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I have never thought Corbyn to be anything other than bitter, but I guess that comes with being an extremist at either end of the spectrum. Farage because the Brexit is too soft in his view, Corbyn because, well, he's just Corbyn.
Still you were right about one thing: sterling has fallen as a result of the announcement - but supposedly only because of profit taking against the rises in the last couple of days (I got this off Wikipedia by the way)
I think we agreed on that aspect a thousand posts ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by ramAnag
Only one that you would be interested in, and its going nowhere - Archie Bell And the Drells 'The Tighten Up' AT2478P stamped 'Promo Only (etc) and single-sided, unplayed and still sealed in its red and black dust cover, and its the only record in my collection that is not in it to be played, I'm not a collector. I dealt with the rest as part of the business and appeared to make a lot of fellahs very happy, the highest price I recall was over £100 for a promo of Aretha's Do Right Woman with Aretha herself given songwriting credits. All the stuff I kept was albums, and most of that Rock, sorry. But keep the faith.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadAmster
The referendum wasn't a question of remain or leave though. In reality it was a question of leave or immerse ourselves deeper and deeper into what will become the U S of E. The power of veto will be withdrawn, the eu army formed, we'll pay even more, etc, etc. I think that this is obvious to every man and his dog.
In years to come we will say thank god we didn't sign up to that, much like the question of joining the euro. Btw, can you find anyone now, who claims to have backed joining the euro?
Tony Benn was against joining the Common Market because he feared where it would take us and he was ridiculed, he was also right.
With a lot of stuff, I could give you a figure within 10% of what it might fetch. I have to admit that this one has me extremely intrigued as I have never seen, nor even heard of, a single sided promo of this track. An online check also shows no info on this promo on Discogs and they have a pretty comprehensive list of every issue of most records. EG Edwin Starr had 4 releases of Agent Double O Soul on Ric Tic plus the Promo. The first was titled Agent O O Soul but every DJ was calling it O O rather than Double O as in the lyrics. They brought it out with black writing on a red label and black on yellow and red on yellow. The promo was balck on white. I am still trying to get the O O version. All of that info can be found on Discogs. They do not, however, have any info on your single sided promo. This calls for investigation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy_Faber
‘The referendum wasn’t a question of remain or leave though’. Really?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ram59
Unfortunately that’s precisely what it was.
The fact that you have thought a little more deeply about the issues than a simple ‘remain’ or ‘leave’ doesn’t alter what the referendum ultimately became and I still feel all too many made an altogether more simplistic decision based on nothing other than uninformed fear, prejudice and resentment.
On a sort of related subject, and a genuine non-loaded question RA: You've been an advocate of increased funding for public services, what's your view on the current revelations regarding University principles' pay/reward? I'll offer a view uncoloured by student debt etc because both my children went the advanced apprenticeship route (and thank God they did) - my view is such pay rates are obscene.Quote:
Originally Posted by ramAnag
Heres a coloured view - I agree obscene.
On the contrary, we are heading (no matter how big the smokescreen for the hard Brexiteers) to just the sort of "soft" Brexit that I predicted over a year ago - the language is obscure and indeed deliberately so, but words like "parallel regulatory regime" effectively mean we will operate in a parallel and amazingly similar regulatory regime to the EU which realistically was always going to be the case and isn't too much of a problem for the EU because the Uk were always a reluctant Eu member - incidentally contrary to what has been posted on here, If we had remained in the EU, our Veto could not have been removed, and we would not have had to join the Euro, schengen or a so called EU army etc etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by roger_ramjet
What people don't understand is that the myriad of regulations covering everything from financial services, chemicals, nuclear material, standards for goods, environmental protection etc. will have to be the same for us to continue to trade with the EU, financial services make up a large % of our GDP, supply chains for our industry is EU, most of our trade is with the EU, there is no market that will replace that at the very least not in the next two decades, so we will have to run a parallel course.
Naturally it will seem as we have "taken back control" in reality that will not be the case but dont tell those who voted leave!
I do indeed support increased funding for public services because, imo, decent public services are the ‘rock’ upon which any remotely compassionate society is built.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy_Faber
I know you, Roger and others will immediately go into ‘and who do you think pays for them’ mode and I understand that. Yes, of course we need the wealth providers, but we need the carers, educators, health providers, refuse collectors, first responders, law enforcers etc just as much, however I totally agree with your sentiment about University Principles just as I do about others at the top of their little ‘empires’ and as I do about the outrageous sums paid to professional sportsmen etc.
P.S. I also agree with Swale’s take on Brexit in the post above and seeing as Roger is agreeing with you too we may have that rare situation where all four of us appear to be in something approaching agreement. :)