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4 hours ago, openspaceman said:

I don't remember those but I still have the petrol ration coupons for the MGB issued in anticipation around 1975.

Around '74 I think. Had mine for my BSA C15 apprentice transport. Happy days, during the summer, winters were bloody grim !

[Mark J]

15 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

67% didn’t want AV in the 2011 referendum though....

 

Results of the 2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum - Wikipedia

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Its a case of careful what you wish for since whilst AV / PR gives more choice and representation of smaller parties like the greens for example, it provides exactly the same opportunities for all ‘fringe’ parties....

 

UKIP, BNP, MRLP - all of ‘em.... 

 

Could get messy real quick?

It could indeed get messy but at least it would be fair. 

[waterbuoy]

Based on our experience here in Nicola Land, PR brings as many challenges and problems as it does solutions - lack of a clear majority, coalitions etc.

Edited May 2, 2022 by waterbuoy
typo and punctuation

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

50 minutes ago, Mark J said:

It could indeed get messy but at least it would be fair. 

I agree Mark.
 

Probably a lot like yourself, I don’t have a ‘place’ where I am completely happy to put my ✖️it’s more a case of having to chose the place I’m least unhappy with....

 

Never been very good at ‘compromise’ but there we are.  Labour & Tory have no vested interest in delivering AV / PR and the Lib Dums will likely never be in a position to demand it. 
 

So weme stuck with what we’ve got (until the Revolution! 😂)

[Stere]

The Growlergate  story 🤣

 

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According to one MP who was part of the group, ‘she said, “I like to do my Sharon Stone trick. I cross and uncross my legs and give him a flash of my ginger growler

 

[Doug Tait]

6 hours ago, Stere said:

The Growlergate  story 🤣

 

 

A Ginger growler...

 

 

[sime42]

I prefer my growlers with less sharply teeth ........ just saying.

[Mark J]

BP profits double to $6.2bn, fuelling calls for energy windfall tax | BP | The Guardian

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Results are ‘obscene’, say unions, after soaring oil and gas prices help company to beat forecasts

 

[Mark J]

How to rip a dickhead a new arsehole, by Susanna Reid | The Daily Mash

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WANT to hold arseholes to account? No-nonsense Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid shows you how.

 

[Commando]

BP profits double to $6.2bn, fuelling calls for energy windfall tax | BP | The Guardian

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Results are ‘obscene’, say unions, after soaring oil and gas prices help company to beat forecasts  

Selective reporting there Mark! You fail to mention the huge cost its had to soak up for getting out of Russian Oil Company ROSNEFT, or its plan to pay in excess of £1 Billion in UK tax this year.
BP hasn’t personally driven up the costs of O&G, they just benefit from the current inflated market price. Conversely they all took massive hits when the oil price crashed.
I know it irritates the socialists but thats supply and demand I guess…