Oh goody ... It begins.
Still we don't need experts eh Pob!?!
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jul/12/uk-scientists-dropped-from-eu-projects-because-of-post-brexit-funding-fears
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
In other news ...
Away from the burnt & smoking remains of our EU membership & the Tory/Labour civil war there's loads of shit happening at work.
After Bruce said he wanted the printrom staffed while he was off on holiday (see 'FFS!" 28/06/16) there was a large, political (office kind) argument about me doing the packing of the photos. This is something I've been doing for around 11 years. Bruce knows this too.
The upshot of all the arguing is that I'm not doing them anymore. Phil has had to hire in 2 TES temps to do it, part-time. He's not happy. I'm not happy. But Bruce is happy and that's, apparently, what counts...
I did, as part of this find out that I'm paid from central funds so should be OK when that spaztard window-licker Nicholls* closes PandIS following yet another "review".
I was asked to go over & train my successors. They picked it up quickly but there's bound to be problems as there's a lot to take in in the space of 3.5 hours. One did a coupe of days & handed in his notice as he'd got a better job. Still not my problem!
On the plus side, I can take time off now that I don't have anything to do with photo packing (well at the moment). I can't take time off in July as i) I'm doing a graduation set-up/2 day participation/take-down & ii) Bruce decided (before this all kicked off) to take the last week of July too. He'll be in work for a paltry 50% of July (10 days out of the 20).
I've booked the 1st week in August and 4 days of half-term. Don't think he's noticed either, especially the latter yet.
When he complains I'll just repeat the 'printroom must be staffed' thing back at him and point out that I booked it in early of July (06/07 to be precise).
[* Head of the registry is a sort of anti-Midas as everything he touches turns to fucked-up shit)
After Bruce said he wanted the printrom staffed while he was off on holiday (see 'FFS!" 28/06/16) there was a large, political (office kind) argument about me doing the packing of the photos. This is something I've been doing for around 11 years. Bruce knows this too.
The upshot of all the arguing is that I'm not doing them anymore. Phil has had to hire in 2 TES temps to do it, part-time. He's not happy. I'm not happy. But Bruce is happy and that's, apparently, what counts...
I did, as part of this find out that I'm paid from central funds so should be OK when that spaztard window-licker Nicholls* closes PandIS following yet another "review".
I was asked to go over & train my successors. They picked it up quickly but there's bound to be problems as there's a lot to take in in the space of 3.5 hours. One did a coupe of days & handed in his notice as he'd got a better job. Still not my problem!
On the plus side, I can take time off now that I don't have anything to do with photo packing (well at the moment). I can't take time off in July as i) I'm doing a graduation set-up/2 day participation/take-down & ii) Bruce decided (before this all kicked off) to take the last week of July too. He'll be in work for a paltry 50% of July (10 days out of the 20).
I've booked the 1st week in August and 4 days of half-term. Don't think he's noticed either, especially the latter yet.
When he complains I'll just repeat the 'printroom must be staffed' thing back at him and point out that I booked it in early of July (06/07 to be precise).
[* Head of the registry is a sort of anti-Midas as everything he touches turns to fucked-up shit)
Theresa May's in-tray problems & the EU
Having said that "Brexit means Brexit" PM-elect May has an awfully full in-tray. Here's just a few items.
She's already said she wont trigger Article 50, probably in early 2017. Understandably, the EU isn't happy about this. At all. Quite reasonably they say if we want out we should invoke the article & start on the 2 year negotiation. Also access to the single market requires obeying the rules which include the free movement of people.
There's already anecdotal evidence that the vote is having impacts (apart from sterling tanking etc):
What an Eton Mess!
- the markets
- Sterling
- Scotland
- the Irish border
- the Gibraltar border
- the frontier at Calais
- the need to continue compliance with all EU regulations for a free market
- re-issuing passports
- Brits abroad
- EU citizens in Britain
- farming subsidies
- Trident renewel
- HS2 (or scrapping of it)
- Heathrow expansion (or lack of it)
- the mountain of legislation to be torn up and rewritten
- attempting to re-unite her fractured party & then a deeply divided country
She's already said she wont trigger Article 50, probably in early 2017. Understandably, the EU isn't happy about this. At all. Quite reasonably they say if we want out we should invoke the article & start on the 2 year negotiation. Also access to the single market requires obeying the rules which include the free movement of people.
There's already anecdotal evidence that the vote is having impacts (apart from sterling tanking etc):
- banking companies have started opening departments on the continent
- Lush has moved it's new factory to Portugal
- UK Scientists & researchers are saying that they've been told to keep their names off EU-funded research proposals for fear of funding being denied
- UK Scientists & researchers being asked to step down from projects they are leading
- companies are scaling back or freezing investment decisions, waiting to see what deal emerges
What an Eton Mess!
There's lies and there's LIES
During the referendum campaign one of the most scurrilous lies told by the "Leave" side was that we send £350m a week to Brussels which we don't. Farage, Bowel Disease, BlowJob et all all said that money could be spent on the NHS.
They even painted on the side of a fucking huge bus. And posed with said bus.
Of coarse once victory was achieved the actualité was somewhat different. Farahe went on GMTV around 08.00 and admitted that the NHS wasn't going to get £350m. Other's also said that they hadn't specifically promised it and that the sign n the side of the 60 foot bus as just a suggestion.
Not surprisingly many people are rather angry about this. Particularly the twats & smegtards who voted to leave because they are too stupid & believed this obvious bollocks.
Somebody even set up a site to calculate the money that Boris owes http://whatdoesborisowe.co.uk/
They even painted on the side of a fucking huge bus. And posed with said bus.
Of coarse once victory was achieved the actualité was somewhat different. Farahe went on GMTV around 08.00 and admitted that the NHS wasn't going to get £350m. Other's also said that they hadn't specifically promised it and that the sign n the side of the 60 foot bus as just a suggestion.
Not surprisingly many people are rather angry about this. Particularly the twats & smegtards who voted to leave because they are too stupid & believed this obvious bollocks.
Somebody even set up a site to calculate the money that Boris owes http://whatdoesborisowe.co.uk/
Phyrric victory
The folowing appeared in the Independent a few days after the referendum & was shared loads on social media:
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http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/people-are-really-really-hoping-this-theory-about-david-cameron-and-brexit-is-true--bJhqBql0VZ
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As the dust settles on the EU referendum battleground, some 33 million voters await with bated breath to see what the victors will do now that the nation has spoken to leave.
Political commentators forecast a dark future for the UK: Jeremy Corbyn has just sacked Hilary Benn to head off a coup, and Boris Johnson could be prime minister come November.
David Cameron’s decision to resign before enacting Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which sets out how a country could leave the EU, may have much bigger implications for Conservative hopefuls eyeing up the Prime Minister's seat than they bargained for.
While panic ensues, one person’s musings in the comments section of the Guardian has an interesting hypothesis on these complications:
If Boris Johnson looked downbeat yesterday, that is because he realises that he has lost.
Perhaps many Brexiters do not realise it yet, but they have actually lost, and it is all down to one man: David Cameron.
With one fell swoop yesterday at 9:15 am, Cameron effectively annulled the referendum result, and simultaneously destroyed the political careers of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and leading Brexiters who cost him so much anguish, not to mention his premiership.
How?
Throughout the campaign, Cameron had repeatedly said that a vote for leave would lead to triggering Article 50 straight away. Whether implicitly or explicitly, the image was clear: he would be giving that notice under Article 50 the morning after a vote to leave. Whether that was scaremongering or not is a bit moot now but, in the midst of the sentimental nautical references of his speech yesterday, he quietly abandoned that position and handed the responsibility over to his successor.
And as the day wore on, the enormity of that step started to sink in: the markets, Sterling, Scotland, the Irish border, the Gibraltar border, the frontier at Calais, the need to continue compliance with all EU regulations for a free market, re-issuing passports, Brits abroad, EU citizens in Britain, the mountain of legislation to be torn up and rewritten ... the list grew and grew.
The referendum result is not binding. It is advisory. Parliament is not bound to commit itself in that same direction.
The Conservative party election that Cameron triggered will now have one question looming over it: will you, if elected as party leader, trigger the notice under Article 50?
Who will want to have the responsibility of all those ramifications and consequences on his/her head and shoulders?
Boris Johnson knew this yesterday, when he emerged subdued from his home and was even more subdued at the press conference. He has been out-manoeuvred and check-mated.
If he runs for leadership of the party, and then fails to follow through on triggering Article 50, then he is finished. If he does not run and effectively abandons the field, then he is finished. If he runs, wins and pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over - Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a recession ... broken trade agreements. Then he is also finished. Boris Johnson knows all of this. When he acts like the dumb blond it is just that: an act.
The Brexit leaders now have a result that they cannot use. For them, leadership of the Tory party has become a poison chalice.
When Boris Johnson said there was no need to trigger Article 50 straight away, what he really meant to say was "never". When Michael Gove went on and on about "informal negotiations" ... why? why not the formal ones straight away? ... he also meant not triggering the formal departure. They both know what a formal demarche would mean: an irreversible step that neither of them is prepared to take.
All that remains is for someone to have the guts to stand up and say that Brexit is unachievable in reality without an enormous amount of pain and destruction, that cannot be borne. And David Cameron has put the onus of making that statement on the heads of the people who led the Brexit campaign.
The comment, which was picked up on Twitter, has been shared thousands of times.
If true, that is some parting gift.
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http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/people-are-really-really-hoping-this-theory-about-david-cameron-and-brexit-is-true--bJhqBql0VZ
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As the dust settles on the EU referendum battleground, some 33 million voters await with bated breath to see what the victors will do now that the nation has spoken to leave.
Political commentators forecast a dark future for the UK: Jeremy Corbyn has just sacked Hilary Benn to head off a coup, and Boris Johnson could be prime minister come November.
David Cameron’s decision to resign before enacting Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which sets out how a country could leave the EU, may have much bigger implications for Conservative hopefuls eyeing up the Prime Minister's seat than they bargained for.
While panic ensues, one person’s musings in the comments section of the Guardian has an interesting hypothesis on these complications:
If Boris Johnson looked downbeat yesterday, that is because he realises that he has lost.
Perhaps many Brexiters do not realise it yet, but they have actually lost, and it is all down to one man: David Cameron.
With one fell swoop yesterday at 9:15 am, Cameron effectively annulled the referendum result, and simultaneously destroyed the political careers of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and leading Brexiters who cost him so much anguish, not to mention his premiership.
How?
Throughout the campaign, Cameron had repeatedly said that a vote for leave would lead to triggering Article 50 straight away. Whether implicitly or explicitly, the image was clear: he would be giving that notice under Article 50 the morning after a vote to leave. Whether that was scaremongering or not is a bit moot now but, in the midst of the sentimental nautical references of his speech yesterday, he quietly abandoned that position and handed the responsibility over to his successor.
And as the day wore on, the enormity of that step started to sink in: the markets, Sterling, Scotland, the Irish border, the Gibraltar border, the frontier at Calais, the need to continue compliance with all EU regulations for a free market, re-issuing passports, Brits abroad, EU citizens in Britain, the mountain of legislation to be torn up and rewritten ... the list grew and grew.
The referendum result is not binding. It is advisory. Parliament is not bound to commit itself in that same direction.
The Conservative party election that Cameron triggered will now have one question looming over it: will you, if elected as party leader, trigger the notice under Article 50?
Who will want to have the responsibility of all those ramifications and consequences on his/her head and shoulders?
Boris Johnson knew this yesterday, when he emerged subdued from his home and was even more subdued at the press conference. He has been out-manoeuvred and check-mated.
If he runs for leadership of the party, and then fails to follow through on triggering Article 50, then he is finished. If he does not run and effectively abandons the field, then he is finished. If he runs, wins and pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over - Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a recession ... broken trade agreements. Then he is also finished. Boris Johnson knows all of this. When he acts like the dumb blond it is just that: an act.
The Brexit leaders now have a result that they cannot use. For them, leadership of the Tory party has become a poison chalice.
When Boris Johnson said there was no need to trigger Article 50 straight away, what he really meant to say was "never". When Michael Gove went on and on about "informal negotiations" ... why? why not the formal ones straight away? ... he also meant not triggering the formal departure. They both know what a formal demarche would mean: an irreversible step that neither of them is prepared to take.
All that remains is for someone to have the guts to stand up and say that Brexit is unachievable in reality without an enormous amount of pain and destruction, that cannot be borne. And David Cameron has put the onus of making that statement on the heads of the people who led the Brexit campaign.
The comment, which was picked up on Twitter, has been shared thousands of times.
If true, that is some parting gift.
Politics
There's been an almighty upheaval in the world and all because of politics.
It all started with a bunch of tory boneheads. In order to neutralize these spunktrumpets, Cameron promised (and then followed through on) a referendum. He & his gormless chancellor campaigned for "Remain" whilst assorted Nazi's, Putin, Farage, Pob & BlowJob argued for "Leave".
Lots of lies were spread by the "Leave" side, such as the claim that we send £350m a week to Brussels (we don't) and that this could be spent on the NHS.
The prize bellends lost. So, in a way, did the other side (see following post). A LOT of people weren't happy about the result and there was evidence that some had voted for other reasons:
Probably due to the toxic vitriol spewed out during the campaign, attacks on immigrants and muslims rose sharply (racists seeing their views legitimized?)
Meanwhile, having promised that he'd invoke Article 50 immediately, firing the starting gun on the 2 year leaving process, Dodgy Dave resigned and left the live grenade for somebody else.
It also emerged that the winning side didn't have a plan for leaving the EU. There was some whining that the government should have had 1 but it was pointed out that the government did have a plan - to remain in the EU & it wasn't their job to come up with a plan for the alternative. That was the job for the cunts who won.
Everybody assumed that the new PM would be BlowJob. Until the treacherous Pob stabbed him in the face, dsaying he wasn't fit to be PM & announcing that, despite saying he didn't want it & would be no good at it, he was standing to be PM. Assembled hacks and supporters were stunned when Boris announced he wasn't going to stand.
Amongst all this Mr Toad also quit as leader. Again. The Labour Party, seeing the disarray in the government immediately descended into the kind of in-fighting they specialize in, with attempts to force Jeremy Corbyn out.
Gove was treated like a leper by his party colleagues for a few days but stood anyway. As did May, Fox, Crabb & Leadsome. The last was the "breakout star" (I shit you not, that's what some hack called her) of the leave campaign. Fox was eliminated in the 1st round & Crabb resigned from the race. Gove's act of machiavellian treachery was rewarded with elimination from the race too.
That left Theresa May (front-runner & "reluctant" remainer) v Andrea Leadsom (junior energy minister and total nutjob). what a choice for the 150,000 electorate of Tory members. Which was like choosing to be shot in the face or the groin. Or like Cruella De Vil or Delores Umbridge....
Questions started to emerge about Leadsom's much vaunted experience in the city. It seemed that, far from being a high-flying exec in charge of millions & 100s of staff, she was actually a competent middle manager. One expert on the Baring's collapse (worked on it & wrote a book about experience) said he'd never heard of her. Then it turned out she might actually have been bank-rolled by her brother-in-law via a tax haven.
She was mocked mercialessly on social media for her apparently made-up CV eg I didn't have deal with this when I was a NASA astronaut.
Then people started to look at her stances on gay marriage (against), homosexuality (links to groups that promote "cures") and fox-hunting (wanted ban to be repealed to promote animal welfare).
Then she gave an interview for the Times.
In the now-notorious interview she said that she was better placed to lead Britain out of Europe as she was a mother. She said that she had a 'stake in the future' as she had kids & the May's didn't.
That provoked a MASSIVE shitstorm!
Leadsom accused the journalist of twisting her words & "gutter journalism". She challenged them to provide the transcript, saying she'd never said that. So the Times produced the transcript where she said that. They helpfully also released the audio of her saying that too.
Over the weekend appalled colleagues (and some supporters) were calling for her to apologize & stand down.
While this was all going on the pounds had tanked to lows against the dollar not seen since the 80s and the FTSE100 & FTSE250 had also had billions wiped off their values. Which is odd because Pob had said 'don't trust the experts' that predicted exactly this.
Fast forward to Monday 11/07 and around 11.30 rumours started circulating that Leadsom, having found the criticism, scrutiny & mockery "shattering" was planning to withdraw.
At just after 12 she emerged from a house, preceded by glum supporters like IDS, and read out a letter she'd sent to the 1922 committee chair, Graham Brady saying she was standing down & backing Theresa May for leader.
May herself had not long opened her campaign in Birmingham and was on her way back to London when she heard the news.
Artist's impression of Theresa May receiving the news that she'd won by standing still.
Brady said he'd consult with the board but there wasn't going to re-open the race.
Accordingly Theresa May was now the leader & PM elect.
Dodgy Dave (who had probably been looking forward to a farewell tour & 8 weeks of summer of fun) announced that he'd do 1 more cabinet meeting on Tuesday & 1 more PMQs on Wednesday. Then he'd go to the Queen & resign. She wasn't in London so she had to rip up her diary and get back pronto. Then May would be invited to the Palace to be made the new PM on Wednesday afternoon/evening.
May herself (with husband in tow) came out of the commons the give a quick statement and thank everybody before heading off to start work on her cabinet and what the hell she was going to do with the live bomb that is Brexit.
Also an issue is whether the Union can hold together. Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain, as did Northern Ireland. Scottish 1st Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, immediately said she'd prepare legislation for a 2nd independence referendum. Some politicians in Belfast (both Republican &, surprisingly, Unionist) openly talked about joining the republic to the South to remain in the EU & access the useful grants.
Phew!
It all started with a bunch of tory boneheads. In order to neutralize these spunktrumpets, Cameron promised (and then followed through on) a referendum. He & his gormless chancellor campaigned for "Remain" whilst assorted Nazi's, Putin, Farage, Pob & BlowJob argued for "Leave".
Lots of lies were spread by the "Leave" side, such as the claim that we send £350m a week to Brussels (we don't) and that this could be spent on the NHS.
The prize bellends lost. So, in a way, did the other side (see following post). A LOT of people weren't happy about the result and there was evidence that some had voted for other reasons:
- a protest vote about austerity
- a vote against 'all them immigrants'
- a protest vote against the government
- becuase they believed the lies about money for the NHS
- so we don't have to be in the European Championships (though, in fairness to that particular thick bitch, Hodgeson's band of twats managed that feat a few days later)
Probably due to the toxic vitriol spewed out during the campaign, attacks on immigrants and muslims rose sharply (racists seeing their views legitimized?)
Meanwhile, having promised that he'd invoke Article 50 immediately, firing the starting gun on the 2 year leaving process, Dodgy Dave resigned and left the live grenade for somebody else.
It also emerged that the winning side didn't have a plan for leaving the EU. There was some whining that the government should have had 1 but it was pointed out that the government did have a plan - to remain in the EU & it wasn't their job to come up with a plan for the alternative. That was the job for the cunts who won.
Everybody assumed that the new PM would be BlowJob. Until the treacherous Pob stabbed him in the face, dsaying he wasn't fit to be PM & announcing that, despite saying he didn't want it & would be no good at it, he was standing to be PM. Assembled hacks and supporters were stunned when Boris announced he wasn't going to stand.
Amongst all this Mr Toad also quit as leader. Again. The Labour Party, seeing the disarray in the government immediately descended into the kind of in-fighting they specialize in, with attempts to force Jeremy Corbyn out.
Gove was treated like a leper by his party colleagues for a few days but stood anyway. As did May, Fox, Crabb & Leadsome. The last was the "breakout star" (I shit you not, that's what some hack called her) of the leave campaign. Fox was eliminated in the 1st round & Crabb resigned from the race. Gove's act of machiavellian treachery was rewarded with elimination from the race too.
That left Theresa May (front-runner & "reluctant" remainer) v Andrea Leadsom (junior energy minister and total nutjob). what a choice for the 150,000 electorate of Tory members. Which was like choosing to be shot in the face or the groin. Or like Cruella De Vil or Delores Umbridge....
Questions started to emerge about Leadsom's much vaunted experience in the city. It seemed that, far from being a high-flying exec in charge of millions & 100s of staff, she was actually a competent middle manager. One expert on the Baring's collapse (worked on it & wrote a book about experience) said he'd never heard of her. Then it turned out she might actually have been bank-rolled by her brother-in-law via a tax haven.
She was mocked mercialessly on social media for her apparently made-up CV eg I didn't have deal with this when I was a NASA astronaut.
Then people started to look at her stances on gay marriage (against), homosexuality (links to groups that promote "cures") and fox-hunting (wanted ban to be repealed to promote animal welfare).
Then she gave an interview for the Times.
In the now-notorious interview she said that she was better placed to lead Britain out of Europe as she was a mother. She said that she had a 'stake in the future' as she had kids & the May's didn't.
That provoked a MASSIVE shitstorm!
Leadsom accused the journalist of twisting her words & "gutter journalism". She challenged them to provide the transcript, saying she'd never said that. So the Times produced the transcript where she said that. They helpfully also released the audio of her saying that too.
Over the weekend appalled colleagues (and some supporters) were calling for her to apologize & stand down.
While this was all going on the pounds had tanked to lows against the dollar not seen since the 80s and the FTSE100 & FTSE250 had also had billions wiped off their values. Which is odd because Pob had said 'don't trust the experts' that predicted exactly this.
Fast forward to Monday 11/07 and around 11.30 rumours started circulating that Leadsom, having found the criticism, scrutiny & mockery "shattering" was planning to withdraw.
At just after 12 she emerged from a house, preceded by glum supporters like IDS, and read out a letter she'd sent to the 1922 committee chair, Graham Brady saying she was standing down & backing Theresa May for leader.
May herself had not long opened her campaign in Birmingham and was on her way back to London when she heard the news.
Artist's impression of Theresa May receiving the news that she'd won by standing still.
Brady said he'd consult with the board but there wasn't going to re-open the race.
Accordingly Theresa May was now the leader & PM elect.
Dodgy Dave (who had probably been looking forward to a farewell tour & 8 weeks of summer of fun) announced that he'd do 1 more cabinet meeting on Tuesday & 1 more PMQs on Wednesday. Then he'd go to the Queen & resign. She wasn't in London so she had to rip up her diary and get back pronto. Then May would be invited to the Palace to be made the new PM on Wednesday afternoon/evening.
May herself (with husband in tow) came out of the commons the give a quick statement and thank everybody before heading off to start work on her cabinet and what the hell she was going to do with the live bomb that is Brexit.
Also an issue is whether the Union can hold together. Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain, as did Northern Ireland. Scottish 1st Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, immediately said she'd prepare legislation for a 2nd independence referendum. Some politicians in Belfast (both Republican &, surprisingly, Unionist) openly talked about joining the republic to the South to remain in the EU & access the useful grants.
Phew!
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