Hoola Han Solo
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2 minutes ago, SwindonCanary said:I do keep on, because some on here call me names and even after the event,when they clearly got it wrong, continue.
Has your life improved following Brexit? Please do tell us in which ways it has given you a happier and more fulfilled life.
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The fact that he offered not a hint of an apology has angered people because it looks arrogant.
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12 minutes ago, lake district canary said:He said he wasn't unwell when he drove up in the evening.
Yes, I have driven in a car with a four year old and in my experience young children will sleep most or even all of a journey like that.
Driving in pandemic is no different than any other time except the roads are quieter.
Rules were made about travel, but there were caveats about extenuating circumstances.
The "public mood" is a very generalised term and can be swayed by lots of things - social media for one which is often fed by those wishing to cause trouble and which is often well over the top in it's reaction.
I'm not stupid, I know it looks bad for him, but it depends on what you want to believe - some people are choosing to assume that he is lying about illnesses and the fear surrounding his situation and assuming to think the worst of him - that he went up for a two week get away for birthdays, visiting parents and sight seeing. Others might think that he reacted under the circumstances in a sensible way for his family and his situation, given the wife's illness and his expected illness. It could be either, or it could be a bit of both - for me the lines are blurred by all the rubbish that has been written that isn't true, a lot of it has been second guessing and assuming he did things for the wrong reasons, rather than think there might have been good reasons for what he did.
Only he and his wife know - and that is the truth of it, the rest is the media over reacting and making themselves look stupid in the way they have behaved and the rest of us all jumping on the bandwagon without really knowing the full facts. How much of what DC said yesterday is true is up to him and his conscience, if he has one, but for the rest of us who have stuck to the rules, he was right to be forced to make a statement and face questions. He's done that and that should really be an end to it.
The facts are that he and his wife drove 30 minutes to a village on her birthday that was against the lockdown rules. It was unnecessary travel. The reasoning being he was checking his eyesight. Now, if you do believe this farcical explanation, then Cummings is a very odd person. It’s very weird to “test” your eyesight in this way, and if it had been off and there’d been an accident, this would have required medical care that was more urgently needed elsewhere.
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2 hours ago, Jools said:
However much you defend him, Cummings isn’t going to shag you mate 😅👍🏻
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17 minutes ago, lake district canary said:To tell the truth I'm fed up with hearing about it. He misjudged the situation, he should have stayed at home, but he might have been genuinely scared about what would happen to his family and that led him to making the decison he did, however flawed. That alone is enough to have at least SOME sympathy for a parent in a situation he was in, faced with an ill wife and almost certainty that he would get the virus like his close colleagues. The alternative is to carry on ranting and railing about it, which only perpetuates anger and keep the level of hype up, which is not good for anyone - except his political opponents who will want to keep this going as long as they can - and that is not something to be proud of.
The majority of the country followed the lockdown rules, with many of us having vulnerable family members, struggling mental health and the feeling of being trapped.
A senior member of the government arrogantly thought he could ignore the rules, and yet some are trying to defend it. Quite odd really.
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5 minutes ago, SwindonCanary said:You are well aware what I've been saying about the BBC, All you lot just love having a go at me, even if I'm proved right once again, Id call that very sad.
Are you going to offer an apology for the misinformation you posted up about the points system?
Don’t you ever get fed up being wrong all the while?
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5 hours ago, lake district canary said:Oh and I suppose I should add without his goals we are likely going to be relegated..........unless he has a big input in the next nine games, if they happen.
It’s ok, Todd has chipped in with the goals instead 😀👍🏻
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35 minutes ago, Jools said:The following article completely destroys the Remainiacs 'Project Fear' and economic argument:
Most people know that about 46% of UK goods exports go to the EU
What people weren't told until now is that this is only 7.7% of GDP
If we lose all EU exports tomorrow, the economic effect would be much less than COVID
AN EXCLUSIVE AND IMPORTANT REPORT FROM BREXIT FACTS4EU.ORG
SOME HIGHLIGHTS
- Big Brexit Britain and the truth about the EU’s small economic effect
- Revealed: EU’s “Single Market” in goods - only 7.7% of UK’s GDP… and falling
- The EU’s share of UK goods exports has been falling for years
- Countries such as Germany have benefited far more, with 50% higher exports as proportion of GDP
- Yet UK total exports to the non-EU World are growing fast – now 18% of UK economy
- The UK could lose ALL EU exports and it would have less effect on UK GDP than COVID-19
This special Brexit Facts4EU.Org report includes a special insight for our readers from David Campbell Bannerman, former MEP of 10 years’ standing, crucially with many years of experience sitting on the EU Parliament’s International Trade Committee.
It is well-known fact that around 46% of the UK’s goods exports go to the EU. This figure drops to 43% if services are included.
It is a lesser-known fact that a percentage of the UK’s “EU exports” in fact merely transit through Dutch and Belgian ports on their way to the rest of the world. The true percentage for “EU exports” is therefore lower than reported.
One fact which is NOT known is that the UK’s exports to the EU represent a very small proportion of the UK’s economy as a whole.
The effect of EU exports on our economy is so small in fact, that the economic effects of the Coronavirus measures will dwarf any possible Brexit impacts on GDP.
Even if EU goods exports (7.7% of GDP) are added to EU services exports (5.9%), the percentage of UK GDP arising from export trade with the EU last year only just made it into the teens.
Brexit Facts4EU.Org exposes the myths about the importance of EU trade
After extensive research into the Government’s latest figures for 2019, Brexit Facts4EU.Org can reveal some astonishing facts. We have used the latest data for 2019, from the Office for National Statistics and HM Treasury.
Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary
Putting the EU in its place, economically
- UK's total GDP in 2019 : £2,214.9bn
- UK goods exports to the EU : £170.6bn (7.70% of GDP)
- UK services exports to the EU : £129.8bn (5.86% of GDP)
- 86.4% of the UK economy has NOTHING to do with exports to the EU
In fact, nearly 70% of the UK economy is derived from domestic activities
- Domestic GDP (EXCLUDING exports to all EU and non-EU destinations) 68.46%
- GDP from non-EU goods exports : 9.12%
- GDP from non-EU services exports : 8.87%
- GDP from EU goods exports : 7.70%
- GDP from EU services exports : 5.86%
How does the UK compare to Germany?
- UK's GDP from EU goods exports : 7.7%
- Germany's GDP from EU goods exports : 22.3%
- Germany has been doing almost three times better from EU membership than the UK
Of the proportion of the UK economy derived from exports, the non-EU Rest of the World has a much larger impact than the EU. The UK’s exports of goods and services to non-EU countries in 2019 were ONE-THIRD HIGHER than to the EU27.
Former MEP and EU Parliament International Trade Committee Member,
David Campbell Bannerman, commented:-“Your excellent research shows very strongly that the main driver of our economic wealth isn’t the EU – it’s our own economy. We're making and selling so much to ourselves. Almost 70% - as you found out - is generated within our own borders, and 86% has nothing to do with the EU.
“So this argument that we have to do a deal with the EU or we're finished is a nonsense.”
A full interview with Mr Campbell Bannerman appears in tomorrow's edition of Facts4EU.Org.
What has happened to UK goods exports to the EU’s Single Market in the past 20 years?
The story of the UK’s economic relationship with the EU’s Single Market has not been a happy one. Below we show what has happened to the proportion of the UK’s goods exports to the EU over the past 20 years.
PLEASE NOTE : This chart shows the percentage of UK goods exports which go to the EU - NOT the small percentage contribution they make to UK GDP.
- In just 20 years, the share of UK goods exports going to the EU has plummeted from 60.2% to 45.8%
- That’s a drop of ALMOST one quarter
- It means that exports of UK goods to the EU now only represent 7.7% of UK GDP
- Exports of UK services to the EU are even lower at 5.86% of GDP
- Services are the lifeblood of the UK economy- around 80% of total GDP
And when it comes to services, it should be recalled what the EU’s Single Market Commissioner admitted in 2017:-
“The Single Market – this jewel that is all too often taken for granted – does not function properly for services”
- EU Commissioner for the Single Market, 2017
Given that services represents almost 80% of the UK economy, and that the Single Market has been going for over 25 years, this was an extraordinary admission.
This is the Single Market which was described by the OECD in their damning 2016 report as being: “unfinished and stalled”. (This report came out just before the Referendum, but somehow the BBC forgot to mention it.)
The non-EU world is buying from the UK more and more
Below we show how the rest of the (non-EU) world has been buying more and more goods from the UK, and contributing more and more to UK GDP. In the last 20 years, while goods sales to the EU have been falling, the rest of the World has been snapping up an increasing number of products from UK companies.
Sales of goods to the rest of the (non-EU) world now account for 9.1% of GDP. And these sales have been growing.
And finally, what about services?
When it comes to services, the UK's sales to the rest of the (non-EU) world are far more important for UK GDP than our sales of services to the EU27.
In fact the UK’s sales are now more than 50% higher to the rest of the (non-EU) world than to the EU, as a proportion of UK GDP.
SUMMARY
The EU is on our doorstep. We were members for 47 years. Yet the EU has a much smaller effect on UK GDP than our trading partners in other parts of the world, and the EU has been shrinking in importance for years.
In this article we have tried to put the EU’s market into context. In terms of the UK’s overall economy, the impact of our sales to the EU are much smaller than most people have been told. Even if the EU stopped buying anything from the UK tomorrow, the effect on the UK economy would be less than the effects that the Coronavirus measures are having.
Informative opinions
We asked renowned former MEP David Campbell Bannerman – a man with years of experience on the EU Parliament’s International Trade Committee – for his views on our research.
Mr Campbell Bannerman is a former MEP of 10 years’ standing, former Chairman of the Conservative Bow Group, former Deputy Leader of UKIP, and crucially has many years of experience sitting on the EU Parliament’s International Trade Committee. He is also the originator of the ‘SuperCanada’ trade option, for the future trade arrangement between the EU and the UK, and is an ardent Brexiteer.
EU Parliament Brexit spokesman - the Belgian Guy Verhofstadt - once called David Campbell Bannerman's comments “insane”.
We can’t think of a better recommendation for reading what Mr Campbell Bannerman has to say.
Photo left: Guy Verhofstadt, MEP from Belgium, a divided country with less than a fifth of the economic power of the United Kingdom - an extreme EU federalist politician in the EU Parliament
Here is a short excerpt from our interview with David Campbell Bannerman.
“Post COVID we've got to be much nimbler as an economy – indeed as a country.
“We've got to be more competitive, we've got to be less regulated. All of these things can be compromised by a bad deal with the EU involving regulatory control. That is not acceptable. That is too big a price to pay.”
You do not want to miss David Campbell Bannerman's fascinating views on our research here tomorrow, together with his thoughts on the UK-EU trade talk
Observations
Naturally no-one would wish away anything contributing to the UK's GDP, and this article does not say this. What it does do is to provide solid and up-to-date facts about the relative importance of EU exports to the UK economy.
This report is about context. It's about proportionality.
For years the British people have been brainwashed by previous governments, the London Establishment, Big Business, the BBC, and others into believing that exports to the EU provide the lion's share of jobs and wealth. They don't. Not even remotely close.
We remember Remainer MPs - mostly Labour, LibDem and SNP, but many Conservative MPs too - telling the public that "50% of our exports go to the EU", "our jobs depend on the EU", and other such claims. Prior to the Referendum and every day since we have tried to counter these falsehoods.
Over and over again - both before and since the EU Referendum four years ago – anti-Brexit campaigners have trotted out the same tired arguments about Brexit. One of their recurrent themes has been what they claim as being the necessity of staying in - or closely allied to - the EU’s “Single Market” and “Customs Union”. They claimed - and still do - that so much of our economy depends on this. Sadly their arguments were not based on the facts.
Our research above clearly shows how the EU has made a much smaller contribution to the UK economy and its GDP than the public has been told for so many years.
The information in our article has all been researched from official sources - in this case from the Office for National Statistics and HM Treasury.
Of course it makes sense to do a trade deal with the EU - on very good terms
If an advantageous trade deal can be struck with the EU, then of course it should be done. The problem is that the EU seem to believe that the UK will do a deal at any price.
Given the current intransigence by the EU and given the relatively small contribution from the EU market to the UK's overall economy, however, it seems inevitable that Monsieur Barnier's "teek-tock" will still be ringing in his head for long after his retirement.
We hope readers agree that the above report is important, and that it was worth researching, writing, designing and publishing it. We know it's longer than most of our articles, and that it contains more facts than usual, but we felt readers would want a full picture.
How would you know? I doubt you could read a lot of the big words in it.
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22 hours ago, SwindonCanary said:This is why we need a points based qualification system in place ASAP
If there was a points system based on intelligence, you’d be deported immediately 🤣
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7 hours ago, SwindonCanary said:YOU ARE THE IDIOT.
There is an existing points based system for non-EU migrants. It was phased in between 2008 and 2010. You owe A Load of Squit an apology.
Please see the details below, and stop LYING.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Points-based_immigration_system_(United_Kingdom)
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19 minutes ago, lake district canary said:Well I disagree with that premise too. There are times when players have to take on a defender or at least threaten to, but even if the idea is to pass and move or whatever you want to call it, then a creative player has to look to create rather than just lay off an easy pass without even showing any inclination to make a telling pass. I watched him closely at the last game I went to and he made two creative passes in the whole match, the rest of the time just moving the ball on to the closest player to him, often not even looking up to see what else might be on. That by any accounts is not enough and is a question of getting the balance right - he has the ability to do anything he wants on a pitch, but if he is not acting assertively or is not confident enough to take responsibility to make a telling pass or at least trying to, then that will affect his performances. I'll not repeat stuff I've said on here again, suffice to say I've have lavished praise on him and have seen him improve in lots of ways, including the last few games where he responded to Farke's call for players to take more responsibility on the pitch, but he is not imo yet in the Maddison class who for me is the benchmark for a player who may leave Norwich and go on to better things. I think Todd needs another year with us.
If one sentence summed up LDC’s activity on this forum 🤭🤣
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34 minutes ago, lake district canary said:FFS it's a football forum where people express views. I'm not griping at a player either, I'm simply saying what I have seen and what I have picked up from what the manager says - and if you listen to Daniel carefully, he gives very clear messages about players and what they need to do - and it is often clear who he is talking about....but I'm sorry if I've offended any delicate Norwich fans who may have been traumatised to see criticism of one of our players.
As for Snodgrass, he was likewise a player who some people could not bear to see criticised, but like it or not any player can look good on the face of it - but at the same time have an effect on a team that is not necessarily positive. Young players can make costly mistakes because they are young - and they have to learn, older players, such as Snoddy, ought to know better and if they haven't learned by the time they are 26 or 27, there isn't much chance of them changing. Todd needs to develop and improve and he would presumably agree with that, he has everything going for him in that way, as long as he keeps his feet on the ground.
For someone always preaching positivity you sure are focusing on Toddwell’s negatives here. Maybe you should get behind our player 👍🏻
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4 hours ago, lake district canary said:Don't you just love "experts" who think only their opinions matter especially when their "facts" are no more than just opinions. For the record, you can have a player score ten goals, but if the team loses and is relegated easily, then what value were their goals - especially if their play sometimes ended up by costing a goal or losing a match?
Snodgrass in particular, frequently held on to the ball too long, giving it away and leading to pressure the other end and goals against. If you want to check his whole record, from his time at Leeds to the present day, he had good spells at all clubs, but within that quite often the teams struggled to achieve very much.
Now I think Todd is a far better prospect than Snodgrass, better in every way, but the same rules apply to every player. Yep, a player can go ahead and score goals, but if the team loses or gets relegated, then regardless of those goals, part of the reason is that player if he was regularly in that team - and if even in one game a mistake or silly play cost a goal and three points, then that negates at least some of the effect of scoring goals. The team is what is important. That was always my complaint against Josh - could score occasionally, but did not help the team work much in an important area of the field. A good player will learn and adapt and I think Josh has improved in his team play, but it has taken him a while.
I stress I am not comparing Tood to these players, he is developing well and I think he will be great in a year or two, but for his sake he needs to keep his feet on the ground. The skills he shows in the video in the op are brilliant, but as someone else said, it doesn't show anything other than the good stuff. You could equally make a video of all his mistakes and make him look a right duffer!
Someone said earlier in the thread that creative players sometimes need to be allowed to make mistakes - and that is true, but the art of making a mistake is doing it in a place where it doesn't affect the team - and that is a skill that young players have to learn - and Todd is still learning.
That’s a nonsense statement - if a player has a good season, then it is still a good season regardless of any relegation. It’s like suggesting a player’s goals are pointless if a team loses. There’s no doubt scouts looking at Cantwell are noting he’s performed well and any potential relegation will be irrelevant. There are countless players that have been relegated whilst still performing well and been snapped up by top flight clubs and have had long careers in the Premier League.
I’m finding your contrary and picky view of Todd quite odd - all the “facts” show he has without doubt been one of our best, and at times, most vital, players this year. He has 6 goals. A very impressive tally. Buendia has nil, plays in the same sort of position and is often lauded as one of the best attacking players in the bottom half of the Premier League.
What‘s happened to your overly positive nature, when all you can do is gripe at Cantwell?
PS, your 6 year grudge/infatuation with Snodgrass is pretty weird.
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Hasn’t Snodgrass been regularly picked by numerous Premier League managers since he left us? Nah, he must be s hite, LDC from his armchair says so.
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10 hours ago, lake district canary said:Not first on the team sheet for me. I've been impressed with his progress, but he still has a long way to go. There have been too many matches where he doesn't do anything other than make easy passes and often giving the ball away too much. Ok, he is still learning and in the last few matches before the postponments, he was starting to look more assertive in his play - and of course over the season he has scored goals and on occasions shows flashes of superb skill. So he has the potential - of course, but he is not the finished article and I can't see him being a first choice player for Liverpool - at least not yet. He could find himself on the bench or hardly ever getting a game there - the competition for places will be much fiercer at a club like Liverpool. But if he goes there or to another big club, it will be great to follow his career and see if he can make the grade.
If he finishes the season strong (assuming the games happen) and helps us stay up, then he will be in huge demand, but then if we stay up, we probably don't need to sell him yet. If we go down, I can see him wanting to move, but will he be in huge demand - maybe not yet and another season with us where he shows he has matured a bit more would benefit him. He is not as complete a player as Maddison was when he left us, so another season of development might benefit him and get him to the level where like Maddison, he could walk straight into the team of any club he is transferred to.
Considering he’s our second highest goalscorer this season, it’s pretty important he’s usually on the team sheet.
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8 hours ago, Jools said:All world economies are going to drop as a result of the Coronavirus measures in various countries, you tool --- And as the EU is losing us as a member they're facing a far bigger overall drop in their economy -- The EU’s post-Brexit economy is set to tank by 30% this year alone.
15.34% (€2.52 trillion) of the EU’s total economy came from the UK last year --- The former are going to lose that and all indications are that the EU's combined GDP will fall by 15% this year because of the Coronavirus lock-downs.
Where the UK is concerned, I have an inkling that no longer contributing €2.52 trillion to the EU will help quell the hit of any recession caused by the virus.
Hermoron ~ "Keep up, Jools"
Yeah, right 😀
Hi Jools, have you got this month’s copy yet mate?
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15 minutes ago, Mr Apples said:I wonder, is there any way someone could convince Trump to up his dose? 🤔😂
Apples
Maybe that’s why Rock the Bot hasn’t been seen on this thread for a while - has he been obediently following the orders of his orange leader?! 🍊🤔
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21 minutes ago, Bill said:it almost seems back to normal, with I suspect the lower number only due to closed shops and pubs etc not given folk reason to be out
I said previously that it will look a different country by mid June and that's still around 4 weeks off - and without any physical evidence many will see it as a sign of 'all clear' and regard measures to protect as an unwarranted intrusion in their lives
and not long now before the righties will be bleating that it is all 'political correctness gone mad'
unfortunately as with so much else of their ignorant bleats it is not always them who suffer or have to sort out the problems
..... however I am sure that there are some who have taken a perverse delight in the passing of dimwitted righties in the US who have dismissed this virus as a hoax etc
Bit sick joking about deaths there 🙄
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8 hours ago, Rock The Boat said:He's a peado.
That’s fair enough. Do you see the alleged sexual assault of women OK though? Are you happy to (weirdly) support a man who treats women that way? Maybe you see women as just objects like Trump too. Says a lot about you.
I should post up the video of the orange man feeling up his daughter.
Btw, you spelt ‘paedo’ wrong.
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13 hours ago, Rock The Boat said:OBAMAGATE it's going to be bigger than watergate and those Democrat crooks are going to jail
Trump’s not gonna shag you mate 👍🏻
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1 hour ago, SwindonCanary said:last month 20,730 successful applications were made in Swindon that granted settled status, meaning they have a permanent right to remain in the UK. This was after Feb had 25,254, March had 28,265 and April 30,269 ! That's over a million more, people moving into Swindon, it's no wonder why they are building the new eastern development here ! Portuguese and polish being the most. Now i know you are going to say I'm racist , but once again you would be wrong, as once again it's the numbers, over two million into a town the size of Swindon (222,193) Is totally wrong !
It is because you are racist, if they they were all British you wouldn’t have even mentioned it.
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36 minutes ago, SwindonCanary said:Who's bitter ? Just believe me instead of trying to prove me wrong with everything I post. Remember I WON ! 👍
What did you win?
Maybe you should stick to CBeebies Swindo, more your level mate 👍🏻
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Imagine being such a fckwit that you believe Cummings’ pathetic excuses. Watch the press conference. He struggled to convincingly answer any of the questions without looking completely making it up as he went along. Rabbit in the headlights.