bendan Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 16 minutes ago, MixuFruit said: The headline is bad enough but even more amazing is only 4 of these 253 jobs were advertised so people could apply for them. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/17/liz-truss-record-picking-trade-advisers-white-male-equalities-shift Were they actually jobs? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendan Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, MixuFruit said: I'm presuming they're not doing it for fun It's almost all for government advisory groups - usually they pick people with relevant expertise. I'm sure they pay expenses but they are unpaid positions AFAIK. People want it on their CV and they also want to have influence in their particular area. Do you think the SG advertised for their Advisory Group on Economic Recovery, and then Benny Higgins filled in an application form before waiting patiently by the phone? Edit to add: the issue is gender and race, not the recruitment process Edited December 17, 2020 by bendan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 This was also in that Liz Truss speech. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, Henderson to deliver ..... said: This was also in that Liz Truss speech. Fuckme, if the Tories are going to get any credibility in the Twitter culture wars, they've really got to drop this being nice to the Jews act. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendan Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, MixuFruit said: Good question. I don't really see any problem with advertising the positions even if there's a limited number of people who could do the work. This would help with the equalities screening too. It's a wonder Hibs don't do this when they're looking for talent, isn't it? I'm sure they'd appreciate your suggestion. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendan Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, MixuFruit said: Weird tangent, but whatever. You're saying this as if normalising how footballers are employed would be somehow bad. No, I'm saying this in the knowledge that normalising how footballers are recruited isn't going to happen because it's completely impractical. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Good explainer on the fisheries issue. Don't see any way for the UK fishing industry to get a win out of this. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2020/nov/25/why-are-fish-a-sticking-point-in-the-brexit-talks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Good explainer on the fisheries issue. Don't see any way for the UK fishing industry to get a win out of this. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2020/nov/25/why-are-fish-a-sticking-point-in-the-brexit-talksThey won't get a win, but presentation and propaganda is more important for the UK Government and Macron than the actualite. The article alludes to that. But on any basis of rationality, to crash the UK economy on the basis of fishing access and quotas would be madness, utter madness. Johnson, Von Der Leyen, Frost and Barnier well know this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted December 18, 2020 Author Share Posted December 18, 2020 Another deadline [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-55358963 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 The MSM have been an utter joke in the reporting of the negotiations - parroting the "the EU must compromise" line when clearly it is the UK government who needs to compromise. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crùbag Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Brexit just getting warmed up before the real shitshow begins in a few days. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crùbag Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 3 hours ago, welshbairn said: Good explainer on the fisheries issue. Don't see any way for the UK fishing industry to get a win out of this. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2020/nov/25/why-are-fish-a-sticking-point-in-the-brexit-talks Depends which fish. Heard that the west coast fishermen who take mostly langoustines are furious. Northern Irish fishermen can come to our west coast and then sell their catch to the EU. We can't. Tariffs and paperwork still unknown. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Starko Rover Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Brexit just getting warmed up before the real shitshow begins in a few days. Apparently it’s just the French being awkward in Brexitland, honestly couldn’t make this shit up, they want closed borders which funnily enough leads to customs checks and queues but it’s Frances fault as our goods should be allowed to enter the EU without any checks. My personal favourite is Brexiteers who suggest we should make foreign trucks coming in go through as many checks as possible to ensure France has traffic jams too as we import more than we export don’t ya know. No understanding that the trucks coming in are bringing goods we actually need for food and to keep our business going. They don’t actually want to trade with these Johnny Foreigners what they want is a return to the days of Empire we we just looted everyone else’s Countries. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Hello when do we start boycotting the pâtisserie & merlot? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Starko Rover Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Hello when do we start boycotting the pâtisserie & merlot?When we can’t get them anymore [emoji23] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakedee Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Depends which fish. Heard that the west coast fishermen who take mostly langoustines are furious. Northern Irish fishermen can come to our west coast and then sell their catch to the EU. We can't. Tariffs and paperwork still unknown.There was a programme on recently, interviewing west coast fishermen, and the consensus was that they would open up shop in NI. The NI executive were keeping an "eye out" for phantom companies springing up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crùbag Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 3 hours ago, San Starko Rover said: Apparently it’s just the French being awkward in Brexitland, honestly couldn’t make this shit up, they want closed borders which funnily enough leads to customs checks and queues but it’s Frances fault as our goods should be allowed to enter the EU without any checks. My personal favourite is Brexiteers who suggest we should make foreign trucks coming in go through as many checks as possible to ensure France has traffic jams too as we import more than we export don’t ya know. No understanding that the trucks coming in are bringing goods we actually need for food and to keep our business going. They don’t actually want to trade with these Johnny Foreigners what they want is a return to the days of Empire we we just looted everyone else’s Countries. Yeah. Had to laugh, there are massive queues on both sides of the English channel and the French are to blame for both. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Truckers driving into the EU better not have a ham and cheese sandwich in their cabs! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/18/lorry-drivers-heading-to-eu-face-ham-sandwich-ban -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbsouth Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Evgeny Lebedev, Russian state-near oligarch & son of a former officer of the KGB Directorate, Baron of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and of Siberia in Russia, was introduced in the House of Lords today......it's all over the news channels....isn't it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted December 18, 2020 Author Share Posted December 18, 2020 whatever happened to that EU supergirl who got all the thirsty centrist dads to pay for her trip around Europe?Stole milk from the fridge 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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