OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[Gary Gutful]

Why would you be specifically limiting your reply to discussing coal?

I wasn't discussing coal, nor specifically was the post I responded to.

I mean personally I couldn't give a f**k whether China bought our coal or not, I aint about to cry over a bunch of billionaires losing a bit of revenue and having to work to replace it.

Well I was discussing coal and if you don't like it you can move to China!

 

[Bandwagon]

Well I was discussing coal and if you don't like it you can move to China!

Nah, You move to China coal boy.

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[Twizzle]

just don't become a journalist over there, its not healthy

 

[Gary Gutful]

Nah, You move to China coal boy.

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Thats Sir Coal-alot to you!

Anyway, China's first major trade moves were in relation to coal so it wasn't completely unreasonable to mention it. It was also a discussion about potential EU trade sanctions relating to carbon emissions which would also imply that coal is a pretty important part of the conversation.

 

[Bandwagon]

Thats Sir Coal-alot to you!

Anyway, China's first major trade moves were in relation to coal so it wasn't completely unreasonable to mention it. It was also a discussion about potential EU trade sanctions relating to carbon emissions which would also imply that coal is a pretty important part of the conversation.

The EU thing isn't about sanctions, it's about having a mechanism in place that places a tariff on goods from countries that don't have similar costs attached to their carbon output.

From their point of view it is to ensure their goods, which are exposed to such costs, aren't put at a disadvantage as compared to goods from countries where they aren't.

They won't be the only ones to do so. The US and China both have shown they have no qualms with using tariffs to achieve domestic ends, I think we are entering a new phase of world trade where protectionism isn't such a dirty word, as long as it can be sold as not being for protectionist' sake.

 

[Bandwagon]

.......and if I say it's coal boy, it's f**ken' coal boy, ffs f**ken'!

 

[Gary Gutful]

The EU thing isn't about sanctions, it's about having a mechanism in place that places a tariff on goods from countries that don't have similar costs attached to their carbon output.

From their point of view it is to ensure their goods, which are exposed to such costs, aren't put at a disadvantage as compared to goods from countries where they aren't.

They won't be the only ones to do so. The US and China both have shown they have no qualms with using tariffs to achieve domestic ends, I think we are entering a new phase of world trade where protectionism isn't such a dirty word, as long as it can be sold as not being for protectionist' sake.

Fair call. Not a good idea to conflate sanctions with tariffs. Lazy on my part.

 

[Gary Gutful]

.......and if I say it's coal boy, it's f**ken' coal boy, ffs f**ken'!

 

[Gronk]

It's about fairness (and getting the support of Murdoch to get re-elected).

 

[Gronk]

Salty Sky News.

 

[Gronk]

The Kracken lady, Sydney Powell, is being sued for $1B in the US over the voter fraud allegations.

Her defence is that "no reasonable person would have believed (the allegations)"

https://www.rawstory.com/sidney-powell-intended-belief-conspiracies/

IIRC we have a few here that bought her malarkey.

 

[Twizzle]

I'm sure she has a lazy $1Billion laying around

 

[Gronk]

That’s Ok Jacquie, it was only a pretend disaster fund.

 

[Twizzle]

and you wonder how he got the name #Scottyfrommmarketing

 

[strider]

If scoy bungs on another round of crocodile tears any time soon then i will personally slap him across the head

You can care and be very concerned about issues without having to bung on tears

 

[Gary Gutful]

Someone needs to tell Mitch Moses that.

 

[Gronk]

SkyNews thinks ScoMo is on the nose.

 

[parra pete]

SkyNews thinks ScoMo is on the nose.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah..

 

[Gronk]

It wasn't me officer!

 

[Gronk]