ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Captain Haddock wrote:The question you should always ask is compared to whom and when.
Try listening to someone who understands the situation.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,002
Ross Miller wrote:Source?
Not that GDP will tell you much of anything, RM, but a forum superbrain recently offered me this advice:
'All us omnisclents use Google. You should try it sometime.''Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,227
What is omnisclents? Has the whole village lost its idiot?
Arte et Marte
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:Not that GDP will tell you much of anything, RM, but a forum superbrain recently offered me this advice:
'All us omnisclents use Google. You should try it sometime.'
Once again, words fail you.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,856
I think a lot of people will be disappointed on the ongoing issues around Brexit, promises made .
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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I think many have showed that for whatever reason they voted to leave the EU they were hood winked and now regretting it.
It's all to late now!
Maybe clear strong leadership would have helped , but that's all history now .
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Never too late, Keith. Applying sanctions on yourself was never a good idea and won't last in perpetuity. Otherwise North Korea would be amongst the world's richest countries.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Lord, how I wish 'Al1967' was around to comment on this repetitive, dreary, bone-shrinkingly banal wet-raggery.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,796
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Lord, how I wish 'Al1967' was around to comment on this repetitive, dreary, bone-shrinkingly banal wet-raggery.
After a stint in hospital after a near death experience and still rather weak, I just wish the comments on virtually all subjects were a more interesting and not repeating what has been said dozens of times before.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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That's 3 regulars on here who have been spending a lot of time in hospital recently.
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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I am sorry that any members has had to stay in the hospital hope all are well again now.
Reading my post might not have helped.
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
- Posts: 637
Sorry to hear you have been so ill Jan, wishing you a speedy recovery.
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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I wish you speedy recovery from your recent illness which necessitated a stay in hospital Jan.
Couldn't send you a bunch of flowers so you'll have to make do with these:
G.
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,796
Thank you Judith and Bob, recovery well on the way even if at times it is one step forward two back.
All I will add is I hope never to see one of those very tight but very necessary close fitting oxygen masks again,it felt like a form of torture.
Now back to this never ending Brexit topic.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Big day for Brexit today - will it finally be "done"? And will Sunak finally stand up to the usual suspects? Stay tuned folks.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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If it wasn't so important in so many ways, it would be laughable. Mark Francois describing it as "incredibly unwise" for Sunak to try to proceed with his agreement without a parliamentary vote. Theresa Villers mouthing the same platitudes on Radio 4 this morning.
Hypocrisy to an unsurpassed level from people who voted for their charlatan leader to lie to the late Queen and prorogue parliament in an effort to avoid a vote when they felt it wouldn't go their way.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,921
Waiting for the announcement on Brexit/Northern Ireland.
It would appear that after SEVEN years of negotiations and recriminations and people resigning and no Stormont they have finally thrashed out an agreement that:-
1. Goods traveling within the United Kingdom will not be subject to examination.
2. The EU can examine goods which are to be exported to the EU except it will be done remote from the actual border because if it was at the border all of the men of violence would start blowing everywhere up again rather than keeping busy with organised crime.
Errrr, that's it.
SEVEN years negotiation to come out with the bleedin' obvious?
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,026
Northern Ireland minister, Steve Baker: "Imagine you're sending something to the Isle of Wight, which involves a ferry... just as there would be some commercial information being shared with the ferry operator, the same will happen to Northern Ireland," he says, explaining there will be a system that will make sure this "normal commercial information" is shared with the EU.
So that'll be 'non-hazardous groupage, doesn't require electrical hook-up' then.
The nitty-gritty for anoraks:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-windsor-framework?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=caa62de9-fe44-469a-b699-7527904008bd&utm_content=immediately(Not my real name.)
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Seriously Button I've never understood why countries make trade unnecessarily sticky.
As far as I can see the new agreement is that the EU will stop buggering us around just because they could.
Perhaps we and they could start doing that with goods going across the channel?
My No3 daughter is a designer with a rather famous fashion group and has one Hell of a time taking samples and half finished 'frocks' between the design studio in London and the manufacturers in Italy.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
