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A better time to ask that question will be after the May elections...

This smacks more of personal than political, even Farage realised that by standing at the last GE, votes for his party would undermine the chances of the Tories winning and thereby Brexit completing. The bigger the SNP's win the more chance there'll be of Johnson being forced politically to agree to a second referendum...

Well done maxximillian, and thanks to Meds for organising...

John Lewis have a good range to suit most budgets...

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But this was a video of a real event > and don't see an issue with it being shared > whether it is from a website of disrepute or not. Isn't the problem here that when something is shared from a disreputable and/or shadily funded site, it quickly leads onto other stuff that might not be 'real'. It's why so many people end up getting lost down rabbit holes. By limking/sharing an item to these sites your inadvertently promoting/advocating all the shady/conspiracy nonsense they try to peddle...

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bulb has good credentials but effed up my smart > meter by having a non-trained person put it in and > then never sorting it out. I left and foudn out > that the one I went to can't take it up as it was > put in by a rival! Bulb are very good but they've been trying the hard sell recently on putting in smart meters, has anyone else had a similar experience about their smart meters not being compatible with other companies?...

I thought it was only possible to peek after you've locked your own predictions and therefore can't tactically change your prediction. Although I guess someone's mate could take a peek and relay the info back to them, doubt that would happen on the EDF unless Uncleglen joined in...#ABU :)

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Big pharma is not a charity. > Pandemics present an opportunity for income beyond > their wildest dreams. Boris was just being honest > about it. AZ is far more akin to a 'Socialist' vaccine than a 'Capitalist' one. Non-profit making and was given large amounts of Gov money/investment. Gordon Gecko's braces would be twanging off in disgust...

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Big pharma is not a charity. > Pandemics present an opportunity for income beyond > their wildest dreams. Boris was just being honest > about it. AZ is far more akin to a 'Socialist' vaccine than a 'Capitalist' one. Non-profit making and was given large amounts of Gov money/investment. Gordon Gecko's braces would be twanging off in disgust...

Dulwich Dyson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > @diable rouge > > Paranoid or what? Devious, underhanded, duplicitous or what? That's quite some North Korean Dulwich bot farm you've got going there...

Dulwich Dyson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > @diable rouge > > Paranoid or what? Devious, underhanded, duplicitous or what? That's quite some North Korean Dulwich bot farm you've got going there...

Your periodic reminder that Hamletter and Dulwich Dyson are the same poster, as well as other noms de plume..

Don't be put off by the Twitter link, this is rather good, Premier League managers as characters in a prime time TV crime drama...https://twitter.com/d4nf0x/status/1374077449475088387

Might've known maxxi would play the Moyes Gambit, no shame...

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sadly put me off Habitat when I found out the > Argos connection. Just had a look at Habitat's website, there's definitely been a drop in quality of design, can see there are a few original Habitat products still there e.g. the Radius furniture range, but overall it looks mostly Argos stuff and prices. Disappointing to see as Habitat was a nice halfway-house between Ikea and Heals/Conran. > Snobby I know I don't mind being called a snob if it means not wanting a chest of drawers that look like they've been knocked out by Grandad in an air raid shelter during the Blitz...:)

Week 26 points... Week 26 table...

Maxxi, may I remind you of Rule 14 (Section 2 - ''Predicting Your Results'') of the EDF 6 Nations Predictor Game Rulebook, that stipulates... ''Should a match be abandoned and replayed only to then become the decider of the EDF 6 Nations Predictor Game League, then the current leader of the EDF 6 Nations Predictor Game League is hereby required to completely lose the plot when making their final prediction.'' May I also remind Maxxi that Clause 3c of the aforementioned rule also stipulates that... i) Notwithstanding Clauses 3a & 3b, the current leader of the EDF 6 Nations Predictor Game League is hereby required to consume copious amounts of Friday afternoon beers in order to facilitate a state of inebriation by teatime, thereby rendering themselves incapacitated and unable to think logically. ii) Failure to do so will result in the offender having to appear in front of the EDF Games Investigation into Membership Panel, which is automatically triggered when more than 50% of Members declare ''Bring out the Gimp''...

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I do tend to fly the Welsh flag which seems > different as it's not really political even though > the Welsh Government uses it - the whole country > owns it. Huw's on the case...

That Briefing Room design really is a pile of pish, for that amount of money they could've at least given us a war room map table complete with Dad's Army style graphics, so we could have daily updates showing how plucky little England is fighting of the advancing EU hordes...

Week 26 fixtures... Friday 19th March Fulham v Leeds United Saturday 20th March Brighton & Hove Albion v Newcastle United Sunday 21st March West Ham United v Arsenal Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur

There's a direct correlation between the hard right Brexit we ended up with and what we're seeing now and likely to see more of in the coming years. It's laughable (or else you'll cry) seeing some Brexit voters express shock at this Bill passing. What did they expect would happen after clapping and cheering through all the stuff that happened in order to ''get Brexit done'' including the unlawful proroguing of Parliament? These Brexit voters scoffed when it was said this is how authoritarianism can come about, yet here we are, another step down that road. We can also put to bed this idea that Johnson is a 'liberal at heart' and that once Brexit is done we'll see 'the real Boris'. He's a political opportunist, it paid him to appeal to the liberal London demographic when running for Mayor, it now pays him to pander to the nationalistic/populist right. And in case you didn't already know this, we've also learnt from this Bill that the so-called 'libertarians' on the right are nothing of the sort, and the same applies to the 'free-speechers', not a squeak from them. Where were 'freedom-loving' Tory backbenchers like Steve Baker who were opposed to lockdown saying it was an infringement of civil liberties? I think most rational and pragmatic people understood why we had to lockdown and that it's only a temporary measure to get on top of the virus spread. Yet when we have an actual permanent loss of a civil liberty, they say nothing. A lot of things were ignored/dismissed under the umbrella of 'get Brexit done' and this does feel like a similar exercise, this time under the umbrella of Covid/Lockdown. The Gov are fully aware of this, they have never liked scrutiny of any kind, hence the rush to get it through quickly. The optimist in me says that this Bill will only be properly tested and opposed once lockdown ends and the vaccine effect kicks in, and we get back to some sense of normality. It could easily become this Gov's Poll Tax moment, but equally it could get clapped and cheered through by the cap doffers...

Lots of different type of engineers...structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, heating...

Week 25 points... Week 25 table...