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General Car Chat / Re: Never been so embarrassed
« on: 27 June 2023, 18:05:07 »
I’ll try😁
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General Car Chat / Re: Never been so embarrassed
« on: 27 June 2023, 12:49:05 »
Besides,……. LBGTQ…. BLM…. IMMIGRATION….. GHETTOS….. CORRUPT POLITICIANS…. AND POLICE. There’s more too unfortunately🙁🙁
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General Car Chat / Re: Never been so embarrassed
« on: 26 June 2023, 23:59:10 »Really? The implication is definitely there, in language that would struggle to say otherwise in any court of law, if anyone CBA....It wasnt actually promised anything. The slogan read " We pay the EU £350 million per week". "Lets fund the NHS instead".
However, the UK NHS budget at the time was £145billion per annum.
It is now £180 billion per annum, so do the math as the septics say.
I've never understood how this was interpreted as some kind of manifesto promise.
Not very bright these remoaning nitwits.....
...obviously, as a Remain supporter, I, along with most Remain supporters, knew it was utter bullshit, and as a country, we would never see any of that £350m, namely because we got the vast majoirty of it back for EU funded projects in the UK. But your average Brexit supporter wasn't the brightest spark in the fire and believe every piece of crap that came out of the slimey little shits like Farage, JRM, and latterly Boris.... ....like £350m to the NHS, and no more illegals.
Seems I touched a remoaning nerve here!Where to start....
The slogan on the bus was a suggestion of what we could do with the money saved by not having to pay EU subs. Nothing more, nothing less. That the remoaners seem to think that it was some kind of manifesto commitment says more about their intellect than those who voted to leave to be honest. BTW, the vast majority of leave voters and certainly all the ones I know, knew how they were going to vote as soon as David Cameron announce the referendum anyway and it's doubtful many were swayed by any of the Leave campaigns.
On the other side of the ledger we had George Osborne telling us about how the economy was going to go off a cliff if we even voted to leave, with 900,000 job losses, a house price crash, a stock market crash and mass bankruptcies. None of which came to pass of course. Later when the polls were favouring Leave he told us that he would have to have an emergency budget if we voted to leave, with huge tax hikes and pension and benefits cuts. Yes he actually said that, didn't do it, and I reckon that that scared potential leave voters into voting remain. Without Osborne's disgusting scare tactics I think it's possible the final result could have been closer to 60/40 for leave.
Finally, it's rough figures, but our gross contribution towards the end was about £18bn, less about £4bn for the rebate and about £4bn that came back to us in EU grants and funding, which we had no say in how it was spent BTW.Maybe TB got out of the wrong side of bed this morning!
Since we left and the EU lost it's second biggest net contributor, a G7 member, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Europe's biggest military power and nearly 70 million citizens, it massively increased it's budget and granted itself powers to raise sovereign debt in the international money markets. France's contribution to the EU's coffers is now about 26bn Euros (approx £22bn) a year and the EU has already racked up about 750bn Euros of debt. If we were still members or rejoined, it's likely that our net contribution would be quite a lot more than Frances and we'd have to underwrite a significant percentage of the EU's debts.
No thanks!
EU Budget Contributions Linky
Indeed, and just to add, I believe people who voted to leave are naturally more intelligent than the other dull sort👍
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General Discussion Area / Re: Titanic
« on: 23 June 2023, 20:53:18 »I looks to me like the press are giving the lost subs construction an overly negative view (are we surprised!)
https://www.compositesworld.com/articles/titan-prepares-for-titanic-expedition
https://www.compositesworld.com/news/titan-reaches-4000-m-depth
A lot more sophisticated than its being given credit for
Indeed, but shit like that makes good reading for the uneducated. Anything to make money
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General Discussion Area / Re: Titanic
« on: 23 June 2023, 11:56:11 »
What😱 even with your pristine safety record🤣… diabolical 🔥
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General Discussion Area / Re: Titanic
« on: 23 June 2023, 11:48:36 »James Cameron says his sources heard a 'loud bang' too
Filmmaker and underwater enthusiast James Cameron has told Reuters in a Zoom interview that his sources reported hearing a “loud bang” on Sunday, similar to the US Navy’s report that it heard an underwater “anomaly” near the wreck of the Titanic on Sunday.
Cameron said he knew the Titan submersible was lost from the start, suspecting it imploded at the time the Titan’s support vessel lost communications one hour and 45 minutes into the mission.
“We got confirmation within an hour that there had been a loud bang at the same time that the sub comms were lost. A loud bang on the hydrophone. Loss of transponder. Loss of comms. I knew what happened. The sub imploded,” Cameron said.
He added that he told colleagues in an email on Monday, “We’ve lost some friends,” and, “It’s on the bottom in pieces right now.” The five who died mark the first deep-sea fatalities for the industry, Ca
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General Discussion Area / Re: Titanic
« on: 22 June 2023, 22:32:28 »
No doubt about that…. 6000 pounds per square inch!
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General Discussion Area / Re: Titanic
« on: 22 June 2023, 21:29:32 »
You take your chance as they say…. But they all had family……and at least they went doing something they loved.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Titanic
« on: 22 June 2023, 20:07:37 »
Oh well they’re gone, poor people 🙁
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Omega General Help / Re: Sodium filled Valves
« on: 22 June 2023, 18:06:10 »
3.0 and 3.2 have sodium filled exhaust valves👍