BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Pross]

Recycling rates in this region is still below the 40% minimum threshold because basically, people cba.
Everything is there to facilitate recycling. I was told by a discerning citizen 'I willnae separate until the cooncil force me te'.
The local civic amenity site is really good and you can even deposit battery's and old engine oil yet the litter strewn and dumped in the sticks is omnipresent.
It's time resources were put into heavily fining a few 'examples' to dissuade them as good reason is insufficient for idiots.

It seems to be something Welsh Government has dealt with well down here and most people seem to just get on with it. It’s quite amusing going to the HWRC to get rid of some of the stuff you can’t recycle at the kerbside and seeing the staff make people open the bags they were going to dump in the landfill skip and have to sort it there and then.

 

[Pinno718]

Some conviction. We need a bit of that here.

 

[briantrumpet]

So much for the EU being on its last legs. Great work by Trump. Seems like the Euro is now the safe haven, and the £ is tied to the $ (or floating around in the Atlantic). £ at 1.15 this morning.

 

[Stevo 666]

Your original point was about a trade deal between the UK and the US.
Many obstacles. A lot the potential concessions are not good.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-concessions-food-safety-digital-services-vat

I mean, Sunak's 'deal' was pi$$ poor wasn't it? Just lip service on the face of it:

In June 2023, Biden and Sunak announced the 'Atlantic Declaration' to strengthen economic ties between the UK and the US. The agreement included a limited trade pact covering critical minerals needed for EV batteries, a new data protection deal, and easing other trade barriers.

My original point was this - from page 22:
"Sounds like an unreconciled remainer trying to deflect from the immediate advantage we now have over the EU on trade with the US.

Brexit was done ages ago and it's not like there is a choice to go back as no major political party will do that. But as I've said before, sometimes there is a price to pay for freedom. Hey ho."

So I'm trying to work out how your posts are relevant to that?

Seems like you still have that old Cake Stop problem of not being able to stick to the subject. Or not wanting to 😉

 

[Stevo 666]

So much for the EU being on its last legs. Great work by Trump. Seems like the Euro is now the safe haven, and the £ is tied to the $ (or floating around in the Atlantic). £ at 1.15 this morning.

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The EU isn't on its last legs, its more of a slow decline as it regulates itself into an economic backwater.

Similar for the single currency which is long term unsuitable for the EU in its current form - they need more complete political integration and effectively treating it like one country for the Euro to function properly. And we all know what a lot of the European voters (especially in the more financially prudent countries) think of of that...

Probably better that we are free from that IMO.

 

[briantrumpet]

The EU isn't on its last legs, its more of a slow decline as it regulates itself into an economic backwater.

Similar for the single currency which is long term unsuitable for the EU in its current form - they need more complete political integration and effectively treating it like one country for the Euro to function properly. And we all know what a lot of the European voters (especially in the more financially prudent countries) think of of that...

Probably better that we are free from that IMO.

You *so* want it to fail, but the markets don't seem to share your sentiment at the moment. As the US is demonstrating, the fortunes of large trading blocs can rise and fall, and the US is rather dramatically demonstrating the latter, while the EU, relatively, is a safe haven.

 

[BoldonLad]

Interesting how the markets appear to be on the side of the righteous rather than the capitalist lackeys

 

[PurplePenguin]

You *so* want it to fail, but the markets don't seem to share your sentiment at the moment. As the US is demonstrating, the fortunes of large trading blocs can rise and fall, and the US is rather dramatically demonstrating the latter, while the EU, relatively, is a safe haven.

The EU is currently having a good run, but that's a relative measure as the rest of the world is falling apart.

At the moment, the EU, or more specifically France, is still trying to wrap fishing discussions up with defence. It's just that such idiocy is regularly trumped by Trump, so goes unnoticed.

 

[Stevo 666]

You *so* want it to fail, but the markets don't seem to share your sentiment at the moment. As the US is demonstrating, the fortunes of large trading blocs can rise and fall, and the US is rather dramatically demonstrating the latter, while the EU, relatively, is a safe haven.

I explained before on Cake Stop, it's a prediction rather than a wish. Will likely take time as I've also said.

 

[briantrumpet]

I explained before on Cake Stop, it's a prediction rather than a wish. Will likely take time as I've also said.

Too early to tell then.

 

[Stevo 666]

Too early to tell then.

And here's me thinking you'd left the centre leftie smartarse stuff behind in Cake Stop - never mind. You're right though, too early to tell if will survive in anything like its current form.

And sadly for you, it's also too early to tell if we will ever rejoin while we are alive 😉

 

[briantrumpet]

And here's me thinking you'd left the centre leftie smartarse stuff behind in Cake Stop - never mind. You're right though, too early to tell if will survive in anything like its current form.

And sadly for you, it's also too early to tell if we will ever rejoin while we are alive 😉

You're right about the latter.

It's also too early to tell if the US will survive in its current form (or as it was before Trump & Musk took their wrecking balls to it).

 

[Stevo 666]

You're right about the latter.

It's also too early to tell if the US will survive in its current form (or as it was before Trump & Musk took their wrecking balls to it).

The US will survive and return to a more normal state of affairs eventually - is my prediction. While the US electorate may be very inward looking and blinkered in many ways, one thing they will not forgive is a President/administration that makes them worse off. Which by the look of it, his current policies will do.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

I explained before on Cake Stop, it's a prediction rather than a wish. Will likely take time as I've also said.

Isn’t that Trumps tariff line?

 

[Stevo 666]

Isn’t that Trumps tariff line?

Not sure what you mean?