Today I've been musing that the Queen has a lethal right hook, and that her saintly self-restraint slipped a little.
John
Now try thinning that garment rending sixth form modern studies essay in the style of Quentin Letts down to a single paragraph and to get any points- remember what the question actually was. Hint:I'm vaguely (very vaguely) intrigued to know where I'm 'deflecting', or indeed failing to take 'responsibility for my actions'. Strong stuff. You talk as though I alone voted to leave the EU. I'm afraid it took a majority to achieve that.
My own vote to leave the EU was premised upon a fairly straightforward but strongly felt desire for the right to hire and sanction the politicians who set the laws to which I must abide, and spend the money that I relinquish in tax. This process is referred to as 'representative democracy'. For all of its shortcomings, and I willingly admit there are many, I believe it to be very much preferable to the system of unrepresentative centralised technocracy that is presumably your favoured model.
In voting to relinquish the latter for the former there were always going to be consequences, most of them broadly anticipated, some of them not. Most of the unwelcome consequences are set around the unnecessary conditionality of membership of the Single Market upon full compliance with the EU's overarching political project.
An unintended but widely anticipated consequence of a decision by Scotland to leave the Union would be the immediate sacrifice of the disproportionate representation and influence that it currently enjoys within the Union, of a substantial and telling chunk of its public expenditure budget - and the consequent and immediate imposition of perhaps a decade of austerity that would have the potential to make the (EU-induced) Greek debacle look like a picnic - together with the loss of any control over its own monetary policy. Should a perhaps less-anticipated (unintended) scenario of a Putin-fractured and energy-starved EU not be willing or available to pick up the baton, I would suggest that Westminster magnamanity - or at least geopolitical expedience - will need to be available in spades in order to prevent the not-so-independent Scottish government from assuming the position in front of an opportunistic China bearing IED-laden compound interest-bearing gifts.
Unintended consquences indeed. In the harsh light of what we have learned in recent years, if I were a Scottish voter I would be considering my options very carefully.
Now try thinning that garment rending sixth form modern studies essay in the style of Quentin Letts down to a single paragraph and to get any points- remember what the question actually was. Hint:
“The eloquence, dignity, diplomacy and wisdom of Boris Johnson”.
Shouldn't even require a paragraph. The bugger was only in Scotland for an hour.
I'm vaguely (very vaguely) intrigued to know where I'm 'deflecting', or indeed failing to take 'responsibility for my actions'. Strong stuff. You talk as though I alone voted to leave the EU. I'm afraid it took a majority to achieve that.
My own vote to leave the EU was premised upon a fairly straightforward but strongly felt desire for the right to hire and sanction the politicians who set the laws by which I must abide, and spend the money that I relinquish in tax. This process is referred to as 'representative democracy'. For all of its shortcomings, and I willingly admit there are many, I believe it to be very much preferable to the system of unrepresentative centralised technocracy that is presumably your favoured model.
In voting to relinquish the latter for the former there were always going to be consequences, most of them broadly anticipated, some of them not. Most of the unwelcome consequences are set around the unnecessary conditionality of membership of the Single Market upon full compliance with the EU's overarching political project.
An unintended but widely anticipated consequence of a decision by Scotland to leave the Union would be the immediate sacrifice of the disproportionate representation and influence that it currently enjoys within the Union, of a substantial and telling chunk of its public expenditure budget - and the consequent and immediate imposition of perhaps a decade of austerity that would have the potential to make the (EU-induced) Greek debacle look like a picnic - together with the loss of any control over its own monetary policy. Should a perhaps less-anticipated (unintended) scenario of a Putin-fractured and energy-starved EU not be willing or available to pick up the baton, I would suggest that Westminster magnamanity - or at least geopolitical expedience - will need to be available in spades in order to prevent the not-so-independent Scottish government from assuming the position in front of an opportunistic China bearing IED-laden compound interest-bearing gifts.
Unintended consquences indeed. In the harsh light of what we have learned in recent years, if I were a Scottish voter I would be considering my options very carefully.
Are you having some kind of difficulty with the English language, Nick?
No, just tired of answers that feel like they are coming from a politician. It feels like something's hiding within.
Shome mishtake shurely... Sure. I puke out vast screeds of obfuscating detritus, Nick. You don'tSure. I engage, Nick. You don't.
Have we observed yet how World King ( abdicated) is ‘helping this new government every step of the way’? Will daddy be there with Mary Elizabeth through an economic shock the likes of which has not been seen in a generation, the industrial action, social strife andthe pound getting junked on the money markets?
I see he also had to open his own car door when he arrived at Balmoral as the monarch’s representatives stood, arms at their sides and waited. Surely the great man deserves greater respect?
Shome mistake shurely... Sure. I puke out vast screeds of obfuscating detritus, Nick. You don't
He’s a fantasist- his own perceptions of himself are so utterly at odds with those held by others. He is though a very convincing con artist with a susceptible audience. Gets caught, lies about it then moves on. He’ll do it till the day he snuffs it.You could be forgiven for not remembering that upward of sixty ministers and juniors resigned in a single day rather than carry on with him, it was all a coup.
He’s a fantasist- his own perceptions of himself are so utterly at odds with those held by others. He is though a very convincing con artist with a susceptible audience. Gets caught, lies about it then moves on. He’ll do it till the day he snuffs it.