lidar2
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Oct 12, 2021 15:06:20 GMT
Cant post link but good article in Guardian about how brexit is becoming lexit due to a mix of levelling up and Boris' carefree attitude to spending taxpayers' money
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 12, 2021 15:11:45 GMT
What a country. We are f***ked.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 13, 2021 0:25:07 GMT
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Nov 1, 2021 19:31:06 GMT
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Post by Chakoteya on Nov 2, 2021 9:37:12 GMT
Two generations of people who have no idea what to do with a fish with all its scales and bones, staring up at you on an array of fishmonger's ice...
Shall we blame Captain Birdseye?
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Post by Chakoteya on Nov 18, 2021 14:11:28 GMT
They deny it is anything to do with Brexit but I'm not so sure.
Several versions of this story have mentioned the interchange fee on cross-border transactions - which would not apply if Amazon did all its UK financial transactions within the UK instead of processing credit card transactions in Luxembourg, possibly for tax purposes but that's just a guess. That's why you can still use Visa bank debit cards with them, those transactions don't cross borders.
If I was a snarky cynic I might also point to Amazon's own-branded Mastercard credit card offering as a contributing factor, then reminisce about the pre-credit card days when you either bought goods with cash or cheque, and if you didn't have the readies available you had to accept whatever financing deal the seller was willing to give you.
Yup, it's potentially back to the 1950s with Amazon - exactly the decade where Nigel Farage and his hard line UKIPpers (now the Reform Party) would like us to still live.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Dec 17, 2021 21:27:01 GMT
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lidar2
Castellan
You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Dec 18, 2021 21:46:49 GMT
Not sure if this belongs in this thread or the governnent watch one, but David Frost has resigned although seemingly not over brexit policy
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Jan 1, 2022 12:32:45 GMT
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lidar2
Castellan
You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jan 2, 2022 14:33:17 GMT
To be fair, he's probably correct that it is one of the main benefits of brexit |
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Jan 2, 2022 15:05:26 GMT
To be fair, he's probably correct that it is one of the main benefits of brexit |
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 7, 2022 8:36:53 GMT
So I see on the news just now Boris is resigning (?) can anyone confirm this?
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Post by sherlock on Jul 7, 2022 8:38:35 GMT
Yes he is.
Barely lasted as long as May.
It’s hilarious.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 7, 2022 8:41:54 GMT
Yes he is. Barely lasted as long as May. It’s hilarious. I just sent some emails and fb msgs to some personal UK friends of mine.. Tell us what u really think in your reply to me..!
We see him a bit in the news here, I don't think we get the nitty gritty all day every day stuff of his "buffoonery?" (That was 1 description I just received).
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Post by sherlock on Jul 7, 2022 8:46:47 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 7, 2022 8:48:59 GMT
<busts out the popcorn waiting for the floorshow ala "Rocky Horror Picture Show">
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Post by Chakoteya on Jul 7, 2022 9:02:10 GMT
Bozo has sort of resigned, but will stay in place until a new party leader is elected in the autumn - by which time Carrie will have told him where she wants to live (and which party donor is going to divvy up for the redecorating). Allegedly. I can't remember if not being PM means he can try and get his £600K a year job writing a weekly column for the Torygraph back or whether he has to be kicked out as an MP before that can happen. If he can't survive on the PM salary he certainly won't be able to scrape by on an ordinary MP's pittance.
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lidar2
Castellan
You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Nov 2, 2022 12:00:18 GMT
Just for old times' sake . . .
A quote on brexit from Rafael Behr in today's Guardian:
A crusade whipped up by nationalist zealots to a holy land that doesn’t exist to fight an enemy that was actually our friend, defeating no one but ourselves.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Nov 4, 2022 22:00:34 GMT
Just for old times' sake . . . A quote on brexit from Rafael Behr in today's Guardian: A crusade whipped up by nationalist zealots to a holy land that doesn’t exist to fight an enemy that was actually our friend, defeating no one but ourselves.Looking back at this thread, it's just such a shame. We had some really bright, insightful, smart members who got sucked into the rabbit hole, guys who let personal biases and hangups with Europe and really anything about a globalized UK allow them to be manipulated by the ERG, the spider at the center of the web that has engulfed British life since 2016. Depending on how you view it, the roots go back to Major, even Thatcher's time. All of this to create their 'Britannia Unchained' libertarian free market utopia, which promptly came crashing down with Liz Truss' regime and its awful budget. One of its original creators... and ironically the woman who finally destroyed it when it became reality. Too bad it took six years and so much ridiculous nonsense and waste, so much utterly pointless fighting and bickering across political lines over something that wore the guise of a grand ideological cause while being nothing but a giant financial scam, to do it.
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