who was so arrogant and complacent that he allowed the outcome to be decided by a simple majority" There is a video clip somewhere of Cameron telling Junker that Remain will win 80% of the vote, to which Junker replies "not even Luxembourg would be that much in favour". I think Camer...

jonas wrote:As I said.

Sorry

shark bait wrote:Welcome news, the only frigate in the race won!

Indeed

shark bait wrote:What the hell as we going to talk about here now?

The colour of the wardroom carpet?

So why not isolate it from the hull altogether off board it onto a usv and/or helicopter particularly if your using it in the littoral and process the data on the ship. I am sure that will be part of the solution, and very effective, but an HMS is still useful when you haven't got an offboard syste...

the first thing we need to add to the T-31 if finding is available would be a Bow Sonar Definitely. One of the often-overlooked features of a hull-mounted sonar is its ability to detect small surface craft at range. Possibly not as useful as it used to be, with the increasing capabilities of radar,...

I can't find it at the moment, but I did see a quote from a union spokesman in a local Belfast (I think) newspaper that the budget was £1.6b. Whether that is any better informed than the rest of us, I don't know

several major economies said they would block UK's membership of the WTO including the USA, China, Russia, India etc when we joined the EEC later to be EU we lost our membership of the WTO ... that is one of the reasons why it is imperative Scotland remains in the EU They can't block our membership...

Yet you seem unable or unwilling or unable to list the accomplishments of the WTO. I wonder why that is. Yet another straw man argument. Is that all you've got you silly little boy? Presumably that's your standard tactic, every time you make a fool of yourself by saying something stupid, you attemp...

Congrations on your first use of google. Well done you! What are you, five? You are just showing yourself up as a very silly boy If, as you claim they're so easily discoverable via a website, why are you unable to list them? Why should I waste my time when they are, as you say, very easy for you to...

how is it a strawman to ask you to deny that the individual statements that I made are true in a statement To clear up your confusion: A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument tha...

Once again, straw man issues. You led with a statement that was simply wrong. I made no comment on the rest of your post. Is that too difficult for you to understand?
You clearly have no idea about the purpose or achievements of the WTO.

FFS, the entire point of my post that you initially responded to was about FTA's. It might suit you to try and deflect the discussion, but it's a dishonest tactic. You lead your post with: "WTO rules are the basic global trading standard, it's better than having to negotiate your trading relat...

Not really Yes - completely. Considering the conversation, it's you that should be admitting that they got it wrong about the WTO. I have no interest in your strawman about FTAs and made no comments relating to their relative merits. You were either mistaken, or deliberately mendacious, which is it...

I'm merely correcting your false statement about the WTO.

they don't do a lot to lower the regulatory and tariff barriers that makes international trade expensive On that point, you are wrong. Each "round" has resulted in reductions to both tariffs and non-tariff barriers to trade. The last (Uruguay) round resulted in a 40% cut in tariffs on ind...

And we are going onto the observer status No, we aren't going to be observers, we are already full members (founder members and signatories, in fact, as we were of the predecessor GATT). All members of the EU have their own membership, as does the EU, so 28 states and 29 members. Normally the EU sp...

ArmChairCivvy wrote:will certainly change some lines in DC's memoires... still to come out

Will anyone actually buy it?

As the point2 comes from a segregated contingency ( a cool £10 bn), there is the unspecified bn btwn cyber and (accelerating) ship building. So that's £200m of the £400m that couldn't be described as a genuine increase as it's actually been drawn from an existing contingency fund. I wonder where th...

bobp wrote:Suspect some of that will go towards the 5 T31 yet to be announced

Or perhaps the FLSS?

That's the sort of stuff that requires the Queens Assent. It seeks to dictate how the PM negotiates international treaties, effectively transferring the power of making international treaties from the Queen (as exercised by the PM) to Parliament - she is unlikely to approve that. Bercow knows that, ...

I think that was the Royal Assent, which is distinct from the Queens Assent. The Royal Assent is really the rubber stamp that says "this Bill has passed all the stages that it is required to and, from this date, this Law is in effect". The Queens Assent relates to powers that the PM exerci...

Thanks for the reference to STRN, Donald-san. From the document posted there, the headline shows a rise from £39.5b to £41.3b - a rise of £1.8b (or approx. 4.6%). It then says that's a rise of 2.6% in real terms (so far, so good - general inflation is around 2% to 2.1%, so that matches). So that's a...

An interesting opinion on whether the current Bill requires the Queens Assent. It appears that there is a good chance that Bercow is wrong in his ruling. It's all in the wording apparently...... https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2019/09/02/proponents-of-the-new-bill-to-stop-no-deal-face-a-significant-d...

Knock off approx £800m to cover inflation, gives roughly £465m new money to each of the three services

the recent CTA between Ireland/UK The CTA isn't recent. It dates from 1923 and has been reconfirmed on many occasions. Free movement of people between the UK and Ireland will remain under UK law and hopefully, under Irish law. I'm not sure where the "rollover" is at the moment, since the ...