Posts by nzlemming
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Russell, I seem to have broken PAS again by posting an image. Does Supermodel not like PNG files, or something?
Or do I need to have text in the post as well as attaching an image?
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Let's get down to the brutal electoral realpolitik. The French presidential and German Bundestag elections are coming up next year. Hollande and Merkel would be politically battered if there was even a hint of the UK being allowed access to Europe on those grounds.
Also, the EU is looking at similar moves in a lot of other countries for pretty much the same reasons (i.e. high-handed government, remote administrators, inequality gap, and migrants - sorry, refugees who don't have to cross the Channel to get there) and they really want an example pour encourager les autres
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to John Palethorpe,
Also, relying on UK polls after the last few complete messups is - unwise?
Relying on the Mirror is unwise.
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to Sacha,
EU realpolitik: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/26/the-eu-will-treat-britain-like-greece/
I have real problems with this:
A ban issued from Downing Street on Brexit preparations – lest it boost the leave campaign – meant Britain’s most senior officials were permitted to “think” about a Brexit, but not allowed to write anything down.
That is an incredible failure of governance.
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Brexit, pursued by a bear (market)
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Except it's Venn Young, for those playing along at home, and father of Jonathan Young and, according to Wikipedia, Audrey Young [citation needed]
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Hard News: Media Take: Three decades on…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
With the benefit of hindsight, its always easy to fall into the comforting belief that Homosexual Law Reform was someone inevitable.
That's just not true. And if someone doesn't tell the truth -- including the history of Vern Young's bill twelve years earlier -- it not only distorts history but allows complacency to breed. That's not only annoying but dangerous -- because if recent events in the United States and England have taught us anything it should be that nothing -- nothing -- is set is stone.
What he said. I think I said all I need to on a thread while you were in the US, Russell, so I'll just misquote Dickens:
It was the worst of times, it was the best of times.
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David, your child scares me. Job well done. Hurry up and grow bigger, Polly, so you can take over the government and be Queen.
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Southerly: Høstens Vemod, in reply to Paul Campbell,
it's a sort of state that lives in ones own mind and changes over time (I wasn't so much going for 'wistfulness')
Round our way we call that "mild insanity"...
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Hard News: Hate and guns, in reply to Katharine Moody,
As times goes on people/families become more and more transient - putting down inter-generational roots in a particular geographic area is no longer the norm
This doesn't really correlate with the fact that 59% Americans have never moved from their birth state.
As of 2011, even this was slowing.