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[minerve 2] 19/8/2020 11:46

Go for it then, goons.

[geckotheglorious] 19/8/2020 11:33

Utrick

All very true.

Hence why FOM is very workable.

:)

[utrickytrees] 19/8/2020 11:30

GtG, thanks for the explanation, yeah sounds much better than a free movement deal with Europe because average salaries and benefits are in close parity with ours I'd expect, so you wouldn't get the obvious problems that weve had with lots of Poles and Bulgarians coming over to sell the big issue & claim benefits.
Also their health care systems are a lot more advanced than those in say Greece or Portugal Bulgaria etc etc so we wouldn't be getting surgeons who were actually little more than competent butchers either. Yes! I can see the attraction now of a free movement deal with other first world nations.

Are they willing to take the Jocks or is it subject to them getting independence do you know?

[minerve 2] 19/8/2020 11:13

Yeah, everything will be fine ..............until something isn't.



Remainers know what I mean in that obvious statement. ;)

[maxk] 19/8/2020 11:13

Dido Harding's unstoppable upward rise is an egregious example of the chumocracy at work

Harding's career has been dotted with failures, yet she is part of the club, so on she goes


ROSS CLARK
18 August 2020 • 12:35pm
Ross Clark


I guess there will have been few tears shed around the nation’s breakfast tables this morning for the demise of Public Health England – a quango which proved to be more interested in hectoring us over our diets than in preparing for a pandemic.

But, really, can’t the government find someone better to lead its successor body, the Institute for Health Protection, than the woman who set up the government’s dysfunctional test and trace system?...

[geckotheglorious] 19/8/2020 11:10

Utrick,

Nah, the Canucks aren't all LGBGter's - just the wet Trudeau liberals. Plenty of proper Conservatives over there.

Also many Brits have relatives in Canada,Nz, and Australia (and when taken into account their respective populations are far smaller compared to UK) such FOM makes sense in my view.

We share a similar language, culture (in parts) and heritage.

[utrickytrees] 19/8/2020 10:57

Bob, he has to go back to Scotland to sign on. He was probably on tag aswell.

[utrickytrees] 19/8/2020 10:54

Canada?? They're all lgbgter's arent they. I'm sure that Justin Trudeau's a left hander aswell. There might have to be a few caveats.

[geckotheglorious] 19/8/2020 10:44

FOM with CANZUk gets my vote.
No issue with that.

[maxk] 19/8/2020 10:28

Australians call for freedom of movement as part of post-Brexit trade deal

Agreement could be stepping stone to 'Canzuk Union' between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and UK


By
Amy Jones,
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
18 August 2020 • 10:00pm

[minerve 2] 19/8/2020 10:03

"U Turn if you want to"

They are! All the time and all over the bloody place!

LOL!

[diku] 19/8/2020 09:23

Only in theory...

[chavitravi2] 19/8/2020 09:21

Perhaps I should have said BoE supposed to be independent.

[xxxxxy] 19/8/2020 09:18

UK Scientist19 Aug 2020 8:34AMCame the hour, came the man. Only he didn't. But the trouble runs very deep indeed. We live in the latter days of western civilisation. Through a series of more or less incompetent emperors, the Western Roman Empire could rely on an army of technically proficient administrators. In the end this machine itself was corrupted and lost its competence and then the whole system collapsed. Everywhere you look we are controlled by lazy incompetents. Wherever the quangocracy comes under pressure to perform it is found to be peopled by overpaid ignoramuses who couldn't run the proverbial whelk stall. The Tories have been seduced by easy times into habitual squandermania. The leftists have made things worse by whingeing about 'austerity' when no such thing occurred.It is fitting that the easy spend, spend, spend approach is now being applied to education because so much of the rot in society lies in the hands of those supposedly producing the next generation of informed and technically proficient citizens. Heaven help you if, in a few years time, you find yourself being treated by a doctor who only got his place in medical school because he was a teacher's pet.Altec Lansing19 Aug 2020 8:35AM@UK ScientistWell said (except for the silly bit at the end). Teachers pets don't pass end of year 1 exams at medical or any other school and are sent packing.Hugh Camus19 Aug 2020 8:52AM@Altec Lansing"The silly bit at the end", is perhaps the most relevant of all.Think about being treated by someone solely because they had the correct melamine shade and pronoun.I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[xxxxxy] 19/8/2020 09:11

Stephen Clues19 Aug 2020 8:52AMLooks to me as if a newly-elected Government has inherited a number of executive agencies who have performed poorly in the pandemic crisis. Government has felt itself obliged to step in to correct mistakes those agencies were established to avoid. I don't know how much responsibility for the mess lies with Government or with executive agencies whose "expertise" the Government thought it could rely on. I do know that PHE and Ofqual seem to have failed the stress test they were set up to deal with.

[diku] 19/8/2020 09:10

Well due for some form of shake out come Autumn...

[optomistic] 19/8/2020 09:08

diku, funny thing is I also noticed we haven't been going anywhere recently... :-/

[diku] 19/8/2020 09:02

I keep hearing on the news with school results palava about children getting stressed...yes children saying they are stressed!!...wait till they get to adult life...

[ekuuleus] 19/8/2020 08:56

inflation rising at the moment is more a case of the supermarkets price gauging during the covid restrictions.

[mitchy] 19/8/2020 08:56

If the average age of economists is 19 that might account for the 'surprise' element of the reports.

[mitchy] 19/8/2020 08:36

I find it amusing that the recent jump in inflation is reported as a 'surprise' . Then it's attributed to sales discounts not happening.EVERY business is looking to increase prices to recover some costs .

[maxk] 19/8/2020 08:35

Fiscal ruin beckons, but our ship of fools does not even seem to know it


Ministers are struggling to reignite the sense of proportion so necessary in getting back to normality

JEREMY WARNER
18 August 2020 • 7:20pm



The about-turn on exam results always looked inevitable, but it is also symptomatic of a Government that has little idea of what it is doing



In Plato’s The Republic, Socrates describes a ship on which the sailors mutiny and try to pilot the vessel with no knowledge of “the year and seasons and sky and stars and winds, and whatever else belongs to his [a pilot’s] art”. Success on this “Ship of Fools” is defined not by having the skills to navigate the vessel but only by the ability to persuade others that such skills aren’t actually necessary and that the job can be done regardless....




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[bargainbob] 19/8/2020 08:11

Actually booked in To go next Monday to National Museum . Cannot wait to see the Bonnie Prince paintings and why when he seen The state of Derby he made haste back north.