Imagine the furore and outrage if another school had caved into pressure from protesters and stopped teaching classes on Islam...
An utter disgrace.
It is
If I were 25 years old, I would emigrate tomorrow. Britain is finished. Europe is finished. Stagnation and religious strife await.
I’d go to America. Where English freedoms and the Enlightenment are still, thank god, protected by that Constitution. And I’d buy lots of guns.
Or I’d go to Asia. The future.
You might want to look more closely at American news before making that decision.
I follow American news closely. They too have culture wars, and they too have a weird class of people using identity politics to deconstruct their own hardwon freedoms. BUT they have that Constituion. A vital bulwark against the madness. Plus they have a more vibrant economy. Especially in California, where I’d go. Maybe Santa Barbara.
California is generally badly run. Its schools are on a par with those of Mississippi, it has almost the highest State taxes in the USA, its infrastructure is falling apart, it's overregulated, and over-unionised.
It's great if you've got enough money to ignore these failings.
That’s true about all of the US: it’s a great place to live if you have money.
Even if you have money, in tghe US you often have to work longer hours, commute for longer and have half the annual leave compared to comparable work in the UK and Europe.
This is infinitely depressing. We have lost. We have no backbone. The Enlightenment is over. Now comes the Darkening.
Ofsted should step in and close the school.
They'd probably end up having to close a great many schools in Birmingham.
This is what it’s like when the Muslim population of the country is just 5%. We cower and cringe, and abandon precious freedoms and principles with barely a fight. We already have a de facto blasphemy law - that only protects Islam.
Imagine what it will be like if and when the Muslim population reaches 10%, or 20%.
Grim.
According to the article, all kinds of God Squadders have got involved.
Christians and Jews have also joined the protests, and on one Friday this month campaigners claimed that 600 of the school’s 750 children did not attend classes after being pulled out by their parents.
Do you really think the school would have abandoned these lessons if it was just Christians or Jews complaining? Of course not. And what’s your guess as to the religious complexion of the kids in this school. In Birmingham. Majority Jewish? Welsh evangelicals?
Mind you, you've got to hand it to Andrew Moffat, whose teaching program kicked off the protests. He's nothing if not persistent. Looks as if he was involved in an almost identical controversy five years ago:
Life is curious isn't it? Throughout the Referendum campaign Leave said we had to restore the power and sovereignty of Parliament.. Now they are doing just that they hate it.
No, they are choosing to reject those powers and leave them with the EU. That is not what the people voted for.
And you have ascertained what 'the people' voted for? How exactly? 40 years of campaigning has taught me nothing of the sort!
17.4 million people voted leave but each had a different perception of what "leave" meant.
We got into this mess because it was obvious we were afraid to keep No deal on the table. (Properly on the table - using the last 3 years to visibly prepare our ports, infrastructure, tax system, really good practical advice for businesses). A certain amount has been done - should have been more ambitious. Britain is capable of so much more than this. The country voted to leave. We don't need months or years of asking the EU or Ireland what we can or can't do. I appreciate the PM's efforts and attention to detail. Anyway, the law currently says we leave the EU on 29th March.
Hi Joe, nice to see you on here. I got blocked from UKPR for some reason. Still read all the comments on there.
"The Conservative Party now has almost no intellectual connection to crucial debates about the ecosystem of science, productivity, universities, funding, startups and so on. I know from personal experience that even billionaire entrepreneurs whose donations are vital to the survival of CCHQ cannot get people like Hammond to listen to anything about all this — Hammond’s focus is obeying his orders from Goldman Sachs.
Downing Street is much more interested in protecting corporate looting by large banks and companies and protecting rent-seekers than they are in productivity and entrepreneurs. "
The one thing I'm looking forward to, when all this is eventually over, is the end of those irritating protestors who stand behind Simon McCoy/Huw Edwards and scream.
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
Why is it that I get the genuine impression that practically every person on PB is several magnitudes brighter than practically every MP in Parliament?
And that is not me being sarcastic. I believe that the vast majority of people on here, including all those I rant against daily, have a better understanding pf politics, the EU, real life and business than almost everyone sat in the Commons.
Extraordinary to hear Conservative MPs publicly threatening to vote against their own Government in a VoNC. That suggests internal party order has now collapsed and perhaps the first head on the block should be that of Brandon Lewis. I watched some hapless Government spokesman from the Lords wheeled out to be the cannon fodder to Ken Clarke who naturally treated his argument as though it was something into which his shoe had inadvertently gone.
As for SeanT claiming the end of civilisation has come - maybe but nowhere is perfect. Everywhere has its flaws - all the Tories on here seem to hate California with a healthy passion. I love San Diego and Rancho Mirage but could I live there? No. Mrs Stodge tells me New Zealand is still a decent place - maybe but you won't find Utopia on a map - you might be bale to make a local Utopia for yourself somewhere but that's all.
It is lovely here. We are close enough to Cardiff to be a relatively well-off area; lots of parks and walks and sports facilities. Very friendly and communal, barely any serious crime. A good council; two great primary schools. It's a happy little place.
They are going to get sued for billions. This is worse than dieselgate. Many people have died.
Plenty of people have died because of dieselgate.
Yes: but it's really hard to know which actual deaths were due to Volkswagen. We can make estimates of the effect, but an individual death? And this makes individual litigation hard.
With Boeing and the 737Max, I think we can work out exactly which deaths are the responsibility of Boeing.
So what do we reckon - $10m/death? That works out at $3bn. A large check, but not one Boeing cannot shrug off.
The biggest question is whether the 737Max remains under a cloud for some time. Ironic, really, that Airbus already has seven year waiting lists for the A320Neo, and therefore won't be able to benefit.
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
Why is it that I get the genuine impression that practically every person on PB is several magnitudes brighter than practically every MP in Parliament?
And that is not me being sarcastic. I believe that the vast majority of people on here, including all those I rant against daily, have a better understanding pf politics, the EU, real life and business than almost everyone sat in the Commons.
We are led by imbeciles.
Think yourself lucky we haven't got 650 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs
"The Conservative Party now has almost no intellectual connection to crucial debates about the ecosystem of science, productivity, universities, funding, startups and so on. I know from personal experience that even billionaire entrepreneurs whose donations are vital to the survival of CCHQ cannot get people like Hammond to listen to anything about all this — Hammond’s focus is obeying his orders from Goldman Sachs.
Downing Street is much more interested in protecting corporate looting by large banks and companies and protecting rent-seekers than they are in productivity and entrepreneurs. "
With all due respect to Mr Cummings, and I speak as a former Goldman Sachs employee and an entrepreneur, that is bollocks.
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
Why is it that I get the genuine impression that practically every person on PB is several magnitudes brighter than practically every MP in Parliament?
And that is not me being sarcastic. I believe that the vast majority of people on here, including all those I rant against daily, have a better understanding pf politics, the EU, real life and business than almost everyone sat in the Commons.
We are led by imbeciles.
I think that the Palace of Westminster is like the hotel in The Shining.
Extraordinary to hear Conservative MPs publicly threatening to vote against their own Government in a VoNC. That suggests internal party order has now collapsed and perhaps the first head on the block should be that of Brandon Lewis. I watched some hapless Government spokesman from the Lords wheeled out to be the cannon fodder to Ken Clarke who naturally treated his argument as though it was something into which his shoe had inadvertently gone.
As for SeanT claiming the end of civilisation has come - maybe but nowhere is perfect. Everywhere has its flaws - all the Tories on here seem to hate California with a healthy passion. I love San Diego and Rancho Mirage but could I live there? No. Mrs Stodge tells me New Zealand is still a decent place - maybe but you won't find Utopia on a map - you might be bale to make a local Utopia for yourself somewhere but that's all.
It is lovely here. We are close enough to Cardiff to be a relatively well-off area; lots of parks and walks and sports facilities. Very friendly and communal, barely any serious crime. A good council; two great primary schools. It's a happy little place.
We got into this mess because it was obvious we were afraid to keep No deal on the table. (Properly on the table - using the last 3 years to visibly prepare our ports, infrastructure, tax system, really good practical advice for businesses). A certain amount has been done - should have been more ambitious. Britain is capable of so much more than this. The country voted to leave. We don't need months or years of asking the EU or Ireland what we can or can't do. I appreciate the PM's efforts and attention to detail. Anyway, the law currently says we leave the EU on 29th March.
I have seen nothing in the last couple of years to suggest that "Britain is capable of so much more than this". I'm with SeanT and would be looking to get out if I was younger, as it is I'm retired and may yet do it once the post-Brexit implications of moving to another part of Europe become clearer.
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
Why is it that I get the genuine impression that practically every person on PB is several magnitudes brighter than practically every MP in Parliament?
And that is not me being sarcastic. I believe that the vast majority of people on here, including all those I rant against daily, have a better understanding pf politics, the EU, real life and business than almost everyone sat in the Commons.
We are led by imbeciles.
I think that the Palace of Westminster is like the hotel in The Shining.
The quieter ones are probably more intelligent than the rentagobs that love to air their views.
Imagine the furore and outrage if another school had caved into pressure from protesters and stopped teaching classes on Islam...
An utter disgrace.
It is
If I were 25 years old, I would emigrate tomorrow. Britain is finished. Europe is finished. Stagnation and religious strife await.
I’d go to America. Where English freedoms and the Enlightenment are still, thank god, protected by that Constitution. And I’d buy lots of guns.
Or I’d go to Asia. The future.
You might want to look more closely at American news before making that decision.
Or try eating some of their 'cheese'.
In posh parts of California you can get every variety of European cheese plus their own new artisanal stuff, which is nice. Also Californian wines (not quite as good as Aussie, but v pleasant). Plus all those deserts and mountains. The sweet summer sweat. Warm smell of calyptus.
Fuck it, I’m going.
Los Angeles is particularly attractive at this time of year. I'm currently having breakfast in The Brentwood Countrymart, sitting about five yards from a selection of excellent artisinal cheeses*. This weekend, we'll go hiking in the Santa Monica mountains, and I may go for a swim in ocean. Next weekend, we're going skiing, which is perfectly simple, due to the fact that the nearest ski resort is just 90 minutes drive away.
And at the kids school** fundraiser last week there was a basket of weed products - mostly edibles, but some "pre-rolls too" - in the auction.
* The artisinal cheeses are quite eyewateringly expensive. ** Just the local public elementary school
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
Why is it that I get the genuine impression that practically every person on PB is several magnitudes brighter than practically every MP in Parliament?
And that is not me being sarcastic. I believe that the vast majority of people on here, including all those I rant against daily, have a better understanding pf politics, the EU, real life and business than almost everyone sat in the Commons.
We are led by imbeciles.
I think that the Palace of Westminster is like the hotel in The Shining.
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
I don't think that's cricket.
Really? Every time someone complains about Bercow's choice of amendments we're told they are the rules, suck it up. I think MPs have every right to vote on something, even if the original proposer would rather not go through with it.
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
I don't think that's cricket.
Really? Every time someone complains about Bercow's choice of amendments we're told they are the rules, suck it up. I think MPs have every right to vote on something, even if the original proposer would rather not go through with it.
They are going to get sued for billions. This is worse than dieselgate. Many people have died.
Plenty of people have died because of dieselgate.
Yes: but it's really hard to know which actual deaths were due to Volkswagen. We can make estimates of the effect, but an individual death? And this makes individual litigation hard.
With Boeing and the 737Max, I think we can work out exactly which deaths are the responsibility of Boeing.
So what do we reckon - $10m/death? That works out at $3bn. A large check, but not one Boeing cannot shrug off.
The biggest question is whether the 737Max remains under a cloud for some time. Ironic, really, that Airbus already has seven year waiting lists for the A320Neo, and therefore won't be able to benefit.
10 mil a life is on on the high side as an average I would say.
They are going to get sued for billions. This is worse than dieselgate. Many people have died.
Plenty of people have died because of dieselgate.
Yes: but it's really hard to know which actual deaths were due to Volkswagen. We can make estimates of the effect, but an individual death? And this makes individual litigation hard.
With Boeing and the 737Max, I think we can work out exactly which deaths are the responsibility of Boeing.
So what do we reckon - $10m/death? That works out at $3bn. A large check, but not one Boeing cannot shrug off.
The biggest question is whether the 737Max remains under a cloud for some time. Ironic, really, that Airbus already has seven year waiting lists for the A320Neo, and therefore won't be able to benefit.
As noted below Boeing are highly likely to have substantial liability insurance to cover any claims against them.
I wish we had politicians as good as the SNP in England.
They have some talented people and ate very disciplined but there does seem to be some hero worship of them by some in England that ignites that they are still politicians and suffer the same sorts of issues. Are they the best of a bad bunch? I dont know, maybe, but they surely dont deserve hagiographic praise that they get
I wish we had politicians as good as the SNP in England.
They have some talented people and ate very disciplined but there does seem to be some hero worship of them by some in England that ignites that they are still politicians and suffer the same sorts of issues.
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
I don't think that's cricket.
Really? Every time someone complains about Bercow's choice of amendments we're told they are the rules, suck it up. I think MPs have every right to vote on something, even if the original proposer would rather not go through with it.
Especially as the constant refrain on here is that MPs actually need to decide on something.
Life is curious isn't it? Throughout the Referendum campaign Leave said we had to restore the power and sovereignty of Parliament.. Now they are doing just that they hate it.
They haven't done it yet. And when the government wins things parliament is still sovereign then yet the losers still claim parliament is not listened to. So in short, a lot of guff is spoken about such things, but parliament is still in control were May to get her deal through it
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
I don't think that's cricket.
Really? Every time someone complains about Bercow's choice of amendments we're told they are the rules, suck it up. I think MPs have every right to vote on something, even if the original proposer would rather not go through with it.
If its permissible for them to add their names I cannot see the problem. Play procedural games and the other side will too. The ERG I do not like but Starmer and Grieve have been lionised for their use of procedural arcana.
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
I don't think that's cricket.
Really? Every time someone complains about Bercow's choice of amendments we're told they are the rules, suck it up. I think MPs have every right to vote on something, even if the original proposer would rather not go through with it.
If its permissible for them to add their names I cannot see the problem. Play procedural games and the other side will too. The ERG I do not like but Starmer and Grieve have been lionised for their use of procedural arcana.
I don't have a problem with this.
It seems to me that both sides are making entirely unnecessary strategic errors at the moment.
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
Why is it that I get the genuine impression that practically every person on PB is several magnitudes brighter than practically every MP in Parliament?
And that is not me being sarcastic. I believe that the vast majority of people on here, including all those I rant against daily, have a better understanding pf politics, the EU, real life and business than almost everyone sat in the Commons.
We are led by imbeciles.
I think that the Palace of Westminster is like the hotel in The Shining.
The hotel was in a better state of repair.
Yes, but the image of Mrs. May at her typewriter.... WAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA....
On both potential Wollaston-2 and MV3 being ineligible because they've already been asked, hasn't a customs union been voted down about 5 times by the house already ?
The question then: how many Tory holdouts? 5 remainers, 15 ultra-ERGers? That would mean May needed 15 Labour Ayes.
Time to tell the DUP No Deal means an Irish unity referendum.
Oh and Westminster will pass legislation to make same sex marriage legal compulsory and implement an Abortion law to ensure people do not need to travel in Northern Ireland.
‘Cause the DUP hate any difference between NI and GB.
FTFY
FTFY properly as the second abortion issue really does need to be fixed as part of a concerted plan to bring Ulster into the 1990s..
On both potential Wollaston-2 and MV3 being ineligible because they've already been asked, hasn't a customs union been voted down about 5 times by the house already ?
Imagine the furore and outrage if another school had caved into pressure from protesters and stopped teaching classes on Islam...
An utter disgrace.
It is
If I were 25 years old, I would emigrate tomorrow. Britain is finished. Europe is finished. Stagnation and religious strife await.
I’d go to America. Where English freedoms and the Enlightenment are still, thank god, protected by that Constitution. And I’d buy lots of guns.
Or I’d go to Asia. The future.
You might want to look more closely at American news before making that decision.
Or try eating some of their 'cheese'.
In posh parts of California you can get every variety of European cheese plus their own new artisanal stuff, which is nice. Also Californian wines (not quite as good as Aussie, but v pleasant). Plus all those deserts and mountains. The sweet summer sweat. Warm smell of calyptus.
Fuck it, I’m going.
True, there are small pockets of the US where one can get decent stuff. Dreadful bureaucracy though - much worse than here.
Indeed. I have encountered the US tax system. I am still recovering.
It is amazing how vivacious their economy is - creating giants like apple, and amazon, and google - when the bureaucracy seems designed to frustrate it.
Go to Socal.
The weather is what you imagine, while in Norcal on a good day it's like Birmingham
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
Why is it that I get the genuine impression that practically every person on PB is several magnitudes brighter than practically every MP in Parliament?
And that is not me being sarcastic. I believe that the vast majority of people on here, including all those I rant against daily, have a better understanding pf politics, the EU, real life and business than almost everyone sat in the Commons.
We are led by imbeciles.
I think that the Palace of Westminster is like the hotel in The Shining.
The hotel was in a better state of repair.
And its maze wasn't quite as difficult to negotiate as Brexit - even when being pursued by an axe-wielding Jack Nicholson......
On both potential Wollaston-2 and MV3 being ineligible because they've already been asked, hasn't a customs union been voted down about 5 times by the house already ?
As has No Deal
So that leaves Revoke...
I might be misremembering but I'm sure SNP amendments to revoke article 50 have been defeated before now.
Imagine the furore and outrage if another school had caved into pressure from protesters and stopped teaching classes on Islam...
An utter disgrace.
It is
If I were 25 years old, I would emigrate tomorrow. Britain is finished. Europe is finished. Stagnation and religious strife await.
I’d go to America. Where English freedoms and the Enlightenment are still, thank god, protected by that Constitution. And I’d buy lots of guns.
Or I’d go to Asia. The future.
You might want to look more closely at American news before making that decision.
Or try eating some of their 'cheese'.
In posh parts of California you can get every variety of European cheese plus their own new artisanal stuff, which is nice. Also Californian wines (not quite as good as Aussie, but v pleasant). Plus all those deserts and mountains. The sweet summer sweat. Warm smell of calyptus.
Fuck it, I’m going.
True, there are small pockets of the US where one can get decent stuff. Dreadful bureaucracy though - much worse than here.
Indeed. I have encountered the US tax system. I am still recovering.
It is amazing how vivacious their economy is - creating giants like apple, and amazon, and google - when the bureaucracy seems designed to frustrate it.
Go to Socal.
The weather is what you imagine, while in Norcal on a good day it's like Birmingham
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
Why is it that I get the genuine impression that practically every person on PB is several magnitudes brighter than practically every MP in Parliament?
And that is not me being sarcastic. I believe that the vast majority of people on here, including all those I rant against daily, have a better understanding pf politics, the EU, real life and business than almost everyone sat in the Commons.
We are led by imbeciles.
Think yourself lucky we haven't got 650 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs
Why? – nowt wrong with AOC. She has got serious game and would one considered a centre-left moderate were she European.
"The Conservative Party now has almost no intellectual connection to crucial debates about the ecosystem of science, productivity, universities, funding, startups and so on. I know from personal experience that even billionaire entrepreneurs whose donations are vital to the survival of CCHQ cannot get people like Hammond to listen to anything about all this — Hammond’s focus is obeying his orders from Goldman Sachs.
Downing Street is much more interested in protecting corporate looting by large banks and companies and protecting rent-seekers than they are in productivity and entrepreneurs. "
With all due respect to Mr Cummings, and I speak as a former Goldman Sachs employee and an entrepreneur, that is bollocks.
They prefer big banks to entrepreneurial minnows though! Otherwise where are the minnows paying massive amounts into the compensation funds because of the big banks f*** ups ?
Imagine the furore and outrage if another school had caved into pressure from protesters and stopped teaching classes on Islam...
An utter disgrace.
It is
If I were 25 years old, I would emigrate tomorrow. Britain is finished. Europe is finished. Stagnation and religious strife await.
I’d go to America. Where English freedoms and the Enlightenment are still, thank god, protected by that Constitution. And I’d buy lots of guns.
Or I’d go to Asia. The future.
You might want to look more closely at American news before making that decision.
Or try eating some of their 'cheese'.
In posh parts of California you can get every variety of European cheese plus their own new artisanal stuff, which is nice. Also Californian wines (not quite as good as Aussie, but v pleasant). Plus all those deserts and mountains. The sweet summer sweat. Warm smell of calyptus.
Fuck it, I’m going.
True, there are small pockets of the US where one can get decent stuff. Dreadful bureaucracy though - much worse than here.
Indeed. I have encountered the US tax system. I am still recovering.
It is amazing how vivacious their economy is - creating giants like apple, and amazon, and google - when the bureaucracy seems designed to frustrate it.
Go to Socal.
The weather is what you imagine, while in Norcal on a good day it's like Birmingham
Well yes, but the House of Commons' own expressed view on the subject is clearly going to be a highly relevant consideration for the chair. The Bryant amendment seems highly risky to me for that reason.
Imagine the furore and outrage if another school had caved into pressure from protesters and stopped teaching classes on Islam...
An utter disgrace.
It is
If I were 25 years old, I would emigrate tomorrow. Britain is finished. Europe is finished. Stagnation and religious strife await.
I’d go to America. Where English freedoms and the Enlightenment are still, thank god, protected by that Constitution. And I’d buy lots of guns.
Or I’d go to Asia. The future.
You might want to look more closely at American news before making that decision.
Or try eating some of their 'cheese'.
In posh parts of California you can get every variety of European cheese plus their own new artisanal stuff, which is nice. Also Californian wines (not quite as good as Aussie, but v pleasant). Plus all those deserts and mountains. The sweet summer sweat. Warm smell of calyptus.
Fuck it, I’m going.
True, there are small pockets of the US where one can get decent stuff. Dreadful bureaucracy though - much worse than here.
Indeed. I have encountered the US tax system. I am still recovering.
It is amazing how vivacious their economy is - creating giants like apple, and amazon, and google - when the bureaucracy seems designed to frustrate it.
Go to Socal.
The weather is what you imagine, while in Norcal on a good day it's like Birmingham
Imagine the furore and outrage if another school had caved into pressure from protesters and stopped teaching classes on Islam...
An utter disgrace.
It is
If I were 25 years old, I would emigrate tomorrow. Britain is finished. Europe is finished. Stagnation and religious strife await.
I’d go to America. Where English freedoms and the Enlightenment are still, thank god, protected by that Constitution. And I’d buy lots of guns.
Or I’d go to Asia. The future.
You might want to look more closely at American news before making that decision.
I follow American news closely. They too have culture wars, and they too have a weird class of people using identity politics to deconstruct their own hardwon freedoms. BUT they have that Constituion. A vital bulwark against the madness. Plus they have a more vibrant economy. Especially in California, where I’d go. Maybe Santa Barbara.
California is generally badly run. Its schools are on a par with those of Mississippi, it has almost the highest State taxes in the USA, its infrastructure is falling apart, it's overregulated, and over-unionised.
It's great if you've got enough money to ignore these failings.
That’s true about all of the US: it’s a great place to live if you have money.
Even if you have money, in tghe US you often have to work longer hours, commute for longer and have half the annual leave compared to comparable work in the UK and Europe.
Not necessarily, I work similar hours, get as much, if not more vacation than I did in the UK, and my commute is infinitely less stressful as it no longer involves Southeastern (the subway is worse than the tube I grant you). OK, so my employer is a European company, but my T&Cs were pretty much the same at my last job which was an American company.
With the ERG's political nous, the other MPs will probably pass it - just to spite them.....
Or the ERG might end up voting for it by mistake.
Some of them seem to have enjoyed making impossible promises during a referendum campaign a lot more than the challenges of delivering on them afterwards.
Imagine the furore and outrage if another school had caved into pressure from protesters and stopped teaching classes on Islam...
An utter disgrace.
It is
If I were 25 years old, I would emigrate tomorrow. Britain is finished. Europe is finished. Stagnation and religious strife await.
I’d go to America. Where English freedoms and the Enlightenment are still, thank god, protected by that Constitution. And I’d buy lots of guns.
Or I’d go to Asia. The future.
You might want to look more closely at American news before making that decision.
I follow American news closely. They too have culture wars, and they too have a weird class of people using identity politics to deconstruct their own hardwon freedoms. BUT they have that Constituion. A vital bulwark against the madness. Plus they have a more vibrant economy. Especially in California, where I’d go. Maybe Santa Barbara.
California is generally badly run. Its schools are on a par with those of Mississippi, it has almost the highest State taxes in the USA, its infrastructure is falling apart, it's overregulated, and over-unionised.
It's great if you've got enough money to ignore these failings.
That’s true about all of the US: it’s a great place to live if you have money.
Even if you have money, in tghe US you often have to work longer hours, commute for longer and have half the annual leave compared to comparable work in the UK and Europe.
Not necessarily, I work similar hours, get as much, if not more vacation than I did in the UK, and my commute is infinitely less stressful as it no longer involves Southeastern (the subway is worse than the tube I grant you). OK, so my employer is a European company, but my T&Cs were pretty much the same at my last job which was an American company.
Overall, the standard of living is about a third higher in the US than it is here, but probably worse there the bottom quarter of the population than it is here.
Well yes, but the House of Commons' own expressed view on the subject is clearly going to be a highly relevant consideration for the chair. The Bryant amendment seems highly risky to me for that reason.
The full section in Erskine may seems to allow for someone suitably creative to bring back the same thing, or if the house says we just want to, or the underlying situation has changed. If it wants to do it again it can find a way. But it all still hinges on Bercow.
ERG adding names to Woolly amendment to ensure its voted on. Politics is now broken lol
Why is it that I get the genuine impression that practically every person on PB is several magnitudes brighter than practically every MP in Parliament?
And that is not me being sarcastic. I believe that the vast majority of people on here, including all those I rant against daily, have a better understanding pf politics, the EU, real life and business than almost everyone sat in the Commons.
We are led by imbeciles.
Think yourself lucky we haven't got 650 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs
Why? – nowt wrong with AOC. She has got serious game and would one considered a centre-left moderate were she European.
She represents America's future far more than Trump and his base do.
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Trolling of the Year award.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gay-teacher-resigns-after-parent-protest-3tp2kxnf25n
FFS, get a job.
And that is not me being sarcastic. I believe that the vast majority of people on here, including all those I rant against daily, have a better understanding pf politics, the EU, real life and business than almost everyone sat in the Commons.
We are led by imbeciles.
It is lovely here. We are close enough to Cardiff to be a relatively well-off area; lots of parks and walks and sports facilities. Very friendly and communal, barely any serious crime. A good council; two great primary schools. It's a happy little place.
With Boeing and the 737Max, I think we can work out exactly which deaths are the responsibility of Boeing.
So what do we reckon - $10m/death? That works out at $3bn. A large check, but not one Boeing cannot shrug off.
The biggest question is whether the 737Max remains under a cloud for some time. Ironic, really, that Airbus already has seven year waiting lists for the A320Neo, and therefore won't be able to benefit.
https://thehuntingoffice.org.uk/ju-directory/63-glamorgan/46-ystrad-taf-fechan-hunt.html
Welcome to PB by the way
And at the kids school** fundraiser last week there was a basket of weed products - mostly edibles, but some "pre-rolls too" - in the auction.
* The artisinal cheeses are quite eyewateringly expensive.
** Just the local public elementary school
https://www.paulmasterton.org.uk/news/brexit-update-14th-march-2019
Probably paving the way for saying another Presidential election will be unfair because he's already been elected bigly.
He reminds me a bit of General Galtieri.
https://twitter.com/BEA_Aero/status/1106221599735332864
I’d call him a c*nt but he lacks the depth and the warmth.
It seems to me that both sides are making entirely unnecessary strategic errors at the moment.
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https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1106220001550364673
So that leaves Revoke...
... wait I'm not sure if that's a negative or positive.
The weather is what you imagine, while in Norcal on a good day it's like Birmingham
And nobody that I can remember, from either side, advocated staying in the customs union if we left the EU.
Just stop.
He's ever the unforgiving political clown-provocateur.
Managed 5 minutes. TV off again.
Afternoon everyone.