** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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The EU has been quite successful in achieving energy consumption demand, a report says.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46741346

It has long been my firmly held belief that the EU was (especially in the last 20 years) more "green" than successive UK Govts would otherwise have been.

A small quote.
"Its author says EU product standards on light bulbs, fridges, vacuum cleaners and other appliances have played a substantial part in reducing energy demand."

.............

I do agree with some points raised on here that some shortcomings of EU policy should be addressed.
It was always my view that we should do this through negotiation at a common Brussels table.

Compromise is a great force for good.
We need compromise from the leave side now.
A recognition that much of what they so desire will be highly detrimental to the people of the UK.
A genuine recognition that many of the promises of the "leave" campaign were, at worst outright lies, and at best a distortion.

It is beyond me that anyone but the most ardent Europhobe can support a full hard Brexit now that the full extent of the pain and cost of it are before us.
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PDQ Mobile wrote:(snip)

A genuine recognition that many of the promises of the "leave" campaign were, at worst outright lies, and at best a distortion.

It is beyond me that anyone but the most ardent Europhobe can support a full hard Brexit now that the full extent of the pain and cost of it are before us.


There are many here among us (humans, not just CUK forum habitués) who feel that life is not, but ought to be, but a construct of their own strange desires and wishful thunks. This inclination often engenders another, which is to make wishful assumptions about both what cannot be seen (bogeys under the bed are imagined) and what is possible, with a hard and wishful-enough thunk (various sunlit uplands). Yet another inclination then pops into place - the notion that "I cannot be wrong, no matter what the evidence that seems to say I am".

I've found it impossible to discuss or reason with many humans on various matters because they are so desperate for something that isn't true to be true; and prepared to suffer enormous degrees of cognitive dissonance to remain believers in various attractive fables, thunks and outright lies. One signal that this dissonance is at a peak is the ease with which the sufferer comes to the boil and must vent the safety valve that takes pressure off their boiling belief. They will go red in the face, shout and take the huff - anything to avoid a discussion involving evidence, logic, reasoning and so forth.

Of course, we all suffer this way to some degree. We must adopt many beliefs based on faith, not trust, as we have no way ourselves to independently verify truth. Moreover, our tests-for-truth are themselves a set of beliefs which may or may not be good at apprehending the real (or, more importantly, predicting the near-future outcomes of operating our beliefs). But some truth tests are better than others; some evidence more resilient to such tests.

Ardent believers in [supply various ideological constructs] are not very interested in either evidence or truth tests. If pressed they will invent evidence and truth tests to suit their faith. 'Twas ever-thus with we humans - even now in the age of science.

Don't think you're immune to these syndromes! I know I'm not. No.

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Hi, Cugel +1. MM
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Hi,
+1
The long and the short of it down to a "T"

Say no more.
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PDQ Mobile wrote:The EU has been quite successful in achieving energy consumption demand, a report says.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46741346

It has long been my firmly held belief that the EU was (especially in the last 20 years) more "green" than successive UK Govts would otherwise have been.

I agree. One of the biggest barriers to local/regional/national action on global problems like this is a feeling that if you are among the first to behave better then you will be losing out to those who don't. That's not always true, because there are benefits in being one of the leaders in developing/producing new technology, but it's still a widespread fear.

The EU is a ready-made cooperation framework between many countries, with links to many others. It has succeeded more and more quickly on many environmental matters than most attempts to create ad-hoc international cooperation agreements like the Kyoto Protocol which took 8 years to come into effect. The same is true in many of its cooperation fields, such as maintaining the EU's single market while the "Doha round" of negotiations to update the global WTO agreements started 18 years ago and has no end in sight. We should keep working with our neighbours (and IMO remaining in the EU was clearly the best way for us to do that as one of the biggest members) and not keep deluding ourselves that new global trade deals will come as quickly as the likes of Fox, Davies and Farage claimed.
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Cugel wrote:
Ardent believers in [supply various ideological constructs] are not very interested in either evidence or truth tests. If pressed they will invent evidence and truth tests to suit their faith. 'Twas ever-thus with we humans - even now in the age of science.

Don't think you're immune to these syndromes! I know I'm not. No.

Cugel


And yet I am quite interested in truth,or an aspiration towards it, certainly preferable to a doctrine based upon deceit.
My life has been to some extent a quest after "truth" in it's many and varied forms.
Practice makes better, and I think I can smell rats at some considerable distance.

We often accept too readily what the media pushes at us as truth, but in truth, a good deal of the vast amount of information that is put before us serves only to obfusicate and blur.
Extremely close results in elections are proof of this, such a result is merely the tossing of a coin.
An extraordinary phenomena.
We are divided and ruled by such lack of clear adherence to, and blurring of, truth.

For myself it is a truth that the UK would be better off remaining in, or a close partner of, the EU.
This truth has been pretty thoughly tested on here, through 700 pages IMHO.
The fact that the leave campaign was based upon outright untruths, now exposed, lend good credence to that.
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Hi,
I.M.O. mostly these pages are going in circles.

Who will predict the next result.
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Cugel wrote:Don't think you're immune to these syndromes! I know I'm not. No.

Of course none of us is immune. It doesn't follow, however, that all our views are just matters of opinion, and each of those opinions is as valid as the next. That's the way to madness.

Personally, I accept the validity of a wide range of opinions, even seemingly mad ones. All I ask is that they have some internal consistency - a condition that excludes the views of almost all public promoters of Brexit.
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Cugel wrote:
Don't think you're immune to these syndromes! I know I'm not. No.

Cugel

How dare you, you're a fool and an unutterable bounder and I shall have you flogged by my man. :P
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Cugel wrote: ..................with many humans on various matters because they are so desperate for something that isn't true to be true; and prepared to suffer enormous degrees of cognitive dissonance to remain believers in various attractive fables, thunks and outright lies. One signal that this dissonance is at a peak is the ease with which the sufferer comes to the boil and must vent the safety valve that takes pressure off their boiling belief. They will go red in the face, shout and take the huff - anything to avoid a discussion involving evidence, logic, reasoning and so forth.
Has this thread got onto the Helmet Debate?
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PDQ Mobile wrote:
Mick F wrote:
Cunobelin wrote:
Under the new rules, land them
Under the old rules chuck a load of dead and dying fish back, and repeat ad infinitum

True, but if you catch whiting instead of cod, you must land them without being able to carry on and catch cod as well.


So you're in favour of throwing dead fish back into the sea? Ad infinitum?
Until the hold is full of just Cod?
Who said I was in favour or anything? :shock:
I was just making a statement of fact.
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Mick F wrote:
Cugel wrote: ..................with many humans on various matters because they are so desperate for something that isn't true to be true; and prepared to suffer enormous degrees of cognitive dissonance to remain believers in various attractive fables, thunks and outright lies. One signal that this dissonance is at a peak is the ease with which the sufferer comes to the boil and must vent the safety valve that takes pressure off their boiling belief. They will go red in the face, shout and take the huff - anything to avoid a discussion involving evidence, logic, reasoning and so forth.
Has this thread got onto the Helmet Debate?

There are distressingly many similarities... and I leave it to the reader to think about which side is ignoring the bulk of experts, cherry-picking from the evidence and listening to niche specialists!
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Aha. The Seaborne Freight conundrum has finally been cleared up. It transpires that they are a takeaway pizza company....

So no doubt we'll be seeing fleets of deep pan fried crusty pizzas with anchovy, quatro formaggio and peperoni topping, plying their way across the Channel bearing the entire load of Brex**itshire's imports and exports .... any time soon?

As the article says: what could possibly go wrong....?
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661-Pete wrote:Aha. The Seaborne Freight conundrum has finally been cleared up. It transpires that they are a takeaway pizza company....

So no doubt we'll be seeing fleets of deep pan fried crusty pizzas with anchovy, quatro formaggio and peperoni topping, plying their way across the Channel bearing the entire load of Brex**itshire's imports and exports .... any time soon?

As the article says: what could possibly go wrong....?


i feel sorry for the guy on his moped then :( he only has a small box on the back?
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geocycle wrote:The prominence given to fishing is really a er red herring. Fishing is important and culturally significant but contributes just 0.5 % of GDP. The other 99.5% is also heading rapidly for the rocks.


It's actually less than that - 0.1%. We're talking 15k jobs on the boats and a few thousand more in the processing industry (many of them, ironically for Brexiters, held by foreign nationals). Fishing is simply irrelevant to a post-industrial economy like ours. On the other hand, we're gambling with financial services, that account for 13% of GDP -literally 130 times more important than fishing. Just another example of Brexiter economic illiteracy.
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