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Imo not at all selective, but the cold print of their manifesto reveals the lie that 85% voted against BRINO.
The frightening scale of the quote is not unusual with modern cars. If anything got pushed out of place it could easily require a new rear box section. My wife had two accidents within three months due to inattentive drivers running into her at slow speed while she was stopped. (both admitted fault, said the sun was in their eyes DofE style). The damage was almost superficial except the panel mounting screws had been pushed through the panel – £400/pop was the result.
Where did you obtain your facts? I cannot get even close to your quoted 85% figure. It must be another load of lies from Brexit HQ.
This was the Labour manifesto in 2017. It’s attitude to a Hard Brexit is very clear:
““Labour recognises that leaving the EU with ‘no deal’ is the worst possible deal for Britain and that it would do damage to our economy and trade. We will reject ‘no deal’ as a viable option and if needs be negotiate transitional arrangements to avoid a ‘cliff-edge’ for the UK economy.“”
“Labour is making a priority of retaining arrangements close to the status quo with the Single Market and Customs Union.”
BRINO as the Hard Brexiteers derisively call it actually yields everything the British Public voted for.
You can only prove that it does not by quoting the paragraph in the non-existent Brexit Referendum Manifesto!
Probably the BT engineer fiddling with the Green Box — whenever we see the Openreach van nearby we never bother to start any major downloads or panic over Wifi drop out!
If you cannot find what you want you could consider rolling your own. Audio Book Creator in Windows store plus a magazine archive e.g. Analog SF
A big Farage extremist party would be something that I would welcome. It would destroy the nasty right wing of the Conservative party and set the stage for a centrist Government of common sense.
I think (unlike you I’m sure) that once the electorate realise that they never voted for all the many ills of a Hard Brexit, but that it all came down to controls on immigration, that support for Farage would quickly die away as it has in the past. If that were coupled with further exposure of the lies told by Bojo et al, and the dubious sources of illegal pro-Brexit contributions then there would be a very healthy swing to the centre.
From a pragmatic standpoint I think Corbyn’s plan is the best of a range of bad choices.
I just cannot see that the UK will be able to cut better trade deals than the EU, we have neither the trading clout or the experienced negotiators. On paper if not in practice it gives us options to cut our own trade deals, but in practice we will sit on their coat tails.
If anything Brexit so far has demonstrated the total incompetence of both our politicians and negotiators. Going into negotiations and hoping to ‘wing it’ as Davies et al have done is a recipe for failure. We should have guessed that any group that just kept mouthing the meaningless and irritating ‘Brexit means Brexit’ phrase were just a bunch of Greylings with different names.
Tory party melt-down looms which adds more pressure on May to seek a consensus in Parliament.
Corbyn’s ‘A’ Customs Union might be a starting point, but you probably have to listen to John McDonald to hear the subtle difference between ‘A’ customs union and ‘The’ Customs Union. There is a huge difference but it would need a lot of EU negotiation.
CIA interference? They like destabilising anything they see as a threat to US hegemony.
Nude , nude it must be nude!
Lets settle this once and for all!
I feel sick at the thought of it – as my wife says, it will never happen as they cannot get the scales off his belly or slime off his back quickly enough.
The law and design has now changed what is possible with a combi boiler. For example they can now be hung on a partition wall, and with the exception of the condensate drain they can be a shoe-in for older boilers. Too late for you Richard, but if you are in the market for a new boiler it may be worth a double-check.
If you do put in a Wood-burner and look to use ‘free’ wood then please ensure you set up a proper wood drying area. I have an anti-social near neighbour who uses ‘free’ but improperly dried wood and during cold winter foggy mornings regularly pollutes the neighbourhood with extremely high quantities of VOCs and turns the whole neighbourhood into a coughing zone.
I’m looking forward to 2022 when I can take out a clean-air enforcement order on him!
No – the site you visit will always ‘see’ you. If you want that sort of obscurity then you would have to use a VPN.
According to recent evidence most sites ignore ‘please do not track’ notices. GDPR theoretically helps stop that, but some sites act as amalgamators for multiple sites and make opt-out very difficult. I’m not sure these comply with the law, as they certainly do not comply with its spirit.
I felt very sorry for the Captain – he was doomed as soon as he was ‘offered’ his command. If he turned it down he was stuffed, if he objected to his orders he was stuffed.About the only faint chance he had would have been to sleep on the bridge, but even then the radar screw-ups would probably have stuffed him.
I once worked for a real barsteward whose favourite saying was – “If you can’t or won’t do it, then I’ll soon find someone who will”. Probably 95% of the time he got away with it, but sometimes there were nasty incidents or major project failures which were then blamed on the person at the sharp-end. It was not surprising that he was surrounded by duckers and weavers!
If I was still a commuter with a working wife, I would definitely want a Nest to take care of the heating while we were fighting with train delays/non-arrivals etc. The last thing I would want would be an argument about who was responsible for forgetting to turn on the heating.
Oh come on Ed. The backstop is never, ever, ever, honest going to come into effect because the EU say they really, really, really will agree to us leaving with a decent deal before that could ever happen. So why not put a time limit on something that will never happen ?
So why risk letting the clock run out onto a Hard Brexit?
If you were just being sarcastic please explain how you square the pre-Referendum Brexiteers promise that negotiations with the EU would be assured, with a position that says that it will be impossible to work out an acceptable arrangement.
Or are you perhaps saying that a High Tech solution to the border inspections is just Marijuana smoke – with which I would agree as this Government has proven time and again that it is incapable of making any technology work.
I was unconvinced by Smart Thermostats, but got one because it adds half a point or so to the energy rating of your home.
However, I have moved from being a cynic to seeing why they are useful particularly for working families with variable ‘at home’ times. Linking the geolocation of phones to the heating system is genius as it errs towards energy conservation but gives remote user input as well. It is also nice to have what is in effect an outside thermometer and weather app for those times you are dithering between wearing or not wearing a coat.
What gave me most pause was not so much the accident but the events leading up to it.
To me it could be summed up as politicians starving their armed forces of resources (or inappropriate resource assignment), and a culture that makes it impossible for those at the sharp end to say that things are beyond their control and capabilities.
It made me fear that there are similar issues in our own over-stretched armed-services.
Alex Morton’s piece is pure journalistic fluff, that makes the wild assumption that one has to put Brexit and other difficult political issues in the same basket. Frankly I cannot be bothered to explain why the other issues are different as the article isn’t worth the time or effort. It adds nothing to any debate, and I for one would weep no tears if the current Conservative party imploded.
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