It should have been obvious when the DUP spent a good couple of weeks thrashing out terms that, unlike the Lib Dems when they got a sniff of power and were happy to sign anything put in front of them, the Tories weren't getting a supine coalition bitchboy this time I'm pretty sure it's obvious now, though... In other news...
Just when I thought I was getting over my betrayal by the Lib Dems when apparently I voted for a coalition with the Tories - when the junior partner seems to have got nothing out of the deal (except massaging a few egos by making some MPs junior ministers).
It's not like Lancashire Council leaders didn't have other things to worry about while making this generous self-donation.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-lancashire-45284595 It was also interesting to see that the complaints about their current phone handsets - only a year old - appear to be related to the network coverage, not their device spec. Oh well, it'll give them a good chance to go for broke with iPhone X's next year
Numerous people on Twitter kvetching that the royal wedding is costing the taxpayer £2m By complete coincidence, at the same time it's stealthily announced that babysitting the Orange Overlord for a few days set the taxpayer back £18m The British public, so easy to manipulate
According to the Westminster attack inquest, Met Police commissioner Craig Mackey acted properly when his response to seeing PC Keith Palmer getting stabbed was to lock himself in his car and tell the driver to get out of there as fast as possible, having previously given the defence that the reason he did nothing was because he didn't have a stab-proof vest - which I'm sure came of great relief to palmer's relatives as they were concerned that his boss would have got injured or even killed by trying to do literally anything to save Palmer in spite of his not wearing a stab-proof vest. What do you mean "whitewash"? I didn't say "whitewash", why are you suggesting I did?
Isn't British justice and democracy wonderful? We've always led the way too haven't we? Lancashire County Council reject Quadrilla's applications for fracking having heard a substantial amount of evidence raising concerns about its safety. The Secretary of State uses his power to veto this because the government want it to go ahead. Forget the evidence. Protesters who actively attempt to frustrate the process become the first to be jailed for public nuisance since 1932 and are given inordinately long sentences most legal commentators describe as "manifestly excessive". Sentenced by a judge whose family just happen to be involved in a company supplying the oil and gas industry. When we leave Brexit, we will lose the safety net of any challenge to the European Court. But we are the envy of the world aren't we? The State only tramples all over people's rights in foreign countries we don't like, doesn't it?
Reminded me of the Not the Nine O'clock News sketch set in the Brixton Riots. Plod runs from the fray and runs into a Superintendent, saying he didn't realise he'd run THAT FAR back!! (Tried to find the clip but couldn't......)
This report about the Brit detained in the UAE since May suggests that it hasn't been handled well by UK officials. Now who was Foreign Secretary when he was detained and until July?... Seems like it might not have just be Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe whose life BoJo might have fecked up ... http://news.sky.com/story/uae-has-embarrassing-revelations-on-detained-brit-minister-claims-11524316
It is an interesting case and neither Lancashire CC of some Judge with links to the oil and gas industry should have the final say. It should be left to experts independent of all stakeholders. If one leaves it to Ultra-crepidairians, one will generally end up with the wrong result. If one listens to every protester, we would all still be cooking on charcoal burners. If we listened to everyone with a financial interest, we would all be fekked. I know, I work in the fekking money grabbing, feck-Joe public, mining industry.
Ultra-crepidairians Great word I am surprised I have never come across it before since the world is full of them and the USA has an Ultracrepidaitian President. There is a word that has appeared in my imagination fired by ultracrepidairian that could have come from Mary Poppins. Most of Trump's decisions could be described as Crapidocious.
From Crepidacious, a Greek shoe maker who advised an artist that he had painted his subject's sandals wrong. The artist subsequently repainted the sandals correctly. The shoe maker then started to tell the artist that the hands and the arms were also wrong. The artist became somewhat annoyed and told Crepidatious to mind his own business and limit his advice to his own expertise. Basically ultracrepidairian =beyond Crepidatious, someone who tries to give advise about something that they know nothing about. I work in the mining industry, an industry that brings people of highly different skill sets together in order to produce a product. Geologists, Geothechnical engineers, muck shifters, chemists, metalagists, mechanics, boilermakers, environmentalists. Good people listen and take notice of other peoples expertise, others, particulary senior management, are ulracrepidarians. Management accountants are often another prime example. They use the devils abacus (also known as the spreadsheet), to prove that black is white.
Indeed. The dilemma about the real experts (objectively deemed by their peers) , and the alleged "experts" (of whom you write) . "I work in the mining industry, an industry that brings people of highly different skill sets together in order to produce a product. Geologists, Geothechnical engineers, muck shifters, chemists, metalagists, mechanics, boilermakers, environmentalists. Good people listen and take notice of other peoples expertise" And then amend/affirm their views for the better, based on what they are told. Scientists and engineers continually seek to increase their body of knowledge and improve what they already know. This is in stark contrast to politniks, who too often succumb to dogma to the material detriment of society.
