[Dave Rice]

@VFM I see Derek Hatton lasted 2 days.

Steven Woolfe (UKIP MEP bare knuckle fighter) has said he’d like to stand as a Conservative in Anna Soubry’s constituency. In their story, the Express states that Broxtowe is “heavily pro-Brexit” at 55% – 45%.

Kate Hoey 78%, Graham Brady – 61% Remain, Graham Lilley 61% Remain, Theresa Villiers 59% Remain, Dominic Raab 59%, John Redwood 57%

Hypocrisy? Alive and well everywhere especially in the daily papers.

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Give him a few years, he’ll get the hang of not answering anything in a glib fashion. The real issue is… What you’re asking me is… The (opposition) are (slag off)… Insert today’s vox pop clip and always waste time by starting by saying with how honoured you are to be asked on this program. Shout down anyone else when they’re talking.

Fair play to Greg Clark (Business Secretary), he’s been straight down to Swindon and got his sleeved rolled up. I hope he’s successful. I pray he doesn’t end up coming here too.

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Hypocrisy? From politicians? Surely not!

I think they take the Hypocratic Oath at induction.

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I wouldn’t be so complacent. The silent moderates are starting to find their voices. TM’s refusal to meet the moderates in her party are hastening the process.

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I would love it if there was a left of centre party strong enough to vote for. Unfortunately the two party system we have makes it difficult as Farage and UKIP found out. Being popular means nothing.

As much as I disagree with him and them I always thought it disgusting that such a share of the vote should go unrepresented. Same for the Greens. But we had a referendum on that too so we’re stuck with it.

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You seem to like Windows phones ? They sure are cheap now.

It’s not often I watch a film on the phone, but I guess with your job it’s a handy thing to be able to do.

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My kids (20 – 27) don’t give a flying fig about some old git from decades ago. They parcel that sort of behaviour in the Jacob Rees Mogg category but in the opposite direction.

They are more worried about the antisemitism but see the Conservatives as being far worse in that general direction. What they think about the way Brexit has been handled is unprintable.

It will take a lot more to get them to vote anything but Labour, Liberal is more likely than Tory.

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90% (?) of the Civics were for export not UK consumption so comparisons with the size of the UK and Canadian market are somewhat spurious. Now the Japanese have a FTA with the EU the advantages of manufacturing in the EU are lessened. Take that manufacturing out of the EU so add costs and the advantages go down again. What’s being built there is no longer relevant so needs investment. The UK has broken promises made. It becomes an easy decision to pull the plug.

Would the plug have been pulled anyway? May be but there was no talk before and Brexit sure made the decision easier to take. How much more of this has got to happen before people realise that there is a common theme?

Unemployment may have gone down but I hear in works benefits are up. There will not be 15,000 jobs suddenly available in the Swindon area and that will be true in whatever regional areas get hit by decisions such as this. My area being one for Aerospace.

Growth is likely to continue but it won’t be across the UK it’ll still be the South East as usual not where the job losses will be. Where is the inwards investment going to be going? Cornwall? Northumberland? The Welsh hills?

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I admire your ability to spin things into totally extreme positions. You can certainly take the germ of an idea and extrapolate it to amazing heights to support your viewpoint.

Hard to see how 7 labour MPs resigning and not creating a new party will split the Remain vote.

The Amercian Irish have pointed out that if a border appears it will solely be down to the actions of the UK. Firstly in totally ignoring the issue and having no plan then in refusing to accept the negotitated deal that was crafted in the way we asked for!

If someone continually pisses on your lawn on their way back from the pub is it your fault you don’t have a fence? Do you think other people would blame you for putting up a fence? I agree with ED, I don’t see how anyone can complain about border security and controlling access to the UK then leaving 300 miles of it wide open. Just more hypocrisy.

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<p style=”text-align: center;”>I’m sure there will be an 11th hour deal if we show some signs of movement. As it is Brussels has no incentive, a no deal is coming any way. The erg and dup will just find something else, especially bouyed up by a victory. May cannot get anything past them so why should Brussels even try?</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>We have few friends in the world and if there is any trouble in Ireland the powerful American Irish will be down on us like a ton of bricks. A lot of silent voices are starting to speak up and they’re not supportive of the erg approach. Basically threats such as you mention, gunboat diplomacy again. I see the defence Secretary is now pissing off the Chinese. Nice move.</p>
We need a general election. TBH that’s probably the only thing that will scare the erg and dup as farage will do nothing apart from split the vote. They never won a seat and never will. Don’t forget the 48%, this is not a leavers love in.

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Amazingly it will keep that performance up. Every year there is a major upgrade which is somewhere between the old service packs and a new version of Windows 10. Also SSDs don’t suffer from the same slow downs as HDDs.

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I’m not sure you can get rid of them, there’s no need to either.

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The only bit of parliament that thinks No Deal is anything other than a huge threat are the leave at any cost brigade.

Never mind all this psuedo-economic claptrap, now we are getting nearer reality is starting to bite. Business is starting to speak up. Porsche and Volvo will be passing on any tariffs and Ford have said 13,000 jobs are at risk. We all know what Airbus have said. A third of the Institute of Directors have said they have either moved or are planning to move. They are moving to the EU. One reason Flybmi went bust is they can’t get European contracts and the same is happening with research.

How many hundreds of millions have already been spent or lost on this nonsense that could have been better spent elsewhere?

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HDMI to DVI should be OK, it’s DVI to VGA that needs a DVI socket capable of anaglogue as well as digital.

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The onboard GPU shouldn’t be any different to use than a discrete card. Just plug the monitor in.

What mobo & CPU did you end up getting?

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If we leave on no deal she’ll also go down as the person that beggared the country and that will have immediate consequences, no waiting for history.

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With benchmarks I now tend to compare everything back to my i5 6200u which is more than capable of anything I chuck at.

The 2200U comes out 7% up and the 2500U 32% so both will be more than up to it, so go for the savings – everything else being equal, which is usually is as SSD + 8GB is now my entry point.

With desktops, the Athlon 200GE is +23% and the 2200G is +78% Amazing for £50 and £90 including a capable HSF.

I’ve just had an order for a couple more office machines on a budget, but I know the 200GE will ace it. When I think back to when I first joined the forums and we were wringing the necks of machines to get anything out of them and praying for an affordable dual core.

Now you can get the same performance as the mighty quad core Q6600 we all saved up for in 10 watt soc. BTW the 200GE is +90% on the Q6600!

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I wouldn’t be surprised if you can only get it from E-Buyer, you certainly can’t get it direct from HP. EB have a top of the pile partnership with HP.

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This is all opinion, not fact. Nothing wrong with that but it’s all could and if and not will. If all you seek out and consume are these viewpoints then you will start to believe them as truth, perhaps because you so want them to be true?

No-one has said Brexiteers haven’t any valid viewpoints, it’s all part of you telling us what we think again. No-one here has said there aren’t problems with the EU and that’s not the first or even second time I’ve had to point that out.

However what we believe is that we are better off in the EU and you think we’re better off outside. It’s when the solutions to your arguments clearly make no sense or have unmentioned negative consequences that things kick off. Also when facts are deliberately mangled or misappropriated or even just plain ignored.  It’s why I’m not entering into such discussions, there is no point. You seem determined to leave whatever the cost, so any negatives don’t matter.

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I know someone that has the i5 version of the V330 and I set it up for him. Very nice laptop indeed, I cannot see what isn’t to like about it. The screen and trackpad are excellent, battery life no idea. That was 12 months ago, they may have changed components?

The HP I still have 2 of at home waiting to be deployed when I get back. They were a joy to set up and being aimed at business lack the HP bloatware. What was there was actually useful giving warranty information (and offering an extra 2 year onsite at £80ish) and OEM driver updates including the BIOS – very much like you get with the Lenovo.

Give me either and I’d be happy. If I was paying I’d probably go for the HP even though I’m a big Lenovo user.

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