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General Discussion Area / Re: Rees-Mogg

« on: 04 September 2019, 20:04:12 »

Quite what real world experience he and his ilk bring to government is lost on me.

I wouldn't argue that we have a bunch in there now who are only in it for themselves (although I doubt the 20 odd defectors who put principles before paychecks and defied the government will get much praise here  ). However, he is pretty much a perfect poster boy for out of touch elitism and finding 600 odd more like him is hardly going to help parliament reconnect with the people it's meant to serve.

Apart from being the joint founder of a very successful international investment fund controlling £bns when he worked in the city & provides his independent means, not a lot really. Redwood has run multi-national manufacturing business & knows a lot about international trade & complex multinational just-in-time supply chains & iirc has been a director of a merchant bank, a bit like Leesom has been a director of Barclays Bank.

Parliament worked much better when you had many more MPs who had made their money often as Directors, Bankers, Traders, Lawyers & accountants in the City & saw becoming an MP as a bit of public service to help society before they retired.

If you think they've done it for public service then I would suggest you look at their outside interests, now & once they leave parliament.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Is the real prime minister really.......

« on: 04 September 2019, 19:46:39 »

I think the bus slogan worked really well & has now been officially vindicated where Boris said it was the gross figure in his speeches which we now know with the benefit of hindsight was actually £368m per week. All Boris official No 10 interviews I've seen have the Union Jack & Boris bus as props. Farage immigration poster cost leave votes along with the sad murder of MP Jo Cox otherwise it would have been 55%-45%. I agree he is a bad tempered, oddball but he gets the job done.

My turncoat MP Dr Phillip Lee, who sees himself as a future PM and his GE winning strategy. Swap from being a candidate that got 59% of the vote in 2017, not to Liebour who came second on 30%, but the mighty LimpDems who got a measly 7%  with 4186 votes. In the EURef our area polled 53.9% Leave and 46.1% Remain, so we are a Leave area & his remain LimpDems manifesto will soar with all the buoyancy of a lead balloon.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Is the real prime minister really.......

« on: 04 September 2019, 19:09:03 »

The hard left politicians & media hate that an exceptional strategist in Dominic Cummings, who did more to win the EURef for leave than any other person is now Boris' strategist & adviser & has made no wrong steps yet. This week was always going to be a sh*t sandwich week for Brexit, the commons numbers & number of remain MPs ensured that. Boris may have lost the vote, but he will win this war & he can block the Corbyn-Hammond-EU coup bill from getting Royal assent & they are running out of time. Do nothing & the current law says we leave on WTO terms on 31/10.

Calling an election which Liebour & the Corbyn remain shower have declined has made them look weak & boosted Boris. Boris ruthlessly purging his party of the trouble making arch-remainers who are consistently undermining & going against their main 2017 manifesto policy & commitment again shows him as an effective leader & in GE mode, making the party much more electable. To show how brutal last night was, the former Tory MPs had their parliament security passes cancelled, so they had to apply for new ones today & will presumably be moving offices. Any one who thinks it wasn't brutal didn't see this morning's Tweet from Hammod's seat official agent & returning officer who said they no longer have a Conservative MP or candidate & will be selecting a new one in due course. Ouch, where his political career is now over with no knighthood or House of Lords peerage ever happening. BTW this brutally effective strategy has Cummings written all over it where I have read the award winning book "All Out War" by Times journalist Tim Shipman on the Leave campaign.

While Liebour, LimpDems et al are busy losing the up & coming GE Boris, Javid & Cummings are already fighting & winning it with latest polling putting Conservatives 35%, Liebour 25%, LimpDems 16%, TBP 13% & Greens 9%, Others 2%.

Once an election is called the Tories need to forge a formal or informal election pact so there is one Leave seat sharing alliance, while the remain vote will be split between Liebour, LimpDems & Greens. The Tories will contest seats where they are strong with Leave candidates & TBP concentrate with a free run in northern Labour seats & Leave strongholds that won't vote Tory but want a Leave party alternative to represent their views.

Javid's spending splurge statement today ending austerity & addressing their electoral weaknesses in the 2017 GE to me confirms they are in full win the imminent GE in November after no deal WTO Brexit has happened. They are out of the GE starting blocks while the remain rabble parties fight ineffective Brexit blocking strategies & squabbling amongst themselves.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Rees-Mogg

« on: 04 September 2019, 18:11:33 »

If parliament had more like Mogg & Redwood of independent means & fewer troughing of limited intellect & real world experience, identity, virtual signaling, careerist feral hogs it might actually serve its intended function of debating & then making useful decisions for the betterment of UK society, whereas it currently only works best as a useful tourist attraction during periods of prorogation where the same number of useful decisions are made, at a much reduced daily cost.

The less said in & about god's waiting room the House of Lords the better. Turning up signing a register & walking out £300 richer as one strolls to ones club for a spot of lunch & a few brandies is nice work if you can get it, old boy.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Corbyn-Hammond Pact

« on: 04 September 2019, 00:17:50 »

I suspect we are now heading for a general election less the 21 who will be deselected plus others that have previously kicked out by their local associations. My turncoat MP Dr Phillip Lee has just joined the Limpdems & stands no chance of getting reelected in this staunch Conservative area.

Gove's backstabbing of Boris, which has resulted in remainer May's wasted 3 years where she had no intention of leaving the EU, just locking us in for good. This will never be forgotten or forgiven by me.

Where Tories are polling at 35% against Liebours 25% I expect the Tories to get a majority & The Brexit Party will in the north, where many won't vote Tory due to the miners strike, so they have a majority to do a proper Brexit. Interesting economist Andrew Lilico & Tory government advisor has said for the last year that it will take two attempts & a GE to get Brexit through & has also always said the the UK leaving the EU is inevitable where it is geopolitically unsuitable club for us.

For the last 100 years we have tended to be the bridge between Europe & the US balancing one against the other. Joining the EU has diminished this role with the US, while our European interests are ridden roughshod over by France, Germany & partners, so we have no more influence now than when we weren't members. France with it's EU protectionist block has always viewed the US with a mixture of jealousy over their wealth & distain over their Hegemony & will attempt to use the EU as the EUSSR rival to the US. Every time the French made a play for global Hegemony in the last 300 years they have always failed, so history certainly won't be on their side again.

For those of you who aren't aware Treason May spent 18 months as PM, in secret & without any parliamentary scrutiny, signing up our armed forces so they are EU military assets, under EU military command & with our defence equipment budget being spend on EU defense procurement for new EU military equipment. They also control the mutual defence pact which can be used against any EU state or former member that doesn't tow the line. Where France has conscription it is widely expected this will apply to EU forces, including the UK. The video below explains:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWQGlyiEztw

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General Discussion Area / Re: Is there a market any more?

« on: 03 September 2019, 07:00:05 »

What prices are you looking for to be collected as is?

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General Discussion Area / Corbyn-Hammond Pact

« on: 03 September 2019, 06:30:04 »

Just the latest attempt by the EU dictatorship to turn the UK into their first colony. Irony of this being the week of 80th anniversary of the Ribbentrop-Molotov 'Peace Treaty' which unleashed the joint dual invasion and joint elimination of Poland as a country so it becomes a Germanic-Russian colony, province & imperial plunder area is not lost on me. While the elimination of the UK as a country is being battled by those Poundland remainer imperialists in parliament who stand to gain by prossed EU lagress by turning the UK into a Germanic-French colony, EU province & EU imperialist area plunder area is not lost either.

This week is a critical week for the survival of the UK and our democracy with the latest remainer shenanigans described here:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2019/09/02/proponents-of-the-new-bill-to-stop-no-deal-face-a-significant-dilemma-over-queens-consent/

UK democracy is now on the line. Will Boris prevail and Brexit survive or will Corbyn Marxist vision prevail, with EU geopolitical help?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Anthoine Hubert Death

« on: 03 September 2019, 06:05:05 »

I haven't watched the video & I certainly won't. I seen enough of bits of people as the result of an RTA & likewise as the result of wars, especially the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where Russian used gruesome images of Ukrainian forces as part of their hybrid war propaganda & I don't see how anything that can be possibly gained by watching this ghoulish video.

RIP Antoine Hubert.

I will await for the official FIA accident report, but with a 170-180 mph impact speed there is only so much energy that can be absorbed by the safety cell and mercifully such fatalities are rare. In the Jackie Stewart era it was on average every 3 months and after the death of his friend Jim Clark he decided to do something about it and safety, which has now been much improved. In motor sport the dangers can be mitigated but not eliminated.

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General Discussion Area / Re: The End of Human Control of IT

« on: 31 August 2019, 13:54:29 »

A big part of human creativity is inconsistency & making mistakes & the strength of computers are there consistent fast accurate repetition. If your comfortable with your aircraft fight control systems making creative changes when they start voting against each other, fine and good luck with that one in mid flight.

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General Discussion Area / Re: A2 Stainless bolt...

« on: 30 August 2019, 22:08:14 »

I wish I had some idea of what the hell this was all about . . . screwing or something ?

Hello, Rog, who woke you up?

Didn't take STEMO very long to pop up in this thread once he saw the keywords of boats & screwing, to say: Hello Sailor!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Parliament to be suspended

« on: 30 August 2019, 21:58:38 »

A very good article on why parliament is the problem & why they have let us all down over Brexit. This is not without president, where it was apparently like this in a 1930's parliament when Churchill said: "decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent".

What shouldn't be forgotten is that for political gain and the threat of UKIP, Cameron called the EURef to decide the EU question once and for for this generation and we will implement whatever you decide. We now know that 'whatever you decide' was providing the majority voted remain, which silly us didn't get so the 17.4m majority voted the wrong way.

They also voted through the withdrawal legislation & triggered article 50 with about 350 MPs supporting it. We have sadly reached this inpass through May's deception & duplicy where she deliberately negotiated her surrender treaty to lock us into the EU as a vassal state & in the EU's own words to make us their first colony. The end result for that would have been our complete subjugation & plunder of our nation's wealth as this is what imperial powers do, or there is no point in having colonies. What it does show is not only does May hate the Tories as her 'nasty party' but she also hates and has complete contempt for every UK citizen. IMV May is the worst woman in UK's history to wield power since Bloody Mary Queen of Scots.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/29/parliament-brexit-prorogue-mps-alternative-no-deal

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General Discussion Area / Re: Accident prone Russian military

« on: 30 August 2019, 17:04:46 »

Speculation that Russian nuclear powered missile test explosion happened during the botched recovery of a previous failed test. Most of Eastern Europe ended up with the radiation cloud going across them as it moved south & west until it continued south over the Middle East.

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-radiation-explosion-sunken-missile-investigation-nyonoksa/30138178.html

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General Discussion Area / Re: HS 2 to be "reviewed "

« on: 30 August 2019, 13:54:07 »

There is an element of deja vu in all this.

Anyone remember in the 70’s us all being told “ we will all have more time in the future as computers do more of our work. You will only be doing a four or maybe three day week”

Now apparently robots will be doing our jobs.

So we will have a two tier society. Tier one working at home on super fast broadband  . tier 2 delivering food and products .

There will still be a grey area. People who cant be trusted to work from home , Jobs that can’t be done by robots. Those people will still have to travel around.

I think STEMO is right. Maybe there isnt a solution .

In demand high skill & knowledge creative industries jobs are well paid along with the traditional professional jobs like doctors, teachers, lawyers & accountants. One to many manufacturing used to be reasonably well paid together with skilled crafts people and alike, but their relative pay has dropped relative to the top tier. Semi skilled & unskilled are generally minimum wage, minimum benefits jobs often on zero hour contracts & this is unlikely to change anytime soon due to productivity growth through automation and the influx of large numbers of unskilled workers. A side effect of Brexit will be mass unskilled youth unemployment in the EU no longer being able to work in the UK where the points based immigration system favoured by Boris will be, IMV quite rightly, in only attracting highly skilled people to fill well paid vacancies. The semi-skilled & unskilled have been falling behind on pay in the Western world since the early 1980s when the IBM PC was introduced and this is the slow & subtle effect computer automation & productivity has had in the jobs market.

It is still too early to tell how big the impact will be with AI & how quickly this will change the jobs market dynamics. Looking how farming has changed over the past 50 years from using large numbers of farm labourers to just having a few skilled advanced machine operators shows how in this & many other sectors how low skilled jobs have been lost & more advanced harvesting machines will continue to reduce further those required for crop picking.

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General Discussion Area / Re: HS 2 to be "reviewed "

« on: 30 August 2019, 02:28:44 »

If you want to invest in a relevant transport technology then invest in an ultra high speeds fibre-to-premises as that is our transport future. I work from home my neighbour opposite me is a certified Microsoft support person, who works for a London based company where is is physically there only once or twice a week which is why Boris is pushing this as he did when he was London mayor along with his IT incubators hub which are receiving record oversea investment where the UK attracts much more of this than any other European countries. Computer software, CGI & other related technologies will employ much more people working from home and is going to be an increasingly large percentage of the UK economy. I've been fortunate in picking the right industry st the right time as a digital hardware designer & computer programmer starting my career as the first generation of 8 bit microprocessors were introduced and earn a good live & often an exceptionally good challenging successful one earning multiple average salaries most of the time. I quickly learn't that the future is softare over hardware in terms of capital investment, running costs & profits, which is why I dropped the hardware design.

I do my local grocery shopping at out of town supermarkets & have had no need to visit any local town centre shopping centre for almost 4 years where they are expensive have limited choice compared to online retail. This is why high streets are dying. Although I visit clients normally by train in London many of my meetings these days involve informal & formal phone and video conferencing from my study office. This makes very efficient use of my time, with my long twice daily commute being from my large lounge, across my hall into to my large study office where I have two desks & chairs, so family and visitors can work there as well.

This is the future, is here for many now, including a massive army of gig economy self-employed programmers & artists who get their work through global websites like freelancer.com. I don't want or need an expensive, inefficient commute, clogging up roads & railways and this is the future for many, not only in IT but also other service industries like financial services, insurance etc. A person I do a lot of work for, where I do all his IT, runs a multi-million pound insurance brokerage from home, employing several people remotely who also work from home using a distributed wide-area VOIP phone network. This is the future for many & it is here now. He used to have an office where several people worked but finds it much more efficient to give this up & he is now earning as a result multiples of £100kpa as a result. I've also happy as I'm looked after well as well as his most key contractor.

The future is here now and people linked in the romanticism of the Victorian era are welcome to it as they live their retired life on a combination of victorian romanticism, old high street shopping methods and as Disraeli told us regrets, but this is irrelevant to more & more of the UK workforce.

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General Discussion Area / Re: HS 2 to be "reviewed "

« on: 29 August 2019, 21:18:33 »

Look inside any economics text book and the first paragraph will say something along the lines of: "We live in a world of scarcity". This means we have finite amounts of everything including money, which is why it is so important for a nation's wealth that we do things well while providing good value for money because if you don't you spend on bad value frivolity compared to other nations then relatively you will get poorer. Most goods we buy are priced internationally as why would I want to sell it cheaper in market A will I can get a better price in market B. What is priced locally is seasonal local food, property, labour rates, taxes & other local costs. How well a country is doing & what they can relatively afford I call the McDonalds test & relively pricing between countries is interesting. In the late 1980's UK & US prices were similar, where as, these days where US growth rates have been consistently higher, today they cost about 20% more in the US.

In some countries the wealth difference is stark like North & South Korea & Venezuela with its massive oil reserves & Switzerland with has none. Our growth since 2008-2018 has been sluggish at 11% until you look at out near neighbours in the Eurozone where they have jointly only managed -2% so overall their economies are still smaller than in 2008! US growth has been 18% and China 235%.

So if you want a poor country then run your infrastructure on intangibles like Lizzie Zoom suggests, like it seems such a romantic Victorian thing to do, where as, if you want a rich country invest in projects so you get a return on investment (ROI) in a maximum of 20 to 50 years. By doing the former instead of the latter each bad investment makes your country poorer or vice versa to make it slightly richer.