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Could have been the title of this thread when they were in the PL.

"Good enough to challenge" doesn't sound that confident. Sounds like code for "good enough for top 10 and hopefully we'll get lucky".

Gabor?

More of a draw. We lost more ships and men, but from a bigger navy.

The young and educated are pretty much solidly remain while the old and um, less voluminously qualified, are leave. Every other group is pretty much split down the middle.

Its not quite the same because you have, I think, proportional representation. Here we have an archaic system where votes for minority parties are effectively disregarded. Thats why we have endless ping pong between Tories and Labour.

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An awful lot of people havent really thought about the issues seriously - they've just swallowed the arguments from one side or another. I got waylaid by a Brexit campaigner at a fair on Sunday. He started with predictable 'lack of democracy' in the EU. I asked him the obvious questions about how the EU was worse than a system where we don't get to vote for our Head of State, Prime Ministers, House of Lords and Mayors, and why was first past the post more democratic than proportional representation? It was clear he had never really thought about the British system before, he was just parroting the 'EU bad' line without ever having given it serious thought. I used to be a fan of referenda - its seems to work well in Switzerland. Here though I think we've just got poor quality politicians and and a hideously biased press which makes them into a lottery instead of a genuine plebiscite. . This whole campaign has been based around fear and not information.

The EU isnt some amorphous body with a life of its own. The EU has been on a path to ever closer integration because thats what the member countries want. Its what we signed up for at Maastricht and Lisbon. The large majority of the countries still want that. If that changes then the EU will change.

£23 per pack in Australia by 2020

Did the Paella ready meal tell you that, or was it Longs cross? http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC

You formed your opinions on total global emissions by country from living and doing stuff rather than reference to any authorative data source? Oddly thats what I suspected. Its well known going to M&S and watching Saints gives the best insight into the carbon intensity of Nissan's supply chain or the the Guanzhou Steel companies production of 316 stainless. I'll stick with the World Bank figures. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC

Any announcement will be accompanied by an interview - and currently he's on holiday. Even if the contract is settled it wouldn't be announced until he's back in the country.

Genuine observation. I hope to God I never turn into one of the sour old men who thinks everybody is getting a free ride at their expense - epitomised by you, Wes and Derry. The 2011 figures are the most recent for all countries I could find. If you can find more recent post them up. I notice its your habit to complain about figures and links given but never to cite the sources for your own claims. As Aintforever said, one of the main reasons the UKs (and most of the EU's) emissions have fallen is because of de-industrialisation and movement of manufacturing to China - which is now the larger manufacturer in the world. We have basically offshored our emissions. If China didnt make it and we had to produce back in Europe our emissions would go up again. Despite that China's emissions are lower per capita than other countries with big manufacturing bases, like the US, Japan, Germany and Korea. Your question about the effect of UK emissions at zero is fittingly true to type - simplistic. We have a population of 62 million China has a population of 1.4 billion - some 20 times bigger. Big populations produce more carbon?? who knew?? The subtext of your post is that the the UK, uniquely, are mugs and everybody else is cheating. Its the stock excuse for freeloading and not contributing. Why should I cut emissions when China is big? why should I pay tax when the government waste billions? why shouldn't I stitch people up when Im so much more clever / hardworking / deserving ? http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/446b9636-e354-11e5-a09b-1f8b0d268c39.html http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/07/chinas-carbon-emissions-may-have-peaked-already-says-lord-stern http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/236fedce-462e-11e5-af2f-4d6e0e5eda22.html

Boris Johnson has declared that he is probably the only politician in Britain willing to “stand up and say” that they are pro-immigration. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10404421/Boris-I-am-the-only-British-politician-who-will-admit-to-being-pro-immigration.html

Edinburgh

Wow you finally won a point, congrats! Yes I meant to type half the US and less than ours. China is the 55th most carbon intense nation, behind just about every developed nation. They have installed 40% of the worlds renewable energy capacity in the past five years and committed to cap emissions by 2030 http://wdi.worldbank.org/table/3.8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita https://www.nrdc.org/experts/barbara-finamore/paris-climate-agreement-explained-next-steps-china

Tish boom!

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You dont like much about Britain do you? Maybe you should emigrate. btw China's emissions per head are less than half ours, despite being the manufacturing centre of the world.

You really dont get it do you. The Brexiteers are asking people to vote to leave the EU and all the economic loss that will entail so that we can control our borders and reduce immigration. People are entitled to ask "okay so what are the government doing now to reduce immigration from outside the EU. They promised in 2010 to reduce it so obviously its going down right?" Why would anybody vote to take the economic hit when the supposed benefit is never going to materialise?

He's got a degree dontchaknow? A science one too.

"Callum's talent was first spotted by the club more than two years ago" He would have been six then. Jeez.

One of the best set of midfield stats in Europe (according to Birmingham Mail) http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/statistics-show-aston-villas-idrissa-10870898