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Nice cake – very artistic.
Richard, I have friends who recently did the Silk Road tour through Iran. They echoed Joanne Lumley’s recent ITV tour and said it was very friendly and nowhere near as fundamentalist as US/Israeli extremists would like to paint it. This was their second visit in the space of five years and they said there had been a major shift towards a more open culture. Perhaps you should put it back on your travel list.
Btw Allen my apologies for my bad mistake. I was posting in a hurry, unlike our MPs who as usual believe in kicking things into the long grass and to hell with the economic consequences of dithering.
The EU have made it perfectly clear that they are not the ones leaving the club, and as we made the mess it is our job to sort it.
Seems to me Graham that you make some great arguments for totally abandoning Brexit to the relief now of the majority of the population.
TBLiar was prescient when he introduced a set of coins showing a fractured nation. It just needed a Conservative party trying to heal their own internal rifts and external (US & Russia) pro-Brexit funding to bring it about.
Graham – please do a bit of research on smuggling and the Irish border. Elements in Eire made huge sums of money at the expense of the EU by exporting (iirc butter) to Ulster claiming the VAT rebate then smuggling it back in to Eire to round-trip it again. This went on the whole time that there were differences between the UK and Eire over the treatment of VAT.
The Moggites yen to turn the UK into a tax-free zone sends shudders down the backs of the EU authorities. They understandably fail to see why they should allow this to impinge on their economic structure, hence the threat.
I learned my lesson long ago. I take a full VM copy of my OS disk (I separate programs and data) and use that VM as a first pass on any major bleeding edge changes. (I still use a Windows VM for Insider Builds, but last year I have learned a lesson that I also need to ‘dummy-in’ a data drive as well as one stupid windows update destroyed data directory links. (not quite as bad as it sounds, but close).
Use Stardock’s Object Desktop Keith and you can customize to your heart’s content.
The US have a very long history of interfering with Latin America. This goes back to the 1823 Monroe doctrine under which the US treated the Caribbean as a US owned lake and will not allow any threats to its interests or traffic through the Panama. see article for history.
Venezuela made a big mistake in challenging the US hegemony with Petro-Venezuela, and I have seen arguments that the failure of Saudi Arabia to exert its normal upward pressure on oil prices was a three pronged attack on the oil&gas-based economies of Russia, Syria and Venezuela. (Gas prices used to be linked directly to heavy fuel oil/crude prices).
The REAL problem with a Hard Brexit are not the arguable long term impacts, but the short to medium term impacts on various sectors of our economy.
IMO much depends whether the EU are pragmatic or totally peed-off with us. As a result this ranges from minor to utter disaster for many Agricultural Sectors, a car industry given a JIT shock from which it may never recover, and a thoroughly Graylinised transportation system with Channel ports, roads gridlocked, the Army mobilised and emergency food rationing. — I’m not sure that I fancy 50 year old Vesta curries, but maybe they have already rotated them through Army MRE packs.
This should not be completely discounted as a possibility, as I have witnessed otherwise sane business leaders make totally irrational decisions in order to ‘punish’ the subjects of failed takeover bids. At the moment the Irish are at the very annoyed stage, which would go catatonic if the EU made good their warning that they would have to impose strict border controls.
People had many different reasons for wanting out. Some I can respect, but I have a real problem with those (and I know some in Manchester) who voted out to get rid of third generation Pakistanis. Those I would call racist twits or worse.
I very much doubt if a roughly 20 gram 6cms CX-10C (flight duration ~3mins) could even fly as high as a big box kite (which are not banned!). It would lose radio contact well before a kite’s height. Even modding the aerial to hell, a range of 118ft is as much as it gets before the tiny drone tips upside down and crashes to the ground.
Bob larger drones >250 grams are banned under EU regs it is only idiot UK regs that include smaller toys!
As an example of crap bureaucracy it is now illegal for kids living within three miles of an airport to fly any TOY drone even those weighing weighing less than 250 grams. The EU at least show common sense with their regulations as they recognise the impossibility of a tiny toy drone causing any damage. EU regulations exempt anything weighing under 250 grams, but not OUR idiot regulator, who took EU regulations and struck out the lower limits — b-typical!
A drone weighing less than 250 grams has neither the mass, speed or stability to get anywhere near an aircrafy’s flight path mucjh less cause any damage. All CAA damage testing was done by firing a 1 kilo drone at 400 mph into a wing section causing superficial damage.
“Findings by the Department for Transport (DfT), British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) and the Military Aviation Authority (MAA) published today in a summary report, reveal drones weighing 400 grams could damage the windscreens of helicopters in particular. However, airliner windscreens were found to be much more resistant. It would take a heavier drone of around 2 kilograms to critically damage an airliner windscreen, and only if the airliner is flying at a high speed; not during take-off and landing.”
+1 to waiting – Imo Xiaomi is going to really shake up market pricing.
Even worse as a nation we devalue scientists, technologists, economists and applied mathematics. It is a pity that Bruce no longer visits us as he would put you wise to just how crap our Government is when it comes to those fields. I think without exception all top jobs are Oxbridge Arts or Law graduates.
We fail to invest in education – schools in this area have their begging bowls out to parents otherwise they have to shed teachers.
We have crap management as companies are not encouraged to invest in management training.
We have a crap bureaucracy that takes little pride in its work and is forever putting out unchecked and unverified work – back to bad management again.
Just how exactly are we going to beat a much better German education and management system How exactly will we stand up to a country that gives its top jobs to Herr Doktor Ingenieur? It is going to take decades to get there, but unfortunately Brexit will burn up all the money that might have got us there.
Except Trump and the Russians the rest of the world thought we were bleeding idiots to vote for Brexit. Now they think we are incompetent dithering idiots.
I have lived in Singapore for ten years and I’ll tell you this _ Britain is no Singapore.
You have to start at the top and our Government is corrupt and amateur in comparison with that of Singapore. They invest in people and technology. They have an education system that is ranked highest in the world (the UK ranks 22nd). They don’t give political honours to time servers but those who do something for their country, they publicly Press-pillory any MP, or Civil Servant caught taking bribes pr illegally stashing cash overseas – it is squeaky clean unlike the UK.
It is also very socialist albeit elitist
Oh come on. The only way we can protect our people is to have more money or might than thoughs who wish to rob us.
On that basis Brexit was a brilliant move to shoot ourselves in the foot. It has already cost us billions and the way companies are leaving (Sony today) it will cost us even more.
I’m afraid I totally and utterly disagree with your comments. I think I might have had more respect had you at least addressed your complete blind spot when anyone gives you facts that counter your (sorry, the Moggites/Daily Wail) view of a Hard Brexit.
“Brexit is costing the UK £500 million a week – or £26 billion per annum, according to research by the Centre for European Reform.
The UK economy is 2.5 percent smaller than it would be if the UK had voted to remain in the European Union, the thinktank said.
The cost of Brexit is growing, despite Brexiteers promising a dividend of £350m a week for leaving the EU – a campaign promise the Leave side famously declared on a Vote Leave bus. — Daily Express”
We have a class of non-working people at this time Graham but it isn’t in the areas of high immigration. Think Welsh Valleys, the North, Scotland and Cornwall. The areas with the greatest proportion of immigrants are in other areas London, South East and Midlands. All irrefutable facts which you can Google.
I do however agree with your point on changes causing joblessness – self-serve check-out eliminates five shop assistants per machine, and these are people without the skills to easily move to other jobs.
As there was never a published Brexit manifesto, it is very difficult to say just what the ‘Leave’ voters actually voted for.
a) Bojos’s dissembling over the NHS funding was basically lies. What we actually finish up having to pay the EU is currently moot. Some things we would be foolish not to keep e.g.as an example our contribution to EU Fusion research.
b) Not having a say on EU regulations is just lies, complaints on transparency are something else. However, the setting of regulations within the UK is similarly undemocratic and opaque in that it is mainly farmed out to ‘experts’ or ‘expert’ bodies. All nations have regulations over which we have no say. Had Cameron’s negotiations been allowed to complete we would have been able to move more towards the French treatment of regulations.
c) We were promised an easy ridel over the Customs Union as this allowed Brexiteers to ignore the Irish question. I guess we have to see just how easy such a deal will be. Just for the record we have not even started to talk what we wish to negotiate in that respect, hence a lot of EU and MP frustration We are effectively still at the stupid stage of ‘Brexit means Brexit’ inanity.
d) The only area which is common ground with current and pre-Referendum promises is that of free movement of people. However, as events have shown it cannot eradicate the need for EU workers it can only apply controls. Of course it has little impact on illegal migration. From comments made in the press it is arguable whether or not it would make it easier to send people back to France both statements appear true!.
The favourable impact on my leccy bill is what I noticed on switching away from Intel/nVidia. That maybe an unfair comment as it also comprehends four years of progress, but at nearly 20p/unit electricity use is starting to be a major concern.
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