Westminstenders: Blue Passports

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Yay for the blue passports.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all

May next year bring us £350 million for the NHS, cake, unicorns, financial passporting, access to the single market, Irish love and of course control to the people.

(Apologies been up to my eyeballs. Normal service will resume after Christmas).

New poster appeared soon after all the nominations for thread of the year and has escalated very quickly - a deliberate attempt to scupper the thread?

Pretty a bit of help with making lamb gravy with only a lamb oxo cube and no cornflour would be helpful in the next hour

Male picture/link for 90 year plan in one of the hall's of the EU please and thank you .

I would love to see a fully thought-out, costed and evidenced blueprint for how the U.K. will look, say, 20 years after Brexit that would give me some clear idea of where this might be headed. But all we ever get is fearmongering about the awful thing the eu is turning into. Why is that?

I can personally vouch for the fact that male dissenters are tolerated on this thread.

Pretty a bit of help with making lamb gravy with only a lamb oxo cube and no cornflour would be helpful in the next hour

Do your have any other flour? It doesn't have to be cornflour to work. Also I often pop in a bit of soy sauce (I know! I'm crazy me!) For a bit more omph.

So no link or picture ? so critical thinking requires people to accept a statement made by someone who they don't know as fact , without any actual evidence

So mild snark gets deleted, but it is fine to accuse someone (wrongly) of being a "foreigner" who is "talking down the country", and then whine about "discrimination".

Ho hum.

Look behind the current passport kerfuffle ...

Maybot:
“The UK passport is an expression of our independence and sovereignty – symbolising our citizenship of a proud, great nation.
That's why we have announced that the iconic #bluepassport will return after we leave the European Union in 2019.”

Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis:
"One of the most iconic things about being British is having a British passport.
Leaving the EU gives us a unique opportunity to restore our national identity and forge a new path for ourselves in the world."

Bojo (in Moscow - Putin pissing himself laughing):
"I think it's a wonderful thing if people want to have a blue passport again.
I remember a sense of personal loss and outrage when they were taken away."

Moggy:
“Symbolism is important and I hope it will be printed in the UK too.”

Farage:
“We are told we are going to get our passports back.

It’s the first real tangible victory that we have had since that referendum
and it’s something that we should celebrate.”

imo,
That's the whole point:_ it is the only "Brexit victory"_ the govt has achieved in the 500 days since the referendum

(Of course, any previous govt could have chosen "blue", but the size & other specs remain defined by international regs we can't change)

No wonder those Brexiters who are beginning to realise this are very angry

Bigly I do have other flour , plain and SR , which would be best , usually buy a packet gravy when doing lamb , the shame !

Plain! Definitely. Mix it in cold water first just like cornflour and it should be fine. I can't eat onions or garlic so have to make my own gravy all the time.

Just reading a Christmas present book - The Making of the British Landscape by Nicholas Crane (presented Coast for the BBC and impeccable academic credentials). It's fascinating - the effects and interaction of climate, geography and human activity on the landscape. Most interesting at present, to me, is the antiquity of the North/South divide, the SE always having been more accessible to trade from Europe. But there is far more to it than that. I can highly recommend it to anyone, who, like me if given my time again, would have become a geographer (though if I had, I might have regretted not doing Maths...).

The lack of onions and garlic also explains the random things I put it to make it work taste of something.

frumpety you can thicken stock with plain flour, if you have any meat juices then add those for flavour.

Very useful in this cold season, if any Westministenders are lurgied

Chicken soup with 40 cloves of garlic - a subversive EU recipe
Helps fight colds & flu (and probably vampires):

http://www.italianfoodforever.com/2017/03/40-garlic-clove-soup-for-colds-flu/

Woman are they cooked?Just tasteless, tiny and flaccid.

Male giveover with your pretend wimmin ganging up on me shizazzle , most of the people on this thread have shagged plenty of men and often ( sometimes ?) enjoyed the experience , as well as giving birth to males and being related to males and having friends who are male , don't make me youtube you with songs , I am on the sloe gin and am listening to Now that's what I call country whilst making the Tea like a good Northern lass

The Importance of Being Ernest (Oscar Wilde)

Jack: I know nothing, Lady Bracknell

Lady Bracknell:
"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone"

What do people think about the government’s plans about no platforming?

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What do people think about the government’s plans about no platforming?

Universities shouldn't shut down genuine academic disagreement - though I doubt that they do this anyway.

But free speech simply entitles you to speak freely (within the limits imposed by the law). It doesn't entitle you to a platform from which to do so.

I don't really understand why universities should give free publicity to know-nothings. OTOH I do understand very well why this government of know-nothings thinks they should.

From 1988-1994, successive Tory governments did an extreme form of no-platforming Sinn Fein

They banned the voices of any SinnFein representative being broadcast on any TV or radio program throughout the Uk

So, when something offends the Tory govt, it isn't just no-platformed in a university
it is outlawed throughout the entire country - on pain of serious legal penalties for the broadcaster

But when people object to giving a platform to holocaust deniers, or those claiming Africans are genetically of lower intelligence & with higher violent tendencies, or just anything that many Tory politicans don't dare say but would like to ...

then institutions should be forced to allow such people onto their property, to harass and gloat over those who work or live there