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  • Sunak (General U.K. is Jaded thread)

Smallman1 lol. Places like Spain with it’s shit food (dodged a bullet there thanks to Rhouses sister) and the Amalfi Coast (you get just as nice vistas in Cornwall) can fuck right off. We have The Cotswolds!

Can you get a decent full English with a knock out pint on the Amalfi Coast?

Case closed!

    Smallman1 Can you get a decent full English with a knock out pint on the Amalfi Coast?

    Case closed!

    Supposedly at this place you can get an eggs, sausage and bacon fry-up for breakfast, and they have Brooklyn Lager and Engels Poretti lager on top - if that counts?

    https://www.lamoressa.it/

    And a few miles away in Sorrento there’s:
    https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187782-d1853152-Reviews-English_Inn_Pub-Sorrento_Province_of_Naples_Campania.html
    and
    https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g187782-d669868-Reviews-Chaplin_s_Pub-Sorrento_Province_of_Naples_Campania.html

    Who is Hugo’s favourite member of Girls Aloud?

    Cheryl WEEDy

    What is Hugo’s favourite saying in his adopted local language?

    Auf WEEDersehn

    What’s Hugo’s favourite Rowan Blades electronic music vehicle?

    WEEDer

    The threshold for what supposedly counts as going “in to the weeds” seems to be getting less and less by the week.

    By now it seems to resemble something about as large and dense as the trimmed “garden” on one of Dave’s Thai ladyboys.

    If we’re sticking to FACTS Hugo, Dave’s penchant is pre-pubescent Chinese farmer girls.

      Lols, 'please don’t lock me up when you find out what we’ve been doing'.

      I caught up with an (ex) pro-Europe / anti-Brexit mate recently. He was saying Brexit has been a net positive overall with reference to the economy, Russia/Ukraine & the vaccine rollout etc. He says he felt lied to by Remainers who basically said the sky would fall in the day we left the EU.

      I thought this was a fairly surprising position to take, but illustrates how reasonable people can reach different perspectives on complex & nebulous things. I should point out this guy is a phD and a senior exec in oil & gas who has previously lived and worked in France. So not an idiot.

      I think brexit so far has probably been a negative all things considered. I’d estimate it has cost the UK something like 0.2% of GDP a year since 2016 and I’d put roughly a 70% level of confidence on it.

        C_J Coming home to roost now. Wee Jimmy’s hubbie has been arrested.

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          C_J I should point out this guy is a phD and a senior exec in oil & gas

          “Senior exec in industry that is making record profits from regional and global uncertainty in favour of regional and global uncertainty”

          Have I got the headline right?

          He voted to Remain Vinny but he says with the benefit of hindsight he thinks he was probably wrong. And then I said I didn’t agree with him.

          Let’s try not to descend to sniping and snarking mate.

            C_J What’s the point of Brexit if not sniping / snarking!?

            It’s difficult not to come to the conclusion that your mate’s hindsight view is heavily informed by the economic performance of the sector he works in, is it not? Vaccine roll-out? UK could have done whatever it wanted on this one, irrespective of our EU membership. Economy? If you’re an oil and gas exec, sure - things look great. For the vast, vast majority, the economy is a shit-show. I’m not even sure how Russia/Ukraine comes into it. Was your buddy suggesting our response to the conflict had been significantly different to the EU?

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