steven_whEU to ban olive oil jugs from restaurants
The European Union is to ban olive oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables in a move described by one of Britain’s top cooks as authoritarian and damaging to artisanal food makers.
The decision, which will be automatically adopted by the commission in next few days, has dismayed many officials who are concerned that a ban crafted to help industry will damage the reputation of the EU at a time of growing hostility to Brussels bureaucrats.
“This is sort of thing that gets the EU a deservedly bad name. I shouldn’t say so but I hope people disobey this ban,” said an official.
“It will seem bonkers that olive oil jugs must go while vinegar bottles or refillable wine jugs can stay.”
With riots in Greece, protests in Portugal, 50% youth unemployment in Spain, and the Euro requiring billions to keep it afloat, the EU can still find time to protect us against the well known menace of unlabelled olive oil.
Steven
steven_whEU to ban olive oil jugs from restaurants
The European Union is to ban olive oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables in a move described by one of Britain’s top cooks as authoritarian and damaging to artisanal food makers.
The decision, which will be automatically adopted by the commission in next few days, has dismayed many officials who are concerned that a ban crafted to help industry will damage the reputation of the EU at a time of growing hostility to Brussels bureaucrats.
“This is sort of thing that gets the EU a deservedly bad name. I shouldn’t say so but I hope people disobey this ban,” said an official.
“It will seem bonkers that olive oil jugs must go while vinegar bottles or refillable wine jugs can stay.”
With riots in Greece, protests in Portugal, 50% youth unemployment in Spain, and the Euro requiring billions to keep it afloat, the EU can still find time to protect us against the well known menace of unlabelled olive oil.
Steven
steven_whBritish taxpayers must pay an extra £770m in ‘unjustified’ EU contributions
On the day that Dave Cameron announces the legislation for a referendum we get another EU demand for our money.
Cash-strapped European governments must now find an additional £6.2 billion for the Brussels budget, a 5.5 per cent increase, at a time of deep cuts to national public spending and EU-imposed austerity in the eurozone.
The raid to pay unpaid bills and to meet a budget shortfall will take Britain’s contributions to £14.7 billion this year, meaning that the cost to average British household of belonging to the EU will be £581.
“When countries and citizens across Europe are having to make difficult decisions with their budgets, Europe itself should practice what it preaches with its own budget,” said a Treasury spokesman.
“This amendment was unjustified, which is why Britain opposed it.”
Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP, said the defeat bolstered the arguments of campaigners for Britain to leave the EU.
“What timing, what irony. On the day Cameron is offering a meaningless promise of a referendum, he gets an iron fisted rejection from Brussels,” he said.
“This is another huge defeat for him at EU level, and shows the possibility of EU reform is non-existent. Lets face the facts, the only way is out.”
Nigel Farage just keeps being given ammunition.
Steven
steven_whBritish taxpayers must pay an extra £770m in ‘unjustified’ EU contributions
On the day that Dave Cameron announces the legislation for a referendum we get another EU demand for our money.
Cash-strapped European governments must now find an additional £6.2 billion for the Brussels budget, a 5.5 per cent increase, at a time of deep cuts to national public spending and EU-imposed austerity in the eurozone.
The raid to pay unpaid bills and to meet a budget shortfall will take Britain’s contributions to £14.7 billion this year, meaning that the cost to average British household of belonging to the EU will be £581.
“When countries and citizens across Europe are having to make difficult decisions with their budgets, Europe itself should practice what it preaches with its own budget,” said a Treasury spokesman.
“This amendment was unjustified, which is why Britain opposed it.”
Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP, said the defeat bolstered the arguments of campaigners for Britain to leave the EU.
“What timing, what irony. On the day Cameron is offering a meaningless promise of a referendum, he gets an iron fisted rejection from Brussels,” he said.
“This is another huge defeat for him at EU level, and shows the possibility of EU reform is non-existent. Lets face the facts, the only way is out.”
Nigel Farage just keeps being given ammunition.
Steven
steven_whNice cartoon on Huhne’s stay at Her Majesty’s pleasure.
Steven
steven_whNice cartoon on Huhne’s stay at Her Majesty’s pleasure.
Steven
steven_whI posted this on another forum on the topic of his being ‘sent down’…….
It was sadly inevitable that he would get out early, albeit with an ankle tag
Steven
steven_whI posted this on another forum on the topic of his being ‘sent down’…….
It was sadly inevitable that he would get out early, albeit with an ankle tag
Steven
steven_whU.K.’s $582 Billion Energy Switch Faces Crisis
The U.K.’s 376 billion-pound ($582 billion) program to switch from fossil fuel to renewable and nuclear power is headed for crisis because of looming energy shortages and spiraling costs, Liberum Capital Ltd. said.
The U.K. government has “grossly underestimated” the engineering, financial and economic challenges posed by Britain’s goal to decarbonize its electricity…
…The reform plans will require 161 billion pounds by 2020 pushing power bills up 30 percent, according to Liberum. The sum, more than the 110 billion pounds the government estimates is needed, may rise to as much as 376 billion pounds by 2030 prompting a 100 percent bill rise in real terms….
£376billion between about 25million households is £15,040 each, to pay for the transition from reliable, cheap conventional power, to intermittent and subsidised renewables. Accompanied by the100% increase in bills on top of that.
The UK energy policy truly is a mess.
Steven
steven_whU.K.’s $582 Billion Energy Switch Faces Crisis
The U.K.’s 376 billion-pound ($582 billion) program to switch from fossil fuel to renewable and nuclear power is headed for crisis because of looming energy shortages and spiraling costs, Liberum Capital Ltd. said.
The U.K. government has “grossly underestimated” the engineering, financial and economic challenges posed by Britain’s goal to decarbonize its electricity…
…The reform plans will require 161 billion pounds by 2020 pushing power bills up 30 percent, according to Liberum. The sum, more than the 110 billion pounds the government estimates is needed, may rise to as much as 376 billion pounds by 2030 prompting a 100 percent bill rise in real terms….
£376billion between about 25million households is £15,040 each, to pay for the transition from reliable, cheap conventional power, to intermittent and subsidised renewables. Accompanied by the100% increase in bills on top of that.
The UK energy policy truly is a mess.
Steven
steven_whWill Boston still fund the Real IRA?
An article in the Spectator points out that the city of Boston has been responsible for funding terrorism in the past, and poses the question that their own recent atrocities may give them cause to reflect.
One of the first world statesmen to send a message of sympathy to Boston after last week’s outrage was Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein. ‘Just watching news of the explosion in Boston,’ he tweeted, ‘Sympathy with people of that fine city.’ Mr Adams has every reason to think fondly of Boston. Throughout the troubles, while he sat on the IRA war council, Boston was one of the major American centres which he (through Noraid) could rely on for support and funding. Bostonian money would have been used to help pay for the IRA attack on Margaret Thatcher’s democratically elected government in Brighton, the grotesque Birmingham pub bombings that left 21 dead, and of course the Lisburn van bombing of 15 June 1988. On that terrible occasion six off-duty British soldiers were killed by an IRA bomb just after they had completed a half-marathon for charity.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/diary/8895981/diary-608/
Steven
steven_whWill Boston still fund the Real IRA?
An article in the Spectator points out that the city of Boston has been responsible for funding terrorism in the past, and poses the question that their own recent atrocities may give them cause to reflect.
One of the first world statesmen to send a message of sympathy to Boston after last week’s outrage was Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein. ‘Just watching news of the explosion in Boston,’ he tweeted, ‘Sympathy with people of that fine city.’ Mr Adams has every reason to think fondly of Boston. Throughout the troubles, while he sat on the IRA war council, Boston was one of the major American centres which he (through Noraid) could rely on for support and funding. Bostonian money would have been used to help pay for the IRA attack on Margaret Thatcher’s democratically elected government in Brighton, the grotesque Birmingham pub bombings that left 21 dead, and of course the Lisburn van bombing of 15 June 1988. On that terrible occasion six off-duty British soldiers were killed by an IRA bomb just after they had completed a half-marathon for charity.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/diary/8895981/diary-608/
Steven
steven_whsnafu:
1) What are the sources for your data?
– read the article
2) What level of independent peer review of it has taken place?
– all graph plots are from accredited scientific sources, except the plot 1 which is from the Australian government
3) Essentially you are stating that there is a large conspiracy involving a majority of scientists around the world designed to convince the populance that climate change has human elements.
– no such statement or implication was made, just that the Australian government’s figures on sea level rise are exaggerated
– you are projecting your own conspiratorial assumptions
4) Do you have any idea how difficult it is to hide collusion on a large scale?
– yes that is why it is easily exposed, as in this article
5) To what ends is this conspiracy being undertaken?
– it is not a conspiracy, just a large and convenient bandwagon for various parties to exploit
6) Who gains from it?
– politicians, more excuses for taxation, power grabs, ‘saving the world’
– greenies, smugness, more money, pushing political agendas disguised as environmental concerns
– green industries, subsidies for landowners, researchers with big grants, peer kudos
7) Is your tin foil hat securely tied on?
– your conspiratorial projection is showing again
Steven
steven_whsnafu:
1) What are the sources for your data?
– read the article
2) What level of independent peer review of it has taken place?
– all graph plots are from accredited scientific sources, except the plot 1 which is from the Australian government
3) Essentially you are stating that there is a large conspiracy involving a majority of scientists around the world designed to convince the populance that climate change has human elements.
– no such statement or implication was made, just that the Australian government’s figures on sea level rise are exaggerated
– you are projecting your own conspiratorial assumptions
4) Do you have any idea how difficult it is to hide collusion on a large scale?
– yes that is why it is easily exposed, as in this article
5) To what ends is this conspiracy being undertaken?
– it is not a conspiracy, just a large and convenient bandwagon for various parties to exploit
6) Who gains from it?
– politicians, more excuses for taxation, power grabs, ‘saving the world’
– greenies, smugness, more money, pushing political agendas disguised as environmental concerns
– green industries, subsidies for landowners, researchers with big grants, peer kudos
7) Is your tin foil hat securely tied on?
– your conspiratorial projection is showing again
Steven
steven_whNot seen that episode. So where do this High voltage spark come from, is it from the gun or the prongs that enter the body?
If from the gun then it would have to have been fired close to the petrol vapours to ignite.
The prongs are charged with a high voltage which can cause a discharge spark, in the same way that nylon combs will through hair, but at a much higher energy. The embedded Taser barbs are not in contact, and tracking of the spark can occur over the surface of the skin or clothing.
Tasers run at 50,000 volts for the initial incapacitating shock, dropping to a repeated 1,200 volts for sustained effect. For comparison, the spark plugs in a petrol engine use 20,000 volts for air/fuel ignition.
Steven
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