Snap General Election?

[turbobloke]

768 said:

technodup said:

ard Brexit was last month. It's now extreme Brexit.

Next month might be super extreme Brexit, it's hard to keep up.

I'm hoping it's going to be insane Brexit.

We'll pour our champagne stock into the channel and fire scotch eggs at the continent.

Those wonderful opinion poll people were telling us not long ago that 55% of the population backed the PM's approach to Brexit negotiations. With a champagne and scotch eggs strategy it could easily reach 75% or more.

[Biker 1]

& now this from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40011733

Is this PC gone mad?

[turbobloke]

Biker 1 said:

& now this from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40011733

Is this PC gone mad?

It's the BBC. After reading the link I spotted lots of geography and mention of males on lists but couldn't see any analysis of who exactly won't vote for a female political candidate, broken doen by gender, ethnicity, highest qualification and age. Wonder why not.

[robemcdonald]

sidicks said:

robemcdonald said:

Grammar? Is that all you've got?

You appear to trying to make a point, yet write something that makes no sense. So why do you bother?

I made a point. Your reply focused on a lack of punctuation, but nothing else.
I replied questioning if you had anything else apart from the correction.
You replied with the above and ironically didn't check your reply for mistakes before posting.

You are right about one thing. I shouldn't be bothering with this.

[anonymous-user]

technodup said:

mx-6 said:

hard brexit

Hard Brexit was last month. It's now extreme Brexit.

Next month might be super extreme Brexit, it's hard to keep up.

I expect it will be like the weather and we'll get Brexit bomb and brexit words with -ageddon added on to the end.

[robemcdonald]

Biker 1 said:

& now this from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40011733

Is this PC gone mad?

It's a stupid article. It even uses Maidenhead as an example with 11 men and just 2 women standing for election, but fails to point out that 1 of the women is the current PM.

[sidicks]

robemcdonald said:

I made a point. Your reply focused on a lack of punctuation, but nothing else.

Your 'point' made no sense. That was the problem!

robemcdonald said:

I replied questioning if you had anything else apart from the correction.

Until you update the punctuation and hence make a coherent point, it's hard to know whether I have anything to add. HTH

robemcdonald said:

You replied with the above and ironically didn't check your reply for mistakes before posting.

Indeed, yet despite the omission of one word, it was still quite clear the point being made. The same could not be said of your post.

robmcdonald said:

You are right about one thing. I shouldn't be bothering with this.

Indeed - you jumped in to a discussion that didn't involve you, all based on a misunderstanding on your part.

Edited by sidicks on Wednesday 24th May 11:46

[anonymous-user]

I wonder if Sidicks wears this when he is logged on to PH?

[skahigh]

Biker 1 said:

& now this from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40011733

Is this PC gone mad?

I read this and just couldn't fathom what point they were trying to make with the article. I came to the conclusion that they must be making some back-handed attempt to show that women were being discriminated against, not sure how though.

Why is the gender of a political candidate relevant? Surely if I was to base my vote on the gender of the candidates then that would be sexist.

I couldn't care less about the gender, race, sexuality, age, etc. of the person I vote for, I care about their politics and their character to act on those politics.

[anonymous-user]

sidicks said:

desolate said:

I wonder if Sidicks wears this when he is logged on to PH?

If only the other members had accepted they'd misunderstood the other poster's point, then it wouldn't have got this far. The fact they decided to 'attack' me for trying to explain their misunderstanding is hardly my fault.

Perhaps your ire should be directed elsewhere.

I'll take that as a no.

There is no anger or "ire" here - it was a light hearted post which you have taken with your normal piss poor humour- you need to lighten up, the forum would be a better place for it.

HTH

[HappyMidget]

Can we give it a rest chaps and get back to the core discussion please?

[sidicks]

desolate said:

I'll take that as a no.

There is no anger or "ire" here - it was a light hearted post which you have taken with your normal piss poor humour- you need to lighten up, the forum would be a better place for it
HTH

Try using a smilie if you what to convey humour.

[gooner1]

desolate said:

I wonder if Sidicks wears this when he is logged on to PH?

Drop the Why and the ? and the shirt would be perfect for siddicks.

As for attacking you, boo hoo you tart.

[sidicks]

gooner1 said:

Drop the Why and the ? and the shirt would be perfect for siddicks.

I'm sorry you're still struggling with understanding the point made by the original poster, despite having had it explained to you more than once. No wonder you want to try and make this personal instead!

goonsr1 said:

As for attacking you, boo hoo you tart.

The word 'attack' was in inverted commas for a reason. Something else that appears to have gone over your head in this thread.

[bobbo89]

technodup said:

ard Brexit was last month. It's now extreme Brexit.

Next month might be super extreme Brexit, it's hard to keep up.

Think it was James Acaster on Mock The Week who suggested we should also have chewey and melt in the mouth Brexit

[gruffalo]

I had a chat with the head of finance for the EMEA region for the company I work for and his team have done lots of modelling around Brexit and in every one that involved our not being in the single market with the associated regulation and costs the UK was better off than we are now.

He is a pro Europe person!

[sidicks]

gruffalo said:

I had a chat with the head of finance for the EMEA region for the company I work for and his team have done lots of modelling around Brexit and in every one that involved our not being in the single market with the associated regulation and costs the UK was better off than we are now.

He is a pro Europe person!

In practice, won't we adopt most of the existing regulation with only minor changes - that's certainly the expectation for Insurers under Solvency II, for example.

[skahigh]

gruffalo said:

I had a chat with the head of finance for the EMEA region for the company I work for and his team have done lots of modelling around Brexit and in every one that involved our not being in the single market with the associated regulation and costs the UK was better off than we are now.

He is a pro Europe person!

That reads to me like your company has modelled whether the UK as a whole will be better off as a result of Brexit.

That sounds like a pretty significant exercise with a huge number of variables.

Did you mean that your company has modelled whether your company will be better off as a result of Brexit?

[PoleDriver]

bobbo89 said:

Think it was James Acaster on Mock The Week who suggested we should also have chewey and melt in the mouth Brexit

[gruffalo]

skahigh said:

gruffalo said:

I had a chat with the head of finance for the EMEA region for the company I work for and his team have done lots of modelling around Brexit and in every one that involved our not being in the single market with the associated regulation and costs the UK was better off than we are now.

He is a pro Europe person!

That reads to me like your company has modelled whether the UK as a whole will be better off as a result of Brexit.

That sounds like a pretty significant exercise with a huge number of variables.

Did you mean that your company has modelled whether your company will be better off as a result of Brexit?

The UK as a whole.

Yes it was a big undertaking.