Westminstenders: The Negotiations Continue - The DUP ones

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Tomorrow is the Queen’s Speech. In honour of that the start of this thread is written in its honour:

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Immigration is bad. Except for that good immigration.
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Brexit means Brexit
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Pilot scheme.
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Money for –the DUP-- NI
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Brexit means Brexit
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The Internet is Bad. Newspapers are good.
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Brexit means Brexit.
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Britain wave your flag.
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(The Queen’s turns over the page to read the back of the A4 sheet, only to find it blank)

Interesting analysis here

www.politico.eu/article/battered-and-bruised-theresa-may-limps-into-enemy-territory/

I can see a feature film in the future ... "Theresa May and the Brexit of Doom"

OK reporting EU meeting has broken up rather early...press conference soon...

LK I mean
Not OK

Mortificado in well-built dwellings your next-door neighbours wouldn't hear you calling for help anyway. That's why my dad had a pendant and a wall cord to summon help.

If you can hear your elderly neighbour calling for help, you can hear your younger neighbours flushing their toilet and shouting at each other, not to mention having sex, and as for their TVs, games consoles and hi-fis... Trust me on this.

That's why my dad had a pendant and a wall cord to summon help.

Now no longer paid for by social services, but has to be self-funded. Certainly in Birmingham ...

Thanks for explaining my options. I'll go for a thoroughly insulated flat in sheltered housing and pendant please.

Does anyone else miss JG Ballard? Feels like we are living in a Ballard novel at the moment, I keep expecting the middle class to break free of the shackles of polite restraint and start doing subversive graffiti.

It's all in the telling...

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Oh FFS

edition.cnn.com/2017/06/21/health/vaccines-illness-european-court-bn/index.html

EU court: Vaccines can be blamed for illness without scientific evidence
[(CNN)The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Wednesday that courts may consider vaccines to be the cause of an illness, even in the absence of scientific evidence confirming a link.]

George Peretz QC‏
@GeorgePeretzQC
George Peretz QC Retweeted Stephen Pollard
Alternative (and better) take: ECJ leaves it to national courts to decide what evidence is enough. But doesn't suit anti-ECJ narrative ...

They do where I live Bolsy and very pretty it is!

Mortificado in well-built dwellings your next-door neighbours wouldn't hear you calling for help anyway.

Our Victorian house was probably gerry-built in its day. I can hear my neighbour coughing in bed and the other neighbour's light switch sounds like its in out room.

Thanks for explaining my options. I'll go for a thoroughly insulated flat in sheltered housing and pendant please.

Pray you've lost your sense of smell, as that solitude and peace often comes with other challenges.

So yesterday, but still in love with this...

I have lived in shoddily built Victorian housing lurking. We have a history of chucking up hastily built, crap buildings in this country 😬

I also rather liked the idea of HM the Queen doing a "take your child to work" day

Incidentally, the next time you hear someone moan about health and safety, you can tell them that we once had so many tragedies that an industry sprang up around their commemoration.
beamishtransportonline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/LOOK-BACK-IN-WONDER-by-William-Cowan.pdf

www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/22/sadiq-khan-calls-for-uk-remain-single-market-brexit

"Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, is calling on the government to fight to keep Britain in the single market,
as senior opposition politicians step up the pressure on Theresa May for a softer Brexit after her Commons majority was wiped out at the general election.

....He said continued single market membership represented the best chance to preserve London’s tech, pharmaceutical and financial services industries."

Also, "the shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, said Labour was willing to work with backbenchers from any party to thwart the prime minister’s pre-election prospectus for Brexit, which made controlling immigration the first priority."

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/benefits-cap-high-court-judgment_uk_594bb58fe4b01cdedf00b0ce?
Benefit Cap Causes ‘Real Misery’, High Court Rules In Case Brought By Single Mothers
‘Another blow to the austerity agenda’.

This is a good summary of the judges reasoning in the ruling against the benefits cap.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2017/jun/22/rupert-murdoch-jerry-hall--cinema-night-hackney-east-end-welcome
Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall go for a cinema night in Hackney – and get a good old-fashioned East End welcome
Murdoch was spotted as the lights came up after the movie by “a young Corbynista” in the audience, who took the opportunity to shout at him: “We are the majority now, you c*!”

Shocking and important stats and descriptions of mortality rates in British industry pre HSE, BCF thanks for posting. They are high in what are now, so called 'leave' areas.

I live in a ground floor ex-council maisonnette (the previous owner's mum bought it through right to buy). It was built in the '50s and is part of a block of 8 most still council housing. It is amazingly well built. Our neighbor used to be a childminder and you would have no idea the kids were there until 6 of them came running out into the garden. They don't make them like this anymore.

Bolshy If I remember correctly you are in the land of back to backs? My Nana lived in one, 4 single rooms on top of each other, basement room with sink, a cooker on the staircase, a sitting room above and a bedroom in the attic with only a skylight, on top of another bedroom and a very drafty outside privy under the stairs to the front door, and neighbours on each side and at the back. She was so thrilled when they moved her to a 50s Council block (Windhill) when they knocked them down in the sixties, and she had a bathroom and kitchen.

Is one of the reasons the British are so daft about buying property in Europe because so many Europeans live in well built, rent controlled, purpose built apartments?

I am indeed, what, there's a row in the street next to mine and the owners complain about how cold they are.

Same for my grandma! They moved from a Victorian hovel in bleak bronteland to a new council house on the edge of Bradford in the 30s. They thought it was the lap of luxury- they had electricity for starters!

No it's because it's hot and the food's good.

Ninon Not that they don't want live in the EU for great food and weather, but actually buying property is not always the most sensible way to go. And the property market is messing up this country as much as brexit.

I also had a gran who lived till her 50s in a Victorian rented slum and was thrilled to get a high rise council flat, with glorious central heating.

www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/shelagh-fogarty/if-grenfell-residents-move-into-my-flats-ill-move/

I might be wrong , but I believe re affordable housing , the Conservatives actually did away with the % of development to be affordable housing in rural developments quite some time ago , the developer now just has to pay a % to the local borough council which is then divided up towards local to the development enhancing area needs ?