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UK General Election 8th June: Shake it all about?

Started by Vanadium Gryllz, February 23, 2016, 02:54:34 PM

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Vanadium Gryllz

"I was fine until my skin came off.  I'm never going to South Attelboro again."

Faust

That was a chilling revelation.
Does it indicate willful arrogance, or that they know doing those impact studies will all return "Nothing good can come of this"
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Cain

Funny how the Tories were able to use the sectoral analysis to assess the impact of leaving, but no-one else is allowed to see the analysis to make their own assessments.

Faust

If people push hard enough, campaign to find out where those recommendations and figures came from, what the Tories have been basing all this on, a freedom of information request will eventually lead to the Tory chamber of secrets, held pristine under a glass dome, is a pawed photo of a bus that says they will get 350 million on the side of it.
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Cain

According to a senior civil servant who has seen over half of the sector analyses, the government decided not to bother with doing impact assessments because it would be too much work.

Faust

Quote from: Cain on December 06, 2017, 04:47:00 PM
According to a senior civil servant who has seen over half of the sector analyses, the government decided not to bother with doing impact assessments because it would be too much work.

Is that because the sector analyses are so rough that it was safe to assume what the impact assessments would say, or was it that no sector analysis was done at all?
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Cain

I think basically all the sector analyses said because of the large volume of trade with the EU there would definitely be an impact, but the government claims because of the large number of variables in outcome it would be impossible to say what this impact would be.

Which I think is pretty much bullshit.  You have 5 ranges of potential outcome: what you want, what you think the EU wants (keep this classified, of course), what would happen if the UK stayed in the EU, what would happen if the UK stayed in the EEA and what happens if we crash out without a deal at all.  Doesn't cover all possible outcomes of course, but it covers the most likely and gives a broad idea of economic impact.

Faust

It would at least put a concrete figure on [MONEY IN] from the EU and [MONEY OUT] and show if there is a net gain or loss from subsidies. That wouldn't even be a hard one to put together.
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Cain

Keep an eye on this.  If there's no local authority or Parliamentary intervention on this, expect it to be done elsewhere

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-42726315

QuoteResidents of a privately-owned London tower block with the same cladding as Grenfell Tower may be forced to pay up to £2m for replacement panels.

Citiscape in Croydon was one of 228 buildings across the country to fail fire safety tests set up in the wake of the disaster which claimed 71 lives.

With 95 flats affected, each household share could be between £13,300 and £31,300, to be paid in instalments.

Cain

Buzzfeed got a hold of government's EU exit analysis and...well boys and girls, no matter what, it's going to hurt.

Continued EEA access will see a projected 2% drop in growth. 

Leaving the EU entirely but signing a comprehensive free trade deal is projected to see a 5% drop.

And reverting to WTO trade rules (aka the "no deal" option) will see a projected 8% drop in growth.

Faust

But the side of the bus said it would be better now
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Cain


Vanadium Gryllz

How is Corbyn managing to make such spectacularly unpopular points about this russian poisoning business?

I mean he's right in a way - everyone does just seem to have jumped to conclusions and an independant review is a good idea.

But it's not a good look acting wobbly on people being poisoned in the middle of London.
"I was fine until my skin came off.  I'm never going to South Attelboro again."

P3nT4gR4m

Corbyn could make free blowjobs sound unappealing. The dude has the charisma of a puddle of shit and none of the plus points. To be fair, tho, Zombie Thatcher is making even more of an arse of herself, practically begging "britain's many allies" to hang her shithole country out to dry. Should have passed it off as a terrorist attack and rammed another couple of surveillance bills through parliament but, no, she had to go and pick a fight with superpower actual :lulz:

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Faust

Its not like she has anything else to occupy her or that urgently needs her attention...
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