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"
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,921
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
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- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Ah, statistics - gotta love 'em. It used to be the case that the UK was regularly recorded as importing rather a lot of bananas from Iceland - yes, honestly. Mind you, this had less to do with growing them next to hydrothermal vents and such like, and rather more to do with declarants thinking that the country code for Ivory Coast (where they actually came from) was IC. The correct code was CI, as in Côte d'Ivoire.
(Not my real name.)
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:Neil
I'm not sure Labour's plan on immigration is any better than the tories, that bits of policies I could find!
Labour isn't looking like a govt in waiting, is looking like just another anti working people's party!
As you feel the Tories are doing so badly Neil , why do you think your friends in Wirral council don t think this is the case?
I've no idea what's going on in Wirral, so can't comment on that. Tories aren't doing that bad - they're creeping back because Sunak has managed to shake off the lunatics. It's slow and unspectacular, but it's definitely working. What's fascinating is whether or not the right make their big move to topple Sunak before the election, or wait to take control of the party after it....
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Yet more deflection nonsense. Il m'essaye d'emerde!
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Well it wasn't ME who stated this fruit-loop stuff!
( Sorry about double posting. Thought pairs were included. )
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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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
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So lets look closer Neil .
It appears Starmer across the country wont allow co-olitions
So , these have worked well in the past to keep the Tories out, but now no longer , and so they have had to go it alone , as a minority party, which will crumble letting Tories back in.
Crazy policy , where green party and Labour has worked well together , now unable to.
Of course causing friction also between parties .
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:So lets look closer Neil .
It appears Starmer across the country wont allow co-olitions
So , these have worked well in the past to keep the Tories out, but now no longer , and so they have had to go it alone , as a minority party, which will crumble letting Tories back in.
Crazy policy , where green party and Labour has worked well together , now unable to.
Of course causing friction also between parties .
The situation is markedly different from the one you describe, Keith. There will be no Labour coalitions with the SNP but, if you read the news, you'll know that there is an agreement already in place between Labour and the LibDems not to stand in each other's way in marginal seats. Raab has thrown his hand in to "spend more time with his family" apparently. Yet his seat has a majority of only about 2,000 over the LibDems. Labour won't be contesting that seat very strongly. You can bet your bottom dollar on that. Hence, I suspect, "psycho's" untimely departure.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Labour will definitely go into coalition with the Lib Dems. It's one of those, they can never come out and say so explicitly, but they will. Coalitions are common all over Europe so nothing to fear.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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So why is it council's can't go into co-olitions then
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Button- Location: Dover
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Interesting. So the question was: "Thinking about the UK's relationship with the European Union, do you think the UK government should seek a closer or more distant relationship with the EU?" I wonder what those who said neither 'keep it the same' nor 'I don't know' actually meant.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:So why is it council's can't go into co-olitions then
They do but probably not in the way that you understand it. I gather you're living in these parts now? A great example of how mutual co-operation can get shot of an idiotic dynasty in a staunchly Tory area.
https://kentbylines.co.uk/folkestone-greens-show-leadership/
As for #5775 - the Daily Mail? Yeah right.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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With a real paywall unfortunately Ray.
I agree there's downsides to Brexit but all due to stupid rules made by dumb people, so fixable.
Son's been down for w/e moaning about lack of Erasmus scholars from EU for example leaving him with mostly Chinese PhD students. Demographics of research students has changed completely over past decade, we are educating our competitors rather than our natural allies, in spite of best efforts of various 'agencies' to get visas turned down on security grounds!
Meanwhile we appear to have half of downtown Lagos (and their dependents) at former polytechnics doing MAs which do not, of course, have an English Language requirement ...................
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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The only way Brexit was ever going to "work" was the "Singapore on Thames" model. But that would have involved massive deregulation and an influx of cheap foreign workers - the very thing Brexit was supposed to be stopping. That would have excited half the Tory party, but the other half would be furious because they want to protect their constituents in the Shires.
All we're really left with is silly stuff like removing cookie preferences from websites.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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But speaking to ITV's Peston programme Mr Barnier blasted Boris Johnson's handling of talks with Brussels – accusing him of disrespecting his own signature on the deal he signed.
"The point is not to sign a treaty, the point is to respect the treaty and to respect its own signature," Mr Barnier said of the ex-PM's approach.
"I never understood, I do not still understand, how the prime minister of such a country, a great country like the UK, can be able not to respect his own signature.”
This is what we have been reduced to.
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