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I think the ‘intolerance’ is more frustration and is due to the lack of meaningful responses to arguments put forward. The subject is nearly always sidestepped. For example the impact of a Hard Brexit. Imo that is spelled out in fairly simple detail in the video link posted by Steve, but I do not remember ANY reasoned responses to that video.
Just for clarity this is the impact on our EXPORTS, impacts on imports are within our control per the WTO terms Wheels posted (but some countries objected). There is no reciprocity on our published WTO terms other than the statutory minimum tariffs.
Impacts of applying WTO video.
I’ll give gratis one response that could have been made. I will accept that as there is no EU agreement with the US that their exports will be barely affected, but that is of no comfort to Sheep Farmers or Fishermen or others with favoured terms on EU exports who will be forced to lose money or even close shop.
Impacts on other sectors will be a large increase in bureaucracy and friction with horrendous impacts on ‘Just in Time’ until the non-existent systems have been sorted out. The car industry will be especially affected as investment for new lines is moved to less troublesome areas such as the Czech Republic. (e.g. Landrover). That is why Failing Greyling is supposedly investing in measures to ensure a free flow of food, medicine and other essentials if there is a Hard Brexit (God help us all – Greyling and organisation are totally incompatible.).
……………………… There isn’t a Remainer here who has said the EU is perfect and doesn’t need some sort of reform, although reading VFM’s spin you would think we did.
Fair enough, Dave, so perhaps you can list for me what you accept to be the current faults of the EU. I simply don’t recall you or any Remainer ever having listed or mentioning them. The floor is yours Dave…………
It was a long time ago, probably on the MM forum pre-vote. Dave, myself and others listed problems with the EU. Some of which were due to our own MEPs not exercising their rights under the EU rules. Others were our Civil Service taking generic EU regulations (full of loopholes) and making them proscriptive in contrast with the French who would add slack to the regs.A prime example of which was the sale of ‘imperfect’ fruit and reg which has since been corrected.
The other area people complained of was an apparent lack of transparency in the Commission’s actions, but I think that may be due to our not knowing where to look.
No-one complained of ‘democracy’ as I think everyone knows our own ‘democracy’ stinks, and at least the EU stops some of our Government’s worst excesses.
[edit] As our own Forum remainers are so certain a second referendum would favour their view, there should be no objection to putting it to the test and we will see how a first result built on half truths stands up against the actual Brexit job losses that are still taking place.
My local garage said that the one thing that frequently causes a write-off are the air-bags going off. If the car is valued at less than £3K apparently it is pretty much automatic. I’m not sure why, but I guess the airbag causes too much collateral damage to the car’s interior.
but there are at least 2 other innocent victims with injuries – that has to be taken into account but is NOT a governing reason to prevent the CPS dealing with this in the way they see fit.
A local Portsmouth paper hired a ‘top’ lawyer to give his opinion. He generally echoed your comments but said that any public interest NOT to proceed with prosecution in the public interest would also take a very strong view of those hurt or affected by the accident.He indicated that they would have the last word in that respect.
If the DoE surrendered his licence and mitigated the impacts on those affected then they probably would not proceed as it would not be a good use of the public purse. My feeling is that the DoE has not helped himself in that respect by flouting the seat belt law so soon after the accident.
You need 35 years
Not quite as bad as it sounds as there are all sorts of allowances such as full-time education,.
You are very welcome P.M.
I have one gs who is borderline on the spectrum (no noticeable symptoms except an unwillingness to make eye contact), so I take an interest in the subject.
I’m glad to say that of his own volition he has recently taken a liking to broccoli etc., but I think cat-food would be one step too far!
One for you PM – Fevers make you feel happy!
Not sure I can believe it, as it implies that autistic people should gorge on cat food! (cats die if they have a low taurine diet)
Like Hard Brexit politicians you forgot the other side of the equation – raw material costs rise as the pound shrinks, energy costs go up as well, transport costs go up, inflation goes up, cost of living goes up. What you are saying is only true for labour intensive exports of which we have few if any except maybe the Service Sector and I hate to think what a Hard Brexit does to that.!.
Yet another Rees Mogg/Bojo/Davies fallacy (lie)! They gain of course when they use their off-shore assets to buy up the UK
I think £1=1$ or lower is a reasonable bet if we are stupid enough to get locked into a ‘Hard Brexit’.
Those cross-party MPs who have more than an ounce of brains are threatening what is effectively a coup against May to stop her allowing the country to drift into a Hard Brexit. Beeb link
The only option for anyone to leave with any political face is a second referendum. Any political party that allows us to drift into the horror of a Hard Brexit is going to be in the political wilderness for decades.
The politicians who keep lauding a fall-back to GATT are ignorant or their wealth is overseas. They fail to comprehend that this means a GATT deal on every country with whom we have no legal Trade Agreement with at the time of departure. i.e. everyone! GATT levies are not optional, countries will be forced to levy the GATT taxes on all our exports. You can say bye-bye to millions of jobs food rationing and a general recession within months.
I note that no Forumite has been able to refute the impacts of GATT.
This is not FUD, This is not something on which you can take a chance. GATT is a legal obligation on all importing countries without trade deals. It is 100% certainty.
Les, although he no doubt meets the legal health/eyesight requirements there is one extremely critical area that is never tested and that is reaction speed. Imo every driver should be required to have this simple test every five years.
The test involves a ruler, an object and a second person or some automated way of dropping the object at a random time, the reaction speed is the distance travelled by the object before being caught. Schools often carry out this test on the public in order to gather simple statistics and draw age/reaction speed charts. I watched the local kids do this and the age/speed results are generally horrifying. I guess because i play computer games I had a very fast reaction speed and screwed up their pretty chart.
Les you are quite correct that younger drivers have a higher percentage of bad accidents as most elderly drivers know their limits and ease off on the pedel. However it is quite possible the DofE is an exception based on Giles Bandreth and other comments:
You are quite correct PM as the thread on insurance states being self insured does not remove liability. My guess is that would be small change to the Royals in comparison with getting into disrepute.
Btw – he almost certainly is not insured. I’ll take bets that their affairs are handled such that the Royal Household is a private company and owns and self-insures all the cars in the Royal household by depositing a £500000 bond. Apparently this a a very tax efficient ploy for companies. link
I was not complaining about cover-up by local press, just the very careful and somewhat misleading National Media.
[edit] imo the after crash pic tells its own story:
Probably because he attempted a very high speed right turn. According to one witness the Freelander somersaulted right across the road.
The other car involved was a lightweight Kia- very unlikely to come off second best to a heavy (no doubt bullet-proofed) Freelander, and cause it to overturn.
“Commenting on the circumstances of the crash, Mr Warne added: “I think there’s no doubt that it was hit (by the duke’s car). That’s my recollection.”
Speaking about Philip’s Freelander, he added: “I didn’t see it come from the side road, I saw it careering and tumbling across the road and ending up on the other side.”
In comments the mother(victim) made to a retired nurse who administered first aid to the victims the the 72-year-old from Norfolk told the paper:
“The passenger from the other car told me, ‘I always wanted to meet a royal – but not this way’.
She said the duke – who was found to have “no injuries of concern” after his check-up on Friday morning – asked about the welfare of the people involved in the crash.
“I told him the baby was fine – but we thought the passenger had broken her arm,” she said.“He looked so worried and told me, ‘I’m such a fool’.”
Read those reports how you may, but it is hard to place any blame on the Kia driver.
One report I read said that the silly old Git hurtled across the main road before overturning and hitting the other car, so did the low sun result in him not seeing a ‘Stop’ sign — not if he were travelling at an appropriate speed!
In a quite separate interview Giles Bandreth said that the Git likes to drive cars fast.
Other papers publish a lawyer’s opinion that he may be able to avoid prosecution if he surrenders his licence, but it would all depend whether the victims of the accident feel that a lesson needs to be made.
The consensus in this area is ‘Silly old sod, he should be jailed for dangerous driving and his licence confiscated, as he could have killed two women and a baby’.
Do a trawl around the country’s local papers to read the bits that the Nationals and Beeb dare not say due to their editors angling for a knighthood. There are quite a number of eye-witness reports which suggest that the woman driver was in no way responsible for the accident.
Dan, if you want a little more customization than that offered by MotionEye you may want to take a look at using OpenCV plus motion detection on a Pi, pretty easy to modify this to add pan/tilt tracking to the camera. Link
One minor problem I have is that .profile (in home on a Pi) is not always read on boot – any idea what could be wrong with my setup? (easily fixed using souce ~/.profile but not really automagical.
Updated info here. As Richard stated, much of this is old stuff, but given the terabytes of Dark Web password data referenced in the update it is probably well worthwhile having a minor password panic now and again.
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