Re: An old trick in the US
The UK is perfectly capable of maintaining standards outside the EU.
Yes, but will it maintain labour protection standards with the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg at the reins?
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One of my peers saw me reading El Reg the other day and sneered "You don't still read that do you?" as if a couple of rungs up the corporate hierarchy should cure me of this bad habit. Well yes, I still do, and guess what? That's why I'm better informed than said colleague :-)
I, for one, welcome our new ... just kidding :-)
Liz is so crap only 57% of the Tories could bear to vote for her. Quiet Man Ian Duncan-Smith got more. Cameron the pig-shagger got more. Boris "I promoted a sex pest" Johnson got more.
Dear god! The world just keeps getting less rooted in reality.
Of my ex-Wipro colleagues from six years ago just a tiny fraction still work for them, whilst most work for the wider constellation of Indian offices of global tech or TCS, HCL, Infosys et al
I confidently expect "staff attrition rate of 28.4 percent for the previous twelve months" to be a low, not a high water mark :-)
@Miss_Config you need a silver badge to access the html goodies. I am told the requirements are:
"minimum of one year membership of Reg forums, at least 100 comments made using your handle in the previous 12 months and 2000 upvotes."
Keep posting and have an upvote from me to help you on your way.
I remember Professor Ian Fells telling us of the perils of the "dash for gas" back in the early '90s, with particular reference to the unstable parts of the world we would be dependent on for our fossil fuels. Only surprised it's taken this long for the wildfowl to return.
Would I want the clusterfsck that is Dounreay or Windscale in my backyard? Not especially. But I'd be quite happy to have a reactor complex of proven design, with multiple levels of resilience rather than risk global catastrophe.
OK - most of the UK inflation is not due to:
- Printing money (though we have done quite a bit of of that, you will note we've stopped)
- High Taxes (that's deflationary)
- People working from home (please play nicely with the other public servants, Jacob)
- The economy restarting after COVID (although I'll concede that probably has made money chase scarce goods)
It is largely due to:
1) The absolutely effing enormous jump in the cost of fossil fuels after a bare-chested, oil-soaked dictator decided to do a reverse-Barbarossa. This is the big one.
2) The slide of the pound in relation to most currencies that matter, which started, curiously enough just as soon as the money-markets realised just shy of 50% of the UK electorate had lost their marbles
@TheMeerkat I don't hate Boris Johnson. In all fairness I find him quite amusing. But I'm not quite so impressed with him as leader of these fair islands.
As for people who "talk politics for no reason", I resemble that remark. Maybe it's because I see politics as one way (there are others) to make the world a better place.
If we are facing a Threads style attack then I - like many here - would sooner go in the first flash. If however we are talking about a limited exchange (and God forbid even that should happen), then some sound advice is worth heading.
https://www.britannica.com/technology/nuclear-weapon/Residual-radiation-and-fallout
In short, staying indoors could make a very big difference to your life expectancy.