@jbritchford

Really? Well here’s one, the motorbike regulations that nobody needs nor wants in the UK. The current regulations on motorbikes in the UK work just fine!

http://www.dft.gov.uk/consultations/dft-2011-26

Oh, and there was the EU motorbike licencing regulations introduced a couple years ago that caused the UK to have to implement a two part motorbike test, mod 1 off road and mod 2 on road, instead of a single practical test as is the case for cars and was the case for motorbikes! This of course meant that off road space was needed for a whole load of different mini tests including a 30mph swerve around an obstacle. This in turn meant that the UK needed to make a vast number of new, and quite expensive, test centres across the UK bumping up test fees for new young drivers of all vehicles who are struggling with existing costs.

@Arthur Pewtey
I notice you keep avoiding the question “should the British people get a vote?”. Yes, we can all repeat ourselves.

@Arthur Pewtey
We’ll see 🙂

In any case, I’d like the people to decide 🙂

@PeeDee
Well those could certainly be one option on the referendum paper.

@Arthur Pewtey
The UK could also get rid of much of the European regulation if it left the EU, increasing competitiveness, and therefore increasing jobs. Personally I think the decision should be made by the people as it’s their jobs and their lives 🙂

@Arthur Pewtey
I don’t think it was the pressure, for two reasons. First, the pressure from the central EU government lot and the other European governments is much stronger than that from his own party. Secondly, if he was going to give into demands from his party he would have done so a few months ago in the in/out referendum vote and saved himself that massive kicking he got from his backbench!

There is a lot of misinformation going around though, and quite intentionally it seems. I see the “trade” argument is being peddled well by the BBC, whilst conveniently leaving out the fact that Britain has a trade deficit with the EU! The idea of the EU cutting off trade with Britain would be no different to Tesco, ASDA or wherever refusing to trade with you… their loss! Of course in reality, trade will continue regardless, businesses aren’t interested in revenge for minor political disputes. It would be rather strange though if they refused to trade because of disagreements over EU integration, whilst they still traded after killing millions of each other citizens in two world wars…

Cameron deserves credit for showing real strength and the backbone he so often talks about. Standing up to that level of pressure under such circumstances is very impressive!

As for the decision, I think it was the right one. Britain is going to be leaving the European Union sooner or later anyway, so moving closer towards integration just makes the separation messier for us, and slows down progress for the others. The liberal left don’t like it, but the wishes of the people are the most important thing.

Be interesting to see what they manage to exchange this for. It’s not much use to them beyond the initial propaganda, but they might be able to exchange it with another country for whom an American stealth drone would be useful, and receive something in return…

I think RQ-170 shot down by this system

Ground base jamming systems which several month ago delivered to iran by russia

Very very unlikely. If communications are lost, the UAV will fly to secondary locations to reestablish comms in a friendly location. No landing. No crashing. Some people are really under estimating the intelligence of the people making the control systems on the UAVs!

If they are willing to accept shared accomodation, showers ect, then it shouldn’t be a problem. Doing physical things with other crew members is not permitted on subs or ships anyway, so I don’t see how it would be different with women onboard.

It should depend on whether their crimes had any relation to their duties IMO. If someone serves in the army, and then later is convicted of rape, then they still served right? But if someone is a spy or rapes someone while enlisted then it’s different.