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A lot cheaper and easier to get a litre of IPA from Amazon than the half strength expensive stuff most towns stock.
The stock solution to your keyboard problem is to stick it in a dishwasher and give it a long rinse cycle. Remove, drain, . If worried about springy things rusting then souse with 100% IPA (isopropyl alcohol not India Pale Ale!) then stick it in your airing cupboard for a couple of weeks before testing
Glad the disassembly worked for you this can be fraught, and not novice friendly..
Turkeys do not vote for Christmas, neither do politicians and Civil Servants willingly give up power.
True there is a Welsh ball shape divide, but I have witnessed the effect on a footie ground when the news comes in that the Welsh rugby team has pulled something off. The ground becomes full of hwyl, and the home team starts lifting its game especially if the opposition is English. Maybe this was the initial effect on Swansea, it lasted long enough to force on Aguero who was otherwise going to be rested.
Just out of interest I tried unsuccessfully to find pictures of the *Urn in Benn’s Millbank Office. During this I refreshed my memory of Benn in those days.
I think it fair to say that the longer Benn was in Government the more left-wing he became (much further left than Corbyn). Although the emergency energy distribution system we were discussing was for the public good, if used in reverse by taking out critical nodes I think the country and armed services would have ground to a complete halt within ten days. It was probably these key nodes that the CS did not want me to discuss, as possibly the CS were unsure of Benn’s loyalties. Nothing is ever what it seems in Whitehall.
*The urn was a carved work of art. It had the detail of something carved in wood but in a jet-like material that must of been brittle as hell. If anyone does find a pic please post a link as it would be fun to see how the reality matches up with my memory.
Graham, if you ever dabble around with our even more broken local ‘democracy’, you will soon find that it is an outrageous level of responsibility in nearly everything, sod all real power and a highly constrained budgetry system. which means sod-all money to do the right things Its real function is to deflect criticism away from Central Government. Divide and rule!
It is about as far away from Federal Democracy as it is possible to get.
No – I think it fair to talk in riddles to an extent as the Civil Servant (CS) told me in confidence about certain Union Relationships with Benn. He was basically warning me to distrust him, and not reveal stuff I had discussed with the CS. Perhaps ‘feet of clay’ was the wrong descriptor, but it came to mind as I was writing the paragraph as a way of describing Benn’s otherwise hidden dealings. Obviously he fleshed all this a little but I won’t as I do not think recollections such as mine are a fair way to remember someone. Equally however he should not be placed on a pedestal or spotlit glass cupboard like his urn.
[edit] the following story may or may not be true, as I cannot get cross-links to my memory.
I was told by another CS in the coal sector that ‘The Urn’ was infamous in the tower accommodation of the DTI. Apparently the urn was presented by miners to Benn as a grateful acknowledgement of his help to the miners. It was installed with great fanfare on a small spotlit table – unfortunately the next morning Benn walked into his office forgot the urn and broke the bloody thing. Apparently once carved coal was broken in those days it was impossible to cobble a repair, so Benn lifted up the phone and ranted down the phone and then insisted the miners carve him a second one! Which was the one I saw safely locked away in a large wall cupboard.
Silly tricks of memory some things come out of the woodwork but I cannot even remember the name of the DTI tower even though I nearly lived in it for a month.
For web-page designers colours that look good together. (apparently)
The apparently remark is made because I personally found some of the combinations vile! e.g. 1178. It reminds me of walking along the Arms Park road the morning after a match like today’s
I dipped in to this thread, and read ‘a PINT a minute’, and I thought yes that is about the going rate for The Angel, or was the last time I witnessed Wales grab the Triple Crown at the old Arms Park ground.?
Oh, I forgot. How many of us here recall … the classic Tony Benn v Roy Jenkins EU debate during the 1975 referendum. or is it that he saw that his father’s (apparent) integrity and convictions …? Corrected
As it happens I once had to go to Benn’s Office to meet him and of course saw the infamous Coal Urn that he literally forced the miners to give him, and showed every visitor. Of course I was not there politically, but this was in the days when Energy was in his remit and I worked closely (not lobbied) with one of his advisors on emergency distribution plans. The Civil Servant who’s name I have now quite forgotten warned me not to be taken in by Benn’s charisma and said he had ‘feet of clay’. He would not expand on the comment, but I subsequently took all Benn’s pronouncements with a pinch of salt.
An older (randy) American mate of mine looked at all the options open to him. These are strangely far fewer if US State/County tax is a consideration, and he decided just to up-sticks and live in Northern Thailand (Chiang Rai). He figured a live-in ‘maid’ plus cook was a lot cheaper than US care. Last I heard he was still going strong and had not run out of Viagra!
If I was seriously in that situation I’d pick Northern India (Simla area) as available medical services are first class, and simple care very cheap. The Japanese choose North Shore/Upper Hutt New Zealand for similar reasons but the economics are no longer attractive to us – thanks Brexit!
Thank you for considering a sub-heading for the mortals who do not walk in the halls of the ERG. As far as positioning – Maybe ahead of the new thoughts you are introducing. That would give us some context we can research or understand.
With respect to your question:
“So where, folks, do you all think the Tories will head as May exits leaving the sepsis that she has so determinedly exacerbated behind her?”
Exactly where Cameron feared it would go, for good or ill.
[edit] Sorry perhaps the suggested Subhead should have been :
‘Legal issues may remove backstop and invalidate May’s WA’
Cynically I do not think that any Western-style democracy (except maybe Eire and Iceland) gives two figs for any perceived breaking of promises made to an electorate, as they commonly do it excusing it by a ‘change in circumstances’.
[edit] btw VFM it would sometimes be helpful to non-ERG followers to get a Context sub-heading, e.g. perhaps for this one: ‘Legal issues may break Backstop’.
I think that would have helped both Dave and I to understand the context for your post. I’m afraid that I found it as something that had ‘come out of left-field’, and my initial reaction was a puzzled ‘wtf are Hard Brexiteers playing at now’?
When I first started using my PC for SOHO type applications, I used a Daisy Wheel printer, and a box full of different fonts. It produced beautiful printed output. By the mid nineties its Centronics interface was starting to cause compatibility problems and I had to switch to ink-jet. For many years I used to bemoan the loss of the old printer, but I’d have to say from the mid noughties home laser printers could out-perform the Daisy Wheel in everything (except embossing the paper a bit, and making a huge clatter ). The loss of the old Centronics is not now even felt.
Your friend made the correct choice, except I bet he bought something cheap and nasty.
I apologise to @VFM. I am muzzy-headed with a May throat so I just could not get the context of his initial post.
I now think I see that Article 62 is there to offer comfort to those opposing the backstop, that come whatever, the Backstop can be broken. In that case I think that Dave is correct, there are limits to how devious the UK can be without earning the name ‘Perfidious Albion’ all over again and being treated as a diplomatic pariah.
I used to be asked to act as a business go-between between a certain Arab country and India as they found that they could not trust India. We really do not want to get into that position.
Well maybe we have two different views of Ulster/ Eire relationships.
In my simple view the GFA solved a lot of huge problems and all sides wish to keep it. The IRA do not want anything that differentiates favourably towards the UK on the Ulster side of the border and the converse for the DUP. They all want a quiet life. An EU/UK trade bloc solves all that at a stroke, but means differences set in when/if ever we manage to cut a trade deal with anyone more meaningful than Fiji.
Your apparent no back-stop scenario probably requires us to go down the zero tariff route, but first I think that someone had better honestly set out the negative implications of that to the electorate. I think the no EU imposed border is wishful thinking. They have shown that protection of the EU community is a red line to them. They have not buckled yet, why should they do so later. Yes it will be an EU hard border, but the IRA will blame the Brexiteers, and maybe the DUP.
What are you doing here Dan – you should be texting her!
I’m afraid I do not understand the relevance of needing to break Article 50 – why, what does that achieve other than politically inflaming both the DUP and the IRA?
Unfortunately Irish sectarian/religious politics, have never made things easy.
You talk of the Far Right as something to possibly fear, but I would also worry about somehow dragging in the IRA (Not really Far Left?). They have already set their small markers. I think as a result that I’ll avoid Weatherspoons pubs in future as their owner has recently publicly stated his position and backing as a Hard Brexit supporter.
However, I think your summary of a fscking potential disaster is unfortunately correct, whichever leave option is taken.
Roll on the next four years (plus) of trade negotiations just to help us forget!
I’m sure there is some truth in what you say, but such changes have to be phased in, Otherwise unjust pain will be caused. We do not have time to do it properly, and a bunch of clowns who I would not trust with anything.
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