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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 16, 2020 7:36:11 GMT
Mass vaccinations I guess they can throw a lot of medical staff at it and do it in bulk. Ideally you can just go and queue and get it at your GP or local pop up centre. They only need to do visits to places like homes and maybe schools. No prioritising once the key frontline NHS and Care Workers are done. American and German companies making good progress in finding vaccinations also. Hopefully months and not years now
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 15, 2020 21:15:33 GMT
Just playing devil's advocate, isn't take away good sold in a shop? Talk about about mixed messaging That's why I think you are wrong Matthew. Utter shambles That's the government, not you Matthew
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 15, 2020 21:14:51 GMT
Does that change your thinking Matthew? Just playing devil's advocate, isn't take away good sold in a shop? Talk about about mixed messaging That's why I think you are wrong Matthew. Utter shambles
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 15, 2020 17:06:57 GMT
New episodes been filmed of The Thick of It
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 15, 2020 16:27:35 GMT
Does that change your thinking Matthew?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 14, 2020 16:35:28 GMT
theglenbucklaird What decisions? To export you have to comply with the Regulations of the importing Market, to ship to the EU you have to comply with CE, to ship to the US you have to comply with U.S. Federal Regulatory Framework....... All we have introduced is another Regulatory Body we have to comply with, whatever the U.K. decides to introduce similar to the old Kitemark and an additional cost to ones who want to sell to the U.K. I cannot see any decisions we can now make that we couldn’t before and if there are any how they will compensate for the increased cost and bureaucracy that leaving the EU will entail even the immigration changes will not reduce immigration only where the immigrants come from, the only way to reduce immigration is to reduce opportunity as the majority move to Countries to earn money not to scrounge of benefits and the reduced immigration over the last few years would indicate we are no longer a preferred choice as our economy becomes weaker. I am still waiting for a Brexiteer to come up with a cost/benefit analysis indicating how leaving the EU will make us better off tangibly not rhetorically. All I get is hyperbole, we can make decisions without stating the ones they mean, controlling our borders which we could have done if we chose, we can get trade deals with other Countries, state which ones will compensate for the inevitable loss of business with the EU (Most EU Countries export less than 3% GDP to the U.K., the U.K. exports 45% of GDP to the EU)...... There isn't a cost against benefits analysis but I don't think many people voted for that. I'm not a Brexiteer so not the best person to ask. You've kind of answered your own question. You have given all the benefits to leaving the EU. The UK now controls it borders, has greater say on it's economy and that does include the ability to be able to trade with other countries. Which Brexiteers (and this government) will hope to fill much of the gap in the economy with. We could even become a great Socialist state now which I am not sure we could whilst under membership of the EU. At the end of the day, the UK right wants make the decisions rather than the European right.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 14, 2020 15:15:17 GMT
The administration costs of Brexit for U.K. companies are beginning to be made public. Each company who trades with the EU will need a Custom Declaration at a cost of ~£32.50 of which it is estimated 400 million a year will be required costing businesses ~£12.8bn each year far in excess of the cost of EU membership. Businesses are also being encouraged to hire “customs intermediaries” to help traders complete and submit declarations and apply for “duty deferment accounts” to pay for customs charges via direct debit and are also being told to prepare to pay for VAT on imported goods and ensure drivers have international driving permits. These costs will need to be absorbed either by the employees or the customer and our EU customers are likely to source within the EU if passed on so therefore wages will be hit as companies are not usually known for prioritising wages over profit and this is even before tariffs being added if we do not get a Deal. As our productivity is already one of the lowest in industrialised nations this additional layer of paper pushers is just what we need as we enter what is thought will be one of the greatest recessions in history. Again I ask Brexiteers what are the benefits of leaving the EU. To trade in the EU we have to comply with EU Regulations so tacking back control is not one, with the caveats in the immigration Bill, immigration will likely remain the same only where they come from changing, the cost of doing business will rise, and our travel opportunities to our favourite holiday destinations by frequency seriously constrained. £12.8bn a conservative amount is a lot of money each year to pay for a blue passport* *French-designed Polish-printed But it is about the ability to make your own decisions even though you have denied this. Why else did anybody vote for this?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 14, 2020 15:08:36 GMT
Excuse me - " decent areas of England"? I come from one of the towns on the list of places at risk of a local lockdown, although I no longer live there. Are you suggesting that the more-than-200,000 people there, including members of my family and most of my oldest friends, are somehow worthy of your scorn simply based on their postcode? That's a thoroughly offensive turn of phrase. Shame on you. I meant decent in a sized based module not decent in a "social standing" or value of the housing. Happy to clear this up and sorry if my original message was taken that way. Ironically some of the more affluent areas were the first affected by this virus which shows no distinction between the wealthiest places in the country and the most deprived. Yeah I read it as another attack on Manchester
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 13, 2020 7:10:27 GMT
I still feel we were too late into Lockdown and I'm a Conservative voter of many years. How late I don't know? Three days certainly possibly a week as all entertainment had shut up by 16th March. There needs to be inquiries but with this pandemic still going on. Can it really start. The other home nations all went into lockdown in unison. I don't know what the mechanism for them going sooner would have been. I'd figure the furlough scheme is centrally run so the First Minister's wouldn't have financial independence to do that. I think we still need to be careful to try and drive this down. The other home nations outside of England are getting days with no or very few cases so they can hopefully manage any cases very swiftly. I just pray we will start to hear that decent areas of England are Covid free too soon. A week is generous, we were two weeks behind most of Europe. That time lost was vital.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 10, 2020 9:27:29 GMT
Anyone else watch the Virginia Wade final? How more patronising can the commentary get? Didn't see it Lynette. In what way patronising?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 8, 2020 16:04:54 GMT
Feel very fogeyish saying this, but isn't it lovely seeing old matches where the contestants don't scream like foxes f-ing. Didn't Sabatini grunt, or did I dream that?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 8, 2020 8:28:19 GMT
Government process. Be a shocking government, enough people complain, then U-turn. Rinse and repeat
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 8, 2020 7:48:28 GMT
Agree with sf...following people like Father Maher from Sheffield Cathedral for example is very inspirational and often very chastening. His thought for the day stuff is always interesting...todays’ is ‘Search for the best in everyone! Seek it out and then celebrate it!’ Also when anniversaries come along Twitter is a reminder of times gone by.An example is that today would have been the great Jon Pertwee’s 101st birthday and I have spent the afternoon reminiscing with people like me,who had met him fleetingly and wonderfully,those like Phil Newman who actually worked with him. So thumbs up to Twitter as long as you look for the positives. Yeah but sf has now killed the thread if it is your own fault that Twitter is rubbish
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 8, 2020 7:40:13 GMT
Just as they were making headway with the arts... New government tactic? Just be sh*te until there is an outcry, then u-turn
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 3, 2020 13:38:13 GMT
Passing the Turkish barbers I normally go to today I noticed you can book online. I did so once I got home and have a Turkish date next Wednesday at 10.20am thank goodness!! Yeah I'm booked in for a hair cut. A month ago my niece said I looked like Boris Johnson, and I thought she liked me. Looks like Grizzly Adams now
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 3, 2020 13:24:42 GMT
It’s like when you go through airport departures and people are having pints of lager with their full English at 6.30am 😝 Must be a Manchester thing BB, never seen that at JLA
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 3, 2020 12:30:28 GMT
Any news of yesterdays numbers that weren't announced yet?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 3, 2020 12:26:21 GMT
Cheeky. I was watching from the 60s, the first colour tv, on which as a mere toddler of course, I saw the famous ‘you cannot be serious’ match and many other classics. I’m looking forward to seeing the Becker match when he came to everyone’s attention. I said at the time and repeated ad nauseam, that he would have only been taken off the court dead or the winner. This afternoon i enjoyed the different attitude to the naming of the players- Miss Evert and Miss Navatrilova (spelling?) and then Venus and Lindsey. 35 years this year since Boris Becker first won Wimbledon as a youthful seventeen year old
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 3, 2020 12:18:26 GMT
Given Mr. Johnson's record of saying racist things in public, that he wouldn't make a gesture in support of BLM is not entirely surprising. Since his entire career has been built on hot air, though, it's entertaining to see him claim he believes in "substance". I read that more as a class thing. 'You do know I was born to rule, I should kneel?'
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 2, 2020 16:45:36 GMT
It is individuals who choose to ignore social distancing , not wear face coverings etc. I can understand these poll results to some extent as the government cannot police every individuals behaviour. The government could send a much clearer message about the measures we should all be taking to help keep everybody safe, and could work much harder than they have done to make sure rules are enforced. Other governments have done, and their per capita death tolls are lower than ours. That added to the timing of going into lock down and some very poor planning. Would have been able to open some things more safely
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 2, 2020 13:15:33 GMT
Labour have always supported the opening of schools. The critical word is ‘safe’ and nothing has changed, primarily it was the heads teaching staff who were uncomfortable with the initial plans for the 1st Jun and most teachers are union members it was easier to malign the Unions. Now the Government have to prove the measures introduced have significantly reduced the risks as much as possible as zero risk is unattainable. Through now teaching unions are still much more skeptical than Labour. Surely that is.... Starmer has always supported the opening of schools. Now his shadow education secretary does also
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 1, 2020 15:34:22 GMT
I liked the Comer one, where do I sign up to the Jodie fan club? I think there's a link on the Everton website. 🙂 He he
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 1, 2020 15:03:00 GMT
I liked the Comer one, where do I sign up to the Jodie fan club?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 1, 2020 10:22:13 GMT
Been thinking of my casting wishes for this series
Bozo - Simon Russell Beale. Need the best to show what an arse he has made of the last six months Matt Hancock - Christopher Biggins. Will make a great Hancock and probably a better Health Minister Chris Whitty - Alex Jennings. Tough role this one, again, the very best needed Dodgy Dom Cummings - Screech from Saved by the Bell. As Gandolfini is us not many have the range to meet this complex character
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 30, 2020 20:20:42 GMT
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but you weren’t the only one, dawnstar. But I would have allowed Brtis back in to go home. Until it became obvious that it was gonna get very bad. Brexit or covid-19?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 30, 2020 20:05:15 GMT
Come on Tim
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 30, 2020 20:04:27 GMT
As we pass the extension date the EU begin to get tough, no financial equivalence for financial firms from the 1st Jan. “the UK cannot keep the benefits of the single market without the obligations”, Mr Barnier said “there is no way” the proposals would be accepted by EU national governments or the European Parliament. ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/speech-barnier-eurofi-30062020_en.pdf Having worked in highly regulated industries for my whole career this was obvious from the start, to sell in the EU you must be compliant with the ‘CE’ regulations which we used to influence. We can re-introduce the ‘Kite Mark’ but this can only be applied for products imported to the UK or made and sold in the UK. To export you have to comply with the Regulations of that Country, making the taking back control mantra meaningless. If we now look at the exports, 22 of the 27 EU Countries Export less than 3% of GDP to the UK, the only Countries above 3% are Belgium, Netherlands, Ireland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. In comparison the UK exports 45% of GDP to the EU. The mistake is we consider the EU a single Country, in reality as very little can only be sourced in the UK what will happen the imports from the UK will be sourced from within the EU backfilling the lost exports to the UK at the national level. We are leaving the EU this is not negotiable but we do need to become realistic on the impact, in the climate of Covid we are in for a turbulent few years, maybe decades and we need to be prepared. This is not project fear as this has no relevance, as also shown today the Custom infrastructure where lorries can lodge their paperwork electronically to allow unhindered travel across the channel has not even been developed so each truck driver will have to physically present their paperwork at the Port to Custom Officers of which only 4,000 of the 50,000 required have been recruited. This requirement is not impacted by what type of deal we get as we have left the Custom Union. i know a lot of Brexiteers will call me defeatist and negative. We have chosen to leave the EU Regulatory and Customs infrastructure please provide solutions as the EU becomes another Country, am happy for someone with the experience of exporting product outside the EU to add it is not as simple as putting it in a box with a stamp as it is to the EU now. All I ask is for the Brexiteers to provide solutions rather than hyperbole as we only have 6 months to get this right. Bloody centrists
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 30, 2020 9:21:25 GMT
The best ever? My Mum complained about my spoiler 5 mins before the end - I just assumed she remembered! As a big Nadal fan I'd say this is definitely up there as one of the best matches ever Can't believe it was 12 years ago and yet I remember those final few points so well. Got to be the greatest match ever, if we are excluding my epic six week match against Gary Avenue in the school holidays 1981.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 30, 2020 9:17:20 GMT
Really enjoyed the replay of the classic 2008 Nadal v Federer match this afternoon The best ever? My Mum complained about my spoiler 5 mins before the end - I just assumed she remembered! He he
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 29, 2020 13:26:26 GMT
Love Johnny Cash me, the last American hero
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