Mar 13, 2019 at 8:50 AM | TinyCO2
I agree! (well most of it, but I will leave that to Supertroll!)

The majority of the UK will vote either Blue or Red. It is the floating voters that make the crucial difference. It is when disenchantment causes traditional Reds to vote Blue or vice versa that "Landslides" victories are won.

BREXIT has blown traditional loyalties apart, within Westminster and the country. No one person or party is in overall control. We are witnessing the worst consequences of Government by coalitions, as demonstrated by Democracies using Proportional Representation, everything stalls into stalemate and nothing decisive can be achieved for fear of upsetting the delicate balance of power.

The EU and Remainers have embarked on a war off attrition, with fears of the UK being blockaded and starved into submission, using Red-Tape and bureaucracy rather than U-Boat Wolf Packs.

Too true sg. The whole immigration to support the elderly is an unsustainable pyramid scheme.

The thing I've never understood is why peope insist that national economies are significantly different from household ones. Sure, the sums, the inputs and the timescales are much bigger but the effects are much the same. You even see the same personalities of people reflected in national ones. The UK has relied too much on borrowing and relying on future earnings to keep ahead of the debt collector. We've been living beyond our means for some time but our politicians (all sides) still act like we're loaded. Still giving money away to charity but letting the house fall apart.

Mar 13, 2019 at 8:24 AM | Mark Hodgson

EU stupidity, arrogance, hypocrisy and bullying is so closely linked to failed Climate Science generated politics and economics, that the two are mutually dependent.

Every Climate Science Energy policy restricts supply and drives the price up, hitting everyone, but always the poorest hardest. It is why the EU and Climate Science are creating problems across the political spectrum, and generating resentment not contentment.

Trees are a natural resource, and have been managed for centuries. When demand increases, supply can't. The same amount of carbon is released into the air whether trees are allowed to rot and compost, or burned.

I have trimmed, pollarded, lopped, coppiced etc trees for decades, very rarely have I felled one. It has been done for aesthetics, garden maintenance, plant health and firewood. I suppose I should call it sustainable harvesting. It seems that the Green Blob are resentful that I do not always have to turn the central heating up at vast expense, when I can bung more logs into the woodburner.

Hedgetrimmings and autumn leaves get shredded by the lawnmower and used directly as a mulch or composted. Lawn mowings are spread thinly beneath shrubs etc. I currently have a large bonfire heap of woody stuff too thick to shred with the lawnmower and too thin to warrant logging. A good bonfire on a cold but dry day is very satisfying.

Oh, and meat is one of the areas where tariffs will still apply.

Uibhist a tuath, I recon that it's not going to be permanent. In the immediate aftermath of a hard Brexit, the key issue would be to get things moving.

Doesn't the proposed tariff arrangement for the Irish border put a border in the Irish Channel?

If you have no tariffs on imports what incentive is therr for nations to have free trafe desls with the UK, especially if they have import tariffs on UK exports, unless they want to sell dodgy meat and chlorine wsshed chickens which would otherwise be contaminated with excrement?

so it’s come to this then – a banana republic...