Whitey Grandad

It sounds like the same business model as Saints. Build up talent and then sell it on.

It was difficult to keep my eyes on the road.

Curve

But does it have to be Ballistic Missiles? Would air-launched or cruise missiles be as effective a deterrent?

I drove through town today and saw a dad and his son walking up the hill from the stadium both wearing their new shirts. I can't say that I liked them very much

Conservative Remainers might very well vote for another party that promises to negotiate re-entry.

I'd like to think that we've outgrown it.

There are also the Remain voters to consider.

Because leaving the EU would be a case of the sassenachs telling them what to do. That plus the £250 bribe that I'd be willing to give them

'Forging ahead' is putting it a bit strongly. A couple of phone calls might be a better description.

Maybe, but it wouldn't help us to get the best deal.

You would be surprised how clueless some of our major politicians are. I remember Tony Benn in a TV discussion thinking that the BofE base rate was what businesses actually had to pay. Some of these people are not very bright, I've met quite a few and some things have to be explained in very short words. Anyway, it's not just me: https://politicalscrapbook.net/2016/07/britains-new-brexit-minister-david-davis-doesnt-even-understand-how-eu-does-trade-deals/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/minister-for-brexit-davis-davis-eu-european-union-germany-single-market-trade-deals-unaware-mistake-a7136121.html

You think?

It clearly wasn't.

Less of the childish insults please. I know what I read but I also read many other sources which is how I get a balanced and realistic view of the situation. I could retort with puerile comments of my own but I prefer to have an adult civilised discussion. Legally (you may have missed that word) we cannot negotiate with anybody until we have left. Of course we can have informal chats but these are not the same thing as a formal discussion. In any case, having a trade deal in place does not necessarily mean that there will be any trade taking place. What circumstances do you expect whereby trading with the rest of the world will be easier/less costly/quicker than it is today? Why do you expect that dealing with the EU will be any better than our current situation? These are serious questions and I would be interested in your serious answers.

And I think I know where the snot landed.

Ah, you think you exist. The world that we experience is a construct of our consciousness and what we see is only the part that makes sense. Countless philosophers have spent many sleepless nights trying to make sense of it all. I find that a few beers help

Not sure what you mean by your middle paragraph. It's not the deals with the non-EU countries that matter, rather the deal with the 27. As for the last paragraph, they had a deal with the EU, they won't have one with us and legally we can't begin to negotiate one until we have legally left the EU.

Possibly. Personally I have always threaded carefully once east of the River Hamble.

I haven't been to Warsash for some time. What constitutes a night on the lash there? Drinking cider out if a paper bag whilst sitting in the car park?

What??? Even I wouldn't blame Brexit for that.

All good ideas but why haven't we done this before?

Hubble found the the red shift increased with assumed distance and the interpretation was that the universe was expanding. The expansion is one explanation, and the one that is generally accepted nowadays. Mathematically there are other solutions, such as the light slowing up between emission and reception. The other is that the time itself has changed over the billions of years. Or that mass has increased: http://www.nature.com/news/cosmologist-claims-universe-may-not-be-expanding-1.13379 These alternative theories are not normally considered plausible. https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-alternative-explanations-for-the-observed-red-shift-of-the-bodies-in-the-universe-other-than-spacing-expansion-and-thus-the-implied-Big-Bang-and-quest-for-dark-matter http://www.newtonphysics.on.ca/hubble/ http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2885 (description) http://arxiv.org/pdf/0706.2885v2.pdf. (Document) Cosmology is a fascinating subject. For further reading you could also look for 'steady state theory'.

And more crowded.

I'd go for two strikers myself.