Guided Missile

I assume you're referring to the massive ECB QE injection to prop up the EU's economy.

I just re-read this and you're right. I do try and equate "border controls between Schengen countries and The UK" as "having control of our borders". I have to admit that I'm having trouble understanding in what way I am confused. I'm willing to learn...

Austria, Denmark, France, Germany and Sweden have introduced border controls on the basis of "security" concerns. It won't be a temporary measure, take it from me.

...and you know, this is the thing I can't understand. I thought that free movement was restricted to the Schengen area. Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein are not EU members, but belong to the Schengen area, so they can be travelled in the same way as the EU. The United Kingdom, Ireland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia and Romania are EU countries but they are not in the Schengen agreement. Even more difficult to understand is that some of the countries in the Schengen area are restricting free movement (highlighted in bold): Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. ...so, surely all the UK do is join EFTA, do a Norway and then do an Austria, Denmark, France, Germany or Sweden and introduce border controls. Germany will soon have to have permanent border controls if Merkel is to survive and Italy won't be far behind, together with Hungary.

Talk about making a trade agreement molehill into a political mountain. My initial response to the leave vote, over two years ago: If anyone in the UK government has a better idea than this at the moment, I'm all ears. EFTA have already rolled out the welcome mat:

I would....

Hopefully, our useless government will read this excellent article in today's Sunday Times by Irwin Stelzer regarding Drunker's recent begging trip to the US. ...and...

"Italy’s deputy prime minister today accuses the European Union of trying to “swindle” Britain out of the Brexit that the public voted for. In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times, Matteo Salvini urges Theresa May to adopt a tougher stance in her Brexit negotiations with the EU, saying: “My experience in the European parliament tells me you either impose yourself or they swindle you.” The far-right interior minister, a former MEP and considered Italy’s most powerful politician, says May should be prepared to walk away without a deal: “Because on some principles there is no need to be flexible and you should not go backwards.” He also accuses the EU of trying to punish the UK for voting to leave the bloc: “There is no objectivity or good faith from the European side.” The leader of the anti-immigrant League party made an extraordinary intervention as May dispatched members of her cabinet across Europe to sell her Chequers deal." I like this guy and when we lead the charge out of the EU, Italy will follow, in a stampede with the rest...

You say you got a real solution Well, you know We'd all love to see the plan You ask me for a contribution Well, you know We're doing what we can But if you want money for people with minds that hate All I can tell is brother you have to wait Don't you know it's gonna be All right, all right, all right You say you'll change the constitution Well, you know We all want to change your head You tell me it's the institution Well, you know You better free you mind instead But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow Don't you know it's gonna be All right, all right, all right

Results by constituency The EU referendum vote was not counted by parliamentary constituencies except for Northern Ireland. However a number of Local Councils and Districts have released the referendum results by electoral ward or constituency. Moreover, several constituency boundaries are co-terminous with their local government district. For the remaining constituencies, the above data used was sourced from Chris Hanretty, a Reader in Politics at the University of East Anglia, who estimated through a demographic model the 'Leave' and 'Remain' votes in each constituency. He urges caution in the interpretation of the data as it may not be completely reliable and has a margin of error, not unlike all of the other surveys carried out at the time. Guided Missile predicted the leave vote on this site, unlike the rapidly melting snowflakes, who are still grasping at straws.

I think that what people may be missing, if you allow me to point it out, is the way the 2016 referendum played out by constituency. In a world where all MP's worry about is hanging on to their job and principles are well down the list of priorities, the below data sums it up for me: [TABLE=width: 500] [TR] [TD]Party[/TD] [TD]Remain[/TD] [TD]Leave[/TD] [TD]Remain %[/TD] [TD]Leave %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Conservative Party[/TD] [TD]80[/TD] [TD]247[/TD] [TD]26[/TD] [TD]74[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Democratic Unionist Party[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]6[/TD] [TD]25[/TD] [TD]75[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Green Party[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]100[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Independent[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]50[/TD] [TD]50[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Labour Party[/TD] [TD]84[/TD] [TD]148[/TD] [TD]36[/TD] [TD]64[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Liberal Democrats[/TD] [TD]6[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]75[/TD] [TD]25[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Plaid Cymru[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]67[/TD] [TD]33[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Scottish National Party[/TD] [TD]55[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]98[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Sinn Féin[/TD] [TD]4[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]100[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Social Democratic and Labour Party[/TD] [TD]3[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]100[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Speaker[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]100[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Ulster Unionist Party[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]50[/TD] [TD]50[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total[/TD] [TD]242[/TD] [TD]406[/TD] [TD]37[/TD] [TD]63[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] So, there will be no move to ****** off the leavers, by either the Labour or Conservative Parties. They both know if they fail to respect that particular voter, there would be carnage at a GE. Of course, if you have never been voted into office like Adonis, or have left government, like Blair, Clegg, Kinnock, et al, it is all about populism. As far as MP's are concerned, they are sh! tting one...

That's a bit anti-semitic, mate...

When history is written, it will be clear that the current leaders of the three main parties, May, Corbyn and Cable, will be seen as the worst this country has ever had, by a country mile. All this, arguably, while facing the most critical challenge our government has faced since the war. No wonder people are disengaging from politics in their droves. Traitor May spending her summer selling a pig in a poke, Corbyn redefining anti-semitism and Cable busy setting up another party. What a shower of sh! t they are...

My reply to you, which is apparently horsesh !t As Mark Twain said "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.". I won't make the same mistake again...

The, "more white college educated men voted for Trump than Clinton" horsesh !t that I posted was in response to the post below, not to you . Here's the source for my horsesh !t. education among whites by sex [TABLE=class: exit-poll__table, width: 374] [TR] [TH=class: exit-poll__cell--header exit-poll__cell--answer, align: left][/TH] [TH=class: exit-poll__cell--header, align: center]clinton[/TH] [TH=class: exit-poll__cell--header, align: center]trump[/TH] [TH=class: exit-poll__cell--header, align: center]other/no answer[/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell exit-poll__cell--answer]white college-grad women 20%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]51%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]44%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]5%[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell exit-poll__cell--answer]white non-college women 17%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]34%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]61%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]5%[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell exit-poll__cell--answer]white college-grad men 17%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]39%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]53%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]8%[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell exit-poll__cell--answer]white non-college men 16%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]23%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]71%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]6%[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell exit-poll__cell--answer]non-whites 29%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]74%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]21%[/TD] [TD=class: exit-poll__cell, align: center]5%[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] 24558 respondents Plenty of other data supports this, but you would rather try to suggest I'm a racist and insult me. If I was you, I would read the posts better, before clicking "Submit reply". It would prevent you looking like a complete tool...

Why didn't they recall the model that was said to have caused the fire, then?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/eu-calms-varadkar-s-fears-of-physical-border-checks-after-brexit-1.3569485

Looking at the fridge freezer in the photo, it looks to me like the top part, the fridge, was where the fire started and has had it's door blown off it's hinges. I can't work out how the inside of a fridge can end up like that, unless something flammable ignited inside it. The freezer and fridge in the foreground duplicate the purpose of the fridge freezer that blew up. Why have two freezers and two fridges in a small flat? The forensics are to be finished by August, but I doubt there's much more to do at the scene. I could be wrong, but I can't figure out how the inside of a fridge can end up looking like the one in the photo and I keep reverting to the OP. Something's not right, but it looks like we'll find out soon. Just a theory at the moment and I've been wrong before. I was certain Saints would be relegated and England get to the final of the World Cup, FFS...

On Tuesday the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced the review’s findings on the exploding fridge, that “the product met legal safety requirements and that the risk associated with the model is assessed as low”. Whirlpool said a second investigation, by its product safety experts, also found no evidence of any fault with the model FF175BP or its sister model, FF175BG.

Detectives investigating possible crimes including gross negligence manslaughter, corporate manslaughter and breaches of the Health and Safety Act have carried out three interviews under caution, in respect of the Grenfell Tower fire. The Mirror reports that MANSLAUGHTER prosecutions may be just around the corner. Never seen a small flat with so many fridges:

These are a few of points I think Trump is right on, although that's just my opinion: Withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Cease all participation in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change Require the 28 other NATO countries to spend more on defense Stop illegal immigration, deport all criminal aliens, end the sanctuary cities, suspend immigration from terror-prone places, reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers, ensure that criminal aliens convicted of illegal re-entry receive strong mandatory minimum sentences and cancel visas to foreign countries that won't take undocumented immigrants back Impose tariffs on states that have a large trade surplus with the US Be tough on North Korea and Iran to achieve denuclearisation Put his country first, i.e. doesn't seek a foreign leaders approval, before seeking cabinet approval for important policies, unlike May, who I happen to think has committed treason.

I agree that Trump is an idiot when it comes to PR, but he is right about most of the important points he makes. As far as the comments about treason, with regard to his preference for Russia's account of the election meddling over the CIA, that is just laughable and about time a US President demonstrated he is not in thrall to the unaccountable spooks at Langley. If only Blair and Bush had used the same objectivity over Iraq, with regard to the CIA's dodgy dossier on Weapons of Mass Destruction, 100's of thousands of lives would have been saved and a war avoided, together with the resulting instability in the whole region. Not that the CIA didn't have form in the past for that type of behaviour. Kennedy in the early days of his presidency swallowed whole the story, they were spinning about Cuba and that ended up in the Bay of Pigs debacle. All Obama managed, whilst glaring at Putin, was a nuclear deal with Iran. Who the f*** at the CIA though that was a good idea? Certainly no one in the Senate had a say. If you're interested, read this piece in the Times today. Maybe you'll be able to take a view that is not formed by second rate media outlets, third rate politicians and fourth rate intelligence chiefs (there's an oxymoron).

Reasons Trump will serve a second term. Consumer confidence.... Better get used to him. All voters really care about is that warm feeling when you have a job, get paid reasonably, pay your bills and feed your family.

More white college graduates voted for Trump than Clinton.

Trump got 62,984,825 votes...