Mrs Roops

Well firstly I'm not stupid enough to believe in fantasies and for reasons that I have previously given I believe Project EU has worked to the detriment of The UK. The majority of the electorate who voted in the referendum agree with me, but the people who are charged with governing have done so without consent.

Last night's vote to delay article 50 was pretty much on partisan lines, The majority of labour bar 9 voted for, the majority of conservatives bar 14 voted against. When it came to the crunch Labour, who traditionally bang on about equality, democracy and the rights of man decided that the electorate's wishes should be thrown on the scrap heap.

That already happens now. MP's representing Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish constituencies currently do not vote in the House of Commons on issues that only affect England. --o0o-- The outcome of today's by election held at Newport West will be interesting. If there is any justice then Labour should suffer a major swing against them which would be suitable punishment for effectively devaluing 17,410,742 votes. Right now nothing pisses me off more than a parliamentary talking head sanctimoniously flapping his/her jaw about "the referendum result must be respected" and then proceeds to spew out weasel sound bites about "soft Brexit" and "leavers did not vote for......"

Well, that's just it Panzy, with or without Brexit I'll still be supping exotic cocktails beside the swimming pools of Europe - Bexit will not make an iota of difference to travellers who wish to travel, whereas you'll still be quaffing your disgusting black stout by a pool of waterlogged peat no matter what your leaders tell you.

I have access to some costly economic intelligence that I cannot copy and/or link for The Corner so you'll have to make do with a more populist explanation here.

In terms of commonality of language and culture we have more in keeping with North America, Australasia and the Commonwealth yet we pinned our future to a mixed bag of economies and told our friends to bugger off on the basis that we were only 22 miles away from Europe. Modern communications, transport and logistics makes our reasoning somewhat moot these days.

Really? I'll come back to that later, though interesting you've bought a German phrase book... The reality is that the Irish are absolutely bricking it over the thought of a hard Brexit. They've woken up to the fact that should there be a "no deal" then Irish foodstuffs to the UK will be attracting a tariff but at the same time, non-eu imported beef for example, will no longer attract the 50% price loading imposed by the protectionist EU - forget about the "free-trade" deceit spun by the Commission, its all about protectionism. The Irish PM has now learnt to be more circumspect with his words. Remember his rash threat to ban UK aircraft from Irish skies? His spin doctors stepped in to say his petulance was "taken out of context" after enquiries' were made as to whether the flight ban included RAF planes that police and protect Irish airspace on Ireland's behalf. Last year, the Taoiseach also promised the Irish people "five years of income tax cuts" yet fast forward to last January and after some serious bean counting he then made the case to the Commission that after three years of Ireland being a modest net contributor to the EU budget that not only would it be unfair to Ireland to pay a substantially increased contribution to help fill the economic black hole left by the UK's absence but that the Irish had a good case for demanding compensation caused by Brexit. The Brexit process has become a national embarrassment not only due the British government's poor negotiating strategy at the outset but also to elements within parliament ignoring the democratic mandate to leave by attempting to keep us in the Customs Union in everything but name. As for "another lovely day in Euroland" there are storm clouds forming. One way or the other the EU is desperate for the Brexit process to end; firstly they are conscious that "Brexit disease" is contagious and questions are being asked questioning the validity and purpose of the EU. Secondly and more importantly the EU has far greater issues that need attending. Quite simply, the EU in its present form does not work. Growth in the EU is the lowest in the world and people are waking up to the fact that true democracy does not function as the EU Commission is seen as unaccountable to the people. The Commission's response has been and always will be that more integration is needed. Ideally they want total fiscal, monetary, diplomatic and military control, a true United States of Europe. After Brexit expect a major existential crisis throughout Europe. Top o'the morning to ya.

@Monumental cunt, whilst I have no wish to curtail your right to spew your particular brand of barfly philosophising, I do take exception to your persistent Rule 12 violations, two of which took place last night together with your use of a racist pejorative. You are a serial offender on both counts. Account suspended for seven days.

Ridiculous

No one has "grassed" you up. The no quote altering rule was introduced because such behaviour was once endemic on the forum - sometimes there would be pages of quote altering, none of which was amusing except to the punter doing the altering. If I had let it through then every other chancer who likes to push boundaries would try it on.

Business is business, so no apologies, in any case, to borrow a fellow punter's analogy, one man's Rembrandt is another's Harris. Tell us more about your Eurotophobia, please.

Um, not exactly. For two years whilst I was a stay-at-home mum I set up my own production company. It was a cottage industry that took a few hours per day. Just to be clear, I worked behind the camera as producer. The idea was to create and sell content to resellers and publishers with an eventual aim to have my own platform. In the end the business bored me silly looking at vaginas every day and I sold the business to an industry affiliate (these are guys who earn commission by creating link pages on behalf of producers and publishers) who wanted to branch out. The business is still going strong selling content to the likes of wearehairy and mature.nl.

Content providers won't see a penny of it. It used to be that producing porn was a licence to print money. Ironically t'internet has put paid to that as producers made their money from VCR and DVD sales. In its infancy, producers were happy to post teaser pages on link sites which generated revenue. Now that the www is universally available thousands of low cost producers have swamped the market. Nowadays, the successful producers are those that provide high quality niche content to limited audiences who have a particular bent. The Digital Economy Bill (Age Verification) will fail for a plethora of other reasons as well. Punters can now access a reliable, safe VPN from most proprietary anti-virus apps free of charge and producers can access servers abroad so unless the UK govt is willing to impose a Chinese style control on its citizens then the proposed legislation will simply not work. The govt might just get away with this in regards to mainstream VoD streaming with publishers like Netflix but that's about it. I've previously mentioned that content providers are not happy with customer lists in the hands of a competitor but the BBFC have also got its knickers in a twist over trying to codify what is porn and what is "depraved" and consequently no one knows what type of content needs to be licenced. To give an example, rape, forced sex, female (but not male) centric dominatrix, bondage and pain (light spanking allowed!) will not pass the censor and perversely, female ejaculation is forbidden but male ejaculation is OK. I won't even go into American First Amendment issues but suffice to say a lot more work is needed by the Dept of Media Culture & Sport who are somewhat distracted by other more pressing issues.

Not going to happen, not his year maybe not ever. Effective 1st April the scheme will be voluntary. The Digital Economy Act has been watered down because no-one, especially the content providers, are satisfied that the licencing agent is competent enough to hold private data securely. Content providers are especially vexed that the preferred choice of licensing administrator is operated by the same firm that owns YouPorn as this gives them an unfair competitive advantage of knowing the porn preferences 20 million UK users. After April the worst that the regulator (the venerable BBFC) can do is "ask" paywall firms to withhold payment to content providers who aren't using an age verification service.

You may scoff at "The Experts" but all of them, from banking and market-maker economists, The CBI, The Chamber of Commerce, The Governor of the Bank of England, The then PM and Chancellor to former American presidents were all proven very wrong when the UK economic fabric didn't disintegrate when the referendum result did not go the way they wished for. I thought it was rather telling the way the supposedly impartial interviewer feigned a dismissive and sneering attitude in asking "who are the experts?" Clearly a fully paid member of the metropolitan chattering classes...

What? Punkers, again you troll the site with faux moralising underpinned by faulty scientific reasoning and bogus theologising. Nature is not part of DNA. Very crudely, the DNA molecule is one of the four basic building blocks that is essential to the creation of life. Consequently your premise is intellectually bankrupt. Either God created everything or existence as we know it is a natural process contrary to the Book of Punkape which has decreed that God created everything apart from the bad bits. Perhaps you should heed your own advice and do the research.

What, they use the same programming language as every other site on the 'net? Aside from you talking unadulterated bollox, you ought to be aware that some punters, cruel bastards that they are, are obviously trying to induce you into a meltdown, so calm down, leave the site and come back in a few hours.

Sounds like hacking to me.

I really shouldn't have succumbed to his latest troll-bait. Punkers is a catholic as much as I'm a Jedi knight. As for his other posh boy nonsense he makes too many errors - remember sat-navigate?

Hang on Punkers, you can't pick and choose what your deity created - you've previously stated that God created everything, yet when it comes to a "wrongun" who clearly isn't wired up correctly from the outset it suddenly becomes "nature's" responsibility. Now, if you put forward the go to ecclesiastical argument that God's designs have deliberate flaws to test God's children to resolve then that's fine but by blaming "nature" you are in fact denying the existence of God.

No, I don't think I am rattled, save for the Russian spambot that seems to be trapped in the report facility. I must say I did chuckle at the way you described yourself as having "audacity". Certainly something seems to be at play but "audacity" it aint.

No apologies due or forthcoming from me, RK. Have you not considered that If an alternative viewpoint is not proffered and hammered home then this site might resemble an EDL/NF offshoot? The alternative is that I say less and strike out considerably more content. The third option is that The Corner is forcibly closed. What would you prefer?

What sock puppet?

I'm sure many views are formed from personal experiences - it would be odd if they weren't. Now I had a very positive experience with a Spanish hospital locum and a dreadful experience with a eastern European doctor, neither of which has made me have a generalised opinion of each individuals country's training. However, if a punter has a history a racist viewpoints, using racist pejoratives etc then in all likelihood their POV is going to be somewhat questionable.

Yeah, well I trust you as far as I can throw a grand piano uphill.