True....the goodship Brexit is testament to that.
Or should it be a leaky hulk,best get off quick,it certainly doesnt know which way to go.
KudosDave
Brexit, for once some facts.
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Or should it be a leaky hulk,best get off quick,it certainly doesnt know which way to go.
KudosDave
It's well known that a couple of drinks increases the thought process, even better, social interaction helps further.
I take it that we assume that the boat is called the SS Europe and the passengers the EU? Tories of course would get first call for the life-boats being posh, First Class and all that. And the first to notice that all was not well on SS Europe.
Yes 'MikelBikel', that is an interesting turn of events from Spain today and all eyes of the world will now be upon Spain to see how the Catalan issue unfolds in the days and weeks ahead.
While your post is relevant to this thread, there is another thread entitled, 'Fascism returns to Spain', initiated by Mike Killay in September which might be more appropriate.
Tom
the boat is shipshape and sound but a minority of the crew haven't learn't to sit down and stop continually rocking it.
In quantity yes, but often not in quality, in either case.
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What can you expect when they were press ganged?
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Perhaps someone told them they were unlikely to ever get back from whence they came?
Try telling that to the RNLI, and whatever you do don't make that remark in Eyemouth
http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/scotborder/Eyemouth.html&date=2009-10-26+02:12:23
Alcohol is quite simply a poison that interferes with the brain.
If you are intending to engage in Social interaction, best leave it to other fools to drink and watch them perform.
Too many people are hooked on alcohol and incorrectly think they are in control when it actually is.
More news of how well organised the Government is from the Independent
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Theresa May has not read of secret Brexit reports, says David Davis
Brexit Secretary claims the Prime Minister only looks at summaries
Theresa May has not read secret Whitehall reports that look into how Brexit will hit the economy, David Davis has said.
“She’ll know the summary outcomes of them,” the Brexit Secretary told a parliamentary committee meeting. “She won’t necessarily have read every single one, they are in excruciating detail.”
Asked whether the rest of the Cabinet had seen the fulll assessments, Mr Davis said they had also only read the summaries.
To sum up: the Secret Reports are so secret even the Government don't read them
What could possibly go wrong when our negotiating position cannot be accidentally revealed for a EXCELLENT REASON.
THOSE WHO RUN THE COUNTRY ONLY HAVE A VAGUE IDEA OF WHAT OUR POSITION REALLY IS AND RELY ON GUESSWORK.
DON'T BOTHER HER WITH FACTS, SHE'S MADE HER MIND UP
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Theresa May has not read of secret Brexit reports, says David Davis
Brexit Secretary claims the Prime Minister only looks at summaries
Theresa May has not read secret Whitehall reports that look into how Brexit will hit the economy, David Davis has said.
“She’ll know the summary outcomes of them,” the Brexit Secretary told a parliamentary committee meeting. “She won’t necessarily have read every single one, they are in excruciating detail.”
Asked whether the rest of the Cabinet had seen the fulll assessments, Mr Davis said they had also only read the summaries.
To sum up: the Secret Reports are so secret even the Government don't read them
What could possibly go wrong when our negotiating position cannot be accidentally revealed for a EXCELLENT REASON.
THOSE WHO RUN THE COUNTRY ONLY HAVE A VAGUE IDEA OF WHAT OUR POSITION REALLY IS AND RELY ON GUESSWORK.
DON'T BOTHER HER WITH FACTS, SHE'S MADE HER MIND UP
Have you spoken to Boris and Jackass Grease Smug and co about that?
From the BBC
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PFI: five firms avoid tax despite £2bn profits, BBC learns
he five companies specialised in lending money through Private Finance Initiatives (PFI).
They own hundreds of public assets including schools, hospitals and even police stations.
The BBC has also learned that a small number of big offshore companies are currently on a buying spree.
They are buying up a number of the UK's public buildings.
Research carried out by the think tank that investigates PFI deals, the European Services Strategy Unit, reveals the extent of the buy-up in Britain.
This meant an annual bill of £30m, at least double what he believes UCLH could be paying if the debt was re-scheduled.
Professor Marcel Levi, UCLH Chief Executive, told the BBC: "If we spend an enormous amount of money on paying interest rates and this PFI debt, then that's money we cannot spend on patient care, on nurses, on treatment and management systems."
And it's money that is not being spent on achieving targets for A&E and cancer waiting times, he added.
Ah the Glory of Tory Policies, Profit for the few, debt and distress for the Many.
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PFI: five firms avoid tax despite £2bn profits, BBC learns
he five companies specialised in lending money through Private Finance Initiatives (PFI).
They own hundreds of public assets including schools, hospitals and even police stations.
The BBC has also learned that a small number of big offshore companies are currently on a buying spree.
They are buying up a number of the UK's public buildings.
Research carried out by the think tank that investigates PFI deals, the European Services Strategy Unit, reveals the extent of the buy-up in Britain.
- Nine off-shore infrastructure funds own between 50% and 100% of the equity in 335 PFI/Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects. This amounts to 45% of all 735 current projects
- 12 offshore companies have bought equity in 74% of the 735 current projects
- Education and health projects, including schools and hospitals, account for two-thirds of the purchases by offshore companies
This meant an annual bill of £30m, at least double what he believes UCLH could be paying if the debt was re-scheduled.
Professor Marcel Levi, UCLH Chief Executive, told the BBC: "If we spend an enormous amount of money on paying interest rates and this PFI debt, then that's money we cannot spend on patient care, on nurses, on treatment and management systems."
And it's money that is not being spent on achieving targets for A&E and cancer waiting times, he added.
Ah the Glory of Tory Policies, Profit for the few, debt and distress for the Many.
Some interesting observations from the "Another Angry Voice " Blogger
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imagine that Corbyn and the Labour Party were colluding to undermine parliamentary democracy at every turn, and their supporters in the media were busy orchestrating witch hunts against anyone who stood in his way (judges, opposition politicians, campaigners, university lecturers ...).
But just imagine Corbyn and his supporters had done any of these things. We all know that the Tories and their bully boys in the mainstream media would be shrieking "red terror", drawing parallels with the Stalinist purges, and posing as if they're principled liberals who are determined to stand up for stuff like democracy, academic independence, parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, and freedom of speech.
But because these attacks on democracy, academic independence, parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, and freedom of speech are being orchestrated by Theresa May and the pro-Tory bully boys in the right-wing press, there's absolutely no talk of "the blue terror" whatever, no parallels being drawn with right-wing tyrants and dictators, and in fact the majority of the mainstream press insist on covering these extraordinary political circumstances as if there's nothing wrong at all, and these continual Tory attacks on democracy, freedom, and the rule of law are just business as usual.
The fact that there's virtually no condemnation from the mainstream media, and absolutely no efforts to frame the profoundly illiberal and anti-democratic scheming of the Tories as "the blue terror" tells us an lot about the attitudes of most of the people who work in the mainstream media.
The appalling thing is that no one can really deny the truth of theses allegations, can they?
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imagine that Corbyn and the Labour Party were colluding to undermine parliamentary democracy at every turn, and their supporters in the media were busy orchestrating witch hunts against anyone who stood in his way (judges, opposition politicians, campaigners, university lecturers ...).
- Imagine if Jeremy Corbyn hadn't been (twice) elected Labour Party leader in massive landslide victories, but instead had been crowned party leader when his allies in the party and the mainstream media bullied his rival out of the leadership contest.
- Imagine if Jeremy Corbyn was busy scheming to undermine democracy by giving himself and his ministers the power to rewrite thousands of UK laws with no democratic scrutiny whatever.
- Imagine if Jeremy Corbyn tried to bypass parliament by whipping his MPs into not voting on opposition motions, and then pretending that even though they lost the vote 299-0, the vote doesn't count because his party didn't participate.
- Imagine if Jeremy Corbyn had been defeated in the courts after trying to act as an autocrat who gets to completely bypass parliament and do whatever he likes, and then his allies in the media decided to attack the judges as "enemies of the people" for having dared to do their jobs and stand up for parliamentary democracy.
- Imagine a minister from Jeremy Corbyn's government decided to send McCarthyite letters to every single university in the UK demanding the names of all staff teaching about a particular subject and copies of their coursework (a perfectly sensible subject from the Labour manifesto like investment economics, or something as shambolic and incoherent as Theresa May's approach to the Brexit negotiations).
- Imagine if Corbyn supporters in the media then used this McCarthyite letter as inspiration to launch a hate-fuelled public witch hunt against any university staff who dare to oppose Corbyn's position.
But just imagine Corbyn and his supporters had done any of these things. We all know that the Tories and their bully boys in the mainstream media would be shrieking "red terror", drawing parallels with the Stalinist purges, and posing as if they're principled liberals who are determined to stand up for stuff like democracy, academic independence, parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, and freedom of speech.
But because these attacks on democracy, academic independence, parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, and freedom of speech are being orchestrated by Theresa May and the pro-Tory bully boys in the right-wing press, there's absolutely no talk of "the blue terror" whatever, no parallels being drawn with right-wing tyrants and dictators, and in fact the majority of the mainstream press insist on covering these extraordinary political circumstances as if there's nothing wrong at all, and these continual Tory attacks on democracy, freedom, and the rule of law are just business as usual.
The fact that there's virtually no condemnation from the mainstream media, and absolutely no efforts to frame the profoundly illiberal and anti-democratic scheming of the Tories as "the blue terror" tells us an lot about the attitudes of most of the people who work in the mainstream media.
The appalling thing is that no one can really deny the truth of theses allegations, can they?
that blog is wildly exaggerated.
The reason we are in this mess is because of the voting system.
All we need is a coalition government to stop a few MPs making a mokery of our democratic system.
Which of his allegations are untrue?
But I do agree about the Voting system as my belief is that all MP's of all parties should be represented in the Government, not in a neutered opposition role, or absolute power.
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Too true, brexiters don't like democratic discourse, dissent (a bit like Ledsom when she accused media of treason for questioning it). What can I say, this isn't North Korea. As it becomes ever more apparent what an unbelievably stupid, misguided decision it was there will be consequences.
Unfortunately for those of us who wanted to remain too!
Having just watched the U17 World Cup. Good to see that Brexit can at least be the first to take the credit for our lads winning it - convincingly!