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Well, I hope so, HC 👍 The fact that Hanley has been directly responsible for at least three goals conceded in just three matches is a concern.

The inclusion of both Zimm & Klose suggests Farke is keen to keep Hanley in the starting line-up for West Ham 🤔😮

They're going to fail to qualify from a Group of 6 that includes the mighty Kazakhstan, Cyprus and San Marino... Yes, Scotland are gash.

I'm particularly looking forward to October the 31st 😎

Love the following post from 'Big Les' over at Guido: There is one VERY SIMPLE solution for the Remoaners who fear a 'no-deal' situation........ PHUQUEING WELL GET ON AND NEGOTIATE ONE ! You've had over THREE PHUQUEING YEARS to do this, and now two extensions and clamouring for a third, post-October. If you haven't negotiated a mutually favourable deal to which the UK can put its pen, and it can't be done because of intransigence on the part of the €U, then BY DEFAULT (at the third attempt) WE LEAVE WITHOUT A DEAL on October 31st. That's your incentive. GET THE PHUQUE ON WITH IT. 👍😀

Some Remain MPs may have chosen to ignore the national will of the people to pander to their own local base, however, new polling from YouGov has found they may have shot themselves in the foot, as a majority of Remainers would blame anti-Brexit MPs if we leave with no deal. Wonder if this is persuasive enough to make them EU-Turn… 🤔 The poll, which asked “If Britain ends up leaving the EU without a Brexit deal, which of the below – if any – would you consider to be responsible for that”, showed that unsurprisingly the only group or individual Remainers wouldn’t blame is the EU, with only 44% saying they would be responsible; and Boris would receive the most blame from Remainers with 86% pointing the finger at him. ‘MPs who opposed Theresa May’s Brexit deal because they wanted to stop Brexit’ and those who ‘wanted a softer Brexit’, hilariously, would receive 57% and 58% of Remainers’ blame respectively. For Brexiteers, unsurprisingly, the reverse is true; with 79% planning on blaming the EU, vs 53% for Boris. Whatever the outcome of Brexit, we’d better be prepared for years of finger-pointing… August 27, 2019 at 5:06 pm

Notts County were the oldest club in the League until their relegation to non-league football last season and I don't recall much sympathy for them. As others have mentioned, Lancashire, Greater Manchester & Merseyside are spoilt for choice for professional football clubs in close proximity, so it's very hard to muster any sympathy for Bolton & Bury fans who no doubt support the likes of Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool &/or Everton when their playing at home. Bolton & Bury's demise will be encouraging for National League sides where many former League clubs compete --- York, Halifax, Stockport, Torquay, Barnet, Dagenham, Notts County, Wrexham, Hartlepool, Yeovil, Barrow, Aldershot, Chesterfield, Chester, Hereford, Kidderminster, Southport & Darlington will now be excited at the prospect of additional promotion places -- Including Kings Lynn who have never contested in the League. Bolton & Bury have failed to cut their cloth accordingly and will have to do so in the lower Leagues. Luton did and they came back 👍

Keeping the fires burning beneath Tory feet 👍 :

Let's listen to Dr Ruth Lea. Firstly, her credentials courtesy of James Delingpole at Breitbart: Dr Ruth Lea – formerly a civil servant, then policy advisor at the Institute of Directors and director of the Centre for Policy Studies, and now chief political economist for the Arbuthnot banking group. Unlike the vast majority of “experts” pontificating about No Deal, Lea has skin in the game — as both advisor to and director of a City private bank for high net worth individuals and commercial clients — and a proven track record of being correct in her judgement calls and of speaking truth to power. In 1992, she was one of the few economists who predicted a positive outcome for Britain’s departure from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). The received wisdom was that Britain needed the security of having sterling tethered to German interest rates. Lea disagreed that the UK economy should be in thrall to the Bundesbank and argued – correctly – that the economy would thrive once interest rates had been cut. Lea also correctly called out Gordon Brown on his disastrous deficit spending policies. Brown campaigned – successfully – to have her sacked from the Institute of Directors because he found her criticisms so unhelpful. Subsequently, Lea was vindicated by the 2008 crash. She has also been a vocal critic of the Remainer Establishment’s Project Fear. The Chancellor ‘s Project Fear mark 2., if WTO #Brexit. But we remember his predecessor’s Project Fear mark 1 warnings of recession if a Brexit vote. All scaremongering. https://t.co/BdrFd7e6ZB — Ruth Lea (@RuthLeaEcon) May 21, 2019 As she told a BBC interviewer last year, none of the Treasury’s doomsday predictions made prior to the Referendum has come true: “A vote to leave would actually be such a shock on the economy that the economy would go into recession and there’d be 500,000 extra unemployed. “Were they right? No.” Nor, she believes, should Britain be worried about leaving the European Union with No Deal. As she tells Breitbart News: “I am not complacent. I do think there will be disruption: a lot of businesses will have to fill out forms that they have never filled out before; there could be all sorts of little problems to do with things like transportation and people not having the right certificates. There might be disruption for a couple of quarters. But there’ll be nothing that could drive the economy into terminal decline.” Outside the Westminster bubble, she believes, most people understand this. “When I talk to people running businesses, they just say: ‘For goodness sake let’s just get on with [Brexit]'”

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I'm going to surprise a few Remaniacs here by agreeing with a certain James Bertram who commented thusly on the above article: The article is rather based on the assumption that it is a good thing to have cheap prices. I take a much more unpopular view. Tobacco, alcohol and cheap industrialised food, cause widespread death and disease, are a huge burden on our NHS and result in extensive damage to our environment and wildlife. Tobacco and excessive alcohol self-evidently are problematic. Subsidies under the CAP have ruined our farming industry and poisoned our lands. The CFP has ruined the fish stocks in our seas. - We need to completely rethink government policy on fishing and farming when we leave the EU; and to direct farm policy towards helping small farms that work closely with nature (organic, mixed-farm systems) - abandoning our 'cheap' food policy, abandoning supporting industrialised farming, agri-business, large-landholdings, and a big supermarket system, all supported with our taxes - for, like tobacco and alcohol, it is killing the customer. - I'm currently reading Grass-fed Nation by Graham Harvey. Every UK farmer, every politician, and everyone connectedwithDEFRA, should be sent a free copy courtesy of the Government. Extracts: On our 7 million Hectare UK grasslands (this is apart from farmland to grow crops) using 'Natural'farming, we can produce sufficient higher-quality red meat to match the Nation's current consumption. If we grazed animals on their natural food of grasses, the UK would exceed our entire carbon emission targets. If we filled Britain's countryside with traditional low-input/organic mixed-farms we could halve the cost of the NHS practically overnight. - Every consumer (whether meat-eater or not) should read this book. Government, and Big Business, and their TameScientists, do not want you to know this information. - Once out of the EU we can change British Farming for good.

Which came first? The US disinfected chicken or the EU contaminated egg? In food hygiene, the EU and Remain MPs should come clean 👈 Herman's missus Maggie de Block, Belgian Health Minister The EU : contaminated eggs and chlorine-washed fruit and veg Ask a British person how they like their eggs and they will come up with a variety of answers. Boiled, fried, poached, scrambled, and many variations thereof. The one answer you are highly unlikely to hear is “contaminated”. Yet that is precisely what EU producers served up to UK consumers two years ago. Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary The great EU Belgian & Dutch egg scandal In 2017, 700,000 contaminated eggs from Belgium and Holland made it into the UK’s food chain A variety of egg products had to be pulled from the shelves at Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Morrisons and Asda A massive scandal in the EU, but barely reported in the UK Brexit Facts4EU.Org tries to bring some order to the kitchen Food hygiene is a complex subject but it all comes down to one thing. We want to buy and eat healthy food which is not going to make us ill, or kill us in the long term because of the use of chemicals. Unsurprisingly, EU laws and regulations on food production and sale are epic in their scope. What matters, however, is not the hundreds of thousands of words in EU documents but what we ultimately put in our mouths. Remain MPs and campaigners might wish to think about the following, before they next speak about “chlorinated chicken”. Contaminated EU eggs In 2017, UK's Food Standard's Agency (FSA) admitted that around 700,000 contaminated eggs from Belgium and Holland had made it into the UK’s food chain. Here is the information we produced at the time:- © Brexit Facts4EU.Org The FSA's statement said : EU bodies, Belgium, & the Netherlands accuse each other of complicity The office of the Belgian Health Minister Maggie de Block claimed that they had alerted the EU on 6th July (2017) and that Dutch authorities had known about the contamination as long ago as November 2016. The Netherlands Food Safety Agency (NVWA) denied this but was less clear about why it had not alerted authorities in June 2017 when the accusations resurfaced. It then emerged that Dutch police had arrested two directors of a Dutch company in connection with the scandal. EU Commission: 'Nothing to do with us' Meanwhile the EU itself could not fully deny claims from Belgium that it had been told about the problem in early July 2017. On 10 August 2017 the EU Commission said: In effect, the Commission wanted to distance itself from the growing crisis, which involved millions of eggs in the EU. Chlorinated food? No problem if it comes from the EU Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary The EU permits chlorine-washed fruit and vegetables The EU permits chlorine-washed fruit and vegetables The industrial washing of fresh fruit and vegetables is permitted in the EU Next time Remain MPs and campaigners open a bag of prepared lettuce from Spain, they may wish to give that some thought Imported food products into EU – many offenders Imported food products from outside the EU must comply with EU regulations, but of course only a small proportion are inspected. Over time, serial offenders may become subject to stricter controls. To give readers some idea of the types of contaminated products which have made it into our food chain, below is a list of just some of them. Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary Since July 2018 the following processed fruit and vegetables are on the stricter inspection list: Preserved apricots from Turkey and Uzbekistan (increased control on presence of Sulphites) Dried apricots from Turkey and Uzbekistan (increased control on presence of Sulphites) Dried lemons from Turkey (increased control for presence of Pesticide residues) Frozen raspberries from Serbia (increased control on presence of Norovirus) Frozen sweet peppers from the Dominican Republic, Egypt, India and Turkey (increased control on presence of pesticide residues) Frozen other peppers from the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Thailand, India, Pakistan and Vietnam (increased control on presence of pesticide residues) Peanut butter from Bolivia, Gambia, Madagascar, Sudan and Senegal (increased control on presence of Aflatoxins) Groundnuts (peanuts) from Bolivia, Gambia, Madagascar, Sudan and Senegal (increased control on presence of Aflatoxins) Hazelnuts from Georgia (increased control on presence of Aflatoxins) Pistachios from the United States (increased control on presence of Aflatoxins) Dried goji berries from China (increased control on presence of pesticide residues) Frozen okra from India and Vietnam (increased control on presence of pesticide residues) Preserved turnips from Lebanon and Syria (increased control on presence of rhodamine B) Dried peppers from Sri Lanka (increased control on presence of aflatoxins) Dried grapes from Turkey (increased control on presence of ochratoxin A) Preserved vine leaves from Turkey (increased control on presence of pesticide residues) These were all put on an EU Regulation, but only after they had been imported for a considerable period. They are not banned, merely subject to closer supervision. Observations British Lion stamp of quality on eggs Egg-xit? Can you imagine what the EU itself would have done if it had been British eggs that were contaminated? We have absolutely no doubt that a total ban on UK egg exports would have been imposed by the EU Commission - within hours. It's a shame that the very high standards of food production in the UK, often far higher than in most EU countries, are not more widely celebrated by the government and the British media. The relevance to Brexit In recent days, the US administration has been making very positive statements about wanting to start sector-by-sector trade deals with the UK as quickly as possible after Brexit. From President Trump, to National Security Advisor John Bolton, to US Ambassador Woody Johnson, the statements have come thick and fast. America wants to do business with Brexit Britain. Cue the usual wild claims from Remain MPs and campaigners about chlorine-washed chicken. It is as if this is on the top of the agenda of the trade negotiators from the US and the UK. Remainers say nothing about the huge volumes of manufactured products, nor the wide variety of services, which the UK sells to the USA each year and which generate a healthy trade balance. No, for Remain MPs and campaigners it’s all about chlorinated chicken. Why do they whine on about this? Because the EU bans US chicken, so it must be bad. Why does the EU ban it? Mainly to protect its massive chicken factories. It’s worth noting that the EU’s principal objection to chlorine-washed chicken from the US is not the process itself, but their claim that chlorine-washing makes US producers less likely to worry about the hygiene of their birds before they are packaged. We suggest that the EU goes to look at chicken factories in its own backyard, if it is concerned about the welfare of birds before they go to market. Please note: This article is predominantly about hypocrisy and double standards in the EU. The subject of animal and bird welfare provokes strong reactions in many people, but this is beyond our remit to report on in any detail. [ Sources: FSA | Die Welt | RTBF | AFSCA ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever. Brexit Facts4EU.Org, 11 Jul 2019

'Please stand down as an MP now, Sarah Wollaston' Impassioned Letter From Brixham Trawlerman to undemocratic MP © Brexit Facts4EU.Org / © Parliament The six flip-flops of a typical Remain MP Below we publish a letter from Brixham trawlerman Gerald Podschies, Skipper of Carhelmar BM 23, addressed to Dr Sarah Wollaston MP. He calls on Dr Wollaston to resign as MP for Totnes in Devon, and to put herself and her views to the electorate. In his eloquent letter, this lifelong fisherman makes a strong case for his fellow fishermen across the UK and for the control of UK waters. He does so in a thoroughly reasoned and polite way, and finally calls on his MP to quit and fight a by-election. Dr Sarah Wollaston MP - what are voters supposed to think? So who is the MP whom this fisherman is calling on to quit? Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary Dr Sarah Wallaston MP Feb 2016 - 07 Jun 2016 : Supported Vote Leave Flip-flop 1 - 08 Jun 2016 : Two weeks before the Referendum she switched sides and became a Remainer Flip-flop 2 - Jul 2017 : Re-elected as Conservative MP, on a manifesto of respecting the Referendum result Flip-flop 3 - Dec 2017 : Voted against the Government, setting up the process of "meaningful votes" in Parliament Flip-flop 4 - Feb 2019 : Quit the Tories to join The Independent Group, later "Change UK" Flip-flop 5 - Jun 2019 : Quit Change UK to become an independent MP Flip-flop 6 - Aug 2019 : Changed again, to join the LibDems In the space of six months, this MP has held five party statuses in Parliament: Conservative, The Independent Group, Change UK, independent, and now LibDem. She has also gone from being a supporter of Vote Leave, to being a Remainer, to being supporter of the People's Vote. No wonder the following letter was written. Impassioned Letter From Brixham Fisherman To Defecting MP Sarah Wollaston By Gerald Podschies, Skipper of Brixham trawler Carhelmar BM 23 Dear Dr Sarah Wollaston, I voted for you in the last general election on the understanding that, although you personally voted against Brexit, you would honour the will of the majority. 54% of your constituents voted for Brexit. Not one kind of Brexit or another, just Brexit. Nothing more nothing less. In my life experience nothing worth having has come without some effort, self-sacrifice and pain. I can’t help likening Brexit process to my cancer treatment 5 years ago. Like the British nation, I thought I was healthy going into diagnosis and treatment. The process of getting rid of the cancer was long, painful and seemed interminable. In the end I am cured, and life is good. Since the Brexit referendum I have certainly woken up to what is going on in the EU. I’m sure many people have. I don’t wish to sound melodramatic, but the cancer of the Euro and the top-heavy administration seems doomed to destroy the EU. Italy has debts it will never be able to re-pay and Germany is now in recession, dragged down by the weaker economies in Europe. Without doubt there are good things to have come out of the EU, but nothing the British people could not adopt and improve upon. History’s proven us to be a tough, resilient, resourceful bunch. I’m sure we can get through the painful process and be all the better for it. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Betrayed I voted for you – and the Conservative party – as those best placed to deliver on that democratic referendum result. I can’t help feeling betrayed by what seems to me a perfidious act of joining a party diametrically opposed to the wishes of that majority of your electorate. Weakening the hand of your former allies on the government benches. In my 40 plus years as a fisherman, I have struggled under the jackboot of the CFP. Having to stand by as more and more EU boats were granted access to our waters and decimated our fisheries. Helplessly watching as once thriving fishing ports fell into decline and British boats were decommissioned for scrap. I am skipper of a Brixham registered beam trawler Carhelmar BM 23. The boat is managed by the multi-million-pound company Interfish. In the run up to the referendum I was a bit ambiguous as to how I felt. On the one hand, most of my career was under the disastrous CFP. On the other, many of our markets are abroad and I wasn’t sure of the greater economic consequences. Joining Fishing for Leave on the Thames It wasn’t until I met up with our company owner Jan Colam (himself of Dutch origin) that I was fully convinced of the long-term benefits. He allowed us to join the Fishing for Leave rally up the Thames. © Fishing for Leave A long day that felt very good as we grabbed the media’s attention to deliver the message about how strongly we felt to the heart of the Remain capital. Despite the likes of Bob Geldof trying to throw scorn on us. Now I sense a golden opportunity with the chance to take back control of the management of our bountiful resource. There’s hope of a real future for my son and other young people. They are the future generation of British fishermen who just want to make an honest living putting food in people’s mouths. Of course, there is a long tradition of European coastal countries having access to our waters, and with a no deal Brexit that would have to be negotiated on our terms. Control of our own catches With Britain getting back a fair and proportionate share of the available Total Allowable Catches (TACs) agreed between coastal states under the principle of Zonal Attachment – not just a few extra kilos in return or bartered for agricultural and trade concessions as we saw going into the EEC. Such access should only be based on reciprocal swaps in appropriate fisheries. With visiting boats having access only if subject to strict enforcement and monitoring conditions – such as having to land their catch into Britain to ensure compliance. Stringent management, like the Icelandic and Norwegian fisheries introduced, could see our fisheries that have been over exploited by EU vessels in the past recovering to greater abundance and sustainability. Protecting our waters, reaping £4 billion The technologies exist to protect our waters. Couple this with modest outlay on fisheries protection vessels, and a robust no compromise enforcement policy, and I’m sure that visiting vessels would toe the line. By getting our countries rightful share of TACs [Total Allowable Catches] we could see already profitable fishing ports like Brixham, Newlyn, Plymouth and other ports nationwide doubling their income and thriving. Taking back control of our rightful TAC share on exit means an extra £1bn in catch value alone. Then there’s the added value from processing, around another £4bn. Hardly insignificant sums. The environment - Improving sustainable fishing A portion of the extra income generated could help finance more of our own comprehensive scientific studies to gather more stock and environmental data. Coupled with landing and monitoring data this could form the basis of new, realistic and sustainable effort control. We have a huge opportunity with Brexit. Failing to leave will see British fishing and coastal communities that you and other MPs represent decline further. Please stand down now, Sarah Wollaston I can’t blame you for doing what you think is best but this time it’s at odds to what I, and I dare say many other previous supporters, think you should do. So, I’m asking you, in the interests of democracy, to please stand down as MP for Totnes and force a by-election. Then you can put your standpoint to the electorate and see if enough of your constituents still support your different position. That will give the Conservative party a chance to field a candidate supportive of the PM’s line who we can vote for. Backing Boris Personally, I think Boris requires all the support we can give. It’s become apparent that the EU needs a tough no-nonsense approach of a hard negotiator. With a no deal Brexit likely there is a possibility the EU negotiators may be more flexible. We hope, cometh the hour, cometh the man. Thank you for all the good work you have done but now you must put your change in position to your electors. Regards, Gerald Podschies. Skipper of Carhelmar BM 23 Observations The people of Totnes surely deserve better than this? We wholeheartedly agree with Mr Podschies that Dr Wollaston must stand down and fight a by-election. How can anyone trust an MP who has changed position three times on the biggest political issue of our generation, and who has held five different party statuses in Parliament in six months? Sadly, as readers will know, Dr Wollaston is not the only Remainer politician to have flip-flopped many times. We believe, however, that to go from being a Vote Leave campaigner to becoming an out-and-out Remoaner and denier of the democratic result of the EU Referendum should make her one of the most unelectable MPs in Parliament. If she disagrees, we suggest that she follow Mr Podschies' advice and put this to the test. [ Sources: Fishing for Leave ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever. Brexit Facts4EU.Org, 24 Aug 2019

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Whilst Remaniacs are busy using the 'Dunning–Kruger effect' (Lefty, pretentious, psychological gibberish) as some kind of counter to anything commonsensical and no doubt talking unsubstantiated cr@p they read in the MSM in the EU thread, I'm certain apolitical Pink 'Un members who likely didn't vote in the referendum would prefer Brexiteer facts over the fiction from the 'Lefty Doom Brigade' on the anti-Brexit MSM: “Open wide” – The bitter pill for Remain MPs to swallow Pharmacist and Brexit Party candidate Viral Parikh dispenses the truth on drug shortages Viral Parikh, pharmacist - © Brexit Party Drug shortages have been occurring for years – since long before the Referendum One of the many bitter parts of Project Fear being dispensed by Remain MPs is that people’s lives will be put at risk if the UK leaves with no deal on 31 October. These MPs and the Remain campaigners continue to threaten that life-saving drugs may no longer be available – “due to Brexit”. Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary What Remain MPs fail to tell the public is that drug shortages have been a way of life for pharmacists and their customers for many years. This is nothing new, and it has nothing to do with Brexit. Exclusive Brexit Facts4EU.Org report – drug shortages are nothing new The Brexit Party prospective Parliamentary candidate for Sunderland Central – and experienced pharmacist - Viral Parikh tells us exclusively about the truth behind shortages of medicines in the UK. We have also researched the reports of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC). The PSNC promotes and supports the interests of all NHS community pharmacies in England. They are recognised by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care as the body that represents NHS pharmacy contractors. They also work closely with Local Pharmaceutical Committees (LPCs) to support their role as the local NHS representative organisations. Here is what pharmacist and Brexit Party PPC for Sunderland Central told us: “The shortage of drugs in our country is not a new phenomenon. This has been going on since 2008 as lots of companies, wholesalers and manufacturers have stockpiled certain drugs and used stock for export purposes. This then creates a shortage in the market which enables them to raise prices. “The shortages of medicines are due to many factors. It can be due to ingredient shortages, regulation problems, supply chain issues, less profits for the manufacturers, less demand for the product, but importantly it is to create shortages so manufacturers can increase the prices and make significant profits. “I must stress that the shortage of medication is nothing new. During the last 10 years there were shortages of blood pressure medications like indapamide, amlodipine, thyroid medications, anti-depressants and many other types of drug. These are very common generic medications which should never have been a problem but we have been having this problem for a long time before Brexit was even a word. “Pharmacies will suddenly discover that they can't find a medication but it is available by paying five or even as much as ten times the usual price. For example, in 2013 there was a shortage of medication for the anti-depressant sertraline. It was available - but at the price of £14-£18. The NHS-agreed price of the medication was only 85p. “Here is another example: In 2015 the most common medication for thyroid problems, Levothyroxine, had its price raised from 65p to £2.09 just overnight. And another example: the price of the blood pressure medication amlodipine went from 24p to £3.15. “Due to the shortages of such products, the Department of Health had to devise a system to deal with the situation, using the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC).” The bitter pill for Remain MPs to swallow – the truth The simple facts are that medicine supply problems have been a regular occurrence for many years. It would have been perfectly possible for Remain MPs to have asked their researchers to investigate, and they would have found out the truth in very short order. We looked at the information available from the representative body of NHS community pharmacy contractors in England. Here is what the NHS-recognised pharmacy body says The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) is the body referred to in section 164 (1) (a) of the National Health Service Act 2006, which the Secretary of State recognises as the representative of NHS community pharmacy contractors in England. It turns out that drugs suddenly and regularly become unavailable at the NHS price agreed with the big pharma companies. This happens on a monthly basis. Strangely, these drugs are in fact available from other sources – but at grossly inflated prices. The PSNC liaises with the Dept of Health and the affected products are then allowed to be bought by pharmacists at the higher prices for a limited period. And here is what Viral Parikh had to say “The problem is that because the NHS is in public ownership no one cares and they keep on paying the money. So if I am a manufacturer or wholesaler, I will think that no-one checks so let's create a shortage and make big bucks. No-one even thinks that we should supply alternatives and not fall into that trap. It's really corruption of the highest order but the NHS bosses don't care. It’s not their money so they pay whatever price it takes. Viral Parikh, pharmacist “We need to look at radical solutions, whilst maintaining service which is free at the point of delivery. The NHS could be much more productive and it will demonstrate value for money. It could eradicate wastage, corruption, and the extensive salaries to hospital managers who aren’t even qualified clinicians and yet earn more than the Prime Minister. “Brexit is not the cause of the shortages. It has given a chance for Remoaners to blame yet another thing on Brexit. “One final point: does anyone genuinely believe that the pharmaceutical companies who are making billions from the NHS will suddenly stop supplying because we are out of EU? Nonsense and rubbish. Business always finds a way to do business and make profits.” Observations Over the last few years we have seen all manner of representations of Project Fear. The case of the threatened shortages of life-saving drugs “due to Brexit” is a particularly invidious example as it causes major anxiety for many people who have serious health conditions. As Mr Parikh points out, when the big drug companies are making billions supplying the NHS, they are highly unlikely to allow this lucrative trade to be affected. There may well be some short-term disruption if the French or Belgians cause delays at the ports, but the Dept of Health has already been making contingency plans for this. The key point is that shortages of some very important drugs have been commonplace for many years – since long before the EU Referendum Act was passed in 2015. It is also a fact that drug shortages are also common in other EU countries. When this happens in France, does anyone there say that it is down to ‘Frexit’? [ Sources: Viral Parikh - Brexit Party prospective parliamentary candidate for Sunderland Central | Department of Health and Social Care | Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever. Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Sun 25 Aug 2019

One of the best reasons for staying in the EU I've heard since the referendum vote is when that BBC Question Time guest demanded to know “Who would be serving our coffee in Prét à Manger?” 😀 Todays SKY News report runs a close second: https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-number-of-europeans-applying-to-be-au-pairs-in-uk-plummets-by-70-11792596 🤪😀 Naturally, said report unleashed a tidal wave of derision on social media -- Some of the comments on it here: Goodness me people in Islington will be distraught! — Margot Parker (@MargotLJParker) August 24, 2019 “Nothing I have seen since we voted to leave the EU has highlighted the yawning gulf between Britain’s moneyed elite in London and the media better than this,” wrote one detractor. “Now we know why the Remainers are upset! They’re going to have to look after their own kids and do the housework!” scoffed another. “Oh dear, Beatrice and Tarquin will be numb with grief,” added another in mock sympathy. 😄

Can't wait to see what Amadou's got -- could change the whole system and starting 11.

Godfrey our MOM by a country mile -- He's going to make a cracking DMC one day 👍

Progressive teaching methods have played a huge part in what's wrong with society today and a conservative approach would help fix it -- Conservative teacher Katharine Birbalsingh is proof of that. For those that don't know, she's Headmistress at a school in one of the roughest, most deprived, ethnically diverse parts of Britain -- Despite that the following superb results: https://twitter.com/hashtag/MichaelaResults?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc^tfw Katharine, is a black conservative who doesn’t believe in playing the race card or identity politics and her success boils down to discipline; dedicated, enthusiastic, teacher-led classes; hard work from the children; traditional, rote-learning methods including times tables, grammar, and regular tests, strict marking, and no “all shall have prizes” rewards just for turning up. Anyone in the UK of sound mind would naturally hail this success, but no --- No prizes for guessing who's spitting blood 👇 Someone needs to educate this headteacher that for kids life is much more than bloody discipline and GCSE You only have youth once. Say no to educational robots. This school will always be oddball. It will never catch on. — Gavin Singh (@GovinderSingh20) August 23, 2019 🤪 One would think Lefties would be ecstatic that kids from largely working-class, migration-background families garnered some of the best results in the country, but again, no - No, because according to the Lefty the results were achieved using the wrong kind of methods -- not the 'child-centered', supposedly creativity-nurturing, discipline-lite laissez-faire approach as recommended by the Leftist educational establishment. When you visit Katharine Birbalsingh's school, you have lunch with the children. Before they sit down, the children all have to declaim in unison one of the old-fashioned, uplifting poems they have to learn — Kipling’s If; Invictus by William Ernest Henley; etc. Then, as they wolf down their food (there isn’t space for all the children to eat at once, so lunch has to be conducted in two very swift sittings), they engage their visitors in conversation. These are children in their early teens, often from the kinds of backgrounds where their peers are either knifing one another or buried in Fortnite. But very much unlike their peers, they do not communicate in grunts and they look you in the eye. I was very impressed by Michaela, its headmistress Katharine Birbalsingh, its dedicated teachers, and its extraordinary kids. Their success doesn’t surprise me at all but I’m glad they’ve had it because they totally deserve it. Let me tell you the most impressive thing of all I found at Michaela: when we talked about Brexit, half the kids on my table made an intelligent case for it. Can you imagine that happening anywhere else in the brainwashed, left-indoctrinated state sector? The Left hates Michaela because it’s an indictment of all the “progressive” values which have failed kids in Britain, the U.S. and elsewhere for decades. Michaela is a shaming reminder of how good state schools could be if teachers pulled their socks up, stopped blaming their pupils’ failures on inadequate funding or ethnicity, and got on with the job of actually teaching 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓👍 ~ Delingpole

The Irish border issue By johnredwood | Published: August 23, 2019 Eurosceptics do not see there is a problem with the land border between the Republic of Ireland and the UK. As the government has made clear, the UK will not be imposing new barriers or complex new checks at the border once we leave. The present border is already a complex border. It is a VAT border and Excise border. Trucks do not have to wait at the border while someone in a kiosk works out the VAT owing. It is all done electronically away from the border. States are good at knocking tax off business accounts without needing to collect fivers when the truck arrives. It is a currency border. Again the currency calculations and exchanges occur well away from the transit point. It is an anti-terrorist border, which works by mutual co-operation on both sides. The day after we leave arrangements to control smuggling and to intercept criminals will be the same as today. The UK and the Republic of Ireland have confirmed that the long-standing Travel Area between our two countries will continue, avoiding the need for extra checks on people crossing. The UK will continue to inspect food products after we leave as before. The EU authorities will presumably continue to check and certify the products they are sending for export without needing a check at their border, and the UK will continue to regulate wholesalers and retailers with inspections and spot checks on their facilities and product as required, all away from the border. UK retailers will continue to be under a legal duty of care to ensure anything they import from the EU is safe food. So why is there an issue? The Republic of Ireland and the EU say there may be an issue because they are concerned about “the integrity of the single market”. It reminds us that the single market was never a free trade area, but a heavily protected system ring-fenced with tariffs and dependent on detailed product specification and regulation. Anyone inside the EU or outside the EU has to comply with all aspects of the rules and tax requirements in order to sell into this market. Once out the UK as other third countries like the USA and China will have to comply with all the rules on goods exported to the EU, just as we do today. The difference will be that we can adopt different standards if we wish to for other overseas markets and for our domestic market. We may design better ones or we may need to adopt different standards for export product elsewhere. More importantly, we will no longer be expected to pay large sums for the privilege of being inside this single market and we will be free to cut tariffs to buy cheaper goods from non EU countries if we wish. The issue of the Irish border is therefore one for the EU, not for the UK. The question to them is what new checks if any will they impose on the Republic of Ireland border on their exports to the UK and their imports from the UK? Any checks they wish to impose on UK exports will of course have to be proportionate and appropriate under WTO rules. They also cannot impose checks against UK exports that they do not impose against exports from anywhere else in the world. The EU says it understands the history of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. That means they will not wish to impose new barriers and difficult checks at the border. There are many crossing points, and like all such land borders smuggling is possible over fields and farms as well as along rural roads. There is smuggling today and there will be smuggling after Brexit. Authorities on both sides of the border have an interest in controlling and prosecuting smugglers, and do so today by intelligence led co-operation. The same is the best answer once the UK has left the EU. The border issue is of course mainly a political issue designed to make it difficult or impossible for the UK to leave the single market and customs union. It only achieves this end if the UK accepts the faulty premise, that new barriers are needed at the border if we just leave. The UK government has stated clearly it does not think that. The EU also likes to claim there is no technology answer to this conundrum. They should remind themselves that their borders today work with much help from electronic manifests, off border settlement of taxes and dues,a low number of sampling checks at borders, checks at the factory or farm originating the product or at the wholesaler or retailer receiving the product, TIR transport systems and the rest. Computers and the internet offer plenty of ways of having smooth borders, reflected in the Facilitation of Trade rules of the WTO. The UK imports quite easily from non EU sources today despite EU rules and controls affecting such imports.

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The Labour Party has a notable recent history of not doing proper background checks on their candidates and has seemingly decided to outsource this responsibility to Guido. Today we can bring you their latest instalment from Southend, where rapper Sonny Green has been selected as a council candidate. Here’s Green pictured with the Absolute Boy: Green has a very colourful social media history; recording all aspects of his life – from his court appearances for drug possession to assaulting police officers. So I’m Up In court In 7 Days with Possesion Of A Class B Drug and Possession Of a Knife – ITS NOT LAW Tho Only ACTS an ACT is Not LAW — Sonny Green #FREEDOM (@SonnyGreenUK) January 16, 2012 I Carried it out the whole way I was arrested with Something Like 14gs of Skunk and a Shank and Apparently assaulting a Police Officer — Sonny Green #FREEDOM (@SonnyGreenUK) January 16, 2012 Perhaps he has reformed, and now is a stong ‘law and order’ candidate… Labour were clearly happy that Sonny adhered to their equality commitments, despite the candidate describing the last female Prime Minister as a “dirty c*nt”, encouraging friends to troll women as slags and bitches whilst observing that some women look like they’re “asking for ****” and promising followers “I’ll take your chick, I need a **** too practice on”. The full Jared O’Mara phrasebook of respect for women… @theresa_may you dirty c*nt. — Sonny Green #FREEDOM (@SonnyGreenUK) February 18, 2018 **** OFF ESTABLISHMENT @TheresaMay_MP YOU DIRTY C*NT — Sonny Green #FREEDOM (@SonnyGreenUK) April 21, 2017 Peer Pressuring @MedzArtist. To write #SL*G On random girls facebooks walls — Sonny Green #FREEDOM (@SonnyGreenUK) August 24, 2011 Ill tell the **** ill take your chick I need a **** too practice On 🙂 — Sonny Green #FREEDOM (@SonnyGreenUK) June 13, 2011 Perhaps he clinched his selection with this advice to the former Labour leader Ed Miliband: Now there speaking to the young people LOOOOL ed milliband please stop looking down the camera like that you look like a nonce — Sonny Green #FREEDOM (@SonnyGreenUK) April 2, 2015 Like Jared O’Mara with his history of similar comments online, Sonny is also a prominent DJ and music producer so at least he’ll have something to fall back on should the people of Southend reject him… 😀 August 23, 2019 at 3:21 pm