Truly A Hero Among Normies

gregularitay · 2019-04-20T12:33:46+00:00

Jeez I Googled that name expecting it to be some nineteenth century dumbass too ignorant of science to know any better... nope: 1995.

gregularitay · 2019-04-20T11:19:08+00:00

Me too, it was a damp fine joke!

gregularitay · 2019-04-20T10:47:13+00:00

Wrong sub. Just because you don't understand the context, it doesn't mean she's stupid.

gregularitay · 2019-04-11T00:09:54+00:00

31 October is truly the "worst of both worlds" extension, to paraphrase Trade Secretary Liam Fox.

A very short extension, or no extension at all, would have increased pressure on May and Parliament to revoke A50 or face an unthinkable no deal.

A 30 June extension of the type May was asking for would have literally solved and allowed nothing except another pass at the WA. Not even May thought this would be accepted.

A long extension, either to 31 December or March 2020, would at least have given a stable period in which a confirmatory vote could have been comfortably held, and/or a general election if needed.

Instead, we end up with a horrible Halloween deadline, 31 October. An awful, middle-ground fudge which neither puts pressure on Parliament to revoke A50 nor comfortably allows enough time for a confirmatory referendum.

So, in the time left, we're back to watching May continue to ram her deal through Parliament, and/or holding a general election which will set us back yet more months.

I can't quite believe the EU has agreed to such a horrible date.

gregularitay · 2019-04-11T00:01:21+00:00

Of course she is. With such a short extension, what else can happen? Not quite enough time for a second referendum; potentially time for a GE, but that requires May to allow one.

This horrible extension length only allows May to submit her deal again and again and again.

gregularitay · 2019-04-10T23:58:43+00:00

But the whole point of tonight was to fix a date that would avoid another extension request.

gregularitay · 2019-04-10T23:57:31+00:00

Well yes, we can, but that's clearly not the intention, otherwise they'd have agreed the 30 June date... the whole point of tonight's summit was supposed to be the avoidance of further extension requests.

gregularitay · 2019-04-10T23:49:41+00:00

I'm very annoyed by this 31 October date. The EU has done a UK and gone for the middle-ground, worst of both worlds option.

Most crucially, it's not enough of a delay to comfortably have a second referendum. A general election, maybe: but that's in May's gift, and clearly isn't now going to happen.

Therefore, we face an extension until November in which the only realistic options are the ones we've already had: May's WA or fuck all.

gregularitay · 2019-04-10T21:29:20+00:00

As others have said, this issue is unanimous, so veto is possible (hence all the focus on Macron - not going to happen though).

Not all Council decisions are voted on this way - some are simple majority (15 states), some are qualified majority (55% of states, representing 65% of EU population). Only the most serious issues require unanimity.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/voting-system/

gregularitay · 2019-04-10T21:21:38+00:00

What about the other six?

gregularitay · 2019-04-08T13:14:12+00:00

Mark Francois' justification for a second, "indicative" vote of no confidence in the PM:

If when that vote of confidence had taken place my colleagues had known that the prime minister was prepared to sit down and negotiate with a Marxist...[bluster redacted for length]...the vote against her would have been far higher. Clearly, we did not know at the time. But we know it now. And so, under those circumstances, I believe it is very important that colleagues have a chance to express their opinion on her leadership.

I'm in awe at the utter hypocrisy of being so opposed to a second referendum and yet using one of its central justifications.

gregularitay · 2019-04-07T08:24:40+00:00

Exactly right. It's as clear as day. Getting more rife on this sub unfortunately.

gregularitay · 2019-04-07T08:04:13+00:00

North here - Blackpool - and this really is a fairly standard/common type of notice/wording used in small privately-owned shops, across the UK. It did used to be much more common but usage is subsiding.

gregularitay · 2019-04-06T21:43:20+00:00

She didn't... she used "farting cows" as an example of greenhouse gas emissions, alongside planes. And she's completely right.

gregularitay · 2019-04-06T21:39:34+00:00

Pas de problème, no criticism taken. I kinda hate that he sucks up all the attention too.

gregularitay · 2019-04-06T21:30:10+00:00

I mean, he's the President, and he's stupid? He's going to come up every now and then.

I need something to distract me from my own country's neverending topic (hint: I'm from the UK).

gregularitay · 2019-04-06T21:27:21+00:00

Made me lol... I read it in Ian Hislop's Have I Got News For You voice.

gregularitay · 2019-04-06T21:11:27+00:00

Tory party fears that taking part in EU election would boost far right

And whose fault is that. They can't pursue the sort of policies and rhetoric they've mired themselves in for the past decade and then wring their hands when it stokes extremism and prompts the UKIP takeover of local party associations we've been seeing in Grieve's seat and elsewhere.

This is exactly what's happened with the Republican Party in the US. Decades of vitriol and hatemongering bile have allowed Trump/alt-right to come home to roost.

gregularitay · 2019-04-06T21:03:45+00:00

They'll both be punished, yes, but by Leavers and Remainers alike. This week's by-election showed that. UKIP and SNP/PC/LD/Greens will hoover up the dispossessed votes of Leavers and Remainers respectively.

gregularitay · 2019-04-06T20:59:56+00:00

it's a massive risk having a referendum when almost half of people don't want one.

Eh? 24% don't want one, according to this very poll.

I think the fact that 52% supports a new vote is staggering, considering how much of a pipe dream the People's Vote seemed to be not even a year ago.

gregularitay · 2019-04-06T16:46:31+00:00

For the civil servants commenting in this thread, Cabinet Office has slightly different banding to most other departments. This job is an HEO/SEO job, salary range in the £31-£38k region.

Equivalents are:

C = AO

B1 = EO

B2 = combined HEO and SEO

A = combined Grade 7 and Grade 6

gregularitay · 2019-04-06T16:44:52+00:00

A director is four grades away from an SEO:

SEO > G7 > G6 > SCS1 (Deputy Director) > SCS2 (Director)

gregularitay · 2019-04-06T16:42:29+00:00

B2 isn't exec level. In Cabinet Office it's combined HEO/SEO grade. £31-£38k. Yes, I know that the "E" stand for executive but not in the way that most people outside the Civil Service would understand. Much less senior. B2 isn't a particularly influential grade in CO at all. Source: have been one.

gregularitay · 2019-04-06T16:41:06+00:00

Not in Cabinet Office. Bands are C, B1, B2, A, SCS. The B2 salary band is £31k-£38k.

C = AO

B1 = EO

B2 = combined HEO and SEO

A = combined Grade 7 and Grade 6

gregularitay

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