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General Discussion Area / Re: BLM reaches Dibley.
« on: 07 December 2020, 17:00:11 »
Technically, I think taking a knee protest started with the NFL (Colin Kaepernick). George Floyd was much later.
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General Discussion Area / Re: BLM reaches Dibley.
« on: 07 December 2020, 14:09:00 »
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support — kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'.
- Thomas Sowell
- Thomas Sowell
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General Discussion Area / Re: Brilliant Covid system
« on: 07 December 2020, 07:41:00 »
From what I've read, Australia went in pretty quick and hard on lockdowns and other measures? Which also reminded me of this:
https://youtu.be/AqRHH6e-y6I
https://youtu.be/AqRHH6e-y6I
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General Discussion Area / Re: US Election
« on: 07 December 2020, 07:28:52 »
It's probably the most sensible thing he's done lately
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trade Talks
« on: 05 December 2020, 18:10:56 »
I think that's why it feels so frustrating - and worrying.
Frustrating, because the UK government could and absolutely should have seen this coming from the start and mitigated against it. Instead, we've been playing a largely reactive and time-wasting game for 4 years. And look where it's got/getting us.
Worrying, because it's reasonable to expect any UK government to (mostly) do its job competently and effectively. Not all the time, but they should be 100% on their game in a major issue like leaving the EU. I don't see that happening in brexit at all and it leads to obvious doubt over other things.
Frustrating, because the UK government could and absolutely should have seen this coming from the start and mitigated against it. Instead, we've been playing a largely reactive and time-wasting game for 4 years. And look where it's got/getting us.
Worrying, because it's reasonable to expect any UK government to (mostly) do its job competently and effectively. Not all the time, but they should be 100% on their game in a major issue like leaving the EU. I don't see that happening in brexit at all and it leads to obvious doubt over other things.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trade Talks
« on: 05 December 2020, 16:48:22 »
TheBoy: yes, I'm not totally convinced by that either - there must be SNP supporters who would prefer to be out of the UK and the EU. And at the same time, the UK government has consistently opposed Scottish independence even when it's following a brexit policy.
I get that it's not entirely the same thing, but the basic question is whether being within or outside a territorial union is fundamentally better - in that sense, a brexit supporter should also support Scottish independence on principle, and a Scottish independence supporter should support brexit. But it doesn't look like that.
Aside from that, I think the UK/EU talks are going won't have much to do with independence ideology, more about cold, hard cash. The UK has more than a bit of history trying to join Europe, going back to Macmillan and Heath - they must have seen a net benefit, and had to overcome opposition to entry here and in Europe.
Which I think is becoming the key difficulty now. Boris and Co are aiming to leave but somehow hold onto the benefit, and the EU will obviously not allow that easily. I don't see any easy solutions and am left wondering A. what fudgey compromise we're going to end up with and B. whether going about it the way we have was ideal.
It might have been more prudent to push for change from within instead of from outside - we did that successfully before. But we've kind of managed to get ourselves between a rock and a hard place now. And left it very late to resolve.
I get that it's not entirely the same thing, but the basic question is whether being within or outside a territorial union is fundamentally better - in that sense, a brexit supporter should also support Scottish independence on principle, and a Scottish independence supporter should support brexit. But it doesn't look like that.
Aside from that, I think the UK/EU talks are going won't have much to do with independence ideology, more about cold, hard cash. The UK has more than a bit of history trying to join Europe, going back to Macmillan and Heath - they must have seen a net benefit, and had to overcome opposition to entry here and in Europe.
Which I think is becoming the key difficulty now. Boris and Co are aiming to leave but somehow hold onto the benefit, and the EU will obviously not allow that easily. I don't see any easy solutions and am left wondering A. what fudgey compromise we're going to end up with and B. whether going about it the way we have was ideal.
It might have been more prudent to push for change from within instead of from outside - we did that successfully before. But we've kind of managed to get ourselves between a rock and a hard place now. And left it very late to resolve.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trade Talks
« on: 05 December 2020, 07:56:54 »
My take - both sides want to avoid no deal unless it can clearly be blamed on the other side (and the Internal Market/Finance Bill could put the blame on us). So possibly some wishy-washy deal might suddenly emerge that suits the EU more than the UK, but nobody entirely.
With less than a month to go, I can't help thinking the UK government has somehow mired itself into needless and potentially endless problems which there were ample opportunities to avoid.
Every country has the government it deserves and in a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.
With less than a month to go, I can't help thinking the UK government has somehow mired itself into needless and potentially endless problems which there were ample opportunities to avoid.
Every country has the government it deserves and in a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trade Talks
« on: 04 December 2020, 00:30:38 »
Pragmatism will undoubtedly win the day. Except the UK hasn't been very pragmatic since 2016, and seems to have consistently and needlessly blundered from one bear-trap to another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubbSV5C9PXk
how much of this came true? (cf with the ivan rogers speech)
... before much of the serious work to look at where we wanted to land post exit had happened, we locked ourselves into a date certain for the invocation of Article 50.
That duly forfeited at a stroke any leverage over how that process would run. And it gave to the 27, who had, by the morning of June 24th, already set out their “no negotiation without (Article 50) notification” position, the first couple of goals of the match in the opening 5 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubbSV5C9PXk
how much of this came true? (cf with the ivan rogers speech)
... before much of the serious work to look at where we wanted to land post exit had happened, we locked ourselves into a date certain for the invocation of Article 50.
That duly forfeited at a stroke any leverage over how that process would run. And it gave to the 27, who had, by the morning of June 24th, already set out their “no negotiation without (Article 50) notification” position, the first couple of goals of the match in the opening 5 minutes.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Would Priti make a good dominatrix?
« on: 03 December 2020, 14:57:25 »
There's some website I've seen which always refers to her as 'Vacant'
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trade Talks
« on: 03 December 2020, 10:21:53 »https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2018/12/13/full-speech-sir-ivan-rogers-on-brexit/
Long read from 2018, but I still refer to it sometimes. It explains why these negotiations are and will continue to be extremely difficult.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 02 December 2020, 23:55:11 »
Autosol to start, Brasso to finish. I think it's actually driving better since I did this
Must remember that car parts are not allowed in the house...
Must remember that car parts are not allowed in the house...
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 02 December 2020, 23:27:31 »
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Omega General Help / Re: Intermittent starter motor issue
« on: 02 December 2020, 10:32:40 »
Did this on mine last year - nothing wrong with motor, the solenoid had gone bad and is an easy fix in itself. The issue is removing the starter to do the work, as access isn't easy (at least on a V6)
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General Discussion Area / Re: speeding
« on: 02 December 2020, 10:29:23 »
Just 124mph?
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-speed-freak-shown-hitting-23098605
I don't know what's more stupid - doing it, or posting it online
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-speed-freak-shown-hitting-23098605
I don't know what's more stupid - doing it, or posting it online
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General Discussion Area / Re: US Election
« on: 01 December 2020, 22:06:42 »
I've been through a few US elections and this is the first one I can recall being so messy - I'm still trying to process what's going on