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Crowcast seeing as we've been offered an FTA by trump that will easily exceed the value of all the wonderful FTAs the EU got for us with tinpot nations. Why haven't they got them with us and China if they are so great? It's because they are inept.

Crowcast yr just writing non stop tosh egich I'm truly not arsed to read. Even if the 2 billion in exports was list we'd be saving 12bn net in fees. That's plus 10 billion. Now seeing as you can't count not going to engage or bother reading the tedious posts.

Onestep the US is rather further away and we trade different good and services with a different number of consumers. So yr analysis falls at fence one.

No deadduck the EU have literally no cards at all. The backstop is WTO that's a far better solution for us than them. It's how we trade with the USA with whom we run a large surplus and is our largest trading partner by far (EU isn't a country). As a supplier of services the EU sucked as there is no single market in services. The EU is about goods which suits the Germans and the French. There will no brexit recession there will be ones in Germany and France though soon.

Deadduck we are in the driving seat WTO terms are just fine. The EU is like a very emotional person who thinks they can gaslight the UK in to giving them something for nothing. Sorry EU has no cards whatsoever.

Wids didn't you read Ur wetherspooner? They have sourced a better and cheaper courvoisier replacement from black bottle an Aussie maker? Cheaper and performs better in blind taste tests.

Wids I'm sure before the UK money stops they are restocking the EU wine cellar.

Tusk is behaving like the pope in the 16th century. Perhaps they can't start a Brussels inquisition and burn brexit voters at the stake? Possibly they wouldn't burn ppl due to their unfounded fear of carbon and oxygen so would undoubtedly resort to poison instead.

Gosh so that's 52% of ppl written off. You're the liberal one and your arguments are really cogent. What's it like to be a moral paragon?

https://youtu.be/cHcunREYzNY

Sending best regards to Poland's most unpopular politician Mr Tusk. You underestimate the British at yr peril.

Bruce it's a fascinating topic, viewed on a geologic timescale the earth temperature is clearly determined by multi factors and random events such a asteroid strikes and mega volcanoes. When one puts the the level of carbon ppm in the atmosphere against mean temperature on a geologic scale there is little or no correlation at all. That's not to say it is not a green house gas it certainly is, just that it's not a powerful one relative to others like methane. The things which are known stronger drives climate are the sun (activity) and concentrations of methane gas and water vapor. I know humans love to boil things down to 1 factor which we delude ourselves we can control like the central heating, this is essentially Canute style hubris, I don't believe our environment is that simple as to be single factor driven.

And to be clear I accept our activity has had some marginal increase in mean temp. My contention is we are only 20000 from 3km thick ice sheets in Toronto so likely there is some observer bias in what has been a warming trend. The term denier is unhelpful because you can't deny projections. No one would sensibly acuse someone of being a weather forecast denier because they don't believe a forecast in 7 months time. These forecasts are obviously nothing like as precise as our ability to forecast the weather reasonably for about 3 days.

Stage I just think when ppl make projection that are in direct conflict to the evidence of the geologic temperature record one should exercise extreme caution. I'm not a climate change denier, I'm simply sceptical of models that ppl claim predict the future and of scientists who talk about consensus. Consensus plays no part at all in the scientific method. Consensus is a political term. So far human activity related to the industrial revolution has certainly extended the amount of time life can be sustained by around 200m years by increasing the carbon level from 240 ppm to around 400 ppm. Life on earth ceases if that number is below 180 ppm since plants cannot photosynthesise. Carbon will eventually be sequestered in rocks and plant life on earth will die out. Us burning fossil fuel has simply moved this date out somewhat.

Stage do you really believe the earth will boil? It's just the accumulation of model errors means the forecasts we create are worthless beyond 25 years from now. What if the next climate event is an ice age? The last major one was and we are in fact still in an ice age have been for the last 3 millions years which has been deepening. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/media/File%3AFive_Myr_Climate_Change.png

We must also remember during the last Ice age carbon fell to 240 ppm, at 180 ppm plants would not be able to photosynthesise. Historically co2 and mean global temperature have been far far higher than they are today. Co2 was 4000 ppm at the Cambrian explosion 500m years ago. 10 times than the level today.

Wids Ur precisely right. The world of diversity officers etc will ensure we are do unproductive that when the credit bubble goes pop we are all well and truly doomed.

Yes wids this just shows how sick our media has become. It's actually totally vacuous. Media and government are totally out of control in the UK. Heavens know what we will do with the white elephant HS2. That's an endictment of the establishments stupidity.

Bruce it was a shot gun marriage but I still don't understand why Daniel/Blank failed in their fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. A lot of ppl lost huge sums who worked at Lloyds. Gordan Brown in my eyes is preferable to Hammond however.

Crowcast I know infinitely more about IT than you. I can assure you of that, so I'm not going to be lectured by a guardian reading ignoramus. Cheers!

Bruce Ur absolutely right about Hammond he's the English version of Macron. A technocrat who believe in central planning and rewarding his close circle. I know in IT his IR35 rules have already meant jobs are being out sourced to India at a fair rate because companies are risk averse and dont wish to waste their on IR35 determination. In this sense Hammond is destroying a succesful UK cottage industry, raising less total tax and sending those jobs overseas. He's really worse than gordan brown.

Bruce I was a fairly young man back then. In my office we got budget for a y2k project, in the department . The budget was mostly eaten up on badly written KPMG papers that looked great but had little useful content beyond telling us the one at the start of the year would be replaced by a 2.