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I guess you can sort of see why no Tories are falling them over themselves to replace Dear Leader: Hostage to the DUP, unable to do anything meaningful in the Parliament, Brexit negotiations looming and now behind JC and Labour in the polls.

Enjoy it Theresa, you sure earnt it.
 
Gutter Boy said:
I was at a Mercedes place the other day and all their R&D energies are focused on this now. Uber have already made the first step. No one will own cars, you will just book journeys - like door-to-door public transport without the peasants, or taxis without the drivers. If you are the only one making a journey, a single seater that's in the area will turn up. If there are several of you, then an MPV. The need that ways is for only about 12% of the cars that are currently on the road.

Freight also won't be needed, as 3D printers will mean most things can be manufactured at home.
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What about unplanned journeys?
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
Gordon 'prudent' Brown......never saved a bean from the good times for the rainy day (monsoon season) we are experiencing now.
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Few governments do.

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http://news.sky.com/story/why-the-tories-are-terrified-of-another-general-election-10911525

There are now 29 Conservative seats in England and Wales which have majorities of less than 2,000 - and 17 of these have majorities of less than 1,000.

These range across the country, from Southampton Itchen in the south (majority 31) through to Pendle (majority 1,279) in the North.

These seats would take only the smallest swing to Labour from the Conservatives for Jeremy Corbyn to win them. And if they did, Labour would become the largest party in Parliament.

By contrast, in the 2015-17 parliament there were only 19 Conservative seats with majorities of less than 2,000 - and the Tories lost 14 of them on Thursday.

The 30 Tory seats with the slimmest majorities

1. Southampton Itchen (31 majority, Labour second)
2. Richmond Park (45 majority, Lib Dems second)
3. Stirling (148 majority, SNP second)
4. St Ives (312 majority, Lib Dems second)
5. Pudsey (331 majority, Labour second)
6. Hastings & Rye (346 majority, Labour second)
7. Chipping Barnet (353 majority, Labour second)
8. Thurrock (345 majority, Labour second)
9. Preseli Pembrokeshire (314 majority, Labour second)
10. Calder Valley (609 majority, Labour second)
11. Norwich North (507 majority, Labour second)
12. Broxtowe (865 majority, Labour second)
13. Stoke-on-Trent South (663 majority, Labour second)
14. Telford (720 majority, Labour second)
15. Bolton West (936 majority, Labour second)
16. Aberconwy (635 majority, Labour second)
17. Northampton North (807 majority, Labour second)
18. Hendon (1,072 majority, Labour second)
19. Mansfield (1,057 majority, Labour second)
20. Middlesbrough South & Cleveland East (1,020 majority, Labour second)
21. Milton Keynes South (1,725 majority, Labour second)
22. Northampton South (1,159 majority, Labour second)
23. Pendle (1,279 majority, Labour second)
24. Milton Keynes North (1,915 majority, Labour second)
25. Morecambe & Lunesdale (1,399 majority, Labour second)
26. Finchley & Golders Green (1,657 majority, Labour second)
27. Camborne & Redruth (1,577 majority, Labour second)
28. Putney (1,554 majority, Labour second)
29. Harrow East (1,757 majority, Labour second)
30. Watford (2,092 majority, Labour second)
 
Hotshot-Tottenham said:
What about unplanned journeys?
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Just book one, like you'd ring a taxi now. There would be one in your neighbourhood that would be along quickly.

Currently there's about 2 cars at every house. Imagine instead one located roughly every six houses (maybe drives could be offered to the pool in exchange for cheaper travel?)

Pre-book or short term, you'd just be tapping into a national grid - like utilities.
 
Gutter Boy said:
Just book one, like you'd ring a taxi now. There would be one in your neighbourhood that would be along quickly.

Currently there's about 2 cars at every house. Imagine instead one located roughly every six houses (maybe drives could be offered to the pool in exchange for cheaper travel?)

Pre-book or short term, you'd just be tapping into a national grid - like utilities.
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I think we are a long way off that being the norm, my wife and I can't share a car, let alone having just one for the street
 
the dza said:
http://news.sky.com/story/why-the-tories-are-terrified-of-another-general-election-10911525

There are now 29 Conservative seats in England and Wales which have majorities of less than 2,000 - and 17 of these have majorities of less than 1,000.

These range across the country, from Southampton Itchen in the south (majority 31) through to Pendle (majority 1,279) in the North.

These seats would take only the smallest swing to Labour from the Conservatives for Jeremy Corbyn to win them. And if they did, Labour would become the largest party in Parliament.

By contrast, in the 2015-17 parliament there were only 19 Conservative seats with majorities of less than 2,000 - and the Tories lost 14 of them on Thursday.

The 30 Tory seats with the slimmest majorities

1. Southampton Itchen (31 majority, Labour second)
2. Richmond Park (45 majority, Lib Dems second)
3. Stirling (148 majority, SNP second)
4. St Ives (312 majority, Lib Dems second)
5. Pudsey (331 majority, Labour second)
6. Hastings & Rye (346 majority, Labour second)
7. Chipping Barnet (353 majority, Labour second)
8. Thurrock (345 majority, Labour second)
9. Preseli Pembrokeshire (314 majority, Labour second)
10. Calder Valley (609 majority, Labour second)
11. Norwich North (507 majority, Labour second)
12. Broxtowe (865 majority, Labour second)
13. Stoke-on-Trent South (663 majority, Labour second)
14. Telford (720 majority, Labour second)
15. Bolton West (936 majority, Labour second)
16. Aberconwy (635 majority, Labour second)
17. Northampton North (807 majority, Labour second)
18. Hendon (1,072 majority, Labour second)
19. Mansfield (1,057 majority, Labour second)
20. Middlesbrough South & Cleveland East (1,020 majority, Labour second)
21. Milton Keynes South (1,725 majority, Labour second)
22. Northampton South (1,159 majority, Labour second)
23. Pendle (1,279 majority, Labour second)
24. Milton Keynes North (1,915 majority, Labour second)
25. Morecambe & Lunesdale (1,399 majority, Labour second)
26. Finchley & Golders Green (1,657 majority, Labour second)
27. Camborne & Redruth (1,577 majority, Labour second)
28. Putney (1,554 majority, Labour second)
29. Harrow East (1,757 majority, Labour second)
30. Watford (2,092 majority, Labour second)
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Im from Thurrock and I can say the woman that won is a nasty cun7 of a person, how she got in by saying to the locals "you are losing houses for a road" and "I support closing your local hospital" is beyond me, well its not people split the vote between Labour and UKIP and she snuck in, UKIP should have pulled out the race to allow her to get pushed out
 
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Gutter Boy said:
You don't need freedom of movement for single market access. Canada have SM access with no FoM already. It's SM membership the EU will demand FoM for. That's why the white paper and Labour leadership set out that our desire is simply for access.
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I think that he is suggesting deeper and more frictionless access that a FTA would give.

The conflict at the heart of Brexit has always been between market access versus freedom of movement. He is suggesting a way of maximising access whist giving us control over immigration and the EU some recompense if we tighten restrictions.
 
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milo said:
I think that he is suggesting deeper and more frictionless access that a FTA would give.
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That's not necessarily desirable though, because it has negative consequences (tariffs) for rest of world trade.

Access should definitely be the solution. The key negotiations then will simply bartering about the cost (fee) for including more services than CETA.
 
Grays_1890 said:
Im from Thurrock and I can say the woman that won is a nasty cun7 of a person, how she got in by saying to the locals "you are losing houses for a road" and "I support closing your local hospital" is beyond me, well its not people split the vote between Labour and UKIP and she snuck in, UKIP should have pulled out the race to allow her to get pushed out
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Hopefully the Tories drop in the polls (already have according to Survation) and they lose seats like this come the next election.
 
milo said:
Run that past me in a bit more detail
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A customs union is a protectionist block. It means all members agree to say put a 15% tariff on all external goods, to encourage customers to buy from only within.

So anything other than a FTA with the EU will make us subject to things like that. Which means we won't be free to make more favourable deals across Asia and North America.

I've used this example before, but it why lamb has got so expensive in this country over the past 20 years compared to other meats. It's because the world's big lamb producers (China, Australia, New Zealand, India, Iran and Sudan) are all outside the EU, so it's subject to the EU's external customs tariff .
 
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