Cont: Brexit: Now What? Magic 8 Ball's up

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The Don said:
Which reminds me, must fill the Jag and MG at some point in the next few weeks. It's useful having a 145 litre (2,400 km in the Skoda) petrol reserve in the garage (even if syphoning is less than pleasurable) in case of emergency.
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If you want to keep it in reserve for more then a couple months you may want to add some fuel stabilizer to it
 
lomiller said:
If you want to keep it in reserve for more then a couple months you may want to add some fuel stabilizer to it
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Good advice.

I haven't had issues before (the Jag often sits for a few months over the winter) but better safe than sorry.
 
BobTheCoward said:
Now, I don't disagree with you. The question isn't whether the queen can disagree with her advisors and do something different. It is whether the consensus is she can or cannot.
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BTC (for it is he): Do you think most people would say my trousers are on fire

Someone else: Yes, your trousers are on fire

BTC: No, the question was whether most people would say my trousers are on fire

Someone else: Dude, YOUR TROUSERS ARE ON FIRE !!!!! take them off or put them out otherwise you're going to get badly burned

BTC: That's unimportant, the question was whether there's a trousers on fire consensus

Someone else: :confused:
 
Archie Gemmill Goal said:
Well you get on and consider that utterly pointless question then. Have fun with it.
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The whole point of my initial question to people was shaped around my perception that most people reading it had that assumption.

I don't need to have an opinion on that assumption to ask my question.

Whether the assumption is true or not also doesn't matter.
 
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It appears that parts of the actual worst case scenario report (code named Black Swan) have started to find their ways into journalists' hands.
 
Almost funny :

Boris Johnson revives plan for £15bn bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland

Boris Johnson has revived his plan to build a bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland - saying that it would be a “very good” idea and that it would cost £15bn.

Speaking to children during his visit to lighthouse tender NLV Pharos on the Thames, Johnson said he had recently been discussing the possibility of constructing a bridge over the Irish Sea. He said:
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The original Sunday Times story about Johnson’s proposal provoked a memorable letter to the paper from a retired offshore engineer who said the idea was “about as feasible as building a bridge to the moon”.
 
GlennB said:
Almost funny :

Boris Johnson revives plan for £15bn bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland

Boris Johnson has revived his plan to build a bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland - saying that it would be a “very good” idea and that it would cost £15bn.

Speaking to children during his visit to lighthouse tender NLV Pharos on the Thames, Johnson said he had recently been discussing the possibility of constructing a bridge over the Irish Sea. He said:
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The original Sunday Times story about Johnson’s proposal provoked a memorable letter to the paper from a retired offshore engineer who said the idea was “about as feasible as building a bridge to the moon”.
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It's the standard Trumpist playbook, make all kinds of grandiose promises to local audiences regardless of their engineering or economic viability. President Trump Boris Johnson just says stuff, take him seriously, not literally :rolleyes:

BBC Story:

Between logistics and costs, some have dismissed the scheme is unlikely to ever happen.

A senior Scottish government source has described the latest bridge proposal as "pie in the sky" and the "usual smokescreen bluster" from Boris Johnson.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-49661019

Of course Boris Johnson's last bridge project, the London Garden Bridge was a spectacular success. ;)
 
The Don said:
Of course Boris Johnson's last bridge project, the London Garden Bridge was a spectacular success. ;)
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I thought that was his last but one. The last one being a bridge over the English Channel. Again, a spectacular success! (Or Titanic).
 
The Don said:
It's the standard Trumpist playbook, make all kinds of grandiose promises to local audiences regardless of their engineering or economic viability. President Trump Boris Johnson just says stuff, take him seriously, not literally :rolleyes:
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The fact that the Tories have started pitching themselves as being against the "Establishment" and as being against the rich people who are corrupting politics genuinely makes me sad. They're literally just copying Trump. All they need is to be a little more explicitly racist and sexist and they're there.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
The fact that the Tories have started pitching themselves as being against the "Establishment" and as being against the rich people who are corrupting politics genuinely makes me sad. They're literally just copying Trump. All they need is to be a little more explicitly racist and sexist and they're there.
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As I said - and MikeG late of this parish, among others, took great exception to

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How can this happen when their visions are so widely disparate that any middle ground would be equally toxic to either.

The Conservatives want to keep wogs out and march boldly back to the 1950s when Britain still had an Empire and blacks, women, poofs and Irish knew their place.

It's not entirely clear what the Labour Party want, but it's not that.
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The Don said:
As I said - and MikeG late of this parish, among others, took great exception to
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Maybe he took exception because there was still a part of the Conservative Party that had some lines they wouldn't cross.

For example, I don't think that Ken Clarke, Dominic Grieve or Anna Soubry were hell-bent on marching back to the 1950s and reveling in racism and sexism whatever else you may think about their politics.

In fact, even among those who are still there, it is still hard to believe that they seriously want to enact what you suspect they want.

It literally makes no sense that they can expect to benefit in anything more than the short-term.
 
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