Not to mention Rita Bradley was actually a Coronation Street fictional character.
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Newspaper letter writers seem to be of a certain ilk.
Ah, The Ogdens, Eddie Yates, Bet Lynch, genuinely top comedy in those days! The drama side was shit of course.As for the letter 'writer' it is the sort of nom de plume I use myself, although I favour fish-based ones in general, TS Halibut and so on.
"Us girls piled through the door marked ‘privee’, thinking it was the toilet, so I said 'What’s wrong with English world ‘toilet’?' What did I say, Roy?"
"She said 'I hope they don't expect us to pee on our privates'."
I watched this video about Johnson's Brexit plan:
(Great channel, for what it's worth. Well worth a subscription, imo.)
What are people thoughts on:
1. How accurately this reflects the Tory plan for post-Brexit Britain?
2. How likely it is to succeed?
Although I've been staunchly Remain the last few years, I'm rooting for the government to make Leave work. No sense in cutting off our nose to spite our face.
(Great channel, for what it's worth. Well worth a subscription, imo.)
What are people thoughts on:
1. How accurately this reflects the Tory plan for post-Brexit Britain?
2. How likely it is to succeed?
Although I've been staunchly Remain the last few years, I'm rooting for the government to make Leave work. No sense in cutting off our nose to spite our face.
1. Free ports are something that have been mentioned for a long time (I think Boris suggested 6) so I'm sure it will be part of a plan
2. As to how successful they will be the video seemed to suggest these were intended more as a short term turbo boost whilst more comprehensive trade agreements were reached and in that respect I think they would not be a huge success... I don't think there are 6 ports in the UK with huge spare capacity and the work required to design and build the additional capacity would take years... Equally designing and building factories and additional infrastructure (roads power networks housing schools etc) would take even more years ... As such my gut feel is that they will be of limited effect in the short term (which is supposedly what they were needed for)
As an example it took 10 years from canary wharf being granted special economic status to the first building being completed ... And another 4 years or so for it to really be viable as an area ... And that's a relatively condenced area in one of the world's largest cities
China has made huge successes of this type of area but traditionally it's in more rural areas and starting with big infra builds (new ports etc)... Which does not seem to be the model... I'm skeptical the plans outlined can deliver anything tangible in the short term ... but perhaps my remaniac tinted glasses cloud my view
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Bit like nautical mile and the other not sure what mile.
Yeah, the statute (land) mile. It’s 8 Edward furlongs.
At least the nautical mile is based on something serious like a minute of latitude.
Why aren't we hearing loads of advice and stories of stocking up on supplies like we got before the Brexit deadline last time?
And what did people do with all the extra stuff you hoarded before too, have you used it all? still got it? going to get loads more again just in case? I've heard toilet rolls are going to be pretty scarce after the 31st.
And what did people do with all the extra stuff you hoarded before too, have you used it all? still got it? going to get loads more again just in case? I've heard toilet rolls are going to be pretty scarce after the 31st.
That's because nothing much will change immediately. Transition period will kick in on 1st February.
Bit late for that, it’s already been done by voters twice
If anyone fancies their family being a case study...
How did you overcome your Brexit family fallouts?
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We want to hear from people who have managed to heal their Brexit rifts with family or friends
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The 2016 EU referendum result threw families, friends and couples into bitter conflict.
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BBC said:
That last line made me hate the world even more than I already did.
Is it really something that momentus that we need to waste £500,000 of taxpayers money on taking the dust sheets off Big Ben for one night? Why not spend that kind of money on employing more police officers for the impending riots or something?
To Brexiters this is our independence day
We were already an independent soveriegn nation.
Facts are irrelevant
Because:
[HISTORICAL][BRITISH][TRADITION]BONGGGGGGGGG[/TRADITION][/BRITISH][/HISTORICAL]
What's an additional £500k when you're already throwing the economy down the drain.
This lot would agree to halve the education budget if they could get an extra great added onto Britain.
Ah so that’s how we did it!
Apparently BJ’s already working on a fantastic deal with the Ozzies for Australian charcoal.
What make’s me laugh he’s already backtracking.. take special attention to the word ‘comprehensive’.. spin spin spin...
Just noticed that the North West Brexit Party MEP is called Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen. Doesn't seem quite right.
This is from a Brexit Party MEP
We’re in a simulation.
We’re in a simulation.
Just came to post that. Oh well. If it's just for the laughs it'll be worth it in the end I'm sure.
Some more positive news at least.
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...rexit-uncertainty-with-backing-of-global-ceos
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...rexit-uncertainty-with-backing-of-global-ceos
Call me cynical but I don't really see it as good news. It's a bit like the point AOC made about saying America is doing well because the DOW is flying high when in reality wages are worse than stagnant.
Right now we're about to enter a bit of a policy vacuum where it's assumed that EU laws and regulations protecting citizens rights will be de facto UK laws but that remains to be seen. We're going to attract a lot of interest from foreign corporations, that much is obvious, but there's not a hope in hell that it's going to benefit the man on the street. They will be attracted to us because the Tories will offer them huge tax incentives and deregulate as the lobbyists see fit, small businesses in the UK won't be able to compete and the money will flood offshore and there will be a huge gap to fill in the tax accounts as we fail to fund our public services.
I'm expecting the food standards to drop incrementally which will allow for cheap imports of substandard food. Our own production industries will then be crippled as they won't be able to compete without dropping their own standards and losing their EU export markets. The fishermen who 90%+ voted for Brexit will be completely fecked over as the UK continues to sell our quotas to the European mega-trawlers and the UK fishermen realise they no longer have any protection against foreign fishing boats entering UK waters, what are we going to do to protect them? Get a Navy patrol?.
Anyone else looking at starting up a Vineyard? Finally, UK wine will be free to thrive...
There's actually some really good wine produced in the UK but there is no way we can produce the sort of quantity required for it to thrive into a vital sector, nor is it anywhere close to the quality to make any sort of economical impact selling high price small bins.