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You have zero evidence for your baseless fantastical claim. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/21/donald-tusk-warned-david-cameron-about-stupi...
January 25, 2019 at 13:17
In: Brexit  — view comment
The £14 billion includes the rebate.
January 25, 2019 at 12:57
In: Brexit  — view comment
David Cameron campaigned for Remain.
January 25, 2019 at 12:46
I think it's worse than that. Presentism cannot assume a preferred foliation of something it claims does not exist. Presentism cannot admit spacetime ...
January 25, 2019 at 12:43
In: Brexit  — view comment
A handy list of Brexit campaign lies to awaken you from your delusions. "£4300 cost to families/households" if UK votes Leave. This was concocted by d...
January 25, 2019 at 12:23
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I know it because I know many people who voted Leave, and through the extensive research done by polling organisations. e.g. http://lordashcroftpolls....
January 25, 2019 at 11:27
In: Brexit  — view comment
The people who voted Leave did so because they want to live in a functioning democracy. Also, there was not a single argument to Remain, other than fe...
January 25, 2019 at 09:17
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OK So the membership fee is closer to £14billion. The deficit in traded goods is still £95billion. EU still takes £4billion in fish from UK waters. EU...
January 25, 2019 at 09:11
In: Brexit  — view comment
I get it. Uk must pay £13billion membership fee, £4billion in fish, £4billion in benefits to EU citizens, and suffer a £95billion deficit in traded go...
January 24, 2019 at 20:09
Literally everything in relative motion inhabits a different present. These presents become more strikingly in disagreement as relative speeds increas...
January 24, 2019 at 09:19
And someone else can describe reality from a different reference frame and they both disagree. They don't just disagree on the time, but disagree on t...
January 24, 2019 at 00:22
Eternalism isn't metaphysical if it's part of our best physical theories. Both general relativity and quantum mechanics tell us that the universe as a...
January 23, 2019 at 14:16
We know that an objective present cannot exist because the clocks disagree. All there can be are relative presents. And presentism cannot explain why ...
January 23, 2019 at 09:52
Perhaps you don't, but you cannot explain, given an objective present, why the clocks diverge.
January 23, 2019 at 00:29
Really? How does GMT+1 manage to remain +1 to GMT if the time zones run at different rates?
January 23, 2019 at 00:12
And to think this was the sort of thing that used to be on TV.
January 22, 2019 at 19:18
Why do clocks on the earth and in orbit run at different rates? Clocks in different time zones don't run at different rates.
January 22, 2019 at 19:16
How does gravity alter the rate of clocks under presentism? How can the present be at different times under presentism?
January 22, 2019 at 14:46
In: Brexit  — view comment
The IMF is fairly upbeat about UK GDP growth. https://order-order.com/2019/01/21/imf-uk-will-fastest-growing-european-g7-country-brexit/
January 22, 2019 at 14:21
If the "Present" existed, then the clocks would read the same.
January 22, 2019 at 13:55
In: Brexit  — view comment
The Brexit vote was about sovereignty and democracy. Everyone expected an immediate economic hit. This was assured by the government, Bank of England,...
January 22, 2019 at 13:25
How about doing a simple time dilation experiment? Synchronise atomic clocks, and take one on a flight around the world. When the clocks are reunited,...
January 22, 2019 at 10:10
In: Brexit  — view comment
Well I'll list the exclusions from that EU directive, and then we'll see if a single market in services exists: Financial services, banking, credit, i...
January 21, 2019 at 16:02
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I defer to Project Fear for economic fore casts, but nevertheless, as part of basic economic theory, open free-trading democracies always prevail. Bre...
January 20, 2019 at 23:54
But the Multiverse structure is correct.
January 20, 2019 at 23:15
In: Brexit  — view comment
There is no Common Market in services. There is no Customs Union in services. The UK pays what it does in return for access to the Common Market in go...
January 20, 2019 at 23:07
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They aren't my figures. Latest reporting from the government indicates that only 43% of UK trade, and falling, is with EU. https://www.ons.gov.uk/busi...
January 20, 2019 at 21:54
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It is the government that reports that trade with EU accounted for 43% of UK economy in 2016. https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/internat...
January 20, 2019 at 21:52
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Well, figures go up and down. ONS reported 43% for 2016, the BBC claims 44% is the 2015 figure. The fact remains that UK trades more with the rest of ...
January 20, 2019 at 21:49
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No. According to the Office for National Statistics, UK total trade with the EU was £622billion in 2017, which includes imports, exports, goods and se...
January 20, 2019 at 21:15
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UK trades more with the rest of the World than the EU. This is obvious since UK trade with EU accounts for 44% of GDP, despite the paltry 8% of GDP in...
January 20, 2019 at 20:53
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UK runs a surplus in traded goods with the rest of the world, and its most profitable trading partner is the USA, with which the UK returns a trade su...
January 20, 2019 at 19:53
In: Brexit  — view comment
Total trade with the EU sits at about 44% of GDP and falling, but that is irrelevant. UK pays money to the EU, gives up its fish and pays £4billion in...
January 20, 2019 at 19:44
In: Brexit  — view comment
The EU Commission, but there are plenty of sources, e.g: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Intra-EU_trade_in_goods_-_recent...
January 20, 2019 at 19:40
Sure, LA County has registration rate of 112%, and Broward County FL has more votes cast than registered voters, including the dead ones. Nothing to s...
January 20, 2019 at 17:17
In: Brexit  — view comment
Ah yes, those six...teen mysterious ways.
January 20, 2019 at 16:45
There's a lot going on behind the scenes to counteract voter-fraud. https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/california-and-los-angeles...
January 20, 2019 at 16:18
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Less than 8% of UK GDP depends on selling goods to EU, according to the EU Commission.
January 20, 2019 at 15:23
There are certain space-time structures that make time-travel possible, if I remember correctly. Didn't Kurt Godel discover one, as did Frank Tipler? ...
January 20, 2019 at 15:21
In: Brexit  — view comment
If UK received anything of value in return approaching that huge financial burden, then why does no other EU country pay a similar penalty?
January 20, 2019 at 15:07
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There never is an answer though.
January 20, 2019 at 15:00
In: Brexit  — view comment
What do you think you get for £13billion membership fee, £4billion in fish, £4billion in benefits to EU citizens, and a £95billion deficit in traded g...
January 20, 2019 at 14:33
In: Brexit  — view comment
Why don't you list the 16 different corruptions? Both the Conservatives and the Greens had manifesto commitments for an EU referendum. Cameron was nev...
January 20, 2019 at 14:30
In: Brexit  — view comment
You haven't laid out a single fact though.
January 20, 2019 at 13:40
In: Brexit  — view comment
And had Remain won, I'm sure you would be complaining about the corruption.
January 20, 2019 at 13:32
In: Brexit  — view comment
If UK abandons democracy, it will be like France on a Saturday, except it will be every day.
January 20, 2019 at 13:21
In: Brexit  — view comment
You mean pro-Democracy nonsense, surely. The UK cancelled their referendum on EU membership in 2006 because it was clear that the people would vote th...
January 20, 2019 at 13:09
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You note correctly, that you have no representation on the EU body with monopoly on legislative initiative, monopoly on fiscal initiative, and which e...
January 20, 2019 at 13:01
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Who represents you on the EU Commission?
January 20, 2019 at 12:26
In: Brexit  — view comment
Well, in the specific case of Brexit, democracy is embodied in the referendum, its result. and the government's promise to implement the result. This ...
January 20, 2019 at 08:49