Helen was Spartan.
These people who don’t know the classics.
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Elopement. As she was actually married to both Paris and Deiphobus, she certainly had her green card.
Read that picture carefully.
God knows everyone here is in possession of a valid Geek passport.
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Sadly, since Brexit I am no longer a Euro peon.
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Ooh, this could be fun:
Conservative revolt? Snap election?
Although…
This is Hellas stupid.
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I’m actually really starting to believe that the Russians are messing with western political systems - one UKIPPER came out and said the judges should resign!
They’re working to debase societal belief in the governing systems - it’s actually dangerous.
And Mark Carney (our erstwhile Canadian UK resident head of finance!) has come out and tripled inflation expectations in the UK next year.
Tripled, mind. x3.
All due to the stupid Brexit vote.
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And hear this now:
Boris Johnson said out loud in public to an audience - the UK will make a “Titanic success” of Brexit.
How very accurate!
I got a call about a job in the Philippines this morning. I’m actually contemplating it!
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That means that next week they will vote to respect the result of the referendum and then it is finally over, right? Right?
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That’s an ice reference!
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It gave me a real sinking feeling though (boom, boom)
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Here’s the article on the useless gasbag inflaming the voters:
Oooh Toblerone issues now - they’re owned by a US firm ‘Mondelez’!
If they really have done that to the bar, they’re idiots. That looks ridiculous.
They did it to “reduce the weight of the bar”. Really?!?! Or to reduce manufacturing costs so that EBITDA reported in pounds sterling doesn’t get so badly hit when converted into US $$$?
Fare well, favourite things! The UK is now a second / third tier sales destination!
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The chocolate ration has always been 20 grams per week.
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Mondelez are a spin-off of Kraft. Same as owns Cadbury. They’ve owned Toblerone since 1990.
This, however, is stupid. Making the bar smaller or raising the price is the same thing.
But hey, sovereignty has a price, right?
See - one thing they’re doing here, and this will absolutely trip them up as people get upset - is attempting to maintain the same packaging size for shelf visibility, but delivering less chocolate.
It’s an unwinnable battle! People will simply get really cross and find other sweet things to enjoy. Daft.
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What? Nothing moves until the Government appeal to the Supreme Court is heard in December, with a verdict (likely stating again that it’s a matter for Parliament, not Government) expected before the end of the year. At that point, parliamentary procedures will begin, either with an Act or Declaration (depending on what the appeal ruling says); an Act would take quite a bit of time - as it should be the case, considering it will have to safeguard fundamental legislation accumulated over 40 years. This is before Mini-Maggie can even think of talking to Juncker about the weather.
All this was predicted: it’s going to be messy, and it’s not going to take two years. But because 800,000 souls were hoodwinked into thinking their NHS would get a few quid more, here we are.
Next week should be a good time, as you guys will get a further bump from Hillary’s coronation. (Either that, or you will have bigger problems to think about than the exchange rate.)
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Wasn’t it £350m a week? It was painted on a bus, so it must be true.
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