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What would happen if the UK refused to buy any products from abroad?
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Originally posted by Troll View PostBetter get the Gatwick field online ASAP then and have some good wholesome English oil to useAlways forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by vetran View Postwhat's the point of subjugating a country if you can't steal their resources?Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostIsn't Scottish oil to heavy to be used for petrol?
Yup, only useful for deep frying…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostSo do you think that certain types of legislation should be illegal in the UK?
Oh before you go off on one, I am NOT caught by the retro legislation which has clobbered Brillo and his fellow scheme users, I actually think their tax planning exploit was massively taking the piss.
However to attack them with retrospective legislation is, in my opinion, totally immoral and goes directly against one of the primary values of the English (Scots have their own) legal system.
Originally posted by Troll View PostDid you know the UK is 60% self sufficient in foodstuffs according to Wiki
We could restart coal for power generation and fook the Greens
Steal more of the Jocks oil for transport
Give up electrical gizmos and just talk to each other
Restarting coal sounds great, there are vast reserves under Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, South Wales and a few other places, all pretty much in deep seams which require skilled men (yes it's sexist, but I'm not aware that they lifted the ban on women doing coal face working) and large quantities of complicated equipment to extract, while there used to be 100k+ miners in the UK I doubt there's more than 1,000 skilled miners left, that's not sufficient to run even 1 pit let alone recommission one of the ones closed down 20+ years ago. People get a tad grumpy when you suggest open cast mining and there really isn't that much close enough to the surface unlike in Newcastle (New South Wales). Oh all the mining machinery is manufactured outside of the UK.
True the Jocks can have their oil nabbed, be happy to perpetrate that on the porridge mechanics, but how much refinery capacity is there in the country, how much does that capacity rely on imported parts, control elements and materials and for that matter is the Jockoil actually suitable for transport use?
Electronic gadgetry controls everything these days, it's not just the twatter addicts that would be inconvenienced
We'd all be a bit buggered for clothes too of course!
Sadly while I'd be happy to support a British Britain, the decades of offshoring everything to cheaper places to grow, sew and make stuff has left this country with the capacity to produce the square root of jack allComment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostIsn't Scottish oil to heavy to be used for petrol?His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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Originally posted by TykeMerc View PostI do. If a government makes such an incompetent fist of their legislation that people can exploit dumb loopholes then they should ONLY be able to amend the legislation going forwards, retrospective legislation is an offence against natural justice.
Oh before you go off on one, I am NOT caught by the retro legislation which has clobbered Brillo and his fellow scheme users, I actually think their tax planning exploit was massively taking the piss.
However to attack them with retrospective legislation is, in my opinion, totally immoral and goes directly against one of the primary values of the English (Scots have their own) legal system.Comment
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostSo how would you like to see retrospective legislation made illegal? Through Act of Parliament, written constitution, supra-national Human Rights?Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostVia retrospective Act of Parliament...Comment
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