Posts by Armitage Shanks

Quote from Norra Batty

A couple of unmanned RIB's purchased from a local seaside resort This could get interesting but I fail to understand how this will protect them if the switch is on land over in France. And why don't they have electricity lines run out to them from the UK if UK territory. Another interesting thing here is that Jersey is a Tax Haven so if there is no power how would this affect bank transfers.

I thought that a good portion of the South of England received its energy from France. They could threaten to cut off the mainland if they really wanted to make a point. Another example of the feeble minded governments we have had to tolerate over the years allowing power supplies to fall under the control of other nations.

Quote from Jennyanydots

I think it will be you who experiences their dying breath first so you will never see what transpires after that.

As for "transition" to full blown conservatism, it's interesting to think that I should have done this by now, according to your beliefs.

Approaching middle age..... property owner....... stable household.......... two graduate incomes.......... middle class upbringing..... privately educated........

But as a member of the LBGT community you are overwhelmingly likely to be a rampant drooling fanatical lefty and that is exactly what you are.

Also as a university graduate you are overwhelmingly likely to be a lefty as most are these days.

Whilst there are a few Conservative LGBT types around they are few and far between and ostracised by the majority left wing LGBT types.

So don’t be disingenuous with your false arguments.

Quote from OLD BOY

The sales of 8K TVs are not doing so well, and I am not surprised, frankly. I doubt it was anything to do with COVID!

https://www.digitaltveurope.co…n-covid-19-by-new-report/

I haven’t gone 4K yet as there isn’t enough content. 1080i or p covers most things adequately.

Quote from Bibbles

Right, if he chose to keep everything going (as I would) he would of received massive criticism. He is now being condemned from all corners for another lock down. If he had locked down when the Daft Party (Labour) had of suggested it, the economy would have been damaged even more, and he would have been criticized for bowing down to Sir Idiot. Let's face it Jenny, it didn't matter what he did, he would have been on to a loser.

Let me get this straight, I am not a Tory, because as you well know my politics fall very right of that, however, regardless of who you vote for, or who the leader is, they would feel very punch drunk by now. Throughout all of this all you have manged to do is to condemn the government, but you still haven't told us what you would do?

Lefties never tell you what they would do. They obtain their power through blaming others for messing things up. They then get power for a while and totally screw things up and then we get the right wingers back in to straighten out the mess during which time they receive endless criticism from lefties until they get power again and then the cycle repeats.

Quote from Jennyanydots

If re-infection of this kind can occur, then the best way to ensure maximum levels of immunity is for an effective vaccine to be found.

But since the second infection was significantly different from the first infection, there is no reason to think the vaccine would be effective for anything other than the specific infection it was devised to create immunity to.

They say that you can only catch a cold once and each time you get a cold it is a different virus or strain from the previous. How many colds have you had in your life? Influenza deaths remain higher each week than for Covid but for some reason they are not a cause for concern even though there is an annual vaccine available for this. The logic for a lockdown for a disease which is less deadly than influenza is difficult to process. I wonder what the impact would be if we used track and trace and specific testing for influenza, we would find it everywhere all of the time with many people being asymptomatic or slightly unwell and some feeling quite unwell, much the same as with Covid, some will unfortunate expire due to being infected with either. As the virus continually changes no vaccine can be a one time shot, the influenza vaccine is only offered to vulnerable groups, others are expected to take their chances unprotected, for the overwhelming majority it isn't a problem. I don't see Covid as being significantly different. It's just another bug we have to deal with, keeping us all locked down is killing our immune system because we don't catch anything to keep the system topped up. Maybe this is the agenda? Make us all weak and then legislate to keep us permanently locked down to save us? What is this obsession with making life as long as possible?

Quote from Jennyanydots

Britain is the one who wants something here.

Hmmmm.... I think the French want something too.

The level playing field is not something that is required in any other EU trade deal, why should we have to acquiesce to that? It negates the point of leaving.

Quote from OLD BOY

Ha ha!

This problem could be solved so easily if the EU would simply treat us like any other country.

They just need to back down - problem solved!

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Level playing field, ECJ, fishing and good Friday agreement. It’s like hotel California

Quote from OLD BOY

It looks to me like a UK/EU trade deal is fairly close to being agreed now, and Trudeau says that a deal with Canada will be ‘much easier’ to achieve.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/po…-far-easier-brexit-talks/

Alternatively...

https://www.express.co.uk/news…l-Barnier-David-Frost/amp

Quote from Jennyanydots

BASKET CASE BRITAIN UPDATE

Concerns Grow Inside Downing Street As Polls Point To Biden Victory

It's all coming thick and fast, isn't it...?

Of course, the US Presidential election isn't won until it's won... but Number 10 are certainly getting twitchy about it.

Biden's team is refusing to talk to Downing Street yet as they are unwilling to give the impression they're claiming victory too soon. But this is hampering British attempts to plan for exactly how a Democrat president will treat Britain should they win. There is nothing about Biden that suggests he would treat Britain as a priority and Obama's words before the Brexit referendum that "Britain outside the EU will go to the back of the queue" for a trade deal were laughed at at the time, but may come back to haunt Brexiters.

More importantly, a Democrat president will not allow Britain to ride roughshod over the Good Friday Agreement. Joe Biden has Irish ancestry.

This is getting interesting.

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It's long known that the Democrats will scupper any US/UK trade deal. They could and would have done that anyway if the trade deal and brexit had happened and we had concluded a trade deal with the US. The deal would have gone to Congress for approval, a house that is currently Democrat majority. They have already stated they would reject any deal if brexit had impacted the GFA. So in all likelihood any deal we have with the US is reliant on one of two things happening. It either means we brexit without hurting GFA or Trump wins and takes control of Congress as well in which case it is game on.

I think the US election is to close to call right now but if the Democrats win I cannot see Biden lasting much beyond the inauguration ceremony. I think Trump is far from out of it too so we'll just have to wait and see.

You are probably right though in saying the final brexit deal will largely depend on who takes the Whitehouse. Who knew?

Quote from Jennyanydots

Over to Armitage to tell us all how wonderful things are in Rainbows and Unicorns Land, and what do business leaders know about business anyway.......

Why pick on me Jenny. I cannot see the future anymore than you. The piece you refer to is another opinion piece or actually a speculation piece because the people offering their views don't know the answer any more than me or you. Brexit is more than trade as you know but you only focus on that issue.

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The European Commission is to put up €100 million

About 50% of one months subs to the EU by the UK.

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As I've stated on here before, Brexiters would forgive Boris Johnson if he was caught with his hand down a schoolgirl's knickers.

Actually no that would be unforgivable regardless of who may be doing the groping.

I'm not the biggest Boris fan and it won't be the first time I have said as much in response to you. Clearly Boris has lost his mind slowly but surely as this year has passed, as has every other political leader.

For me the biggest disappointment of the year if I can include the December General Election result in that is that I voted for a Conservative Government but didn't get one even though they won the election with a landslide. Clearly Labour remain unelectable but Boris needs to go anyway, I am sure you agree with that at least?

I know you are married and have a daughter? Live and let live - if you are happy so am I.

I agree Brexit is looking a bit of a pigs ear at the moment but I think it was always going to end up here at this time. Its where it finishes that matters not where it is right now. Still all in the air at the minute.

Quote from Jennyanydots

No deal is almost a certainty which will have a massively detrimental effect on the economy

Hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost if no deal Brexit occurs

The country is, in effect, being run by an unelected, sociopathic anarchist

Cabinet appointments, and peerages, are handed out not on merit, but as favours to those loyal to the PM

How about some supporting evidence?

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The government has a policy of letting children in poverty go hungry

Can you point to the manifesto pledge or statute that mandates this?

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A footballer has become the conscience of the nation because our government is bereft of humanity

People shouldn't have kids they cannot afford to feed. Maybe the parents could do something like, educate themselves, or divert their booze and fags money to food or maybe the women could keep their legs shut, that would be a good start. A little bit of personal responsibility goes a long way.

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Scotland is desperate to break away from the United Kingdom

That has been the case made by the SNP since well before Brexit, you don't think they will ever cease their mission until they succeed do you?

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Northern Ireland is likely to follow suit and merge with the Republic

The IRA will be pleased but the other paramilitary groups might start to kick off. I think the you are over-simplifying if you think the Unionists will accept that as a solutuion, especially as Ireland itself slips further into the woke mire.

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We have the worst record for Coronavirus deaths in Europe and the third largest in the world

Well it all rather depends on the methodology used to report covid deaths and how honest you really are as a nation. I think it is fair to say that the UK has the most expansive covid death reprting methodology. It was stated in July when daily deaths were eprted as being around 420 that if we used the methodology that is operated in Spain we would only had had 28 deaths so trying to compare different nations death rates is a bit pointless. Even moreso since there was no EU wide reponse, they let each nation make their own arrangements.

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The government has no strategy for taking the country out of lockdown

Nor does anyone else

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We are currently building lorry parks in Kent to deal with the prospect of queues of lorries many miles long

We are turning the county of Kent into Europe's biggest public toilet due to the volume of stranded drivers

It is unavoidable with a no deal - it works both ways. It takes mass inconvenience to drive change sometimes, the politicians both in the UK and EU will feel the heat of the annoyed public

Quote from Jennyanydots

Test and trace is a failure... paid for by giving billions in public money for an excel spreadsheet that costs less than £100

Maybe test and trace is a load of bollocks and we simply don't need it. The survival rate of covid very high, last week more people died of conventional influenza so I'm not entirely sure what the lockdown or test and trace is for other than as an excuse to control people for another unspoken agenda.

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The government awards contracts worth millions to its cronies in return for party donations

And this has never happened before of course...

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Our government is run by criminals, deliberately acting illegally to break an international treaty

Saying you will break the law and actually breaking it are not the same - keep your powder dry

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The House of Lords is having to intervene in Parliament to prevent Britain breaking the law

But they can only send it back three times

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Our Prime Minister is a whoremaster who uses public money for his own sexual gratification

You are just bitter he turned you down - maybe he doesn't like women with short hair who wear a suit and tie and flat shoes

I'd love you to fill in the details of his whores and the public money, you love a bit a gossip don't you?

Quote from Bibbles

The fact is that the world population grows at the rate of Newcastle every day, yes, a city the size of Newcastle.

It would be interesting to see a racial and geographic breakdown of the new births for each day. However I think it would only confirm what we already know, the world’s poor and starving are having their numbers increased disproportionately and advanced/developed nations are failing to hit replacement levels.

Quote from Jennyanydots

Britain is becoming a basket case.

It achieved that status long before Brexit Jenny. The rot started in May 1997 and the terrible train of events set in motion since then has been hard to halt. It will take a long time to restore the nation, not to some mythical former glory, but just to a decent place where reasonableness, moderation and common sense once again become the norm.

Quote from OLD BOY

I don’t see that as irony at all. Many people down here hope she gets independence for Scotland, which will almost certainly rid us of future Labour governments and end the colossal subsidies we give to Scotland which benefit Scots more than our own people.

Be careful what you wish for, Jenny. Independence under the SNP will spell financial ruin and mass unemployment in Scotland.

Have you calculated where all that extra money is coming from to preserve the existing standard of living when you eventually depart (assuming that the Scots are daft enough not to appreciate the folly of going down this route!)? I know you cannot have done this yet, because no sensible person would want independence for Scotland if they were resident there and they had done their sums.

Hatred of Boris

Hatred of Tories

Hatred of Westminster based government

That’s a lot of hatred for someone who preaches tolerance and accuses others of bigotry and xenophobia for voting to leave the EU.

It’s also hatred of yourself when you are prepared to cut off your nose to spite your face.

Quote from Jennyanydots

You'll only be getting what you voted for.

Just like the Welsh.

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Reaction As Britons Look Likely To Be Barred From Using E Gates

In yet another Brexit winner, it is looking increasingly likely that the EU will not allow Britons to fast track through passport controls by using the E Gates at ports, airports and Eurostar terminals after 1 January.

Now..... for the benefit of those who called warnings of this happening as far back as 2016, "Project Fear", it works like this.

If you are a citizen of an EU member country, you have the privilege of freedom of movement within other EU member states. You are therefore entitled, by virtue of your membership, to use the fast track system.

If you are NOT a citizen of an EU member country, that privilege is not afforded to you unless your government has negotiated a special arrangement (colloquially known as: "a deal"). It is becoming increasingly likely that no such "deal" is forthcoming, therefore, once the transition period ends on 31 December, Britons will no longer be allowed freedom of movement and the privilege of using the E Gates will be withdrawn.

This is not the EU being nasty, it is a natural, reasonable and logical consequence of leaving the EU.

We shall see if this transpires. But if it does, then no howls of outrage please.

You'll only be getting what you voted for.

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Not worthy of comment. This was obvious and known and importantly works both ways.

Quote from mike murphy

It's easy, give them a hearing, if they entered the country illegally without the proper documentation, then ship them back to the last country they were in before coming to the UK --- Simples.. .................. If they entered the country Legally with the appropriate documentation then welcome them with open arms..

Exactly. I would not try to enter a country illegally. As a Brit with skills and the capacity to support myself I would expect to be deported with short thrift once I had been rounded up purely because I had entered the country without permission. Rights start with being legal in that country, not before. How can you have rights when you have no right to be here? Madness.

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Excellent post AS.. Right on the button.. May I add that contraception is the highly desirable option against the alternative--- abortion.

Which is a bigger sin if there is a hierarchy of sins.