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“Advertisements are insidious by nature, that's how they work.” I’m glad we agree on something. Now all we need to do is examine the impact of advertising on young people to determine where the real harm is being inflicted. My money is on a host of other things that the rightwing will eagerly defend. Look again at the image in the OP, all this outrage over a cartoon. Meanwhile the number of young people suffering body dysmorphia as a result of unrealistic portrayals of beauty in advertising borders on epidemic: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmhealth/114/report.html
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Trump charged with four counts over 2020 election
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
All the best people! -
Members Choice UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Now who’s wandering off topic? -
Trump charged with four counts over 2020 election
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Do you think the fact that the DOJ has built the case against trump on witness testimony given by Republicans, members of Trump’s hand picked administration and his own family might play a part in Trump being convicted? -
Members Choice UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
No deviation at all, the application of the CE Mark is extended indefinitely by a Government facing annihilation at the next election. Why a ‘BREXITEER’ would point out this example of the Government walking back its own post BREXIT ‘freedom’ policies is something for you to explain. -
Members Choice UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown
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Indefinitely extended by a Government facing annihilation at the next election. -
Members Choice UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Yep, they can use the UKCA for goods that don’t come up to EU standards. Or they can take advantage of economies of scale and stick with the CE mark, which is why manufacturers lobbied Government to keep the CE mark. -
Members Choice UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Because of course given the indefinite extension of the CE mark British businesses will be eager to adopt the now necessary UKCA mark. Well of course they will not: https://www.conformance.co.uk/about/news/452-ce-mark-recognition-extended-indefinitely-by-uk-government -
Members Choice UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown
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Another BREXIT can kicked down the road. The UKCA is dead in the water. -
Fitch downgrades US credit rating from AAA to AA+
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Remind me, if you know without having to look it up, who controls the budget? -
Members Choice UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown
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Odd then that it’s manufacturers that lobbied the Government to retain the CE mark and ditch the UKCA. -
He’s a problem for your claimed ‘research’, objections to ‘averages’ and surveys of 1000 people. The Central Limit Theorem. You cast your net around regional towns catch a few outliers on the price index, as you have done, but in order to demonstrate the prices are indicative of real experience in those areas you need more samples. The more samples you get the closer to the mean your results will become, and therefore closer to the actual experience of most people in the market. The other problem is despite claiming to have undertaken ‘research’ you have done nothing of the sort. You have started with a premise and then set about seeking confirmation of your premise, in doing so demonstrating a classic example of that other issue you mention ‘bias’, or more specifically, active confirmation bias.
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Members Choice UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Rather unlikely unless there’s a profit in applying a second layer of certification and adding costs of higher quality for a fractional part of the market. -
Members Choice UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown
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The UKCA mark might have an application, it could be apply to products manufactured in the UK that meet lower UK standards but fail to meet EU standards. The mark of lower quality goods for the UK market. A real BREXIT benefit. -
Members Choice UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown
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That only makes sense of you believe manufacturers are going to be applying two sets of standards, by definition an increases cost and paperwork. Clearly this is a significant BREXIT U-Turn, the Government have given in to industry lobbyists. It’s another of those steps away from the impacts of BREXIT. -
Trump charged with four counts over 2020 election
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Wonderful news. -
Members Choice UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
It’s not a ‘Domestic Arrangement’ it’s the continuing implementation of the EU CE mark by the UK, as lobbied for by UK manufacturers. And the ditching of the proposed UKCA mark. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/ce-ukca/