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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well in the interest of fairness , I must ..There are plenty of naysayer regarding Brexit, and is one tangible case where they have had flexibility. Let us sincerely hope it is not a new Thalidomide. Fortunately we have our own opportunities to farm fish salmon here.
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    I have been reading about the rollout of the vaccines in the UK. And in fairness the British Health minister has a valid point. The reason the UK released it yesterday is because , since Brexit they are no longer bound by the EMA, The chair of the UK medicines board, also did not tell any...
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    Flecc, those Air to air heat pump systems do not necessarily have extensive heavy external fittings ..it need only be an air vent ,all the pumping can be internal. And they do not take a lot of power either ..a 2KW electrical load ,is no different than a standard 2 bar load, some will be no...
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    Well they originally tubed cities with gas not for cooking ..they were happy enough with wood and coal fired ranges , but just for house lighting. Now if you take a country like the UK, the gas pipe infrastructure is already there in every town, but the supplies of natural gas is dwindling as...
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    Naaa!. I am not A Biologist. But. It might be instructive to actually read his Bio... . The creation of the vaccines is a monumental achievement. And it is very much a case of sitting on the shoulders of giants.. Without Crick and Watson , there would not have been any basis, without the...
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    Yep!. This is where being out of step hurts. Ireland has dropped down to Level 3 light on 1st December from our current Level 5 heavy . Restaurants open tomorrow... . But Northern Ireland is now on heavy lockdown or circuit breaker mode. So we can now expect car loads of thirsty covid ridden...
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    It was nothing compared to the look he got from Pope Francis...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The EU position is that they are scheduled for release by end of December .. by which time we will have maybe another 300,000 UK Guinea pigs tested for short term effects. Assuming that there is no adverse effects from the Oxford vaccine ..it will be a first win for Brexit. So sincere...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    On an allied theme, CNN reports that the post election fund raising by Trump has raised 170 Million dollars to date.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Barry ,you might see it as semantics, but the CV19 virus infection is not usually airborne. .. Fortunately for us all that that is so. Had it been so, it would have have been pandemic global within a week of Wuhan. The first flight from Wuhan would have triggered it globally. The mode of...
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    I agree with you regarding poverty, but many people take relative levels instead. I was once in Zurich, and it seemed to me that ever office girl was driving a Porche ..so if one was reduced to a VW it would seem like poverty. Shades of Janis Joplin and God send me a Mercedes-Benz!.
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    The Magna Carta only applied to Lords and by extension to Bishops , I suspect Ms Quinn would actually be a serf. DeMonfort sought to have it extended to freemen ...for some reason that did not get a lot of support from the Lords.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ..woul WoulD you just button up!.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The get out clause is "hygienically made".
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well that would make sense. Once all the steelware in the world came from Sheffield, and the worlds buttons from Bermingham, , now with the majority of volume production in China , ....
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    Yes.. Ice cream worries me. I would not be overworried by the unopened tubs direct from a factory, but the open scoops in the high street Gelato shops or even the whipped cones are potential sources.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Absolutely .. and then you look closely at the EU regulations , and passport colour not mentioned .. talk about colour discrimination.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Best video you have ever posted...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I will grant you that. Trump was less Republican and more isolationist than previous administrations. But I think he was just storing up trouble and greater military adventurism for these next years. The moving of the capital of Israel,has inflamed the middle east, the murdering of the Iranian...