caze
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The main thing the number of votes cast in the last election suggest is that Corbyn is less popular than May. There has been no evidence since then to suggest this will be any different next time around. His brexit strategy has even seen his support within in his own party decline since then. It's true that there are votes to be won in the north of England by supporting brexit, but there are lots of votes to be lost in the big metropolitan areas too, and among young people generally. He'd have been far better off focusing on and energising a single base of voters, the ones who were already pretty excited about him to begin with, instead of pissing them off. https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/yougov-poll-finds-remain-now-has-largest-lead-witnessed-since-brexit-referendum-1-5855346 This also isn't true, and there'll be more of them.
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I don't think that's accurate, they've been fairly clear and consistent on what their brexit strategy is. The problem though is that it's just as unworkable and unrealistic as the Tory version. This bullshit has been going on for years now and everyone involved seems to be still struggling with the basics: you want continued access to the single market and the customs regime, you have to take its rules and obligations, this is non-negotiable. The UKs red lines prevent this (and this applies both to Labour and the Conservatives) then fine, we can have a free trade deal instead (which Labour won't advocate because of their own party divisions). This means we need a separate regime to operate in Northern Ireland though (so the Conservatives can't go this route, because of the DUP). All of this has been apparent since before the referendum (with the exception of May losing her majority and allowing the DUP to factor into the debate) and most of the politicians are either still clueless to these facts, or are just pretending to be for dumb political reasons.
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Yes, it's great alright. You should read The Futurological Congress next, has a cool thing where governments bomb each other with hallucinogenic weapons.
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people often say that maybe everyone died a few years ago and we're now in hell, it's more like purgatory tbh. in other news, how shit a opposition leader do you have to be to look worse than May during this nonsense? Not Sure for Prime Minister!
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as long as you're not saying that searing leads to juicy steaks we're good
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I do. I only really do that with a lamb steak, a pork chop or a pork tenderloin, but you could do it with a steak too if you wanted.
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sorry but searing doesn't hold juices in, that's just a fact. ask a food scientist. searing actually causes meat to loose more moisture, slow cooking, or sous vide will keep the most moisture in. but all starting off with a big heavy sear will do is develop lovely maillard reaction flavours. resting will also stop the meat losing moisture because the muscle fibres relax and the water will redistribute throughout the meat, if you cut into a steak just after cooking it'll just gush out.
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yeah the garlic thing is good, another thing to do is mounting: melt some butter at the end once it's nearly finished cooking, drop some crushed cloves of garlic in and some thyme, and baste the steak with the melted garlicy herby butter.
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steak just needs salt on it prior to frying imo, bit of pepper on after is good (it just burns off before, so a waste of time). rubs only make sense if you slow cook something. 'sealing juicy goodness' is a myth, resting meat keeps the juices in not creating a crust. rubs might be good for a reverse sear of a big steak, never tried that, but my preference with steak is just to taste the meat (assuming it's a nice tasty grass fed cow), still should give it a try. I think we've had this conversation before...
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this was my first plate of christmas dinner: and this was my second: and then today I had my third: ...and fourth (not pictured because food coma left me too weak to operate camera). drank far too much very nice wine too, a couple of nice amarone's and a few other Valpolicellas, lots of Champagne and Crement as well. I've hit the wall with the booze now though, so drinking a pot of tea and eating too many ferrero rochers.
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Under the Silver Lake. really liked this. weird mix of noir (lots of long goodbye references, and the soundtrack, which is great, is very old Hollywood) and modern aimlessness/cynicism/conspiratorial credulousness. reminded me a lot of Lebowski as well, though it's not as funny, but has a similar tone and treats the characters in a similar way. very self indulgent and meandering, but it mostly works, aside from maybe the bit with the songwriter. looks great too. made by the guy who did It Follows.
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it's probably some eco-activist, or anti-airport type (noise complaints etc).
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they hardly had to scramble very far to talk about this, it's kind of a big deal. ridiculous how ill prepared they were, no deal brexit will be fun if this is representative of British preparedness.
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I also think she's terrible, but not because of any media representation, she's a far left loon who thinks Mao was great. Weird how anyone who made positive comments about Hitler would rightly see their political career come to an end, but if they were to gush about Stalin or Mao it's dismissed as harmless.
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...even if the European Council tried to change the backstop now (which they won't), the European Parliament wouldn't let them: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20181212IPR21624/ep-group-leaders-on-brexit-the-agreement-is-not-open-to-renegotiation
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no, they've been pretty clear they're not budging on the contents of the withdrawal agreement, at most they'll offer some additional assurances on why the backstop won't be required, and maybe agree to do some more work on the political statement regarding the future trade negotiations (assurances that it wouldn't take forever to agree a deal for example, further reducing the need to invoke the backstop). The DUP seem adamant that they're not going to accept any form of backstop now though, so the only way this deal is getting through is with Labour support. even May has said the backstop is not going to be renegotiated.
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I think May will probably squeak through the vote, whether that'll leave her with enough support to continue remains to be seen, Thatcher resigned in that situation, but this isn't the same, she might feel the need to continue on to prevent a no deal scenario playing out (which many brexiteers would be happy with at this point, now that a no-brexit is a real possibility). Her losing could be disastrous, whoever wins after that would have to extend or retract article 50, and if the winner comes from the brexit camp they may be unwilling to do so, in which case no-deal would be the most likely outcome, the EU are done negotiating.
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Corbyn in power would lead to the same economic collapse as a no-deal brexit, of course there's a very real possibility of both happening at the same time, economic collapse squared.
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That's exactly what it looked like as well, was it horrible?
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It's not true that no measures have been taken (e.g. ESM). This won't be a permanent solution, but there are various different avenues along which it could be developed in the future into something more robust (along with banking reforms, etc), this could either take an EU focused approach (what the Germans and French want, including tax harmonisation), or keep most stuff in national control (what most everyone else wants, i.e. the new Hanseatic League, a much better idea). The Euro isn't an ideal currency by any means, it takes a lot of work to get around the inherent problems; but given how much it helps facilitate trade, and simply for the convenience it affords individuals, it's definitely worth the trouble.
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Exactly (and that's ignoring the fact that austerity measures have never worked to combat recessions). Monetary union without political union was doomed from the start. Ireland wasn't one of the weaker Euro economies before the crash (it was one of the strongest), and it was proof that austerity can work (because it's back, or at least on the way given the current growth rates, to being one of the strongest again). I wasn't in favour of austerity at the time, and still wouldn't be in favour given the choice in the future, but it did work (it just wasn't worth the pain, nor was it morally justified). The fact that the Euro survived the financial crash suggests it wasn't doomed at all, in fact it's quite robust.
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It won't be. If the UK does remain they will remain on exactly the same terms they were on before, i.e. they'll retain the rebate and they won't have to take the Euro, they won't be under any pressure to move towards 'ever closer union' (which is either a bogeyman spread by eurosceptics or a fantasy spread by the Germans, it can't happen without unanimity, which isn't going to happen).
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Turns out there was nothing in the legal advice that we didn't already know, so that was all a fuss about nothing tbqh.
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yes, he did win over votes from the mainstream parties, but only really from people who were already in the centre but who traditionally voted socialist or republican. melenchon and le pen were trying to court working class voters from both sides, thankfully they both failed miserably. there doesn't seem to be much appetite in France for populism.
