but that appears to be the path she has chosen for herself.
Those whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad.
Posts by Heero Yuy
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Another dismal grey day like yesterday. Not weather: not hot, not cold, not windy not raining, not dry, not sunny etc.
I want the sun back.
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More to the point, where is Boris? Has anyone seen anything of his views and opinions?
The silence is deafening. Maybe he's just sitting back and watching as May self destructs.
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May's equivalent of Geoffrey Howe here
Wasn't it said of him that it "Was like being savaged by a dead sheep"
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My money is on Boris too. He's popular in the country and has something of the Trump about him. He may ham it up a bit in public but there's a brain there as well.
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Dominic Raab is 5/1 to succeed May. Mind you the same bookies have Corbyn at 4/1
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No speech from May tonight. I wonder what the hold up is?
Working out how to say she's wasted two years on a plan that could never fly and now don't panic. (A-la Corporal Jones)
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There's so much speculation and very little fact at the moment. Let's wait for the dust to settle and see if we've been sold down the river with May's plan or MPs back the will of the people and make leave really mean leave.
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Shame Labour are without doubt , even worse.
Possibly the only thing that saves us from complete armageddon.
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Nice and sunny down here too and 14.5C. Looks like a line of heavy showers are going over the Isle of Wight though.
Forecast is to settle down towards the weekend and to get quite warm. Record for this time of the year is 17.7C but the odds are shortening rapidly that it will be beaten. Could do with a little extra Indian Summer.
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it's a case of wait for them to come back to us after Brexit and see if they want to talk or not.
That's going to have to be the gameplay now. There isn't time for May to try and get her appeasement plan through parliament and the numbers aren't there for it. The EU have yet to decide by a unanimous vote of all 27 members whether it can fly anyway.
They're all waiting for her to fall flat on her face, so they can make their moves.
Probably the plan all along. They knew that she'd go native once the rest of the EU got to her. These Europhiles always do.
Best we can do now is to take the £40b and spend it to minimise the damage. Roll on March 29th.
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Browned off a brisket joint (~1 Kg) in the fry pan this morning (breakfast juices as well) and it's been pot roasting on the hob for an hour or so. Will have another 3-4 hours to make it melt-in-the-mouth. One of my reduced bargains from the freezer. £5 reduced from £9.
Cooking liquor is some beef stock from last time (freezer), beef stock cubes, red wine (Merlot), some light soy and mushroom ketchup, bay leaves, mixed herbs, onion, garlic and some carrot. Salt and pepper seasoning. Topped up with water until the joint is just floating.
Nice for the evening meal plus plenty left over to slice and freeze down to use as needed together with more stock portions.
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Nigel, why do you have an avatar that says NI
Members who have not yet uploaded an avatar have a default of their first two letters of their username.
You are of course already on the biggest victim list in Engalnd .
Indeed the persecuted majority in snowflake paradise.
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Hi Aaron and welcome.
You might be interested to know that I've done work with the company (Hanover) that make the LED matrix signs that go on buses and other public transport.
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Pride comes before a fall as the saying goes.
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At least our leader always has majority control of government.
I'd have to say that under May that's a debatable point.
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Democrats will try and impeach Trump as they control the lower house where impeachment proceedings would start. But the "judges" are those in the senate, which Trump has retained control of and increased his lead slightly.
Didn't the same thing happen under Clinton: The lower house tried impeachment but the Senate threw it out?
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It's a ridiculous over reaction by the snowflakes and then the media and politicians jump on the bandwagon for their own reasons. Yes it's distasteful but the effigy was an entry in a competition for effigies to burn on bonfire night. Any surprise that it got burnt? Nobody got upset about the effigies of May and Boris that were burnt in Lewes that same night. I've even heard some clots making out it was racist or a hate crime FGS.
No wonder we have an epidemic of murders and knifings when the police waste their time on this nonsense.
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Flesh coloured leggings, never a good look but when you're a bit podgy:
"Kid" in the trolley looks a bit big too.
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I meant tax the person directly,
I think that would be unenforcible because of the matter of degree whereas taxing the product automatically punishes those who consume the greater amount.
How about obesity? Do we routinely put people on the scales and then tax the amount of excess blubber? I can immediatly hear shouts of stigmatising the fat.
I've said jokingly in the past that fast food establishments should only have a 12" wide doorway and food cannot be passed out. Maybe we need that.
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Could one solution be to tax those that do these things?
Many of those things are already taxed and quite heavily in the case of tobacco and alcohol. I think limits as to what the NHS is there for will have to be applied. That can start with elective surgery: Unless there is a sound medical reason this should all be done privately at the patient's own expense.
Although with the rise in anti-biotic resistance much surgery may become simply too risky to carry out.
Those who engage in dangerous sports should have compulsary accident insurance.
Schools have their place in this too educating the young that you can't abuse your body and expect the state to somehow pick up the pieces. If someone is obese then they must be told that. Not pussyfooting about in case it hurts their feelings.
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Something has to be done to try and stop the meteoric rise in demand. Too many people are literally killing themselves with drink, drugs, food etc.
This graphic shows the depth of the potential chrisis:
It is a fact that the NHS could swallow the entire public service budget and still have unsatisfied demands.
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I'd be very surprised if a "punishment budget" would get voted through. Labour et-al would certainly vote against and I would think a significant number of Tories in merginal seats would also vote against it.
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change the budget to a punishment budget if we end up with no deal.
I seem to remember that tack being taken in "Project Fear" 1.0 if we voted for Brexit
Didn't work then, why does spreadsheet phil think it will work now?
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In a triumph of form over function:
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We'll have to see how changes to self employed taxes /NI apply to providing services via a service company which is what I and many other contractors do. Hopefully he's chasing rich footballers and TV personalities avoiding £millions of tax rather that the little guy and white van man.
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Just about to go out. I'll catch the "highlights" on the PM programme later.
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I'm just glad that the day for the hour change was bright.
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It's historic. I used to get purchase orders that way. I bought it about 15 years ago when I went contracting. Still have an unused roll of thermal paper.
Now it's mostly the answer machine part that gets used. The fax bit can do photocopies so still has some use.