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Everything posted by Adrian@TORQEN
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Very well said.
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"The British mass media market is dominated by Eurosceptic press titles. This has led to a scale and intensity of negative coverage about the EU that informed commentators have judged to be ‘unique’ in Europe as a whole. The central proposition advanced below is that this development – which began in the later 1980s and accelerated through the 1990s and beyond – has strongly influenced the ways in which UK politicians think about what is achievable in their European policies, as well as what is desirable in the first place. A ‘climate of fear’ from press backlashes has meant that UK governments have been increasingly unwilling to devise, implement and publicise pro-European initiatives. In this context, David Cameron’s referendum gamble can in part be seen as a tactical response to the catalytic part the UK press has played in fomenting mass Euroscepticism in UK politics and public debate. [...] Currently only one national press title, debate the Daily Express, is firmly committed to UK withdrawal from the EU. It remains to be seen on which side of the debate its rivals will come down before the referendum. However, what can be ascertained at this stage is that a vote to remain inside the EU would go against a lot of what the opinion-forming segments of the UK press has been overtly or covertly pushing for some time. This should make journalists and owners wonder whether they really have been giving the UK public the stories about the EU it wants to hear. Dr Oliver Daddow is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Nottingham Trent University. " http://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-uk-media-euroscepticism-and-the-uk-referendum-on-eu-membership/
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"How might overall migration change? Some EU citizens would still qualify to migrate to the UK if they faced the same immigration rules as non-EU citizens, but doing so would be much harder because of the skill and earnings requirements for both work-related and family migration. These changes could have some second-order effects that are essentially impossible to quantify in advance. For example, many UK employers have become accustomed to the flexible supply of EU workers in low-wage jobs, and the removal of this migration route could increase the pressure for illegal migration and employment. It is also possible that immigration of EU citizens could increase in the short run in anticipation of EU exit, as people seize the opportunity to move before the rules change. Nonetheless, it is difficult to argue that overall migration in the medium term would not be lower if significant new policy barriers were introduced. Would the reductions Brexit might bring be enough to enable the government to hit the “tens of thousands†net migration target? Not necessarily –the most recent data showed net migration of non-EU citizens at 196,000. At least under current economic conditions and policies, Brexit alone would not sufficient to bring the target within reach. By Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory, University of Oxford" http://ukandeu.ac.uk/would-leaving-the-eu-reduce-immigration-to-the-uk/
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Have you guys seen this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26520836 Scrap 'on demand' postal voting to curb fraud, says judge. Postal voting is open to fraud on an "industrial scale" and is "unviable" in its current form, a top judge has said. Richard Mawrey QC, who tries cases of electoral fraud, told the BBC that people should not be able to apply for postal votes as a matter of course. "On demand" postal voting had not boosted turnout or simplified the process for the vulnerable, he said.
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Sounds SriLankan to me?
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Talking about reforming, I liked this part from a long post on another forum: "break down the size of the UK government and demand accountability and fiscal responsibility while genuinely improving our education system. The average standard of education is not good, we're breeding too many useless people, pushed through 'uni' to keep unemployment numbers low, with the result being that many of the hard working immigrants that we have here really put our own workers to shame. There are so many hard working immigrants here looking for those opportunities against a backdrop of homegrown loafers. I have nothing against anyone who wants to work, unfortunately they are not the only ones getting through, and we desperately need to correct the number of our own not working. It will take a generation to correct things and decent successive governments but one has to hope. Further integration is a failed experiment, people, cultures communities, they are different and should be celebrated for that regardless of how inconvenient that makes it for governments or what powers they loose in the process. We are already blindly handing over and accepting too much encroahchment on civil liberties, just the begining of what current let alone future technology will afford them. Banning of cash, spying on your phones, movements, associates etc all under the guise of anti terrorism. Enough. Freedom! Isn't that what our ancestors fought for, and what every battle has ultimately been about, yet politically we just sit back and accept things that we don't understand or have a grasp of slowly being eroded away"
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What a surprise! It's everywhere, all the forums I visit, social media, meets etc... Would be nice to have proper debates and awareness campaigns before voting...
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Seen this today on Facebook, worth a read and digging for some documents to see what's what: 'Turns out that a lot of people don't realise this... the ECHR is not a court of the EU. It is the highest court of the Council of Europe, formed with the UK as a founding member in the Treaty of London 1949. To cut a long story short, it was what our forefathers fought for. Our forefathers saw the horror of what happens when any group of people is considered to be subhuman, and decided that basic human rights should apply to all humans, regardless of their misdeeds and/or crimes. Clearly they knew full well that we wouldn't always like it, but that's kind of the point of Human Rights. ... and so we have those who complain that the ECHR and their pesky human rights prevented us from deporting Abu Hamza - but actually, they didn't. What the ECHR DID do was to hold us to our legal obligations under law that WE created - they placed a TEMPORARY injunction upon his deportation until they were satisfied that he was not going to be tortured or imprisoned without ANY possibility for release no matter how reformed he could ever possibly become in the future. Once they were satisfied, the injunction was lifted and he was indeed deported. We have the issue of life imprisonment, for example, with the killer of April Jones. The ECHR wouldn't let us give the killer a full life tariff without the possibility of release - so we explained that under extraordinary circumstances the Home Secretary could release such a prisoner, and the ECHR was OK with that. Again - that's the thing with having a basic standard for human rights applicable to every human regardless of crime or misdeed - it applies simply by virtue of their being human, and can prove to be a little awkward at times... but it's a hell of a lot better than allowing ANYbody to be treated as sub-human no matter how distasteful we find them - because that's the same kind of thinking that allows societies to end up moving from finding a scapegoat to gassing jewish people or the disabled. Our forefathers, who fought the second world war and who were so disturbed by what they saw and learned, knew this. So, before you vote to leave the EU on the basis of "those pesky do-gooding human rights", please consider where those human rights come from, why they exist, why they were created... by us... and the fact that they have absolutely naff all to do with leaving the EU. We are still subject to the ECHR - the law of which WE created for a better and more civilised world - whether we leave the EU or stay in it.'
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*** TORQEN *** 350z DE Engine bay dress up stuff - what do you need?
Adrian@TORQEN replied to Adrian@TORQEN's topic in TORQEN
Plenum bolts are in production, in all colours. Send me some measurements for the TB bolts and I'll get those done as well. -
*** TORQEN *** 350z DE Engine bay dress up stuff - what do you need?
Adrian@TORQEN replied to Adrian@TORQEN's topic in TORQEN
Don't forget that pm í ½í¸‰ Sent -
*** TORQEN *** 350z DE Engine bay dress up stuff - what do you need?
Adrian@TORQEN replied to Adrian@TORQEN's topic in TORQEN
Yes, it's just finding time to design and test the 3D model... The factory is waiting for me to supply them with the drawing -
Welcoming my new Z to the forum
Adrian@TORQEN replied to jowen7448's topic in Introductions & Welcome Messages
Welcome to the forum! -
How about this instead? http://www.torqen.uk/350z/body-styling/exterior/1663-350z-torqen-undertrays-trq-ut350.html Special price for you, PM me
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I'm in discussion with Vortech for a Group Buy in case you guys need a new one. In fact it's all agreed, I just need to post stuff, but hectic busy this week
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Help Required! Overheating in traffic, Cold air in cabin
Adrian@TORQEN replied to a topic in 350Z Technical
So there's a leak in the coolant? How's the coolant level looking now? -
Help Required! Overheating in traffic, Cold air in cabin
Adrian@TORQEN replied to a topic in 350Z Technical
My money is on airlock, the coolant system needs to be bled properly. -
That is a good start because it's extremely old and insecure/vulnerable. You're running version 5.1.73 released in 2013 - https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.1/en/news-5-1-73.html Still won't solve the problem, it's the forum software - IPBoard - that needs updating and tweaking, could start with upgrading to 4.0x.
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*** TORQEN *** 350z DE Engine bay dress up stuff - what do you need?
Adrian@TORQEN replied to Adrian@TORQEN's topic in TORQEN
Yep, a few in stock Will PM you shortly. -
There are so many ways to fix the search, this is one: https://www.invisionpower.com/support/guides/_/maintenance-and-server-configurations/searching-r21
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SOLD.
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Need to speak with Paul then How good is the camera in night mode?
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Looks very nice, easy mod. I've order more stock
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I need to make a confession... I lied above I hated and still hate the 370z MK1 Nismo, go figure Ugly thing impersonating a car if you ask me. A MK2 on the other side it's lovely, they've listened to me and fixed it! :lol:
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I used to love 370z Nismo MK1, but I moved on, now I love the Stang
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Evo Triangle, life size Scaletrix track
Adrian@TORQEN replied to JetSet's topic in Off Topic Discussion
times two or three?