..except jockeys and road users 😋
Oh, and football leagues.
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I’m 55 and I’ve never used it and never been educated in it.
The Metric Handbook of design data for architects, written to help them understand how big things are in the new measurements, was published in 1968 when the system was already in use across the industry. It’s still in print.
Property industry never quite converted though.
I reckon that, to have been educated in imperial and to have used it, you will no longer be working. That’s the Tory base, though.
https://t.co/ei59udEblN
There are 44 countries and 4 dependencies in Europe. All of them are either in the EU, applying to join the EU, or have close relationships to the EU via the European Economic Area (EEA) except for Russia, Belarus and Brexit Britain.
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Looks like the EU is going to be a lot bigger very soon and they seem to be very welcoming to new members. I bet unionists in Scotland will still claim we won’t be admitted though.
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A bit of light relief - take a look at some of the replies from confused Americans on this thread about Georgia (the country) applying to join the EU.
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1...58uOE4HJWjntxw
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BREAKING: Georgia plans to submit an application to join the European Union on Thursday - TASS
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Defra approves use of bee killing pesticide, which has been banned for years and remains banned in Europe.
If you buy products for your garden to treat blackspot on roses or aphids, it (eg Roseclear, comes in dark blue bottle, widely available)almost definitely contains neonics and you are contributing to the collapse in bee populations.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60619676
Brexit red tape slowing delivery of donations to Ukraine :rolleyes:
Brexit what now completely fd us Scot’s over. But UJ Savin half witted huns who are around 30% Scots vote will be happy wi their brainless outcomes me!
Total crap predictive nonsense
Mind you, I've been out for a few today and believe I can now translate :-)
"Brexit what now completely fd us Scot’s over. But UJ Savin half witted huns who are around 30% Scots vote will be happy wi their brainless outcomes me!"
Brexit has scooshed Scotland.
Intelligent Rangers supporters make up around 30% of the vote are happy regardless.
.... pretty sure that covers it, now im off to the bar for another.. :greengrin
Got a new passport today.
It's black, not blue.
https://twitter.com/georgeperetzqc/s...355210246?s=21
Big defeat in court yesterday for brexiteers wanting the NI protocol stopped.
This paragraph seems particularly aimed at Johnson.
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Tories wasting more money.
A scathing report from the cross-party culture media and sport select committee has concluded that the Festival of Brexit is a waste of public money and set for failure.
The £120 million event, which is now officially known as “Unboxed: Creativity in the UK”, takes place this year, but it has been heavily criticised by MPs who said ministers do “not know what it was”.
The committee took issue with the framing of the project, which officials at the culture department billed as including “something for everyone” – despite being advised that it should not “be all things to all people”.
“Vague”
They were was also concern that very few people knew that the event was happening or what it involves, with its purpose remaining “vague”.
“Since the event’s inception in 2018, the aims for Festival UK* 2022/Unboxed: Creativity in the UK have been vague and ripe for misinterpretation by the press and public at large,” the cross party report, released on Wednesday said.
“We see no evidence to refute such scepticism now. The desire for it to seemingly cater to everyone, everywhere, is a recipe for failure and investing £120 million in something when the government, by their own admission, ‘did not know what it was’ is an irresponsible use of public money.”
“Muddled approach”
The event’s organisers have explicitly rejected the “festival of Brexit” label and say it is in fact “a UK-wide groundbreaking celebration of creativity taking place in 2022”.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/po...-money-316310/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-...BCScotlandNews
P&O ferries about to go bust? Another Brexit benefit?
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Aren't they simply employing folk based in the huge market that is the EU as it's easier transact with that market and comply with its employment regulations rather than having 2 parallel systems?
UK will still rely on their ferries, unless there's a UK equivalent ready to take over? Maybe Gove has it covered like everything else around the ports post brexit.
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Sacked on zoom. "Your last day of employment is today". :grr::grr::grr:
My understanding is that staff are entitled to a notice period of redundancy. It is also wrongful dismissal because the jobs still exist and the staff are being replaced. I wonder what our UK Government will do about it?
I have no idea whether the P&O situation has been affected either way by Brexit. Of course my predisposition is that Brexit won't have helped, but I have no evidence to support that view.
However, it is interesting to read the RMT Union's views prior to the referendum, especially those relating to seafarers and workers rights. The RMT are of course, and rightly upset about today's treatment of their members.
https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-sets...eaving-the-eu/
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TRANSPORT UNION RMT today set out six key reasons why it will be advising members to vote to the leave the EU in the forthcoming referendum
£10m apparently.
Here's the Tories ensuring that a law to stop companies' ability to fire-and-rehire would not pass. Just 6 months ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58997916
Laugh of the day (on a day when there haven't been many things to laugh at) is Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib writing in the Express that he's going to take a case to the Supreme Court because the Brexit that Johnson agreed is "worse than remaining in the EU".
L.O.L :greengrin
https://twitter.com/benhabib6/status...UWEVPVejaobjXg
Top trolling from Farrage
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/sta...Gkg1ED27g&s=19
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This P&O thing has a tentacles.
P&O Ferries owned by DP World. DP World owns London Gateway Freeport. DP World being a logistics company owned mainly by Dubai money and Russian shareholders.
What is the benefit of these freeports to us?
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Yes, I info I read was a bit sketchy. DP World wholly owned by Dubai Royal family . They do have links with a Russian partnership.
https://www.dpworld.com/news/release...nsit-corridor/
Still don't quite understand the benefit to us of freeports. They are being sold as a Brexit benefit, Dubai owning a London Freeport.
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Mr Brexit was a name given to me by Donald Trump and it has stuck. Outside of London, I get treated as a hero and never have to buy a drink. In London, I need full-time security!
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Commons Public Accounts Committee report on trade deals after Brexit:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2038227.html
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Brexit trade deals may not deliver any ‘actual economic benefits’, MPs warn
oh dear, the guy is a MORON
Boris compares Ukraine's fight for freedom to UK voting for Brexit (msn.com)
Boris Johnson has been branded ‘a national embarrassment’ after he compared the struggle of Ukrainians fighting the Russian invasion to British people voting for Brexit.
Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, branded the prime minister a ‘national embarrassment’ and compared him to the Faulty Towers character Basil Fawlty.
more like Worzel Gummidge
It’s the biggest of the unionist parties and the level of tactical voting shows that most are comfortable with them. Also, given that Westminster delivers Tory govts consistently means that if you support the union then your comfy with consistent Tory governments. You might think a Labour govt would be nice but reality is, it rarely happens and we get the Tories time after time.
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Labour have went so far to the right they are more Tory than many Tory Governments of the past.
The fact that they have a sir in charge would leave their founders turning in their graves.
But the only way they will ever get elected in England is by moving to the right as unlike in Scotland that's the only way to get voted in down south.
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https://www.cityam.com/brexit-costs-...als-in-europe/
Another Brexit win.[emoji106][emoji849]
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From the Office of Budget Responsibility.
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Kirsty Wark is a "journalist".
https://twitter.com/tom_dog_1/status...OEM4syyQg&s=19
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Second round of talks tomorrow in Bruxelles, when Biden is talking to EU leaders, will be without Johnson. Johnson was desperate to attend. Let’s remember that Brexit means Brexit. Uk have deliberately and stupidly given up its seat in the Eu council.
The Government's own Office for Budget Responsibility (whose role is to provide independent and authoritative analysis of the UK’s public finances) notes that we haven't bounced back after the pandemic like other G7 countries. Wonder why that is? :dunno:
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Here's Rees-Mogg lying about a Brexit benefit
https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/...t30QzTeBMkyXHQ
Every reply to that Tweet says it's good news. There is no mention of Reese-Mogg anywhere.
Brexit benefits ... for the rest of the world
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https://twitter.com/russincheshire/s...D4w3dnX6LTsZ0g
Any ideas why our exports haven’t recovered?
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Thank you Brexit people.
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Originally Posted by Gabriella Dickens economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics
It must be either Jeremy Corbyn or the whole population not closing their eyes tight enough when wishing Brexit to work.
Here's Mark Francois explaining that the EU are determined to punish us because we are "heretics" to the faith of the EU project. The punishment seems to be taking the shape of treating the UK as though its no longer a member of the EU.
https://twitter.com/LizWebsterLD/sta...8XZtZSt2w&s=19
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I saw on the news yesterday the EU and USA had agreed a huge deal on gas in a bid to reduce the EU reliance on Russian gas. (I do hope the USA realise their gas and our gas are different things 😆)
The UK isn't a part of this deal and while we know we only get between 6% and 8% of our gas from Russia I think its better to be in these things rather than excluded and not having a choice.
Uk is pretty well shielded from Russian gas. Hopefully it puts all regions into full pelt at renewables. Germany and other European countries should have seen this happening 10 years ago, even the nitwit trump was shouting about how crazy a dependency to Russia was.
We'll get most of our shortfall from another disgusting regime in Saudi Arabia. We should have invested in nuclear 20 years ago like France. The big winners are the US they are selling to the EU at 35% higher than Russia and have massive reserves
Sunak admits UK’s dismal recent trade ‘might’ be linked to Brexit
https://www.ft.com/content/484db1cf-...retype=blocked
After we hit the summit uplands and the resulting no difference to trade with EU "it was always inevitable trade would be hit".
I sometimes think that I don't understand the English language anymore they way these clowns twist it.
https://twitter.com/ukiswitheu/statu...3H2nzng4w&s=19
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EU countries can export to Scotland hassle free while Scottish companies have miles of red tape imposed upon us by the Tories.
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The EUSSR are still trying to swamp our freedoms, from all directions and in all sorts of ways. But they won't manage it, as we shall never surrender. The Ploughman's Sandwich has been a thing since the beginning of time, and possibly even before that. Certainly since the 1950s, when all ploughmen, and only ploughmen, had penises. Right is right and left is bad. Think that's the gist of that thread. :dunno:
nah, shirly not it can't be
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They need us more than we need them, prosecco, BMWs, bla bla bla
https://twitter.com/BrexitBin/status...79965793370120
UK exporters are struggling – and it isn’t hard to see why
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2...ef8e07856bef3c
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Lost in the statistical flurry last month was the news that the UK’s trade deficit in January was easily the biggest on record, at a huge £26.5 billion for goods, and £16.2 billion for goods and services taken together.
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It is too late to do anything about the main cause of this malaise: an economically damaging Brexit done in such a way that little or no thought was given to the consequences. As far as trade is concerned, things are panning out in the manner once stupidly dismissed as “Project Fear”. And we will be poorer as a result.