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View Poll Results: What would you personally prefer to happen?
I want the UK to stay in an ever-closer union 49 23.11%
I want the UK to stay in a loosely connected EU 68 32.08%
I want the UK out because the EU is bad for the UK 22 10.38%
I want the UK out because the EU is a bad thing 23 10.85%
I want the UK out because this would be good for the rest of us 17 8.02%
I don't really care 33 15.57%
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Old 22.01.2020, 18:12
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The data is less than a week old!
Did you bother to read your own link?!

There were more than 485,000 international students enrolled in UK higher education institutions in 2018/19, an increase of 6% over the previous year
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Old 22.01.2020, 18:12
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The data is less than a week old!
The article is less than a week old but the data is not.
Did you actually read it?
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Old 22.01.2020, 18:18
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The article is less than a week old but the data is not.
Did you actually read it?
It's TC, what do you think?

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Old 22.01.2020, 18:18
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Did you bother to read your own link?!

There were more than 485,000 international students enrolled in UK higher education institutions in 2018/19, an increase of 6% over the previous year
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The article is less than a week old but the data is not.
Did you actually read it?
Don’t accuse me of something when you’ve obviously not done it yourselves. If you had you would see the data was released on the 16th January. It is the latest statistics that are available!! Or are you expecting for 2019/2020 data 22 days into the new year?!

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/16-01-20...ent-statistics
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Old 22.01.2020, 18:20
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Don’t accuse me of something when you’ve obviously not done it yourselves. If you had you would see the data was released on the 16th January. It is the latest statistics that are available!! Or are you expecting for 2019/2020 data 22 days into the new year?!

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/16-01-20...ent-statistics
Released yes. But it actually relates to the 2018 intake so the situation some 16 months ago.
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Old 22.01.2020, 18:23
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Whoops, I’m danger of getting dragged into another boring “we can dissect your argument to “own” you!”. Not interested! The good news keeps on coming, The CBI habe just recorded the biggest upward swing ever in business confidence. Happy days! I just know for the cynical Remainers that even if Brexit is the biggest success ever they’ll never ever admit it!
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Old 22.01.2020, 18:26
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if Brexit is the biggest success ever they’ll never ever admit it!
Can you give your definition of what a successful Brexit looks like, say, 12 months from now?
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Old 22.01.2020, 18:32
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Can you give your definition of what a successful Brexit looks like, say, 12 months from now?
Non alignment with the EU is a success, ECJ no longer having jurisdiction is a success. Anything else is a bonus.
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Old 22.01.2020, 18:37
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Whoops, I’m danger of getting dragged into another boring “we can dissect your argument to “own” you!”.
No. It's that you posted something out of context thus giving a false impression. I don't know whether that was deliberate or accidental, hence why I asked the question.

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There's been a lot of positive Brexit news over the past week or so....

... the number of new UK university enrollments from EU countries up 2% ...
... but the article you provided the link for says...

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HESA data for 2019/20 will be particularly interesting to observe in light of the restoration of post-study work rights as well as the continuing Brexit process.
The only time 2% is mentioned in the article is in this context...

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The latest Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data shows a slight increase in new students coming from EU countries (2%) with larger gains coming from markets outside the European Union (10%). Non-EU first-year student numbers grew by 18,475 between 2017/18 and 2018/19, with most of this increase at the postgraduate level.
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Old 22.01.2020, 18:37
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Non alignment with the EU is a success, ECJ no longer having jurisdiction is a success. Anything else is a bonus.
what do you mean non-alignment with EU? BJ want to get a trade deal with EU which would requite certain alignment. Or you mean scrap any trade deal and trade only with NZ and AUS?
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Old 22.01.2020, 18:47
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For anyone who's interested, this is from yesterday's FT...

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UCL has the largest intake among all British universities of non-UK EU students, with more than 5,000 enrolled in the last academic year, but EU admissions stagnated in 2019-20 after strong growth in previous years. The total EU intake for all under- and postgraduate study last year in the UK was 143,000.
https://www.ft.com/content/544a0bc8-...a-bae547046735
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Old 22.01.2020, 18:49
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For anyone who's interested, this is from yesterday's FT...

https://www.ft.com/content/544a0bc8-...a-bae547046735
Could this be the non-alignment with EU that TonyClifton is talking about? So this is a success already in your book, right Tony?
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Old 22.01.2020, 18:54
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You're a camera lens? I reckon you're more Vivitar myself, with a splash of Tamron.
I suppose it's a fancy word for zen. ("I'm so sigma.") Or who knows. Oh, I get it now. She's very different.

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Old 22.01.2020, 19:30
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I suppose it's a fancy word for zen. ("I'm so sigma.") Or who knows. Oh, I get it now. She's very different.
I've no idea. To me, Sigma is a camera lens manufacturer, but to my OH, it's a letter of the Greek alphabet.
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Old 22.01.2020, 19:33
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I've no idea. To me, Sigma is a camera lens manufacturer, but to my OH, it's a letter of the Greek alphabet.
To me it’s a chemical company.
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Old 22.01.2020, 19:34
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I've no idea. To me, Sigma is a camera lens manufacturer, but to my OH, it's a letter of the Greek alphabet.
Lower case sigma means standard deviation.

Capital case sigma means the sum of. Tbh I always think of the second.
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Non alignment with the EU is a success, ECJ no longer having jurisdiction is a success. Anything else is a bonus.
Non alignment with the EU affects the UK's ability to trade on a level playing field. As far as I'm aware, the ECJ will still have juridiction in the event of an air crash. There's still a long way to go with EASA, which will hopefully be resolved by Jan 2021, but I've heard nothing about a body replacing the role of the ECJ in air crash investigations.
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I am so sigma.
By this I take it to mean the Urban Dictionary definition.
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To me it’s a chemical company.
It was a codified metaphor for "being different than the norm"....I suppose.
Seriously, it reminds me of a specific phase in high-school.
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I only know Six Sigma
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