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Monday 18th September 2017

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:roll:
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Actually :twisted:

My original emoji was because Today had invited John Redwood to speak on the Boris story.

However, he seems to have been so bad that he's made it worse for Boris rather than better :lol:
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Good morfternoon.
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I'm currently somewhere with really poor internet, so I've turned off images in my browser (on my phone), to speed up loading.

These first couple of posts are a little odd for me.
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refitman wrote:I'm currently somewhere with really poor internet, so I've turned off images in my browser (on my phone), to speed up loading.

These first couple of posts are a little odd for me.
Refitman in technology fail shocker!
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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
refitman wrote:I'm currently somewhere with really poor internet, so I've turned off images in my browser (on my phone), to speed up loading.

These first couple of posts are a little odd for me.
Refitman in technology fail shocker!
Not a fail, deliberate management of resources, leading to comical confusion.
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refitman wrote:
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
refitman wrote:I'm currently somewhere with really poor internet, so I've turned off images in my browser (on my phone), to speed up loading.

These first couple of posts are a little odd for me.
Refitman in technology fail shocker!
Not a fail, deliberate management of resources, leading to comical confusion.
There you go PF. For next time you need it....
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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
There you go PF. For next time you need it....
I'd laugh, but I can't see the emoticons!
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:popcorn:

:lol!:
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Sorry.

Couldn't resist. :)
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Conservatives split over Boris Johnson's Brexit article as backlash continues - Politics live
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/bl ... itics-live" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I hope everyone's making the most of this headline. I'm enjoying it anyway!
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http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hed ... 51636.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Think you’d never be so stupid as to put your savings in a rip-off hedge fund? You may well have already done so
Despite the awful returns and rip-off fees of hedge funds, 4.8 million people in the UK are invested in them through their pension schemes
Relates to the growing problem of under performing pensions:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/201 ... warns-wef/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The world’s biggest economies are sitting on a $70 trillion (£54 trillion) pensions time bomb that will balloon to more than $400 trillion within four decades unless policymakers take urgent action, the World Economic Forum has warned.
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Forgot the bit in the first article that particularly got my attention. It's about a specific hedge fund manager whose fund closed recently:
Last week he announced the closure of his hedge fund Eclectica, after haemorrhaging investors’ money. It may have something to do with the fact that last year Hendry was apparently betting on a break-up of the entire European Union.
The biggest donors to the leave campaign were hedge funds. I'm still convinced that some people involved in the whole Brexit debacle were pretty much counting on Brexit de-stabilising the Eu at the very least, if not leading to a domino effect that eventually led to other countries following our lead.
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There was a time when Boris might have got away with it, but he's hacked off too many people now.
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Saudi Arabia's application to attend the Labour Conference has been refused.
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:There was a time when Boris might have got away with it, but he's hacked off too many people now.
Including the British motor industry which is soon to become an anachronistic irrelevance (I paraphrase).


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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Saudi Arabia's application to attend the Labour Conference has been refused.
Graham Jones MP not happy :roll: :D
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Brexit department loses its permanent secretary

Oliver (Olly) Robbins, permanent secretary at DExEU (the department for exiting the EU, and the government’s lead official on Brexit, is moving, the BBC reports. These are from the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg.


Laura Kuenssberg

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May's chief EU sherpa, Ollie Robbins, moves out of Brexit dept and into Cabinet Office - relations had not been great with Davis
12:01 PM - Sep 18, 2017
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Just been announced that Stanislav Petrov died earlier this year. Anybody who doesn't know who that is, please google.
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Just been announced that Stanislav Petrov died earlier this year. Anybody who doesn't know who that is, please google.
I did have to Google Graham Jones MP . . .
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You are (or rather, were) fortunate indeed with that.
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Just been announced that Stanislav Petrov died earlier this year. Anybody who doesn't know who that is, please google.
“I had a funny feeling in my gut,” [Colonel Petrov] later told The Washington Post.
“I didn’t want to make a mistake. I made a decision, and that was it.”
[He] attributed his judgment to both his training and his intuition.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/worl ... ml?mcubz=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Good-afternoon, everyone
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“We are wiser than the computers,” he said in a 2010 interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel. “We created them.”
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Theresa May on the Boris Johnson thing, "This Government is driven from the front."

So - in retreat, then?
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Hello all.
Stepped out for a bit, bored by my own repetitive, but also on the road and with too much life admin.
Wanted to pop in to thank everyone who's contributing. Even when I'm not writing I'm generally reading.
Always, as ever, appreciate the read.
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PS - best wishes to the family RoT.
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PorFavor wrote:Theresa May on the Boris Johnson thing, "This Government is driven from the front."

So - in retreat, then?
Touche'

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tinyclanger2 wrote:PS - best wishes to the family RoT.

Thanks - she's still not home though...was supposed to be today but delayed for a couple of reasons. Did pick up the new car today though. No proper handbrake? That'll take time getting used to!
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PorFavor wrote:Theresa May on the Boris Johnson thing, "This Government is driven from the front."

So - in retreat, then?
:lol:
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She [Theresa May] has always said she does not want to take a model off the shelf. The UK is in a unique position, she says. (Politics Live, Guardian - my emphasis)


We certainly are.
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Night night.
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Looks like most people have gone to bed already.......
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PorFavor wrote:Night night.
Goodnight, PorFavor
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Goodnight, everyone
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Social housing crisis can no longer be ignored, says housing chief
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Disability backlog tops 1M; thousands die on waitlist

More than 1 million Americans await a hearing to see whether they qualify for disability benefits from Social Security, with the average wait nearly two years -- longer than some of them will live.
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