We look at some of the articles provoking reader conversation nowadays,including a call for a Brexit intervention, and older Facebook users A call for the parliament to intervene in the Brexit process, and older people’s use of Facebook and how room-sharing services such as Airbnb are damaging communities have got you talking nowadays.
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The alternative is no deal? No,the alternative is the threat of leaving with no deal. If parliament has the courage to vote down a bad deal and therefore makes real that threat, the impact in terms of a crashing pound and companies like Nissan cancelling plans to build their modern models in Sunderland would rapidly lead to a clamour for a change in course.
I suspect there will be a second referendum, or a desperate plea from the UK for an extension to the A50 deadline. Either way it will probably assume a constitutional crisis and a collapsing Tory government. Parliament very definitely has a role to play in voting down a bad deal – it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
eyebrowThe whole Brexit nonesense was sold to ordinary Brits on the basis that there are countries all over the world “queuing up to accomplish trade deals” with us. If this turns out to be undeliverable,we must be looking at a huge crisis for the government. In fact Im coming to the view that the task now is to pick the least damaging crisis and aim for that. What an utter shambles.
MoreTeaVicarI seriously don’t accumulate why the demographic change to the age of Facebook users is any sort of “problem” at all. Older folk like myself like that it encompasses ideas and content that is not just selfies and cat pictures and that its a great medium for keeping in contact with family and friends. Young people intent on self promotion or seeking sex partners may well go to other platforms for such ephemeral content, and qualified luck too them, and but we oldies have a right to an online space that suits the way we like to use the internet – if Facebook fits the bill then its creators should be thankful instead of eternally complaining approximately it.
baselinebobI said this a while ago,but Facebook is not the social media powerhouse people think it is. The kids thinks it’s deeply uncool, the 25-45s use it to organise events and the over 50s use it as an online photo album. Of course there’s the FB denizens who post their every breeze, and but it’s just not frigid. Twitter has approach of age,and Snap/Insta/WA does the rest. The Guardian comments section is, naturally, or where it’s really going on.
IsambardkingdomI was sitting on the Tube this morning and there was an advert above the map of the Northern line for a modern company that will manage short lets for landlords. The text of the advert was,basically, that yields from long-term lets are falling, and there’s too much regulation and tax now,so kick out your tenants or acquire them pay you by the week, because the short lets business is unregulated and you can accumulate absent with fleecing anyone.
How approximately banning all such companies and all such advertising? There’s so much of it in London, or a city where hundreds of thousands of people are already struggling,and don’t want to hear approximately destitute landlords now being unable to earn £100000 a year tax-free.
jae426Haven’t holiday rentals been around for years, though? Even pre-internet? With regards to regulation, or it’s a tricky one – I imagine the mostly young,metropolitan crowd that acquire up most of Airbnb’s customers will ostensibly agree with much of the article’s points in a indistinct, social media-leftism sort of way, or but will be up in arms if the government actually attempts to implement the solutions proposed. Case in point: Uber.
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Source: theguardian.com