Off Topic How Are You Celebrating Brexit Day ?

No... what they are saying is that Brexiteers are calm and collected while Remainers are quarrelsome and hot headed

 

There's no answer to that.

 

Newcastle have started a tree-planting project to improve their green credentials. Very admirable, except that 95% of trees planted in GB are imported. They start off life near the equator, where it is easy to take cuttings every 6 weeks, then are moved to another country like Holland, to develop. By the time they get here they already have a carbon footprint.

 

That's an interesting point FHB. And it is a sad fact if 95% of the trees planted in the UK are imported.
For pity's sake, trees are not something we have a shortage of in this country.
If we have to import saplings just because they are a few quid cheaper, whoever signs that off is monumentally missing the point.

One more fundamental question is this - if everything we import has a carbon footprint, should all international trade be banned in order to save the environment?

 

It makes sense to trade most with your nearest neighbours

 

From now on I'm going to buy British wherever possible, or make the effort to, anyway.

It will be tough, but I'll have to learn to survive. No more Egyptian strawberries or New Zealand lamb.
I might have to turn a blind eye when it comes to trivial stuff though like petrol, and anything you have to plug in before it'll work.

 

Scotland (currently part of the UK) produces some oil Lardi and a lot of our electricity comes from Wind, Solar and Hydro which is British

I gather Germany has decided that nuclear is bad so they are building coal power stations but as Germany only has green coal (that is coal that has not fully formed yet) which is highly polluting their emissions are due to soar.

 

I recommend getting an allotment. Growing your own is wonderful, but I do miss mine in this weather.

 

I was under the impression that North Sea Oil isn't the right kind for turning into petrol. Too gloopy or something.
I'm not surprised, being trapped under the half frozen North Sea for 200 million years.

Under the nice warm desert they get lovely runny oil, good for motor cars.
I'm all for renewable energy, it's about time they got that Severn Estuary tidal thing up and running.
Glad fracking had been scrapped. Like radiation, there is no safe level for earthquakes.

 

Polling guru Professor John Curtice says that Labour's chances of winning are as close to zero as you can get, but a hung Parliament still looks likely.

 

How did he get on with his predictions for the last couple of General Elections, or the 2016 referendum, come to that.

A decent hit rate?

 

I have come to the conclusion that either ….

A) Nigel Farage does not want to get Brexit done as he would lose his only reason for being in British politics...

or

B) Someone in the Tory Central Office is a complete ar5ehole...and that ar5ehole is probably Dominic Cummings

 

If Farage gives way to allow Brexit to be done, Boris should offer him a choice of two jobs;

A) UK Ambassador to the United States
B) UK Ambassador to the EU

Nige can have whichever one he would enjoy most, and when he's finished at one job he could try the other one.
And later when he retires, give the bloke a hereditary peerage.
I'm no fan of the House of Lords, but I know nothing will be done about it while Boris is PM. So if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

 

I fully expect Nigel to emigrate to America after B****t, and join the far-right tour along with Steve Bannon &co.

 

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Latest Yougov poll shows 56% of voters favour free movement after Brexit. Whether or not that will change anything in Conservative Party policy remains to be seen.

 

No disrespect intended to you here FHB, but 56% of voters must be pretty thick then.

There won't be any free movement after Brexit. That's what Brexit means.
If there was still free movement, it wouldn't be Brexit.

Blimey. What's wrong with these people?

 

Careful! Brexiteers are touchy about being called stupid, and some of the 56% must be Brexiteers.

 

Stupidity is universal I'm afraid.

Some people hear the term "free movement" and they go on a guilt trip, suddenly frightened that they'll be labeled a racist if they don't support the idea.
Also, a lot of people assume that no free movement means no movement at all - no immigration.

Of course it doesn't mean that. What is does mean is that people who want to come and live in the UK have to contribute something.
Hard working people who have a skill to offer will always be welcome here.
Benefit & health tourists, criminals and terrorists should never be allowed in.

But Corbyn wants to throw open the doors and welcome anybody. Scroungers, thieves, beggars, drug pushers, perverts. Anybody from any EU country, and indeed anybody from any country. Presumably he believes millions of foreign freeloaders and their kids will keep him and his cronies in power for ever.

Wanting free movement after Brexit is weak-mindedness of the most immature kind.
If people want unicorns and rainbows and to love everybody unconditionally, then they should vote Lib Dem.

 

Boris's inane gibbering when asked how people could relate to him as a family man was funny, like his attempt to sing Wheels on the Bus. Presumably the nursery kids would not be allowed to ask him questions in case one asked how many children he had. Now that would have been funny.