If you look at the latest opinion polls versus the actual %split of votes at the 2015 GE, what’s really changed?

Con have picked up some of the UKIP vote (that hasn’t transferred directly to the Brexit Party) taking them from 37 to 40%. Lib Dems have picked up some of the Labour voters who I guess do GAF about Brexit, but that’s only taken them from 8 to 15%, so they’re still a comfortable third.

Does anyone have a link to how the polls are translating into parliamentary constituencies?

Lots of people who are pro-remain really don’t give as much of a **** as people on this thread seem to think. At a GE, I expect more Remainers will vote for the same party they always vote for than will vote tactically. Of course, there is some correlation between how you voted on Brexit and your political persuasion. Hence, votes will mainly be split between Labour and Lib Dem.

‘Leavers’ suffer derision from ‘Remainers’ due to their lack of coherent vision over what Brexit should look like. However, the complete inability of Remainers to coalesce around a single strategy is really **** depressing. As long as BJ’s opponents continue to play the man and not the ball, public opinion will stay in his favour and the probability of a hard brexit increases.

It’s become a war of attrition and the hard leavers are winning.

Calcium hydroxide is pretty insoluble in water. How much do these packs weigh and how many are you disposing of at a time?

Chucking them in a pale of water might be fun, but if they’re already moisture saturated nothing much will happen.

Calcium oxide is the by-product of high temperature combustion of calcium carbonate. Once used as a dessicant, it will have reacted with either the moisture or CO2 in the atmosphere to either reform calcium carbonate or become calcium hydroxide. Burning it again is just going to turn it back to calcium oxide. So no real environmental impact. Burning the plastic sachet it comes in is probably worse, then again sending those directly to landfill isn’t great either.

TLDR: Envorinmentally, It doesn’t really matter how you dispose of the dessicant (combustion or landfill = same same), it’s the pouch that’s the problem.

Another vote for the 250 lumen Decathlon body light, should be absolutely fine if running open pavement. If you need to see more than the ground in front of you (ie avoid branches etc.) then I’d combo with a headtorch.

You might hear a bit of a rattle from a cold start. However, I had a stretched chain on another BMW engine, I couldn’t hear or feel anything but when BMW measured the stretch it was miles out of spec and was replaced for free.

It’s a shame the 4-pots are so shite on this era 1 series, as they are probably the best in terms of their overall build quality (particularly the interiors). Sadly, only the 6 pot engines are of equal quality.

I’m guessing its up for about £5k (assuming from a used car dealer). That would get you a car half the age from Ford, Mazda etc. The interior won’t be anywhere near as nice though.

The N43 is not the greatest engine BMW ever made. Various sensor, injectors and coil problems are common but hardly unique to it. The ‘big’ one is the plastic cam-chain tensioner guides disintegrating and/or the chain stretching.

I wouldn’t put my money in a 12yo 4-pot 1 series (petrol or diesel). I’d look for something newer with a less desirable badge for a similar amount.

Directives may be transcribed in to UK legislation. EU Regulations aren’t necasserily so…

You need to inform your insurer but you don’t need to persue a claim if you don’t want to repair the car or are happy to do so out of your own pocket (e.g. damage is less than your policy excess or your cover is third-party only).

If the other party is liable, and their insurer agrees, you can claim directly. The third parties insurer often prefers this as they can control costs.

If there’s a sniff of 50/50, and the other party goes via their insurance, their insurer will seek to recover their losses from your insurer.

ERG have already lauded it as “a great deal”

Without reading it. Lots of scope to row back from that position.

Is a binding referendum pitching this deal v remain now a realistic scenario without the a GE in between?

Or is it now this deal or extend and have a GE first?

A few people at my club who only took up running in their late 40s/early 50s and have completed marathons.

It’s fair to say they take it pretty seriously and do a lot of conditioning, foam rolling and yoga/Pilates to supplement their training.

Completely legal and commonplace to advertise a sale in this scenario. It does put buyers off… The typical way to deal with this is for the buyer to pay the finance company directly and the seller releases the car once the payment is confirmed (and once they’ve received any additional money from the buyer which may make up the balance of the sale price).

Our VM router is in the extension and doesn’t give great signal upstairs and one bedroom is a complete black spot. I bought a £20 Netgear wifi booster and plugged it in on the landing, that secondary network now covers the whole house with no problem.

Check the pollen filter(s).

22 shortages in the EMA since 2013……look at all those shortages in the UK alone this year.

I’d caution interpreting the difference in that way. As an example, here is Irelands list which has 165 current entries (some replication due to multipe strengths of same product):

https://www.hpra.ie/homepage/medicines/medicines-information/medicines-shortages

Does the Slovak Republic have a large drugs export market?

~EUR 400 million total revenue generated by Slovakian drug manufacturers in 2017. Countries like Slovakia are certainly growing their capacity for manufacturing and make attractive locations for generics production and as service providers to the European Pharma Industry.

When my previous company were looking at transfer of QC activities from UK to mainland Europe as contingency for post-Brexit batch release, we found that there were plenty of companies offering services at attractive prices with no impact to quality and able to demonstrate an exemplery inspection history from national and international regulators

Is it uncommon to have supply issues?

Broadly speaking yes, it’s uncommon.

At a UK level you can see the list of products ‘officially’ in short supply i.e. those where the marketing authorisation holder are in correspondece with the MHRA regarding an issue preventing supply:

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/category/shortages-discontinuations-and-expiries/

At an EU level, shortages affecting multiple markets are collated by the EMA:

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/field_ema_herb_outcome/european-union-herbal-monograph-254/field_ema_web_categories%253Aname_field/Human/ema_group_types/ema_document-supply_shortage

Stockpiling coldchain medicinal products is particularly problematic. There is simply a finite number of refrigerated storage areas in GDP licensed warehouses.

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Are we as a nation really that dim?

We’re about to find out…

So, this is the end game for any type of deal. My assumption is now that the Benn Act will somehow be cicrumvented and we leave with no deal on the 31st October. At that point, things will get nasty as the reality of abrubt severance are felt. Both UK and EU will takes actions that are viewed with hostility by the other, in the UK the actions of the EU will be easily spun to galvanise enough public opinion that we were right to leave after all.

After various RSI-esque symptoms resulting from my DSE setup, I changed to this trackball. In each new job, it’s the first thing I order:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-2226127-USB-Marble-Mouse/dp/B001DQY9AW

The Brexiteers who will actually suffer financial hardship post-leave will not be brought around because of it.

They already suffer under the current political system, they already feel pain. Heaping more on them will simply further disenfranchise them and push them further away from the middle ground. If/when they realise they’ve been lied to, it will just be another facet of a ruling elite to have failed them.

What is frightening about that is where it leaves them to go. There will be no democratically elected avenues left for them to align with. What happens to a society where such a significant minority completely turns its back on democracy?

Not to sound too pessimistic, but..

1. They don’t want to be blamed.

Why would they care if the UK blames them? To the rest of the world it’s plainly the UK’s fault.

2. They actually care about the effects on jobs/medicine etc😒.

The long term uncertainty is damaging in itself. At some point you need to amputate the limb to save the rest of the body. The countries which will see the most economic pain are also those with the strongest economies.

3. They are actual statesmen as opposed to a coked up clown.

Ultimately, the Project is of greater importance. At a national level, the countries likely to be hit hardest are also eyeing the opportunities this presents. Holland could pick up a lot of business once the UK are out…

Oh, and if the daughter has a real accident whilst learning to drive, she would, of course, need to declare that to her own insurer once she qualifies (assuming she takes out/is named on a policy within the 3-5 years most insurers look at).

he mentioned before test and at previous lessons that his insurance doesn’t include wheels and tyres

Instructor goes on to say if he needs to claim on his insurance the learner’s details would be used as they caused the damage.

How is he going to claim for the wheel if his policy excludes their cover? Tell the **** to foxtrot oscar

pissing of the EU 27 enough to make them refuse the request, sending us off the cliff.

On this point, what level of confidence is there that we haven’t already reached that threshold?

Am I right in thinking that one member state could veto our request? My feeling is that BoJo will still be in power on the 31st October, even if he respects the law and asks for an extension, he’s not going to make any effort to sell the idea in Brussels. Without a good reason to grant an extension, what motive does the EU have? They’ve already said their no-deal preparations are complete…

I’d still rather fly top deck on a BA747 than in most other single deck BC configurations or even an A380, irresepective of the carrier. Getting 62a or k is just the icing on the cake.

Are you a member of the Royal Society of Biology?

I’m a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and they offer a very good careers advice service and can also provide a mentor. Not sure if the RSB is the same, but could be worth looking in to.

Find a local independant mortgage advisor and get them to do all this (they get their fee as a commission from the lendor).

Also, next time, start looking well before your fixed rate ends. I assume you’re now paying a higher rate, which is just money wasted. It’s possible to line it all up to switch to a new lendor the day the fixed rate ends.

Yep brexit has broken britain

I think it was probably already broken. Brexit has simply exposed this fact to the whole world in a spectacular way.

The UK Private Healthcare business only exists in its current form because we have the NHS.

The Doctors it employs are trained by the NHS and many supplement their NHS income in private clinics rather than exclusively operate as private Doctors.

Also, most private hospital rely on the NHS as to underpin their operations. If you had a severe problem during a private procedure, beyond immediate resus/stabilisation, you would need to be transferred to an NHS Hospital for treatment.

As mentioned, there is no private A&E, critical care etc.

Apparantly, the average Private Healthcare premium is £1,500 in the UK and >$4,000 in the US.

THere are lots of factors affecting why per capita Healthcare spend is higher in the US. However, if you wanted to have an NHS equivelant Health Service in the UK but funded by Private insurance companies I think the annual premiums would eclipse those paid in the US. More like tens of thousands £ per annum.

I had a 2017 ST, so I won’t comment on the engine. However, in terms of interior and general quality, I rate the mk3.5 Focus quite highly. It certainly wasn’t hugely inferior to the 2016 Golf it replaced.

If possible, go for a model with the Sync3 infotainment system. It’s actually pretty good.

15 mps sounds a bit shit to start with.

Is the V6 box connected over WiFi? Is there any scope to run a Cat5 cable alongside the coax to physically connect the V6 and Hub?

How many times is the coax being split now? Is the original splitter still in place where the cable comes up from the ground?

So the white wire which currently provides TV will supply internet if I plug the hub into it?

Yes

Do they both carry the same signal, could I plug the telly cable into the hub, if not could I connect the telly cable to the hub socket on the outside of the wall?

It doesn’t matter which cable you plug in to the hub or V6 box. That is just a simple splitter.

I think you probably need to have an ethernet connection between the hub and the V6 box for initial setup… If setup can be done over WiFi, I don’t know how. Assuming it’s not possible:

– Temporarily move the hub to the same location as the V6 box. If the problem is that you only have one cable in that room, get another splitter like that in your photo
– run a really long Cat5 cbale from the hub to the V6 box
– use something like a poweline or WiFi range extender with an ethernet socket to get internet in the room with the V6 box

Most probably only required at renewal, but check what the policy documents say.

Analytical Chemists can do vastly more than QC!

I work in Pharma and come from an R&D background. Actual Chemists are few and far between and are highly prized. Your son may find his starting salary, post-grad is nothing spectacular, but after a few years the opportunities can really open up – key for me is the combination of strong scientific acumen and an ability to explain complex problems to people who are non-technical.

If you have the confidence and ability to step out of the lab and communicate with non-chemists then the rewards are there.

The continent of Europe contains 44 countries.