Brexit & the City

Dave Business, Economics

It is well understood that the post brexit trade deal excludes services including financial services, what does this mean? Here are my notes, which I converted into a piece on linkedin …

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GMB Congress size

Dave Life & Death, Politics

The GMB’s annual congress, except when pandemics occur is defined by rule., Rule 8.  It consists of one delegate per 1500 members and the delegates are appointed by the regions, 90% elected by the membership within Regions and 10% appointed by the Regional Committees, which are themselves indirectly elected bodies. This means that at the…

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Open Labour? What’s it doing?

Dave Politics

Open Labour won one seat in Labour’s NEC CLPs division elections in 2020. They clearly have an attraction to many members and MPs but their record of actions makes me question how left they are. Here are my notes.

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Confidence of the House

Dave Politics

Prime Minsters come but always go. It’s meant to be one of the advantages of a parliamentary system but how many have we lost because they lost the confidence of the house. Here are my notes. …

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EU-UK trade & co-operation agreement

Dave Life & Death, Politics

The UK Govt. and EU Commission have agreed a treaty to govern the UK’s 3rd party relationship with the EU covering trade, some programmes, security and governance. I put my first thoughts on my blog, inspired by Tom Kiblasi’s instant reaction, but I needed to go further. Here are some links and notes. …

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Home TV

Dave Gadget

I might get myself a large tv screen/monitor, but where to put it. Here are some links/ideas.

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NWN2 Monks

Dave Games, NWN

I started a new game, and am running a Monk, because the game, called “Bad Habits” is made for one. Here are my notes …

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