diable rouge

Two videos worth watching for two very different reasons...

PA implied the photo had been doctored by saying that he had never been upstairs at the house...

Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We give contracts to other countries eg > trains/France because we are in the EU and EU > countries are allowed to bid There's nothing about being in the EU that says we have to give them the contracts, instead they are winning them fairly and squarely in open, competitive tenders against UK privately owned companies. So in fact it confirms that state ownership can be more competitive than private ownership. Also, non-EU countries win these sort of contracts, Hinkley Point power station is being funded and built by the French EDF and Chinese CGN, who also happen to be both state-owned. So not being in the EU wouldn't mean that EU companies wouldn't suddenly be able to bid for future contracts. We will have to negotiate new trade deals with them and part of those deals will be to allow them to bid along with lots of other concessions such immigration quotas. Same applies to any new trade deals outside the EU, the big US pharmas are already licking their lips and waiting to pounce on the NHS...

*Blocks...*

Project Fear, we survived the Blitz, etc etc etc...

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > diable rouge Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I'm having Christmas in the EU... :) > > That?s nice, but what you eating is the question, > not where you eating Brussels Sprouts...Obvs!

Mahoody Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Corbyn has been on a promising a totally > unrealistic spending spree that can only be done > through increasing debt with the inevitable > consequences. As the debt gets bigger, the > interest rate goes up. It's like maxing out on > multiple credit cards. It all catches up in the > end. The Tories are warning voters that Jeremy Corbyn would wreck the economy. I?m sure they?re right. I?ve got just one question. Why should the rest of the country believe them? After all, many Tories have spent the past three years telling the public to ignore all predictions about the economy, because predictions about the economy are always wrong. Lurid depictions of economic armageddon are merely Project Fear. Our great British businesses will thrive no matter what, and to suggest otherwise is to talk Britain down. If we can survive the Blitz, we can survive anything. And anyway, some things are more important than money.

I'm having Christmas in the EU... :)

I've had this ear worm for the past couple of days, sorry but I'm taking you all down with me...

Week 13 fixtures... Saturday 23rd November West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspur Arsenal v Southampton AFC Bournemouth v Wolverhampton Wanderers Brighton & Hove Albion v Leicester City Crystal Palace v Liverpool Everton v Norwich City Watford v Burnley Manchester City v Chelsea Sunday 24th November Sheffield United v Manchester United Monday 25th November Aston Villa v Newcastle United

I'm not starting a new thread just for this so will stick it in here, besides they contribute to the glut of festive ads. What we always knew Lou, M&S > Iceland...:) https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/21/supermarket-luxury-mince-pies-ranked

Never really got this living in London ting when it comes to football managers and players, Mourinho's one of the exceptions in that he actually lives in central London, but most other managers and players live miles out in the sticks, the training grounds are miles away too. Once a fortnight they get bussed in to play at home and then they fook off back to their mock tudor mansions and cosy restaurants in Esher. The same applies to Manchester, so not having a dig at London...

Levy's thinking ahead and avoiding compo by only offering Mourinho a 3-year contract, 2 years of improvement before he presses the self-destruct button in the third year. It would also be very Spursy if the manager who always wins a trophy wherever he goes wins booger all... :)

So what do you base your vote on?...

Poch sacked, didn't see that one coming...

Too early to be falling out over polls, this time at the last election the Tories had an 18pt lead. The first of the TV debates is on tonight followed soon by the launch of the manifestos, so this weekend's polls will give a much better indication of where we're at, and more importantly in what direction...

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I just believe whole hearty that the policies of > the labour party at this point in time, will > bankrupt the country, Do you think the Tories won't bankrupt the country then? > drive entrepreneurs and > higher rate tax payers to safe heavens A lot high rollers have already scarpered, it's what they do regardless who's in power. One of the UK's richest men, Jim Radcliffe, big Brexit backer, fooked off to Monaco not long after the referendum. > and destroy > jobs in the private sector as a result of > nationalisation and companies that move away as > the tax breaks abroad will be better for them When public companies were nationalised we were told no jobs would be lost as workers would simply move sideways from public ownership to private. Why should it be any different in reverse? Again, companies are already going abroad if it suits them, e.g. Dyson, another big Brexit backer, fooking off to Singapore. There's a theme developing...

dbboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But it's not going to happen like you say. > No party will have a majority and my current > prediction is 1.tory, 2 brexit party, 3. lib dems, > 4. labour. This prediction makes no sense, care to explain, say with some approx vote share? I'm no fan of opinion polls but there's a clear trend at the moment that the Tories will win with a majority because they have most of the Leave vote whereas the Remain vote is split. Also, I think it's nigh on impossible for the Tories and BXP to finish first and second for this very reason, they both rely on votes from Leavers but they only make up around 46-48% of the total vote at present. What your prediction is suggesting is that Labour Remain voters will dessert them in droves in favour of the Tories and BXP. Ain't gonna happen...

Micky Flanagan has already moved to the dark side, he owns a Cockerpoo...

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The anti-semitism is a sure-fire way of ensuring > the muslim vote. The Jewish and Muslim communities are both smart enough to know when they're being played by racist fascists like yourself > We only have Brexit 'chaos' because the democratic > will of the people, who voted according to their > own experiences in their own locales, was ignored > and sneered at. We only have Brexit chaos because what was promised by the Leave campaign has not been delivered, in effect sticking two fingers up to democracy...

Bob Buzzard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where is Lord Buckethead standing this time? Johnson's seat in Uxbridge, but due to copyright issues the original LB is now called Count Binface, and the new LB is standing for the Monster Raving Loony Party/ Politics is a nasty business, even in the outer galaxies...

Austerity was a political choice not an economic one, Hammond when Chancellor later admitted as much when he said public finances are best repaired by a growing economy... ''Get the economy growing faster with higher trend productivity growth...grow the GDP, strong real wage growth, rising living standards'' As for whether austerity worked regarding UK government debt (from ONS)... General government gross debt was ?1,821.3 billion at the end of the financial year ending March 2019, equivalent to 85.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) and 25.2 percentage points above the reference value of 60% set out in the Protocol on the Excessive Deficit Procedure. General government gross debt first exceeded the 60% Maastricht reference value at the end of the financial year ending March 2010, when it was 69.6% of GDP.

Algorithms shmalgorithms...

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > last time labour were in power and how they broke > the economy resulting in austerity measures being > required to fix it Think you'll find that the collapse of the American sub-prime market, Lehmans going under, a run on our own Northern Rock bank, and the general banking system ceasing up with a credit crunch might have contributed a tad...