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  2. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Nick said:

    The obvious problem with any possible scenario is that if the answer is still leave, then parliament will not accept it.

    Parliament is our constitutional democracy, elected by the People. The Executive - which used to be the Crown and is now the Government - is separate from that.

    So, this is the complexity we now have: the Referendum Act passed by Parliament made it advisory only, i.e. not legally binding. The Executive, with no Parliamentary authority, decided to make the result binding and stated so on the ballot paper. That has created a divide where the legally passed Act has been modified by Government without the consent of Parliament, and it's the same divide as caused the Civil War, i.e. who has power, Parliament or the Executive?

    You can insult Parliament all you like, but they are your democratic representatives, not Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Jacob Ree-Smogg acting from their own interests.

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    1 hour ago, secret santa said:

    The decisions have to be binary or else 34% of voters could decide for the remaining 66% - how would this go down ? I think you know !

    So, it has to be a series of binary decisions and everyone has to vote on each of them

    1 Leave or Remain

    2 If leave, Deal or No Deal

    3 If Deal, Mrs May's deal or WTO

    Thus the issue would be decided at stage 1 if Remain gets >50% but goes to stage 2 if Leave gets >50%

    At stage 2, with everyone voting, the issue is decided if No Deal wins, else goes to stage 3

    At stage 3, with everyone voting, either accept Mrs May's deal or WTO terms.

    If everyone follows the rules, you will emerge with something that >50% of the voters voted for.

    Too complicated ?

     

    I think that is a good idea, as long as the voting is all done at the same time. By the way, you don't need 3 - Deal means May's, No Deal means WTO. 

    The choice of three options is also fair, but it would have to be written in that the winning margin couldn't be - for example - 34, 33, 32; the winning vote would have to be a clear % ahead of the next most popular, or it's No Decision and would have to be rerun. If the rerun was also No Decision, then lord knows what would happen next, it would have to go to a penalty shoot out... 

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    23 hours ago, Unwilling Numismatist said:

    How peculiar.

    I'm not aware of doing anything untoward with the original link. All I did was went to that link and scrolled down (ignore all the bumf you see at the top about the 50p's and scroll down).

    Apart tfrom the dodgy link, you're quite right - I just needed to scroll down! My mistake was clicking one of the buttons higher up.

  6. Posted

    On 15 January 2019 at 10:14 PM, josie said:

    UK more than Europe, Ireland Scotland England all independent but United in UK and part of EU that can trade globally by its own and with EU regulation policy etc it needed three Ireland Scotland and England to be one just a thought in reality how UK will be one of the major leaders that can say no no yes yes to EU at least the center core of coat of arms of UK other commonwealth nation will follow?.  EU and commonwealth countries through UK in trade etc. 

    Aren't they still in Europe? I know we are - Bayern in the Round of 16.

  8. Posted

    7 hours ago, Unwilling Numismatist said:

    The link seems to function perfectly still.

    The only set left available is the crappy "old and 2008"  pairing for waaaaytoomuchmoney.

    Everything else on teh page (once you've scrolled down) all shows as no longer available.

     

    7 hours ago, Unwilling Numismatist said:

     

    50ps.PNG

    When I said "not working", I meant not here - however it does work if I copy/paste it into the address bar. Most links people post in these forums act as direct links when I click them. Yours is blue and apparently 'clickable' but it doesn't open a new tab, doesn't do anything.

    But those items showing above don't appear anywhere I've gone to on their site - plenty of other cr*p but not those 50 years of 50p sets, though you do get the information about the set from the original link, but not anywhere else on the site.

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    On 11 January 2019 at 12:00 AM, ozjohn said:

    Abelsoft Antilogger  free with APC magazine. I looked on Malwarebytes forum and it seems that Malwarebytes makes a decision if it considers the keylogger is dangerous and will alert you if it considers it a threat. IMO your keystrokes are of no business of a third party and in addition the security that surrounds customers' is poor and data is being hacked all the time. I do not want my banking details to be known by a third party.

    ANTI-logger. Ok, that makes sense now. You'd install anti-virus software but not a virus!

  17. Posted · Edited by Peckris 2

    13 hours ago, Nicholas said:

    A simple test (not 100% fool proof)  is to look at the band around the orb - splitting the date - typically even the very best uncirculated circulation wreath crowns will not be fully struck up. The example shown is IMHO therefore is likely a proof specimen. 

    Happy to be disproven - no probs 

    Not so sure? The orb doesn't look FULLY struck up, and the thistles top and left also don't look fully struck, nor do the diamonds on the crown. And the hair detail on the obverse doesn't convince me either. However, this likewise is merely opinion.

  20. Posted

    23 hours ago, 1949threepence said:

    Although I'm spent up after Christmas, I really felt that with two recent price reductions to 71% of the original asking price, I just had to get this 1919KN penny from Lee at Colin Cooke, so cracked open a savings account to get it. Very pleased.

    It's GEF both sides in my opinion, although Lee described it as a/UNC. In hand it's actually still got that UNC sheen though, with the merest trace of lustre remaining in the obverse devices. It's a fairly good strike, with only very faint ghosting to the reverse, and some moderate hair detail. There are a couple of very minor edge knocks at about 2 O' Clock and 4 O' Clock on the reverse. Also what looks like a die crack extending from about 12 O' Clock on the obverse, South South East across the King's head to the top of the ear. That apart it's completely issue free.

    Unusually for a KN it seems to have toned dark. Or at any rate would have toned properly dark had it remained in circulation. 

    Very very nice Mike - and very rare, possibly as rare as a 1926ME in similar condition.

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  24. Posted

    22 hours ago, 1949threepence said:

    Thanks for that Aardhawk. Very interesting. Clearly the numismatic community had the low down on these pennies before Freeman wrote about them. Obvious when you think about it, as the recessed or "depressed" ear types are very noticeable, so it would have been strange if they hadn't been picked up beforehand.  

    Yes, a good bit of research that. It does, however, beg the question of how much notice did the collecting community take of these articles and letters? Serious collectors in the 1960s were only buying top grades pre-1937 and the recessed ear was not published in official catalogues and guides, and very much less noticeable in EF and above.

    I remember that the 1946 ONE' flaw was described in a beginners' page in Coin Monthly early '68, soon after I started my own interest in coins - it didn't lead to any widespread dissemination of the variety for years though. I think people read those things in magazines and thought "Ooh that's interesting, I must look out for them", but due to a lack of follow-up (which of course would occur rapidly now in the internet age) soon forgot or lost interest.

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