Thursday 23 November 2017

Tories policies have failed


The Tories policies have failed, the evidence is all around us. The have failed on every economic forcast and this isnt just because of the Finacial crash because pretty much every EU country is doing better. If that isnt an indication of failure then I dont know what is.



Weak and Wobbly the Conservatives of Chaos......
"UK is the worst-performing advanced economy in the world, official figures confirm"

"The UK is on course for its longest fall in living standards since records began more than 60 years ago, with real disposable incomes now set to fall for 19 successive quarters."

"We are in danger of losing not just one but getting on for two decades of earnings growth,"

"The latest official figures showed workers' earnings, excluding bonuses, rose 2.2% in the three months to September compared with a year ago."
"But they fell 0.5% in real terms when accounting for inflation, marking seven months of negative pay growth, according to the Office for National Statistics."

"GDP grew at just 0.2 per cent during the first three months of this year – slower than all other G7 and European countries, the Office for National Statistics reported"

 "The UK economy, which had held up better than expected in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote, is now lagging behind all of the other countries in the G7 group of advanced nations and all other European countries."



LINKS
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42096806
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/uk-economy-world-worst-performing-advanced-countries-state-g7-european-union-a7817046.html 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_governments

Thursday 16 November 2017

The EU Cabbage - Myth



Did a government memo regulating the sale of cabbages use 26,911 words? 

Very basically ..... 

No its bollox


[Collected via e-mail, April 2012]
For anybody who doesn?t fully understand the Euro situation,
it is explained very simply in the picture below……..
THIS IS BRILLIANT – and loopholes Europe in a “few” words
Pythagoras’ theorem – 24 words.
Lord’s Prayer – 66 words.
Archimedes’ Principle – 67 words.
10 Commandments – 179 words.
Gettysburg address – 286 words.
US Declaration of Independence – 1,300 words.
US Constitution with all 27 Amendments – 7,818 words.
EU regulations on the sale of a cabbage – 26,911 words

Previous versions
[Collected via e-mail, 2000]
Pythagorean theorem: 24 words
The Lord’s Prayer: 66 words
Archimedes’ Principle: 67 words
The Ten Commandments: 179 words
The Gettysburg Address: 286 words
The Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words
The US government regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words

  • Various versions have been around for at least 50 years
  • The EU did have a document relating to cabbages which was 2000 words long.
  • The EU no longer has a document relating to cabbages
  
In 2006, Regulation (EC) No 634/2006 addressed the size of cabbages, and how they should be labelled, in just under 2,000 words. In 2009, however, these regulations, along with some other rules on the sale of fruit and vegetables, were repealed.
 For those who are unsure how big a 2000 word document is. Its aproximately 5 pages of A4 and the actual document is here.

Interestinly the actual document is actually 5 1/2 pages and 1,996 long in english

FR - 4 Pages 775 words
EL - 7 pages 781 words
ET - 3 Pages 480 words
DE - 8 Pages 1793 words





LINKS
https://www.snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35962999
https://www.indy100.com/article/dont-believe-anything-a-eurosceptic-tells-you-about-cabbage--bJHxXSSIebZ
http://www.skeptical-science.com/politics/cabbages-vs/