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Dr Strangelove (how I learned to stop worrying and love Boris)

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  1. The Exile II

    The Exile II Well-Known Member

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    Funnily enough I found out this week that the old place is falling apart because nobody took any notice of the mass of extra-curricular job handovers I made sure I did. They thought all the extra stuff I did was easily replicated, and now they're finding out it's the opposite. I do love a bit of vindication.

    Nice try though. Not with the quoting, mind- that was ****e.
     
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  2. Prehab26

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    Can someone also explain or help.

    What they have announced today. The childcare etc. Is that it set in stone now, guaranteed, irrespective of the next General Election result? Or can it change and be reshaped etc
     
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  3. FellTop

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    Labour unlikely to roll back the childcare and welfare stuff mate. Even tax and other difficult commitments are likely to be kept for a couple of years at least. Suppose they could, but highly unlikely I would say.
     
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  4. Prehab26

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    Yeah thought so. Just an absolute cnunts trick to defer it until the next general election after leaning it yday and getting everyone's hopes up.
     
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  5. Smug in Boots

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    Another manufacturer bypasses Britain – because of Brexit
    The world’s largest seller of electric and hybrid cars will not consider building its first European car factory in the UK because of the impact of Brexit.

    At the weekend it emerged China’s BYD,the world’s largest seller of electric and hybrid cars, will not consider building its first European car factory in the UK because of the impact of Brexit. Rather, the firm, which is targeting sales of about 800,000 cars a year in Europe by 2030, has shortlisted locations in France, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Spain.

    And why?

    “As an investor we want a country to be stable,” Michael Shu, BYD’s European president, told the Financial Times. “To open a factory is a decision for decades. Without Brexit, maybe. But after Brexit, we don’t understand what happened.” The UK had not even made a top 10 list of possible locations to build its first European car plant, he added. “The UK doesn’t have a very good solution. Even on the long list we didn’t have the UK.”

    The UK has struggled to attract investment from electric vehicle companies since Brexit, with Tesla also citing leaving the EU for its decision to bypass it in favour of Germany. Several established carmakers in the UK are also facing crucial decisions over their plants this year.

    And it follows the collapse of UK battery start-up Britishvolt, which had planned to build a giant factory to make electric car batteries in Blyth, Northumberland but struggled to turn a profit and ran out of money. It had been hailed by ministers as a “levelling-up” opportunity that would boost the region’s economy and support the future of UK car making.

    https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/another-manufacturer-bypasses-britain-because-of-brexit/
     
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  6. gelders pie

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    …. and brexit apart , we don’t think it would work all that well anyway when we are on opposing sides in WW3
     
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  7. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    The way to avoid wars, in Europe, etc, is to work together imo.
     
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  8. Flash Gordon

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    It's a complete throwaway gesture. Making promises that they'll never have to deliver in the hope of grabbing a few extra votes. I wouldn't expect Labour to roll it back though, fortunately. There'd be more chance of the next Tory chancellor doing that if they get bored of 5 minutes stability and decide to move Hunt on.
     
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  9. Saf

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    I'm glad Nissan closed down the factories in the European Union and created more work in North East, England.

    The reason? BREXIT.
     
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  10. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    More gangs of Lefty radicals trying to bring the government down ...

    ... now the passport offices go on strike.

    ...
     
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  11. Sunderpitt

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    A mate of mine (well in his 70s) worked there p/t last year as they had a huge backlog of passports... getting something like £30 phr working antisocial hours.
     
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  12. Smug in Boots

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    The whole system is really antiquated and needs modernising tbh.
     
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  13. The Exile II

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    Not against anyone's right to strike, but for five weeks?

    What union are they in?.....
     
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  14. Smug in Boots

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    It is now getting to levels where it would be easier just to name Tory MP's who HAVEN'T been involved in sleaze of one kind or another. Bunch of crooks.
     
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  16. Smug in Boots

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    He'll be another like Gavin Williamson who'll step aside in order 'to clear his name' ...

    ... then vanish.
     
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  17. Smug in Boots

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  18. OldNewtown

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    Anyone got a *** packet I can use to write on or perhaps a stamp
     
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  19. DH4

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    Hope they keep her there :emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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  20. Sunderpitt

    Sunderpitt Well-Known Member

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    Baverman is so sure of her Rwanda jolly, no leftie journos allowed. Only the daily heil and its ilk are on the trip with her. Mirror, Guardian BBC all barred.

    Impartiality anyone?
     
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