So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
Utterly deluded. These people are off their heads with this nonsense. They just can't accept a modern, interconnected world.
Do we need a vast bureaucracy and power exercised so remotely in a modern, interconnect world? The idea is so 20th century as to seem quaint.
Surrey County Council employs more people than the EU
It's amazing how the most ardent europhiles don't understand the essential way the EU works. The EU is like the British Raj, it rules a vast space with relatively few people, because it allows the locals to rule themselves - as long as they apply imperial law.
i.e. EU law is enforced by British courts, and British police, and British politicians, in Britain, on British people. In that sense the entire British state is employed by the EU, because EU law is supreme in Britain.
I see you're struggling with that Remainer thing, again.
The point at odds was the OP's description of "vast bureaucracy". Which it isn't; we are agreed on that much.
While Corbyn is unlikely to lose his seat, the broader truth is that the LD revival is going to hit Labour hardest in London. If not in Islington North, there could be some really big majorities overturned elsewhere. It's why the LDs are also right to put their efforts into Uxbridge. The anger at both traditional main parties in this city is palpable.
More specifically, remainer London - so as well as the SW that the LibDems already hold, the places to watch are Camden, Islington, Haringey, Ealing, Merton, Southwark and Lambeth in particular. I'd also expect an uptick in the West London Boroughs although the LDs have very little presence on the ground in Westminster-Kensington-Hammersmith (or Wandsworth, unless Justine joins).
I will be surprised if there are any LibDem gains in London at Labour's expense.The 'Tories Little Helpers' message will be deployed effectively when needed.
We'll have to see whether Labour being the Tories' little no deal Brexit helpers is a strong enough message, for sure.
Utterly deluded. These people are off their heads with this nonsense. They just can't accept a modern, interconnected world.
Do we need a vast bureaucracy and power exercised so remotely in a modern, interconnect world? The idea is so 20th century as to seem quaint.
Surrey County Council employs more people than the EU
It's amazing how the most ardent europhiles don't understand the essential way the EU works. The EU is like the British Raj, it rules a vast space with relatively few people, because it allows the locals to rule themselves - as long as they apply imperial law.
i.e. EU law is enforced by British courts, and British police, and British politicians, in Britain, on British people. In that sense the entire British state is employed by the EU, because EU law is supreme in Britain.
I see you're struggling with that Remainer thing, again.
The point at odds was the OP's description of "vast bureaucracy". Which it isn't; we are agreed on that much.
No, we are not agreed. The EU does have a vast bureaucracy - the civil service and judicial system in each member state, which have to apply the supreme law of the EU.
The best analogy is again with the British Raj.
Britain ran 300m Indians with a paltry 20,000 British soldiers and officials (a startling fact which obsessed Stalin, btw). The UK did this by creating a huge civil service OF INDIANS who diligently enforced the supreme law of the British Empire.
F1: It'll take me a little while to put the blog up but Vettel at 9 each way (third the odds top 3) to 'win' qualifying looks good. He's been very close Friday and Saturday.
Nonsense, Labour's manifesto however will include a commitment to burning Jews.
And who will Boris burn? The Blacks, the Muslims, the Welsh? Though while we're on the subject, aren't the constant references here to the convicts a bit past their time?
Nonsense, Labour's manifesto however will include a commitment to burning Jews.
And who will Boris burn? The Blacks, the Muslims, the Welsh? Though while we're on the subject, aren't the constant references here to the convicts a bit past their time?
You're implying a level of discrimination I don't recognise in Boris Johnson.
Still no mention of what Boris's better deal will look like. But on the subject of B&R, must all the papers parrot the Tory excuse that their candidate was a convicted expenses cheat? They knew that when they picked him!
Nonsense, Labour's manifesto however will include a commitment to burning Jews.
And who will Boris burn? The Blacks, the Muslims, the Welsh? Though while we're on the subject, aren't the constant references here to the convicts a bit past their time?
Well a 1/3 of the team are (at least those are the ones that got caught).
Nonsense, Labour's manifesto however will include a commitment to burning Jews.
And who will Boris burn? The Blacks, the Muslims, the Welsh? Though while we're on the subject, aren't the constant references here to the convicts a bit past their time?
You're implying a level of discrimination I don't recognise in Boris Johnson.
He'll just burn them all.
I can see the Tory manifesto now - 'The Final Solution'.
Nonsense, Labour's manifesto however will include a commitment to burning Jews.
And who will Boris burn? The Blacks, the Muslims, the Welsh? Though while we're on the subject, aren't the constant references here to the convicts a bit past their time?
Well a 1/3 of the team are (at least those are the ones that got caught).
It's a quarter, and it's a bit harsh to call them convicts. Cheating at cricket isn't technically a crime.
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
Nonsense, Labour's manifesto however will include a commitment to burning Jews.
And who will Boris burn? The Blacks, the Muslims, the Welsh? Though while we're on the subject, aren't the constant references here to the convicts a bit past their time?
Well a 1/3 of the team are (at least those are the ones that got caught).
Sandpaper aside, the convicts thing isn't an insult.
I know Australia well. Families that can trace a direct convict descent wear it with pride - if they care at all.
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
I am imagining Boris as Henry VIII.
He's got a way to go for that, hasn't he? He's had the two girlfriends but needs at least four more wives.
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
Nonsense, Labour's manifesto however will include a commitment to burning Jews.
And who will Boris burn? The Blacks, the Muslims, the Welsh? Though while we're on the subject, aren't the constant references here to the convicts a bit past their time?
It's nothing to the grievous insult of prefacing 'Englanders' with 'little'.
Utterly deluded. These people are off their heads with this nonsense. They just can't accept a modern, interconnected world.
Do we need a vast bureaucracy and power exercised so remotely in a modern, interconnect world? The idea is so 20th century as to seem quaint.
Surrey County Council employs more people than the EU
Surrey county council employs 23,000 people. The EU employs 55,000 people. Basic innacuracy excepted though, your point is well made (though it possibly says more about Surrey County Council than the EU). But county councils at least have to empty the bins and the like. In an age where even modern hotels have one person who acts as receptionist, bar person etc., I see the political and legal structures of the EU sitting atop our national ones to be deeply wasteful and anachronistic.
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
I am imagining Boris as Henry VIII.
He's got a way to go for that, hasn't he? He's had the two girlfriends but needs at least four more wives.
How many women has Boris gotten pregnant? (No need to be precise, approximate numbers are fine.)
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
Keeping the Aussies out past lunch is a good thing for morale. Broad used to be a very useful bat. Let’s hope he can whack them round for another 20-30 post lunch. Cant see why they would drop him for next test.
Utterly deluded. These people are off their heads with this nonsense. They just can't accept a modern, interconnected world.
Do we need a vast bureaucracy and power exercised so remotely in a modern, interconnect world? The idea is so 20th century as to seem quaint.
Surrey County Council employs more people than the EU
Surrey county council employs 23,000 people. The EU employs 55,000 people. Basic innacuracy excepted though, your point is well made (though it possibly says more about Surrey County Council than the EU). But county councils at least have to empty the bins and the like. In an age where even modern hotels have one person who acts as receptionist, bar person etc., I see the political and legal structures of the EU sitting atop our national ones to be deeply wasteful and anachronistic.
Utterly deluded. These people are off their heads with this nonsense. They just can't accept a modern, interconnected world.
Do we need a vast bureaucracy and power exercised so remotely in a modern, interconnect world? The idea is so 20th century as to seem quaint.
Surrey County Council employs more people than the EU
Surrey county council employs 23,000 people. The EU employs 55,000 people. Basic innacuracy excepted though, your point is well made (though it possibly says more about Surrey County Council than the EU). But county councils at least have to empty the bins and the like. In an age where even modern hotels have one person who acts as receptionist, bar person etc., I see the political and legal structures of the EU sitting atop our national ones to be deeply wasteful and anachronistic.
Utterly deluded. These people are off their heads with this nonsense. They just can't accept a modern, interconnected world.
Do we need a vast bureaucracy and power exercised so remotely in a modern, interconnect world? The idea is so 20th century as to seem quaint.
Surrey County Council employs more people than the EU
Surrey county council employs 23,000 people. The EU employs 55,000 people. Basic innacuracy excepted though, your point is well made (though it possibly says more about Surrey County Council than the EU). But county councils at least have to empty the bins and the like. In an age where even modern hotels have one person who acts as receptionist, bar person etc., I see the political and legal structures of the EU sitting atop our national ones to be deeply wasteful and anachronistic.
Utterly deluded. These people are off their heads with this nonsense. They just can't accept a modern, interconnected world.
Do we need a vast bureaucracy and power exercised so remotely in a modern, interconnect world? The idea is so 20th century as to seem quaint.
Surrey County Council employs more people than the EU
Surrey county council employs 23,000 people. The EU employs 55,000 people. Basic innacuracy excepted though, your point is well made (though it possibly says more about Surrey County Council than the EU). But county councils at least have to empty the bins and the like. In an age where even modern hotels have one person who acts as receptionist, bar person etc., I see the political and legal structures of the EU sitting atop our national ones to be deeply wasteful and anachronistic.
District Councils empty bins, not Counties.
Don't they all subcontract it anyway? How many councils still employ binmen directly?
Utterly deluded. These people are off their heads with this nonsense. They just can't accept a modern, interconnected world.
Do we need a vast bureaucracy and power exercised so remotely in a modern, interconnect world? The idea is so 20th century as to seem quaint.
Surrey County Council employs more people than the EU
Surrey county council employs 23,000 people. The EU employs 55,000 people. Basic innacuracy excepted though, your point is well made (though it possibly says more about Surrey County Council than the EU). But county councils at least have to empty the bins and the like. In an age where even modern hotels have one person who acts as receptionist, bar person etc., I see the political and legal structures of the EU sitting atop our national ones to be deeply wasteful and anachronistic.
District Councils empty bins, not Counties.
Don't they all subcontract it anyway? How many councils still employ binmen directly?
Utterly deluded. These people are off their heads with this nonsense. They just can't accept a modern, interconnected world.
Do we need a vast bureaucracy and power exercised so remotely in a modern, interconnect world? The idea is so 20th century as to seem quaint.
Surrey County Council employs more people than the EU
Surrey county council employs 23,000 people. The EU employs 55,000 people. Basic innacuracy excepted though, your point is well made (though it possibly says more about Surrey County Council than the EU). But county councils at least have to empty the bins and the like. In an age where even modern hotels have one person who acts as receptionist, bar person etc., I see the political and legal structures of the EU sitting atop our national ones to be deeply wasteful and anachronistic.
District Councils empty bins, not Counties.
Don't they all subcontract it anyway? How many councils still employ binmen directly?
Utterly deluded. These people are off their heads with this nonsense. They just can't accept a modern, interconnected world.
Do we need a vast bureaucracy and power exercised so remotely in a modern, interconnect world? The idea is so 20th century as to seem quaint.
Surrey County Council employs more people than the EU
Surrey county council employs 23,000 people. The EU employs 55,000 people. Basic innacuracy excepted though, your point is well made (though it possibly says more about Surrey County Council than the EU). But county councils at least have to empty the bins and the like. In an age where even modern hotels have one person who acts as receptionist, bar person etc., I see the political and legal structures of the EU sitting atop our national ones to be deeply wasteful and anachronistic.
But there must be some pretty significant economies of scale from doing things once in Brussels rather than 28 times around the continent.
Utterly deluded. These people are off their heads with this nonsense. They just can't accept a modern, interconnected world.
Do we need a vast bureaucracy and power exercised so remotely in a modern, interconnect world? The idea is so 20th century as to seem quaint.
Surrey County Council employs more people than the EU
Surrey county council employs 23,000 people. The EU employs 55,000 people. Basic innacuracy excepted though, your point is well made (though it possibly says more about Surrey County Council than the EU). But county councils at least have to empty the bins and the like. In an age where even modern hotels have one person who acts as receptionist, bar person etc., I see the political and legal structures of the EU sitting atop our national ones to be deeply wasteful and anachronistic.
District Councils empty bins, not Counties.
Don't they all subcontract it anyway? How many councils still employ binmen directly?
Utterly deluded. These people are off their heads with this nonsense. They just can't accept a modern, interconnected world.
Do we need a vast bureaucracy and power exercised so remotely in a modern, interconnect world? The idea is so 20th century as to seem quaint.
Surrey County Council employs more people than the EU
Surrey county council employs 23,000 people. The EU employs 55,000 people. Basic innacuracy excepted though, your point is well made (though it possibly says more about Surrey County Council than the EU). But county councils at least have to empty the bins and the like. In an age where even modern hotels have one person who acts as receptionist, bar person etc., I see the political and legal structures of the EU sitting atop our national ones to be deeply wasteful and anachronistic.
District Councils empty bins, not Counties.
Don't they all subcontract it anyway? How many councils still employ binmen directly?
All authorities in the northeast are in-house.
There you go. Shows what I know.
Although, uniquely, the northeast has no two-tier authorities. Not sure if that has any bearing on anything, mind.
I want to support the Lib Dems, I *do* support the Lib Dems, but they need to get their shit together. There is no time to lose.
They need to be hammering just two messages:
1. Labour is enabling a No Deal Brexit
2. Lib Dem’s single minded policy is to enable a government of national unity which will call a referendum on an impartial, fully and fairly explained “Remain” and “Brexit”.
Oh and they need to junk the university fees, or find some other formula that means we are not saddling an entire generation with debts of up to £100k upon graduation. It’s their Clause 4.
This may prove to be the most significant Lib Dem news for a while, aside from the obvious:
“A political strategist who worked for Bill Clinton and Tony Blair has switched sides to help the Liberal Democrats prepare for the next election. Stan Greenberg said he was a Labour supporter “in my bones”, but accused Jeremy Corbyn of “dithering” over Brexit. The veteran pollster, 74, last week met a group of senior Liberal Democrats in London. The pro-Remain party is keen to capitalise on its success in the European elections.
Nonsense, Labour's manifesto however will include a commitment to burning Jews.
And who will Boris burn? The Blacks, the Muslims, the Welsh? Though while we're on the subject, aren't the constant references here to the convicts a bit past their time?
You're implying a level of discrimination I don't recognise in Boris Johnson.
He'll just burn them all.
I can see the Tory manifesto now - 'The Final Solution'.
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
Quite soon after Liam Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Aren't we looking at King Charles III before too long? Must mean something, although I gather he's given up the mistress habit. Unless of course, you're Jack W when he'll be Charles IV!
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
Quite soon after Liam Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Aren't we looking at King Charles III before too long? Must mean something, although I gather he's given up the mistress habit. Unless of course, your Jack W when he'll be Charles IV!
Apparently he wants to do what his grandfather did - call himself George VII to avoid any embarrassing parallels.
Edit - if he wanted to make a pointed comment about his late wife he would of course be better off using his third name.
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
Then civil wars, revolution, interegnum, restoration and invitation of the Dutch and Germans to take over running the country...
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
Quite soon after Liam Fox's Book of Martyrs.
And we still have a civil war to look forward to. Although you could argue this time we had that first...
OT. League One is a shambles this season. Bolton deducted 12 points, with another deduction for failing to play a match to come. 3 senior outfield players for today. Bury's first 2 games cancelled, and 12 deducted too. Serious doubts if they will start the season. And Coventry homeless and playing at Birmingham City. Good job it is 4 down and not 3.
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
Quite soon after Liam Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Aren't we looking at King Charles III before too long? Must mean something, although I gather he's given up the mistress habit. Unless of course, your Jack W when he'll be Charles IV!
Apparently he wants to do what his grandfather did - call himself George VII to avoid any embarrassing parallels.
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
Quite soon after Liam Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Aren't we looking at King Charles III before too long? Must mean something, although I gather he's given up the mistress habit. Unless of course, your Jack W when he'll be Charles IV!
Apparently he wants to do what his grandfather did - call himself George VII to avoid any embarrassing parallels.
His grandfather was Bert, wasn't he?
Albert Frederick Arthur George. Bertie to friends and family, took the regnal name George.
OT. League One is a shambles this season. Bolton deducted 12 points, with another deduction for failing to play a match to come. 3 senior outfield players for today. Bury's first 2 games cancelled, and 12 deducted too. Serious doubts if they will start the season. And Coventry homeless and playing at Birmingham City. Good job it is 4 down and not 3.
OT. League One is a shambles this season. Bolton deducted 12 points, with another deduction for failing to play a match to come. 3 senior outfield players for today. Bury's first 2 games cancelled, and 12 deducted too. Serious doubts if they will start the season. And Coventry homeless and playing at Birmingham City. Good job it is 4 down and not 3.
The efl really needs to sort out the fit and proper persons rules. It is a disgrace.
In current circumstance the regnal name Philip might be appropriate. Was Mary I's husband ever crowned in England?
They were declared joint monarchs (of England, France, Ireland, Naples, Spain and Jerusalem to be exact) and coins were struck in their names. I own one of them.
Whether he was ever formally crowned as King of England and Ireland I don't know.
He certainly made no attempt to carry on as King in his own right after Mary's death, which would perhaps indicate not.
In current circumstance the regnal name Philip might be appropriate. Was Mary I's husband ever crowned in England?
They were declared joint monarchs (of England, France, Ireland, Naples, Spain and Jerusalem to be exact) and coins were struck in their names. I own one of them.
Whether he was ever formally crowned as King of England and Ireland I don't know.
He certainly made no attempt to carry on as King in his own right after Mary's death, which would perhaps indicate not.
My old college, Trinity Oxford, was founded in 1555 and has the conjoined arms of Mary & Philip over the fireplace in hall. It’s a pretty Anglo-Catholic foundation historically - see Rees-Mogg, Jacob.
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
Quite soon after Liam Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Aren't we looking at King Charles III before too long? Must mean something, although I gather he's given up the mistress habit. Unless of course, your Jack W when he'll be Charles IV!
Apparently he wants to do what his grandfather did - call himself George VII to avoid any embarrassing parallels.
His grandfather was Bert, wasn't he?
Albert Frederick Arthur George. Bertie to friends and family, took the regnal name George.
Charles is Charles Phillip Arthur George.
He could do worse than Charles II though. He had a reasonably good record in reconciling a deeply divided Kingdom.
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
Quite soon after Liam Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Aren't we looking at King Charles III before too long? Must mean something, although I gather he's given up the mistress habit. Unless of course, your Jack W when he'll be Charles IV!
Apparently he wants to do what his grandfather did - call himself George VII to avoid any embarrassing parallels.
His grandfather was Bert, wasn't he?
Albert Frederick Arthur George. Bertie to friends and family, took the regnal name George.
Charles is Charles Phillip Arthur George.
He could do worse than Charles II though. He had a reasonably good record in reconciling a deeply divided Kingdom.
David Starkey wrote a piece in the Telegraph, comparing Boris, in character, to the Merry Monarch. Quite astute, I reckon.
Utterly deluded. These people are off their heads with this nonsense. They just can't accept a modern, interconnected world.
Do we need a vast bureaucracy and power exercised so remotely in a modern, interconnect world? The idea is so 20th century as to seem quaint.
Surrey County Council employs more people than the EU
Surrey county council employs 23,000 people. The EU employs 55,000 people. Basic innacuracy excepted though, your point is well made (though it possibly says more about Surrey County Council than the EU). But county councils at least have to empty the bins and the like. In an age where even modern hotels have one person who acts as receptionist, bar person etc., I see the political and legal structures of the EU sitting atop our national ones to be deeply wasteful and anachronistic.
I expect that - notwithstanding 60% fewer staff - the EU still has a higher total salary bill :-).
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
Quite soon after Liam Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Aren't we looking at King Charles III before too long? Must mean something, although I gather he's given up the mistress habit. Unless of course, your Jack W when he'll be Charles IV!
Apparently he wants to do what his grandfather did - call himself George VII to avoid any embarrassing parallels.
His grandfather was Bert, wasn't he?
Albert Frederick Arthur George. Bertie to friends and family, took the regnal name George.
Charles is Charles Phillip Arthur George.
He could do worse than Charles II though. He had a reasonably good record in reconciling a deeply divided Kingdom.
And shagging everything with a vagina.
And, of course, the last king to prorogue Parliament and rule directly, although people often forget that.
And leaving a major succession crisis that erupted into civil war in two years and revolution followed by war in Ireland in three.
Apart from that, he was a dazzling success.
(Fun fact - if he becomes King, William will be the first descendant of Charles II to be King.)
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
Quite soon after Liam Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Aren't we looking at King Charles III before too long? Must mean something, although I gather he's given up the mistress habit. Unless of course, your Jack W when he'll be Charles IV!
Apparently he wants to do what his grandfather did - call himself George VII to avoid any embarrassing parallels.
His grandfather was Bert, wasn't he?
Albert Frederick Arthur George. Bertie to friends and family, took the regnal name George.
Charles is Charles Phillip Arthur George.
He could do worse than Charles II though. He had a reasonably good record in reconciling a deeply divided Kingdom.
The regicides were nearly all chased down and executed though. Some, like Cromwell, after they'd died!
I want to support the Lib Dems, I *do* support the Lib Dems, but they need to get their shit together. There is no time to lose.
They need to be hammering just two messages:
1. Labour is enabling a No Deal Brexit
2. Lib Dem’s single minded policy is to enable a government of national unity which will call a referendum on an impartial, fully and fairly explained “Remain” and “Brexit”.
Oh and they need to junk the university fees, or find some other formula that means we are not saddling an entire generation with debts of up to £100k upon graduation. It’s their Clause 4.
If youre looking for clarity you're looking in the wrong place (except on Brexit). Work with Labour? Well, maybe. But not a coalition. Well, not with Corbyn. Work with the Tories? Well, not over Brexit. With Boris? Well, it hasn't come up. Austerity? Was a good thing, but maybe too much. Time to stop it anyway. Well, within reason.
I don't dislike the LibDems. Hell, I'm in coalition with them. But if you rely on them to do anything in particular nationally, you're building on sand.
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
Quite soon after Liam Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Aren't we looking at King Charles III before too long? Must mean something, although I gather he's given up the mistress habit. Unless of course, your Jack W when he'll be Charles IV!
Apparently he wants to do what his grandfather did - call himself George VII to avoid any embarrassing parallels.
His grandfather was Bert, wasn't he?
Albert Frederick Arthur George. Bertie to friends and family, took the regnal name George.
Charles is Charles Phillip Arthur George.
He could do worse than Charles II though. He had a reasonably good record in reconciling a deeply divided Kingdom.
The regicides were nearly all chased down and executed though. Some, like Cromwell, after they'd died!
If you are going to be executed, that is probably the best time.
So in rapid succession we’ve survived the Blitz and are looking rapidly forward to the Reformation. Where’s it going to end? The Norman Conquest?
The Reformation is actually a very good analogy for Brexit, in multiple ways.
I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
So when do we get our Marian reaction followed by an Elizabethan compromise?
Quite soon after Liam Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Aren't we looking at King Charles III before too long? Must mean something, although I gather he's given up the mistress habit. Unless of course, your Jack W when he'll be Charles IV!
Apparently he wants to do what his grandfather did - call himself George VII to avoid any embarrassing parallels.
His grandfather was Bert, wasn't he?
Albert Frederick Arthur George. Bertie to friends and family, took the regnal name George.
Charles is Charles Phillip Arthur George.
He could do worse than Charles II though. He had a reasonably good record in reconciling a deeply divided Kingdom.
The regicides were nearly all chased down and executed though. Some, like Cromwell, after they'd died!
If you are going to be executed, that is probably the best time.
That is unarguable logic.
Henry V was the best one. After one of his friends rebelled against him, he gave him a fair trial.
But it was five months after the friend in question had been hanged.
I want to support the Lib Dems, I *do* support the Lib Dems, but they need to get their shit together. There is no time to lose.
They need to be hammering just two messages:
1. Labour is enabling a No Deal Brexit
2. Lib Dem’s single minded policy is to enable a government of national unity which will call a referendum on an impartial, fully and fairly explained “Remain” and “Brexit”.
Oh and they need to junk the university fees, or find some other formula that means we are not saddling an entire generation with debts of up to £100k upon graduation. It’s their Clause 4.
If youre looking for clarity you're looking in the wrong place (except on Brexit). Work with Labour? Well, maybe. But not a coalition. Well, not with Corbyn. Work with the Tories? Well, not over Brexit. With Boris? Well, it hasn't come up. Austerity? Was a good thing, but maybe too much. Time to stop it anyway. Well, within reason.
I don't dislike the LibDems. Hell, I'm in coalition with them. But if you rely on them to do anything in particular nationally, you're building on sand.
But the Lib Dems really will deliver a 2nd referendum, and really will campaign hard for Remain, if they ever get a sniff of power.
For millions of Brits, that is all that matters, all that will matter, for years to come.
Having said that, the glazers are a nightmare so the premier league are no better
At least the team's wages have been paid!
As long as they are creaming off the top they will be but that club is in so much debt it is untrue
That was at the root of Bolton's problems. Massive debt, easily serviceable whilst in the PL...
Man Utd dropped out in the 70’s. Not inconceivable it could happen again. Then something may get done
Dropping out is fine, as long as you get back before the parachute money ends, as Newcastle and West Ham have proved more than once. It is if you don't, and, even worse, fall into the third a la Leeds. Now Bolton. Nowt will get done.
Steve Smith is fairly blatantly the man setting the field for Australia at the moment. He is still banned by Cricket Australia from holding a leadership position for another year.
Steve Smith is fairly blatantly the man setting the field for Australia at the moment. He is still banned by Cricket Australia from holding a leadership position for another year.
If he's going to set them so the number 10 can put in any half century stand, let's not complain.
Steve Smith is fairly blatantly the man setting the field for Australia at the moment. He is still banned by Cricket Australia from holding a leadership position for another year.
Yes. And the camera always switches to him as if he is the captain. It's quite telling. Tsk.
Steve Smith is fairly blatantly the man setting the field for Australia at the moment. He is still banned by Cricket Australia from holding a leadership position for another year.
If he's going to set them so the number 10 can put in any half century stand, let's not complain.
I want to support the Lib Dems, I *do* support the Lib Dems, but they need to get their shit together. There is no time to lose.
They need to be hammering just two messages:
1. Labour is enabling a No Deal Brexit
2. Lib Dem’s single minded policy is to enable a government of national unity which will call a referendum on an impartial, fully and fairly explained “Remain” and “Brexit”.
Oh and they need to junk the university fees, or find some other formula that means we are not saddling an entire generation with debts of up to £100k upon graduation. It’s their Clause 4.
If youre looking for clarity you're looking in the wrong place (except on Brexit). Work with Labour? Well, maybe. But not a coalition. Well, not with Corbyn. Work with the Tories? Well, not over Brexit. With Boris? Well, it hasn't come up. Austerity? Was a good thing, but maybe too much. Time to stop it anyway. Well, within reason.
I don't dislike the LibDems. Hell, I'm in coalition with them. But if you rely on them to do anything in particular nationally, you're building on sand.
I don't think Clegg managed his side of the coalition well. Apart from anything else he assumed that Cameron was an honourable man.
Anyway I'm off. Need some fresh air. It's either our local Second XI cricket team or our local non-league side's pre-season friendly.
Having said that, the glazers are a nightmare so the premier league are no better
At least the team's wages have been paid!
As long as they are creaming off the top they will be but that club is in so much debt it is untrue
That was at the root of Bolton's problems. Massive debt, easily serviceable whilst in the PL...
Man Utd dropped out in the 70’s. Not inconceivable it could happen again. Then something may get done
Dropping out is fine, as long as you get back before the parachute money ends, as Newcastle and West Ham have proved more than once. It is if you don't, and, even worse, fall into the third a la Leeds. Now Bolton. Nowt will get done.
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I envisage a time, quite soon, when rich, recusant Remainer families will have priest holes behind false walls, where they will hide Jolyon Maugham, or Anna Soubry.
Without a significant first innings lead, England will lose badly as the pitch deteriorates.
The point at odds was the OP's description of "vast bureaucracy". Which it isn't; we are agreed on that much.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9645254/james-forsyth-boris-johnson-has-his-head-on-the-blockers/
Actually, if I’m correctly informed, I had a cousin in the Commandos who got back from Dieppe!
The best analogy is again with the British Raj.
Britain ran 300m Indians with a paltry 20,000 British soldiers and officials (a startling fact which obsessed Stalin, btw). The UK did this by creating a huge civil service OF INDIANS who diligently enforced the supreme law of the British Empire.
Betting PostF1: It'll take me a little while to put the blog up but Vettel at 9 each way (third the odds top 3) to 'win' qualifying looks good. He's been very close Friday and Saturday.
He'll just burn them all.
https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1157605352378122240
It's Pakistan field an actual convict.
I know Australia well. Families that can trace a direct convict descent wear it with pride - if they care at all.
http://enormo-haddock.blogspot.com/2019/08/hungary-pre-qualifying-2019.html
70???
Fascinatingly tight. One more ball.
Cant see why they would drop him for next test.
Mick Whitley 224 votes
Tony Norbury 116
Danielle Cornish Spencer 52
Helen Robinson 39
https://www.mickwhitleyforbirkenhead.com
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/blair-and-clinton-strategist-stan-greenberg-switches-to-help-lib-dems-get-elected-gg2qv3jtc
“A political strategist who worked for Bill Clinton and Tony Blair has switched sides to help the Liberal Democrats prepare for the next election. Stan Greenberg said he was a Labour supporter “in my bones”, but accused Jeremy Corbyn of “dithering” over Brexit. The veteran pollster, 74, last week met a group of senior Liberal Democrats in London. The pro-Remain party is keen to capitalise on its success in the European elections.
Unless of course, you're Jack W when he'll be Charles IV!
Edited for poor English.
Edit - if he wanted to make a pointed comment about his late wife he would of course be better off using his third name.
Good job it is 4 down and not 3.
Charles is Charles Phillip Arthur George.
Whether he was ever formally crowned as King of England and Ireland I don't know.
He certainly made no attempt to carry on as King in his own right after Mary's death, which would perhaps indicate not.
I had forgotten what fun a good, close Test match can be.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/07/13/priapic-emotional-desperate-unite-nation-boris-truly-modern/
And, of course, the last king to prorogue Parliament and rule directly, although people often forget that.
And leaving a major succession crisis that erupted into civil war in two years and revolution followed by war in Ireland in three.
Apart from that, he was a dazzling success.
(Fun fact - if he becomes King, William will be the first descendant of Charles II to be King.)
I don't dislike the LibDems. Hell, I'm in coalition with them. But if you rely on them to do anything in particular nationally, you're building on sand.
Henry V was the best one. After one of his friends rebelled against him, he gave him a fair trial.
But it was five months after the friend in question had been hanged.
For millions of Brits, that is all that matters, all that will matter, for years to come.
Steve Smith is fairly blatantly the man setting the field for Australia at the moment. He is still banned by Cricket Australia from holding a leadership position for another year.
Anyway I'm off. Need some fresh air. It's either our local Second XI cricket team or our local non-league side's pre-season friendly.