MilkyJoe
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You joke, I had to move 50 miles outside of London and our joint wages are, according to
http://www.ifs.org.uk/wheredoyoufitin/
Which fucking sucks cause I seldom see my friends an family
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The UK votes to leave the European Union |OUT2| Mayday, Mayday, I've lost an ARM
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You joke, I had to move 50 miles outside of London and our joint wages are, according to
http://www.ifs.org.uk/wheredoyoufitin/
Which fucking sucks cause I seldom see my friends an family
So much this. Honestly, I'd have to imagine if you decreased the need for anyone going further than Europe to need to travel into Heathrow to get a sensible flight, then Heathrows capacity problems would at least partially solve themselves. I waste so much goddamn time having to fly down south just to get a flight to the US on the days I need to fly.
I don't think the remote living is as big an issue as you think presuming it's not too remote, as most brownsites tend to be. As long as there's commuter links (or at least roads), people are willing to commute to work. Being in Northumberland, I know folks who drive an hour each way a day to get into work. It's not actually that much of a deal breaker as long as housing is available and affordable.
MilkyJoe
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Oh you'd have to have the commuter links, my commute is 3 hours a day, people do what they have to, but when you take into account stopping at stations and people getting on and off, an hour sitting on a train doesn't take you that far sometimes.
FlammableD
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I'd love the Midlands to have some proper investment. I could move back home rather than be trapped in the South where I can't afford a home, but it's also the only place where I can get a decent tech job.
Successive governments have failed me. They crippled the Midlands, they made it attractive for tech startups to be in the M4 corridor, and they kept on allowing more and more money to be pumped into housing.
It's similar government failures that have people talking about capacity. We don't build enough homes, our current housing regulations say we have the smallest homes in Europe, we make ATROCIOUS use of the land we have, our road network is renewed and reviewed at a GLACIAL pace, our rail network has almost no central direction, our health service is seeing stealth cut after stealth cut, and the government has committed a gross abdication of responsibility with education by basically saying "We can't be bothered, can you set a school up for us?".
Continual over investment in the South has left a lot of bitter Midland/Northern/Scottish/Welsh/and Northern Irish sentiment to a load of Eton lads who seem to have a jolly old time of it. We're the sixth biggest economy in the world and a proper plan could be fixing this. But no, instead we've had 30 years of saying "Well if you want a job move south", and now we're reaping the disaster that's causing to our infrastructure.
It makes me so angry for blame to be so easily transferred from government to immigrants, benefit recipients, and basically anyone else vulnerable.
Trolling should ideally be more subtle.
I wonder if he was able to keep a straight face while typing that.
Nice!So it begins,
Royal_Phalanx
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I still haven't come to terms with the reality that is Brexit. I keep thinking I'll wake up and this was all a bad dream. The Norway model is wishful thinking on my part, perhaps the Swiss one would be more likely. Nevertheless, I think free movement will have to stay.
nelsonroyale
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So it begins,
This is probably accurate from many angles...
Royal_Phalanx
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Except this time Palpatine will win in the end.
PJV3
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AHA-Lambda
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Well the Emperor won for a good few years. Since Luke was Born. He didn't win in the end, but he had a good run
What I'm trying to say is... give it 18 or so years (whatever age Luke was by the end of the original trilogy lol)
and then we'll see who wins.
Possibly Palpatine in which case you'll be right ;_;
So it begins,
Obi Wan knew when to take one for the team and let Luke Skywalker take over though
So it begins,
I backed Remain... from a certain point of view.
There is no Luke Skywalker yet.
We need a strong Jedi to overtake the party, not a Gray Jedi like the PLP are trying to deliver.
Are you saying Angela Eagle is Luke Skywalker
It's apparent that many of us haven't slept since the referendum results.
Funky Papa
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Madrid launches special working group to seduce companies operating in the UK (hot googletrans garbage)
Both the region and the city are working on special taxes and regulations to welcome any company that may be interested in relocating.
Both the region and the city are working on special taxes and regulations to welcome any company that may be interested in relocating.
MilkyJoe
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City will counter, don't you worry.
PJV3
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With a Herculean effort and spending billions of pounds we can have something almost as good as it is now.
Interesting to see how having a lesbian foreign sec will go down when she visits more conservative parts of the world.
(I mean that in a fuck those places, not anti-LGBTQ, kind of way).
Funky Papa
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I don't think they are aiming for the City yet, but probably industrial concerns. Nobody at The City is ever going to do anything drastic until Article 50 has been invoqued and things start coming into the picture.
So it begins,
While we can't yet tell who is Luke or Anakin, we can probably assume that the whole Conservative group is basically Varys from Game of Thrones. After all, they just lost their Johnson.
Thornton Reed
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So it begins,
corbyn is more phantom menace than new hope
Angela Eagle is... I dunno, one of the background characters that got one of their own figures and name despite having no lines or actual role in the film
Royal_Phalanx
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Corbyn is Jar-Jar Binks confirmed.
Psychotext
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This Smith guy... is he as shit as Eagle and Corbyn?
Better than Eagle, but he's a bit of an unknown. It would be hard to be worse than Corbyn in his current position, mind you, so better by default? Eagle would still limbo below that bar though.
It's very much the C-Team gunning for the leadership here right now though. The top tier are too concerned about losing to run.
Principate
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Just an email from my student association, denouncing May because of her track of "wrongful" deportation of up to 50,000 students and the numerous cases specifically within the university, which has a proportionally high number of international students.
I didn't realise her home secretary horror stories were this well known, and to this scale that their laying out hands of solidarity with the international students to fight "xenophobia and racism in all it's forms".
I didn't realise her home secretary horror stories were this well known, and to this scale that their laying out hands of solidarity with the international students to fight "xenophobia and racism in all it's forms".
Moments hunter
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Jaguar Land Rover is building big factory in Slovakia. I expect big shift in production there.
ahaha not gonna work.] or might, we will see won't we?
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That was an exceptional year. At ordinary rates it would last a decade. But yes, the real point is that England really isn't that heavily urbanised, which is why there is actually so little brownfield - it's all green! Over 95% of the country!
This is not related to the UK alone. Tata is moving 4000 jobs out of the Netherlands to Eastern Europe. Once Eastern European workers demand better conditions, they will find another country to move to, keeping shareholders happy.
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But I'm a Dinner Jacket is a conservative...
EDIT: that was probably the best autocorrect of all time and I shall let it stand as a monument.
EDIT: that was probably the best autocorrect of all time and I shall let it stand as a monument.
This very much so. I grew up in the south and then moved to Scotland. Until I had left I never realised how much favouritism there is in the south east of England. The consequence of which we are starting to see: House prices out of reach for most in the south-east, public transport in south-east not able to keep up with demand (e.g. London-Brighton Mainline), etc.
It’s crazy that it’s quicker for me to fly to London than take a train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh or Glasgow.
wow, he left the country in a better condition than in the middle of the worst recession in a century. hats off to him!
The Lib Dems are, unfortunately, still remembered for their 'tuition fees' mess in 2010. I have no idea how long that will take to fade, but obviously more than 6 years.
Actually that reminds me, we had a small-l liberal party here in Australia called The Democrats, who in the Senate allowed through the Liberal government's GST tax despite their pledge to block it, that was the end of them. They had the balance of power, and now they don't even exist. The circumstances around the tuition fees and the GST bear somewhat of a resemblance, but I don't think the same fate awaits the Lib Dems, maybe, who knows?
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