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Sors immanis et inanis[sp].0
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Dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris has always made me giggle.Morris_Dancer said:Sors immanis et inanis[sp].
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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.0 -
Ms. Apocalypse, also worth noting not many people in Leeds take the tube. Or the tram.0
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Given that OAPs get free bus travel and in London and Manchester and possibly elsewhere other forms of public transport being snobbish about the use of public transport is, in political terms very silly indeed.The_Apocalypse said:FPT:
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.0 -
Thanks to the generosity of that nice Mr Brown 2007 I always travel by bus in London paid for, of course, by the taxpayer. It's actually, once you get to know the routes, a remarkably speedy and convenient way of getting around. The joy of Brown's pre general election bribe to pensioners is that it costs absolutely nothing wherever you live in EnglandThe_Apocalypse said:FPT:
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.0 -
I miss Marf. Her cartoons were funny.0
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But as Mike and I know only too well:TheScreamingEagles said:
Dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris has always made me giggle.Morris_Dancer said:Sors immanis et inanis[sp].
'Verum est quod legitur
Fronte capillata
Sed plerumque sequitur
Occasio calvata'
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@Morris_Dancer I forgot that we even had trams in this country tbh.
@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....0 -
Morris , I went from York the other day to London to see my daughter .Went with Grand Central .Direct from York train station to Kings Cross 1 hour 58 mins.I believe the house prices near York station have gone up so much due to some living in York and now working in London.Morris_Dancer said:Ms. Apocalypse, also worth noting not many people in Leeds take the tube. Or the tram.
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Liverpool are now going to win every match and competition henceforth.
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/0 -
I think Theresa May's Government is a complete mess. Shame Labour has Corbyn as a leader due to his inability to nail the PM down once and for all into resigning. I don't recall him once saying she should resign for the political failures she has presided over. I think Corbyn needs a course in forensic cross examination, so he can brutally undermine her at the despatch box.
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.0 -
C2s, Ds and Es will not be reading PB.The_Apocalypse said:FPT:
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.0 -
Is that right, though? There is a cost.MikeSmithson said:
Thanks to the generosity of that nice Mr Brown 2007 I always travel by bus in London paid for, of course, by the taxpayer. It's actually, once you get to know the routes, a remarkably speedy and convenient way of getting around. The joy of Brown's pre general election bribe to pensioners is that it costs absolutely nothing wherever you live in EnglandThe_Apocalypse said:FPT:
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.
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?
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I believe you can get free travel in London at 60 , for the rest of England it is when you get your state pension so 66 67 ,68 or I guess never.MikeSmithson said:
Thanks to the generosity of that nice Mr Brown 2007 I always travel by bus in London paid for, of course, by the taxpayer. It's actually, once you get to know the routes, a remarkably speedy and convenient way of getting around. The joy of Brown's pre general election bribe to pensioners is that it costs absolutely nothing wherever you live in EnglandThe_Apocalypse said:FPT:
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.0 -
The Tories looking after their client vote?MikeSmithson said:
Thanks to the generosity of that nice Mr Brown 2007 I always travel by bus in London paid for, of course, by the taxpayer. It's actually, once you get to know the routes, a remarkably speedy and convenient way of getting around. The joy of Brown's pre general election bribe to pensioners is that it costs absolutely nothing wherever you live in EnglandThe_Apocalypse said:FPT:
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.
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I think this may be the first (and second) time that I've agreed with you.The_Apocalypse said:FPT:
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.
We'll make a PB Tory of you yet
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Agreed on Ozzie. TSE is often provocative for the sake of it.The_Apocalypse said:FPT:
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.0 -
The voice of the people can not be, will not be, and must not be deniedThe_Taxman said:I think Theresa May's Government is a complete mess. Shame Labour has Corbyn as a leader due to his inability to nail the PM down once and for all into resigning. I don't recall him once saying she should resign for the political failures she has presided over. I think Corbyn needs a course in forensic cross examination, so he can brutally undermine her at the despatch box.
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.0 -
After seeing Nadine Dorries tweet, now I know why IntellectualPanto is trending.0
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Driving around Leeds would be enough to make Jeremy Clarkson get a bus passMorris_Dancer said:Ms. Apocalypse, also worth noting not many people in Leeds take the tube. Or the tram.
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You think we have buses in the South East?YBarddCwsc said:
Is that right, though? There is a cost.MikeSmithson said:
Thanks to the generosity of that nice Mr Brown 2007 I always travel by bus in London paid for, of course, by the taxpayer. It's actually, once you get to know the routes, a remarkably speedy and convenient way of getting around. The joy of Brown's pre general election bribe to pensioners is that it costs absolutely nothing wherever you live in EnglandThe_Apocalypse said:FPT:
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.
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?0 -
Nah, I did it for six years.Freggles said:
Driving around Leeds would be enough to make Jeremy Clarkson get a bus passMorris_Dancer said:Ms. Apocalypse, also worth noting not many people in Leeds take the tube. Or the tram.
The M621 was a particular favourite.
Also where the M1/M62/A1 meet is great fun.0 -
Are you predicting it will be your year? Heaven forfend. Parking the bus is for peasants.TheScreamingEagles said:Liverpool are now going to win every match and competition henceforth.
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/0 -
@YBardd
"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.
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The voice of the people of 2019 can not be, will not be, and must not be denied by the people of 2016. If it were, we would no longer be living in a democracy.Charles said:
The voice of the people can not be, will not be, and must not be deniedThe_Taxman said:I think Theresa May's Government is a complete mess. Shame Labour has Corbyn as a leader due to his inability to nail the PM down once and for all into resigning. I don't recall him once saying she should resign for the political failures she has presided over. I think Corbyn needs a course in forensic cross examination, so he can brutally undermine her at the despatch box.
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.0 -
Shame we might never know on some issues as the Government admits ' losing ' thousands of papers from national archives.https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/26/government-admits-losing-thousands-of-papers-from-national-archivesCharles said:
The voice of the people can not be, will not be, and must not be deniedThe_Taxman said:I think Theresa May's Government is a complete mess. Shame Labour has Corbyn as a leader due to his inability to nail the PM down once and for all into resigning. I don't recall him once saying she should resign for the political failures she has presided over. I think Corbyn needs a course in forensic cross examination, so he can brutally undermine her at the despatch box.
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.0 -
Not until we sign a decent keeper.dixiedean said:
Are you predicting it will be your year? Heaven forfend. Parking the bus is for peasants.TheScreamingEagles said:Liverpool are now going to win every match and competition henceforth.
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/
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
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I think you are well on your way already .Charles said:
I think this may be the first (and second) time that I've agreed with you.The_Apocalypse said:FPT:
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.
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That is easy to say if it does not affect you or people within your social circle. If there is a change in government then as they are elected, the mandate will supersede previous government mandates as it always does. It will also mean a different position can be taken with regard to Brexit.Charles said:
The voice of the people can not be, will not be, and must not be deniedThe_Taxman said:I think Theresa May's Government is a complete mess. Shame Labour has Corbyn as a leader due to his inability to nail the PM down once and for all into resigning. I don't recall him once saying she should resign for the political failures she has presided over. I think Corbyn needs a course in forensic cross examination, so he can brutally undermine her at the despatch box.
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.
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.0 -
Mr. Freggles, tremble before the one-way system of Leeds!0
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That would be cos one keeper is decent. The other, by your own admission, is not.TheScreamingEagles said:
Not until we sign a decent keeper.dixiedean said:
Are you predicting it will be your year? Heaven forfend. Parking the bus is for peasants.TheScreamingEagles said:Liverpool are now going to win every match and competition henceforth.
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/
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
Tat is by definition tat. Whether it is on an Everton website or in your goal.0 -
Who needs 4-day tests...
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.
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That explains a lot!TheScreamingEagles said:
Nah, I did it for six years.Freggles said:
Driving around Leeds would be enough to make Jeremy Clarkson get a bus passMorris_Dancer said:Ms. Apocalypse, also worth noting not many people in Leeds take the tube. Or the tram.
Do I turn left or stay on the ring road AAAAND I'm in a pile of taxis.TheScreamingEagles said:The M621 was a particular favourite.
Also where the M1/M62/A1 meet is great fun.0 -
Re Corbyn as a constituency MP: it was Andrew Lansley who said that he was a very good one and had helped his (ie Lansley’s) wife over some issue she had.
Whatever his other failings I think he takes his constituency duties seriously and this is to his credit.0 -
Star Wars fans return to Imax showing after 'false alarm' led to evacuation of London's Science Museum
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.0 -
Oh god...one look at that interior decor and he clearly wants to be Donald Trump.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5214983/Inside-Dave-Sullivan-Jrs-lavish-London-bachelor-pad.html0 -
Labour voters could abandon party over Brexit stance, poll finds
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!0 -
West Ham are a club with chav fans, what do you expect?FrancisUrquhart said:Oh god...one look at that interior decor and he clearly wants to be Donald Trump.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5214983/Inside-Dave-Sullivan-Jrs-lavish-London-bachelor-pad.html0 -
A bit of a fecking pointless poll whenFrancisUrquhart said:Labour voters could abandon party over Brexit stance, poll finds
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.0 -
Didn't want to give them ideas?TheScreamingEagles said:
A bit of a fecking pointless poll whenFrancisUrquhart said:Labour voters could abandon party over Brexit stance, poll finds
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.0 -
A general election doesn't override the referendum although, of course, the new government is entitled to implement the will of the people as it sees fit.The_Taxman said:
That is easy to say if it does not affect you or people within your social circle. If there is a change in government then as they are elected, the mandate will supersede previous government mandates as it always does. It will also mean a different position can be taken with regard to Brexit.Charles said:
The voice of the people can not be, will not be, and must not be deniedThe_Taxman said:I think Theresa May's Government is a complete mess. Shame Labour has Corbyn as a leader due to his inability to nail the PM down once and for all into resigning. I don't recall him once saying she should resign for the political failures she has presided over. I think Corbyn needs a course in forensic cross examination, so he can brutally undermine her at the despatch box.
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.
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.
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The drawing in this one is pretty good. The joke could be funnier.Philip_Thompson said:I miss Marf. Her cartoons were funny.
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Would be great fun if they actually met in one place, the three junctions are about ten miles apart forming a triangle....TheScreamingEagles said:
Nah, I did it for six years.Freggles said:
Driving around Leeds would be enough to make Jeremy Clarkson get a bus passMorris_Dancer said:Ms. Apocalypse, also worth noting not many people in Leeds take the tube. Or the tram.
The M621 was a particular favourite.
Also where the M1/M62/A1 meet is great fun.0 -
We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.0
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LOL, fantasy bubble burst againRexel56 said:
Would be great fun if they actually met in one place, the three junctions are about ten miles apart forming a triangle....TheScreamingEagles said:
Nah, I did it for six years.Freggles said:
Driving around Leeds would be enough to make Jeremy Clarkson get a bus passMorris_Dancer said:Ms. Apocalypse, also worth noting not many people in Leeds take the tube. Or the tram.
The M621 was a particular favourite.
Also where the M1/M62/A1 meet is great fun.0 -
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.The_Taxman said:
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?Charles said:
The voice of the people can not be, will not be, and must not be deniedThe_Taxman said:I think Theresa May's Government is a complete mess. Shame Labour has Corbyn as a leader due to his inability to nail the PM down once and for all into resigning. I don't recall him once saying she should resign for the political failures she has presided over. I think Corbyn needs a course in forensic cross examination, so he can brutally undermine her at the despatch box.
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.
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.
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.0 -
That slope where the M1/M62 meet though is epic.Rexel56 said:
Would be great fun if they actually met in one place, the three junctions are about ten miles apart forming a triangle....TheScreamingEagles said:
Nah, I did it for six years.Freggles said:
Driving around Leeds would be enough to make Jeremy Clarkson get a bus passMorris_Dancer said:Ms. Apocalypse, also worth noting not many people in Leeds take the tube. Or the tram.
The M621 was a particular favourite.
Also where the M1/M62/A1 meet is great fun.0 -
Political doom has been upon the UK since it invoked Article 50 and gave away all control.Elliot said: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.0 -
The problem for Labour is that the 63% of its voters who want it to stop Brexit are mostly unlikely to vote anything but Labour with maybe a few voting LD if it does not reverse Brexit but the 22% of Labour voters who want the party to commit to back Brexit are far more likely to switch to the Tories.FrancisUrquhart said:Labour voters could abandon party over Brexit stance, poll finds
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!
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.0 -
The idea of treating the Brexit referendum as an expression of the general will in French revolutionary style is dead and cannot be revived.Charles said:A general election doesn't override the referendum although, of course, the new government is entitled to implement the will of the people as it sees fit.
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Is that bloody loop road still there, with it’s half-hour circles if you miss your exit that wasn’t signposted?Freggles said:
Driving around Leeds would be enough to make Jeremy Clarkson get a bus passMorris_Dancer said:Ms. Apocalypse, also worth noting not many people in Leeds take the tube. Or the tram.
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Good news today, but we should never have let Suarez go - even if it was for a British record at the time.TheScreamingEagles said:We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.
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If you think that is bad, try the one that goes around Atlanta....Sandpit said:
Is that bloody loop road still there, with it’s half-hour circles if you miss your exit that wasn’t signposted?Freggles said:
Driving around Leeds would be enough to make Jeremy Clarkson get a bus passMorris_Dancer said:Ms. Apocalypse, also worth noting not many people in Leeds take the tube. Or the tram.
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Gnasher* isn't looking so good these days.Sandpit said:
Good news today, but we should never have let Suarez go - even if it was for a British record at the time.TheScreamingEagles said:We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.
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It is the power of Klopp.Sandpit said:
Good news today, but we should never have let Suarez go - even if it was for a British record at the time.TheScreamingEagles said:We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.
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.0 -
Mr. Eagles, Hannibal did no such thing.
[As an aside, Barcelona, so the story goes, really is named after the Barca family].0 -
With today’s signing we’ve got a good chance of ending up second, and let’s face it we desperately need more strength in defence.TheScreamingEagles said:
It is the power of Klopp.Sandpit said:
Good news today, but we should never have let Suarez go - even if it was for a British record at the time.TheScreamingEagles said:We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.
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.
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.0 -
Is there a football forum somewhere having a debate about Brexit?0
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What are you saying, Mario Balotelli, Rickie Lambert and Lazar Markovic were roaring successes!!!!Sandpit said:
With today’s signing we’ve got a good chance of ending up second, and let’s face it we desperately need more strength in defence.TheScreamingEagles said:
It is the power of Klopp.Sandpit said:
Good news today, but we should never have let Suarez go - even if it was for a British record at the time.TheScreamingEagles said:We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.
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.
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.0 -
Thankfully I’ve never been to Atlanta. That crap road system in Leeds however made me late for a meeting more than once. I eventually learned to stop, park and walk if I got stuck - this being in the days before sat nav ubiquity, driving and navigating by an OS map or a MapPoint printout.FrancisUrquhart said:
If you think that is bad, try the one that goes around Atlanta....Sandpit said:
Is that bloody loop road still there, with it’s half-hour circles if you miss your exit that wasn’t signposted?Freggles said:
Driving around Leeds would be enough to make Jeremy Clarkson get a bus passMorris_Dancer said:Ms. Apocalypse, also worth noting not many people in Leeds take the tube. Or the tram.
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Yup lots of them do.williamglenn said:Is there a football forum somewhere having a debate about Brexit?
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Unlike the £50m for Torres that was reinvested so wisely...Sandpit said:
With today’s signing we’ve got a good chance of ending up second, and let’s face it we desperately need more strength in defence.TheScreamingEagles said:
It is the power of Klopp.Sandpit said:
Good news today, but we should never have let Suarez go - even if it was for a British record at the time.TheScreamingEagles said:We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.
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.
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.0 -
It is not. It being seen as a British exercise of democratic decision in line with a manifesto promise.williamglenn said:
The idea of treating the Brexit referendum as an expression of the general will in French revolutionary style is dead and cannot be revived.Charles said:A general election doesn't override the referendum although, of course, the new government is entitled to implement the will of the people as it sees fit.
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It was, we spent half of it on Suarez.Rexel56 said:
Unlike the £50m for Torres that was reinvested so wisely...Sandpit said:
With today’s signing we’ve got a good chance of ending up second, and let’s face it we desperately need more strength in defence.TheScreamingEagles said:
It is the power of Klopp.Sandpit said:
Good news today, but we should never have let Suarez go - even if it was for a British record at the time.TheScreamingEagles said:We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.
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.
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.0 -
The football forum I go on is currently up to page 1564 on its dedicated Brexit thread.williamglenn said:Is there a football forum somewhere having a debate about Brexit?
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The pilots’ forum “Brexit hamster wheel” thread has 24,377 comments so far...williamglenn said:Is there a football forum somewhere having a debate about Brexit?
https://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/582793-brexit-telephone-box-hampsterwheel.html0 -
Means Coutinho on his way. Salah probably too.TheScreamingEagles said:
It is the power of Klopp.Sandpit said:
Good news today, but we should never have let Suarez go - even if it was for a British record at the time.TheScreamingEagles said:We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.
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.
Southampton report no other interest.0 -
I don't think the Coutinho deal is going to happen.dixiedean said:
Means Coutinho on his way. Salah probably too.TheScreamingEagles said:
It is the power of Klopp.Sandpit said:
Good news today, but we should never have let Suarez go - even if it was for a British record at the time.TheScreamingEagles said:We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.
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.
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.0 -
Will either of them want to go 400yds across Stanley Park though?dixiedean said:
Means Coutinho on his way. Salah probably too.TheScreamingEagles said:
It is the power of Klopp.Sandpit said:
Good news today, but we should never have let Suarez go - even if it was for a British record at the time.TheScreamingEagles said:We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.
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.
Southampton report no other interest.0 -
Plus there's rumours Liverpool are going to get Thomas Lemar for £90 million in January.
So Liverpool will have broken their transfer record 5 times in six months.0 -
Previous Comment:
"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.
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They could always tell him to go on strike.TheScreamingEagles said:
I don't think the Coutinho deal is going to happen.dixiedean said:
Means Coutinho on his way. Salah probably too.TheScreamingEagles said:
It is the power of Klopp.Sandpit said:
Good news today, but we should never have let Suarez go - even if it was for a British record at the time.TheScreamingEagles said:We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.
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.
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.0 -
He's still got another 4 years left on his contract and he's got a world cup coming up.dixiedean said:
They could always tell him to go on strike.TheScreamingEagles said:
I don't think the Coutinho deal is going to happen.dixiedean said:
Means Coutinho on his way. Salah probably too.TheScreamingEagles said:
It is the power of Klopp.Sandpit said:
Good news today, but we should never have let Suarez go - even if it was for a British record at the time.TheScreamingEagles said:We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.
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.
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.
The £8.5 million we signed Coutinho for has to the be greatest bit of transfer dealing in Premier League history.0 -
The penultimate comment from an expat expresses a familiar sentiment.Sandpit said:
The pilots’ forum “Brexit hamster wheel” thread has 24,377 comments so far...williamglenn said:Is there a football forum somewhere having a debate about Brexit?
https://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/582793-brexit-telephone-box-hampsterwheel.html
"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."0 -
That loss of control somehow manages to end the rule of the ECJ and renationalise immigration policy.williamglenn said:
Political doom has been upon the UK since it invoked Article 50 and gave away all control.Elliot said: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.
But your reply is precisely the sort of attention diversion done by Remainers when challenged about their economic predictions going up in smoke.0 -
Van Dijk had 5 years on his! Admittedly he hasn't got a World Cup...TheScreamingEagles said:
He's still got another 4 years left on his contract and he's got a world cup coming up.dixiedean said:
They could always tell him to go on strike.TheScreamingEagles said:
I don't think the Coutinho deal is going to happen.dixiedean said:
Means Coutinho on his way. Salah probably too.TheScreamingEagles said:
It is the power of Klopp.Sandpit said:
Good news today, but we should never have let Suarez go - even if it was for a British record at the time.TheScreamingEagles said:We're signing Virgil van Dijk for the same amount of money that we sold Luis Suarez for.
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.
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.
The £8.5 million we signed Coutinho for has to the be greatest bit of transfer dealing in Premier League history.
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.0 -
Klopp's in complete control now of transfers and FSG trust him implicitly that's the difference from the past.dixiedean said:
Van Dijk had 5 years on his! Admittedly he hasn't got a World Cup...
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.0 -
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?The_Taxman said:Previous Comment:
"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."
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.0 -
Only in your dreams honeywilliamglenn said:
The idea of treating the Brexit referendum as an expression of the general will in French revolutionary style is dead and cannot be revived.Charles said:A general election doesn't override the referendum although, of course, the new government is entitled to implement the will of the people as it sees fit.
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There’s as many comments you’d agree with on that forum, as those I’d agree with.williamglenn said:
The penultimate comment from an expat expresses a familiar sentiment.Sandpit said:
The pilots’ forum “Brexit hamster wheel” thread has 24,377 comments so far...williamglenn said:Is there a football forum somewhere having a debate about Brexit?
https://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/582793-brexit-telephone-box-hampsterwheel.html
"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."
Okay, maybe not on joining the Euro, but...0 -
How much new or thought provoking (note, not merely provocative) has been said since page 3?AlastairMeeks said:
The football forum I go on is currently up to page 1564 on its dedicated Brexit thread.williamglenn said:Is there a football forum somewhere having a debate about Brexit?
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That’s a great deal of spending to end 5th.TheScreamingEagles said:Plus there's rumours Liverpool are going to get Thomas Lemar for £90 million in January.
So Liverpool will have broken their transfer record 5 times in six months.0 -
Be optimistic - could be 4th. Dare to dream, even 3rd.AnExileinD4 said:
That’s a great deal of spending to end 5th.TheScreamingEagles said:Plus there's rumours Liverpool are going to get Thomas Lemar for £90 million in January.
So Liverpool will have broken their transfer record 5 times in six months.0 -
If Labour win the next general election, will the Tories accept their mandate and vote in favour of the Labour Government’s legislation? It is the will of the people?
Why is Brexit any different?0 -
You don't seem to realise the Government is going to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the country every year whether the UK is in the EU or not. To be honest I would rather have European immigrants to those who come from unstable countries that share little cultural, religious and economic values. The reason the UK is going to let hundreds of thousands of immigrants in every year is because it helps to grow nominal GDP. This is essential because without Immigration the UK will suffer a similar fate as Japan where the number of working age people has declined relative to those who are supported by the state. So Brexit means less Europeans and possibly more Islamic underpinned Immigration.Elliot said:
That loss of control somehow manages to end the rule of the ECJ and renationalise immigration policy.williamglenn said:
Political doom has been upon the UK since it invoked Article 50 and gave away all control.Elliot said: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.
But your reply is precisely the sort of attention diversion done by Remainers when challenged about their economic predictions going up in smoke.
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.0 -
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?The_Taxman said:Previous Comment:
"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."
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.0 -
< optimist >AnExileinD4 said:
That’s a great deal of spending to end 5th.TheScreamingEagles said:Plus there's rumours Liverpool are going to get Thomas Lemar for £90 million in January.
So Liverpool will have broken their transfer record 5 times in six months.
With a world class defender on the way, we’ve got a good chance of second now.
< / optimist >0 -
Except Corbyn Labour still backs Brexit, after a general election all your voters and MPs have voted for your party, after a referendum some of your voters and MPs will have voted in a different way to the way you haveVerulamius said:If Labour win the next general election, will the Tories accept their mandate and vote in favour of the Labour Government’s legislation? It is the will of the people?
Why is Brexit any different?0 -
We've signed a top defender who is eligible to play in the knock out stages of the Champions League.Sandpit said:
< optimist >AnExileinD4 said:
That’s a great deal of spending to end 5th.TheScreamingEagles said:Plus there's rumours Liverpool are going to get Thomas Lemar for £90 million in January.
So Liverpool will have broken their transfer record 5 times in six months.
With a world class defender on the way, we’ve got a good chance of second now.
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The Tories will have a democratic mandate as well. So no they don't have to vote for the government rather like Labour do not support the Tories at the moment. The Tories will be Members of Parliament! They will choose how to reflect the will of the people in their electorates. Read about Edmund Burke and his address to the electors of Bristol. It is a democratic principle of British elections that far predates Cameron's use of the advisory referendum.Verulamius said:If Labour win the next general election, will the Tories accept their mandate and vote in favour of the Labour Government’s legislation? It is the will of the people?
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Indeed. I absolutely accept the point about not being required to support the government of the day for the reason Verulamius points out - oppositions continue to oppose even when decisively defeated - but there seems a lot of confusion about Brexit opposition and Labour. Time will see if they change tack I suppose.HYUFD said:
Except Corbyn Labour still backs Brexit, after a general election all your voters and MPs have voted for your party, after a referendum some of your voters and MPs will have voted in a different way to the way you haveVerulamius said:If Labour win the next general election, will the Tories accept their mandate and vote in favour of the Labour Government’s legislation? It is the will of the people?
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Enough already with the bold. What does it add to your post?Ishmael_Z said:
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?The_Taxman said:Previous Comment:
"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."
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.
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.
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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. It has just done it again from where I am looking, my contribution is merged with yours! Sorry.The_Taxman said:
Enough already with the bold. What does it add to your post?Ishmael_Z said:
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?The_Taxman said:Previous Comment:
"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."
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.
Edit: what it does do is bugger up the quoting, which is another good reason not to do it.
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Immigration will certainly continue after Brexit, but the difference will be that we will have a veto on those who don’t contribute. We don’t need more Romanian Big Issue sellers, or more Uber drivers working 16 hours a week topped up with tax credits and housing benefit with 4 kids at school here. We may need more temporary farm workers, or more skilled tradesmen, and definitely anyone who’s a higher-rate taxpayer should be welcomed - no matter which country they’re from in the world.The_Taxman said:
You don't seem to realise the Government is going to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the country every year whether the UK is in the EU or not. To be honest I would rather have European immigrants to those who come from unstable countries that share little cultural, religious and economic values. The reason the UK is going to let hundreds of thousands of immigrants in every year is because it helps to grow nominal GDP. This is essential because without Immigration the UK will suffer a similar fate as Japan where the number of working age people has declined relative to those who are supported by the state. So Brexit means less Europeans and possibly more Islamic underpinned Immigration.Elliot said:
That loss of control somehow manages to end the rule of the ECJ and renationalise immigration policy.williamglenn said:
Political doom has been upon the UK since it invoked Article 50 and gave away all control.Elliot said:.
But your reply is precisely the sort of attention diversion done by Remainers when challenged about their economic predictions going up in smoke.
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.
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Ah yes, not cup-tied in Europe. Hadn’t thought of that.TheScreamingEagles said:
We've signed a top defender who is eligible to play in the knock out stages of the Champions League.Sandpit said:
< optimist >AnExileinD4 said:
That’s a great deal of spending to end 5th.TheScreamingEagles said:Plus there's rumours Liverpool are going to get Thomas Lemar for £90 million in January.
So Liverpool will have broken their transfer record 5 times in six months.
With a world class defender on the way, we’ve got a good chance of second now.
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I can't see Labour changing tack under Corbyn, in a decade or so if someone like Umunna has replaced him as leader maybe. At least in relation to the single market and customs union if maybe not the EU itselfkle4 said:
Indeed. I absolutely accept the point about not being required to support the government of the day for the reason Verulamius points out - oppositions continue to oppose even when decisively defeated - but there seems a lot of confusion about Brexit opposition and Labour. Time will see if they change tack I suppose.HYUFD said:
Except Corbyn Labour still backs Brexit, after a general election all your voters and MPs have voted for your party, after a referendum some of your voters and MPs will have voted in a different way to the way you haveVerulamius said:If Labour win the next general election, will the Tories accept their mandate and vote in favour of the Labour Government’s legislation? It is the will of the people?
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