Cable Forum - Britain outside the EU

Possibly - but no. Post ad-hoc nocter proc is my invention to cover various after the event situations.

The "possibly": Maybe subconsciously I've heard your excellent saying and *******ised it somewhat. I've no recollection of that but it's too close a resemblance to fully deny.

Well before Brexit I coined a German sounding phrase Gestrugenes Abgeschlossigskeit. That one fools all but the Germans/Austrians

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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36159445)

Remind me not to accept invites to dinner parties at yours and Sephs…………..I’m sure they’re a blast.

I cook curries and my party piece is to speak Polish (such as I can) in a South African accent.

Hugh	29-08-2023 23:33

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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36159445)

Remind me not to accept invites to dinner parties at yours and Sephs…………..I’m sure they’re a blast.

Erudition is optional, but good red wine is compulsory…

If you’ve not spent a night on the booze with a failed medic (5th year, who then went on to get his B.Sc, M.Sc, and a D.Phil in Computing) and corrected him on his Latin, you haven’t lived… ;)

1andrew1

06-09-2023 14:40

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The truth is starting to come out

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Boris Johnson ‘buried head in sand’ on Covid to sort Brexit, ex-Tory health minister says

Speaking to the Institute for Government as part of its ongoing series of in-depth interviews with former ministers about their time in office, Lord Bethell said: “No 10 didn’t want to prioritise the pandemic in early 2020, even though the evidence was mounting – there was a post-election, ostrich, head-in-the-sand mentality, which I saw again around the invasion of Ukraine.

“Its priority, and what we were told many times, was Brexit and levelling up. ‘We have to deliver Brexit, so could your pandemic quietly go and mind your own business, please,’ we were told.

“So we had several weeks of this brushing off, and then they switched into it eventually. After that, we got a lot of erratic dipping in. In Yiddish, it’s called ‘kibitzing’: erratic and ill-informed interference.”

Lord Bethell said the government’s coordination got “a lot better” after Mr Johnson’s former top advisor Dominic Cummings left Downing Street in November 2020.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...a804d5e0&ei=14

denphone

06-09-2023 15:48

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36159728)

The truth is starting to come out

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...a804d5e0&ei=14

To be perfectly honest Boris Johnson could not organise a piss up in a brewery, let alone sort out anything substantive.

He is pretty good at driving a trolley from side to side through.

TheDaddy

06-09-2023 16:09

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 36159729)

To be perfectly honest Boris Johnson could not organise a piss up in a brewery, let alone sort out anything substantive.

He is pretty good at driving a trolley from side to side through.

Funny, they seemed to have more than a few piss ups whilst the rest of us weren't even allowed to go to funerals...

Hugh	06-09-2023 16:17

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36159730)

Funny, they seemed to have more than a few piss ups whilst the rest of us weren't even allowed to go to funerals...

They were ambushed by a cake, OK!

https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...TJxo/giphy.gif

1andrew1

06-09-2023 19:36

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Great news!

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UK to re-join EU's Horizon science programme

The final deal is set to be agreed within hours and could be announced on Thursday or at the weekend's G20 summit by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, as first reported today by Bloomberg. Sources have confirmed the report to Sky News.

The issue has been on the prime minister's desk for weeks while he attempts to negotiate a higher sum for British scientists to ensure they catch up after the two-year absence.

There had been fears the deal between the UK and and the EU may stall over the sums involved.

Sky News understands that Mr Sunak has authorised the deal in principle and is likely to speak to Ursula Von der Leyen, the European Commission President, to finalise it within hours.

Britain benefitted more than any other EU country from grants handed out under the Horizon programme which offered funding and leadership of pan-European research groups and access to equipment and facilities.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...me/ar-AA1gl0Ga

TheDaddy

06-09-2023 21:04

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36159742)

Great news!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...me/ar-AA1gl0Ga

Is it? We didn't vote for this

Paul	07-09-2023 00:11

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Seems so ..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66731164

jonbxx

07-09-2023 09:13

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Here will be huge sighs of relief across the scientific and industrial communities on the news of rejoining Horizon and Copernicus. This is absolutely brilliant news.

1andrew1

07-09-2023 09:29

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Originally Posted by jonbxx (Post 36159754)

Here will be huge sighs of relief across the scientific and industrial communities on the news of rejoining Horizon and Copernicus. This is absolutely brilliant news.

:clap::clap::clap:

TheDaddy

07-09-2023 11:35

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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36159749)

Seems so ..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66731164

It does seem so, what I'd like the prime miniature to be held account to is that we left the EU and all it's institutions, he campaigned for, celebrated and made political capital out of that very fact and now here he is touting this as some sort of victory when it is in all actuality just a restoration of what we already had.

Sephiroth

07-09-2023 12:06

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It will take time to build up with the right level of EU cooperation, an expanded business activity away from the EU.

It just needs a business friendly tax regime from the government and the rest will follow.

You rabid Remainers take no positive attitude at all. Yet you and I both think the government is crap. There is no future in taking orders from Brussels. But there is a business future if government makes it possible.

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