Ta all.

I’ve had my tea without a great fluffy paw creeping up over the edge of my plate to see what he can get away with and without someone sitting on the keyboard trying to get my attention as I type this.

Good read on Brexitshambles today.

Long Read: What are the Economic Effects of Britain Leaving the EU?

Lord Hill (former EU Commissioner) on R4 earlier was interesting, we’ll know if we are going to beg a deal early on in the negotiations.

If it’s The Beach Boys then must be…

À la lanterne!

As above, the ride along the length of Cefn Bryn is a real joy. The bridleways via Kingshouse to Rhosilli are ok. Make sure you get up and over LLanmadoc hill. Also the marsh road from Llanrhidian to Crofty is nicer than the main road as you get to Gowerton. The Millennium path is nice as is the NCR route from Kidwelly to Ferryside.

Leavers sweating – petition to gov’t to nationalise Vauxhall

I’ve made a petition – will you sign it?
My petition:
The Government to Intervene in the possible Sale of Vauxhall by General Motors.
Government to intervene in the possible sale of Vauxhall to PSA and and part Nationalize Vauxhall with the balance of the company going to an investor or investors. This could hopefully safe guard jobs, with the ultimate aim of producing a range of car’s in the UK that could be sold worldwide.
Vauxhall Motors are the oldest automotive brand making cars and van’s in the Uk, with the first car launched in May 1903 and the first Bedford Truck in 1931, production starred at Luton in 1905 and GM brought the company in 1925. Substantial growth in the last 114 years has allowed them to become the no2 best selling car in the UK and largest manufacture and exporter of commercial vehicles. 35,000 people are associated with Vauxhall with 4,500 Ellsemere Port and Luton alone.

A car would be personal chattels and these would vest with an executor without a grant so can be passed straightaway.

cysga’n dawel

Nothing worse than the Welsh changing from English to Welsh as you enter their shops. Yes, my hearing is that bloody good.

Learn some Welsh unless that offends your little Englander sensibilities.

And they’re getting windy there.

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/nearly-20-per-cent-readings-12589682

Panic.

European car manufacturers have far more production capacity than they need and PSA will probably want to consolidate its factories if it acquires GM Europe.

Vauxhall’s factories in Ellesmere Port and Luton are both very efficient, but they could face export tariffs when Britain leaves the single market, and probably the customs union, in two years – making those plants unviable.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39016604

Not sure why the Vauxhall workers of Ellsmere Port or Luton are worried about their jobs when those areas voted leave. They must have fully considered the impact of their leave vote and how that might impact on any change in GM’s business structure …. they have got back control after all.

Worried your swindle is going to be discovered Jambalaya..

Trivial and quick for UK and Canada to mirror Canada / EU deal if we chose plus we’ll get whatever benefits may accrue in fhe next two years

Do you think Canada might want to be consulted on this? You and your ‘we’ again.

We rejected you in the strongest possible terms.

Whose the ‘we’. Is that Jambalaya’s royal we.

We rejected you in the strongest possible terms.

Whose the ‘we’. Is that Jambalaya’s royal we.

From the DIT’s twitter feed:

UK gov welcomes EU vote to ratify #CETA trade deal with #Canada. We’ll help British business take advantage of the benefits this will bring

I’m sure there’s a suitable facepalm picture somewhere – ah here it is.

facepalm by jamesanderson2010[/url], on Flickr

Nicer than a Walkman – Panasonic RQS

As above – Brexit/Leave really is the greatest swindle perpetrated in modern (or any) times.

For anyone else feeling like they’re standing on a burning deck..

http://www.choosefreedom.eu/

File thread gravel tyres meet their match in the Brecon Beacons today.

[/url]20170212_144042 by jamesanderson2010[/url], on Flickr[/img]

Not seen mine for about 20 years or so. Was in London this week near to where I last met him for lunch and sort of kept my eyes open for him. Would like to track him down again but not sure how – he came over from Oz in the 1960’s and I think his right to be here is questionable at best.

Not long….

20160515_161033 by jamesanderson2010[/url], on Flickr

The big row is going to be whether the EU will discuss trade before we finalise this “exit bill”, another reason why I say plan A is WTO tariffs with all amounts routed to NHS and let’s just get on with focusing globally used to pay people on the increasing dole queue or fund a cut in income tax for the top earners.

I think you can apply for the Deputyship application fees to be waived.

Unless particularly complicated then yes, £500.00 is a rip off for a POA if that is just fees given that the forms have been simplified – the application to register a POA is £110.00

(a solicitor)

If your mum and dad lack capacity then sadly they are beyond the point of being able to appoint an attorney under a lasting power of attorney.

That being the case then if you need to make day to day decisions or deal with property or bank accounts then the Court of Protection and an application for deputyship is probably your next port of call. It would be well worth check and getting advice on how your parents house is held as between them as part of the deputyship application can involve asking for new legal owner’s to be appointed or making sure the deputy has the power to sell if need be.

It is not as intimidating as it might appear. See..

https://www.gov.uk/become-deputy/overview

I’ll wave ally as i’m on that first train.

I think I’ve found a ticket but which involves me going to Neath in the wee small hours which is a bit of a worry.

I’m such a hick – all too stressful.

I’m paying – I might set off on my bike in a minute.

Right slap bang in the middle – Fitzrovia.

I thought our carriers were going to be used as a mini-cab service for US aircraft.

Why are odious Countryside Alliance still with us…?

Pre-decision/legislation protest is entirely legitimate, protesting about a legitimately made decision because it didn’t go your way is an entirely different concept.

As we have had the National Parks & Access to the Countryside Act 1949 and CROW Act 2000 etc you can stop whining about lack of access rights. Decision made, get over it and p*** off out of it.

The Shorty Ultimate canti brakes are little works of art:

Would love a pair of their Black Ops levers:

Eco’s checklist of the 14 common features of fascism – we can tick them off one by one going through the Trump/Brexit future.

1.The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
2.The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
3.The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
4.Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
5.Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”
6.Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”
7.The obsession with a plot. “The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.”
8.The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
9.Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
10.Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”
11.Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”
12.Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”
13.Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”
14.Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/02/05/alec-baldwin-returns-as-snls-trump-where-an-evil-stephen-k-bannon-is-actually-president/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.3b4b83fead72