UK Referendum Thread [Moderator Sanctioned]

[Zeinbrad]

I think Boris and Nigel just did a better job of screwing over the UK then ISIS could ever dream of.

Why do you think they all quit pretty damn sharpish?

In a vain attempt to save their legacies?

[Vassenor]

Why do you think they all quit pretty damn sharpish?

In a vain attempt to save their legacies?

Yup. It means that they don't have their names on it when it all goes to hell.

[Zeinbrad]

In a vain attempt to save their legacies?

Yup. It means that they don't have their names on it when it all goes to hell.

Seems next to impossible in the days of the internet.

[Vassenor]

Yup. It means that they don't have their names on it when it all goes to hell.

Seems next to impossible in the days of the internet.

If we've learned anything over the years it's that politicians do not understand the Internet along with all the other things they cannot control.

[Vassenor]

So it turns out Gove did make up the "Queen backs Brexit" story after all.

[Morvalistan]

How ironic.

[Enfaru]

So it turns out Gove did make up the "Queen backs Brexit" story after all.

There's a difference between making it up and telling a newspaper that's what happened.

I'm a little reluctant also to take what Nick Clegg says at face value for obvious reasons.

Edit:

And I'm also reluctant to trust IPSO. It's the Press moderating the press

[Grave_n_idle]

So it turns out Gove did make up the "Queen backs Brexit" story after all.

There's a difference between making it up and telling a newspaper that's what happened.

I'm a little reluctant also to take what Nick Clegg says at face value for obvious reasons.

Edit:

And I'm also reluctant to trust IPSO. It's the Press moderating the press

You're reluctant to trust an industry regulatory body, but you think The Sun is reliable?

[Frank Zipper]

I look forward to Gove's beheading in the Tower.

[Imperializt Russia]

So it turns out Gove did make up the "Queen backs Brexit" story after all.

There's a difference between making it up and telling a newspaper that's what happened.

I'm a little reluctant also to take what Nick Clegg says at face value for obvious reasons.

Edit:

And I'm also reluctant to trust IPSO. It's the Press moderating the press

"Independent Press Standards Organisation"

uhhh

[Vassenor]

Post-war fantasies and Brexit: the delusional view of Britain’s place in the world

[Vassenor]

What Uber's Chinese collapse means for Brexit trade deals

[Imperializt Russia]

What Uber's Chinese collapse means for Brexit trade deals

Uber should burn.

[CoraSpia]

What Uber's Chinese collapse means for Brexit trade deals

Uber should burn.

uhm...why?

[Imperializt Russia]

Uber should burn.

uhm...why?

I've never seen it painted as anything but a disaster, and it seems to have a real problem with vetting its drivers.

[CoraSpia]

uhm...why?

I've never seen it painted as anything but a disaster, and it seems to have a real problem with vetting its drivers.

Same issue as faces any of those sort of businesses (airbnb, for example.) I use it a lot, and I've never had issues with it. For people with disabilities, some of its features (such as paying on your card so you don't have the fun fun fun of drivers telling you that your 20 pound note is a fiver, and messages to say where your car is, as well as being able to check to make sure that your taxi isn't going round and round the block to increase the amount you're paying) are excellent.

[Rufford]

I've never seen it painted as anything but a disaster, and it seems to have a real problem with vetting its drivers.

Same issue as faces any of those sort of businesses (airbnb, for example.) I use it a lot, and I've never had issues with it. For people with disabilities, some of its features (such as paying on your card so you don't have the fun fun fun of drivers telling you that your 20 pound note is a fiver, and messages to say where your car is, as well as being able to check to make sure that your taxi isn't going round and round the block to increase the amount you're paying) are excellent.

You might not, but there are some really dodgy people using it.

[HMS Vanguard]

Anyone doesn't like Uber? I don't remember the last time I saw or heard of anyone take a regular taxi, much less myself.

Why do I want to pay mystery fare from an inconvenient location when I get an, almost always lower, advance fixed price, pick up wherever, and excellent and responsive customer service from a company that depends on my approval rather than of licensing agencies?

[CoraSpia]

Same issue as faces any of those sort of businesses (airbnb, for example.) I use it a lot, and I've never had issues with it. For people with disabilities, some of its features (such as paying on your card so you don't have the fun fun fun of drivers telling you that your 20 pound note is a fiver, and messages to say where your car is, as well as being able to check to make sure that your taxi isn't going round and round the block to increase the amount you're paying) are excellent.

You might not, but there are some really dodgy people using it.

I find that the ratings tend to be a good show of how good the driver is.

[Vassenor]

Anyone doesn't like Uber? I don't remember the last time I saw or heard of anyone take a regular taxi, much less myself.

Why do I want to pay mystery fare from an inconvenient location when I get an, almost always lower, advance fixed price, pick up wherever, and excellent and responsive customer service from a company that depends on my approval rather than of licensing agencies?

I prefer the idea of a properly licensed taxi driver rather than any Joe Q Public who has a black car and no background checks.

[Imperializt Russia]

Anyone doesn't like Uber? I don't remember the last time I saw or heard of anyone take a regular taxi, much less myself.

Why do I want to pay mystery fare from an inconvenient location when I get an, almost always lower, advance fixed price, pick up wherever, and excellent and responsive customer service from a company that depends on my approval rather than of licensing agencies?

I don't know anyone who has used Uber.
Basically all of the big taxi companies in Liverpool have low, advanced prices and at least two have apps that can give you driver updates, tracking and estimated fare.

Because I travel by train a lot, I get a lot of black cabs too. Because I know the rough distance I'll be travelling, it's never a particular surprise how much I'll be paying.
Some of the taxi drivers in Grimsby are fucking scumbags though. I swear some of them deliberately take an overly long route to make me pay thirteen fucking quid when everyone else takes me on a route that's ten on the nose.

[HMS Vanguard]

You might not, but there are some really dodgy people using it.

I find that the ratings tend to be a good show of how good the driver is.

I am sure a much better one than that someone has been issued a licensed by a government agency.

I do not know how or why that license was issued. If someone has 100 positive reports from people like me, good bet they are OK.

[CoraSpia]

Anyone doesn't like Uber? I don't remember the last time I saw or heard of anyone take a regular taxi, much less myself.

Why do I want to pay mystery fare from an inconvenient location when I get an, almost always lower, advance fixed price, pick up wherever, and excellent and responsive customer service from a company that depends on my approval rather than of licensing agencies?

I don't know anyone who has used Uber.
Basically all of the big taxi companies in Liverpool have low, advanced prices and at least two have apps that can give you driver updates, tracking and estimated fare.

Because I travel by train a lot, I get a lot of black cabs too. Because I know the rough distance I'll be travelling, it's never a particular surprise how much I'll be paying.
Some of the taxi drivers in Grimsby are fucking scumbags though. I swear some of them deliberately take an overly long route to make me pay thirteen fucking quid when everyone else takes me on a route that's ten on the nose.

The only place I use normal taxis in is Stoke, where the taxi drivers from the certain taxi company I use are pretty reliant on students. Everywhere else though I use uber.

[Great Nepal]

Seems eerily accurate, are we sure Humphrey isn't an actual civil servant releasing internal government stuff as comedy?

[Souseiseki]

Seems eerily accurate, are we sure Humphrey isn't an actual civil servant releasing internal government stuff as comedy?

it was conclusively proven in the case of iannucci vs beer bingo that satire is dead