Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[dps]

Are you talking Charleston, SC or Charleston WV?

Pretty sure he means WV.

Correct.

[OttoVonBismarck]

I wasn't aware Charleston WV was still a going concern. I had a relative who was from there (now deceased) so have been in that town a few times. I thought when all the chem plants closed that town died, there has to be better job markets in any nearby city like Louisville/Columbus/Pittsburgh.

[Archy]

Leadsom at Environment - an anti-scientific born again Christian leading one of the most scientifically influenced ministries. 

Huh. Didn't know they still made Britons like that.

Yeah apparently some of the religious fringe didn't make it to the colonies before 1776.

[The Larch]

My theory is it's the tutorial system that produces the hallmark of the Oxbridge graduate, which is the ability to speak eloquently and at great length about a subject one knows absolutely nothing about.

Hey, that's the basis of the Italian university system as well.

[dps]

I wasn't aware Charleston WV was still a going concern. I had a relative who was from there (now deceased) so have been in that town a few times. I thought when all the chem plants closed that town died, there has to be better job markets in any nearby city like Louisville/Columbus/Pittsburgh.

Well, AFAIK, all the chemical plants haven't closed down (at least, they were still going in 2008, when we moved to NC), plus it's the state capital, so there are a lot of government jobs.

[Sheilbh]

In fairness, at least in the humanities, tutorials are the norm in most English universities I think. Maybe slightly more people though.

It's really frustrating to now see the 27 talking about precisely the kind of reforms that would quite possibly have kept us in, in response to Brexit. A lot of the stuff I'm seeing floated now would have been seen as a fairly decent rather than a pisspoor renegotiation by Cameron

Edit: Meanwhile the Labour leadership will mainly be decided by London-dwelling upper middle class graduates:
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/07/middle-class-university-graduates-will-decide-future-labour-party

As goes Ottolenghi's, so goes the country.

[Zanza]

It's really frustrating to now see the 27 talking about precisely the kind of reforms that would quite possibly have kept us in, in response to Brexit. A lot of the stuff I'm seeing floated now would have been seen as a fairly decent rather than a pisspoor renegotiation by Cameron

As the second biggest country and if you had had a slightly more positive general attitude towards the whole thing, you could perhaps have pushed in that direction. But you prefer to be Little Englanders. 

[celedhring]

What kind of reforms are being talked about?

[Zanza]

What kind of reforms are being talked about?

Fourth Reich 

[garbon]

Leadsom says it's 'not sensible' to allow male nanny to look after children

Andrea Leadsom, Theresa May's new environment secretary who pulled out of the race for the leadership after being plunged into controversy over comments on motherhood made in an interview with the Times (£), appears to have slipped up again.

In further comments released from the same interview, Leadsom said it was not "sensible" to appoint a man to look after young children because of the danger that they could be a paedophile.

"As an employer we're not — let's face it — most of us don't employ men as nannies, most of us don't. Now you can call that sexist, I call that cautious and very sensible when you look at the stats. Your odds are stacked against you if you employ a man. We know paedophiles are attracted to working with children. I'm sorry but they're the facts," she said.

The comments are likely to anger the 5% of nannies who are male. A survey by the pre-school learning alliance has shown that the vast majority of parents are happy for men to work with children aged 3 to 5 at nurseries, with 89% happy for younger children.

The government has been trying to boost the number of men in childcare saying the "gender imbalance" should be addressed.

[Valmy]

Yeah apparently some of the religious fringe didn't make it to the colonies before 1776.

Oh no they had shitloads of fundy Christians running their country well into the 20th century. I was just surprised to see them still at it.

[Siege]

That Theresa May is a commie and anti British.

[grumbler]

Oh no they had shitloads of fundy Christians running their country well into the 20th century. I was just surprised to see them still at it.

They did?  News to me.

[Valmy]

Oh no they had shitloads of fundy Christians running their country well into the 20th century. I was just surprised to see them still at it.

They did?  News to me.

I started typing out a few examples but then realized...no...no this is a trap.

[Maladict]

What kind of reforms are being talked about?

Fourth Reich 

Thanks Brits for leaving us with an even more dominant Germany