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Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 7:10 am
by refitman
Morning all.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 7:17 am
by HindleA
Morning.
Defrosting head in microwave.
The last mile wasn't so bad it was the first exposed to the elements two where I nearly took off;did consider flapping my arms in attempt to fly home but I haven't got my pilots' licence.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 7:18 am
by HindleA
All these years and I never knew my head was detachable.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 7:37 am
by HindleA
https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... -nao-warns" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Continue to penalise care/self care/otherwise hospital based treatments and charge the "burdensome" ever more that'll help.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 7:46 am
by HindleA
May have overdone my head,I couldn't see how long I put it in for,in my defence.Should have set then detached,of course.Lesson for the future.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 7:50 am
by HindleA
Experimenting with other parts as to detachability
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 8:38 am
by PaulfromYorkshire
Morning All
Some great posts late last night if folk haven't been back to look
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 8:45 am
by PaulfromYorkshire
Laura Kuenssberg
@bbclaurak
the crucial bit - Grayling says she will 'set out the things we can't have' - end of cake and eat it ?
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 8:47 am
by tinybgoat
HindleA wrote:Experimenting with other parts as to detachability
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Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 8:49 am
by tinybgoat
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Laura Kuenssberg
@bbclaurak
the crucial bit - Grayling says she will 'set out the things we can't have' - end of cake and eat it ?
When he says she, doesn't he mean they?
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 8:56 am
by PaulfromYorkshire
Much as Laura Kuenssberg annoys me, I often find her writing quite impressive.
Not this time
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43250039" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
What a load of drivel.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 9:21 am
by HindleA
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... and-labour" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Can Theresa May set out a viable Brexit vision? If not Labour is ready
Keir Starmer
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 9:30 am
by HindleA
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 9:45 am
by RogerOThornhill
Morning all.
No snow overnight and no sign of thawing either. Very breezy but I might venture out to go swimming this afternoon.
Interesting bit of re-positioning here.
Exclusive: School autonomy group wants to become the voice for academies
https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/br ... -academies" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
An organisation that campaigns for school autonomy is seeking to transform itself into a trade association to lobby on behalf of the academy sector.
There are currently 2,700 academy trusts, ranging in size from one school to more than 60, but there are concerns that the DfE often consults only a limited number of favoured organisations.
Now Fasna – the Freedom and Autonomy for Schools National Association, which traces its origins back to 1992 – wants to become an organisation that can speak on behalf of the whole sector.
How about "We lost the argument over school autonomy since so many MATs tell their schools what to do, so now we'd like to be the head of the MAT group instead."
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 10:12 am
by gilsey
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Laura Kuenssberg
@bbclaurak
the crucial bit - Grayling says she will 'set out the things we can't have' - end of cake and eat it ?
Looks like more of the same to me.
Faisal Islam
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PM’s Big Brexit speech in London at 130pm... she will set “five tests” of the Brexit deal
1. Respect the referendum
2. An agreement that endures
3. Protect jobs and security
4. Consistent with open outward-looking European democracy
5. Strengthen the union
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Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 10:18 am
by gilsey
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Morning All
Some great posts late last night if folk haven't been back to look
I watched more than 5 minutes of QT myself, unusually, there did seem to be a surprising number of remainers in the audience, who cheered Ken Clarke - and then roundly booed him when he said fracking was the way to revive the local economy.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 10:24 am
by citizenJA
Good-morning, everyone
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 10:27 am
by PaulfromYorkshire
gilsey wrote:PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Laura Kuenssberg
@bbclaurak
the crucial bit - Grayling says she will 'set out the things we can't have' - end of cake and eat it ?
Looks like more of the same to me.
Faisal Islam
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PM’s Big Brexit speech in London at 130pm... she will set “five tests” of the Brexit deal
1. Respect the referendum
2. An agreement that endures
3. Protect jobs and security
4. Consistent with open outward-looking European democracy
5. Strengthen the union
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I note there are two versions of Test 4 in circulation. The other says "consistent with the kind of country we want to be".
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 10:32 am
by PaulfromYorkshire
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:gilsey wrote:PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Laura Kuenssberg
@bbclaurak
the crucial bit - Grayling says she will 'set out the things we can't have' - end of cake and eat it ?
Looks like more of the same to me.
Faisal Islam
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@faisalislam
2h2 hours ago
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PM’s Big Brexit speech in London at 130pm... she will set “five tests” of the Brexit deal
1. Respect the referendum
2. An agreement that endures
3. Protect jobs and security
4. Consistent with open outward-looking European democracy
5. Strengthen the union
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I note there are two versions of Test 4 in circulation. The other says "consistent with the kind of country we want to be".
Apparently test 4 actually includes both bits.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 10:35 am
by PorFavor
Good morfternoon.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 10:37 am
by RogerOThornhill
A former Perm Sec at the treasury writes...
Nick Macpherson
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In run up to Maastricht, UK was 100% focused on treaty text. Now it favours speech over substance, leaving it to EU to make all the running.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 10:54 am
by RogerOThornhill
Learners let down by Learndirect, say MPs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/education-43241486?
The government has been criticised for its role in giving millions of pounds of taxpayers' money to a UK training provider accused of failing to deliver.
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee says Learndirect Ltd has failed to tackle its poor performance, letting thousands of learners down.
The committee says the situation raises concerns about government outsourcing services to private companies.
The government said it "continued to monitor" Learndirect's performance.
The PAC report says that, in the wake of the collapse of construction giant Carillion , questions are "rightly being asked about how government manages companies who deliver our public services".
Government shrugs shoulders and continues to do the same in the name of "public sector reform"
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 10:56 am
by gilsey
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
Apparently test 4 actually includes both bits.
Islam has tweeted the paragraphs, if you click the link.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 11:25 am
by gilsey
Someone here cares about Orient, I think?
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“I’m likely to lose all my money” - no delusions from Texan owner of Leyton Orient football club in interview with @muradahmed
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Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 11:49 am
by Willow904
Morning.
It was pretty chaotic in North East Somerset yesterday as #StormEmma hit earlier than forecast, though we weren't as badly hit as southern Somerset.
Everyone's snowed in today with all buses cancelled and schools shut.
With people struggling just to get about, the Tory obsession with Europe has never seemed so self-indulgent and irrelevant to most people's lives.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 12:39 pm
by AnatolyKasparov
All yesterday's by-elections went ahead, some comedy turnouts but no real surprises.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 12:58 pm
by PaulfromYorkshire
Talking of comedy turns, it's nearly time for the great speech!
Remember this was meant to be the culmination of the 'Road to Brexit' series of speeches by May (in Munich), Boris, Fox, Lidington then May again.
I find I can't recall anything of interest from that series, not even a mugwump popinjay comment from Johnson.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 1:24 pm
by PorFavor
Six minutes to go. The suspense is killing me (that's if the cold doesn't get me first).
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 1:35 pm
by PaulfromYorkshire
PorFavor wrote:Six minutes to go. The suspense is killing me (that's if the cold doesn't get me first).
It seems 'Our Future Partnership' is located in Kazakhstan, according to May's map.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 1:47 pm
by GetYou
On point 2, it would have helped to create an enduring negotiation if you'd actually bothered for the past year or so. Moron.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 1:54 pm
by PorFavor
We'll always have Florence . . .
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 1:56 pm
by PorFavor
She's doing the old "this is the first time I've seen this speech" routine. Terrible delivery - not to mention the content.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:05 pm
by gilsey
Weather report.
It hasn't snowed much here since yesterday morning but the wind is still arctic, mr gilsey cleared the drive and saw one of the local farmers who said the roads were ok, so we've been to the co-op for bread and milk. They'd had a Warburtons delivery which was almost sold out but no own brand at all, milk running low and not much veg. Depends where the deliveries are coming from, I suppose.
It's only 4 miles away but there's only about a quarter of the depth of snow we have here and nowhere near as windy.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:07 pm
by Willow904
She says she wants the “broadest and deepest possible partnership.
We already have the broadest and deepest possible partnership as a member of the EU. Anything we end up with is going to be less broad and not as deep as we have now. So much talk about the things the UK government want to stay the same, so little detail about what they want to change.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:07 pm
by PorFavor
gilsey wrote:Weather report.
It hasn't snowed much here since yesterday morning but the wind is still arctic, mr gilsey cleared the drive and saw one of the local farmers who said the roads were ok, so we've been to the co-op for bread and milk. They'd had a Warburtons delivery which was almost sold out but no own brand at all, milk running low and not much veg. Depends where the deliveries are coming from, I suppose.
It's only 4 miles away but there's only about a quarter of the depth of snow we have here and nowhere near as windy.
One of the local farmers was buried in the snow in your drive? Blimey - that's bad.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:09 pm
by PorFavor
Dear God - she's just fluffed one of the most important bits (Ireland\border).
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:17 pm
by PorFavor
I occasionally think that Charles de Gaulle had a point . . .
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:21 pm
by tinybgoat
Wonder How long does she thinks this would all take.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:22 pm
by PorFavor
As one door closes another one opens. Apparently.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:25 pm
by PorFavor
The message is clear (?).
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:25 pm
by GetYou
tinybgoat wrote:Wonder How long does she thinks this would all take.
It's OK, she's taking a faith-based approach to this.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:26 pm
by GetYou
"Let's get on with it" GTF you amateur
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:27 pm
by RogerOThornhill
PorFavor wrote:As one door closes another one opens. Apparently.
Yes but it's taken them 18 months even to notice where the handle is...
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:29 pm
by tinybgoat
Did i mishear it, or did Robert Peston just introduce himself as "Robert Peston, BBC"?
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:32 pm
by GetYou
So, in answer to Faizal's question, no solution to the Irish border question. And no, you haven't set out ways in which you can do just that, you just keep promising you might do in the future.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:32 pm
by RogerOThornhill
2:20pm - "Nothing happening weather wise and road looks clear - I'll go swimming and take the car"
2:30pm "Oh look....snowing again"
Sorry everyone...
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:35 pm
by HindleA
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Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:35 pm
by RogerOThornhill
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She's clear you know. About being clear.
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:36 pm
by HindleA
"The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the..
Re: Friday 2nd March 2018
Posted: Fri 02 Mar, 2018 2:37 pm
by PorFavor
PTO