June 29, 2016 at 1:58 pm
djj (6/29/2016)
jasona.work (6/29/2016)
Oh the fun of the last couple days before a long holiday weekend...Everyone who could, took time off, those that are left (me!) work on things but have to constantly fight the daydreaming of the upcoming weekend and what you're going to be doing...
Doesn't help that it's wonderful weather outside right now...
Ditto - except only one is off (That's one sixth the department)
It'll be even worse tomorrow. At least there won't be as many people around to bother us - maybe we'll be able to get work done. 😛
June 29, 2016 at 2:04 pm
Ed Wagner (6/29/2016)
djj (6/29/2016)
jasona.work (6/29/2016)
Oh the fun of the last couple days before a long holiday weekend...Everyone who could, took time off, those that are left (me!) work on things but have to constantly fight the daydreaming of the upcoming weekend and what you're going to be doing...
Doesn't help that it's wonderful weather outside right now...
Ditto - except only one is off (That's one sixth the department)
It'll be even worse tomorrow. At least there won't be as many people around to bother us - maybe we'll be able to get work done. 😛
All-day all-week architecture meetings, Friday off for a golf outing. Sleeping and day dreaming has been the entire weeks agenda!
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June 29, 2016 at 2:10 pm
TomThomson (6/29/2016)
In fact real Britons don't approve of these non-Brit Anglo-Saxon and Norman-French invaders calling themselves Britons. 😛
You know, after a thousand or so years, I think we can call ourselves Britons. 😉
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June 29, 2016 at 2:48 pm
GilaMonster (6/29/2016)
TomThomson (6/29/2016)
In fact real Britons don't approve of these non-Brit Anglo-Saxon and Norman-French invaders calling themselves Britons. 😛You know, after a thousand or so years, I think we can call ourselves Britons. 😉
Careful now...you don't want to rush into anything. 😉
Edit: Of course, I think you're right and the 1000+ year wait wasn't necessary.
June 29, 2016 at 6:08 pm
GilaMonster (6/29/2016)
TomThomson (6/29/2016)
In fact real Britons don't approve of these non-Brit Anglo-Saxon and Norman-French invaders calling themselves Britons. 😛You know, after a thousand or so years, I think we can call ourselves Britons. 😉
Yes, of course, but we mustn't let the Americans know that - it might mess up our tourist trade. :rolleyes:
Tom
June 29, 2016 at 6:45 pm
ChrisM@Work (6/29/2016)
tindog (6/29/2016)
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tindog (6/29/2016)
Now Wales are after independence from England to 'safeguard' their future...despite the fact that they also voted in favour of Brexit :w00t:The Welsh aren't like us humans.
I feared that link may be NSFW then... :hehe: Oh Way-yells...
I propose a Gloucestershire independence vote. No-one recognises that there's a UK outside of London anyway 😉
Be ambitious - reinstate Mercia with Charles as king 😉
I guess that might be a little too ambitious - would Charles turn into another Offa and take over most of England and build a dyke to keep the Welsh out?
Well, that would perhaps move the seat of per in Britain from London to Tamworth; but would the pope recreate the Archdiocese of Lichfield to enable the Mercian royal house to be crowned by their own pocket archbishop, as Pope Adrian the first did in 787? Would Charles then be able to extend the borders of Mercia to include all of Wessex, Sussex, Essex, Kent, East Anglia so that only Northumbria and Dumnonia were the only places in what is now England not dominated by Mercia, as Offa did?
I guess the good news would be that London no longer ruled the roost. The bad news would be that Tamworth now did.
Tom
June 30, 2016 at 2:04 am
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June 30, 2016 at 4:19 am
Grant Fritchey (6/30/2016)
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June 30, 2016 at 4:56 am
TomThomson (6/29/2016)
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tindog (6/29/2016)
Now Wales are after independence from England to 'safeguard' their future...despite the fact that they also voted in favour of Brexit :w00t:The Welsh aren't like us humans.
I feared that link may be NSFW then... :hehe: Oh Way-yells...
I propose a Gloucestershire independence vote. No-one recognises that there's a UK outside of London anyway 😉
That's because there isn't - what we have is a disunited kingdom, not a united one. The UK government directs funding disproportionately to the south east, and the rest of the union can go hang as far as the bureaucrats in Whitehall are concerned.
Word. And then moving to that area is still difficult due to the overinflated house & rental prices. Apparently the further away from London (in England, anyway) you get, the cheaper housing is. Go figure...
Speaking of London, I'm about to embark on a 3 hr coach trip with colleagues to a party in Greenwich 🙁 I struggle with office socials.
June 30, 2016 at 6:59 am
The UK government directs funding disproportionately to the south east, and the rest of the union can go hang as far as the bureaucrats in Whitehall are concerned.
The money comes FROM London in the first place. It's the only part of the UK that makes a net contribution TO the economy.
June 30, 2016 at 7:09 am
Beatrix Kiddo (6/30/2016)
The UK government directs funding disproportionately to the south east, and the rest of the union can go hang as far as the bureaucrats in Whitehall are concerned.
The money comes FROM London in the first place. It's the only part of the UK that makes a net contribution TO the economy.
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June 30, 2016 at 7:10 am
Beatrix Kiddo (6/30/2016)
The UK government directs funding disproportionately to the south east, and the rest of the union can go hang as far as the bureaucrats in Whitehall are concerned.
The money comes FROM London in the first place. It's the only part of the UK that makes a net contribution TO the economy.
Beatrix...would be interested to read more...do you have a source for this please?
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June 30, 2016 at 7:15 am
Beatrix Kiddo (6/30/2016)
The UK government directs funding disproportionately to the south east, and the rest of the union can go hang as far as the bureaucrats in Whitehall are concerned.
The money comes FROM London in the first place. It's the only part of the UK that makes a net contribution TO the economy.
That's true but it doesn't excuse the shameful lack of investment in the regions. In 2014 London received 24 times more infrastructure spending than the North East. That's not just a bit more, it's enormous. It's all very well people saying that's where the money is made so why shouldn't it be spent there but that looks a lot like complete disregard for life outside the M25.
If there was more fairness in the spending by central government, of all hues, I might add, the economies of the regions would likely receive a boost. As the phrase goes, you have to speculate to accumulate. Looking at things now, it just looks like London is accumulating more and more because it's getting all the speculation.
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June 30, 2016 at 8:10 am
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Beatrix Kiddo (6/30/2016)
The UK government directs funding disproportionately to the south east, and the rest of the union can go hang as far as the bureaucrats in Whitehall are concerned.
The money comes FROM London in the first place. It's the only part of the UK that makes a net contribution TO the economy.
Beatrix...would be interested to read more...do you have a source for this please?
I can't find the actual source I had in mind, but there's this:
http://colresearch.typepad.com/colresearch/2014/11/what-does-london-contribute-.html
I did miss out the SE region- I meant London & the SE (they do tend to be conflated).
London economy makes a £34 billion net positive contribution to UK public finances
The results are fascinating [...] London is found to be making a major £34 billion positive net contribution to the UK public finances. The South East also makes a positive contribution – a £22 billion surplus – and the East of England is very slightly in positive territory at £181 million, but the rest of the UK’s 12 constituent countries and regions are in deficit. The largest estimated deficits are in the North West, Yorkshire and the Humber and Scotland. However, this is distorted by the size of the population; in relative terms the largest deficits are in Northern Ireland, Wales and the North East.
BWFC, I agree with you. I'm also trying to say "London" (the entity) is not the monster it is often made out to be. Plenty of perfectly normal people live and work in London, and that is often overlooked by detractors.
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