Meanwhile, over in Wales...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-41526435

:huh: :roll: :haha:

That's like saying old Jezzer would be PM if he gave Trump a big kiss. Old Jezzer do that...Never.

Es ist vorbei - klein britanien hat nix mehr zu sagen. das ist nur noch ein dorf. :salute:

Carwyn Jones - a Nationalist Unionist in action. Just like the DUP, UUP and SLab (when it functioned - Donald Dewar et al.) and the SCons (formerly known as the SUP).....

As far as I'm aware there's never been an out and out Unionist Party in England.

Mike.

The only thing that sort of falls in that frame but not a full on was the Liberal Unionist 1886-1912.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party

Your second pop at the UK in recent posts so don't cry fowl if you disagree with any return flak.

This is the second time in recent weeks I have offered you this advice.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41541208

I'm beginning to see comparisons with that of Thatcher.

Interesting, I see that George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen was part of that lot.

He was responsible for the Goschen formula which preceeded Barnett: LINK.

Also interesting to see that, like the SUP, the Liberal Unionists opposed Irish Home Rule and it was the 1801 Union with Ireland that they were defending rather than the 1707 Anglo-Scottish one.

Moving back to the present, here's Ruth Davidson's latest interview:

Davidson – I can’t be Tory leader at present, and I’m not looking past 2021: LINK.

I caught the back end of Sunday Politics and one of the talking heads mentioned that the SCons have slipped behind SLab to third place in recent Scotland-only polls. This has been due to the SNP cooling off it's rhetoric about independence and concentrating on domestic matters.

Mike.

Translation -

Really! :huh:

Well thank you many much for that bit of info and I will let the Department for eduction know that so they can get all the schools to update their text books, replace the great British Island for the great British village. Many thanks from the people of the UK. :)

http://news.sky.com/story/rbs-chair-...xodus-11072466

Same old BS that I having been hearing in the last 20 odd years now. The regulators in this country are spineless toothless clawless and the banks know it. Even when I see people who are working for the regulators in interviews they are not happy at the weak will powerless situation.

Tell em they can't take the peoples money with them.

Just a idle threat, they know they can get away with it here in the UK and Ireland. America in the last few years has now clamped down on the sleazy actions of banks. About time we did as well.

Let me read that again.....:hmmm: :doh: :haha: :har:

Quote:

Theresa May: 'We can prove Brexit doomsayers wrong'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41546701

What rubbish, Copy and paste EU laws are not UK laws. All that I can see unfolding is us staying in by the back door while you try to sell it we have left, what rot.

Wir verstehen keine Worte :03:

Biggest piece of news to come out of the SNP Conference in Glasgow:

Changes to Scottish income tax bands considered

Relevant tid-bit:

In reality I think it's becoming obvious that in order to fund Scotland's public services, everyone needs to be prepared to pay more. I don't have the most recent figures, but I believe that roughly half of those who are currently employed in Scotland aren't earning enough to pay Income Tax under the current banding system. The only way around that is to not only change the bands for the middle income earners, but to lower the Personal Allowance level from £11,500 as well, possibly all the way down to £8-9K per annum being tax-free. As Brian Taylor writes, there aren't enough high earners for a SLab style "soak the rich scheme" to be viable, so they can't be milked. That means the lowest earners are going to have to start coughing up.

Whether the SNP have the balls to do that, I doubt.

Mike.:hmmm:

Correction, roughly one quarter of working Scots don't earn enough to pay income tax:

Earnings in Scotland 2016.

Page 5.

Derived from ONS data HERE.

Mike.

Found this quite intersting "Europe: Scotland's dilemma"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyKCwUBB86M

Have been watching alot of more or less biased documentaries about the reasons for and against brexit; and what especially Johnson and Farage said there was for it. I almost went through the roof when i had to listen to Farage's bovine scatology, from racist to sexist to just cheap provocation. He is an exceptionally gifted show-off; god i swear i had no idea. Those bigmouths having their say just because they are louder and just keep talking over others, lacking entirely educated and social behaviour never let their position be discussed. Stir up the people and quickly leave when their bluff is being called. No expertise, no education, just populistic rats.

I wonder if any politician can ever be made legally liable for openly and publicly belying the people.
While the people have all the facts at hand, and can inform themselves through more trustworthy sources, they obviously do not care at all. They want to believe, and search for reasons supporting their own opinion.
Well this is obviously not alone a UK problem :D

Mrs May has said that "the ball is in their court", but nothing could be more far fetched, or plain wrong. The EU has said from day one that they will not discuss anything about trade or single market before a divorce bill has been settled. Since a year politics in England wobble back and forth, always complaining and accusing the EU not to react to Englands's (not the UK's!) demand of settling a deal, before themselves fulfilling the legal procedere and treaty as it has been signed by the UK itself.
Quitter Farage forgot to mention this? Oops.

The real UK government should strive to know what the EU were thinking, not what Brexiteers hoped the EU were thinking.

I am of the opinion that the divorce will economically hurt Great Britain more than France or Germany, or the whole EU. Only 26 percent of the people in Germany think that brexit will hurt them at all, let alone the rest of the EU.
Also, since there does not seem to be a real plan in the UK about how to go on, a lot of europeans prepare for a real hard brexit in a worst case scenario. No deal, no trade treaties, and so they are reluctant and try to save as much as possible.

But the worst is the social divorce, resulting in scientific programs stopped, and less cooperation in all fields. Well we can see it all over the world, people are so dumb :dead:

Sorry. maybe i should better go out and fell a tree or something. Or stop watching "politicians" in talk shows :nope:

The conference season is over and the mindless mob is safely back in the HoC and here we go it's PMQ time..

May Vs Corbyn

Corbyn pie high on the cult of Corbyn...Oh Jeremy. :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkaW0cPDagM

May trying to put her speech behind her along with that cough and prankster. :roll:

DING DING here we go..

And that's a rap...

May 0 - Corbyn 1

May was clearly not on form when you start going on about the last Labour Government and repeating yourself. How long have the Tories been in power? 6,7,8 years oh come on most people can not recall six months ago so what is the point! :doh:

Corbyn gave her a few good verbal punches but yet again failed to deliver the knock out blow, man up jezzer show you are leadership material.

http://news.sky.com/story/eu-citizen...-boss-11076225

Not really, the Tories would abolish benefits and make the unemployed work on the farms and coffee shops.

Moving on..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41578950

You had to be a dipstick not to have seen that, winter is the time these pigs make most of their money. Can't see the Tories rushing this one though Parliament any time soon.