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Not for long. All non electric cars will have to pay tax again from April. However its not retroactive so you'll be okay.

Bannon has done a lot of very different things in his career - navy, Harvard, Goldman Sachs, film producer to right wing weirdo media. I think he is like Trump, an opportunist riding a wave, rather than committed demagogues

Shocker huh? And they'd covered it up so well with that united front.

What makes you think that people who are motivated enough to go out and protest for hours on end on a cold November day and risking getting arrested / their heads cracked couldn't be bothered to spend five minutes casting their vote the previous day? Seems very unlikely to me. Was it the voices who told you? Trump doesn't bother me for two reasons 1. he's less objectionable than the other Republican candidates like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. 2. Trump didn't mean much of what he said - and the bits he did mean he is too politically inexperienced to be able deliver on. Assuming he doesn't spend most of his term in court fighting off sexual harassment charges.

£50? did you miss the token part?? I was thinking of a fiver. Go on then. Whoever wins chooses the charity.

Neither of us knows for sure what will happen in the end but I'd say events so far follow my version far more closely than yours. Happy to put a token bet for charity on.

Its all rigged. Crooked. Except he won. In which case it isnt. Open ,successful and fair dontchaknow.

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I'm old too - probably about the same age as you. I'm effed if I'm going to be blamed for something you've done / voted for. In any event I've always said I didnt want to leave because the benefits wouldn't outweigh the cost - that we would go through a damaging period of uncertainty, ending up as Norway with all the obligations but without voting rights. Bang on so far.

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/02/396823014/fact-check-hillary-clinton-those-emails-and-the-law

Which words are you struggling with? Do you need me to walk you through it? "Pound raises cost of Britain’s EU budget contribution.....Britain’s net contribution to the EU budget next year is set to rise by hundreds of millions of pounds due to the drop in sterling".

So you think the Guardian influenced the results? Do you know the difference between commissioning and reporting Jamie?

Only a third of voters support Brexit unconditionally - ie leave regardless of the deal. Almost a quarter (23%) oppose it unconditionally, 32% say it depends on the terms of the deal and 12% are undecided. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/12/brexit-article-50-parliament-eu-farron-may

Britain's contributions to the EU are going up - because the pound is now worth less as a result of the referendum vote. Another Brexit shot in foot. Delicious irony though http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/pound-raises-cost-of-britain-s-eu-budget-contribution-1.2866417?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

So now people are culpable for the actions or inactions of other people who are the same age as them? They have lost the right to protest because somebody else didn't vote? Blimey, I knew we were heading down the authoritarian road, but didn't realise it would be so quick.

4-0 seemed like a good win for them - until I realised three of their goals came against nine men, the only one which didnt was a penalty and they got booed again. Almost as good as another loss!

Nice personal anecdote / tribute to him here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-37952175

It will be interesting to see what happens when the mavericks fail them too. Will that lead to greater apathy and withdrawal, or to support for ever more extreme messianic politics?

I agree its flawed - the methodology and conclusions are suspect - but its useful as a discussion piece, and better than the more usual lounge 'evidence' claiming black is white based on nothing at all.

Huh?

Interesting report Wes. You should post more of this kind of thing. The most worrying point in there, for me, was that 42% of non college graduates think it is a good thing to have a dictator. The sense of disconnection is across many different areas of life - but essentially its local traditions, brands and identity being replaced by international homogenity and a wider sense of 'its okay to mislead people' - whether politicians or advertisers there has been a huge rise in doublespeak. We've seen the rise of corporatism, favouring multinationals who pay billions in lobbying replacing true capitalism. I understand the sense of disconnect, I just disagree that voting for snake oil salesmen with big promises but no plan is a viable solution.

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??? Thats pretty much the way it works every time. Tory or Labour doesn't matter, its always a government elected by a minority. The current one got 37% of the vote. The Con-Dem coalition was the only exception in modern times.

Leonard Cohen created the mood for my finest seduction. Eternally grateful to him.

Or zero in the case of May.