Soon Russia's Black Sea fleet will consist only of banana boats for tourists on the Russian Riviera. What a humiliation for Putin to see that a country without any meaningful naval force of its own can push his navy back towards it own Black Sea coastline almost and a very important strategy it is t...
Jump to postThe Hungarians better hurry up then; they have been stalling their approval just to keep max leverage at EU level (the billions in blocked EU funding, yet they don't want to be seen as the last holdout either...
Jump to postThe light in this video is not the best, hence it isnt very obvious from it, but most of the regular silver dots are not in some shades of blue like was said above, but several shades of green in fact. This to represent the eco-friendliness of the neo.
Jump to postBecause it's a stock listed company and shareholders want to make more money, maybe? The day some activist shareholder pops up, the current management is in for a rough ride explaining why they have decided to miss out on hundreds of millions of extra profit yearly. It simply makes no sense to keep ...
Jump to postIf the Lufthansa GROUP would be run less German centric and be truely metal neutral, it would basically strip naked Lufthansa airlines in FRA and move most of its long haul flights to the cheaper, more natural hubs in the periferal group bases, and grow MUC. Lufthansa airlines has by far the highest...
Jump to postIt is the people and their passion that brings these things to life. Sadly, there is not many of them. Which means, that for most flights, this is a bland yellow thing without the life it deserves. Indeed, nice concept in theory, but in practice nobody hardly ever uses it, especially on the short h...
Jump to postI still don't get the point of these yellow squares next to each door used for boarding? It clutters a very clean livery, especially on big planes which board through door 2L too If LH absolutely wants to keep a link to their traditional legacy yellow which they use in their uniforms and on many com...
Jump to postSo you’ve had a good moan about it, now how are you going to pay for salary increases? Are you personally going to contribute more? (...). For a start, not all too many people (like 99%) would have to contribute more in taxes; Britain needs to expand its taxable basis by growing its GDP rather than...
Jump to postWell in all fairness to A101, he did say earlier on that the benefit -to him- needn't be economic to make it worth. it's everybody's right to be literally willing to PAY A PRICE for the idea of being a fully sovereign nation, whatever that may mean in the 21st century still. Problem is, as the pictu...
Jump to postStepping in with a thought here for a second, A101... According to you there's no deviation (yet), but still there is clearly already massive economic disruption from just having the -according to you very same- British standards under a different legislative form now from the EU standards... Still ...
Jump to postIf you want to 'fix' a nation's economy, it needs to be able to produce and export its output flawlessly and competitively. Production is basically a domestic action and it requires domestic policy choices like what level of education, healthcare and housing is to be the norm (for the skilled workfo...
Jump to postI have never been to the UK but doubt it's a third world country. More than capable of fixing it's economy with some leadership. But he didn't say third WORLD country, he said third country, which is the legal term used by EU memberstates to describe any non-EU memberstate which has no preferential...
Jump to postI suspect the the best the EU and UK can do at this time is aligning standards of trade goods. This would also fix the Ireland problem. Don’t suggest that to a Brexiteer - their head will explode! Brexiteers, who are that still these days? All those politicians who tooted it have long left the buil...
Jump to postAnd comparing Global Britain to the rest of the major global economies... "The UK to Be Only G-7 Economy still in Recession in 2023, IMF Says" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-31/uk-to-be-the-only-g-7-economy-in-recession-this-year-imf-says?srnd=premium-europe#xj4y7vzkg Brit...
Jump to postBrexit costs the UK £100BN per year in lost output https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-31/brexit-is-costing-the-uk-100-billion-a-year-in-lost-output?srnd=premium-europe Wonder when Johnson and Farage will tour the UK with this reality painted on their bus. ;) FWIW - £100BN per year, that...
Jump to postIn my country you keep your own name when married. Changing name is a big deal and can only be done going through a court and then only for good reasons. So how exactly does this thing work when you change name due to marriage then? You got to have all your documents changed? Passport, ID, drivers l...
Jump to postFrom 1 January 2023, all checks on persons at internal land and sea borders between Croatia and the other countries in the Schengen area will be lifted. Checks at internal air borders will be lifted from 26 March 2023, so as to coincide with the start of the IATA summer time schedule. From 1 January...
Jump to postBe a little patient, please! Just 48 more years to go and all will become clear, according to JRM. ROTFL My bad. :banghead: Maybe you don't need to wait another 48 years after all, if you are taking guidance from preliminary data... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/26/brexit-britain-ja...
Jump to postWait, you mean to say that the only country that is going to be worse than the one who willingly left the ability to have free trade with its biggest group of trading partners is one that was forced to stop trade by an even bigger number of trading partners. Imagine having known this is how economi...
Jump to postUK to be second weakest performer of the world’s 20 biggest economies next year according to the OECD, with only Russia suffering a bigger contraction than Britain in 2023. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said of the 20 members of the G20 group of leading devel...
Jump to postTumbleweed.... Be a little patient, please! Just 48 more years to go and all will become clear, according to JRM. ROTFL Although even he couldn't point at a single potential benefit, as his main political achievement in office was the launch of a public equiry amongst British businesses and busines...
Jump to postNot sure what these 'non economic' benefits of BREXIT were. Also unclear which things have been done which could not have been done within the EU. I'm curious too as to learn what non-economic benefits Brexit has brought the UK so far? If the mythical free hand (aka full sovereignty) allowing for T...
Jump to postIt seems the UK government -or at least Hunt- is slowly preparing the British conservative audience to accepting the idea that the UK need the EU more than the other way round after all and that it will be crucial for Britain to have unfettered access to the Single Market to clean up the mess. https...
Jump to postWe've now seen the full reversal of the disastrous Truss/Kwarteng mini budget after Jeremy Hunt's Autumn statement. Highlights: Two year freeze on raising tax thresholds to match inflation. Effectively a "stealth tax" that will hurt mainly lower income families. Help with energy bills wil...
Jump to postBrexit has resulted in fewer trade barriers between the UK and the rest of the world, But what is the real world impact of that? At best a roll over of an existing EU deal, or worse case a deal like the Australia one which is very one sided - not in the UK's favour. There is no positive real-World ...
Jump to postAn easy to remember fact and figure: prior Brexit/Covid, the size of the UK's economy was always rougly 90% of the German economy; now it is just above 70%.
https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/germany/uk
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Johnson will not run to be PM. Seems like it will be Rishi Sunak. With a link to the BBC So someone has talked some sense into him, or he didn't have enough backers. So yeah, Sunak is going to take the post. Let's see if he does it any better on multiple problems the UK is facing. So he interrupted...
Jump to postAn overview of Liz Truss 45 days as PM in a clip of 1:25 minutes... with the right music.
https://twitter.com/timoncheese/status/ ... rlmFbbUZgg
'Jonathan Pie' with a typically astringent reaction; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIh7XJVxCAY ROTFL "She was the inevitable bottom of the Brexit barrel... our politics have been out of control for a very long time now, because no-one in government can admit the truth: there are no sunlit Br...
Jump to postSpeculation of a Boris Johnson return. What fun. Just when the psychodrama couldn’t get more…psycho-y. I’m willing to put good money on him returning as the next PM. Followed by more chaos. Going to be interesting to see how the markets react to that. It is absolutely the only way things can get wo...
Jump to postTimes reporting it - expected to run. When a party has come to this, it has zero legitimacy to refuse a general election. Or you could argue the person who won the original mandate will be back in office. You could argue so indeed and BoJo would indeed be the same person who won the election, but t...
Jump to postWhoever succeeds her, his/her mandate to govern can not simply be derived from an election victory by the predecessor's predecessor! It's time for a GE and let the British people decide were to take the UK next as the one thing which is clear now after burning through no less than 2 Home Office sec...
Jump to postThere was a theory that the PM following Boris would be unsuccessful (whoever it was) and Boris could come back to rescue the country. Well, the bar has been set so low by Truss now that it's simply impossible not to go over it But to rescue the country and to turn it around, quite a few Tory fetis...
Jump to postWhoever succeeds her, his/her mandate to govern can not simply be derived from an election victory by the predecessor's predecessor! It's time for a GE and let the British people decide were to take the UK next as the one thing which is clear now after burning through no less than 2 Home Office secr...
Jump to postHow long before this PM herself has to go? Kwarteng only did what Tuss promised the party members to do if they'd give her the top job, didn't he?? How many more Chancellors/PMs are the Tories going to burn before they are finally removed from power??? Can this party finally stop caring only about t...
Jump to post"Being comfortable" probably means she's no longer fully concious, and slipping away as we speak, evidenced also by the fact all her close family members are gathering at her bedside to let her go peacefully. Interesting also how somebody must clearly have given a wink to the press it is i...
Jump to postTime for him to start distracting the public with his preferred topic about getting something particular done... Surely there must be some issues with the application of some protocol he himself proposed as an unworkable alternative to the common sense solution so as to conveniently distract the Bri...
Jump to postI doubt this is a reinspection of "EUskepticism", but rather a correct reading of the geopolitical landscape of the early 20th century. . Isn't that basically the same when you think of it? All the nostalgic flagwaving and banging on about maintaining absolute sovereignty in a highly inte...
Jump to postDenmark on Wednesday voted to overturn its opt-out of the EU’s common defense policy, reversing three decades of Euroskepticism regarding security matters. The move is the latest sign of the West coalescing in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after fellow EU member states Sweden and Finland...
Jump to postPreparations for request for NATO admission, the UK Defence Minister has stated that the UK would directly aid Finland if attacked regardless of their NATO status at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNBPdFqb6fY Finland must have offered something substantial in return for a statement like ...
Jump to posthttps://mobile.twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1523097567424307208 If Roe v Wade is overturned, the justices who voted to repeal it will require round the clock security. There's going to be a massive wave of anger directed at them. Playing the devil's advocate now, but why should the US Government ...
Jump to postThere’s nothing wrong with that - belief, like religion, is an inalienable right. But belief, whether religious or not, is simply how you feel about something and should not extend to control over other people’s private conduct. Obviously murder, theft etc. are regulated on another level because it...
Jump to postFor those that have the resources. How does a $7.25/hr worker in deep southern Texas get to Albuquerque to access the needed care? They don't. Abortions go way down in the states with trigger laws, child mortality and poverty go way up, and life for a lot of people on the lower end of the economic ...
Jump to postEU to impose further sanctions on Russia and it elites: import ban on oil, starting within 6 months for crude oil, and 8 months for all refined products. throw Russia's largerst bank Sberbank (as well as 2 other systemic banks) out of Swift, making international payments impossible take down 3 state...
Jump to postFor far too long Democrats have naively held on to the notion that Roe was settled law How many of the current judges have confirmend Roe to be the sattled law of the land during their confirmation hearings under oath? best regards Thomas Exactly. The article has a link to Alito's confirmation test...
Jump to postFor far too long Democrats have naively held on to the notion that Roe was settled law How many of the current judges have confirmend Roe to be the sattled law of the land during their confirmation hearings under oath? best regards Thomas Interesting question, because if so, it means they have lied...
Jump to postFinland is known to have taken the decision to join NATO already weeks ago; they are currently just waiting to formalise their request to do it together with Sweden: that way both can join together which is much better than with few weeks in between both. Sweden needs more time as public opinion tow...
Jump to postIndeed The French have a very elegant system. It guarantees that whoever becomes president will always have obtained at least a majority of what Americans call the popular vote and at the same time because of the 2 round setup it is a system which is open to newcomers too, thus avoiding the need to ...
Jump to postResults of exit polls are forbidden from being published in French media till polling stations close at 8PM, but they are made availabe to Belgian/Swiss media outlets who enjoy their evening in the spotlight every 5 years as French visit their websites and look at their news broadcasts to get live u...
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