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#31

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by PJL - Today at 12:18:58 PM

I remember reading about the 1851 Great Exhibition (which made a substantial profit) and the differential pricing model it used. Most tickets were a shilling iirc, but on certain days the price could be as much as a guinea. This made it accessible to the masses and extracted a lot from the better-off who preferred and could afford a less crowded day.

1 shilling = 12 old pence
1 Guinea =21 shillings

That's about £6 and £125 in today's money.

#32

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 12:16:24 PM

Yeah, very careful. It doesn't rule out the Indian state using organised criminal networks.

#33

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Barrister - Today at 12:13:18 PM

Looks like the three killers are gangsters:

The three men charged in the alleged conspiracy to murder Hardeep Singh Nijjar — Karan Brar, Kamalpreet Singh and Karanpreet Singh — are all believed to be connected to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, according to sources involved in the Nijjar investigation.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nijjar-brar-singh-bishnoi-sikh-india-1.7197121

The article in the link is a pretty good read IMO.

CBC is of course very careful about how and what they say (and properly so).  It never directly connects the Indian government to the killing of Nijjar - but points out how Modi's government is expressly unconcerned about the arrests, and how other murders made by the same gang have been motivated by pro-Modi-government sympathies.

Fascinating.

#34

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by HVC - Today at 12:02:27 PM

Tying back to BBs post, one came in in a student visa for an 8 month program, but was still here after 3 years.

#35

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Jacob - Today at 12:01:02 PM

Looks like the three killers are gangsters:

The three men charged in the alleged conspiracy to murder Hardeep Singh Nijjar — Karan Brar, Kamalpreet Singh and Karanpreet Singh — are all believed to be connected to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, according to sources involved in the Nijjar investigation.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nijjar-brar-singh-bishnoi-sikh-india-1.7197121

The article in the link is a pretty good read IMO.

#36

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Richard Hakluyt - Today at 11:48:42 AM

I remember reading about the 1851 Great Exhibition (which made a substantial profit) and the differential pricing model it used. Most tickets were a shilling iirc, but on certain days the price could be as much as a guinea. This made it accessible to the masses and extracted a lot from the better-off who preferred and could afford a less crowded day.

1 shilling = 12 old pence
1 Guinea =21 shillings

#37

Off the Record / Re: Elon Musk: Always A Douche

Last post by Jacob - Today at 11:43:28 AM

 

Thanks for the reality check Zanza

#38

Off the Record / Re: Football (Soccer) Thread

Last post by Jacob - Today at 11:42:55 AM

Borussia Dortmund > PSG

#39

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 11:41:35 AM

I know Galloway is a prat of the highest order, but I know nothing about Panesar. Resigning his candidature because he realizes he doesn't know what's going on in politics seems... refreshingly self-aware. Or is that an overly generous reading?

I think it is. He was an international cricketer for England.

I think he got talked into running for Galloway's party, has faced a lot of criticism and some very awkward media interviews and has now stepped back.

It would have been nice (not least for his reputation as he's now a bit of a joke) if the self-awareness came first but fair enough on getting out early.

Edit: Sorry, refreshingly self-aware not too generous.

#40

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 11:39:57 AM

Also just on the should you fight internally or not it is challenging.

I am biased - and as I say had more arguments than I care to remember about Corbyn. His supporters and the left would always say that everyone should just unite behind him so we could fight the Tories. But I genuinely do not think Corbyn was fit to be PM. I think he was at best indifferent towards growing anti-semitism. I think his associations in the past were unacceptable (whether with the IRA, his "friends" in Hamas and Hezbollah, Black September, or President of Stop the War at a point when they were saying Iraqi resistance killing British soldiers was justified). I think he had some very sinister allies - Seumas Milne, Andrew Murray who leaped from 40 years of Communist Party of Great Britain membership to a role in the Labour leaders office.

I felt the same way about Corbyn that anti-Johnson Tories felt about him. So I couldn't just go along and accept it. I think that was common with a lot of people (although I do remember lots who made these points until 2017 when he did surprisingly well and then went very quiet) - my lesson on that was that I shouldn't have moaned so much from an electability perspective and should have said more I disagree with him and I don't think he's fit for office.

I disagree with them, but I fully get why the Labour left feel that Starmer's a monster who lied to become leader, is now rigging loads of selections to exclude the left from office as much as possible even if I disagree with him that he's a crypto-Tory.

So I get the party unity piece in theory, but it is challenging in practice when you do fundamentally disagree.