[Dave Rice]

Knowing his family he will be spoiled something rotten ?

Have a good day Bob.

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Probably Bob. And deleted.

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She dare not fire him (or anyone) for fear of favouring leave or remain. Its OK when they jump like bojo but greyling isn’t going to. We are governed by a bunch of fools.

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I agree Ed, reminds me of the BT snooker club in the basement of our building in the 90’s. An hour each lunchtime for 20p for the lights and £1 life time membership. It made enough to have one of the table recovered each year.

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VFM, of course you implying that I was affluent, that was the whole thrust of your post. You even went so far to say that you knew more about suffering than I could! Weasel words. You went too far, again.

My first post mentioning the word delusional was well before all this got nasty, and that is mostly down to you and your attitude. That was when it was a lot of bantering, no-one taking anything too seriously. You really are turning into nothing better than a troll. The more we move away from the sort of Brexit you want the nastier you get.

That’s it, you can say what ever you like about me I’m not going to give you any more fuel. I’m sure you’ll continue to peddle your flawed and biased psuedo-economics. There is no point contesting it, you aren’t able to see the flaws.

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having been bludgeon by austerity measures. I do wonder if you have seen the effect they have close-up like I have. No correct that. I’m pretty certain you have not or you would surely have cited such in your post.

When have I ever claimed to be “bludgeoned” by austerity? Why do you always have to get personal?

Loss of local amenities like libraries affects everyone, cuts to local transport affects me disproportionately as I have no alternative means of getting about. Until recently we have had no bus service for 8 years, this involved me in a painful 20 minute walk to the nearest service, even worse returning home uphill. They have built a bypass to take motorway traffic straight into Bradley Stoke and that passes where I live. Now they have implemented the Metrobus I do have a service into the centre.

I help a small Youth Housing Charity with their IT. I see exactly what the local government funding cuts have had on the charity and the kids they try to help. They get food from the left overs at the supermarkets, FareShare I think it is. I have just refreshed their PCs for the first time in 6/7 years, it’s been make do and mend but they’ve finally become too unreliable. That’s money that won’t get spent on the kids but it had to be done.

Schools in South Gloucestershire have always been one of the worst funded and will be the lowest in England by 2020.

Lets just say I do have first hand experience of the direct affects of Tory policy in many different ways. But I don’t think that having the temerity to go on a 5 day city break holiday (£35 each way on EasyJet) makes me overly affluent. As part of my redundancy I could take my Post Office pension immediately and this pays the bills. I only earn about £4 to 500 a month from the business. That is where the holidays etc. come from. The combined balances of my bank accounts today have 3 figures not 4 or 5.  Not that it is any business of yours, but your ability to put words into others mouths and decide what sort of lives they lead or views they hold is becoming tiresome. Then based on the “facts” that you have made up you get indignant and start attacking.

Enough.

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Sorry not been about. And yes it was hair splitting on the word move, as you know very well. It avoided my question as to what will the grand Brexit project being doing to help replace the jobs lost? These jobs have gone, for whatever reason, what part of the sunny uplands will be coming to the rescue?

Austerity and me. You really have a cheek, you know nothing of my circumstances yet you imply that I must be well off enough or something not to notice. Some sort of champagne socialist. Well I am disabled with a wife and kids and rely on things like public transport – BTW I get no help from the state whatsoever and never have. I am now helping get the last one through University and the oldest finish his PhD (you don’t get paid to write them up and you don’t get a student loan). They have got there through sheer hard work and my wife and I have had to make sacrifices to get them there and keep them there. Patronisation I don’t need.

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Well we are now seeing what I’ve described as the “silent moderates” gaining their voice even here. There comes a time when enough is enough, it’s gone too far one way.

If there is a No Deal Brexit there will be trouble in every respect, including civil disobedience, and that so could so easily have been avoided had TM done what she said she would. But no, she listened to the extremists when she could so easily have won over the moderates.

Yes I think that leaving the EU isn’t the best decision but I accepted it. I was quite willing to accept the best of a bad job and that is basically what was promised – don’t make me get the quotes out again. But that doesn’t mean I won’t question the psuedo economic arguments, most of which are pure fantasy leveraging the best of the best and ignoring any negatives. Leavers I talked with were quite happy to do the same from their perspective, don’t make me get the quotes out again from their public face.

It became a numbers game – sod austerity here’s a billion £, yes a bloody billion £ – found down the back of the sofa when Labour where accused of having the money tree, just to keep the Tories in power. Fiscal responsibility? Who paid for that billion £ ? We all did, do you think Lord Snooty and his mates did? Are they looking for somewhere to have a piss in Bristol or just being chauffeured to the London champagne party celebrating defeating their leader and taking the country they love closer to chaos?

The saddest thing is that those that believed the lies the most are those that will lose the most and it’s already started. You can decide it’s nothing to do with Brexit all you like but the fact remains, the jobs have gone. How will the grand Brexit project reverse that? How will the jobs in Swindon be replaced? Unicorn wranglers and Rainbow polishers? Probably need an Eastern European to do that as the locals are far too skilled… They could have been building Dyson cars, what with him being just down the road and all…

Oh, the car industry is moving to countries that have a FT with the EU and the UK has no idea what it’s relationship will be. Wake up and smell the coffee for God’s sake!

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I think it’s a way to gauge the real mood of parliament without committing to anything. I was going to say if you see that it’s all going against you, you can change your approach. But TM lost by the biggest margin in history in a meaningful vote and ignored that so, yes, what is the point in the current situation? Deny a 2nd referendum as just asking the same question until you get the right answer, then do exactly that on your own question. Hypocrisy in action again.

As for them banging on about being voted in on a manifesto, what about the great swathes that aren’t getting done? Kenneth Clarke says he had his manifesto only days before polling and throughout campaigning many interpretations are made of it. Party conferences change things too. It’s just another thing that gets invoked when it suits.

Having two children with issues I’d like to see some movement on the “burning injustice” of mental health, but both are getting more help from their Universities than the NHS. More broken promises I wonder what the ERG policies are on this?

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And again we have the mantra that the crash was Labours fault. As you very well know it wasn’t. The there’s no money left has been a long standing joke on handing over. Would the Tories have let the banks go to the wall? The fiscally responsible party is about to do the most fiscally irresponsible act possible, right after shafting the little people for years with the farce of trickle down “Reaganomics”. Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, have admitted that Osbornes austerity policies were wrong, based on a flawed spreadsheet calculation.

The “sword of nationalisation”, what right wing piffle. Most of the nation wants the railways back in public hands and what’s left of the Post Office as was. How much of our infrastructure is owned by foreign companies? Better ask how much is left in UK hands, the same for aerospace, car industry and railway. It’s been sold off to the highest bidder, including foreign governments.

On GWR I see American and Spanish engines on freight, Swiss ABB on local trains along with Hitachi bullet trains. Deregulation has been a disaster for us public transport users, we are not allowed to have a Transport for London type local government body never mind have all that money spent on us. We have no public toilets now in Bristol, few libraries and fewer swimming baths. Lets not get started on the local police and health services shall we?

You’re right, I have absolutely no desire to see Corbyn in power but I have less to see The Tories carry on another day wrecking the place for their own selfish ends. My escape route to Europe has been well and truly cut, not least by the exchange rate, so it looks like I’m stuck here.

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Well there you have it, as predicted she’s going down to the wire as it’s the only thing she could do. Her deal will never pass Parliament nor be changed by the EU. All she can do is threaten one side with No Deal and the other with No Brexit.

Expect to see Yvette Coopers amendment pass to stop the ERG from just sitting on their hands to get what they want. We all know in the very unlikely event of the EU changing anything, probably just Geoffrey Cox saying he’s happy, the ERG would reject it anyway.

Coming to a free trade agreement with the EU should be “one of the easiest in human history.’ Liam Fox, July 2017

‘In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way.’ Nigel Farage, May 2016.

“It was me that got us into this mess, I will get us out of it.” Theresa May, June 2017, to her troops after destroying the Tory majority.

‘The day after we vote to leave, we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want.’ Michael Gove, April 2016

‘Getting out of the EU can be quick and easy – the UK holds most of the cards.’ John Redwood, July 2016

‘It is like threading the eye of a needle. If you have a good eye and a steady hand, it is easy enough,’ David Davis, December 2016, dismissing fears a Brexit deal might be difficult

‘Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the Single Market,’ Daniel Hannan, May 2015

“If we vote to leave then I think the union will be stronger.’ Michael Gove, May 2016

‘Within 2 years, before negotiation with the EU is likely to be complete, & therefore before anything material has changed, we can negotiate a free trade area massively larger than the EU. The new trade agreements will come into force at point of exit.’ David Davis, July 2016

‘I believe that we can get a free trade and customs agreement concluded before March 2019’. David Davis, January 2017

‘The Conservative party will ensure that we fulfil our duty in ensuring that stability, so that we can all, as one country go forward together.’ Theresa May, 2017

‘Trade relations with the EU could be sorted out in ‘an afternoon over a cup of coffee,’ Gerard Batten, UKIP Brexit spokesman, February 2017

Brexit ‘might even mean that there is less space for anger in our politics.’ Douglas Carswell, UKIP MP, March 2017

‘There are good grounds for a new government team to offer the public a voice on what the deal looks like. And we obviously wouldn’t oppose that… I think there’s a strong democratic case for it.’ Dominic Cummings, Vote Leave campaign director, Jan 2016

‘If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy”. David Davis, 2012, discussing the EU

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You forget one thing, Major wasn’t standing down as leader. If there is a GE she won’t be leading the party, there will have to be a very damaging leadership contest first. Her one aim has been to keep the party together, may be that’s too late any way.

As this whole bloody mess has been about internal Conservative infighting for the last 40 years, now may be the time for them to sort themselves out once and for all. If the ERG fight too hard there will be a split, it’s just a matter of how big.

Out there in the big wide world I can find as much love for the ERG as the hard left i.e. not a lot . One outcome could be a delay or even no Brexit at all, or a very swift return after the next GE.

The mood in the pub in Cornwall has changed, the agricultural industry has been looking at what happened in New Zealand and they are very, very concerned. The retired blowhards who have nothing to lose are still as belligerent as ever though, however they are all for the new UKIP even though the logic is they’ll let the Liberals back in by splitting the Tory vote. There’s always a touch of Trelawny about though.

I watched Gove snake tonguing his way through the food prices question by saying he was on the side of producers and consumers. When it was pointed out they were opposite he managed to argue both sides at the same time. Oh and all the Leave promises made were based on a deal not no deal. So if there is no deal don’t blame him if they don’t happen. But earlier he had argued the vote was a mandate for leaving with no deal.

The best fun was watching him not answer should Cabinet Ministers resign if they vote for Yvette Coopers amendment?

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For the PCs I’ve built the 320 mobos are fine,the 450 doesn’t add enough for £20. Spending it on a something else** may improve real customer satisfaction. However for anything involving gaming or “design”, which may get serious later on if not right now, the 450 should be where you start and should probably be looking higher. Indeed it’ll be a different CPU and probably everything else.

Back in the sector of what’s on the mobo is going to be OK until it dies, I agree the 200GE is absolutely amazing for £50 or even £100 (as the Pentiums are now). But the 2200G just adds that extra zippiness and feeling of something in reserve.

**some budget became available in the charity I look after to be spend on the office PCs (everything usually goes to the kids and I’ve been doing a cuban mechanic job on the office PCs for the last 5 years+). So I asked them what “IT thing” would make the most difference to them? A gas arm for the monitors to free up desk space for the paper work and enable them to turn the screen around to show the kids things without them looking over their shoulders. £30 for these and if I’d needed to sacrifice the 2200G for the 200GE I would have.

Latest build, I’ve worked out how to tidy up the top PSU case ?

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This was the £4 from yesterday http://tinyurl.com/y6xkp2by

 

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I totally agree with you, however there’s not an easy cut and dried answer.

We are a representative democracy and trust our MP to represent our best interests. They may argue that that is best achieved by doing X, Y or Z. We’ve had the referendum on changing that and the public said no, they were happy with things as they are.

Our first West Country “Metro Mayor” – Tim Bowles (C) – campaigned on stopping a NIMBY development. Turns out he had no power to do so, it was all a carefully worded lie. People in Thornbury are incensed, should they be allowed to recall him?

Well I’m happy because WECA are about to spend £2 million around here to sort out a notorious traffic pinch point and they’ve got the Metro bus up and running. I now have a nearby bus that is a direct service into Bristol in 15 mins. Used to be a 15 min walk and an hour on the local goes everywhere bus.

You could argue that like Boris Bikes, my projects were happening anyway, nothing to do with him and that his campaign promises are the issue. You’d probably spend as much time arguing as it takes to get to the next election any way.

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I paid £4 today for O2016 and £8 each in the week for three. I had to pay £15 a few weeks ago. W10 Pro, today £4, often £8. I usually look for the instant delivery sellers.

Enterprise don’t pay a fortune for their Office software either, but they do buy an awful lot of it.

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Steve, you vote for the person not the party.

Whether that should change I’m not sure, but may be the Recall of MPs Act could be changed so the locals decide. However that may stop MPs voting in the national interest over local concerns – like the MPs in constituencies opposite to the Brexit wishes of their voters. We all know what a few gobshites can achieve with deselection.

It’s easy to judge when the numbers are small, what if this takes off into triple figure territory next week? Would that trigger the parties moving to the same stance as those now seen as rebels?

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Steven Woolfe is doing his best at the opposite end of the spectrum, “I intend to stand against Ms Soubry as a Conservative. The independence of this country now demands the most muscular force to protect it.”

Plonker. He didn’t win his last muscular force contest either.

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I cannot stand that man. They’re all grabbing money from wherever they can, even parties within parties like the ERG and Momentum.

I hope TIG does shake things up a bit, but like you I think it will fizzle out. A lot depends on the next 2 weeks or so as far as MPs jumping is concerned and after March 29th for the public. Interesting times indeed.

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I don’t use a password manager app, I have a file tucked away on an encrypted share on my server. I can get to that from my mobile if needs be. For anything important I have 2FA set up that needs my phone.

I agree with Steve, the banks app is my preferred way of doing things but for new payees I have to use the PC. I have an OpenVPN server out in the cloud (terminates in London) and use that mostly from the phone.

I’ll repeat my offer that if anyone wants to use it you’re more than welcome. Just PM me and I’ll send you the config file.

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