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She was quoting a tory. And that article seems to be taking every oppertunity to use the event for political gain.

Stamer removed the whip. Yet somehow he is responsible for a previose leader selecting her before her comments. Somehow the comments from boris in the past before every tory ran an election with him. And the majority chose him to be pm. Is not a reason to question there ability to lead.

HumanPenguin,
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Just to be clear. With current methods the UK would need 0.4 acres of farmland per adult to provide all food.

Most of the land we have, that is undeveloped. Or not already used for farming. Is not usable as farm land.

So while it is a solvable issue. It would take seriose spending on new farming methods. And either a huge increase in food cost. Or a change in how we currently fund food.

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This looks bloody suspicious. The timing days after a request to list. One month after the new owners acquired the property.

The mound of dirt placed in a way that stops fire engins getting to the site.

Way to much coincidence to ignore. Then add conveniently knocking the building down so quickly that the local authority cannot possibly have had the opertunity to consider the safty requirments fully. Looks way to much like the bulldozer was planned before the fire.

But it really looks like they will get away with it. Even though we have a few cases where people have been forced to rebuild. Those building were listed. This not yet. A d how do you order a company to rebuild a crooked pub. Seems impossible to order the recreation of the subsidance that created the effect. Even if you can proove they did it on purpose.

And prooving it seems unlikely. Would required them to have used an accelerate that had no valid reason to be on site. Lets hope they were that dumb. But they seem amazingly orga ised if this was intentional. Seems reasonable doubt will be hard to get past.

Seems likely some small fine for blocking access with dirt or something is as bad as they will get. Plus loads of lawyer fees.

Tories' Choices, Not Millennials: Britain's Population Collapse Cause (stop-population-decline.ghost.io)

“If the chattering classes of Europe need a cautionary tale, they can look further afield than Japan. Michael Deacon’s recent column casts a dire portrait using a simple formula: fewer babies in Japan equals societal collapse, and by that logic, Britain’s increasing childlessness threatens to do the same. But this logic is...

HumanPenguin,
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Given tory voters spent most of the 80s and 90s. Arguing that poor people should.d not have children if they cannot afford it.

The whole idea that not doing so is selfish. Shows how freaking arrogant the right wing always are,

HumanPenguin,
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Tories think low taxation for the rich is the panacea to all nations finance. Its basically a faith not a rational thought.

Their policy since 2010 has been don’t invest in anything. Let the rich keep everything. Stick your fingers in your ears and shout I cant here you when the evidence comes in.

HumanPenguin,
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Not anytime soon. Brexiters still blame the gov for not doing it right.

They still think 3 years of failing to negotiate a decent deal. Was the fault of to loud remainers encoraging the EU that we would quit if they were tough on us. Unfortunately any attempt to rejoin will face the same lies and bull the referendum did.

Any willingness the EU shows to allow even minimal acceptance of our previous benefits. Will encourage them to fight for the same bull they wanted before. All the advantages non of the costs.

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Yep.

We also have a community on feddit.uk

!narrowboat

Dispite the name. It is for all UK inland waterways fans to chat and share.

I don’t live aboard. But the answer to your questions depends on if you have a residential mooring or not.

Those with can do it just like any house.

Those without are refered to as continuous cruisers. It can be annoying. Docs are easy. You can register as no fixed abode. But most use a family or friend address for this stuff. The fact that so much like Rx etc can now be done online. Helps.

!narrowboat is a small community new with 100+ members many with boats. So feel free to ask questions. We could do with more input.

HumanPenguin,
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Men tend to be less risk adverse. IE do more stupid shit.

This is more of a measurable issue in nations with more old fashioned ideas about male/female roles.

HumanPenguin,
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing. Ill have to look that up sometime.

HumanPenguin,
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I use krita plus darktable. Together they give me everything I need.

You are correct that Krita is not a photo editor on its own. But it is also not designed to be. Linux developers have less of a one tool for every job ideal. Due to not needing to compete the same way commercial developers do.

HumanPenguin,
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Lost two out of three

And the one he won. Was a very close win. In an ex PM seat. Normally these are very safe seats.

HumanPenguin,
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Folks sharing any interesting ham content they find.

And while I am an M0.

A much more welcoming enviroment for newbies and mistakes then we see on other ham gatherings.

HumanPenguin,
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Just to be clear the royal grant is a portion of the profits from the crown estates. That the gov earns about 350m a year. So the taxpayers this comes from is technically themselves.

HumanPenguin,
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No in the rather odd example you invent.mit would be paid for by the company owning the car. And if that money is given to you. It would be classed as your wages.

But the point is. It would not be considered to come from the tax payer.

Because any minimal research into the Crown estates makes it clear. They are not in any way shape or form. Owned by the tax payer. Nor have they ever been.

At all poi ts in history the Crown has kept its own income separate from national income. (Ie taxes).

When the us revolution happened the king funded it. And went bankrupt.

Because unlike now. The Crown funded war. Not parliment then. So the king made a deal. All income from the Crown estates. Was to go to parliment. In exchange for the royal grant.

Parliment knew at the time that long term this would be a huge benifit. Now it is.

It is freaking petty and wrong to claim it is tax payer money. It is basically they Crown paying less then 100% tax on there company earnings.

HumanPenguin,
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The Crown owns the Crown estates. It was never tax payer funded. The Crown has kept its income separate from the national income all through history.

As for tax free. Since the US revolution. The Crown has given the income to the government. Somits pretty much a 75% tax rate for most of that time. Def higher then engine else was paying at the time.

Simple research into the history of the Crown estates makes it clear it dosenot in any way shape or form belong to the tax payer.

HumanPenguin,
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Yes. As long as the reason is not a race sex etc. (I think protected category is a US term but the same idea applies)

His argument is that he was allowed with low value in the past. And somehow the fact that his Business plan is failing is a political choice. If your business is politics. Well no desision cant be classed as a political choice.

Worth noting, he is talking to the press. Rather than a court. This is just a desperate attempt to use politics to make his business valid again.

HumanPenguin,
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Except we could. Under the EU each nation has the options to limit entry in an emergency. And just like when the UK was one of the few nations not to make new eastern block members wait until their nation had evened out fiscally. We have never chosen to implement them when others have.

We always had more control over EU imergration then our gov was willing to use. So any more control over that is nothing but a mythical idea we as a nation will not use. (as you yourself said).

So while leaving the EU and EFTA may give us the option to make perminant rules. Doing so is no more realistic than the need to defend ourselves from Dragons.

PS my question was

Then what is the advantage of being out of the EU if we are in the EFTA.

Sovereignty only counts as an argument if we gain it via EEA membership. And these examples don’t. As I said I am biased so don’t see it as an argument to leave the EU.

But my point was, I am willing to accept your original point that the issue is not leaving the EU. But EFTA. If you can prove, we gain it some way as an EEA member.

Sorry for the confusion.

HumanPenguin,
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Hasn’t Sunak just exactly done this? He’s exercised control over immigration for the purpose of allowing more construction workers into the country to respond to demand. It doesn’t matter where they are from as lonyas it is on an equal basis and demand based. You couldn’t do that in the EU.

No under the EU we had the same legal right to police our borders. We just had to allow EU citizens through.

So EU citizens were not dumb enough to risk their lives. But even now, if you can take a privrate boat from France. You have a right to enter the UK. You just have to radio the coast guard for customs, etc. Nothing Sunak is doing now was more of an issue during EU membership. We were just able to convince France to do some of the work.

We were never part of the Schengen Agreement. How you are legally allowed to enter the nation has always been under UK control.

HumanPenguin,
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And the small boats are entirely about entering the country.

People on small boats are not EU citizens. So we are entirely in control of the immigration part. And were during our EU membership.

My point was No to your question that leaving the EU allowed Sunak to act on it. He already had all the rights he does now with relation to his actions.

HumanPenguin,
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The name is 1200 years old. But the pound of the 800s was only similar to now in name. Not just decimalization. But we were on the gold standard then. Heck, even pence has changed to new pence.

In the unlikely event, we are ever willing and welcome to join the EU again. If we are forced to accept the Euro. The EU is very likely to allow us to print our own. And name it as we like. So options can exist.

As or it being ECB controlled. The idea that any nation has full control over its currency is becoming less logical. As decisions by other nations have too much effect. Back in empire days when the UK had the buying power to effect other nations. The logic existed. But now the events in the US more and more so ECU nations and china. Effect the value of our currency more than actions BOE. Heck, even PM lettuce head was unable to change its value as much as US bank investments in 2008.

If our buying power continues to drop. There will eventually become a point where the idea of a larger group of nations buying power will appeal. More so as the generation raised in EU membership becomes the elderly voters of today.

HumanPenguin,
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Tories have been trying to find an excuse to leave the ECHR since the Brexit vote. I am pretty sure laws like this, are entirely created to start a fight in court. So they can claim ECHR prevents us defending our borders.

HumanPenguin,
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For salaried jobs, sure. But the likes of ford would be looking at hourly workers. Where your job involves working with other people. Such environments always needed working hours. But nowadays, few have anything close to 9-5. Even retail tends not to be any more.

But more importantly. Moving away from hour in any lower paid job. Is just creating more opportunity for corporations to rip staff off. It is already way to common for corps to find ways to not pay for the odd bits of time worked.

HumanPenguin,
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by the tabloid?

Well no. You can’t expect tabloids to play fair. There’s no profit in that.

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