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  • rpjsrpjs Posts: 3,787
    Chris said:

    Sorry, we're talking about whether "Eve" is the same name as "Hawa" or "Hawwa." It isn't the same name. It's cognate.
    No, we were talking about whether or not the protestor was muslim. You seem to think that she was a christian because she used the English form of the name of the first woman in the Abrahamic mythos.
  • FF43FF43 Posts: 17,884
    I'm feeling nostalgic for the May government. I'll settle for mediocre and dire
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,548
    edited July 2019
    Chris said:

    Strangely I looked at precisely that page before I posted. It appears to say that abuse can be a "hate incident," but doesn't list it as a "hate crime."

    Edit: It says the Public Order Act outlaws "causing harassment, alarm or distress."
    What was done would constitute harassment.
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,918
    rpjs said:

    No, we were talking about whether or not the protestor was muslim. You seem to think that she was a christian because she used the English form of the name of the first woman in the Abrahamic mythos.
    Not just because she used the English form of the name, but also because she used a slogan coined by the American evangelical movement.

    The Slackbladder observed that Adam existed in Muslim tradition too, and I pointed out that Eve didn't.
  • surbiton19surbiton19 Posts: 1,469

    Well it is not just people on the Left that don't want to fall for the cozy "Boris" bollox. I prefer BoZo as this is not joyless and sums the silly fat oaf. He is a joke, and history will treat him as such.
    For me it is Johnson or BJ.
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    FF43 said:

    I'm feeling nostalgic for the May government. I'll settle for mediocre and dire

    I'd say that a change is as good as a rest, but "mediocre and dire" sums up the latest government nicely.
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,918
    ydoethur said:

    What was done would constitute harassment.
    Obviously that would be for a court to decide. The point is that abuse isn't illegal. Causing harassment, alarm or distress is illegal.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,548
    Chris said:

    Obviously that would be for a court to decide. The point is that abuse isn't illegal. Causing harassment, alarm or distress is illegal.
    No, abuse is a form of harassment. So I'm not quite sure why you are dodging round this point.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 54,553
    viewcode said:

    Youm ean given your failure to renegotiate with the EU and failure to achieve any of the goals Leave set itself post-referendum, we should now blame the EU. "Failing" and "blaming". Hmm. if only somebody had invented a handy three-word phrase for such an approach... :)
    If we had been at this juncture three years ago, you would have had a point.

    Three wasted years. Those the words you were thinking of?
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 20,176
    kinabalu said:

    I agree with it in all my moments. This is all for show. We will NOT be leaving the European Union on 31 Oct without a Deal. That is a 'not happening' event. I'd bet the farm on it. If I had a farm, I really would. So long as my winnings were paid in hard currency, that is, and not by way of another farm.
    So what's going to happen then?
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 65,029
    FF43 said:

    I'm feeling nostalgic for the May government. I'll settle for mediocre and dire

    It's gone from 'nothing has changed' to 'everything has changed'
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 20,176

    Odds on what may I ask
    Love Island
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 54,553

    It is entirely upto Corbyn. Do not hold your breath
    Jeremy Corbyn wants Brexit. Preferably a chaotic one the Tories own. Why should he VONC to stop a No Deal Brexit?
  • ReggieCideReggieCide Posts: 4,312

    Boris Johnson is not the self-constructed cuddly funster 'Boris' therefore I would prefer to refer to him by his genuine name. Similarly Jeremy Corbyn is devoid of any cuddly funster characteristics so I would prefer to refer to him by a name which is in no way reverential. Corbyn fits the bill.
    I think there are other names which fit the bill better, lots of them.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    New Electoral Calculus forecast based on recent polls:

    Con 311
    Lab 224
    LD 43
    Green 1
    SNP 50
    PC 3

    https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,918
    ydoethur said:

    No, abuse is a form of harassment. So I'm not quite sure why you are dodging round this point.
    I'm not "dodging around" it. I'm asking a question about it.

    As I said, the website you linked to classified "abuse" as an incident and "harassment" as a crime, which obviously suggests abuse isn't a form of harassment! But maybe that's wrong.

    Do you have a better authority for saying abuse is harassment?
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,400
    Fenster said:

    !!

    Do you agree with some of the black swan economists on Twitter who suggest another banking crisis - particularly in Spain and Italy - is looming? And possibly a danger to the Euro?
    The Spanish have sorted out their banking sector. They've massively reduced the number of banks, and recapitalised those that remain. There's also been a big wave of deleveraging, and the Spanish economy is no longer dependent on borrowing money to spend on imports. (Indeed, staggeringly, Spain is heading for its sixth annual current account surplus.)

    Italy has not sorted out its banking sector. Simply, local savings banks were too politically powerful, and lending to prominent local businessmen was too important. The result is that the Italian banking system is in worse state now than in 2010. The numbers involved are not as overwhelming as they were for Ireland and Spain in the Eurozone crisis - but they are very significant considering the Italian government is not without its own problems.

    The other problem Italy has is that if Salvini rocks the boat too much, then wealthy Italians will pull the last of their Euros out of local banks, raising their funding costs and screwing the local economy. (Why risk your assets become Lira 2000, when they could be German Euros?) We see this in Target-2 numbers alreadys.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 65,029
    edited July 2019
    Tonights 6.00pm ITV Wales news headline

    'A poll has shown Boris is booming in Wales'

    Support for labour is the lowest ever recorded in a Welsh poll
  • rpjsrpjs Posts: 3,787
    sarissa said:

    It seems that reciprocal agreements make it legally binding:

    The policy on the up-rating of UK State Pensions paid to recipients living outside the UK is clear and is a long-standing one of successive Governments since WW2. The annual index-linked increases are paid to UK State Pension recipients where there is a legal requirement to do so. For example, where UK State Pension recipients are living within the European Economic Area, Switzerland and Gibraltar or in countries where there is a reciprocal agreement in place that provides for the uprating of the UK State Pension. The Government has no plans to change this policy.
    (HoC answer 10/4/19)

    Extending uprating unilaterally could give UK pensioners in countries where it does not apply (e.g. Australia) reason to appeal for similar treatment - and this could cost an extra £600 million and rising each year.
    Luckily we Brits in the US are covered by a reciprocal agreement and get annual uprating.
  • DadgeDadge Posts: 2,052
    Chris said:

    Don't worry about it.
    What am I worried about?
  • StuartDicksonStuartDickson Posts: 12,146
    edited July 2019
    Next GE - Number of Brexit Party seats?

    none 6/4
    1-50 6/4
    51-100 8/1
    over 100 4/1

    (Shadsy)
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 65,029

    Love Island
    I have never watched any celebrity shows and have no idea who is in them
  • rpjsrpjs Posts: 3,787
    Chris said:

    Not just because she used the English form of the name, but also because she used a slogan coined by the American evangelical movement.

    The Slackbladder observed that Adam existed in Muslim tradition too, and I pointed out that Eve didn't.
    Except that she does, albeit not named as such in the Koran (which does refer to a female companion to Adam). Or by your argument, "Eve" only exists in English-language Christian traditions, and any other language where the first woman in the Abrahamic tradition happens to be named "Eve".
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,548
    Chris said:

    I'm not "dodging around" it. I'm asking a question about it.

    As I said, the website you linked to classified "abuse" as an incident and "harassment" as a crime, which obviously suggests abuse isn't a form of harassment! But maybe that's wrong.

    Do you have a better authority for saying abuse is harassment?
    Will the CPS do? They bracket them together:

    https://www.cps.gov.uk/verbal-abuse-and-harassment-public
  • AndyJS said:

    New Electoral Calculus forecast based on recent polls:

    Con 311
    Lab 224
    LD 43
    Green 1
    SNP 50
    PC 3

    https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html

    That would be hideous as neither Con+DUP nor Lab+LD+SNP could reach a majority.

  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,918
    Chris said:

    I'm not "dodging around" it. I'm asking a question about it.

    As I said, the website you linked to classified "abuse" as an incident and "harassment" as a crime, which obviously suggests abuse isn't a form of harassment! But maybe that's wrong.

    Do you have a better authority for saying abuse is harassment?
    OK Probably this does it:
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/jun/16/verbal-abuse-law

    Using threatening, abusive or insulting language is an offence if it is is done within the hearing of someone likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress. Or with the intention of causing it. Or with the intention of making someone think violence is going to be used against them or of provoking a violent response.
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,918
    rpjs said:

    Except that she does, albeit not named as such in the Koran (which does refer to a female companion to Adam). Or by your argument, "Eve" only exists in English-language Christian traditions, and any other language where the first woman in the Abrahamic tradition happens to be named "Eve".
    I'm talking about the name "Eve," not the person. Sorry if you didn't get that from the previous discussion. Do let me know if you want to go through it a few more times.
  • StuartDicksonStuartDickson Posts: 12,146
    AndyJS said:

    New Electoral Calculus forecast based on recent polls:

    Con 311
    Lab 224
    LD 43
    Green 1
    SNP 50
    PC 3

    https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html

    Baxter’s new Scottish prediction:

    SNP 50 seats (+15)
    Lib Dems 5 seats (+1)
    Con 3 seats (-10)
    Lab 1 seat (-6)

    https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/area_scot.html
  • sladeslade Posts: 2,162

    We had members of our Scots family on that cruise

    My wife and I did that cruise some years ago. Tallinn is delightful and it was our second visit to St Petersburg but it is an extraordinary city to explore at anytime
    I had three Scots on my table. One was a former senior civil servant. His views on Boris were unrepeatable.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 65,029
    slade said:

    I had three Scots on my table. One was a former senior civil servant. His views on Boris were unrepeatable.
    That does not surprise me
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395

    That would be hideous as neither Con+DUP nor Lab+LD+SNP could reach a majority.

    The Tories + DUP would be one short of a majority, (assuming Sinn Fein continue not to take their seats). But I assume Lady Sylvia Hermon wouldn't vote in favour of putting Corbyn in Downing Street.
  • StuartDicksonStuartDickson Posts: 12,146
    slade said:

    I had three Scots on my table. One was a former senior civil servant. His views on Boris were unrepeatable.
    My mother, sister and niece did that cruise in May. I managed to join them for a day in Copenhagen. They loved it. Hears a lot of positive things about all the destinations, especially Riga and Tallinn.
  • JackWJackW Posts: 14,787

    I have never watched any celebrity shows and have no idea who is in them
    Au contraire "Slim" .... remember politics is showbiz for ugly people .... :sunglasses:
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 54,553
    Let's hear it for Ethiopia. 350 million trees planted in a day. Respect, guys.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-49151523
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 65,029
    JackW said:

    Au contraire "Slim" .... remember politics is showbiz for ugly people .... :sunglasses:
    Thanks for the 'slim' bit Jack but a way to go to be truely slim
  • YorkcityYorkcity Posts: 4,382

    Tonights 6.00pm ITV Wales news headline

    'A poll has shown Boris is booming in Wales'

    Support for labour is the lowest ever recorded in a Welsh poll

    I prefer the Scottish reaction on the BBC news at 6pm.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 65,029
    Yorkcity said:

    I prefer the Scottish reaction on the BBC news at 6pm.
    I am sure you do but labour has already lost Scotland and looks like we have a chance of seeing them off in Wales and I do not mind which party or coalition of parties does it

    They have been in power far too long and their leader is a pale imitation of Corbyn, who labour should hold responsible for not coming out for remain from day 1 and avoiding the present chaos
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,548
    THIS THREAD IS OVER, IT IS POLLING LIKE WELSH LABOUR
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 44,101
    ydoethur said:

    Inquiry closed into MP filmed grabbing Greenpeace activist

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49154816

    So Mark Field faces no criminal or parliamentary action.

    Just the Conservative party internal disciplinary still running.

    one law for them and one for the plebs
  • FlannerFlanner Posts: 437
    JackW said:

    Au contraire "Slim" .... remember politics is showbiz for ugly people .... :sunglasses:
    Wrong way round

    Showbiz is politics for the empty-headed
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