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An early contender has to be Chukkus Umoney: November 2010 "This week the government said it was also rowing back on the disclosure of bankers' pay [...] can we keep a track on reckless remuneration encouraging risky behaviour if we don't know its true extent?" - Mr Umunna writes a column for The Guardian titled 'Bank bonuses unbound'. December 2010 "Will the Chancellor, who adopted quite a different tone in New York, please confirm whether the Government are considering imposing extra taxation, over and above the existing arrangements and thebanking levy, on the banks if they do not exercise restraint?" - Parliament debate, Hansard May 2011 “A banker's boot on the throat of small businesses is a boot on the throat of the whole economy” - A quote Mr Umunna tweeted from an Evening Standard editorial January 2012 "On shareholder activism, the Business Secretary, the Deputy Prime Minister and other Ministers who ultimately bear responsibility and control the public stake in the banks - RBS, in particular - have said that they are in a position to stop the chief executive of that bank from receiving a large bonus while he is issuing thousands of redundancy notices to RBS employees. How and when will that happen? Does the right hon. Gentleman think that it is acceptable for the chief executive of RBS to take a bonus of the order of £1 million when thousands of company employees are being made redundant?" - Parliament debate, Hansard December 2012 “It is essential we restore the reputation of the financial services sector given its importance to the UK economy and our global lead” - Twitter April 2013 "It cannot be right that someone who seeks to cheat the benefits system out of a couple of hundred pounds in my constituency may well be thrown into jail for doing so, but those who seek to rig the financial system and receive hundreds of thousands of pounds as a result never seem to suffer the same fate. Is not the prospect of jail for gross wrongdoing one of the best ways we can affect a culture change?" - Speech to Future of Financial Services summit April 2013 “The future of financial services - the City - is incredibly important. It is a key business sector which - along with the associated legal, accountancy and other professional services - gives us a competitive edge and a comparative advantage due to our talent, our legal system, the liquidity of our financial markets and our time zone. “It is a sector which we look to pump oxygen into the rest of the economy, helping businesses in other sectors expand and grow.” - Speech to Future of Financial Services summit December 2013 "I raised concerns on the independence of the Tomlinson report into banks' lending practices in the Commons today." - Twitter February 2021 JP Morgan hires Chuka Umunna for environmental role

Brexit chaos at UK ports:

Without doubt, the release from lockdown, courtesy of the best of British science and social healthcare, will be the most defining moment for this country since VE day. A time to remember the sacrifices and the dear departed, but after a sombre reflection, I think we may deserve a celebration. So, there will be a point in time, a day, where victory over the virus is declared and society will open again. What will be the sweetest event for you guys? I'm hungry for it all, but in order, my first days of freedom will involve: Dinner at a swanky restaurant Drinks at my favourite pub 5 star hotel Breakfast Golf St. Mary's It will be a big day and I hope there will be something to mark the event. Party time and we deserve it.

A letter they shouldn't have posted:

Digging a bit deeper in the EU/AZ Agreement, you will find other little nuggets: ...and... One must have a heart of stone to read this without laughing.

So, we can finally see in black and white, the EU/Astra Zeneca supply contract which shows exactly why the EU will not be suing anyone and the UK will get the vaccine doses it deserves. An interesting extract is the definition of "Best Reasonable Efforts" It shows the total amateur nature of the EU lawyers in drafting this contract. Clause 10.1 is particularly damning and shows the equally amateur regulatory processes in the EU. Thank fuck we are now out of this shit show of a political union.

I must admit, you were spot on with this gem: You're a moron....

Also no mention of the fact that the AZ vaccine is yet to be approved by the EU. What a shower of shit they are.

More EU fun and games, here. I look forward to the Remainers on here justifying that panicked response by the ever classy EU.

If the tears of Remainers could be turned into vaccines, there would be plenty to go around.

Here's a fact for you, genius. the Cypriot bloke, Stella Kyriakides:

All 27 EU countries followed the strategy published by the Commission here. I particularly like the statement from my favourite Cypriot and EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides who said in the strategy document: Yesterday she said: Another unelected, unaccountable and totally useless EU bureaucrat. I read the above press release from this no mark, but failed to see the word "sorry" or "apology", anywhere. Still, it's not her fault. It's the fault of a UK/Swedish company who promised it would do it's best to produce a novel unapproved vaccine and supply doses to the EU, at cost.

The Guardian Fri 10 Jul 2020 18.43 BST.

The PCR can provide an idea of the viral load, which is important in determining the severity of the disease.

When someone is tested for the presence of the covid-19 virus, what is measured is a small fragment of the viral RNA present in the nasal fluids or saliva. The technique used to identify the small concentrations of these RNA fragments is known as PCR or Polymerase Chain Reaction, which is a method to amplify the amount of RNA fragments to allow them to be analysed. It's like a photocopier, but uses a heating cycle to accomplish this. To identify the exact strain, the complete DNA of the virus need to be sequenced and the UK are the world leaders in this technique of genome sequencing. The sequence (determining the order of the bases in the viral DNA) is determined in about 10% of samples tested for covid, in the UK. In the US only 1% of the samples are sequenced. So, imagine one page of a book telling what the book is about, you need all the pages of the book, assembled in order, to read it. So, it's not a simple positive/negative test. Luckily, the UK are world leaders in the identification of viral variants using genomic sequencing, although whatever the variant will not alter the treatment, so there's little point testing for it apart from statistical purposes aimed at preventing infection.

What I love is the EU loving traitors on this thread supporting what they consider to be an example of "global free trade" on the part of the EU. Personally I don't give a shit whether the EU ban Astra Zeneca, a private UK based company, from exporting a vaccine from the EU, a vaccine that is yet to receive EU approval. The bulk of the vaccine is manufactured in the UK, anyway. I also don't give a shit whether they attempt to ban a private US company, Pfizer from exporting their vaccine. Far from being angry, I am bemused at the ineptitude of the EU with their whole vaccine procurement program and saddened at the lives lost due to it. I am also bemused at the message this will send to international pharmaceutical companies in regards to where they base their manufacturing plants. I doubt the EUSSR will figure highly in their investment plans.

Nice to see the EU demonstrating the type of petty dictatorship they have become. Not surprising, given the history of the countries that now make the bloc up. Still think we were wrong to leave?

Very embarrassing, but hey, you go ahead and ask your family to back you up in an argument on an internet forum. For the record, the colour of the old and new UK passports are a blue numbered as 5395C in the Pantone classification, according to the Home Office. It won't correspond to what you see on a RGB monitor and I doubt an old passport that was left out in the sun would correspond to the original shade. Anyway, I'm off to tell my wife of the Brexit passport colour conspiracy and the lies that Boris and the Tory Government are spreading about what are really black passports, not blue like we were promised.

It's dark blue mate and you're a colour blind fruit cake...

Liberal democracies are built on the premise that human values and interests are unavoidably and perpetually in conflict with one another, which leads to the dichotomy, polarisation and subsequent conflict that poisons most political debates nowadays. The solution to these conflicts is not to grant total victory to one side or another, but to accept a system of democratic government and civil society that allows pluralism to flourish within a common culture and single legal framework for a common good.

For those interested, this brilliant review in the Telegraph should be the last word on Brexit and Britain's place in the world since the war. It may also help some posters, lost in a Remainer jungle like Japanese soldiers refusing to surrender, to reach a self awareness that may help them understand why so many of the great unwashed, gave the Tory party an 80 seat majority, based on getting Brexit done. A small extract of this article below:

Exactly. Hillary Clinton was the precise reason Trump got elected.

If I was colour blind and relying on my computer monitor, yeah, I'd rather rely on civil servants on a government web site telling me they intend to introduce navy blue passports. I'd also ask myself why the fuck would a government department print black passports rather than the navy blue they planned and then in a great Brexit conspiracy. lie about it. Mate, you're a fruit cake.