She will never say it directly but I feel Francis Coppola is hinting of a great Sterling Crisis.

http://www.coppolacomment.com/2018/11/some-governments-really-are-like.html

Poor Brits put their faith in liberal free traders disguised as conservatives.

Unlikely though it may be, wouldn't it be a delicious irony if the Withdrawal Agreement fell because of opposition from within the EU?

"Borders & barriers: Could Spain derail Brexit because of Gibraltar?"

https://www.rt.com/news/444482-spain-vote-brexit-gibraltar/

Pcar: The very British Coup - I read that. Littlejohn is a bright guy and he could have a point. The thing is, in order to gainsay him I have to believe that May is playing a very cunning hand of bluff: she wants the WA to fail so she can fall back to WTO and screw the EU (I know, it's against our beliefs we have of her loyalties). But how else has she managed to stave off the 48 letters; the likes of Gove, Johnson, Davis and Raab et al? These are big beasts. Why have they folded up their tents?

I think we've discussed this before, but it's actually on the front page of the BBC website just now (hurry, hurry,it probably won't be there for long):

"UN environment chief Erik Solheim quits amid expenses row"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46281051

"UN environment chief Erik Solheim has resigned amid a row over his travel expenses.

A recent draft internal audit, obtained by Britain's Guardian newspaper and seen by the BBC, said he had incurred costs of $488,518 (£382,111) while travelling for 529 out of 668 days.

It said this harmed the reputation of UN Environment - a body that highlights green issues and sustainability.

There was "no oversight or accountability" to monitor this travel.

Mr Solheim, a Norwegian former environment minister, says he has paid back the money where "instances of oversight" occurred.

On Tuesday, Mr Solheim himself confirmed his resignation, Norway's NRK broadcaster reported.

A formal UN announcement is expected shortly.

The amount spent on travel by UN Environment, a Kenya-based agency, doubled between 2014 and 2017.

The report was particularly critical of the travel undertaken under Mr Solheim, UN Environment executive director since 2016. A total about $58m was spent in the two years since then.

While all UN staff are expected to complete "mission reports" within two weeks of travel, the audit found that these were often missing.

When they requested reports for 596 trips undertaken by 32 managers and staff, 210 mission reports were not provided, while around 200 others were only completed after the request was made.

The audio was carried out by the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).

It says Mr Solheim's leave and travel were approved by a member of his office who reported directly to him - in contravention of UN rules.

On one occasion, it says, "he made an eight-hour trip from Washington DC for a weekend in Paris, before taking another flight to New York city.""

Just for interest - or not, as the case may be: Today I was trying to negotiate the cost of my home insurance with a company I've been with for years. The guy on the other end of the phone started to go through a script: (This is a very small sample of the to and fro):

What kind of lock do you have on your front door?
Well, it's a standard Yale latch lock.
What kind is that? Is it a long thin rod of a key with a kind of skeleton at the end, or a flat roundy thingy with a toothed blade?
It's a Yale.
OK...moving on, what is the roof?
Tiled.
Is there a flat roof?
Only the garage.
Attached?
Yes.
What percentage of the whole house roof would you say the flat roof is?
At a rough guess, about 20%, maybe less.
Would that be less than 20 and more than 15?
I don't know. How accurate do you want this to be? It's probably a bit more than 15%
So, could it be less than 15 and more than 10?
Why do you want it to be so accurate? Should I go and measure it? Let's call it 20%
He persisted for another few minutes.

Then, I asked him: are you recording this figure so that if, in the future I claim for the roof and you find it is more or less than the 20% I told you, would you refuse the claim?
Oh no, says he.
Oh sure.

I'm now trying to find another Ins co (you don't say!). Trouble is, I live with a river in a flood area. It is near impossible to get cover, even though the Environment Agency spent half a mill on flood defences - and in over 40 years, my house has never flooded! I should have used Climate Change in my defence!

Thanks!

A true nation is not a household..
It can balance income with prices via a accounting entry.
The disequilibrium in society is because we are serfs.