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Price of a pint in London £5.50.
My local £3.90.
Seems fair!
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Was hoping to see a video of Thom Yorke here!
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Better than I was hoping to find when I opened the first window on my Advent Calendar!
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If you believe you’ve sold your house and then the buyer pulls out, wouldn’t you go with the second best offer?
Particularly if you’d already decided to move away from the area.
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I’m a very emotional Iron fan tonight, and am not embarrassed to say I shed a tear of joy at the news.
But as others above say it isn’t all going to change for the good overnight. Let’s face it we are still deep in the doo-doo footballing wise.
Let’s hope it’s a new dawn not a false one.
UTI
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Here’s my latest email from Lord Heseltine….
“One pound sterling was worth 1.48 US dollars on 23 June 2016, the day of the referendum. The following day that value plummeted to 1.36 dollars. Yesterday a pound was buying 1.18 dollars. That amounts to a loss of over 20% of the pound’s value against the dollar since 2016.
The London School of Economics has estimated that Brexit alone – before the effects of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine are accounted for – is responsible for a 6% rise in food prices. Put starkly, Brexit means that more people are unable to pay their mortgage or rent, are having to turn to food banks, or are unable to heat their homes.
Brexit affects all of us, in some cases catastrophically. There is no more important campaign than ours – to undo this damage, and rebuild our relationship with Europe.
Post-Brexit, UK exports to the EU fell by 14% in 2021. The Centre for European Reform, has estimated that Brexit had, by the end of 2021, reduced trade in goods between the UK and the EU by 13.6% and left UK GDP 5.2% lower than it would have been had the UK stayed in the EU single market.
These are the judgements of independent organisations and markets and stand in stark contrast to the propaganda of Brexiteers. It was all too easy to promise a bonfire of red tape and demonise Brussels bureaucrats in a cynical exploitation of people’s anxieties and frustrations.
I do not accept that Brexit is irreversible.
The timescale may be unpredictable. The purpose is not.
We must start by rebuilding bridges.
We need a practical compromise over the Irish border that would restore devolved government. We need to end the isolation of our scientists and researchers by rejoining the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. We should restore the right for our young people to participate in projects abroad under the EU’s Erasmus Plus programme.
In place of a Department for Exiting the EU, we need a Minister with responsibility for Enhancing Relationships with the EU. We should attack the restrictions on musicians and other UK service providers to work for short periods in the EU.
Each of the steps I have set out is realistic. The EU is still there, next door, with its market of 450 million people. We thrive only by working closely together.”
There is no historical background or contemporary account of any of the crusading armies wearing crosses on surcoats. Surcoats worn over chain mail did not appear until the end of the twelfth century anyway, and that was towards the end of the third crusade.
Additionally, both Christian and Muslim warriors wore chain mail and would have looked quite similar, particularly as European armies often took elements of Arabic dress and adapted them to their own personal use (still the case in WW1 & WW2).
The popular image of mail and a white surcoat bearing a red cross is a much later concoction and is more to do with St George, whom if he did exist, was most likely of Middle Eastern origin.
Polish fans dressing as the winged hussars that helped defeat the Muslim army at the siege of Vienna in 1683 would perhaps be more appropriate.
Here endeth the history lesson!
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Some of us aren’t surprised in the slightest.
But, hey! Give it 30-50 years and you never know!
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Labour, LibDems, Greens, Independents or whoever aren’t the ones in Government and making the decisions to squander millions on their mates’ bogus PPE Companies.
When we get a new government who do exactly the same then you can come back with your whataboutery.
In the meantime we should all be calling this out, and putting pressure on the government to remove Ms Mone from the HoL.
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Sacking Hurst because he had a different viewpoint on how the team should be managed had nowt to do with his business interests.
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All of this started long before Covid or the present cost of living crisis as well you know.
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The Christmas/New Year fixtures don’t look too optimistic either!
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