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Boris Johnson says "the pound soared" after May's Lancaster House speech. Value of pound on day of speech (Jan 17 2017): $1.24. Value of pound on day after: $1.23.
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https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/1019585675849535488
World's gone mad.
Suspect most takes on the speech will reflect the position of the respondent rather than the speech itself. Could be wrong, of course.
For anyone who wants rocket fun, Blue Origin might be doing a suborbital hop of their rocket at 16.00. It's an in-flight abort test, which might mean it ends up being rather spectacular.
You can watch it here:
https://www.blueorigin.com/#youtube
On the last such test, they expected the rocket to blow up. It didn't, and landed for reuse. It'll be interesting to see if the same happens again.
*Not literally.
It was the late Lord Stockton, formerly Harold Macmillan, who first put the central point clearly. As long ago as 1962, he argued that we had to place and keep ourselves within the EC. He saw it as essential then, as it is today, not to cut ourselves off from the realities of power; not to retreat into a ghetto of sentimentality about our past and so diminish our own control over our own destiny in the future.
The pity is that the Macmillan view had not been perceived more clearly a decade before in the 1950s. It would have spared us so many of the struggles of the last 20 years had we been in the Community from the outset; had we been ready, in the much too simple phrase, to "surrender some sovereignty" at a much earlier stage. If we had been in from the start, as almost everybody now acknowledges, we should have had more, not less, influence over the Europe in which we live today. We should never forget the lesson of that isolation, of being on the outside looking in, for the conduct of today's affairs.
Boris's comment on supply side reforms in the 1980s came directly after reference to EU laws "on the environment and social affairs and much else besides". Whether we were in the EU in the 1980s is not the point - the point is that its environmental legislation has advanced much since and we were not in the social chapter until late 90s.
Astonishing that someone could have spent their career covering politics and not get this basic nuance.
https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1019565408045629440
Sounds like something that could've related to Heracles after he was driven insane and ended up killing his wife and children.
They will sell far fewer shirts though I suppose...
"The estimate makes scoring a goal worth about 15 times saving a goal"
https://web.stanford.edu/class/stats50/files/AlsaeedChesnutt-paper.pdf
"George Orwell, a far superior journalist to Boris, once wrote it was the same in all wars. The soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting and no true patriot gets near a front line trench.
"Boris plays the patriot but he won't have to be in trenches or face the consequences of his flippant dismissal of the very real concerns over the Irish border."
He shafted the last Great leader his party had because of his Ego.
Johnson's speech is on his Facebook page.
I am not suggesting that any football player is worth that much, but I do see an equivalent between such a goalie and a top attacking player.
That paper I linked also shows that the big 5 significantly (comparable to their worth) have been overpaying for their goalkeepers compared to the rest of the league.
"I feel no sympathy. I repeat, I feel no sympathy! The German people chose their fate. That may surprise some people. Don't fool yourself. We didn't force the German people. They gave us the mandate. And now their little throats are being cut."
- Joseph Goebbels, 1945.
Were you hiding behind the sofa when she was being questioned by Yvette Cooper on mutual (or not) tariff collection?
Big 5 teams generally have more expensive defenders too, so their goalies get fewer opportinities for heroic saves. Bottom end teams often have very busy goalkeepers for similar reasons.
Price also doesnt nessecarily reflect current value, so for example Leicester ppaid £1.2 million for Kasper Schmeichel and Pope was also a bargain at current value.
Football economics is a route to madness, but in that crazy context Allisson is a decent buy. May not sell so many shirts to the boys though!
Thatcher in the 80s overturned a lot of what was then established laws and policies in order to transform the economy. A lot of shibboleths were tackled. The EEC lacked competencies on those areas and Parliament was sovereign so Parliament could make the reforms.
A future Thatcher wanting to tackle current shibboleths in the same way won't be able to within Parliament if the EU has those competences.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/16/overwhelmingly-likely-putin-ordered-spy-attack-says-boris-johnson
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1019594403525136384
Otherwise it may well be PM Corbyn
At some point the UK body politic will have to deal with a couple of key observations:
1) The EU will evolve into a full federal European state
2) The UK is now even more powerless to stop it than it was before
UK foreign policy has been in total denial about this geopolitical fact since the 1950s.
https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/status/1019601504481763329?s=20
We can be Canada to their USA.
The public are simply not being served by these news priorities.
If the figures were the other way around we would have Eurofanatics boasting that the EU is the world's largest economy. Oh wait that lie is already widespread.