) senior passes discriminates against rural bus operations, on which up to 80 per cent of passengers can be passholders. "
Outside the South East and metropolitan areas, pensioners do have the right to free bus travel but no actual buses.
Still, as long as the country works for rich old people in the South East, what could possibly be wrong?
Oh wait....
We'll make a PB Tory of you yet
The M621 was a particular favourite.
Also where the M1/M62/A1 meet is great fun.
"Still, as long as the country works for rich old people in the South East, what could possibly be wrong?"
Absolutely nothing, YBardd, absolutely nothing at all.
Market's gone crazy.
In 2013 the keeper that kept Sunderland up was sold for £9 million.
In 2017 the keeper that got Sunderland relegated was sold for £30 million.
PS - Seen this?
https://twitter.com/joespencer2008/status/945650150734729217
The 2016 referendum mandate will be as meaningless as the 1975 one was in 2016 further down the track. I simply do not understand why people get so hung up on the 2016 result if to use Boris Johnsons phrase "we cannot have our cake and eat it", indeed people of his ilk are negotiating so if they get a rubbish deal why on earth would you commit to leaving under every circumstance? Boris I seem to remember thought you could vote Leave, renegotiate and then stay in or does what he said not count?
Cameron really let himself down in setting that referendum as a pledge in his 2015 manifesto. It was a terribly divisive thing to pledge and indeed has exposed a huge flank in the conservative parties reputation for competence, economic security and free trade.
Tat is by definition tat. Whether it is on an Everton website or in your goal.
South Africa raced to victory in the inaugural four-day Test against Zimbabwe, taking 16 wickets on day two to win by an innings and 120 runs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/42496474
Do I turn left or stay on the ring road AAAAND I'm in a pile of taxis.
Whatever his other failings I think he takes his constituency duties seriously and this is to his credit.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5215683/Star-Wars-showing-Science-Museum-Imax-evacuated.html
Oh well...they wouldn't have missed much even if they couldn't have returned.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5214983/Inside-Dave-Sullivan-Jrs-lavish-London-bachelor-pad.html
Labour is coming under pressure from leading pro-remain campaigners to clarify its stance on Brexit, after polling showed that a quarter of its current voters could switch party by the next election and more than half would oppose Labour backing Brexit.
The poll of people planning to vote Labour – conducted by YouGov for the Best of Britain campaign group – found 24% said they may change their minds before the next election, and two-thirds of those who voted remain would be disappointed or angry if Labour says it will proceed with Brexit.
The poll also found many Labour voters have opposing perceptions about the party’s current stance on Brexit. It found 32% of Labour remain voters believe Labour is “completely against Brexit” and a further 31% of Labour leave voters believe Labour is “completely in favour of Brexit”.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/27/labour-voters-could-abandon-party-over-brexit-stance-poll-finds
Some people are in for a nasty shock!
The poll did not directly ask whether their anger would be sufficient of itself to make them vote for another party. But the overall message from the poll is that Labour faces a greater political risk among both strong and wavering supporters if it is seen to be supporting Brexit.
Of course, this imagined counter scenario will still be used to say the situation is so serious the biggest vote in UK history should be ignored.
In a decade or so Labour could come to a compromise by taking the UK back into the single market and customs union once immigration has been brought under control but that is unlikely to happen under Corbyn.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5215749/At-four-people-injured-blast-St-Petersburg.html
* I presume that given Dennis is no longer a menace, Gnasher is now called Brian or something.
He turned down City and Chelsea (and more money) for the chance to work with Klopp.
Edit - We had to let Suarez leave, Barca triggered his release clause.
[As an aside, Barcelona, so the story goes, really is named after the Barca family].
Edit: Ah yes, I remember the crap around the Suarez transfer now. At the time I thought it was a good move to take the money, but it wasn’t invested well enough.
That's how I view it.
https://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/582793-brexit-telephone-box-hampsterwheel.html
Southampton report no other interest.
Simply Barca can't afford him.
Their £120 million offer last time was
£80 million plus £40 million in add ons.
FSG won't accept anything like that.
So Liverpool will have broken their transfer record 5 times in six months.
"This doom mongering keeps on being delayed. First it was going to happen immediately after a Leave vote. Then we were told it only didn't happen because Article 50 hadn't been invoked yet. Now we are told it will be when we finally leave the EU. After that, it will be at the end of the transition period. After that it will be no single crisis event, but a supposed loss effect measured against a supposed land of milk and honey inside the EU. The counter-scenario will of course be calculated by the same people that couldn't predict the Brexit scenario accurately.
Of course, this imagined counter scenario will still be used to say the situation is so serious the biggest vote in UK history should be ignored."
The "doom mongering" as you call it is supported by hundreds of years of statistical records that if you erect trade barriers it will cause trade to fall and hence economic output will rise less quickly. This is precisely what happened in the 1930s. Furthermore why if tariff barriers and customs control are so unimportant has for most of the post war period there been a policy of reducing these barriers to trade which has augmented economic growth and produced the most interdependent global economy and widespread prosperity of people in history?
Brexit means trade barriers if you just leave the EU, not just with the EU but over 70 different countries. If you just leave it will affect the economy, look to economic data from the 1930s and see what happened to the economies of countries then, when they erected trade barriers. Why do you think even Brexit supporting politicians are negotiating with the EU? By your reasoning the doom would never come so why bother? I think people who voted Brexit were duped on so many levels, the £350M a week for the NHS, the level of Immigration and possibly the largest deception of all is the dependence on trade for the UK economy to sustain the populations living standards.
The £8.5 million we signed Coutinho for has to the be greatest bit of transfer dealing in Premier League history.
"I truly hope the uk make a success of it (and it affects me not one iota) but it is my home country, can still lead the world and quite simply.... they deserve to."
But your reply is precisely the sort of attention diversion done by Remainers when challenged about their economic predictions going up in smoke.
RE Coutinho I agree. But beware. FSG have a track record of signing great players on the cheap. And a load of crap for far too much.
Brexit means trade barriers if you just leave the EU, not just with the EU but over 70 different countries. If you just leave it will affect the economy, look to economic data from the 1930s and see what happened to the economies of countries then, when they erected trade barriers. Why do you think even Brexit supporting politicians are negotiating with the EU? By your reasoning the doom would never come so why bother? I think people who voted Brexit were duped on so many levels, the £350M a week for the NHS, the level of Immigration and possibly the largest deception of all is the dependence on trade for the UK economy to sustain the populations living standards.
I think people who voted Remain were duped over the threat of an immediate year long recession. But we had this debate, both sides had their chance to poke holes in each others' arguments, and Leave won. Most Remainers showed how to lose with grace and dignity.
Okay, maybe not on joining the Euro, but...
Why is Brexit any different?
The political class who advocated Brexit are well aware of the reason why Immigration will have to continue in order to support those reliant on state support. Indeed Johnson and Davis amongst others called for liberal immigration policy where as the Tory media in order to win the 2016 referendum focused on Farage saying Immigration could be cut. Farage was lying and as with many Brexit supporters employs double standards, it is alright for his wife to be German and live in the UK and his alleged mistress to be French but everybody else is not able to do this. If you say to people particularly pensioners the reason why Immigration has to continue is partly to ensure the purchasing power of their pensions is sustained they simply ignore the point or bury their head in the sand saying they don't agree but like Farage they don't want to live with the fallout of their Brexit supporting ways.
Brexit means trade barriers if you just leave the EU, not just with the EU but over 70 different countries. If you just leave it will affect the economy, look to economic data from the 1930s and see what happened to the economies of countries then, when they erected trade barriers. Why do you think even Brexit supporting politicians are negotiating with the EU? By your reasoning the doom would never come so why bother? I think people who voted Brexit were duped on so many levels, the £350M a week for the NHS, the level of Immigration and possibly the largest deception of all is the dependence on trade for the UK economy to sustain the populations living standards.
Enough already with the bold. What does it add to your post?
Edit: what it does do is bugger up the quoting, which is another good reason not to do it.
With a world class defender on the way, we’ve got a good chance of second now.
< / optimist >
#SuperOptimist
Edit: what it does do is bugger up the quoting, which is another good reason not to do it.
Sorry the Blockquote did not work so I wanted to differentiate what I thought from the person I was quoting as it just looked like their paragraphs preceded my thoughts.
But these decisions will be made by the people we elect, and we can choose to fire every few years if we don’t like what they’re doing.
2005 redux < / mega-optimist >