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Post by UnseenI on Dec 22, 2019 8:43:32 GMT
Another relevant episode from The New Statesman
I have seen some cynical suggestions that certain politicians would deliberately try to lose the recent election as they did not want the responsibility for implementing Brexit and dealing with all the associated and subsequent problems. They tried to make themselves unelectable. Wiki has a summary of all the New Statesman episodes. In one of them, the major parties take part in a race to the bottom in order to avoid dealing with an impending economic collapse. From The Party's Over (13 January 1991): “...Alan is put in charge of the Tory campaign. His strategy is a massive success. ...the Tory leadership had actually hoped that appointing Alan would be an electoral disaster, as whichever party is in power when the oil runs out will take the blame for the consequences. Alan suggests appointing Piers to run the campaign, which results in the total collapse of Tory support. Alan then sells the information about oil supplies to Labour and the Liberal Democrats, and they too begin running deliberately awful campaigns, causing support for all parties to crater.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_StatesmanIt is uncanny how familiar the Labour Leader of the Opposition’s speech is. He mentions free university education - and so did Jeremy Corbyn! Both men also mention the NHS and the State Pension.
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Post by magpiejack on Dec 22, 2019 15:26:00 GMT
Social housingAvacyn , you said; "As for social housing, it is a nice concept, but don't know if it is the best idea. I also don't know much about the topic, so am not out to change things, or comment. Not until I have a better understanding of the topic." Thinking on this further, it's probably becoming a more obsolete concept. Turn of the 20th century housing for the poor was abysmal; cramped, damp, unhygienic - one privy for about 10 homes. The building of council houses boomed after the Great War, 'homes fit for heroes', and again after WW2 - especially with a lot of housing stock having been bombed. Housing construction nowadays has a lot of red tape over standards, so we're not going to see the Victorian slums again. A lot of the former council houses are now in private ownership; Margaret Thatcher swayed a lot of Labour voters with the Right to Buy promise. Even for people who do get social housing, the rent has gone up in recent years in order to bring the rent closer to market rent. The only benefit is that you don't have a lottery of whether you'll get a good or bad landlord.
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 26, 2019 9:33:59 GMT
Social housingAvacyn , you said; "As for social housing, it is a nice concept, but don't know if it is the best idea. I also don't know much about the topic, so am not out to change things, or comment. Not until I have a better understanding of the topic." Thinking on this further, it's probably becoming a more obsolete concept. Turn of the 20th century housing for the poor was abysmal; cramped, damp, unhygienic - one privy for about 10 homes. The building of council houses boomed after the Great War, 'homes fit for heroes', and again after WW2 - especially with a lot of housing stock having been bombed. Housing construction nowadays has a lot of red tape over standards, so we're not going to see the Victorian slums again. A lot of the former council houses are now in private ownership; Margaret Thatcher swayed a lot of Labour voters with the Right to Buy promise. Even for people who do get social housing, the rent has gone up in recent years in order to bring the rent closer to market rent. The only benefit is that you don't have a lottery of whether you'll get a good or bad landlord. In addition, you have councils working together to create letting agencies of their own, so they are the managers of other people's property. A Social Letting Agent, if you will. Another driver to house prices is people buying property, as an investment. How many rich Arabs own property in London, for example? This drives up prices, but also causes shortages to supply. Add to that mass immigration, and the pressure increases. Brexit is changing things on that front, as there is a massive reduction in European immigration, and there has been a lot going back home. This causes a reduction in that pressure. Also, there is clear indicators that immigration is tightening, so while you might have visas to be here, you might need better visas to be able to get certain jobs. Thus, you find your options more and more limited. I can see people leaving, just on that level. It is easier to get work back home. One thing to consider, though: House building contributes to a country's economic growth. Why do you think China is building lots of ghost cities? Because they are trying to build their way out of recession. Also, the population is set to decline. When you look at birth rates, the only place that is not in decline, or massively slowed down, is Africa. And by 2050, they will be in sharp decline as well. You cannot avoid it: the world's population is shrinking. Once the Baby Boomer generation starts dying off massively in the West, there will be less demand for oil, less demand for goods, and a surplus of houses. There will also have been by then an economic contraction, because fewer people will be in the workforce. By default, this will cause massive shifts. And importing people from the Third World is not going to solve anything, because you need to also factor in elements like automation. Brexit has caused massive change, though it was merely a catalyst for change, and that change was inevitable. It brought to the fore a lot of problems and issues simmering under the surface. Now, it is all surfacing, and is having to be dealt with.
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 26, 2019 9:40:08 GMT
Another relevant episode from The New Statesman
I have seen some cynical suggestions that certain politicians would deliberately try to lose the recent election as they did not want the responsibility for implementing Brexit and dealing with all the associated and subsequent problems. They tried to make themselves unelectable. Wiki has a summary of all the New Statesman episodes. In one of them, the major parties take part in a race to the bottom in order to avoid dealing with an impending economic collapse. From The Party's Over (13 January 1991): “...Alan is put in charge of the Tory campaign. His strategy is a massive success. ...the Tory leadership had actually hoped that appointing Alan would be an electoral disaster, as whichever party is in power when the oil runs out will take the blame for the consequences. Alan suggests appointing Piers to run the campaign, which results in the total collapse of Tory support. Alan then sells the information about oil supplies to Labour and the Liberal Democrats, and they too begin running deliberately awful campaigns, causing support for all parties to crater.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_StatesmanIt is uncanny how familiar the Labour Leader of the Opposition’s speech is. He mentions free university education - and so did Jeremy Corbyn! Both men also mention the NHS and the State Pension. Seems like it was ITV's answer to Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister. That is scarily accurate, even today. Speaking of Jeremy Corbyn, it might interest you that he is the latest symptom of a long term rot within the Labour Party. I watched this last night, and was shocked at how eerily similar it is to Momentum today, within the Labour Party. Labour and Socialism goes hand in hand, it seems...
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 26, 2019 9:42:32 GMT
Expect The Supreme Court (A Blair concoction,) to be abolished. It is not going to stay as it is, in any rate. That would be a good thing, I have read a lot of criticism of it. It helped to exacerbate the situation immensely. If there had been the Law Lords, it would never have been an option to run constantly to the high courts like the Remainiacs had done. It is a question of time before they are either changed, or abolished altogether.
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 26, 2019 9:46:28 GMT
Because it is Midnight on the Continent. Remember, we are on a different time zone to the rest of Europe... There are three time zones across the EU - Cyprus and some eastern European countries are 2 hours ahead of the UK. Do you mean that the leaving time has to correspond with midnight in Brussels then? I suppose that if it were midnight our time, that's the next day in Brussels. Basically, you have it right. They operate on the time zone in Brussels, as it is the centre of everything. I had wondered about it for a long time myself, then stumbled onto the answer a little while ago. A quick question... do you plan to get hold of the commemorative 50 pence piece that commemorates Brexit when it comes out? I certainly plan to!
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Post by magpiejack on Dec 26, 2019 9:58:02 GMT
"A quick question... do you plan to get hold of the commemorative 50 pence piece that commemorates Brexit when it comes out? I certainly plan to!"
You bet!
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Post by UnseenI on Dec 27, 2019 7:38:07 GMT
What’s the time: nine, eleven or ten?
In connection with the UK leaving the EU at 11:00 pm:
“it is Midnight on the Continent. Remember, we are on a different time zone to the rest of Europe...”
By coincidence, in The Irresistible Rise Of Alan B'Stard, Alan tells an ITN News at Ten reporter who wonders whether the time is 9 or 10pm that it is actually 11:00 pm in Euro time.
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Post by UnseenI on Dec 27, 2019 7:41:07 GMT
"A quick question... do you plan to get hold of the commemorative 50 pence piece that commemorates Brexit when it comes out? I certainly plan to!"
Is this just as a memento or to sell it later at a big profit?
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Post by UnseenI on Dec 27, 2019 19:13:57 GMT
Nine more steps before B-Day
The next milestone is the week starting January 6th, during which the Withdrawal Agreement Bill goes to committee and report stages in the House of Commons and is passed to the House of Lords, who have up to two weeks from January 13th to debate it then pass it back. Any amendments will be considered in the week beginning January 27th. The final step will to gain Royal Assent before January 31st. So the big question is, will it all be plain sailing or will someone or something sabotage the passage of BoJo’s Big Brexit Bill?
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Post by UnseenI on Dec 28, 2019 18:12:05 GMT
Revenge is sweet
"...Boris is not forgetting the institutions that hindered and harmed his efforts. Expect days of reckoning ahead for them." And people too Avacyn ! John Bercow is the first Speaker for 230 years not to get an automatic peerage on retirement.
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 29, 2019 20:46:58 GMT
I know. I love the fact he is reduced to being a performing monkey, shouting out "order" on request... a fitting end to his career, I feel.
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 29, 2019 20:50:07 GMT
"A quick question... do you plan to get hold of the commemorative 50 pence piece that commemorates Brexit when it comes out? I certainly plan to!" Is this just as a memento or to sell it later at a big profit? Both! I want to stick one on my polling card, have one with the other coins I am keeping, and some more, because in virtually uncirculated condition, they will be immeasurably valuable in time to come. Some of us know what to expect, having watched a lot of coin hunting videos.
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 29, 2019 20:54:07 GMT
Speaking of money, it is looking like funds for the EU are going to become tight, once the UK leaves. Not a shock in the least, but this video has some very interesting information within it.
I reckon the EU is desperately trying to play hardball still with the UK, in the hopes to make Boris blink. Which is futile, as he holds the cards now. May did as well, but decided to throw them away, and stick her arms up in the air, knees knocking together loudly...
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 29, 2019 21:55:57 GMT
Oh, and just saw this... It seems UnseenI still has her political champion about!
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 29, 2019 22:07:00 GMT
Looks like I have found another fan!
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Post by magpiejack on Dec 30, 2019 13:36:36 GMT
Speaking of money, it is looking like funds for the EU are going to become tight, once the UK leaves. Not a shock in the least, but this video has some very interesting information within it. I reckon the EU is desperately trying to play hardball still with the UK, in the hopes to make Boris blink. Which is futile, as he holds the cards now. May did as well, but decided to throw them away, and stick her arms up in the air, knees knocking together loudly... Thanks Avacyn , a very good video. Maybe the EU can shore up their budget by halting the embezzling of money, I'm sure you all know that the EU auditors have refused to sign off the annual accounts for many years as many millions goes missing. One interesting YouTube comment was, "What is the point of defence if you're going to have open borders?" - indeed! The EU doesn't give a stuff about the poor, look at their treatment of Greece; mass unemployment, suicide rates shot up, young people having to move abroad for work. The EU is finished once they lose a major contributor. The euro has been shored up against collapse for years by the purchase of government junk bonds, that was supposed to have ended but it is still happening on the quiet. Germany's economy is on the brink of recession (Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank are in serious trouble) and France's strike action is almost into a month, that has cost its economy millions. It was an idealogical project that is now on the brink of failure.
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Post by UnseenI on Dec 30, 2019 20:01:48 GMT
"The EU is finished once they lose a major contributor."
So what dirty tricks are they going to come up with? The next few weeks are going to be very interesting indeed.
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 30, 2019 22:28:10 GMT
Speaking of money, it is looking like funds for the EU are going to become tight, once the UK leaves. Not a shock in the least, but this video has some very interesting information within it. I reckon the EU is desperately trying to play hardball still with the UK, in the hopes to make Boris blink. Which is futile, as he holds the cards now. May did as well, but decided to throw them away, and stick her arms up in the air, knees knocking together loudly... Thanks Avacyn , a very good video. Thanks. I end up watching quite a bit of content, on a variety of topics, which all helps to inform me. And I try to share what is relevant. Money going missing, and nothing is audited... like a massive money laundering scheme? If you could create a black budget like that, what would you spend it on? Maybe they want to keep people IN, not OUT... And if no nation has it's own miltary, how can they ever say no to anything? they would just be invaded. They give a stuff about us... we still have money to give them! As long as we are still useful... To them, that's mission success. They want people to move to different countries to work, and live. It stop you from having roots and ties to anywhere. Classic Communism... The EU is finished once they lose a major contributor. The euro has been shored up against collapse for years by the purchase of government junk bonds, that was supposed to have ended but it is still happening on the quiet. Germany's economy is on the brink of recession (Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank are in serious trouble) and France's strike action is almost into a month, that has cost its economy millions. It was an idealogical project that is now on the brink of failure. [/quote]
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 30, 2019 22:45:02 GMT
This four decade old news piece is very telling. It was noticeable back then, because we had yet to catch up with EEC prices. Which is now the EU. And note... a member of the European Parliament. Two years before the first European Parliamentary elections, too. So, this thing used to be an unelected body... and then, listen to the excuses h makes to justify everything...
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 30, 2019 23:51:20 GMT
Oh, boy... I knew there was more to Madeleina Kay, the EU Supergirl! www.albawhitewolf.com/She has met rather a lot of... interesting figures...
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Post by UnseenI on Dec 31, 2019 8:05:21 GMT
Binface and Buckethead
That video is very funny Avacyn. The former Lord Buckethead became Count Binface because of a copyright dispute with the originator of the Lord B film character in which he lost a legal battle. A new Buckethead, one who was backed by the originator, arose and they both stood against BoJo in the recent election. That is all history now. We probably won’t be seeing much of either of them unless there is another election. For fans, the old Lord B’s Twitter is still being updated and there is a website: twitter.com/lordbuckethead?lang=enwww.lordbuckethead.co.uk/This must be the new Lord B with BoJo’s dog:
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Post by UnseenI on Dec 31, 2019 8:08:37 GMT
“Oh, boy... I knew there was more to Madeleina Kay, the EU Supergirl!”
I see that you have mentioned her in the Alice thread too.
Madeleina Kay is completely new to me. She seems like a very good find.
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Post by UnseenI on Jan 1, 2020 19:16:34 GMT
The future of The Brexit Party
I got an email update:
“...most of the Brexit blockers in parliament are now gone. Remember this is thanks to The Brexit Party. Without us, Boris would not have become PM. The Conservative Party knew that to win, they had to copy many of our policies and ideas.
We put country before party or person. History will clearly show this. Standing down in over 300 seats effectively guaranteed a Boris majority, the only question was its size. Don’t let anyone tell you that we have not succeeded in our main goals...
We have changed politics for good in many ways since launching under 9 months ago. We are now assessing thoughts and ideas as to what our next steps might be. This does not need to be rushed, tempting though it is.
Meanwhile very best wishes for a very Happy New Year!“
I saw somewhere that they might become The Reform Party. We shall see.
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Post by Avacyn on Jan 1, 2020 19:26:56 GMT
Been forgetting to put this video up. This is important, as the more financial strain occuring in Germany, the greater the liklihood Germany will fail. Or rather, fail sooner.
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Post by Avacyn on Jan 1, 2020 23:06:02 GMT
“Oh, boy... I knew there was more to Madeleina Kay, the EU Supergirl!” I see that you have mentioned her in the Alice thread too. Madeleina Kay is completely new to me. She seems like a very good find. I've heard of her vaguely before, but only just properly encountered her. What is interesting is the lack of background for her...
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Post by UnseenI on Jan 5, 2020 20:09:15 GMT
It all starts up again tomorrow in the House of Commons. I wonder whether the events in Iraq will make any difference to the schedule.
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Post by UnseenI on Jan 7, 2020 18:41:26 GMT
Madeleina Kay’s Alice-inspired anti-Brexit book Theresa Maybe in Brexitland is an illustrated short story for adults the satirises the developments in British politics since the EU Referendum. The book is a parody of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and was published in March 2017. The book was crowdfunded by Remainers and sent to all 114 MPs who voted to block the triggering of Article 50.
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Post by UnseenI on Jan 7, 2020 19:11:41 GMT
The procedures for WAB or Brexit Bill have started. Debates today and tomorrow, then the Third Reading on Thursday.
There is nothing of interest on the official reports - it all seems to be just a formality.
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Post by UnseenI on Jan 8, 2020 9:37:13 GMT
Another of Madeleina Kay’s creations
This is all ancient history now:
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