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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/03/brexit-freight-ferry-firm-...
You gullible fools...
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In reply to MG:
This may actually be the best Brexit-related news I've heard so far.
If there's one European commodity I really do not want us to run short of, it's pizza.
Well, pizza and houmous, anyway. Tell me they have a houmous delivery ferry ready too, please.
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In reply to MG:
It's odd, but I just tried to order a Frutti de Mari with extra anchovies from Popeyes, and the fella on the moped bought me a shipping container stuffed with 2,000 clutch plates for a Honda Civic.
Worlds goin mad.
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In reply to MG:
Curious, given that 'Terms and Conditions' are one of the first items to be reviewed in any due diligence process.
The government says they performed DD; they're lying. Again.
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In reply to Rob Exile Ward:
> Curious, given that 'Terms and Conditions of trade' are one of the first items on any due diligence process.
> The government says the performed DD; they're lying. Again.
The whole thing does seem very shady. I assume the government pictured headlines about all the contracts going to European firms and thought they'd dodge that by throwing some money at a British startup, hoping nobody would look too closely.
Having said that, this seems to refer to the Terms and Conditions relating to their website, rather than general operating procedures. It seems they threw together a website very quickly from a not entirely relevant template. Which is foolish but not necessarily directly relevant to their ability to operate a shipping company.
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In reply to Rob Exile Ward:
Their webs(h)ite also has a completely fake login box which is just an image.
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In reply to Neil Williams:
Their website is scarcely believable. More or less a complete fake. Totally threadbare and devoid of information. I don't believe a single word on their 'About' page is factually true. The 'Time Table' has no timetable. All it shows is that they are scarcely literate in that 'timetable' is conventionally spelt as one word in English. As you say, the 'Log In' is fake; just an image that doesn't link to anything that works. The 'Recruitment' page shows that they're just starting to think about hiring people up to work for them: 'We expect the formal recruitment process to begin during January 2019.' And, apart from a standard 'Contact' form, that's it. Nothing about their services or fleet. Not a single fact. Yet they've been given a contract worth millions. Really, if this wasn't so serious it would be funny. It just encapsulates the complete laughing stock our government is making of us in the eyes of the world. I resent that. In fact I really detest this whole f***ing B nonsense.
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In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
From their recruitment form: "Please tell us why you applied for this job and why you think you are the best person for the job."
Because I like sailing and I've got a ship.
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In reply to MG:
I have a two person inflatable kayak and a cool box, I reckon I could do for 12 million and undercut them ????
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In reply to MG:
From their T&C - "Copying and storage of this web site for permanent use or incorporation and reproduction whether for new media or paper use is strictly prohibited. "
Delightfully ironic!
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In reply to MG:
I reckon they couldn't get any real respectable British companies to bid so went for Seaborne as it would be so embarrassing if only foreign companies were hired to save us in a no deal Brexit.
It really is an outrage.
Tim Martin is doing his best for Britain by cancelling 'Spoons' Prosecco order and purchasing only from Commonwealth and new world countries. I think that sort of says it all about the Brexit mindset.
Isn't it time to wake up now?
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In reply to Pete Pozman:
The local pro EU group are planning to pursue him round his pubs when he comes promoting Brexit in Cumbria and confront him with the results of their Brexitometer street polls in those towns
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In reply to skog:
> Well, pizza and houmous, anyway. Tell me they have a houmous delivery ferry ready too, please.
No houmous for you after brexit. Beef dripping is very similar and will be made available instead.
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In reply to MG:
there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this whole ferry mix-up.
Chris Grayling is involved
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In reply to balmybaldwin:
Grayling is the archetypal buffoon. That this is not more apparent is because he's surrounded by many others (on both sides of the House) who eclipse even his capacity for dim-witted and self-interested manipulation.
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In reply to Greenbanks:
The infuriating thing is we just have to sit here while he and his colleagues wreak havoc. I mean, would you let him rig an abseil?
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In reply to Pete Pozman:
> The infuriating thing is we just have to sit here while he and his colleagues wreak havoc. I mean, would you let him rig an abseil?
In the hope that he ballsed it up, yes absolutely
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In reply to Pete Pozman:
> The infuriating thing is we just have to sit here while he and his colleagues wreak havoc. I mean, would you let him rig an abseil?
Rig an abseil... I wouldn't trust Grayling to buy a round of drinks without adult supervision.
jk
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In reply to Sean_J:
I meant an abseil for you...
In reply to Pete Pozman:
I wouldn’t let Grayling tie my shoelaces, that’s goes for the majority of the cabinet :-/
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In reply to MG:
I emailed them to order a curry
Is there anybody in the current government who isn't either a complete moron, evil or insane?
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In reply to Trevers:
> Is there anybody in the current government who isn't either a complete moron, evil or insane?
Barely credible that such a question, while not being entirely serious, actually requires some thought to answer in the affirmative!
With the Labour leadership similarly ineffective and unpopular, has there ever been a time when UK politics has hit quite such a low?
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In reply to john arran:
Could be worse. US politics, anyone?
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In reply to Oceanrower:
We are back to that favourite competition between the UK and US: Who can have the least competent people in power? I do love a competition!
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In reply to Trevers:
> I emailed them to order a curry
> Is there anybody in the current government who isn't either a complete moron, evil or insane?
I think that flatters them and implies no responsibility. I'd say they're grossly incompetent and suffering massively from the Dunning Kruger effect.
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In reply to Oceanrower:
> Could be worse. US politics, anyone?
You think? The opposition has won an election and is starting to look like it might actually oppose.
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In reply to jethro kiernan:
Marina Hyde is spot-on:
"Few organisations have done more to positively discriminate in favour of the clueless or incompetent than the Tory administrations of the past few years, but even accounting for the likes of Iain Duncan Smith and Andrea Leadsom, Chris Grayling is the ultimate poster child for anyone whose inner voice tells them they couldn’t be something because they’re honestly just sensationally bad at it."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/04/no-deal-brexit-dragon...
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In reply to john arran:
> With the Labour leadership similarly ineffective and unpopular, has there ever been a time when UK politics has hit quite such a low?
Well, Lord North was pretty bad. Ignorant, arrogant, lost America. Old Etonian of course...
And this was the time before the Reform Act of 1832, when UK politics was pretty much corrupt across the board of course.
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In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
Poor Gordon. Put your feet up. You getting vexed will make not a jot of difference.
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In reply to Bob Kemp:
Will that be the Marina who is daughter of Sir Alastair Edgcumbe James Dudley-Williams that well known socialist? Funny how the Gruaniad has become the mouthpiece for the self-selecting meritocratic liberal elite satirised by Michael Young. A plague on all their houses.
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In reply to MG:
I've just sent in a pizza order in the name of I.C.Wiener.
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In reply to john yates:
A singularly irrelevant comment. Well done!
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In reply to Bob Kemp:
> A singularly irrelevant comment. Well done!
The messenger is always to blame when the message is unpalatable.
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In reply to MG:
I wonder whether this story will end up helping the no-deal leave group. The story sort of suggests that the no-deal brexit (a 10s to 100s of billion problem) will be OK with a couple of 50 million fixes. A bit similar to all the arguing by remain about 350 million a week a few years ago that just focussed the story on the costs of the membership instead of on the benefits.
In reply to HansStuttgart:
I think I must publish a manifesto of those powers and rights to act and do that I will reserve and hold unto myself should the Mad Brexiteers win.
Where should I publish it?
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In reply to john arran:
You guys read what you like into things. A plague on all their houses...ministers and moaners....as a messenger she’s a shrill predictable Oxbridge toff writing for a rag every bit as biased as the Mail but one that would have gone belly up yonks ago had it not been subsidised by the Autotrader. She and the Guardian totally out of touch with the majority who voted leave, large numbers of whom or the working classes the Manchester Guardian used to champion till it was taken over by the universitariat.
As for blaming the messenger that’s all you folk do...if it’s in the Mail it must be bad, if it’s in the Guardian it must be good/right.
Its time to put into effect the will of the people and leave. End all your special pleading and Armeggedon time.
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In reply to john yates:
John Yates finds educated experts writing the newspapers, and some of them are women. Dissolves in apoplectic rage.
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In reply to MG:
Marina is a columnist not an expert you clod.
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In reply to john yates:
> [...] End all your special pleading and Armeggedon time.
Could you please translate that into English?
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In reply to john yates:
A Celebrity gossip columnist to boot ... 'nuff said!
In reply to john yates:
Are you working for the Remain campaign now?
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In reply to john yates:
> You guys read what you like into things. A plague on all their houses...ministers and moaners....as a messenger she’s a shrill predictable Oxbridge toff writing for a rag every bit as biased as the Mail but one that would have gone belly up yonks ago had it not been subsidised by the Autotrader. She and the Guardian totally out of touch with the majority who voted leave, large numbers of whom or the working classes the Manchester Guardian used to champion till it was taken over by the universitariat.
The messenger is always to blame when the message is unpalatable.
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In reply to Dave B:
https://newsthump.com/2019/01/04/ramsgate-declared-brexit-capital-due-to-be...
I always knew I moved to somewhere importanter than London...
Ps. I've seen the dredger working away.
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In reply to Andy Hardy:
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In reply to john arran:
You are so dreadfully dull.
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In reply to MG:
https://theisleofthanetnews.com/2019/01/13/thanet-council-expected-to-axe-7...
Looks like there are more pressing deadlines for Seabourn as the local council can't afford to keep the port funded sufficiently unless there is a signed contract
In other news ..
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1667350193366983&id=6424448...
Not sure whether this gets to the right page. Obvious question about the Seabourn contract are not answered by government minister.
Sigh.
Still paying through my council tax I guess is where I'll be.
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