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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 9:58 
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The quest to hunt down the saboteurs has reached the universities:

Guardian: Universities deplore ‘McCarthyism’ as MP demands list of tutors lecturing on Brexit

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Academics are accusing a Tory MP and government whip of “McCarthyite” behaviour, after he wrote to all universities asking them to declare what they are teaching their students about Brexit and to provide a list of teachers’ names


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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https://www.ft.com/content/bde37fc1-5f7 ... 5790c960ce

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Sinister’: UK academics balk at request for lists of Brexit professors

Academics have reacted angrily to a “sinister” attempt by a pro-Brexit Conservative MP to find out the names of professors teaching courses on Brexit and to gain access to their online syllabuses.

Chris Heaton-Harris, a government whip and former MEP, wrote to university leaders earlier this month in an attempt to find out more about the nature of European affairs courses being taught in Britain.

“I was wondering if you would be so kind as to supply me with the names of professors in your establishment who are involved in the teaching of European affairs with particular reference to Brexit,” he wrote to David Green, vice-chancellor of Worcester University.

The letter, obtained by The Guardian, added: “”Further if I could be provided with a copy of the syllabus and links to the online lectures which relate to this area, I would be much obliged.”

Prof Green said he felt a chill down his spine when he read the “sinister” request and that he would not be providing Mr Heaton-Harris with the information.

“This letter just asking for information appears so innocent but is really so, so dangerous,” he said. “Here is the first step to the thought police, the political censor and newspeak, naturally justified as ‘the will of the British people’, a phrase to be found on Mr Heaton-Harris’s website.”

Brexit supporters have been critical of those in the “establishment” who they believe are obstructing or trying to undermine the result of the June 2016 EU referendum.

Foreign secretary Boris Johnson criticised the Financial Times and The Economist over their supposedly negative coverage of Brexit in his Tory conference speech this month, while the judiciary has also come in for criticism.

The Daily Mail hailed Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general election in April as a device for pushing through Brexit under the headline: “Crush the saboteurs.”

Mr Heaton-Harris was unavailable for comment.

Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, warned that society would suffer “if politicians seek to police what universities can and cannot teach”.

“This attempt by Chris Heaton-Harris to compile a hit list of professors has the acrid whiff of McCarthyism about it and [universities minister] Jo Johnson must disown it in the strongest terms,” she said. “Our universities and colleges must lead the way in defending academic freedom, where received wisdom can be challenged and controversial ideas debated.”
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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I don't read that as a "thought police" thing so much as a "we don't know what the hell we're doing, but maybe the college professors do - let's see what they're saying!" ;)


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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In more WERE DOOOOOMED news, the UK economy grew by a pretty healthy +0.4% between July and September.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41747940

Of course, the BBC immediately spins this as being bad news because interest rates will probably rise off their 0.25% sub- sub- sub-basement level (which they absolutely need to do, if we're going to ever have anything like a fully recovered, normally functioning economy ever again), but the fact is, despite the UK/EU talks being deadlocked and mired, the economy continues to grow, UK markets are at sky high, best ever levels, as are employment levels to boot. I keep saying this, but from where I'm sitting, things STILL ain't three bad, as they say.

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We haven't left the EU yet. Wait until businesses start planning for FY 2019/2020.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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We haven't left the EU yet. Wait until businesses start planning for FY 2019/2020.


Yes I know, so people keep saying. But as a businessman, I am finding it increasingly impossible to believe that the UK markets (and by implication, the economy) isn't already "costing in" worst case scenario 'Hard Brexit', and still growing strongly regardless? I'm just not feeling the doom right now, and the hour grows very late indeed.

Seems to be a case of not so much 'stormvind', more litt promp.

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0.4% may be better than predicted (by 0.1%) but it's still worse than pretty much every other major world economy, so it seems odd to be describing it as healthy growth.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Also, worst case scenario hard brexit means planes literally cannot land in the UK (amongst a myriad of other disasters) and I find it incredibly hard to believe that that doomsday scenario has been costed in at this point.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Cras wrote:
Also, worst case scenario hard brexit means planes literally cannot land in the UK (amongst a myriad of other disasters) and I find it incredibly hard to believe that that doomsday scenario has been costed in at this point.


I wonder why they still won't publish their sectorial impact assessments? Too many spoilers?


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Also, worst case scenario hard brexit means planes literally cannot land in the UK (amongst a myriad of other disasters) and I find it incredibly hard to believe that that doomsday scenario has been costed in at this point.


I wonder why they still won't publish their sectorial impact assessments? Too many spoilers?


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Of course, the BBC immediately spins this as being bad news because interest rates will probably rise off their 0.25%


How is pointing out the impact of something spin? Joe Public doesn't really give two fucks about economic growth - they do care if their debt repayments go up.

Do you just want articles on how lovely cake is and nobody needs to worry about getting fat and dying?

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Do you just want articles on how lovely cake is and nobody needs to worry about getting fat and dying?


It's on Channel 4 these days.


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Jem wrote:
I'd like articles on how lovely cake is.


June 2016: Vote leave for more cake
Now: Nobody expected cake. It was just a suggestion.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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0.4% may be better than predicted (by 0.1%) but it's still worse than pretty much every other major world economy, so it seems odd to be describing it as healthy growth.


Not for the first time though Cras, your sweeping assertions just don't stack up to even cursory checks.
The French economy grew by 0.5% last reported quarter (wow, that's a whopping 0.1% more than ours, and I think you'll find their unemployment levels are 10%, i.e. double fucking figures, as compared to our 4%), plus they had an actual contraction in economic growth in July 2016 and only 0.2% growth in October 2016. Much of 2015 was at, or close to zero growth, and 2013 was outright recession, so not exactly a great starting point, either! Here, see for yourself:

https://tradingeconomics.com/france/gdp-growth

Italian economic growth has been bumping on the floor for the whole of 2014, 2015, 2016 and to present, and outright deep recession for the whole of 2012 and 2013. Their unemployment rate sits at 11.3% FFS.

https://tradingeconomics.com/italy/gdp-growth

Even bloody *Germany* has had very similar economic growth to the UK in the last few years, and unlike us, their latest quarter shows a fall, to a very comparable 0.6%

https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp-growth

So yeah, I'm looking at actual metrics, not memes.

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Also, worst case scenario hard brexit means planes literally cannot land in the UK (amongst a myriad of other disasters) and I find it incredibly hard to believe that that doomsday scenario has been costed in at this point.


I'm absolutely gutted no-one will be able to land their plane in the UK from 2019 onwards. :(

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Cras wrote:
Also, worst case scenario hard brexit means planes literally cannot land in the UK (amongst a myriad of other disasters) and I find it incredibly hard to believe that that doomsday scenario has been costed in at this point.


I'm absolutely gutted no-one will be able to land their plane in the UK from 2019 onwards. :(


Or take off as we're replacing runways with conveyor belts.

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Cavey wrote:
Cras wrote:
Also, worst case scenario hard brexit means planes literally cannot land in the UK (amongst a myriad of other disasters) and I find it incredibly hard to believe that that doomsday scenario has been costed in at this point.


I'm absolutely gutted no-one will be able to land their plane in the UK from 2019 onwards. :(


Or take off as we're replacing runways with conveyor belts.


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Cavey wrote:
Cras wrote:
Also, worst case scenario hard brexit means planes literally cannot land in the UK (amongst a myriad of other disasters) and I find it incredibly hard to believe that that doomsday scenario has been costed in at this point.


I'm absolutely gutted no-one will be able to land their plane in the UK from 2019 onwards. :(


Or take off as we're replacing runways with conveyor belts.


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You specifically picked out last quarter's growth growth in GDP as being healthy. I pointed out that the performance of most other economies this year (which, if we're talking brexit impact, is the relevant timeframe) is better.

You can't call out GDP growth as an indicator of a healty economy then leap instead to another factor when the numbers show that our GDP growth isn't healthy, it's somewhere between lacklustre and weak.

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Cras wrote:
Also, worst case scenario hard brexit means planes literally cannot land in the UK (amongst a myriad of other disasters) and I find it incredibly hard to believe that that doomsday scenario has been costed in at this point.


I'm absolutely gutted no-one will be able to land their plane in the UK from 2019 onwards. :(


Be as sarcastic as you like, but that's what worst case hard brexit is.

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I'd like articles on how lovely cake is.


:this:

Hehe, I agree! Beats endless grievance chimp-mongering any day of the week, let's have a bit of positivity. :)

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I'd like articles on how lovely cake is.

Hehe, I agree! Beats endless grievance chimp-mongering any day of the week, let's have a bit of positivity. :)

Here's one

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Cras wrote:
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Cras wrote:
Also, worst case scenario hard brexit means planes literally cannot land in the UK (amongst a myriad of other disasters) and I find it incredibly hard to believe that that doomsday scenario has been costed in at this point.


I'm absolutely gutted no-one will be able to land their plane in the UK from 2019 onwards. :(


Be as sarcastic as you like, but that's what worst case hard brexit is.


Well FFS, it' hard not to be sarcastic in the face of such absurd idiocy. I'm sorry, but there really is no other way to say it. Get a grip, please.

In terms of your last post, I gave you specific examples of peer economies whose last-quarter growth rates were entirely compatible with our own (and with lower recent trajectories to boot in some cases, as against double-digit unemployment rates as well). If you're saying we're doing worse than China, as based on economic growth rates, well duh. I think you'll find everyone is.

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I'd like articles on how lovely cake is.

Hehe, I agree! Beats endless grievance chimp-mongering any day of the week, let's have a bit of positivity. :)

Here's one

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Haha, very good mate I must admit. :D

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Most countries haven't released Q3 figures yet, but the Q1 and Q2 figures are terrible.

https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=350

I'm not comparing us to China, I'm comparing us to Greece, Belgium, Colombia, Slovenia!

You tell me you think our GDP growth for 2017 is healthy based on our ranking in that table, you're powerfully deluding yourself. And short of the rest of the world having suffered a massive recession we didn't notice, that 0.1% upgrade in Q3 isn't going to be an improvement on what's already there for Q1 and Q2.

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Most countries haven't released Q3 figures yet, but the Q1 and Q2 figures are terrible.

https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=350

I'm not comparing us to China, I'm comparing us to Greece, Belgium, Colombia, Slovenia!

You tell me you think our GDP growth for 2017 is healthy based on our ranking in that table, you're powerfully deluding yourself. And short of the rest of the world having suffered a massive recession we didn't notice, that 0.1% upgrade in Q3 isn't going to be an improvement on what's already there for Q1 and Q2.


Hang on, you're comparing us with the likes of Greece, whose economy melted down recently so there's an absurdly low base upon which they have some semblance of 'recovery', with a 22% unemployment rate? Wow.

As for your citing Columbia, I think you'll find they've had TWO negative quarters in the last year or so FFS, as 10 seconds on Google demonstrates https://tradingeconomics.com/colombia/gdp-growth
(Besides which, if you think there is anything whatoever comparable between theirs and the UK's mature economy, well, there really is no helping you)

Look, you say how "terrible" our cumulative Q1 and Q2 growth of 0.6% is, with upwards trajectory and as against incredible employment levels, resilient markets and lowest unemployment for 40 years, even as I've demonstrated to you that these are entirely compatible with our peer competitor nations, with far worse unemployment in all cases, by a fucking country mile (i.e. at least double) except Germany's, which is comparable to own own. I'm suggesting to you that, on the basis of current facts, this default, knee-jerk analysis of yours is pessimistic to the point of absurdity.

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You say they're comparable, that table I linked to is that comparison! And we're right down near the bottom!

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I do like Ian Dunt.

http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2017/10 ... of-no-deal

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I do like Ian Dunt.

http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2017/10 ... of-no-deal

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Well, yes, I should think Mr Dunt is concerned about the status of his return flight from his 2019 jollies. Who can blame him?
That surname is a little phonetically unfortunate, though, right enough.

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Well, yes, I should think Mr Dunt is concerned about the status of his return flight from his 2019 jollies. Who can blame him?

You seem to be treating the grounding of all the flights like it's something that couldn't happen.

It could, but I don't think it will. However, it's likely to cost £gazillion to fix.

And, importantly, it's only one of hundreds of things.

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Well, yes, I should think Mr Dunt is concerned about the status of his return flight from his 2019 jollies. Who can blame him?

You seem to be treating the grounding of all the flights like it's something that couldn't happen.

It could, but I don't think it will. However, it's likely to cost £gazillion to fix.


Yes, that's right mate, I am indeed treating the possibility of no planes being able to land in the UK as being something that won't happen, and couldn't happen [for reasons of Brexit at least, not if we had an asteroid hitting us or something]. :)

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The aeroplanes thing is a useful example of the complexity of what the government's policy entails. All these really tiny issues that most people outside a particular sector don't know or care about that's all entangled with the EU which the government will have to unpick and consider in order to keep the country functioning. Only to replace it with the exact same thing because you can't deviate too far from the European or international standard.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 14:10 
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Kern wrote:
The aeroplanes thing is a useful example of the complexity of what the government's policy entails. All these really tiny issues that most people outside a particular sector don't know or care about that's all entangled with the EU which the government will have to unpick and consider in order to keep the country functioning. Only to replace it with the exact same thing because you can't deviate too far from the European or international standard.

Yep, it's also good example of why they shouldn't even bother wasting time talking about no deal scenarios. As Ian Dunt points out it's just a completely idiotic threat. But such is the hand these fucking Brexit clowns are holding in their fucking stupid negotiations.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 14:15 
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"Worst case no deal brexit, but not the actual worst case, just the things I've personally decided will happen in a no deal brexit" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 14:16 
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It may seem a small point, but the country is packed with people applauding the idea of no deal, and they need pounding into their heads just how utterly catastrophic it would be.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 14:19 
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If you do that they literally start going on about how we got through two world wars.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 14:20 
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Yup, imagine having to get the ferry. :D
(I'm sorry, I just can't take this seriously. I'll leave you to your doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom mongering now, I just wanted to point out the latest good growth data in spite of aforesaid dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom). :)

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 14:21 
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https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/923126324243333120

I mean FFS. That guy's expression needs to be a WTF gif.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 14:31 
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Yup, imagine having to get the ferry. :D
(I'm sorry, I just can't take this seriously. I'll leave you to your doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom mongering now, I just wanted to point out the latest good growth data in spite of aforesaid dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom). :)


You can't get to the ferry as there's insufficient customs infrastructure post no deal so the M20 is a lorry park.

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