Suspect Device

£368.90 for me and £74.50 for the bairn. Not sure if I'll get one for her this time. She's been to one game in 9 years.

I'd rather have the pizzas.

It shows what a backward country this is that it could even be in question.

GD (and me) must be part of the other 410,742 non racists.

Interesting read showing how our GDP has fared since joining the EU. https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/Brexit Of course, it's never just been about economics but kind blows apart the argument that the EU is holding us back. (and relies on you believing the experts and assuming they don't have an agenda)

They hadn't even mentioned the March when I checked yesterday afternoon. Surprisingly, both The Mail and The Express did report it with the same figures of a million.

Have you been the comedian Andrew Maxwell recently. That's word for word part of his routine I saw on Friday.

I don't know what the silent majority want. I've never heard from them.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/229963 The leave with no deal petition doesn't seem to be getting as many folk interested.

I notice that Boris is neck and neck with Corbyn in the betting for next PM at 6/1. What a choice.

You made the mistake of replying. I was tempted to point it out but I think he knows better than the cyber security experts quoted in the report. I can't be arsed getting into an argument on a Friday night. I've said it before. I only come on for information and entertainment. Mostly entertainment. I have a sad life.

That's interesting to know because when I saw how quickly it was growing, Russian 'bots was the first thing that came into my mind. Not sure it would be impossible to get round but it wouldn't be easy.

Hmmmmm

They probably will be hitting me next April. Not that I'm too bothered because I don't avoid anything like the amount of tax the DAB did.

This made me laugh. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/17/dutch-pm-compares-theresa-may-to-monty-python-limbless-knight

How much of the 9.3billion is tax and how much is borrowing No idea. Actually, looking at the figures in the link, they don't even include money from the structural fund so I think I'll need some more investigation. That's the problem with taking what folk on here say as fact. If you don't know the sources and dig deeper into them they're not much use. Including the link I posted. Much like a headline figure on the side of a bus.

Somebody in the Leave campaign didn't do a very good job in explaining that they are net beneficiaries.

It does happen in Scotland as well. The money gets spent where the party in power reckons they'll get the most votes back. Happens in the UK where the party in power will channel money where they reckon it'll buy them votes. The EU doesn't have that problem. Very few folk give a shite enough about European elections so I assume that is why they don't have to buy votes. That would be one pro for staying in the EU. Possibly not enough to change my mind but another to chalk up in the EU's favour.

Net contribution is the amount we pay net of the money we get back. Exactly. We get more than half the money back that we pay in. That seems like a good deal. Except that we could argue that it wastes a lot on paper shufflers and if we cut out the middleman we could just spend the same amount in those areas without the money merry-go-round. Not sure we would though. Then the argument is that the EU spends our money more fairly than the UK government. Wales needs it more than London for instance.

https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-7886 According to the link we have a net contribution of £8.9bn but according to your map we get £9.3 bn back. Seems like a good deal to me. ETA and why has the north of Scotland been cut off your map? Typical central belt bias.

You might have mistaken my posts for an argument. I don't come on here to argue. Just for information and entertainment. If you're looking for an argument you've chosen the wrong poster. I'd suggest one of the many folk on here who take all this shite seriously.

What argument?

I don't know but I'm guessing no.

I'll not argue semantics over what you're calling a fact but there's certainly been a lot of companies blaming Brexit for a lack of investment. Uncertainty does that. Whether it's Brexit or other global factors. You can never tell exactly how much the many other things have influenced the decisions. Much like the car industries pulling out was blamed entirely on Brexit in some quarters ignoring the changing world for diesel.