Brexit, for once some facts.

[oldgroaner]

Good to hear from you again OG and particularly pleased to learn that your wife is in a care home, given how unavoidably stressful your life was previously.

I hope you are keeping well.
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Thank you for your kind thoughts flecc, I hope you are well too, mine is reasonable, apart from falling off my Ebike when reaching for a crossing button. The bike was at rest, but the front wheel chose to go East, and I went West, then fell backwards onto the road.
A couple of cars very kindly stopped and the occupants picked me up.
Result was I need a new helmet as the back of it hit the road, bruises back and arms, damaged left thumb, a wounded pride, and a telling off from my daughter and the next door neighbor.

 

[oldgroaner]

I rather like this

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1655946975836262400

 

[flecc]

Trans Pennine Rail nationalised by end of month

They now join Northern Rail (LNER) in being Tory government owned and run, plus Eastern Rail and Southern Rail both being run by the government. Scottish and Welsh Rail are also already in government hands.

At this rate Labour's long held ambition to re-nationalise rail may be completed before they get into power!!
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[Woosh]

“Now, having been told you're a lazy, woke, inefficient, Remainer, activist, snowflake, you are also now apparently a Machiavellian genius, able to unseat ministers and undermine the settled will of government."

Dave Penman, general secretary of the FDA.

Apparently, the top civil servant who was in charge of selecting which laws to remove is on long term sick leave.
I wonder if Kemi Badenoch would be following Dominic Raab.

 

[flecc]

I wonder if Kemi Badenoch would be following Dominic Raab.

Hopefully not, at least she has faced down the ERG. 600 EU laws removed is better than the 4000 they wanted. Especially since they are mostly environmental laws this government would ignore anyway, in customary fashion.

We are going to see a lot more of these rows, as the underlying civil service objective to stay connected closely to the EU clashes with the policy of the Tory far right, and maybe even the Labour far left, still in a next government.
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[Woosh]

I expect they won't even manage 600. At the end of the day, what would they replace them with? Copy and paste?

 

[flecc]

I expect they won't even manage 600. At the end of the day, what would they replace them with? Copy and paste?

Probably, though not all need any replacement. I'm guessing that some of the environmental laws would clash with their just announced, overriding intention to further greatly increase our wind turbine fleet. Gaps in the regulations can be very handy at times.
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[Woosh]

Apparently, the national grid can't connect new wind and solar farms.
Also, Rolls Royce SMRs will run out of money next year if government does not place orders.

 

[flecc]

Apparently, the national grid can't connect new wind and solar farms.
Also, Rolls Royce SMRs will run out of money next year if government does not place orders.

Agreed, the national grid will need urgent attention, but I think it will get that. We've got so much wind generation at times now that we are actually earning from Europe on odd occasions. I'm sure that's why they intend the further big increase.

I don't think SMRs will get a look-in, with limited money available, any that is will be for more wind, solar and hydro "batteries" to short term store what they generate.
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[guerney]

Or "wide backed vagina, camilla"?

People are convinced coronation choir sang 'wide-backed vagina, Camilla'

Social media users say they ‘can’t un-hear it now.’

metro.co.uk

IMHO Camilla's likeness won't be as popular

Sex dolls based on Princess Diana, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle among most requested by kinky users
The royal women are among the most desired.

Sex dolls based on Princess Diana, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle among most requested by kinky users

A leading adult toy company, Inferno, has revealed that some of their most requested celebrity sex dolls are Princess Diana, Kate Middleton, and Meghan Markle. However, the company

www.marca.com

 

[Woosh]

Nigel Farage was on Newsnight last night. He said 'brexit has failed' - whatever that means.
He is a formidable debater though.

 

[guerney]

Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess

Brexit-supporting offshore merchant wonders what has happened to all the investment

Dyson says UK science and tech industrial strategy sucks

Brexit-supporting offshore merchant wonders what has happened to all the investment

www.theregister.com

 

[guerney]

Dirty-bomb antidote: Drug trial begins in US

Dirty-bomb antidote: Drug trial begins in US

Volunteers will test a pill designed to remove radioactive contamination from the body.

www.bbc.co.uk

First-in-Human Trial for Oral Drug to Remove Radioactive Contaminants
A pioneering clinical trial of an experimental oral medication designed to eliminate radioactive contaminants from within the body has commenced.

https://scienceblog.com/537870/first-in-human-trial-for-oral-drug-to-remove-radioactive-contaminants/

 

[jonathan.agnew]

Dirty-bomb antidote: Drug trial begins in US

Dirty-bomb antidote: Drug trial begins in US

Volunteers will test a pill designed to remove radioactive contamination from the body.

www.bbc.co.uk

First-in-Human Trial for Oral Drug to Remove Radioactive Contaminants
A pioneering clinical trial of an experimental oral medication designed to eliminate radioactive contaminants from within the body has commenced.

https://scienceblog.com/537870/first-in-human-trial-for-oral-drug-to-remove-radioactive-contaminants/

Interesting stuff. Can't help thinking about the piglet, who seem to be furiously trying to grease himself, again, as part of also trying to get rid of some contaminants

Legal battle looms over Boris Johnson's COVID pandemic WhatsApp messages

Boris Johnson, who was the prime minister during the pandemic, is battling to prevent his unedited WhatsApp messages and diaries being released to an official inquiry looking into the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

news.sky.com

 

[Woosh]

Johnson made me think of Donald Trump and his efforts to get re-elected.
There is no such thing as bad publicity or is there?
By the way, do you listen to Any Questions and Any Answers? Same with BBC QT, the subject last week was immigration, chiefly legal immigration. Nobody seems to know what to do about that.
When I came here, immigation was a non-subject. It's now 30 times what it was.
Still, it's a pyramid scheme.

 

[guerney]

Platformed far right by Buddhist mindfully evil E.T. is their only hope.

Rishi Sunak warned over possible UK recession in 2024
High inflation likely to push interest rates above 5% and force up mortgage and loan payments just ahead of election

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/26/rishi-sunak-warned-over-possible-uk-recession-in-2024

 

[guerney]

Interesting stuff. Can't help thinking about the piglet, who seem to be furiously trying to grease himself, again, as part of also trying to get rid of some contaminants

Legal battle looms over Boris Johnson's COVID pandemic WhatsApp messages

Boris Johnson, who was the prime minister during the pandemic, is battling to prevent his unedited WhatsApp messages and diaries being released to an official inquiry looking into the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

news.sky.com

Many will still vote for the piglet, the pandemic will be ignored as a blip, along with all associated events.

 

[jonathan.agnew]

Johnson made me think of Donald Trump and his efforts to get re-elected.
There is no such thing as bad publicity or is there?
By the way, do you listen to Any Questions and Any Answers? Same with BBC QT, the subject last week was immigration, chiefly legal immigration. Nobody seems to know what to do about that.
When I came here, immigation was a non-subject. It's now 30 times what it was.
Still, it's a pyramid scheme.

Many will still vote for the piglet, the pandemic will be ignored as a blip, along with all associated events.

It's fascinating really. The republicans, the party of gaetz, mtg, Santos, trump. The tories, with their fake covid contracts, non existent ferries, affairs, loans, dodgy influence, truss haven't quite, publicly, stooped to glorifying being prosecuted for sexual assault. But it's getting a very, very, very low bar. And the alternative is starmer, it feels worse than a pyramid scheme, more Stockholm syndrome.

 

[Woosh]

Starmer has a difficult job to do.
He needs to steer clear of clearly unworkable policies of Corbyn, Johnson and Truss.
There is very little left on the table.
Can he preserve what's left of the social safety net? If he can, then who is doing the work that the poorer Brits don't want to do?
Can he level up? I can't see how that's possible.
Can he borrow enough money to turn the economy around? If he can, then how much tax can he charge the better off among us?
Can he take us back to the EU, if not, then can he get us back inside the single market or the customs union?
Can he wean our universities off selling cheap degrees?

 

[flecc]

Starmer has a difficult job to do.
He needs to steer clear of clearly unworkable policies of Corbyn, Johnson and Truss.

Whoa !!

Leave Corbyn out, the Tories have already implemented half his policies, nationalising rail, paying people not to work, subsidising fuel, food handouts for the needy,

They only need to learn the words for "The Red Flag" now, Labour's anthem.
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