Brexit, for once some facts.

[sjpt]

Yes - I agree it is probably Ublock Origin.

I'm using ublock origin on my main (Chrome) browser. I've got the following in its settings under My Filters,
I can't remember what I did to put them there, or even exactly what they mean, but may help.

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[flecc]

I see an Archbishop is critical of the Metropolitan elite in the Daily Telegraph

Typical York, living in the past. The Archbishop needs to wake up and recognise the reality instead of wrongly attacking London. Not just London, this country isn't the England of the past any more, that went many years ago.

Here in London with almost 60% not even white British, let alone English, we've long recognised that.

It's about time the rest of the country realised that they are little different and stop deluding themselves that the England of yesteryear still exists. To take just three examples from three other areas of the country, a stroll around Bradford, West Bromwich or Luton will quickly illustrate what I mean.

The Archbishop's England only exists as a caricature in some villages in this country's rural areas. The England he imagines will never return nationally, its destruction is too complete.
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[jonathan.agnew]

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Typical York, living in the past. The Archbishop needs to wake up and recognise the reality instead of wrongly attacking London. Not just London, this country isn't the England of the past any more, that went many years ago.

Here in London with almost 60% not even white British, let alone English, we've long recognised that.

It's about time the rest of the country realised that they are little different and stop deluding themselves that the England of yesteryear still exists. To take just three examples from three other areas of the country, a stroll around Bradford, West Bromwich or Luton will quickly illustrate what I mean.

The Archbishop's England only exists as a caricature in some villages in this country's rural areas. The England he imagines will never return nationally, its destruction is too complete.
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Not sure it ever existed. The quaint moral white village life reese mogg represent to some Tories is a figment of delusion and denial. As far as I know england in the 60s and 70s was the kind of dystopia one would do well to avoid at all cost.

 

[flecc]

Not sure it ever existed. The quaint moral white village life reese mogg represent to some Tories is a figment of delusion and denial. As far as I know england in the 60s and 70s was the kind of dystopia one would do well to avoid at all cost.

It did exist, in a complete form most recently in Edwardian times. But WW1 and the ensuing 1920s made lasting changes in our society. Then the same happened again with WW2 and for the 1920s read 1960s, making further lasting changes.

Then the third lasting change was due to migration, a a very large movement inwards from the rest of the world, particularly our former empire, accompanied by a substantial movement to other countries of the English population.

But there was nothing wrong with the 1960s and '70s, they were certainly not distopian and only those too young to have known them think otherwise. Tony Blair a typical example of a ranter against the 1960s, he was just 6 years old when that decade commenced. I was 23 so in a good position to know better.
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[oldgroaner]

By the way, I keep finding with your posts that they are just blank - at least, no images just a few words. Have to go to another computer to be able to see them!

It's my fault for buying this second hand laptop from a Klingon

 

[oldgroaner]

Typical York, living in the past. The Archbishop needs to wake up and recognise the reality instead of wrongly attacking London. Not just London, this country isn't the England of the past any more, that went many years ago.

Here in London with almost 60% not even white British, let alone English, we've long recognised that.

It's about time the rest of the country realised that they are little different and stop deluding themselves that the England of yesteryear still exists. To take just three examples from three other areas of the country, a stroll around Bradford, West Bromwich or Luton will quickly illustrate what I mean.

The Archbishop's England only exists as a caricature in some villages in this country's rural areas. The England he imagines will never return nationally, its destruction is too complete.
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It wouldn't be so bad if York hadn't been a settlement of invading Vikings for long enough!

 

[oldgroaner]

It did exist, in a complete form most recently in Edwardian times. But WW1 and the ensuing 1920s made lasting changes in our society. Then the same happened again with WW2 and for the 1920s read 1960s, making further lasting changes.

Then the third lasting change was due to migration, a a very large movement inwards from the rest of the world, particularly our former empire, accompanied by a substantial movement to other countries of the English population.

But there was nothing wrong with the 1960s and '70s, they were certainly not distopian and only those too young to have known them think otherwise. Tony Blair a typical example of a ranter against the 1960s, he was just 6 years old when that decade commenced. I was 23 so in a good position to know better.
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From my point of view as a teenager in the 1960's things changed very much for the better, year on year

 

[flecc]

From my point of view as a teenager in the 1960's things changed very much for the better, year on year

Agreed, and much better for me too in my 20s and early 30s.

The social changes of the 1960s were just the population catching up with the new politics that Clement Atlee and co. had introduced, reality rather than fantasy.
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[Danidl]

It's my fault for buying this second hand laptop from a Klingon

Who probably got it in a laptop repair shop in Delaware,

 

[oyster]

Who probably got it in a laptop repair shop in Delaware,

And then:
she died in miss-our-i...

 

[oldgroaner]

Good to see that Scottish Tory MSP's are every bit as smart as the English ones

 

[Danidl]

Good to see that Scottish Tory MSP's are every bit as smart as the English ones

If I saw a fleet of these ,coming at me, I would certainly be unmanned.

 

[oldgroaner]

The Army is ready to face odds of 50 to one to save Britain from Brexit

Hang on a minute, what if their trucks are too small and unrefrigerated? This is what they have https://army-uk.com/trucks.php Where are the rest to come from?

 

[oldgroaner]

Good to see that Scottish Tory MSP's are every bit as smart as the English ones

This is the source of the information
Polish Pl-01 prototype light tank

It would take rather more than 142 AA batteries to move it!

 

[oyster]

The Army is ready to face odds of 50 to one to save Britain from Brexit

Hang on a minute, what if their trucks are too small and unrefrigerated? This is what they have https://army-uk.com/trucks.php Where are the rest to come from?

Silly truckers. (The government rather than the Army.)

 

[wheeler]

Good to see that Scottish Tory MSP's are every bit as smart as the English ones

Murdo is one of the dimmest Tory MSPs, and considering how dim the others are that is probably his greatest achievement.

 

[oldgroaner]

Murdo is one of the dimmest Tory MSPs, and considering how dim the others are that is probably his greatest achievement.

That makes him Murdo Mc Grayling?

 

[oyster]

Murdo is one of the dimmest Tory MSPs, and considering how dim the others are that is probably his greatest achievement.

McMurdo Unsound?

 

[oyster]

Just why is the government funding this?

The government has launched a £4m fund to back projects trialling running fibre optic broadband cables through water pipes to help connect hard-to-reach homes without digging up roads.

The money will also be used to test out monitors in pipes that can help water companies identify and repair leaks more quickly. About a fifth of water put into public supply every day is lost via leaks and it is hoped that sensors could help deliver water companies’ commitment to reduce water loss by half.

It isn't that the technology might not be "a good thing" with positive benefits. Rather that two industries , both with multi-billion turnovers, will get money from us to help:
a) meet their commitments to enhance broadband coverage;
b) meet their commitments to reduce leaks;
c) meet their commitments to increase shareholder value.

At most, the government should have a whip round of the companies and provide some sort of oversight to ensure the work is done and the results feed back.

Southern Water alone could have funded four million not once, but twenty five times over, had they not been fined for disgraceful behavoiur in NOT treating sewage.

 

[flecc]

Southern Water alone could have funded four million not once, but twenty five times over, had they not been fined for disgraceful behavoiur in NOT treating sewage.

Don't know why they picked on Southern Water. Thames Water's overloaded sewage system routinely discharges raw sewage into the Thames, on average once a week, and no further fines have been issued. Both companies discharges end up in the Thames Estuary and the North Sea. Thames Water are building a huge new super sewer called the Thames Tideway tunnel to carry the sewage across to the Beckton sewage works, but that's such a huge undertaking it won't be ready until 2025.
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