Sat 12 and Sun 13 November 2016

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 2:16 pm

Is the pleasantness working?

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 2:20 pm

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 12791.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
UK could become part of new trade area with the US, Canada and Mexico after Brexit

Perhaps it could involve freedom of movement too?
Hello America.

yahyah · Post by **yahyah** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 2:30 pm

You're always pleasant.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 2:32 pm

"...if you’re tempted to concede that the alt-right’s vision of the world might have some truth to it, don’t. Lies are lies, no matter how much power backs them up."

- Paul Krugman

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 2:42 pm

yahyah wrote:You're always pleasant.

AngryAsWell · Post by **AngryAsWell** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 2:44 pm

VOTE LABOUR -
‏@LabourNHSJAN
'You should be out there' - girl, 5, tells Theresa May to do more to help the homeless - YouTube

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wow like this at 5, then maybe there is a future

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 2:45 pm

https://medium.com/personal-growth/why- ... .nbzu2q8d6" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Why Steve Jobs wore the same outfit every day

Hindle - this brought your sartorial approach to mind.
I think it just means you're a genius of some sort.

yahyah · Post by **yahyah** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 2:46 pm

But I'm often told I'm wrong

Womble44 · Post by **Womble44** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 3:10 pm

citizenJA wrote:"...if you’re tempted to concede that the alt-right’s vision of the world might have some truth to it, don’t. Lies are lies, no matter how much power backs them up."

- Paul Krugman

Fully agree, but what to do when the media in this country strangles any attempt to discuss problems rationally?

Womble44 · Post by **Womble44** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 3:29 pm

And by that I don't mean 'why bother' but literally 'how do you tackle the problem'? Just in case it wasn't clear

Post by **PaulfromYorkshire** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 3:37 pm

Not much heartwarming around at the moment, but well done to hundreds of Newquay folk who accompanied this poorly 18 year old whippet on his final walk on Porth Beach.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-37955748" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 3:53 pm

For PfY:

http://ellentube.com/videos/0-o2q59t0b/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Post by **PaulfromYorkshire** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 3:54 pm

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 13661.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

jo-cox-white-helmets-peace-prize

Post by **PaulfromYorkshire** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 3:56 pm

I sometimes feel that people show more tenderness towards animals than their fellow human beings. But that doesn't mean they should stop being kind to the animals!

Womble44 · Post by **Womble44** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 4:00 pm

Hating the England rugby being on Sky

Post by **PaulfromYorkshire** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 4:02 pm

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will not attend a European emergency meeting called to discuss Donald Trump's US election victory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37963046" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 4:02 pm

Was he not invited or is he too busy playing cricket or something?

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 4:06 pm

Wonder if May and her Brexiteers have adopted this as their inspirational song.

We are a door to nowhere
Come on inside
Taking that ride to nowhere
We'll take that ride
I'm feeling okay this morning
And you know
We're on the road to paradise
Here we go, here we go

Post by **PaulfromYorkshire** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 4:09 pm

tinyclanger2 wrote:Was he not invited or is he too busy playing cricket or something?

He was invited.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 4:17 pm

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
tinyclanger2 wrote:Was he not invited or is he too busy playing cricket or something?
He was invited.

The UK's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs attendance to this meeting seems essential. What's Johnson's excuse for not attending?

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 4:19 pm

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:I sometimes feel that people show more tenderness towards animals than their fellow human beings. But that doesn't mean they should stop being kind to the animals!

Quite, deliberate cruelty to animals is one of the surest indicators of socipathy/psychopathy.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 4:23 pm

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
tinyclanger2 wrote:Was he not invited or is he too busy playing cricket or something?
He was invited.

god.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 4:24 pm

The BBC understands a senior UK official will be sent in his place.

Perhaps it just means they're sending someone serious.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 4:29 pm

tinyclanger2 wrote:
The BBC understands a senior UK official will be sent in his place.
Perhaps it just means they're sending someone serious.

Did he misplace his US passport?

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 4:31 pm

Those US border control guards don't mess around, never have messed around. No passport, no entry. Even with a passport, they're remorseless, you know?

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 4:33 pm

At least, that was the way it worked in my day.

JonnyT1234 · Post by **JonnyT1234** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 4:33 pm

citizenJA wrote:
tinyclanger2 wrote:
The BBC understands a senior UK official will be sent in his place.
Perhaps it just means they're sending someone serious.
Did he misplace his US passport?

Just his US taxes.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 6:23 pm

Apparently, Nigel "Yosser Hughes" Farage has made it inside Trump Tower.

Edited to remove an "s"

AngryAsWell · Post by **AngryAsWell** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 6:31 pm

Britian First, BNP And EDL Among Far-Right Groups To March With Nigel Farage On Supreme Court

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/s ... e24ab0ec18" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 6:34 pm

I'm sure this go down well in certain circles...

Britain Elects ‏@britainelects 23s23 seconds ago

Over the next five years, the government should prioritise...
Increasing public spending: 53%
Cutting public spending: 23%
(via ComRes)

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 6:40 pm

Re the Lego\Daily Mail decision

Gary Lineker
@GaryLineker
6 hours
Brick by brick.....

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 6:52 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... h-somerset" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Virgin will also run the urgent care facility at Paulton community hospital, which is 12 miles from Bath, and subcontract a number of other services to other providers, including the provision of dementia and end of life care and a “hospital from home” service for recently discharged patients.

That's my local community hospital. It was earmarked for closure at one point several years ago but we managed to hang onto it. There's a maternity unit (run by the Royal United Hospital in Bath), a minor injuries unit (the bit Virgin are taking control of I presume) and some hospital beds for recuperation care. There's a local charity shop that supports the hospital with continual fundraising for equipment etc. Quite how people will feel about donating when a profit-making company is controlling the asset to which they are financially contributing to remains to be seen, but I know I'm not especially keen on the idea. It changes the whole relationship between the community and their hospital in ways I suspect many people have not even started to consider.

AngryAsWell · Post by **AngryAsWell** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:00 pm

‘I feel truly ashamed.’ Keith Burnett on Theresa May’s trade mission to India
Sir Keith Burnett reflects on what he learned about international students while in India with the UK prime minister

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/bl ... sion-india" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:22 pm

Wow.

Marion Le Pen Verified account
‏@Marion_M_Le_Pen

I answer yes to the invitation of Stephen Bannon, CEO of @realDonaldTrump presidential campaign, to work together.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:28 pm

I can't decide which way Donald Trump will go re Nigel Farage. Will he (DT) blow him (NF) out? Will Nigel Farage get some minor and non-influential post - with a large pay-cheque, naturally? Will Donald Trump tell Theresa May that she has to use Nigel Farage as her conduit to the US if she wants to get anywhere? If it's the last option, I wonder what Theresa May's justification for accepting (as she would) such a condition.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:36 pm

RogerOThornhill wrote:Wow.

Marion Le Pen Verified account
‏@Marion_M_Le_Pen

I answer yes to the invitation of Stephen Bannon, CEO of @realDonaldTrump presidential campaign, to work together.

How aware is the US electorate of what the Le Pens represent? Well aware, or soon will become so, I hope.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:36 pm

PorFavor wrote:Apparently, Nigel "Yosser Hughes" Farage has made it inside Trump Tower.

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‏@LeithMotive

dfewdgfe g245yghbn5t Retweeted The Independent

Either Trump is an incompetent or this is an absolutely massive fuck you to the UK.

They have a point...as another tweet said "both"

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:44 pm

Minor point - but how does all this help Nigel Farage in his ambition to spend more time with his beer mat collection, or whatever he said he wanted to do?

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:47 pm

PorFavor wrote:
RogerOThornhill wrote:Wow.
Marion Le Pen Verified account
‏@Marion_M_Le_Pen

I answer yes to the invitation of Stephen Bannon, CEO of @realDonaldTrump presidential campaign, to work together.

How aware is the US electorate of what the Le Pens represent? Well aware, or soon will become so, I hope.

My guess is this information is for the edification of Europeans, not the US electorate. I could be wrong.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:48 pm

AngryAsWell wrote:Britian First, BNP And EDL Among Far-Right Groups To March With Nigel Farage On Supreme Court

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/s ... e24ab0ec18" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

none of them racist. obviously

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:50 pm

tinyclanger2 wrote:
AngryAsWell wrote:Britian First, BNP And EDL Among Far-Right Groups To March With Nigel Farage On Supreme Court

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/s ... e24ab0ec18" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
none of them racist. obviously

Indeed, calling such people racist is the real racism these days

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:50 pm

I don't think the US electorate would be as stricken by the Le Pen and Trump alliance as European residents.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:52 pm

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/fe ... iversities" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

: trumpage.jpg (24.67 KiB) Viewed 8506 times

JonnyT1234 · Post by **JonnyT1234** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:53 pm

Nine times Donald Trump has already betrayed the US voters who put their faith in him - The Independent
https://apple.news/AE78vGtDQRfKA4TsZ2J6XSA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

PF. You've misspelled Tosser.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:54 pm

If Trump announces Farage is his new envoy to the European Union, I'll know that this isn't real and we've been acting out a giant episode of the Thick Of It.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:54 pm

citizenJA wrote:I don't think the US electorate would be as stricken by the Le Pen and Trump alliance as European residents.

Probably not. But it's time that they were. I'm not liking the way things are going.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 7:56 pm

JonnyT1234 wrote:Nine times Donald Trump has already betrayed the US voters who put their faith in him - The Independent
https://apple.news/AE78vGtDQRfKA4TsZ2J6XSA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

PF. You've misspelled Tosser.

I must admit it had sprung to mind.

JonnyT1234 · Post by **JonnyT1234** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 8:02 pm

Good job we didn't elect the son of the man who hated Britain at the last election, and that the unelectable communist Comrade Corbyn will never get into power and usurp the throne...

Theresa May set to go to war with the Queen as she axes royal charters - Mirror Online
https://apple.news/AaqCwOKBFTD6qNf3cdYgKSw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

JonnyT1234 · Post by **JonnyT1234** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 8:10 pm

Pleasing, I suppose, that May is seeking to emulate Thatcher to such an extent that she's going to try her best to make the Queen hate her too.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 12 Nov, 2016 8:11 pm

PorFavor wrote:
citizenJA wrote:I don't think the US electorate would be as stricken by the Le Pen and Trump alliance as European residents.
Probably not. But it's time that they were. I'm not liking the way things are going.

I agree with you.