RIchard Britten
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On 3/3/2020 at 4:43 PM, woolley said:
What do you expect them to do? It's a viral infection that will run its course as they always do. It'll kill a tiny percentage, mainly the already ill and old. But that happens every winter anyhow. Panic is futile.
Nearly 3 months on, 372,000 dead world wide, care to update us on your feelings on the matter Woolster?
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13 minutes ago, TheTeapot said:
Last day of May 2020
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"We" are doomed.
The government has washed their hands of all responsibility for a second wave by relaxing lock down conditions and failing to deal with the Cummings debacle.
Durdle Door (Dorset) first full weekend after relaxing began, thousands drove from all over the country to visit the beauty spot.
Three were injured "tomb stoning" off the Door, requiring two helicopters to land on the beach.
Less than 24 hours later, more idiots were spotted jumping off the door, and the roads leading upto the Door were rammed with cars parked on the sides of the road (after the car park and overflow car park were closed).
This, this is what happens when you a) basically tell the public that the rules don't matter (Cummings) and b) leave something as important as collective public health up to "common sense" and the public.
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Managed to catch the Dragon (Endeavour) cruising across the sky from our back garden.
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"Challenged by the presenter using past comments from George Eustice, Mann had a suggestion for what the government could do next.
"I genuinely think we need to have a serious think looking at the working time directive," he said."
Say good bye to weekends off and paid holidays...
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14 hours ago, John Wright said:
Woody2 still retains the ability to misunderstand and misrepresent the simplest of facts!
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10 minutes ago, woolley said:
Hah. The EU would not allow it. They aren't sovereign states, you see.
Incorrect.
They are sovereign states who signed up to an common economic trade agreement.
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1 minute ago, woolley said:
Well that might have been an arguable stance during the campaign. Perhaps even during the shenanigans in Parliament as the backsliders fought their rearguard action against the political reality, but it is difficult to justify now all of that is over. So what is the alternative that avoids you trying to run the country down for ever in honour of a defeated position?
Again, running the debacle that is Brexit (and its faithful) down.
This "running the country down" is your strawman to carry, not mine.
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Just now, woolley said:
Which amounts to the same thing. Obviously.
Not really. That is just a narrative that the Leave campaign cooked up to give the faithful another soundbite.
Part of the whole "if you're not with us, you are against us", "remainers = traitors", "we won, now get with the program and start coming together or leave" nonsense that is being peddled around (MF included)
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Such as:
"Challenger bank N26 is closing accounts for UK customers on 15 April, blaming difficulties created by the Brexit process.
The bank, which had a significant marketing push after launch, only started offering current accounts in the UK after the EU referendum.
However, it said that the "timing and framework" of the Withdrawal Agreement made it impossible to continue.
With about 200,000 customers, it was one of the smaller operators in the UK.
Thomas Grosse, chief banking officer at N26 said: "While we respect the political decision that has been taken, it means that N26 will be unable to serve our customers in the UK and will have to leave the market.""
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2 minutes ago, woolley said:
Stop gleefully talking the country down.
Clarification.
I am gleefully talking Brexit and its affects down.
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1 minute ago, woolley said:
Won.
I'm sure those in the manufacturing industry will be pleased to hear that after three quarters of contraction.
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4 minutes ago, mojomonkey said:
Trump's style is something else, anyone who has set eyes on the inside of Trump Tower in New York can attest to that!
The whole "Make America great again" is a very clever bit of marketing. However, it is purely marketing and has little real meaning once you look into it. You have to ask when exactly was America great? The slogan and sentiment is designed to make voters hark back to a romanticised time that probably never really existed. Pensioners recalling sodas in the diner or middle aged men lusting after their long lost late teenage years. Has anyone ever asked Trump when exactly America was great?
Trump is about one thing, making Trump richer.
The office of POTUS is just another revenue stream for him.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51459257
"The UK economy saw no growth in the final three months of 2019, as manufacturing contracted for the third quarter in a row and the service sector slowed around the time of the election."
Winning?
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Trump won't start a war with Iran, because he knows he won't be able to finish it.
Mainly because Iran are allied with Russia and China (plus other Middle Eastern countries).
He can posture all he wants, but at the end of the day its just noise and rhetoric to whip up the Trump faithful into thinking he is "acting tough".
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1 minute ago, woolley said:
Of course not. We knew that a sovereign Britain would emerge. All things taken into acount it was the immeasurably better option of the two uncertain courses available.
We already had sovereignty.
So you agree that Brexit was a blind leap into the dark with no-one knowing what the end result would be?
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37 minutes ago, woolley said:
Richard, what have you done? These poor chaps are going to be devastated.
I won't know and I don't care.
MF has already become a slightly better user experience for me.
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37 minutes ago, woolley said:
I quite agree. NOBODY knows for absolutely certain, otherwise we'd all be millionaires. Makes a pleasant change from the unremitting doom though, you have to confess.
So you agree that Brexit was a blind leap into the dark with no-one knowing what the end result would be?
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The purge has started already.
Trump is clearing house to make sure there are no more surprises in the run up to the elections.
COVID-19 UK & Beyond
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I'm not trolling, I am asking the poster if he still feels the same as he did 3 months ago.