Or more in context ‘dangerous unknowns instead of constructive normality’. There being no slavery in our circumstances of course.

Anyway….

Government have scrapped the budget surplus target. IMF have down rated our growth figures and said we’ve screwed up global recovery and Sturgeon is agitating to split the union again. So pretty much what Remain was saying all along.

All for nothing. The French have just reconfirmed no EEA membership without Schengen and we’re still not going to get 350mn extra a week into the NHS.

Good result lads you keep patting yourselves on the back!.

Ah the prodigal son returns…

Jonesy, perhaps you can tell me something about other countries say the USA, Canada, China or India who are trading with the EU, do they also have to accept free movement of persons?

Mental illness and religion…

…oh, hang on…..I think that may only be one thing.

Ha! :highly_amused:

Correct, collect your chocolate banana and get a gold star from the teacher…

STURGEON’S EUROPE DREAM IN TATTERS: Scotland ‘WILL’ have to leave EU with rest of UK

http://http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/690986/Scotland-will-have-leave-EU-with-UK-only-reapply-independent-UK-politics-news?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=recommendations&utm_term=paid&utm_content=dx-news-showbiz&utm_campaign=2016

BUNGLING International Monetary Fund officials have claimed Britain’s economy will grow faster than Germany’s and France’s just weeks after warning Brexit would have a “severe” impact on the economy.

Officials are facing a humiliating climbdown after claiming Britain would face a recession if the country opted to leave the European Union. But now the IMF expects the British economy to grow by 1.7 per cent this year and 1.3 per cent in 2017.

The forecast puts the UK’s economy as the second-fastest growing economy in 2016 among the G7 industrialised nations, second only to the US. The embarrassing backtrack by the financial watchdog comes after a string of anti-Brexit stories prior to the historic referendum last month.

ARM chipmaker to be bought for £24bn by Japan’s Softbank

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36822806

Its brilliance was to realise that if chips were about to come with everything, you didn’t have to make them – designing them was the key.

Five years ago, Cambridge was home to at least three world-beating UK-owned technology firms, ARM, Autonomy and Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR).

Then Autonomy was swallowed up by HP in an ill-fated deal, last year the chipmaker Qualcomm bought CSR, and now the biggest and best, ARM, is about to have a Japanese owner.

And in Softbank, ARM may well have found a good parent.

The Japanese firm bought France’s Aldebaran robotics business and has gone on to give it a global profile.

But there will still be sadness this morning in Cambridge, and beyond, that Britain’s best hope of building a global technology giant now appears to have gone.

Twas ever thus…

Prime Minister Theresa May recently questioned whether foreign takeovers of UK firms are always in the national interest. However, Softbank has committed to doubling the size of ARM’s UK-based workforce over the next five years and new Chancellor Philip Hammond welcomed the deal.

You think!

Former Business Secretary Vince Cable told the BBC there was usually very little the government could do to prevent takeovers.

“We don’t have a system of defence against takeovers if they prove to be unsatisfactory,” he said.

Mr Cable added the government had few legal powers to stop takeovers unless it could be demonstrated there was a national security issue.

Make some…

Always with the negative waves Moriarty…

Thanks to the NRA and Their Lackeys in Congress, It Is Illegal to Study Gun Violence

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/what-nra-doesnt-want-you-know

Mind you being under fire or the threat of being so, would make anyone a little ‘Trigger Happy’, although nearly every nation at War has had situations where the ‘Shoot first & ask later’ option is sometimes preferable to getting shot or killed yourself!

(List of friendly fire incidents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_friendly_fire_incidents)

“Stand Your Ground” self-defense laws are also used when the duty of a person who is under an imminent threat of personal harm must retreat from the threat as much as possible before responding with force in self-defense.

Stand your ground laws are essentially a revocation of the duty to retreat. That under certain circumstances, individuals can use force to defend themselves without first attempting to retreat from the danger. The purpose behind these laws is to remove any confusion about when individuals can defend themselves and to eliminate prosecutions of people who legitimately used self-defense even though they had not attempted to retreat from the threat.

A claim of self-defense under a stand your ground law offers immunity from prosecution rather than an affirmative defense. This means that, rather than presenting a self-defense argument at an assault trial, for example, an individual could claim self-defense under the state’s stand your ground law and avoid trial altogether.

States with Stand Your Ground laws differ on whether the law applies to instances involving lethal force, with some states retaining the duty to retreat when lethal force is involved and others removing the duty to retreat under all circumstances.

Stand Your Ground Laws: https://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=29319

10/29/13 – Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in early 2012, appeared on Capitol Hill Tuesday for a hearing regarding the controversial “Stand Your Ground” laws. When it came time for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to speak at the hearing, he informed the still-grieving mother that Stand Your Ground laws actually benefit African-Americans as much as, if not more than, they do whites.

CoiffeurGate: The high cost of Hollande’s haircut

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He’s typically perfectly groomed and neatly turned out for every occasion but Francois Hollande’s hairstyle doesn’t come cheap.
France has been mulling over the revelation that the hairdresser responsible for maintaining the head of state’s quite ordinary looking head is paid almost 10,000 euros a month.
The presidential barber bill was revealed by the satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaine which also disclosed that the stylist – identified only as Olivier B – travels with Hollande on most of his foreign trips.
This quickly inspired the hashtag #CoiffeurGate, as social media users posted pictures of Hollande with hairstyles that they considered might be more worthy of such a hefty price tag.

French government spokesman Stephane Le Foll has confirmed that Hollande’s hairdresser is paid 9,985 euros per month and said that the expenditure was reasonable. “Everyone gets haircuts,” he said. “This hairdresser had to abandon his salon and he’s on tap 24 hours a day.”
He also stressed that the operational budget of the presidential Elysee Palace was cut by 15 to 20 per cent after Hollande took over from Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012. However, that hasn’t stopped the torrent of memes.