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There is an angle I have been thinking about here. We are not going from one stable state to another in the short term. We may reach a stable state ag...
July 17, 2021 at 15:47
I don’t want to be part of a pile on, only to point out the flaw in this argument( although James Riley has already laid out the reality). What do tho...
July 15, 2021 at 07:08
I was going to step in and make this point, you beat my to it. We could easily produce sufficient energy from solar power and solar generation plants ...
July 14, 2021 at 07:05
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Chris Grey’s Brexit blog. https://t.co/wS92ePJqYu?amp=1 “ As the BBC’s Home editor Mark Easton put it, it is “the paradox of Brexit that taking contro...
July 09, 2021 at 19:55
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I agree about the third way. Although it may have been The Sun giving Blair their endorsement which really swung it. Going back to the demographic shi...
July 06, 2021 at 13:36
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I agree about the fear of the left with Corbyn, that it pushed people to vote Tory. But I differ in that I see this as primarily due to a smearing of ...
July 05, 2021 at 21:29
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Perhaps you haven’t been following the negative effects of Brexit closely. They are mounting daily, for example and there are hundreds of stories like...
July 02, 2021 at 05:35
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Pragmatism, I agree about the excesses of Corbyn mania, but the current leadership is moderate on EU membership. A pragmatic approach to deal with the...
July 01, 2021 at 21:32
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I am working on the assumption of a Labour, or coalition Labour government for two, perhaps three terms. Which would result in a genuinely EU friendly...
July 01, 2021 at 13:33
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We have been highjacked by the rise of populism, so you/we can’t blame the voting public. They are innocent and very few understand what is really goi...
July 01, 2021 at 11:23
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Yes, I agree. Fortunately I have a get out clause, I will qualify for Scottish citizenship. The U.K. EU relations will settle down and I expect we wil...
July 01, 2021 at 11:15
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I appreciate your thoughts on the issue and that you would rather not talk about it. I would agree with you in regard of a number of Conservatives, al...
July 01, 2021 at 08:33
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I can’t comment much on France as I don’t receive much news from there. I would expect that there was also some industrial decline in the face of glob...
July 01, 2021 at 08:02
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Yes, and we still have not dealt with the subprime mortgage crisis. House prices are rising at the fasted rate for years and rental costs for those wh...
June 30, 2021 at 13:45
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She should have been advised that without an industrial strategy U.K. industry would be undercut through the development of globalisation and the rise...
June 30, 2021 at 13:40
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Quite, I could never understand why Thatcher didn’t produce a sustainable industrial strategy. Had we not been in the EU she would probably have negle...
June 30, 2021 at 09:37
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As I have said, the Tory’s are finished once they are demonstrably an economic failure. All they’ve got now is more austerity, this cuts the legs out ...
June 30, 2021 at 09:32
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Yes, in policy terms the gov is no worse than Thatcher. Although following 10yrs of austerity with another 10 to come, the effect on the institutions ...
June 27, 2021 at 08:31
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Well the difference between us then is that I see this as a significant departure from the norm and you see it as part of the normal rebranding of the...
June 22, 2021 at 08:07
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My rationale is that Tory’s have been in crisis following the growth of UKIP and the fallout from the financial crisis of 2008. Alongside these issues...
June 17, 2021 at 21:50
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I’ll reply tomorrow, I have explained my conclusion before, but as I know it is not agreed on by many, I will happily explain again.
June 17, 2021 at 00:09
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The perfect storm is on the horizon. We have the three crisis happening at once. The effects of Brexit on trade with EU(fresh produce, just in time su...
June 17, 2021 at 00:07
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Quite, I am ambivalent on the question of UK’s membership of EU in principle. But see the current situation as a train wreck and more about a psychoti...
June 16, 2021 at 07:02
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That article requires subscription to read. I wouldn’t support the telegraph because it is little more than a Brexiter pamphlet now.
June 16, 2021 at 06:04
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Quite. I wonder where the philosophers congregate?
June 14, 2021 at 15:22
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Yes, there aren’t any Brexit supporters now. I was being bold in my comment, party to flush out any Brexit supporters lurking. Harsh words regarding t...
June 14, 2021 at 12:24
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You won’t find any Brexit supporters on a philosophy forum.
June 14, 2021 at 11:11
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You give Johnson an inch, he will take a mile. Anyway, any alternative to implementation of the protocol is no solution. Except, for NI leaving U.K. a...
June 14, 2021 at 11:10
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The problem for the EU is that if they make a concession the U.K. gov’ will grab it and ask for more while shouting even louder that the EU is bullyin...
June 14, 2021 at 07:54
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Things hotting up over NI protocol. The government is squirming. https://t.co/8fcBLs2SQH?amp=1
June 09, 2021 at 06:27
What you focus in on amounts to the same thing. SNP are a failure, we know that they are now the dominant party, so by extension devolution is a failu...
May 25, 2021 at 08:01
I’ve met some very Scottish people, more Scottish than I could have imagined, before I met them.
May 15, 2021 at 13:12
Your comparison of being ruled from Westminster being equal if not better than being ruled by the EU, in terms of freedoms of governance and autonomy,...
May 15, 2021 at 13:11
I understand your rationale, but remind you that this issue goes back at least 1000 years, in which there is a long history of the subjugation of Scot...
May 15, 2021 at 08:36
Looks like the debate has started. Can Johnson say no? If so, is it sustainable?
May 08, 2021 at 17:19
Thanks for linking to the channel4 article. Unfortunately I expect we will see more reports like that.
April 26, 2021 at 17:14
The double variant, and a triple.
April 25, 2021 at 06:43
Its the reality I’m afraid. Yes it is an unsourced tweet, but it describes a situation I have heard from a number of different sources over the last f...
April 25, 2021 at 06:42
Some harrowing stories come out of India. https://twitter.com/akashstronaut/status/1385645544932929539?s=20
April 24, 2021 at 20:08
I couldn’t understand how India got off so lightly in the first wave. I was worried about them a year ago, I never expected my worst fears to come tru...
April 24, 2021 at 09:30
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A catch up on Brexit Britain. The trade situation is dire, small businesses are finding it expensive and with long delays, things getting lost etc, se...
April 16, 2021 at 16:44
Weird stuff.
February 25, 2021 at 22:35
I can only conclude that “infinity” is a figment of rational thought. Any notion that there is infinity other than this is beyond us to determine. Bec...
February 24, 2021 at 22:32
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Index of business and jobs lost due to Brexit. This not exhaustive, but is a good illustration of the trends. https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/the-digby...
February 24, 2021 at 22:07
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“Brexit is coming apart at the seams” Good update by Chris Grey. https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2021/02/brexit-is-coming-apart-at-seams.html
February 06, 2021 at 15:25
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No, I don’t do anything like that, I’m mainly a cartoonist. The only other platform you’ll find me on is Twitter. #punshhh and I’m not the shady Russi...
February 03, 2021 at 10:51
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Oops, I should have said that the EU has banned the import of live shellfish from the UK. This will put the whole industry out of business. https://ww...
February 02, 2021 at 17:46
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The UK’s procurement was independent of the joint EU scheme. But this is nothing to do with Brexit, the UK would have been independent anyway if we we...
February 01, 2021 at 22:33
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Yes trade with the EU has dropped by about half overnight. Different sectors hit as the penny drops. The fishing industry has virtually died and last ...
January 31, 2021 at 07:22
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Don’t be to hasty, I could give you a list as long as your arm of the political and administrative failures of the UK government in relation to Brexit...
January 30, 2021 at 22:47