mercalia wrote:well they are still milking the Common Agricultural Policy for all its worth, so that dont surprize me.
Pun intended?
I suppose you think Welsh farmers never do that?
Or the Duke of Malborough and Rees Mogg?
mercalia wrote:well they are still milking the Common Agricultural Policy for all its worth, so that dont surprize me.
661-Pete wrote:Some more on the consequences of 'no deal':
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ns-council
Of course the Brex**iteers will call this "scaremongering", or "project fear", or whatever trope takes their fancy in these turbulent times. I call it an authoritative report, responsibly sourced.
I also take note of the phrases "unburied bodies" and "uncollected waste". Now, where have I heard those expressions before?
That's right (I've been around long enough to remember)! The celebrated "Winter of Discontent" of 1978-79, during which Callaghan famously (and apocryphally) was alleged to have uttered the words "crisis? What crisis?". He didn't. But, that was indeed what happened: rubbish piled up in the streets, and bodies left unburied.
And what happened next? It's history now. Motion of No Confidence, and the Gov. tumbles. Pity that let in Thatcher. Certainly a lesson to be learnt from those days.
Indeed. My situation would be less critical, perhaps, but I too have been advised not under any circumstances to stop my meds without consulting my GP first.pete75 wrote:It's getting serious when the government is thinking of letting pharmacists change prescriptions due to drug shortages. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/heal ... 72021.html I take heart medication after a stent and at a rehab session the cardiac rehab nurse told us that even our GP shouldn't change our prescriptions without confirmation from the cardiologist.
661-Pete wrote:Indeed. My situation would be less critical, perhaps, but I too have been advised not under any circumstances to stop my meds without consulting my GP first.pete75 wrote:It's getting serious when the government is thinking of letting pharmacists change prescriptions due to drug shortages. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/heal ... 72021.html I take heart medication after a stent and at a rehab session the cardiac rehab nurse told us that even our GP shouldn't change our prescriptions without confirmation from the cardiologist.
This sort of development might be just the thing to tip the scales towards violent insurrection. Could we face that? How many people would be prepared to procure a gun, say, and be prepared to use it? Who else remembers that iconic (and rarely screened) movie from the 1960s, The War Game?
Quite frankly, I'd sooner live under a Soviet-style dictatorship.
reohn2 wrote:roubaixtuesday wrote:Oldjohnw wrote:Anyone else note that Mr Farage has left UKIP?
Yeah. Farage was quite happy when they were "... fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists "
His clutching at pearls now the racism is out in the open is nauseating, frankly.
Farage,along with BoJo,Fox,May,Moggie,etc have always been nauseating.
roubaixtuesday wrote:Well, I must say this whole Brexit lark is going just swimmingly, and uniting the country too.
Let's press on shall we?
Tally ho!
That's not an argument that will win anyone over, sorry.NATURAL ANKLING wrote:See it’s not just Brexittears that can be so Stubborn .
kwackers wrote:roubaixtuesday wrote:Well, I must say this whole Brexit lark is going just swimmingly, and uniting the country too.
Let's press on shall we?
Tally ho!
I was trawling through all the brexit argument threads on the various social media and the one thing that struck me is whereas two years ago most leavers gave a reason (immigration, NHS windfall, taking back control etc) now they're almost to a man simply saying (well, shouting) "OUT" without any reason given at all...
This of course shouldn't be a surprise, the human condition is such that folk won't back down when they're wrong and given most leave arguments have pretty much all been laid to rest then they've simply run out and have no qualifying statements to add to what they think.
Reminds me of motorists and cyclists; "road tax", "RLJ'ing", "two abreast", "no insurance" etc etc.
When you strip away all the nonsense the truth is they just don't like cyclists but have no valid reason for that viewpoint...
I wonder if cyclists tend to be over represented amongst leavers? Certainly the poll on here suggests it to be the case.