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  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Floater said:

    I think there are bigger things to worry about than whether you were made to look foolish.
    I agree, but that's why Boeing didn't make the announcement earlier IMO.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,869
    Scott_P said:
    Another election would be good... But not until May's deal has passed and May herself has departed.

    Then with a new leader we need to have a proper blood letting through a general election before (hopefully) coming together before embarking on the trade deal (because that's when things get really hard)
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 54,582

    I mean can you imagine for a moment what 5-10 GPS tracked devices in EVERY HOME IN THE COUNTRY would say about the state of the nation?
    Shockingly, it would tell us how many homes don't prepare fresh food....
  • AndrewAndrew Posts: 2,900
    https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1106202908805210112


    So again it comes back down to the DUP.

    The question then: how many Tory holdouts? 5 remainers, 15 ultra-ERGers? That would mean May needed 15 Labour Ayes.
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207
    TGOHF said:

    If 5% of the population are hit with £60 per day for keeping their kids out of school then the deficit will be eliminated quite quickly.

    Makes you laugh when I was fined for my autistic son being off sick too often.

    We now have to take him to the doctors if he is sick - the doctors complain and all we can do is give them the contact details of the school.

  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,540
    SeanT said:

    In other news, this is just TERRIBLE for Boeing.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/new-software-in-boeing-737-max-planes-under-scrutinty-after-second-crash/2019/03/13/06716fda-45c7-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html

    They are going to get sued for billions. This is worse than dieselgate. Many people have died.

    Plenty of people have died because of dieselgate.
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    Andrew said:

    https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1106202908805210112


    So again it comes back down to the DUP.

    The question then: how many Tory holdouts? 5 remainers, 15 ultra-ERGers? That would mean May needed 15 Labour Ayes.

    MV 3,4 passes if May stands down soon afterwards.

    May cannot lead the Uk in the next phase - she is simply not up to it.

    Sooner Gove or Hunt work this out the better.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,767
    Floater said:

    Nope deal vs no deal would be honest and respect the referendum result - you know the peoples vote.

    The deal is leaving the EU. To prove this would require parliament to approve it and then you and I could reconvene on March 30th (or after whatever technical extension to A50) to see whether we were still in the EU or not.

    They would be answering the following question, asked in the Peoples' vote: Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?
  • SeanTSeanT Posts: 549
    Floater said:

    It is
    If I were 25 years old, I would emigrate tomorrow. Britain is finished. Europe is finished. Stagnation and religious strife await.

    I’d go to America. Where English freedoms and the Enlightenment are still, thank god, protected by that Constitution. And I’d buy lots of guns.

    Or I’d go to Asia. The future.
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    With regards to Boeing 737 Max I am kind of exceedingly very surprised that Boeing was allowed to get away with both the claims:

    "It's a whole new airplane"
    and
    "737 pilots don't need to re-certify"

    That should have been awooga alarms all over the place
  • Andrew said:

    https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1106202908805210112


    So again it comes back down to the DUP.

    The question then: how many Tory holdouts? 5 remainers, 15 ultra-ERGers? That would mean May needed 15 Labour Ayes.

    Time to tell the DUP No Deal means an Irish unity referendum.

    Oh and Westminster will pass legislation to make same sex marriage legal in Northern Ireland.

    ‘Cause the DUP hate any difference between NI and GB.
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    Floater said:

    Makes you laugh when I was fined for my autistic son being off sick too often.

    We now have to take him to the doctors if he is sick - the doctors complain and all we can do is give them the contact details of the school.

    Tell the school hes is a muslim who is allergic to infidel teachings to avoid further fines.

  • dyedwooliedyedwoolie Posts: 7,786

    I mean can you imagine for a moment what 5-10 GPS tracked devices in EVERY HOME IN THE COUNTRY would say about the state of the nation?
    The police aren't going to chase round after several thousand knives 'on the move' or camping will become somewhat problematic. That's if nobody is smart enough to work out how to remove a gps chip or use one ov the several million pre GPS chip knives. Otherwise genius
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,869
    edited March 2019

    There's a subtle point here which people who haven't been in Parliament may not realise. The Speaker could have selected the motion calling for a referendum, or the motion opposing a second referendum (it'd obviously have been a waste of time to call both).By choosing the former, he gives Wollaston the chance not to move it, and thus keep the issue alive. If he'd selected the other motion, they would have insisted on moving it and it would have been defeated. It could then not be reintroduced.

    Whether this was his intention, or he merely felt it made sense to choose the positive one, we'll never know, but People's Vote people may be quietly grateful to him - assuming Wollaston doesn't press it to a vote, and I assume she won't.

    The position was different with the amendment where Cooper forced a vote against the wishes of the prime mover. That worked (and always works - it doesn't need the Speaker's approval) because Cooper had co-signed it. Wollaston could have suffered the same fate if a Brexiteer had been fast enough to co-sign it before the debate started, but I don't think they did.


    Of course it was his intention. The fact the Speaker is biased to remain just makes the behaviour of Brexiteers even more inexplicable.

    They have got 500+ MPs supporting Remain. They have got a majority of the Cabinet supporting Remain. The civil service supports Remain. Even the (supposedly impartial) referee supports Remain - And Theresa gives them the opportunity to Leave with about 80% of what they've always wanted (plus a chance to deal with the other 20% in the future if/when conditions are more favourable to them) and they vote it down.

    Cretins!
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207
    tlg86 said:

    Plenty of people have died because of dieselgate.
    Thing is airline crashes are high profile - a death here and there doesn't draw attention the way that a catastrophe does.

    Boeing will also be facing some hefty claims for loss of use I would imagine - Norwegian have already publicly stated their intent to recoup from Boeing.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,767
    Andrew said:

    https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1106202908805210112


    So again it comes back down to the DUP.

    The question then: how many Tory holdouts? 5 remainers, 15 ultra-ERGers? That would mean May needed 15 Labour Ayes.

    It comes down to dumb and cowardly Leavers always looking for someone else to blame.
  • We got into this mess because it was obvious we were afraid to keep No deal on the table. (Properly on the table - using the last 3 years to visibly prepare our ports, infrastructure, tax system, really good practical advice for businesses). A certain amount has been done - should have been more ambitious.
    Britain is capable of so much more than this. The country voted to leave. We don't need months or years of asking the EU or Ireland what we can or can't do.
    I appreciate the PM's efforts and attention to detail.
    Anyway, the law currently says we leave the EU on 29th March.
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207
    SeanT said:

    If I were 25 years old, I would emigrate tomorrow. Britain is finished. Europe is finished. Stagnation and religious strife await.

    I’d go to America. Where English freedoms and the Enlightenment are still, thank god, protected by that Constitution. And I’d buy lots of guns.

    Or I’d go to Asia. The future.
    You might want to look more closely at American news before making that decision.

  • SeanTSeanT Posts: 549
    edited March 2019
    tlg86 said:

    Plenty of people have died because of dieselgate.
    Oh, for sure. But you can’t point at a corpse and say Volkswagen did that! If you could, I think VW might now be insolvent. They are “lucky”.

    Unluckily for Boeing, you CAN point at a corpse, in Ethiopia, and credibly say “Boeing did that”.

    Intense reputational damage at the very least. What were they thinking??
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,767

    We got into this mess because it was obvious we were afraid to keep No deal on the table. (Properly on the table - using the last 3 years to visibly prepare our ports, infrastructure, tax system, really good practical advice for businesses). A certain amount has been done - should have been more ambitious.
    Britain is capable of so much more than this. The country voted to leave. We don't need months or years of asking the EU or Ireland what we can or can't do.
    I appreciate the PM's efforts and attention to detail.
    Anyway, the law currently says we leave the EU on 29th March.

    Welcome.

    You are absolutely right. We don't need to ask the EU or Ireland what we can or can't do.

    That said, our society has, over the past several decades, developed with various dependencies and relationships. The government has to date been unwilling to trash those in the name of leaving especially when Theresa May's deal is leaving and fulfils the terms of the 2016 referendum.

    Thank goodness.
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633

    We got into this mess because it was obvious we were afraid to keep No deal on the table. (Properly on the table - using the last 3 years to visibly prepare our ports, infrastructure, tax system, really good practical advice for businesses). .

    Correct - and that is the fault of PM May - not the ERG.

    Remain would prefer to put the blame on the ERG though - as it's a useful cover for overturning the referendum.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,873

    We got into this mess because it was obvious we were afraid to keep No deal on the table. (Properly on the table - using the last 3 years to visibly prepare our ports, infrastructure, tax system, really good practical advice for businesses). A certain amount has been done - should have been more ambitious.
    Britain is capable of so much more than this. The country voted to leave. We don't need months or years of asking the EU or Ireland what we can or can't do.
    I appreciate the PM's efforts and attention to detail.
    Anyway, the law currently says we leave the EU on 29th March.

    What would your No Deal preparations for Northern Ireland have looked like?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 51,138
    I wish we had politicians as good as the SNP in England.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822
    Floater said:

    You might want to look more closely at American news before making that decision.

    Or try eating some of their 'cheese'.
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    https://dominiccummings.com/

    "The Conservative Party now has almost no intellectual connection to crucial debates about the ecosystem of science, productivity, universities, funding, startups and so on. I know from personal experience that even billionaire entrepreneurs whose donations are vital to the survival of CCHQ cannot get people like Hammond to listen to anything about all this — Hammond’s focus is obeying his orders from Goldman Sachs.

    Downing Street is much more interested in protecting corporate looting by large banks and companies and protecting rent-seekers than they are in productivity and entrepreneurs. "
  • SeanTSeanT Posts: 549
    Floater said:

    You might want to look more closely at American news before making that decision.

    I follow American news closely. They too have culture wars, and they too have a weird class of people using identity politics to deconstruct their own hardwon freedoms. BUT they have that Constituion. A vital bulwark against the madness. Plus they have a more vibrant economy. Especially in California, where I’d go. Maybe Santa Barbara.
  • dyedwooliedyedwoolie Posts: 7,786
    If Cam had done a no deal vs stay in referendum and no deal won we'd be two years into the new world order by now. Or in the EU for the long haul. Not in this mess
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822
    TGOHF said:

    https://dominiccummings.com/

    "The Conservative Party now has almost no intellectual connection to crucial debates about the ecosystem of science, productivity, universities, funding, startups and so on. I know from personal experience that even billionaire entrepreneurs whose donations are vital to the survival of CCHQ cannot get people like Hammond to listen to anything about all this — Hammond’s focus is obeying his orders from Goldman Sachs.

    Downing Street is much more interested in protecting corporate looting by large banks and companies and protecting rent-seekers than they are in productivity and entrepreneurs. "

    'orders from Goldman Sachs' - what a loon.
  • Richard_TyndallRichard_Tyndall Posts: 33,255

    Time to tell the DUP No Deal means an Irish unity referendum.

    Oh and Westminster will pass legislation to make same sex marriage legal in Northern Ireland.

    ‘Cause the DUP hate any difference between NI and GB.
    This is like what I said a couple of months ago. Except I wold tell the DUP there will be an Irish Unity Referendum if Brexit falls. If they want to hold the UK to ransom then they can expect to be treated no differently.
  • dyedwooliedyedwoolie Posts: 7,786
    edited March 2019
    SeanT said:

    I follow American news closely. They too have culture wars, and they too have a weird class of people using identity politics to deconstruct their own hardwon freedoms. BUT they have that Constituion. A vital bulwark against the madness. Plus they have a more vibrant economy. Especially in California, where I’d go. Maybe Santa Barbara.
    California is broke, will be a terrible place to be by mid 2020s

    Edit - that's for the average John doe. If you've got $$$ you'll make anywhere work
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,422
    TGOHF said:

    Correct - and that is the fault of PM May - not the ERG.

    Remain would prefer to put the blame on the ERG though - as it's a useful cover for overturning the referendum.
    If the ERG keep voting against Brexit it’s hardly a stretch, is it?
  • Richard_TyndallRichard_Tyndall Posts: 33,255
    TGOHF said:

    A better lesson is no referendums.

    So you would keep the Scots in the Union permanently against their will? Or should a majority vote in the Scottish Parliament be enough to result in Independence?
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 79,235

    We got into this mess because it was obvious we were afraid to keep No deal on the table. (Properly on the table - using the last 3 years to visibly prepare our ports, infrastructure, tax system, really good practical advice for businesses). A certain amount has been done - should have been more ambitious.
    Britain is capable of so much more than this. The country voted to leave. We don't need months or years of asking the EU or Ireland what we can or can't do.
    I appreciate the PM's efforts and attention to detail.
    Anyway, the law currently says we leave the EU on 29th March.

    Hi Joe, welcome to the site :)
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,767
    SeanT said:

    I follow American news closely. They too have culture wars, and they too have a weird class of people using identity politics to deconstruct their own hardwon freedoms. BUT they have that Constituion. A vital bulwark against the madness. Plus they have a more vibrant economy. Especially in California, where I’d go. Maybe Santa Barbara.
    They also have the most bonkers penal system I think I know. Beware that lackadaisical attitude with a half ounce of weed in your pocket as you get nicked and then are offered a plea and choice between 10yrs in jail or trial and a possible 150 years.
  • SeanTSeanT Posts: 549

    Or try eating some of their 'cheese'.
    In posh parts of California you can get every variety of European cheese plus their own new artisanal stuff, which is nice. Also Californian wines (not quite as good as Aussie, but v pleasant). Plus all those deserts and mountains. The sweet summer sweat. Warm smell of calyptus.

    Fuck it, I’m going.
  • Tissue_PriceTissue_Price Posts: 9,039

    There's a subtle point here which people who haven't been in Parliament may not realise. The Speaker could have selected the motion calling for a referendum, or the motion opposing a second referendum (it'd obviously have been a waste of time to call both).By choosing the former, he gives Wollaston the chance not to move it, and thus keep the issue alive. If he'd selected the other motion, they would have insisted on moving it and it would have been defeated. It could then not be reintroduced.

    Whether this was his intention, or he merely felt it made sense to choose the positive one, we'll never know, but People's Vote people may be quietly grateful to him - assuming Wollaston doesn't press it to a vote, and I assume she won't.

    The position was different with the amendment where Cooper forced a vote against the wishes of the prime mover. That worked (and always works - it doesn't need the Speaker's approval) because Cooper had co-signed it. Wollaston could have suffered the same fate if a Brexiteer had been fast enough to co-sign it before the debate started, but I don't think they did.

    The SNP/Plaid/Lib Dems can move Wollaston's amendment if she doesn't seek to, as they are co-signatories. Patrick McLoughlin also made a point of order suggesting that anyone should be able to press it, as the motion was now the property of the House. Bercow demurred on that.

    I would have thought the TIG will press it anyway as the point is to put Labour under pressure.
  • Ishmael_ZIshmael_Z Posts: 8,981
    SeanT said:

    Oh, for sure. But you can’t point at a corpse and say Volkswagen did that! If you could, I think VW might now be insolvent. They are “lucky”.

    Unluckily for Boeing, you CAN point at a corpse, in Ethiopia, and credibly say “Boeing did that”.

    Intense reputational damage at the very least. What were they thinking??
    The other side of the coin is: they will be insured up to the hilt so the financial pain is shared. They are part of a duopoly in a market with the bar for entry set unbelievably high. White Star Line continued in business post -Titanic till it merged with Cunard in 1950. And indeed look at VW itself - we are still queuing up to buy cars from a company founded by Hitler which never found it necessary even to change its name to conceal its hideous origins.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    edited March 2019
    TOPPING said:

    The deal is leaving the EU. To prove this would require parliament to approve it and then you and I could reconvene on March 30th (or after whatever technical extension to A50) to see whether we were still in the EU or not.

    They would be answering the following question, asked in the Peoples' vote: Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?
    That question was asked in 2016.
  • SeanTSeanT Posts: 549
    TOPPING said:

    They also have the most bonkers penal system I think I know. Beware that lackadaisical attitude with a half ounce of weed in your pocket as you get nicked and then are offered a plea and choice between 10yrs in jail or trial and a possible 150 years.
    You haven’t noticed that most of America has legalised weed, then?
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822
    edited March 2019
    SeanT said:

    In posh parts of California you can get every variety of European cheese plus their own new artisanal stuff, which is nice. Also Californian wines (not quite as good as Aussie, but v pleasant). Plus all those deserts and mountains. The sweet summer sweat. Warm smell of calyptus.

    Fuck it, I’m going.
    True, there are small pockets of the US where one can get decent stuff. Dreadful bureaucracy though - much worse than here.

    Edit: You are wrong about Californian wines, they are better than Australian in many cases, and certainly at the top level. Not cheap though.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,368
    SeanT said:

    You haven’t noticed that most of America has legalised weed, then?
    Most is stretching it a bit ;)
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 51,138
    Chope saying he might support Labour in a VONC
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,368
    Also breaking: his keyboard. I'm imagining how furiously that tweet was typed.
  • EndillionEndillion Posts: 4,976

    There's a subtle point here which people who haven't been in Parliament may not realise. The Speaker could have selected the motion calling for a referendum, or the motion opposing a second referendum (it'd obviously have been a waste of time to call both).By choosing the former, he gives Wollaston the chance not to move it, and thus keep the issue alive. If he'd selected the other motion, they would have insisted on moving it and it would have been defeated. It could then not be reintroduced.

    Whether this was his intention, or he merely felt it made sense to choose the positive one, we'll never know, but People's Vote people may be quietly grateful to him - assuming Wollaston doesn't press it to a vote, and I assume she won't.

    The position was different with the amendment where Cooper forced a vote against the wishes of the prime mover. That worked (and always works - it doesn't need the Speaker's approval) because Cooper had co-signed it. Wollaston could have suffered the same fate if a Brexiteer had been fast enough to co-sign it before the debate started, but I don't think they did.

    Surely defeating an amendment ruling out a second referendum doesn't block Wollaston et al from introducing an amendment calling for one? Quite the reverse, I would've thought.
  • dyedwooliedyedwoolie Posts: 7,786
    IanB2 said:

    Chope saying he might support Labour in a VONC

    Excellent, get the upskirt enabling tosser out of the Tory party
  • rpjsrpjs Posts: 3,787
    SeanT said:

    You haven’t noticed that most of America has legalised weed, then?
    Not really, only 10/50 states plus DC.
  • SlackbladderSlackbladder Posts: 9,795
    Cutting edge insight from the leader of the free world...
  • SeanTSeanT Posts: 549

    True, there are small pockets of the US where one can get decent stuff. Dreadful bureaucracy though - much worse than here.
    Indeed. I have encountered the US tax system. I am still recovering.

    It is amazing how vivacious their economy is - creating giants like apple, and amazon, and google - when the bureaucracy seems designed to frustrate it.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,540
    RobD said:

    Also breaking: his keyboard. I'm imagining how furiously that tweet was typed.
    I wonder if a second referendum might be slightly helpful to Trump.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    What would your No Deal preparations for Northern Ireland have looked like?
    Easy question. Treat it like a border between nations is treated anywhere else in the globe.
  • SeanTSeanT Posts: 549
    RobD said:

    Most is stretching it a bit ;)
    California, Colorado and Canada will do me. Not that I smoke anyway. I take my cannabis in a brandy tincture. I get it from a very nice man in Totnes. It is lovely at the end of an evening. Very soothing.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,873
    Chope says he would seriously consider voting with Labour to no confidence the government.
  • SlackbladderSlackbladder Posts: 9,795

    Chope says he would seriously consider voting with Labour to no confidence the government.

    C***s will be c****s
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,767
    SeanT said:

    You haven’t noticed that most of America has legalised weed, then?
    I used it as an example. Please substitute your poison of choice.

    Perhaps a 2017 Chateauneuf from M&S which of course would constitute infanticide if you drank it.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,368

    Chope says he would seriously consider voting with Labour to no confidence the government.

    Deselection time? :D
  • dyedwooliedyedwoolie Posts: 7,786

    Chope says he would seriously consider voting with Labour to no confidence the government.

    If they allow upskirting and FGM presumably
  • rpjsrpjs Posts: 3,787

    True, there are small pockets of the US where one can get decent stuff. Dreadful bureaucracy though - much worse than here.

    Edit: You are wrong about Californian wines, they are better than Australian in many cases, and certainly at the top level. Not cheap though.
    My theory is that the problem with the US is that the two major ethnic groups at independence were the British and the Germans. America could have got a government and bureaucracy that combined British flexibility with German efficiency, but sadly it got the opposite.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 79,235
    My mind immediately sprang to Meaningful vote 3
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,581
    Well, he knows Putin better than the rest of us, so he probably has the inside take on this.
  • dyedwooliedyedwoolie Posts: 7,786
    Corbyn - I'm not supporting a 2nd ref amendment and that upskirting freak is on my no confidence team
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 38,533
    SeanT said:

    I follow American news closely. They too have culture wars, and they too have a weird class of people using identity politics to deconstruct their own hardwon freedoms. BUT they have that Constituion. A vital bulwark against the madness. Plus they have a more vibrant economy. Especially in California, where I’d go. Maybe Santa Barbara.
    California is generally badly run. Its schools are on a par with those of Mississippi, it has almost the highest State taxes in the USA, its infrastructure is falling apart, it's overregulated, and over-unionised.

    It's great if you've got enough money to ignore these failings.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,767

    Easy question. Treat it like a border between nations is treated anywhere else in the globe.
    ha haha hahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha

    Oh. You weren't being serious were you?
  • RoyalBlueRoyalBlue Posts: 3,223
    SeanT said:

    Indeed. I have encountered the US tax system. I am still recovering.

    It is amazing how vivacious their economy is - creating giants like apple, and amazon, and google - when the bureaucracy seems designed to frustrate it.
    Much of their economy is rather inefficient. The failure to regulate properly means that many of their industries are much more concentrated than ours - look at airlines or mobile phones for starters. This gives very bad outcomes for consumers. The average quality of food (if not quantity) is much worse than here. It’s also a country where you can be bankrupted by medical bills for fairly common diseases, and you get 2 weeks’ holiday. It’s not a great place to live, unless you’re in the top 10%.

    Besides, while Europe has the challenge of Islamism, the USA will never escape its racial mania. The Democrats are talking about reparations for slave descendants:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-14/one-way-to-make-reparations-work

    This is only going to get worse.
  • El_CapitanoEl_Capitano Posts: 4,244
    The People's Vote could hardly ask for a better recruiting sergeant.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 38,533

    Chope says he would seriously consider voting with Labour to no confidence the government.

    He'd be no loss to the Conservatives.
  • rpjsrpjs Posts: 3,787
    edited March 2019
    SeanT said:

    In posh parts of California you can get every variety of European cheese plus their own new artisanal stuff, which is nice. Also Californian wines (not quite as good as Aussie, but v pleasant). Plus all those deserts and mountains. The sweet summer sweat. Warm smell of calyptus.

    Fuck it, I’m going.

    Sadly you’ll probably find your past history as a drug addict will prevent that.
  • dyedwooliedyedwoolie Posts: 7,786
    RoyalBlue said:

    Much of their economy is rather inefficient. The failure to regulate properly means that many of their industries are much more concentrated than ours - look at airlines or mobile phones for starters. This gives very bad outcomes for consumers. The average quality of food (if not quantity) is much worse than here. It’s also a country where you can be bankrupted by medical bills for fairly common diseases, and you get 2 weeks’ holiday. It’s not a great place to live, unless you’re in the top 10%.

    Besides, while Europe has the challenge of Islamism, the USA will never escape its racial mania. The Democrats are talking about reparations for slave descendants:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-14/one-way-to-make-reparations-work

    This is only going to get worse.
    Plus they've got AOC the wide eyed frog talking utter shite every day and being lauded like some genius. Spoiler- shes thick as mince
  • FenmanFenman Posts: 1,047
    Life is curious isn't it? Throughout the Referendum campaign Leave said we had to restore the power and sovereignty of Parliament.. Now they are doing just that they hate it.
  • CD13CD13 Posts: 6,378
    Mr Woolie,

    No matter how the referendum had been worded we'd be stuck here because most MPs don't like the thought of leaving. There's enough who believe they should be in charge to ensure the electorate's wishes are secondary.

    They are trying to blame others for obvious reasons. I excuse the LDs - they are honest in their dislike of pandering to the voters' wishes. Labour and the SNPs want to look important and not allow Tories to monopolise the centre stage.

    It's childish and a no party comes out looking good. A few realise they look like a bunch of Violet-Elizabeths having a strop, but there's too few to make a difference.

    Here's a thought. Even today, politics, the law, and the media are dominated by the products of private education. Perhaps Crossland should have gone after that instead of the grammar schools?
  • SouthamObserverSouthamObserver Posts: 40,017
    I am just enjoying the idea of SeanT navigating California's sexual, racial and cultural politics. It would make a superb fly on the wall documentary.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 79,235
    Fenman said:

    Life is curious isn't it? Throughout the Referendum campaign Leave said we had to restore the power and sovereignty of Parliament.. Now they are doing just that they hate it.

    Parliament will take back control of a potential second referendum this evening.
  • Richard_TyndallRichard_Tyndall Posts: 33,255
    Fenman said:

    Life is curious isn't it? Throughout the Referendum campaign Leave said we had to restore the power and sovereignty of Parliament.. Now they are doing just that they hate it.

    No, they are choosing to reject those powers and leave them with the EU. That is not what the people voted for.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,487
    Mr. Fenman, can't speak for others, but I wanted the UK to govern itself.

    The divide between the political class and the electorate has only been emphasised by proceedings since. It would be fascinating if we could see the counter-factuals (remaining, and leaving but with a competent PM doing the negotiating).
  • notme2notme2 Posts: 1,006
    Trump has just now on air threatened a trade war with Europe.
  • FenmanFenman Posts: 1,047
    Yeh, Donny, too much democracy is a bitch, ain't it?
  • FF43FF43 Posts: 17,887
    SeanT said:

    What the bleeding fuck are you talking about? Integration is accelerating. What’s more, since Lisbon they don’t need Treaty change to do it. They want an EU army, EU wide migration laws, harmonised taxes, harmonised minimum wages, one EU UNSC seat, they want it all. Moreover, the horrible logic of the eurozone means that they HAVE to go for much closer integration - pooling debt, etc. Because if they don’t the eurozone will fly apart in the next crisis.

    Perhaps you missed Macron’s speech on all this. Understandable I suppose. He is just the president of France.

    https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-european-parliament-election-calls-for-big-eu-changes-in-european-renaissance/

    Sure, he won’t get everything he wants at once. But the direction of travel is obvious. Only a lying cretin, or a British Europhile (i.e. the same thing) would pretend otherwise.
    There has been little actual additional integration in the ten years since Lisbon. And Lisbon was mainly a - very painful - tidying up exercise. The big integration took place in the years from the Delors presidency in 1984 until Maastricht in 1992 covering the Single European Act, Schengen, the Single Market and the single currency
  • dyedwooliedyedwoolie Posts: 7,786
    CD13 said:

    Mr Woolie,

    No matter how the referendum had been worded we'd be stuck here because most MPs don't like the thought of leaving. There's enough who believe they should be in charge to ensure the electorate's wishes are secondary.

    They are trying to blame others for obvious reasons. I excuse the LDs - they are honest in their dislike of pandering to the voters' wishes. Labour and the SNPs want to look important and not allow Tories to monopolise the centre stage.

    It's childish and a no party comes out looking good. A few realise they look like a bunch of Violet-Elizabeths having a strop, but there's too few to make a difference.

    Here's a thought. Even today, politics, the law, and the media are dominated by the products of private education. Perhaps Crossland should have gone after that instead of the grammar schools?

    As a product of the private school system I can say 100% it should be torn down and grammars restored alongside technical colleges and secondary moderns
  • mattmatt Posts: 3,789
    edited March 2019

    'orders from Goldman Sachs' - what a loon.
    Jews run HMG, it appears.
  • dyedwooliedyedwoolie Posts: 7,786
    edited March 2019
    notme2 said:

    Trump has just now on air threatened a trade war with Europe.

    Lol, he loves a good trade war.
  • rpjsrpjs Posts: 3,787
    Sean_F said:

    California is generally badly run. Its schools are on a par with those of Mississippi, it has almost the highest State taxes in the USA, its infrastructure is falling apart, it's overregulated, and over-unionised.

    It's great if you've got enough money to ignore these failings.
    That’s true about all of the US: it’s a great place to live if you have money.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 38,533
    TGOHF said:

    https://dominiccummings.com/

    "The Conservative Party now has almost no intellectual connection to crucial debates about the ecosystem of science, productivity, universities, funding, startups and so on. I know from personal experience that even billionaire entrepreneurs whose donations are vital to the survival of CCHQ cannot get people like Hammond to listen to anything about all this — Hammond’s focus is obeying his orders from Goldman Sachs.

    Downing Street is much more interested in protecting corporate looting by large banks and companies and protecting rent-seekers than they are in productivity and entrepreneurs. "

    I thought Hammond took orders from the Elders of Zion, or are they one and the same?
  • FenmanFenman Posts: 1,047

    No, they are choosing to reject those powers and leave them with the EU. That is not what the people voted for.
    And you have ascertained what 'the people' voted for? How exactly? 40 years of campaigning has taught me nothing of the sort!
  • Lol, he loves a good trade war.
    Comments on BBC News now - he is utterly deranged.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 38,533

    It's funny how things turn out.

    If you'd asked me six months ago, I would have said that reaching agreement with the EU would prove far harder than getting an agreement through Parliament. It turns out that the reverse was true.
  • notme2notme2 Posts: 1,006
    edited March 2019
    tlg86 said:

    Plenty of people have died because of dieselgate.
    Nobody had died because of dieselgate. I’m sure you’ll find some grant seeking body claiming a hundred gazillion people died from air pollution. In most circumstances utter nonsense. What might have happened is that some people might have died a few days earlier than they would have.

    Back to dieselgate. The particulate output between those passing the test and those with fake test would have zero accumulative impact on human health. What might have had an impact was the general policy to move away from petrol vehicles to diesel ones under the idea that diesel emits less carbon.

    That would have had an impact in heavy urban areas and resulted in some people dying a few days earlier than they would have.

    The difference with Boeing is clear. People were killed who would not have been because of a potential corporate failure. If they hadn’t got that plane they would be alive today.
  • dyedwooliedyedwoolie Posts: 7,786

    Comments on BBC News now - he is utterly deranged.
    And yet he'll get the tariffs changed he wants changed and everyone will wibble about how mad he is and the US economy will continue to grow and he'll win in 2020. He's not the man the media or trendy opinion portrays
  • stodgestodge Posts: 14,485
    Afternoon all :)

    Extraordinary to hear Conservative MPs publicly threatening to vote against their own Government in a VoNC. That suggests internal party order has now collapsed and perhaps the first head on the block should be that of Brandon Lewis. I watched some hapless Government spokesman from the Lords wheeled out to be the cannon fodder to Ken Clarke who naturally treated his argument as though it was something into which his shoe had inadvertently gone.

    As for SeanT claiming the end of civilisation has come - maybe but nowhere is perfect. Everywhere has its flaws - all the Tories on here seem to hate California with a healthy passion. I love San Diego and Rancho Mirage but could I live there? No. Mrs Stodge tells me New Zealand is still a decent place - maybe but you won't find Utopia on a map - you might be bale to make a local Utopia for yourself somewhere but that's all.
  • eristdooferistdoof Posts: 5,077
    "Meanwhile business is totally unable to make plans because it does not know what will happen. What has been widely underestimated is the extent that so much of commercial and industrial activity is integrated into Europe already."

    Many many economists have been saying this for 3 years, but too many eople didn't want to listen.
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340

    'orders from Goldman Sachs' - what a loon.
    It is unsettling to know that these are the thoughts of Brexit's Svengali.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,487
    Mr. Stodge, in Lewis' defence, any chairman would struggle with this situation and May's leadership, or lack thereof.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,767
    edited March 2019
    eristdoof said:

    "Meanwhile business is totally unable to make plans because it does not know what will happen. What has been widely underestimated is the extent that so much of commercial and industrial activity is integrated into Europe already."

    Many many economists have been saying this for 3 years, but too many eople didn't want to listen.

    Many many economists? Small children in Hartlepool Primrose Hill.
  • FensterFenster Posts: 2,115
    stodge said:

    Afternoon all :)

    Extraordinary to hear Conservative MPs publicly threatening to vote against their own Government in a VoNC. That suggests internal party order has now collapsed and perhaps the first head on the block should be that of Brandon Lewis. I watched some hapless Government spokesman from the Lords wheeled out to be the cannon fodder to Ken Clarke who naturally treated his argument as though it was something into which his shoe had inadvertently gone.

    As for SeanT claiming the end of civilisation has come - maybe but nowhere is perfect. Everywhere has its flaws - all the Tories on here seem to hate California with a healthy passion. I love San Diego and Rancho Mirage but could I live there? No. Mrs Stodge tells me New Zealand is still a decent place - maybe but you won't find Utopia on a map - you might be bale to make a local Utopia for yourself somewhere but that's all.

    Ystrad Mynach, South Wales Valleys = Utopia

    :)
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,422
    In more pressing matters:

    Motion S5M-16258: John Finnie, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party, Date Lodged: 11/03/2019
    Earl of Forfar
    That the Parliament notes the announcement of the re-creation of the title, Earl of Forfar; understands that the Earldom had been extinct since 1715, and believes that Forfar has suffered no ill-effects as a result of not having an Earl for 304 years.
    Supported by: Mark Ruskell, Bill Kidd, Sandra White, John Mason, Rona Mackay, Ross Greer, Andy Wightman, Patrick Harvie


    https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx?SearchType=Advance&ReferenceNumbers=S5M-16258&ResultsPerPage=10
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    Comments on BBC News now - he is utterly deranged.
    Are we talking Trump, Cummings or Corbyn?
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,767
    edited March 2019
    Fenster said:

    Ystrad Mynach, South Wales Valleys = Utopia

    :)
    stephenpritchard.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/snaffles-hunting-prints-the-finest-view-in-europe.jpg
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 38,533
    stodge said:

    Afternoon all :)

    Extraordinary to hear Conservative MPs publicly threatening to vote against their own Government in a VoNC. That suggests internal party order has now collapsed and perhaps the first head on the block should be that of Brandon Lewis. I watched some hapless Government spokesman from the Lords wheeled out to be the cannon fodder to Ken Clarke who naturally treated his argument as though it was something into which his shoe had inadvertently gone.

    As for SeanT claiming the end of civilisation has come - maybe but nowhere is perfect. Everywhere has its flaws - all the Tories on here seem to hate California with a healthy passion. I love San Diego and Rancho Mirage but could I live there? No. Mrs Stodge tells me New Zealand is still a decent place - maybe but you won't find Utopia on a map - you might be bale to make a local Utopia for yourself somewhere but that's all.

    You can't do much with people who have gone mad.

    Chope was a good council leader, but he's now gone mad.
  • Are we talking Trump, Cummings or Corbyn?
    Well, everybody, frankly.
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