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In The Big Chill two characters have this exchange:-
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8722111/Quiet-streets-Gatwick-ghost-town.html
The attraction of places like Crawley was not just jobs at the airport but really good links into London. If people don't need to commute in daily, why would you live there? Which then has a huge snowball effect on all the jobs that support the fact there is a large numbers of well paid commuters.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1304472674375262208
And that the number of tests we now do far exceed most countries.
I reckon most people still think that we don't do many tests and that deaths are still really high. The fact 10x as many people die of flu at the moment is completely lost.
https://twitter.com/redouad/status/1304468526829309953
Sultanas!
S-U-L-T-A-N-A-S.
Fecking sultanas, the world has gone mad.
There is a serious lack of scrutiny of left wing government responses to the virus, apparently cuddly lefties can't be bad at these things, only baby eating right wingers are evil and let everyone die of it.
I said they were shit for the bases being so thing they might as well as serve their toppings on air.
But they also do a 'Veneziana' which contains
'Pine kernels, red onion, capers, black olives, sultanas, mozzarella and tomato on a Romana base (pictured). Vegan option available'
https://www.pizzaexpress.com/birmingham-bullring/restaurant-menu/restaurant-menu
Thank you for the thread, @Cyclefree and I hope all is well with you and yours.
I don't think this has much to do with Brexit and the facade about parliamentary sovereignty is just that. To me, the proposals don't enhance the power of Parliament but the power of Ministers who are, in theory, accountable to Parliament but in a Commons with an 80-seat majority are only really accountable to the favour of the Prime Minister.
This is typical Johnson behaviour - the centralisation of power within his own office or control. He did it in London when Mayor and those who complain about Sadiq Khan should remember he inherited a centralised power structure from Johnson.
The relationship between Executive and Legislature and the checks and balances therein derive from the degree of accountability of Ministers to Parliament. The summoning of Ministers to answer questions and make statements and attend Select Committees is part of the oversight and scrutiny function of Parliament.
If more power is devolved upward to Ministers, the control moves directly to the office who appoints and dismisses ministers, No.10. This Bill is about centralising more power in No.10 and the Cabinet office who will obviously tell Ministers what to do and when to do it.
It has to be resisted not because of Brexit (part of the facade) but because it creates an over-powerful Executive and weakens the Legislature. I'd like to see Starmer commit to restoring Parliamentary sovereignty were he to become Prime Minister as part of a devolutionary agenda to re-invigorate democracy at all levels.
We are once again in a story that could never be fiction as all sense of plausibility would have been lost chapters ago and the book thrown in the bin.
EU good
To quote Cyclefree "In the end, fewer people than we would like to think have the moral courage to stand up for what they say they believe in.That is why group loyalty tends to win out over individual courage and action. .. It’s why the unscrupulous can get away with outrageous behaviour for longer than they should. It’s why so many people like to quote Burke: “For evil to triumph, all it takes is for good men to do nothing.” But few like to put that into practice."
How many honourable Tory MPs are there?
In a secret cupboard along with your Trump 2020 stickers
In the French media? We only get to see the bits on here where a left wing foreign paper is slagging off our Govt (its usually prefaced with "This is what the whole of France/Germany/Italy think of us", when its the equivalent of The Guardian criticising a Right Winger)
If they do we should repeal the Withdrawal Agreement completely and stop all money payments to them from that. The billions we agreed to pay were to be paid out over years weren't they?
People here know about also rans (barely-rans more like) in the contest to become the opposition party presidential candidate for an election months away, but who is the current French prime minister?
Yeah pull the other one.
To be fair, with a 3% Margin of Error it's a dead heat so all to play for.
A state not likely to be a dead heat is Indiana which since 1960 has only voted Democrat in 1964 and 2008. The latest poll has Trump ahead 53-39 which is very similar to the April poll and compares with a 19 point Trump lead last time. A smaller swing to Biden than in some Republican strongholds but I'm sure Indiana is so far down the Democrat target list it is subterranean.
Discuss.
Anyhow the way things are going we won’t be able to source exotic ingredients like pineapple or sultanas in 2021. It’ll be apples and pears.
That kind of "honourable"?
It'll need something remarkable to change this - presumably Macron will run again and if/when it comes to a run off with Marine Le Pen, he will win comfortably.The French centre-right didn't do badly in the recent local elections (nor did the Greens oddly enough) but are making no impression in the Presidential contest.
I'm bloody furious we don't get 25 minutes a day on Ecuador.
I suppose not everyone is as much of a Francophile as I am.
Three of his ODI hundreds have come up off fewer deliveries.
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1304480336013922309
Perhaps we should just assume he’s a fuckwit with a mental illness, and leave it at that?