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Darat said:
Wording is sometimes important, remember we weren’t locked out of it, we decided we didn’t want to be part of it.
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You say Galileo I say Galilei, as does The Frontier.
"The UK was also blocked from working and bidding on sensitive parts of the system, much to the outrage of politicos taken by surprise at the prospect of not having access to a system into which Blighty had poured funds.

Toys were subsequently flung from the pram and the UK stomped off, clutching its bat and ball and saying, in a wavery playground "Star Trek is better than Star Wars" voice that it would build its own version. So there."​

Extract from the EU document (PDF) that caused the dummy spit (my highlight).

F. Space
135. The envisaged partnership should provide for the possibility for the United Kingdom
to have access to the Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS) through provisions on
PRS in accordance with Union law. Such provisions on PRS should allow the United
Kingdom to secure access to the most resilient service of Galileo for sensitive
applications in the context of Union operations or ad hoc operations involving its Member States.

136. Since access to the development of technologies is excluded, access to the Galileo PRS should be conditional upon:
a) ensuring that the United Kingdom’s use of PRS does not contravene the essential security interests of the Union and its Member States;
b) the United Kingdom participating in the non-security related activities of the Union's Space Programme as foreseen in
Section 2(A) of Part I on participation in Union programmes, unless and until the United Kingdom grants the Union access to the envisaged United Kingdom Global Navigation Satellite System.

G. Development cooperation

137. The envisaged partnership should enable the United Kingdom to contribute to the Union’s instruments and mechanisms in full respect of the autonomy of the Union in the programming of development priorities. The envisaged partnership should promote sustainable development and the eradication of poverty. In this regard, the partnership should provide for the continued support of the Parties for the
implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and European Consensus on Development.
 
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Ziggurat said:
Even if you don't, base 12 has some conveniences. Division by 2, 3, 4 and 6 becomes very easy. Base 10 has easy division by 2 and 5. The former is a more useful set than the latter.
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I was part of the genration that learnt both as the UK transitioned. I can assure you there was no benefit in the pre decimal systems we had. They were overly complicated, easy to make mistakes and so on.
 
Number 10 claiming this morning that it was always clear there would have to be checks at the border along the Irish Sea.

So they lied back in November?
 
Wudang said:
'The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.'
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The only bit Orwell got wrong was that Smith should have been working on the Telegraph rather than the Times.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Well, the Govt did blame the EU for 'freezing out' the UK when Brexit came along even though it was a regulation the UK insisted on.
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It was always clear they were lying about customs checks, if you believed obvious lies that’s your fault and no one else’s! :wink:
 
Priti Patel said "We’re ending free movement to open Britain up to the world. It will ensure people can come to our country based on what they have to offer, not where they come from."

Obviously nurses and care workers have nothing to offer.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Priti Patel said "We’re ending free movement to open Britain up to the world. It will ensure people can come to our country based on what they have to offer, not where they come from."

Obviously nurses and care workers have nothing to offer.
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It's fine to vote for a party that froze nurses pay and wants to keep them out of the country so long as you go outside and clap for them for a couple of minutes. It's like going to confession on Sunday, what you actually do is forgiven so long as you go tyrough the motions.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Priti Patel said "We’re ending free movement to open Britain up to the world. It will ensure people can come to our country based on what they have to offer, not where they come from."

Obviously nurses and care workers have nothing to offer.
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P.J. Denyer said:
It's fine to vote for a party that froze nurses pay and wants to keep them out of the country so long as you go outside and clap for them for a couple of minutes. It's like going to confession on Sunday, what you actually do is forgiven so long as you go tyrough the motions.
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It was telling that when Matt Hancock was asked about how the incredibly important and dedicated NHS staff would be rewarded for their sacrifice during the "war against Coronavirus" (all the preceding, my take on the question) he said that they had already received a substantial pay rise.

Of course that ignores the fact that the pay rise in question was supposed to be a "catch up" due to the austerity pay freeze.

NHS personnel only matter when Tory politicians actually require them for medical or publicity reasons :mad:
 
Ziggurat said:
Even if you don't, base 12 has some conveniences. Division by 2, 3, 4 and 6 becomes very easy. Base 10 has easy division by 2 and 5. The former is a more useful set than the latter.
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The duodecimal system also fits in elegantly with the sexagesimal system. Even geographical coordinates have gone decimal in the belief it is simpler.

Not so!
 
P.J. Denyer said:
There was a source book for the Call of Cthulhu rpg that explained pre decimal coinage in detail. It took about half a page, then finished with the sentence "The British resisted decimalisation on the grounds it was considered too complicated".
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You're thinking of a footnote in Good Omens
 
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