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sturginho wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:35 pm

Feat. Charlie Elphicke

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:37 pm

sturginho wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:35 pm

Feat. Charlie Elphicke

Be fair to Charlie, he only groped those women in a specific and limited way

sturginho wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 4:22 pm

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:37 pm

sturginho wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:35 pm

Feat. Charlie Elphicke

Be fair to Charlie, he only groped those women in a specific and limited way

...and only because all legal avenues had been exhausted.

I see that Raab is going to Washington to reassure the House that all is well. I'm sure the good folk of Olympia will be delighted to hear from him.

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 3:50 pm I see that Raab is going to Washington to reassure the House that all is well. I'm sure the good folk of Olympia will be delighted to hear from him.

Worked wonders for one side at least, posted now subsequent to the meeting Raab had with Pelosi

Tories are sufficiently contemptuous of the public, that they feel free to carry out their corruption in plain sight.

Ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has landed a £100,000 job advising the owner of some of the UK's top ports.

The Conservative MP is working for Hutchison Ports, which operates Harwich and Felixstowe among other terminals.

According to the MPs' register of financial interests, he will be paid for seven hours work a week for a year.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:37 am Tories are sufficiently contemptuous of the public, that they feel free to carry out their corruption in plain sight.

Ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has landed a £100,000 job advising the owner of some of the UK's top ports.

The Conservative MP is working for Hutchison Ports, which operates Harwich and Felixstowe among other terminals.

According to the MPs' register of financial interests, he will be paid for seven hours work a week for a year.

Grayling was said to have been very pleased at being given the opportunity to boost the economy of the ports at Derby and Oxford.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:37 am Tories are sufficiently contemptuous of the public, that they feel free to carry out their corruption in plain sight.

Ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has landed a £100,000 job advising the owner of some of the UK's top ports.

The Conservative MP is working for Hutchison Ports, which operates Harwich and Felixstowe among other terminals.

According to the MPs' register of financial interests, he will be paid for seven hours work a week for a year.

If those seven hours a week were spent tethered bollock naked to a marker buoy in Dartmoor Harbour, some might consider it money well spent.

Hong Kong wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:58 am

Very good.

The time has come to leave without a deal and start negotiating from outside the EU. The UK have been totally shafted by the EU negotiators whether that is because ours are fucking stupid or assumed the EU were negotiating in good faith who knows? but the situation we are left in is untenable so I think breaking International Law (which the EU is allegedly doing daily by fishing off the African coast) is regrettable but necessary. Or a total clean break.

redderneck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:18 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:37 am Tories are sufficiently contemptuous of the public, that they feel free to carry out their corruption in plain sight.

Ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has landed a £100,000 job advising the owner of some of the UK's top ports.

The Conservative MP is working for Hutchison Ports, which operates Harwich and Felixstowe among other terminals.

According to the MPs' register of financial interests, he will be paid for seven hours work a week for a year.

If those seven hours a week were spent tethered bollock naked to a marker buoy in Dartmoor Harbour, some might consider it money well spent.

It will be a bloody high tide if there's a Harbour on Dartmoor
Dartmouth would be another matter

SaintK wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 11:59 am

redderneck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:18 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:37 am Tories are sufficiently contemptuous of the public, that they feel free to carry out their corruption in plain sight.

If those seven hours a week were spent tethered bollock naked to a marker buoy in Dartmoor Harbour, some might consider it money well spent.

It will be a bloody high tide if there's a Harbour on Dartmoor
Dartmouth would be another matter

Just give climate change a few decades, & it'll be beachside property

SaintK wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 11:59 am

redderneck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:18 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:37 am Tories are sufficiently contemptuous of the public, that they feel free to carry out their corruption in plain sight.

If those seven hours a week were spent tethered bollock naked to a marker buoy in Dartmoor Harbour, some might consider it money well spent.

It will be a bloody high tide if there's a Harbour on Dartmoor
Dartmouth would be another matter

Perhaps I should just have said Derby or Oxford.

redderneck wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:59 pm

SaintK wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 11:59 am

redderneck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:18 am

If those seven hours a week were spent tethered bollock naked to a marker buoy in Dartmoor Harbour, some might consider it money well spent.

It will be a bloody high tide if there's a Harbour on Dartmoor
Dartmouth would be another matter

Perhaps I should just have said Derby or Oxford.

It would be typical of Gayling to get a job consulting a port in a landlocked county

Not strictly Brexit, but continuing a wider theme of the current government

Tory donor Lubov Chernukhin linked to $8m Putin ally funding

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54228079

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:54 am Not strictly Brexit, but continuing a wider theme of the current government

Tory donor Lubov Chernukhin linked to $8m Putin ally funding

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54228079

Standby for another dead cat.

What will this one be; reintroduce slavery ?

Openside wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 11:58 am

Hong Kong wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:58 am

Very good.

The time has come to leave without a deal and start negotiating from outside the EU. The UK have been totally shafted by the EU negotiators whether that is because ours are fucking stupid or assumed the EU were negotiating in good faith who knows? but the situation we are left in is untenable so I think breaking International Law (which the EU is allegedly doing daily by fishing off the African coast) is regrettable but necessary. Or a total clean break.

I think we have a winner.

That and the dogmatic No Deal cult that's infested the Government.

The Boris conspiracy theories



"There are eyewitness accounts of Boris being at Perugia airport and a flight from RAF Northolt landed there at the time he is supposed to have arrived. The question we should be asking is: if Boris didn't go to Perugia, who did?"

So he went to Italy to meet some dodgy Russians






These folks somehow missed the fact it was his sons Christening that weekend.

Glaston wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 1:26 pm The Boris conspiracy theories



"There are eyewitness accounts of Boris being at Perugia airport and a flight from RAF Northolt landed there at the time he is supposed to have arrived. The question we should be asking is: if Boris didn't go to Perugia, who did?"

So he went to Italy to meet some dodgy Russians






These folks somehow missed the fact it was his sons Christening that weekend.

..................and that he was on a Zoom call to Tory MP's between 5:30 and 6:00pm on the Friday afternoon

Glaston wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 1:26 pm The Boris conspiracy theories



"There are eyewitness accounts of Boris being at Perugia airport and a flight from RAF Northolt landed there at the time he is supposed to have arrived. The question we should be asking is: if Boris didn't go to Perugia, who did?"

So he went to Italy to meet some dodgy Russians






These folks somehow missed the fact it was his sons Christening that weekend.

Given who we're taking about, I figured he went for a dirty weekend with whoever he's currently shagging on the side ?

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:31 am

Openside wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 11:58 am

Hong Kong wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:58 am

Very good.

The time has come to leave without a deal and start negotiating from outside the EU. The UK have been totally shafted by the EU negotiators whether that is because ours are fucking stupid or assumed the EU were negotiating in good faith who knows? but the situation we are left in is untenable so I think breaking International Law (which the EU is allegedly doing daily by fishing off the African coast) is regrettable but necessary. Or a total clean break.

I think we have a winner.

That and the dogmatic No Deal cult that's infested the Government.

I cannot how see how leaving on no deal helps the UK negotiate a stronger deal. Okay maybe if we're taking a long term change of direction on how our economy is shaped and we can shift back to actually making stuff and the government can drive that without falling foul of subsidy issues (ignoring we've got no money anyway) there's something in that, possibly maybe. But on the off chance we're going to remain reliant on services leaving without a deal sets the EU up to slice away at our financial services as and when they're ready, and that's just a very weak position to be in if not an outright bend over and gape situation

Reports tonight that the UK is giving up on its own satellite positioning system and trying to get back into Galileo.

What a surprise. Another £600 million staffed up the wall by Cummings and Johnson. Dom’s big brain obviously didn’t know what mine did, that there was no way to use the OneWeb satellites to build a positioning system.

This government is a bunch of incompetents.

Biffer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:26 pm Reports tonight that the UK is giving up on its own satellite positioning system and trying to get back into Galileo.

What a surprise. Another £600 million staffed up the wall by Cummings and Johnson. Dom’s big brain obviously didn’t know what mine did, that there was no way to use the OneWeb satellites to build a positioning system.

This government is a bunch of incompetents.

So why didn’t you ring him up and say something?

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:41 pm

Biffer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:26 pm Reports tonight that the UK is giving up on its own satellite positioning system and trying to get back into Galileo.

What a surprise. Another £600 million staffed up the wall by Cummings and Johnson. Dom’s big brain obviously didn’t know what mine did, that there was no way to use the OneWeb satellites to build a positioning system.

This government is a bunch of incompetents.

So why didn’t you ring him up and say something?

He’s blocked me.

Biffer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:26 pm Reports tonight that the UK is giving up on its own satellite positioning system and trying to get back into Galileo.

What a surprise. Another £600 million staffed up the wall by Cummings and Johnson. Dom’s big brain obviously didn’t know what mine did, that there was no way to use the OneWeb satellites to build a positioning system.

This government is a bunch of incompetents.

How dare you !!!

It wasn't spaffed against the wall; it was carefully funnelled over to friends of Demonic, & good Tories, who got bailed out by the good olde British tax payer !

It's a perfect example of why the UK needs to cast aside those onerous State Subsidy rules that say you can't just give cash to friends & family, & say fuck you to tendering processes. Long live British Leyland !!!

I see those awful hauliers have dragged their feet and not made adequate preparations to the point that they may need a permit to enter Kent. For shame, you laggardly truckers!

On the positive side, we may get the New Canterbury Tales as they sit by the fireside, waiting for entry. The spelling will probably be about the same, too.

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:47 pm I see those awful hauliers have dragged their feet and not made adequate preparations to the point that they may need a permit to enter Kent. For shame, you laggardly truckers!

On the positive side, we may get the New Canterbury Tales as they sit by the fireside, waiting for entry. The spelling will probably be about the same, too.

Glad I don't live in Kent. Only 115km of lorries clogging up the roads nose to tail

SaintK wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 4:21 pm

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:47 pm I see those awful hauliers have dragged their feet and not made adequate preparations to the point that they may need a permit to enter Kent. For shame, you laggardly truckers!

On the positive side, we may get the New Canterbury Tales as they sit by the fireside, waiting for entry. The spelling will probably be about the same, too.

Glad I don't live in Kent. Only 115km of lorries clogging up the roads nose to tail

About 150km at 20m length...

SaintK wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 4:21 pm

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:47 pm I see those awful hauliers have dragged their feet and not made adequate preparations to the point that they may need a permit to enter Kent. For shame, you laggardly truckers!

On the positive side, we may get the New Canterbury Tales as they sit by the fireside, waiting for entry. The spelling will probably be about the same, too.

Glad I don't live in Kent. Only 115km of lorries clogging up the roads nose to tail

The comforting hum of all those refrigerator units going 24/7 will gently send you to sleep every night.

Good news for Kent - lots of customs job openings.

I like neeps wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:18 pm Good news for Kent - lots of customs job openings.

More like, every county but Kent.

If you're a haulier, you wouldn't leave your depot without all your paperwork in order, as you won't be allowed into the county without it. The last thing haulage companies want is trucks parked up, burning diesel, waiting for some paperwork to be approved before they can get the pass to go into Kent.

I think they predicted a need for about 50,000 customs agents. The only problem is it takes a couple of years to get any good at it; & that of course depends on your Government knowing what it's trading relationship is, so the agents know what tariffs are in play.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:28 pm
If you're a haulier, you wouldn't leave your depot without all your paperwork in order, as you won't be allowed into the county without it. The last thing haulage companies want is trucks parked up, burning diesel, waiting for some paperwork to be approved before they can get the pass to go into Kent.

I can't see how they will organise that though, even granted that most port bound traffic will use the M25/M26/M2 corridors are they really going to set up a checkpoint by the county boundary with all the congestion that would cause? Then you have all the HGV transport that's just delivering to the county from outside. Sounds like another half baked idea with no real consideration for the consequences.

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:40 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:28 pm
If you're a haulier, you wouldn't leave your depot without all your paperwork in order, as you won't be allowed into the county without it. The last thing haulage companies want is trucks parked up, burning diesel, waiting for some paperwork to be approved before they can get the pass to go into Kent.

I can't see how they will organise that though, even granted that most port bound traffic will use the M25/M26/M2 corridors are they really going to set up a checkpoint by the county boundary with all the congestion that would cause? Then you have all the HGV transport that's just delivering to the county from outside. Sounds like another half baked idea with no real consideration for the consequences.

They'll be a bespoke technology solution that will solve this on the Blockchain.

I like neeps wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:55 am

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:40 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:28 pm
If you're a haulier, you wouldn't leave your depot without all your paperwork in order, as you won't be allowed into the county without it. The last thing haulage companies want is trucks parked up, burning diesel, waiting for some paperwork to be approved before they can get the pass to go into Kent.

I can't see how they will organise that though, even granted that most port bound traffic will use the M25/M26/M2 corridors are they really going to set up a checkpoint by the county boundary with all the congestion that would cause? Then you have all the HGV transport that's just delivering to the county from outside. Sounds like another half baked idea with no real consideration for the consequences.

They'll be a bespoke technology solution that will solve this on the Blockchain.

and drones, don't forget the drones !

If London could introduce the congestion charge, introducing congestion to Kents borders should be a piece of piss

Lorries stacking up in Kent for miles is quite common already - a channel storm or more commonly a strike in France is all it takes.

A friend of mine is going into the customs brokering business (rather building the website and backend for one) and reckons the actual paperwork and declaration is easy but the problem would be getting stuck behind drivers who do not have the proper documentation and getting delayed anyway...probably explains why they they want to try and filter these people out before they get to the ports.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:58 am

I like neeps wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:55 am

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:40 am

I can't see how they will organise that though, even granted that most port bound traffic will use the M25/M26/M2 corridors are they really going to set up a checkpoint by the county boundary with all the congestion that would cause? Then you have all the HGV transport that's just delivering to the county from outside. Sounds like another half baked idea with no real consideration for the consequences.

They'll be a bespoke technology solution that will solve this on the Blockchain.

and drones, don't forget the drones !

If London could introduce the congestion charge, introducing congestion to Kents borders should be a piece of piss

We will build a wall....don't laugh you're paying for it.

#MakeEnglandFranceAgain