Neverending Story 3: The Ongoing Brexit Thread

Grenville, Wellington, Palmerston, Salisbury, Balfour, MacDonald, Bevin, Macmillan, Eden, Douglas-Home, Callaghan, Owen, Howe, Major. The list of former Foreign secretaries is almost a who's who of British politics.
It's been a rogue's gallery since Robin Cook resigned.

 

They're just there because they went along with the brexit shambles so, by DEFINITION, they're second raters... or third.

As to Liz Truss being from marketing... you think any marketing director would have her in his department? She'd confuse US dollars for pounds and you'd end up selling your stuff at a massive loss.

I'd say sales ledger clerk is more her speed. Y'know, minor accounts department warm body.

 

Just to confirm that the new Culture Secretary really is as thick as mince.

"This deal gives us no voice, no votes, no MEPs, no commissioner".

Did... did eh.... did Tory MP Nadine Dorries think leaving the EU meant the UK would keep its MEPs? pic.twitter.com/HkbE67ZAzl

— Richard Chambers (@newschambers) November 17, 2018

 

And the BBC's cheif propagandist parrotting the Government's line with no due diligence.

He was a junior at Linklater's. He completed his traineeship and left. He then went to work for the Foreign Office at The Hague (in a very junior position). He has no experience in English criminal law. He is not a QC.

— Pippa Musgrave (@PippaMusgrave1) September 15, 2021

 

I'm guessing he's told her that's what he was and she's just copied and pasted it. Doesn't surprise me.

 

What is she talking about there? I mean, why is she unhappy and saying, 'Nobody wants to be here'?


Edit: NVM. I've found it myself...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...it-deal-leave-remain-jk-rowling-a8639216.html

JFC!!!

 

T'was also shocking when all of Peston's scoops died out just after Cummings left.

 

Can't say as I ever really watched Peston, tbh. I find his delivery rather irritating and his show just seemed part of this new 'News as entertainment' system we've had foisted on us.

Having said that people seem to lap it up, so...

 

What the ********? Shit, we Yanks can be thick, but at least South Carolinians weren’t bitching in 1862 about not having any US senators.

 

yeah, but the US Supreme Court still had a member from Alabama four months after secession.

 

Nothing much will happen with this. The costs would be too much to start with. You might get some small businesses and market stalls start reusing their old imperial measures, but that will be it. Imperial measurements haven't been taught in schools since the early 60s. It's just a distraction tactic from the shambles that is the government.

Of course it's worth mentioning that the original international prototypes for both the metre and the kilogram were constructed in London.

 

Rubbish.

the first standard Meter the US obtained was made in Paris and brought to the United States by Ferdinand Hassler in 1805, along with a standard Kilo. And the US Coast and Geodetic Survey ( and the Survey foot) are based on that standard.
That’s about 75 years before the British made standards were produced.

I think the Brits were a bit too preoccupied with the French to be making them prototypes in 1805.

 

There were standards produced before, but nothing that was agreed on internationally, so there were different measures used. The 1875 Metre Convention established the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, which commissioned the first accepted international standard. These were produced by Johnson Matthey in London.

 

There'll be some very small businesses, (mostly market traders as you say), that will try it but if they go full-on loon they'll start losing business for the reason you give. A lot of young people won't know what any of it means so will simply buy elsewhere and a lot of market traders have been showing both metric and imperial, as this shot from 2018 shows...




The only people who will be creaming their jeans about this are people like Farage and a few nutters on the continent who seem to think it's a big deal... it's not!

There have always been a few market traders who have only shown their prices in imperial anyway and have simply ignored the law... who cares. If their customers can't figure it out they'll go to the guy next door so their loss.

Frankly, most sensible people are more concerned with this sort of thing...



That will bother most people in the long run a damn sight more than whether the prices are in metric or imperial.

 

It's like the covid "policies" in the USA, token policies instead of policies focused on the real issues. It's kind of interesting for social scientist researchers to the why people floch to their own detriment to snake oil sellers with fake issues that solve nothing, but even make matters worse instead of embracing things that make life better/easier/safer.
Psychiatrists have been inventing ever more mental diseases (just look at the compendium of psychiatric illnesses from 30 years back and today) with ones a normal person looks at and then says "really...a psycho disease, yeah ..right...another money maker, while the country is swamped by people with a genuine psychiatric disease of gullibility for insane opinions, bordering on or even going over the edge of self inflicting health harm and yet (afaik of course) it isnot mentioned as a new candidate in the psychiatric ledger.

Edit: It also can be a first as a psychiatric disease that's contagious, not only transmitted by physical, but also by on line contact. Internet viruses are real!

 

One thing that can be agreed on is that 0kg of carrots is the same as 0lbs of carrots.

 

And goods/ groceries that are available, but risen considerably in price hurts as hard in metric as in imperial designation.

 

Is it me or is that urge for something called imperial some kind of wishfull thinking that the glory days will return if you start calling things imperial?

 

It is just you.

 

Don't you guys still use imperial?

Mind you, you lot do have delusions of grandeur.

 

@feyenoordsoccerfan the Dutch are shrinking

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/18/europe/dutch-tallest-shorter-scli-scn-intl/index.html

 

You better hope that bigsoccer moderators lack "over the horizon" capabilities.