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  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,317
    Scott_P said:

    On a related note...

    https://twitter.com/alexmassie/status/999218036296028160
    Scandalous. The countryside can actually be very nice 20 minutes on the bus from Swindon. :o
  • DadgeDadge Posts: 2,052
    TGOHF said:



    http://quillette.com/2018/05/22/jordan-peterson-failure-left/


    "Rather than vilifying Peterson, I’d love to see left-of-center writers, thinkers, and political commentators engage with his ideas in challenging, but also thoughtful and respectful ways. Personally, I see him as a worthy interlocutor for those of us who believe that our societies need paradigm-shifting reforms, but reject the drive towards destruction for destruction’s sake that currently animates the most extreme fringes of the Right and Left alike. If we hope to see a better future, the Left needs to break out of its increasingly stultifying discursive box, stop denouncing everyone who won’t dutifully recite the latest list of hashtag slogans as ‘alt-Right,’ and open up to the possibility of a new paradigm."

    Trouble is, Peterson has bitten off more than he can chew. His work on motivating young men is important and useful, but by putting himself forward as a know-all he has invited more criticism than support.
  • AlanbrookeAlanbrooke Posts: 25,767

    Who is ‘you’? I wasn’t even alive 40 years ago.
    I’m talking about the here and now, conscious as I am that Brexiters live in the past.
    How nice to see youre catching up on an argument that has been going on on PB for the last 5 years. Maybe if you gave some attention to our direction of trade and how the EU facilitates the de industrialisation of the UK and thus exacerbates our BoP problem you might worry less.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,171
    Sean_F said:

    England is remarkably densely populated. If France had England's population density, it would have 200 m people and be one of the world's superpowers.
    Alternatively, if England had France's population density we would have a population of 15m and the UK would not be a world power. :smile:
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,281

    In any case I'd hope that the French would be a bit more efficient about spreading the population
    Like the Scots?

    3.5 million in 10,000 sq km
    1.7 million in 70,000 sq km
  • BromBrom Posts: 3,760
    TOPPING said:

    This is the amusing Leaver dynamic. You go from wanting to leave the EU to wishing damnation and hellfire upon them. It is an understandable emotional response. From a toddler.
    If you're losing the argument call someone a toddler. Yet to hear any good reasons why we should remain in the EU. Sad that some have never moved on from the vote, but not expecting much from certain posters.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,171

    How nice to see youre catching up on an argument that has been going on on PB for the last 5 years. Maybe if you gave some attention to our direction of trade and how the EU facilitates the de industrialisation of the UK and thus exacerbates our BoP problem you might worry less.
    Easy to blame the EU for our industrial woes; Germany seems to manage fine.
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    Dadge said:

    -all he has invited more criticism than support.
    Isn't the big issue the quality - or lack of - the criticism ?
  • DadgeDadge Posts: 2,052
    tlg86 said:

    The author is confusing rurality and sparsity. See below for further details:

    https://tinyurl.com/y9zt384s
    The author has a sense of humour.
  • notme said:

    It’s all card for swapsies in a playground. You are being fundamentally naive if you think it is anything else.
    +1. If anyone thinks that nice Mr Barnier is going to offer us things because he wants to be nice and helpful, I may have a bridge or two I can sell you.
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,281

    Easy to blame the EU for our industrial woes; Germany seems to manage fine.
    Nothing to do with an undervalued currency.....

  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,647
    RobD said:

    Scandalous. The countryside can actually be very nice 20 minutes on the bus from Swindon. :o
    Lambourn is around 20 minutes from Swindon.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,396
    Good afternoon, everyone.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,647
    edited May 2018
    Brom said:

    If you're losing the argument call someone a toddler. Yet to hear any good reasons why we should remain in the EU. Sad that some have never moved on from the vote, but not expecting much from certain posters.
    Thanks for the insightful post.

    There is one poster, sadly, that made all the difference to the Referendum campaign which you lot refuse to take responsibility for.
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    Trump/Kim hot date off again.
  • AlanbrookeAlanbrooke Posts: 25,767

    Easy to blame the EU for our industrial woes; Germany seems to manage fine.
    my comments are based on being MD of businesses in Germany France Czech Republic and the UK what are yours based on ?
  • AlanbrookeAlanbrooke Posts: 25,767
    TOPPING said:

    Thanks for the insightful post.

    There is one poster, sadly, that made all the difference to the Referendum campaign which you lot refuse to take responsibility for.
    Plato ?
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 79,098

    Alternatively, if England had France's population density we would have a population of 15m and the UK would not be a world power. :smile:
    I don't know what the obsession with being a world power is, I think the country would be much more pleasent with only 15 million here personally :)
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633

    Plato ?
    Nah it was the Sunil wot won it...
  • Tissue_PriceTissue_Price Posts: 9,039

    Plato ?
    That is a superbly funny post, Alanbrooke.
  • SouthamObserverSouthamObserver Posts: 40,010
    A Brexit triumph ... for the Germans:

    A potential ‘Brexit effect’ has made itself apparent in Germany’s 2017 foreign direct investment (FDI) figures, with the number of UK investment projects jumping by 21%, according to German economic development agency Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI). Currently, the large share of these projects involves service offices opening, but it will be interesting to see whether production facilities are subsequently set up. Also notable was that the UK was the largest source of merger, acquisition and shareholding investment. The volume of enquiries to GTAI from the UK has also risen sharply.

    http://www.gtai.de/GTAI/Navigation/EN/Meta/Press/press-releases,t=brexit-effect-reflected-in-germanys-fdi-figures,did=1920002.html
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,396
    The US/North Korea meeting is off, it seems:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44242558
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 38,376
    TGOHF said:

    Nah it was the Sunil wot won it...
    I thought it was my eloquence that swung the vote.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395

    Plato ?
    Anyone know why she's been suspended from Twitter?
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,647

    Plato ?
    LOL
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,124

    How nice to see youre catching up on an argument that has been going on on PB for the last 5 years. Maybe if you gave some attention to our direction of trade and how the EU facilitates the de industrialisation of the UK and thus exacerbates our BoP problem you might worry less.
    Perhaps you’d like to offer some argument rather than a string of non sequiturs.

    You can’t have learned much as MD. Not structured argument, anyway.
  • AlanbrookeAlanbrooke Posts: 25,767
    Pulpstar said:

    I don't know what the obsession with being a world power is, I think the country would be much more pleasent with only 15 million here personally :)
    It's the sweet irony that remain types accuse everyone else of harping back to Empire while insisting everyone else worldwide needs to benefit from their mission civilatrice whether they want it or not.

    the people who harp on about others being stuck in the past just cant shake that imperial mindset.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 39,794

    A Brexit triumph ... for the Germans:

    A potential ‘Brexit effect’ has made itself apparent in Germany’s 2017 foreign direct investment (FDI) figures, with the number of UK investment projects jumping by 21%, according to German economic development agency Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI). Currently, the large share of these projects involves service offices opening, but it will be interesting to see whether production facilities are subsequently set up. Also notable was that the UK was the largest source of merger, acquisition and shareholding investment. The volume of enquiries to GTAI from the UK has also risen sharply.

    http://www.gtai.de/GTAI/Navigation/EN/Meta/Press/press-releases,t=brexit-effect-reflected-in-germanys-fdi-figures,did=1920002.html

    Good news for our current account, our overseas investments and earnings have been very poor for too long.
  • logical_songlogical_song Posts: 10,017
    AndyJS said:

    Anyone know why she's been suspended from Twitter?
    Fake News crackdown?
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,396
    Just on demographics, in 1300 England had about 5 million inhabitants. That collapsed to 2.5 million by 1400. Similar declines happened elsewhere.

    Obviously the Black Death was a prime cause, but the numbers actually declined gradually but steadily before that anyway.

    I think it took a couple of centuries to bounce back to the 1300 numbers. How history would've differed is an interesting thing to consider.
  • AlanbrookeAlanbrooke Posts: 25,767

    Perhaps you’d like to offer some argument rather than a string of non sequiturs.

    You can’t have learned much as MD. Not structured argument, anyway.
    lol

    my non sequiturs simply follow yours

    sometimes it's damned hard to keep up with you
  • SouthamObserverSouthamObserver Posts: 40,010
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 62,101
    tlg86 said:

    The author is confusing rurality and sparsity. See below for further details:

    https://tinyurl.com/y9zt384s
    The article is absolute horseshit.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 62,101
    That’s very diplomatic for Trump.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 54,251



    UKIP only got 12% because Cameron promised the referendum. And Cummings is not anti-immigration as you should know.

    He just has to form a "Brexit Betrayed' movement. It will attract a lot of people - remember there is no other party of protest at the moment. And Tory members, who have made it absolutely clear that they want a real Brexit, will desert the party in droves after May has finished. You might be the only one left!

    I think it would be a broader-based manifesto than Brexit Betrayed. It would become an anti-establishment party. The existing governing parties, the House of Lords, the civil service, the BBC - they would have change to all of them in their sights.

    It would have a significantly wider appeal than UKIP.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 79,098
    That line about the nukes is amusing
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,281
    https://twitter.com/JonBrainNews/status/999651695637516288

    Looking on the bright side, there are probably lots of cheap flights to Singapore in mid-June....
  • I think it would be a broader-based manifesto than Brexit Betrayed. It would become an anti-establishment party. The existing governing parties, the House of Lords, the civil service, the BBC - they would have change to all of them in their sights.

    It would have a significantly wider appeal than UKIP.
    Interesting to see whether The Mail or The Sun would flip sides to support it.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,317
    New thread.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,137

    Like the Scots?

    3.5 million in 10,000 sq km
    1.7 million in 70,000 sq km
    If only we could work out why certain areas of Scotland have a fraction of the population of 150 years ago. Or why Scotland's population has hardly increased in 100 years while England's, Wales' & Ireland's populations have increased by double figure percentages. Or have a word with the people who've been in charge of immigration and associated economic & industrial policy for the UK.

    If only.
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