How many times can the loyal Tory press sound a ‘new’ hurrah for Brexit? There is almost a touch of 1984 about this, as the cost of living spirals, with Brexit a key driver of those pressures, the Tory press has a headline about imaginary lower bills. Brexit has never got beyond unicorns.
As the Government promises the usual bonfire of red tape as regulations are bad per se, it has also ditched plans for a bill of worker’s rights. Brexit? We could look after each other better, but we always could before and it’s even less likely now. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61392768
I agree. But you guys are still going to try to burn it down, aren't you. Reading posts on this thread is like watching dummies get thrown out of the pram by babies who think their mummies enjoy it.
How will the brexivvankers cope with the fact that France Germany and Belgium gave us douze points but Australia gave us nul points?
Talks with Truss over protocol were 'horrendous', says EU source. As the PM heads to Belfast we have been picking up more information about the backdrop of current talks between the UK and EU over the potential for changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol. One EU source has told Sky's political editor Beth Rigby the phone conversation last week between Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and EU Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic "was horrendous ." UK government insiders previously acknowledged the call was "tetchy", but the EU source said it was worse than that, claiming they had "seldom seen Sefcovic so cross and so upset." “We are kind of stuck here. The UK says this about democracy and avoiding potential civil war, on the other side the EU says there is a deal you should implement - it's not true or fair to say we are being rigid or intransigent. "The UK is asking for the kind of flexibility that has been offered to Ukraine. But Ukraine is at war, so that is an exceptional measure. Firstly, the UK is not at war, and there is no serious risk of this. And secondly, this because of Brexit. This is a legitimate choice the UK has made." "There seems to be a genuine desire on the part of the PM not to go for a confrontational situation, which is cherished by Brussels - it's a good thing, and hopefully if we get some heat off of this and we can start talking again. "On the other side, we want to talk, there are more practical solutions that can be found but not in a unilateral way. Our key message is that unilateral solutions are not a solution, they are part of the problem." In our previous post, we reported that Number 10 insiders still see the option of unilateral action to override parts of the Northern Ireland protocol as "very much a last resort". They say the prime minister wants to "sort this out calmly and rationally, without drama."
You could imagine that any talks with Liz Truss could be ‘horrendous’. Imagine trying to organise a simple date with her. A meal and the pictures. That would likely end up in court, let alone this. This still boils down to cherry-picking, which we couldn’t have been more clearly warned about. Brexiteers simply wanted to trade as we did with the EU, but be free to set our own rules. Six years on and we are still spitting out our dummy that we can’t have access to the club without abiding by its rules. Quelle sur****ingprise.
Yeah, but I only wanna use the bikes and rowing machines and I promise not to use the swimming pool....what do you mean I still have to be a member?
Hard to imagine a sillier question. Did you think thing that is **** would be good? Would be another way of putting it.
Good summary of where we're at in the Guardian today. Unfortunately those that haven't got the Brexit they wanted will not accept the realities of why, preferring to blame the EU as always: https://www.theguardian.com/comment...tocol-brexit-tories-eu?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
From Alexandra Hall Hall, who resigned from FCO oover Brexit lies: "A low point for me was when I heard a senior British minister openly and offensively, in front of a US audience, dismiss the impact of a 'no-deal' Brexit on Irish businesses as just affecting 'a few farmers with turnips in the back of their trucks'." Who was it? Clue: "Pork Markets".
Completely out of touch with reality this man of the party with family values. A bit rich considering his past behaviour. Liz Truss the Iron Chancellor or so she thinks with her tub thumping rhetoric on Ukraine claims imposing a windfall tax on energy companies is not the way to go. It would discourage high earners coming here. High earners who already pay proportionately less tax anyway ? This son of Thatcher is probably far worse in retrospect. Now being launched is a Review of Public Bodies programme. Another excuse to waste public money. In a scenario that might have come from Yes Prime Minister where Humphrey Appleby calls cuts to arts bodies barbarism one idiot is asking another the Mogg creature to head a review of the future of Historic England, @Bwood_Horn the BFI, and Arts Council. The arts have always been chronically underfunded in the UK more so under Conservative regimes whereas in the rest of Europe they are seen as integral and important to society in elevating everyone and the chance for expression. This shower needs removal ASAP. How horseface Sunak can carry on with a straight face asking people to tighten their belts while his wife avoids paying £11M of tax which she can well afford beggars belief.
Nadine Dorries Minister of Culture. A terrible novelist namely a third rate Barbara Cartland who wasn't exactly a mix of Bulgakov meets Lorca. Minister of Culture ! A thicker dolt you could not wish to meet. Horseface and Hernia support are no doubt still hoping to climb into the top seat which Mr.Teflon still occupies.
Rest assured if that happens I will mount a (very) dirty protest AND apply for an Art Council grant for the 'performance'.
As you well know the BFI do a remarkable job of preserving the visual archive of the British Isles. The work they do in education programmes, their sites across the country. The opportunities they give for people to develop skills within the film industry, the chance for youngster to make a start in filmmaking. The festivals that introduce many to classics but even more to films they may never had the chance to come across. Not to mention the marvellous work they do in restoring films as with their recent releases of The Proposition and Get Carter.
Indeed there are two forthcoming restorations of the motion pictures of the sixties with the great Peter Cushing as the Doctor. Plus a series of releases of the films of Robert Bresson including The Trial of Joan Of Arc/
Does that include the one where they flee the Dalek invasion of London and head to Watford "in the countryside"? Edit; This is the one I'm referring to. It has Bernard Cribbins in it who is rumoured to be in a "special" next year with David Tennant and Catherine Tate... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daleks'_Invasion_Earth_2150_A.D..
It always amuses me the disdain that the Cushing Doctor(s) get(s) from the 'hard core' Whovians. Funny how the film is about the same length as the TV series (the first one with genuinely scary Daleks - although they don't appear in much of it), is in colour, has 'better' SFX but it still couldn't cash-in on the approximately 12 million viewers who saw the serial (much to Terry Nation's annoyance). If the film had been a success it would have lead to a film of "The Chase" which is a bit of a mess IMHO and could have done with some decent editing. The animated episodes we've seen at the BFI on the big screen have looked (and sounded) fantastic.
‘Hard core whovians’, phrase of the day. Someone will be along to tell you it’s ‘woke propaganda’ soon.
The woke agenda is very prominent in those early B&W (no pun intenden) 'Whos' with the amount of non-honky and female actors in main roles in the various series.
Dr Who couldn’t be a raving nationalist, because he is an expression of rationalism, enlightenment and of course, ironically, humanism.
The early re-created animated episode were in B&W. When the first entire series was released in colour and shown at the BFI (ISTR "The Power of the Daleks") a (small) number left the screening protesting...
