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Sanity from Italy, well done Mr Salvini.
Mar 11, 2018 at 10:58 PM | Pcar
The EU is squealing about what it won't get from the UK.
Italy is squealing about paying for what it has already got from the EU.
If it was a business model for successful customer satisfaction surveys, the EU would fail. But the EU has always prided itself on its own sense of self importance, so won't change its contempt for those with constructive criticism.
golf charlie
DUP Leader Arlene Foster Says EU Brexit Threats Are ‘Insulting’ to the People of Northern Ireland
“To do so is an insult to the people of Northern Ireland who worked so hard to bring peace to our country,” she added.
She also rejected any suggestion that Ulster would remain locked into the EU economically...
If the EU insists on a ‘hard’ border regardless, Britain must leave it up to them to install it
First time I’ve seen Northern Irish leader Arlene Foster speak in the flesh. Impressed.
She was at the British Chambers of Commerce conference. The morning had dribbled by without much to note.
But when Mrs Foster arrived at the lectern just before lunch she made an obvious impact. The business audience stopped toying with their mobiles.
You could sense them thinking ‘hmmn, this one’s at least a grown-up, and tough’.
Straight talking is an admirable NI attribute, even if it offends Lefties. However, watch out for the "taking the Mick" humour.
Pcar
Not plug-in though.
Mar 11, 2018 at 10:22 PM | rhoda
Trying to coil even a 30 metre extension lead is not easy.
If the entire US Navy went nuclear electric hybrid, they could be on to something.
golf charlie
Brussels on the Brink: EU’s Hostile Front Against UK Faces Collapse as Italy Election Winners Back Brexit
“You made a free choice with Brexit and I very much hope that it will be possible to maintain completely open trade with the EU without any penalties,”
Sanity from Italy, well done Mr Salvini.
Pcar
With Friends Like These: EU Threatens to SUE the UK if Trump Exempts British Steel Industry from Tariffs
But the European Commission — the unelected body with acts as the EU’s executive as well as the sole initiator of EU-level legislation — has reacted with fury to British trade secretary Liam Fox suggesting that the United Kingdom will try to “maximise the UK’s case” for a similar exemption and threatened to sue the country if it does not suffer along with the rest of the bloc...
Every day the EU undermines their vaunted [fake] moral superiority with the daily bullying, blackmailing and threats to UK for having the temerity to leave.
When will Appeaser Theresa wake up and say "We tried negotiating, pointless, UK is out of EU now. Unilateral free trade to help the poor and 'just about managing' in UK"?
Pcar
Submarines have been hybrid for more than a century. Not plug-in though.
rhoda
The US Navy has realised that battery power is not even considered reliable by Greenpeace for maritime use
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2018/03/08/the-us-navy-is-cancelling-a-program-to-turn-gas-guzzling-destroyers-into-hybrids/
"WASHINGTON — The Navy is canceling a program to install fuel-efficient hybrid electric drives in 34 destroyers, leaving only one destroyer with the technology, the Navy confirmed in a statement.
Citing “department priorities,” the service requested $6.3 million for 2018 to finish the installation on the destroyer Truxtun, but has zeroed out funding in 2019 and in the out years. The service has spent about $52 million on the program to date. The whole program was expected to cost $356.25 million, according to the Navy’s FY2017 budget submission."
It is not clear whether "department priorities" involved dealing with the deranged mindset still in North Korea, or the previous occupants of The White House.
golf charlie
Mar 11, 2018 at 4:16 PM | Supertroll
Not as quick as a text message or E Mail, but a definite rival to Royal Mail, as they are not used to deliver unwanted junk every day.
golf charlie
UaT
"Far more likely Climate Change and lack of sea ice in the Arctic, don't you think?"
No you underestimate the popularity of snowy owls following the fame of Hedwig. Loads of muggles want one.
Supertroll
A few journos managed to [get] thru the lib-establishment border control over the press
Writing in his Sun Column Jeremy Clarkson today has 2 separate pops at the BBC's pushing of Climate Alarmist narratives
- "BBC say CC Affects women more" "rubbish my Mrs goes lovely brown in the sun, whilst I shrivel red like a lobster"
\\Well, I went snorkelling with a guide in the Indian Ocean this week and asked how badly the local reefs have been affected by climate change.
“Oh,” he said. “Things were pretty bad ten or 15 years ago but these things are cyclical.
They’re pretty much back to normal now.”
Weird how you never hear this sort of thing on the BBC.//
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