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Breaking – those "iconic" new British blue passports? The French will be making them. UK firm De La Rue loses contract to Paris security giant Gemalto;https://t.co/dvGyhsOfOY
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Sounds a little "French" to me
Can't get more British than that.
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104712037900071
Cliff notes - this academic was naughty and didn’t play nice...the company didn’t play nice..in the future we will ask app developers more questions to ensure they are nice with your data..
One total horseshit thing in the statement is saying that app developers will lose access if they are inactive or misbehave, but by that stage they could have still harvests it all and copied it. There is nothing Facebook can do about that if they continue to provide user data to third parties.
(It might also be worth looking at Rolls Royce, who will be a beneficiary of any move away from GE in the engines business.)
1) Getting the lowest price and best contract
2) The overall financial effect to the government
3) Doing the best for the economy
I've no idea about the financial details in the manufacture of passports but what should be taken into account is where the income and corporation taxes resulting from the contract are paid and secondly the more general effect of whereabouts the employment and company income will be spent.
@oxfordsimon
It is the laziness of it that gets me!
You read the article, I read the article, it took barely 2 minutes to click through and read!
Whilst they shouldn't take too long about it, it is better that they do it right. This isn't as serious as a criminal trial but the consequences are still pretty serious to they should have all the facts and allow the defendant a chance to present their case as well.
Though frankly a whole lot about the passports made people look like wallys. From those who cared so much about the colour anyway, to those who leapt on the claims it would cost huge amounts to change the colour to blue (mistaking the contract cost that would be up anyway for the switching colour cost). Even more than most things Brexit it seems to make people lose their heads. Back pain treatment is useless is a much bigger story. I need to start sitting with better posture.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/gwyneth-paltrow-claimed-bee-sting-therapy-healed-her-it-just-killed-a-woman/
"Chez-nous
Dans le milieu de la rue"
There are two complainants and one accused. Whilst they need to do it right, they also need to act in a timely fashion. And it certainly seems as if they are failing to do this.
All political parties should have a clear process with an ideal outline time scale. I fail to see how letting this enter the 6th month is acceptable for either side. Really complex cases with multiple complainants or complicated evidence chains might require more time - but that doesn't seem to be the case with Hopkins. There is enough evidence already in the public domain that needs to be answered.
Labour also should not be handling this using an internally elected body like the NCC. It should be handled by outside experts. Otherwise the process will always be tainted.
Luxembourg?
Russian?
US?
Thai?
Croatian?
Serb?
Czech?
Slovak?
Slovene?
Paraguayan?
Norwegian?
Icelandic?
We're going to be closely aligned to the single market and the rules therein post Brexit.
But in any case, the government should be seeking the best value for money, not the local solution. Using public procurement as a tool of economic development tends to end up with enormously wasteful projects.
As for relaxing them, there's some Brexiteers who think those rules mean we can't perform economic nationalism.
And if they are cheaper, wouldn't it be great to take a few quid off the cost of the passport - a Brexit Bonus!!
Often court cases can take a long time to start, obviously this isn't as serious but it is still pretty serious. What I am trying to get it is better they do it properly and take longer than they should than try and rush it through and either not give the defendant a real chance or not take the accusations seriously enough.
I'm sure plenty of people would be rightly annoyed if Labour had rushed the thing found Hopkins innocent and the victims hadn't had their justice if he was guilty. It would probably generate a lot less negative headline but if Hopkins is innocent, something we shouldn't discount as at least a possibility, and we rushed the thing and kicked him out then that too would be a grave injustice.
Night all.
I have no sense of how many MPs are behind him, but it would only take a handful, plus he can no doubt cause quite the ruckus by himself.
But the pace just fits into the pattern of tardiness surrounding the Labour hierarchy on these sensitive matters. It doesn't make for a good look.
And the least said about the way Vaz has manipulated the parliamentary investigation into his behaviour, the better. Again, not a good look.
To be fair he has his hands full with the violence on the streets of London
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5526095/Man-stabbed-death-east-London-shopping-centre.html
Imagine for one moment that a tory was in charge.......
And I say the same must apply to all parties
Well Trump comes to mind... That would be my preference. Could have something similar to the Westminster setup Theresa May was talking about but for the wider party structures as well.
Children ask childish questions, shocker.
Of all the Criminal Justice systems in the democratic world to choose from, the USA is possibly the worst for outcomes and also most expensive. Notably also not very good at deterring crime either.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/20/london-now-dangerous-new-york-crime-stats-suggest/.
In the 1970s and 1980s by contrast NYC was undoubtedly the crime capital of the western world.
Not all rich white kids get off either
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/prominent-attorney-son-convicted-raping-student-slept-article-1.3795156
If you want to be tough on crime, you need to be tough on the causes of crime, as someone nearly said.
You have to laugh.
We will look back in years to come...
A bunch of eloquent xenophobes convinced a wafer-think majority of the country to vote for it while the mother of all rainstorms was falling on London, and they won – just!
No-one had the first fucking idea what they wanted from it. The prime minister was clueless, and resigned. Theresa May arrived and hated on Europe, before granting its every wish.
David Davis began as a testosterone-fuelled eurosceptic, ended as the junior partner in a bromance with Michael Barnier. The French made a crust on making blue passports, while no-one laid a single brick building customs controls.
Did anyone really think it was worth it?
We laughed. We cried. Them were the days.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7856404/Police-statistics-shed-fresh-light-on-link-between-crime-and-race.html
There is a serious level of knife crime - particularly within the black community. The only way to tackle that is to focus on the perpetrators. To do that - even with the best of intentions - can easily be painted as a racist decision. Even though it is aimed at reducing the number of black victims.
In the case of London knife crime, you need to be tough on those who carry knives.
There are no easy answers within the criminal justice system. But the police should be free to target perpetrators of violence no matter their colour. What happens after that is a subject for another discussion.
London still delivered a 70% turnout - are you trying to claim that Leave managed to arrange a storm to keep Remain voters at home?
I don't get why some people fixate on the size of the majority. It was beyond dispute a win for Leave. That result having been delivered, it was incumbent on our political class to deliver on that.
Rather than going over events of 2 years ago, the focus should be the future. We don't have any other choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTqmBKOXnXo
You keep saying (endlessly) that free movement will be ended after Brexit (now the transition). Seriously? May has conceded on every red line she has set so far. We will end up conceding something that is slightly different from FM but essentially much the same - the key point is that it will be negotiated away as part of a trade deal so that the UK will NOT be able to change the rules again without the trade deal unravelling. So basically we will regain control only to hand it over again with no realistic possibility that it can be changed in the future - what chances any Government trying to renegotiate the Brexit deal in the future? Just the same is going to happen to fishing after the transition.
You need to prepare yourself for disappointment.
Odds are interesting:
NZ 1.37
Eng 6.8
Draw 7.4
Tell me, when you're down the pub with your friends, do you continually tell them how how evil the EU are?
We won that match.
Just saying.
It's important to remember that Leave got almost 10% more votes than Remain. That's millions of votes.