tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post4331344123633114917..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: Fun Online Polls: Hard Brexit and the "price" of Soft BrexitMark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-53559625804219597602016-10-21T15:25:01.470+01:002016-10-21T15:25:01.470+01:00Re the carrier
If you Google the name of the carr...Re the carrier<br /><br />If you Google the name of the carrier, the 'Admiral Vodkasoaked'. You will see that there is/was always a British warship shadowing it. Which, given our Navy's recent episode of not being able to get out beyond the Solent,in their Billion quid Class, No Engine Designer,ships is nice to know.<br /><br />One for the History fans. I hope this Russian trip through the channel goes better than the one at the turn of the last century. I think the score, from the top of my head was; Russian Navy 4 British Fishing boats 0. Unfortunately the gunnery practice did not help them much then.MikeWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455583313857077618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-90093027162613532202016-10-21T13:57:23.911+01:002016-10-21T13:57:23.911+01:00PS Russian ships, including an aircraft carrier, ...PS Russian ships, including an aircraft carrier, are passing through the Channel on the way to the Eastern Mediterranean to help in Syria.Cue complete third-rater Michael Fallon to hop up and down with rage saying he will be watching them "every step of the way", mixing his metaphors as only a third-rater in all the basic competences can achieve.Why is not this man Prime Minister: he is so dangerously thick in the approved Conservative ways?DBC Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891849727783879145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-42112351278218813752016-10-21T09:08:02.343+01:002016-10-21T09:08:02.343+01:00@MW
The football club analogy is crass; arguing by...@MW<br />The football club analogy is crass; arguing by analogy is crass.<br /><br />There is a point about the demise of the Soviet Bloc which screwball lunatics in the USA and gender-confused public schoolboys in this country, who were naturally rushed into sensitive diplomatic jobs, strove night and day to bring about, with never a thought about what would happen if they succeeded.<br />In the event it has been the "accession countries" from the Baltic plus Romania which have caused the EU problem since the Americans did not want to know post-liberation and thrust them into the EU orbit because they couldn't be arsed. <br />If we had co-operated with the Soviets all along, the accession countries could have stayed in a pinko fringe area round Russia gradually coming up to speed economically.<br />Vietnam did alright post-liberation.<br />We should be working with Russia in areas of mutual interest: e.g Islamic fundamentalism where the Russians want to ally with us. Instead, we have public school yobbo Boris Johnson accusing them of war crimes for trying to deal with the tricky problem of Islamic militias holed up in Eastern Aleppo using civilians as human shields.DBC Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891849727783879145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-34905974456840117562016-10-20T21:08:55.207+01:002016-10-20T21:08:55.207+01:00B you put it far more succinctly than I did :-)B you put it far more succinctly than I did :-)Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-31001373014871141882016-10-20T20:16:22.123+01:002016-10-20T20:16:22.123+01:00We joined the Common Market. We voted to leave th...We joined the Common Market. We voted to leave the European Union. Spot the difference?Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-74570933243429077512016-10-20T18:27:32.518+01:002016-10-20T18:27:32.518+01:00R, Murphy is perfectly happy to lie and contradict...R, Murphy is perfectly happy to lie and contradict himself several times in the space of one blog post and comments so no point arguing with him. Despite masquerading as a Leftie he is in fact hard core Home-Owner-Ist. That's even before we start on his endless KLNs.<br /><br />I don't mind people being wrong if they are at least consistent in their beliefs. <br /><br />DBC, o ye of short term memory! We joined a club of 12 wealthy west European nations forty years ago with one set of rules which were deffo of overall benefit to all members at the time. We are now in a supra national Franco-German run government of 27 countries including very poor nations and paying infinitely more in contributions and being subjected to all sorts of new rules.<br /><br />The tipping point where the EU objectively turned from good to bad was probably about 15 years ago, or 10 years ago if you are a bit slow to condemn, like me.<br /><br />If you join the local football club for £50 a year and then decide they are going to play tennis instead for £500, are you not allowed to leave?Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-25153064481621940942016-10-20T09:39:37.053+01:002016-10-20T09:39:37.053+01:00But miss! those European boys made us do it! We en...But miss! those European boys made us do it! We enter into a single market with conditions ,then they say we can't stay in as soon as we don't like the conditions. I ask you! We'll tough up some of them real good and show who's civilised round here.Anybody says we're not, will get it.DBC Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891849727783879145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-19153243151338538172016-10-19T20:49:24.126+01:002016-10-19T20:49:24.126+01:00Debunk Richie's BS in comments?
http://www.ta...Debunk Richie's BS in comments?<br /><br />http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/10/19/it-takes-remarkable-economic-incompetence-to-demand-an-interest-rate-rise-now/#comment-area<br /><br />Comment:<br /><br />"Increasing supply is the only way to reduce house prices"<br /><br />Surely it can't be that hard to convince people to vote for big tax cuts with bank lending restrictions + land value tax?Randomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04445772572707818311noreply@blogger.com