Sorry, but I’m still waiting for the call from Kylie, I’ve had a bag packed since the mid 1980s so am ready at a moment’s notice.

New centrist grouping?

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The result is plain to see: the civil service is no longer a Rolls-Royce but a battered Nissan Micra with a neurotically nervous driver.

:D

This country so needs to crash and burn to finally put pay to its ridiculous pretensions.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/09/brexit-salvations-illusory?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet

Isn’t there something about reaping whirlwinds…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-abuse-investigation-conservative-mps-genuine-fear-abuse-general-election-a7831496.html

My earworm has now gone all easy listening on me 8O Where this has come from I don’t know..

1984 – the YTS paid £24.00 per week except the agricultural trades equivalent I was on was £15.00 iirc. Folks had £7.00 for house keeping.

One of them means there is literally no way to get into Ebbw.

There’s a positive in everything.

court case in Bleak House

Jarndyce v Jarndyce – quite apt

Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, over the course of time, become so complicated, that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce, without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. The little plaintiff or defendant, who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled, has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out.

thanks both – spacers it is.

He should have updated you at the point 1000 was reached.

More cheery reading…

http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2017/06/07/uncosted-the-brexit-black-hole-in-corbyn-and-may-s-manifesto

The windows have shattered and the ceiling has fallen in.

The Economist nails it again.

Berwicks in Rugby; there’d be these punky/gothy girls working behind the counter (1979/1984)who’d have to wear these strange gingham store coats. All long gone now.

Gary Lineker retweeted this which about sums it up – is GL aiming to be the English Macron ….

http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/brexit-is-about-the-rich-rees-moggs-of-britain-not-anyone-else-1-4896702?utm_content=buffer4f596&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Dunno – this still does it for me. Different to Jilted but as good.

Suez is interesting, my grandfather, who had been a career soldier before and after WW2 and saw all sorts of s***, resigned his commission from the army in protest at what went on there.

I really would just save for some non-series shimano hydros. HyRyds are a pain and quite unreliable in my experience.

Arguably Suez was the last time we threw our weight around

No, we thought we could and were soon put back in our post colonial box by the US. That was when we stopped being a ‘world power’ its just it has taken us 60 or so years to recognise it.

I’ve posted this link before but it’s an interesting read nonetheless.

http://www.economist.com/node/7218678

The rest of the world manages just fine not being in the EU

Just fine for who, what does that even mean, probably one the most cretinous things Jambalaya has come up with – I can only imagine that individuals in huge swathes of the rest of the world can only dream of having the rights and protections afforded by the EU to its citizens. The EU is not perfect by any means but it is undoubtedly a civilising influence.

I think

how much more money you can rape out of them

sums up those for whom its just fine. Economic rapists – good term with their regulatory bonfires. I was going back through some old papers recently and came across some pices i’d kept about the Bhopal disaster and I imagine things like that continue to this day (the Primark sweatshop disasters come to mind oil pollution in part of Africa etc)who’s doing just fine – joe bod Indian /Bangladeshi/Nigerian etc – I think not.

‘Doing just fine’

I imagine David Davies sees himself something like:

The r27 however….

The David Davies p*** take on Dead Ringers this evening is worth a listen.

Well that went well – I thought David Davies thought he could hang on to these..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-40381320

We’ve been Robinson Crusoed by our parents.

:D

I think the social housing elements on some of these mixed developments even have separate/segregated entrances so one does not have to meet poor people.

See ‘poor doors’

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/25/poor-doors-segregation-london-flats

I really hope the Day of Rage protests planned for today doesn’t kick off

It was the only way the Poll Tax was killed off.

Is the UK actually the B-ark

I don’t think we would be useful enough to qualify.

Survey in today’s Mail on Sunday 69% against a hard brexit.

It could also be said the our concept of human right enshrined in the ECHR are a social democratic definition of human rights – they are balanced and qualified toward those ends and do generally tend to strike the right balance within that context.

See for instance Art 3 on the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

Article 3.

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

and Art 2 of the ECHR

Article 2 – Right to life

1. Everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law.

2. Deprivation of life shall not be regarded as inflicted in contravention of this article when it results from the use of force which is no more than absolutely necessary:

a. in defence of any person from unlawful violence;

b. in order to effect a lawful arrest or to prevent the escape of a person lawfully detained;

c. in action lawfully taken for the purpose of quelling a riot or insurrection.

I agree I think the UK suffers because we have one foot in the nordic/european “socialist” model and one foot in the US individualistic free market model and as a society we have never really decided which we prefer most.

I think that’s largely it. We have a 1000 years of history where those who pull the strings have bent just enough to avoid loosing their grip on power which hasn’t been the case on the continent.

The thing with human rights is their universal applicability be you an owner or a worker so you have to deny that universality.

Back to Rawls; choose the system of distributive justice on the basis that you won’t know what your eventual position in society will be – get the person who cuts the cake to take his piece last and so on.

That is just not true

It must be true unless you mean a socialy democratic society whick is not the same thing.

socialism being (probably not the best definition:

a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole

That of itself curtails the rights of the individual.

A true socialist/utilitarian society by its nature would not be a pleasant place to be – a true socialist society could not for instance have any meaningful concept of human rights which are essentially a liberal/libertarian concept.

You could read something like Rawls’ ‘A Theory of Justice’.

Although my main degree many years ago was law we were required to take one non-law module per year so I did political philosophy for three years.

Of all of it Rawls has stuck with me and had a long lasting effect on how I judge, as a yardstick, all the tosh that’s pumped out these days – fair equality of opportunity and the difference principle (that allows inequality only to the extent that they benefits the worst off – recognising talent and entrepreneurship and rewarding it but recognising that the allocation of talent etc. is largely a matter of brute luck and as such not wholly deserved).

Meanwhile in downtown Germany:

Indeed, the party of Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher has turned into a gaggle of high rollers and unwitting clowns.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/death-of-brexit-at-the-hands-of-theresa-may-a-1152330-amp.html

Letting our new rescued cat outside for the first time – been indoors for three weeks, the house smells like a litter tray and he’s going a bit stir crazy.

Before.

Freddie before by james anderson[/url], on Flickr

Now.

Freddie after by james anderson[/url], on Flickr

John Redwood, whose crimes against logic are surely by now the subject of a class-action suit by the Vulcan species

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/16/exciting-brexit-future-all-rubbish-bits-past-david-davis?CMP=share_btn_tw

Were’re slightly miffed here in Wales as well.

Bought another 116 acres of cider orchard for a client.

The vast majority of rest of the world trades very nicely with the EU under WTO, as would we

very nicely for who?