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dave j:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on January 02, 2021, 06:56:53 pm ---Mind you, I think it is unlikely that Scotland would be readily admitted to the EU: Spain would veto it lest the Catalans be emboldened.
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That's not Spain's position:
--- Quote ---And other senior figures in Spain are positively ruling out a knee-jerk veto. Ms Cherry mentioned Esteban Pons, a Member of the European Parliament representing Spain’s ruling party. Asked about a Spanish veto last week, he told the BBC:

“No because if you are thinking about Catalonia the situation is very very very different to the Scottish situation."

Other political figures in Spain say the same: while Spain wouldn’t allow Scotland to simply remain in, an application to rejoin would be considered.
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coppice:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on January 02, 2021, 06:34:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on January 02, 2021, 05:33:41 pm ---As Thomas Sowell observed of the current generation "The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.".

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No he didn't. He wrote that in "Inside American Education" in 1993. That's 27 years ago and about a previous generation. It might have been true then, it might be true now, but it wasn't this current generation he was talking about.

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Interesting interpretation of generation. The people being educated in the early 90s are now the core of the voting public.


--- Quote from: Cerebus on January 02, 2021, 06:34:13 pm ---Personally I'd take the opinions of someone who has spent so much of their life working at American conservative think tanks with a pinch of salt, a pithy sounding quotation lends the thinking of the quoted a respectability that perhaps it is not due. Ironically, that quotation engages only with feelings, it offers no logic for, nor any evidence for its stated position.

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His writings contain a lot of data. Something you don't see much of in support of most of the pithy quotes of 2020. I think people overrate Thomas Sowell. His great weakness is a one size fits all approach to analysis. He hits the mark in many cases though, and supports his ideas with actual data.

Simon:
The problem is that people are not prepared to accept that they do not know everything and so once their mind is made up that is it. I think we will soon discover how "free" we are and just how much "less" (more) regulation hinderance we will have. And certainly the EU will get the blame when it is in fact just how things actually work. The UK government in a political penis waving exercise are introducing the UKCA mark, this is pointless, it means that anything made and sold in the UK and sold to the EU will have to be certified twice and it means that imports that do not abide by the UKCA mark presumably will not be accepted. So far from reducing regulation it is the British government that is introducing more regulation. What they really meant when they said we could be more competitive was that they wanted to trash all standards relating to worker rights, safety and the environment except they can't now so the UKCA mark will just be a duplication of the CE mark. Of course this is lost to the man on the street that just wants to know who to blame so long as it's not his side.

fcb:
So yesterday as I was deleting all the VAT calculations on my w/s and simplifying pricing to "non-UK” and “UK only" - I felt like I was hit by a huge wave - like a bereavement.

I won’t be rude about BREXITEERS, we lost and that’s democracy – I just can’t figure out how things will be better out of Europe??

Anyhow, back to browsing Leggett Immobilier.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: Simon on January 02, 2021, 07:55:24 pm ---The problem is that people are not prepared to accept that they do not know everything and so once their mind is made up that is it. I think we will soon discover how "free" we are and just how much "less" (more) regulation hinderance we will have. And certainly the EU will get the blame when it is in fact just how things actually work. The UK government in a political penis waving exercise are introducing the UKCA mark, this is pointless, it means that anything made and sold in the UK and sold to the EU will have to be certified twice and it means that imports that do not abide by the UKCA mark presumably will not be accepted. So far from reducing regulation it is the British government that is introducing more regulation. What they really meant when they said we could be more competitive was that they wanted to trash all standards relating to worker rights, safety and the environment except they can't now so the UKCA mark will just be a duplication of the CE mark. Of course this is lost to the man on the street that just wants to know who to blame so long as it's not his side.

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The whole concept of democracy has some serious flaws, which are being exploited mercilessly these days.  (It is still probably just about the least bad of the possible political systems, but we probably need for there to be consequences for intentionally attempting to break the system for political advantage.  Also, I don't think politicians lying should fall in the category of "free speech").

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