holystove

I googled this because I wanted to know your source. Turns out it's the Sun? I read the article and it's just blatant disinformation.
 
1) He never said any EU country electing a right wing populist party will be subject to sanctions and will lose voting rights because he doens't have the authority to do so. What he (probably) said and what was (intentionally?) misinterpreted by the Sun is that part of the policy put forth by extremist (left or right) parties is in breach of EU law. It is the role of the Commission to make sure every member state upholds EU law. If a member state goes against EU law, the Commission can summon that member state before the European Court of Justice which can impose sanctions or suspend voting rights.
 
2) Junker is Commission President. He was proposed for this position by a consensus among the member states. He then had to be approved by the European Parliament.
 
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It's a shame that people would vote (stay or leave) just because "they can" and thereby cancel out a vote from someone who genuinely thought about it and informed themselves.
 
It's an even bigger shame that people who try to make an informed opinion are confronted with disinformation and lies.

Update on this.
My son 6: only had a fever for 1 night.  No other complaints, thus far no lasting effects.  They ended up testing 9 kids in his class, 6 came back positive! All the covid-positive kids in his class infected at least one of their parents.  Schools are definitely one of the major ways this virus spread.
Daughter 5: played and had close contact with my son but never developed any symptoms.  
Wife 34:  got Covid as she works in the same area where the kids play.  Runny nose, occasional headaches, but nothing too dramatic.
Once we knew my son had covid, I self-isolated (am asthmatic).  Working from home in an upstairs room away from everyone else, ridiculous amounts of alocohol gel and always wearing an FFP2 mask.  Slept in the same bed with my wife without mask but with window slightly open.  Never got covid, so don't despair if one of your family members gets it. 

Glad it didn't affect you too badly holy.

Update on this.
My son 6: only had a fever for 1 night.  No other complaints, thus far no lasting effects.  They ended up testing 9 kids in his class, 6 came back positive! All the covid-positive kids in his class infected at least one of their parents.  Schools are definitely one of the major ways this virus spread.
Daughter 5: played and had close contact with my son but never developed any symptoms.  
Wife 34:  got Covid as she works in the same area where the kids play.  Runny nose, occasional headaches, but nothing too dramatic.
Once we knew my son had covid, I self-isolated (am asthmatic).  Working from home in an upstairs room away from everyone else, ridiculous amounts of alocohol gel and always wearing an FFP2 mask.  Slept in the same bed with my wife without mask but with window slightly open.  Never got covid, so don't despair if one of your family members gets it. 

Update on this.
My son 6: only had a fever for 1 night.  No other complaints, thus far no lasting effects.  They ended up testing 9 kids in his class, 6 came back positive! All the covid-positive kids in his class infected at least one of their parents.  Schools are definitely one of the major ways this virus spread.
Daughter 5: played and had close contact with my son but never developed any symptoms.  
Wife 34:  got Covid as she works in the same area where the kids play.  Runny nose, occasional headaches, but nothing too dramatic.
Once we knew my son had covid, I self-isolated (am asthmatic).  Working from home in an upstairs room away from everyone else, ridiculous amounts of alocohol gel and always wearing an FFP2 mask.  Slept in the same bed with my wife without mask but with window slightly open.  Never got covid, so don't despair if one of your family members gets it. 

Update on this.
My son 6: only had a fever for 1 night.  No other complaints, thus far no lasting effects.  They ended up testing 9 kids in his class, 6 came back positive! All the covid-positive kids in his class infected at least one of their parents.  Schools are definitely one of the major ways this virus spread.
Daughter 5: played and had close contact with my son but never developed any symptoms.  
Wife 34:  got Covid as she works in the same area where the kids play.  Runny nose, occasional headaches, but nothing too dramatic.
Once we knew my son had covid, I self-isolated (am asthmatic).  Working from home in an upstairs room away from everyone else, ridiculous amounts of alocohol gel and always wearing an FFP2 mask.  Slept in the same bed with my wife without mask but with window slightly open.  Never got covid, so don't despair if one of your family members gets it. 

Granddaughter was on this today...
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/headteacher-dramatic-school-bus-crash-4787247
She's OK, just some back pain apparently.

I've only had one flu vaccine before, in 2013 when I first had cancer. This time I was a priority, got emails from surgery and hospital telling me to get it done so I did; guessing I'll be towards the top of the list for Covid as well and I'll have no hesitation in taking it.

best of luck man

Fingers crossed for you and your family mate, and hopefully it passes without to much inconvenience to anyone. 

problem is 80% of republicans actually believe that.

Switzerland won’t be affected, they struck a deal almost immediately 

Sorry to harp on about this but I'm getting overly annoyed with the absurdity of brexit.
This is the week we're supposed to land on a trade deal.  The deal on the table is very minimal.  Both sides will take a huge economic hit from this.  Not to speak of the damage done to judicial, police, security cooperation.  EU citizens lose the right to live and work in the UK; UK citizens lose the right to live and work in 27 EU member states, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.  Great stuff.
Meanwhile, for quite a while now, polls keep indicating UK citizens overwhelmingly think Brexit was the wrong decision.  (latest figures : 51% wrong 38% right -  it's not even close .. https://whatukthinks.org/eu/questions/in-highsight-do-you-think-britain-was-right-or-wrong-to-vote-to-leave-the-eu/).  
I guarantee you the next ten years of UK-EU relations will be spend negotiating deals which will after 10 years amount to pretty much the same relationship the EU and UK had before Brexit.  As logic and common sense demand you cooperate with your close and important neighbour. 
The futility of it all..
 

Sorry to harp on about this but I'm getting overly annoyed with the absurdity of brexit.
This is the week we're supposed to land on a trade deal.  The deal on the table is very minimal.  Both sides will take a huge economic hit from this.  Not to speak of the damage done to judicial, police, security cooperation.  EU citizens lose the right to live and work in the UK; UK citizens lose the right to live and work in 27 EU member states, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.  Great stuff.
Meanwhile, for quite a while now, polls keep indicating UK citizens overwhelmingly think Brexit was the wrong decision.  (latest figures : 51% wrong 38% right -  it's not even close .. https://whatukthinks.org/eu/questions/in-highsight-do-you-think-britain-was-right-or-wrong-to-vote-to-leave-the-eu/).  
I guarantee you the next ten years of UK-EU relations will be spend negotiating deals which will after 10 years amount to pretty much the same relationship the EU and UK had before Brexit.  As logic and common sense demand you cooperate with your close and important neighbour. 
The futility of it all..
 

Sorry to harp on about this but I'm getting overly annoyed with the absurdity of brexit.
This is the week we're supposed to land on a trade deal.  The deal on the table is very minimal.  Both sides will take a huge economic hit from this.  Not to speak of the damage done to judicial, police, security cooperation.  EU citizens lose the right to live and work in the UK; UK citizens lose the right to live and work in 27 EU member states, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.  Great stuff.
Meanwhile, for quite a while now, polls keep indicating UK citizens overwhelmingly think Brexit was the wrong decision.  (latest figures : 51% wrong 38% right -  it's not even close .. https://whatukthinks.org/eu/questions/in-highsight-do-you-think-britain-was-right-or-wrong-to-vote-to-leave-the-eu/).  
I guarantee you the next ten years of UK-EU relations will be spend negotiating deals which will after 10 years amount to pretty much the same relationship the EU and UK had before Brexit.  As logic and common sense demand you cooperate with your close and important neighbour. 
The futility of it all..
 

Very good post.  I edited it to take out the parts that specifically refer to the USA.  If you read it now, it could be about pretty much every country in Europe too.  The US is definitely not alone in this.
Few countries, however, have had the misfortune of having the uninformed contrarian view get to a majority.  Thank God the US, for one, took a little step back to sanity with the election of Biden.  

Very good post.  I edited it to take out the parts that specifically refer to the USA.  If you read it now, it could be about pretty much every country in Europe too.  The US is definitely not alone in this.
Few countries, however, have had the misfortune of having the uninformed contrarian view get to a majority.  Thank God the US, for one, took a little step back to sanity with the election of Biden.  

Very good post.  I edited it to take out the parts that specifically refer to the USA.  If you read it now, it could be about pretty much every country in Europe too.  The US is definitely not alone in this.
Few countries, however, have had the misfortune of having the uninformed contrarian view get to a majority.  Thank God the US, for one, took a little step back to sanity with the election of Biden.  

Very good post.  I edited it to take out the parts that specifically refer to the USA.  If you read it now, it could be about pretty much every country in Europe too.  The US is definitely not alone in this.
Few countries, however, have had the misfortune of having the uninformed contrarian view get to a majority.  Thank God the US, for one, took a little step back to sanity with the election of Biden.  

Got a job offer, remote working but based on the UK. Means leaving our home of the last 8+ years and a place we love in Switzerland, but moving to be closer to family and the jobs going to be really interesting. They basically made exceptions to get me and it’s been 4 weeks from first call to contract being presented. 

Brexit happened earlier this year, it is done, the UK is a third country to the EU.  The only thing that is ending on december 31st is the transition period, during which UK was still in the Single Market and Customs Union.
The difference between no deal and the deal the UK wants is very small; in either case the disruption to trade and cooperation is going to be massive given the limited scope of the deal the UK is trying to get.  (it is funny (tragic?) when you compare this to the promises made by Leave in 2016).
Corona shock to the economy and brexit shock to the economy are very different.  For an explainer, read this from a brexiteer advisor of May:
'There is a valid question as to whether the sheer breadth and depth of the economic harm caused by the pandemic means that the impact of Brexit will be largely irrelevant. Indeed, some have argued that given many economic sectors are having to overhaul the way they operate due to COVID-19, doing so for Brexit as well reduces the additional impact.
But while there are elements of this argument which hold true, when you delve deeper, the reality is the two sets of economic impacts from Brexit and COVID-19 are more likely to compound each other than offset each other.'
https://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-coronavirus-uk-recession-economy-there-is-no-hiding/
Brace for 2021..

Biden just flipped Pennsylvania.
Anxiety levels slightly going down.

Biden just flipped Pennsylvania.
Anxiety levels slightly going down.

Biden just flipped Pennsylvania.
Anxiety levels slightly going down.

Had an unexpected message yesterday (thanks to @Matt).
 
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