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Bozo may be the only pollie i've ever seen that has less stroke in his own party than Malcolm Turnbull.
The man is owned by outside forces.
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Bozo may be the only pollie i've ever seen that has less stroke in his own party than Malcolm Turnbull.
The man is owned by outside forces.
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She's incompetent and a nasty piece of work... yeah that adds up.
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Brexit stems from a civil war in capitalism – we are all just collateral damage | George Monbiot
To one sort of capitalist, the insecurity and chaos that Brexit will bring is horrifying. To the other, it is highly profitable
You could easily replace 'Australia' with 'Britain' in this piece and it would remain apposite
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As Johnson finally condemns Trump, Britain should examine its own shift to the right | Nesrine Malik
Not only was the UK complicit in the president’s rise, but it has its own mobs and culture wars to answer for, writes Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
cough cough..was replying to meds lol who i assume will never reply here again
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I do business with a small business in the UK. The owner and I rarely stray off the path of polite pleasantries, and never into politics, but in a recent email I happened to ask how things were going for his business in terms of COVID.
His reply:
Our media keep pretty quiet about the successes of australia and new zealand and even finland; we're past our 100,000th death (almost the worst per 100,000 in the world) now, mainly because of the serial (arguably criminal) negligence and incompetence of our government.
- because of brexit we elected a trumpian rump of right wing free-marketeers who are mostly three-quarters brain-dead: fine for bullying rhetoric about foreigners but useless when dealing with a problem that needs some intelligence. so they bolluxed up everything: didn't control airports, gave up on track and trace, announced a herd immunity strategy, were forced to drop it (now they deny they ever espoused it), locked down too late, failed to get PPE equipment out for months, sent infected people into care-homes to free space in hospitals, ballsed up testing, handing it all to serially failing private companies instead
of local councils and the NHS (who know how to do this stuff), repeated the error with track and trace (which is still failing - except where local councils are doing it with 95% success rates), handed all the contracts to their pals, ignored their scientific advisers, bribed people back into restaurants with 'eat out' vouchers to 'get the economy going', sent kids back to university and forced people back to work in september, leading to a second major wave with more deaths than the first - and now they have compromised the vaccination programme by taking panic shortcuts, using a substandard vaccine not tested in the elderly for the elderly and spacing the doses apart by three months against the advice of the WHO and the manufacturers (it may work, that's not the point; it's an unknown).
that's our story. right now they are failing still to control airport and entry and quarantine, while the mad wing of the party pressures to open everything up as fast as possible.
sigh
His reply:
Our media keep pretty quiet about the successes of australia and new zealand and even finland; we're past our 100,000th death (almost the worst per 100,000 in the world) now, mainly because of the serial (arguably criminal) negligence and incompetence of our government.
- because of brexit we elected a trumpian rump of right wing free-marketeers who are mostly three-quarters brain-dead: fine for bullying rhetoric about foreigners but useless when dealing with a problem that needs some intelligence. so they bolluxed up everything: didn't control airports, gave up on track and trace, announced a herd immunity strategy, were forced to drop it (now they deny they ever espoused it), locked down too late, failed to get PPE equipment out for months, sent infected people into care-homes to free space in hospitals, ballsed up testing, handing it all to serially failing private companies instead
of local councils and the NHS (who know how to do this stuff), repeated the error with track and trace (which is still failing - except where local councils are doing it with 95% success rates), handed all the contracts to their pals, ignored their scientific advisers, bribed people back into restaurants with 'eat out' vouchers to 'get the economy going', sent kids back to university and forced people back to work in september, leading to a second major wave with more deaths than the first - and now they have compromised the vaccination programme by taking panic shortcuts, using a substandard vaccine not tested in the elderly for the elderly and spacing the doses apart by three months against the advice of the WHO and the manufacturers (it may work, that's not the point; it's an unknown).
that's our story. right now they are failing still to control airport and entry and quarantine, while the mad wing of the party pressures to open everything up as fast as possible.
sigh
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Yeah they've been dreadful - vaccine is pretty positive going on Israel though so I think they're near the end of the disaster
Not sure if this is the right thread, but anyway.
A review of defence spending in the UK. They are going to have a slight increase in the number of nuclear weapons, and a sharp reduction in conventional weapons spending. They currently have 2 brand new aircraft carriers just entering service - supposedly to be able to carry around 60-70 F35 B each, but the number on order has now been slashed to just 48 in total. Not even a full complement for one carrier wing. So they are going to be reliant on "borrowing" aircraft and crews from the US Marines to conduct operations. So much for being an important independent global power if they are reliant upon US permission to embark any sufficient number of planes.
But this could be just a very clever ruse. Since the actual number of British nuclear warheads is classified, they could just announce an increase in the number of warheads stockpiled without actually buying any. But they can make real cuts in spending on conventional forces and really run down their overall military capability. Whenever they face criticism for this they can wave flags and say they are increasing spending on nukes.
A review of defence spending in the UK. They are going to have a slight increase in the number of nuclear weapons, and a sharp reduction in conventional weapons spending. They currently have 2 brand new aircraft carriers just entering service - supposedly to be able to carry around 60-70 F35 B each, but the number on order has now been slashed to just 48 in total. Not even a full complement for one carrier wing. So they are going to be reliant on "borrowing" aircraft and crews from the US Marines to conduct operations. So much for being an important independent global power if they are reliant upon US permission to embark any sufficient number of planes.
But this could be just a very clever ruse. Since the actual number of British nuclear warheads is classified, they could just announce an increase in the number of warheads stockpiled without actually buying any. But they can make real cuts in spending on conventional forces and really run down their overall military capability. Whenever they face criticism for this they can wave flags and say they are increasing spending on nukes.
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Ban on leaving UK included in new Covid laws in force next week | ITV News
A ban on leaving the country without a reasonable excuse is included in new Covid laws coming into force in England next week until early May. | ITV National News
Had BoJo and his clowns put in the appropriate measures a year or so ago, the UK may have avoided living in virtual purgatory through this palava. Instead I gaze back home longingly at crowds of 40K+ at the football. The horse has well and truly bolted now.
The UK was always going to get hit hard early thanks to the travel hub of London and the high density living but up until recently took minimal (any?) advantage of it's geographic island status. There's no reason we couldn't be living life similar to Australia and NZ but the tories dithered and here we are.
Don't worry, this is a Government focused on the big issues.
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Saw a report today that the former PM Cameron got cleared of breaching his own lobbying rules because he was acting as an employee for a bank when talking to the chancellor. It's the first time I've heard of him in a few years and that explanation sounds a technicality.
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Good old Private Eye
Privatisation has become a vehicle for corruption. The Kleptocracy just can't help themselves. This scheme that Cameron was involved in was a privatised payroll scheme for the NHS. Basically they'd take the wages of ordinary hard-working NHS staff, and invest it in the short term money market for a few days, before paying it to the people that earned it and deserved it. Skimming off any profit for themselves of course. They were having trouble getting any interest in the scheme in government circles, so they hired Cameron to get the ear of senior politicians like the Chancellor and Health Secretary.
Utterly moronic. As usual.
Laughable. The NHS is an utterly useless system. Its the worst healthcare system in western Europe. More private healthcare would mean better healthcare at less cost.
The NHS and PHE sent covid positive patients from hospitals to nursing homes resulting in thousands of deaths.
The single biggest cause of covid deaths is the state. But hey dont worry about FACTS lets just rant like schoolchildren in the sandpit about privatisation.
Pathetic.
Hospital transmission is a 'major driver of infection that is still being ignored'
Researchers found that 30 per cent of cases in which patients died, or spent time in critical care, were linked to a recent hospital visit
Researchers found that 30 per cent of cases in which patients died, or spent time in critical care, were linked to a recent hospital visit
40,600 people likely caught Covid while hospital inpatients in England
At one in five hospitals at least fifth of all Covid patients acquired virus during stay
In one in five hospitals at least a fifth of all patients found to have the virus caught it while an inpatient. North Devon district hospital in Barnstaple had the highest rate of such cases among acute trusts in England at 31%.
As usual egg all over the usual flotsam and jetsam face on here. Still b.origami sorts cant do maths and economics nor reality so one doesnt expect any contrition.
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The UK’s exports to the EU rose to £11.6bn in February, up from £7.9 billion in January. Overall, they were only slightly below last year’s £12 billion monthly average. That is a remarkably small difference, given that we were still effectively still inside the EU last year and this year we are not.
We should keep in mind as well that Europe, like us, is still in the middle of lockdown, and in a deep recession, so that will have depressed demand for British exports. But if this month's figures are anything to go on, the impact from leaving the EU may well have been less than £400 million a month.
That demonstrates two things. The first is that membership of the single market, despite all the hype around it, doesn’t make much difference to most exporters. There is no question that it has an impact on a few, especially in sectors such as food and drink where the EU is very strict about what it allows into the bloc (mainly to protect its farmers from any form of foreign competition as it happens). For the vast majority, however, once a few pieces of slightly dull paperwork have been sorted out, it is neither here nor there.
The second is that while there will be a hit to the UK economy from leaving the EU, we now know that it was completely trivial. The ‘lost exports’, which we have been told for the last decade would be catastrophic for the British economy, and would cost us a few million jobs, could come to around £4.8bn a year, not much more than a rounding error for an economy worth £2 trillion (it is about 0.25 per cent of total output).
In truth, the Brexit ‘chaos’ is already over – and anyone looking back on the whole episode a decade from now may find it hard to work out what all the fuss was ever about.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/matthew-lynn
What happened to the great Brexit trade chaos?
The ports would reek from the smell of rotting fish. Factories would close en masse as orders got snarled up in red tape. There would be chaos at the borders as deliveries were blocked, and services would hit a wall of ‘non-tariff barriers’ that would make it impossible for British firms to sell...
www.spectator.co.uk
The UK’s exports to the EU rose to £11.6bn in February, up from £7.9 billion in January. Overall, they were only slightly below last year’s £12 billion monthly average. That is a remarkably small difference, given that we were still effectively still inside the EU last year and this year we are not.
We should keep in mind as well that Europe, like us, is still in the middle of lockdown, and in a deep recession, so that will have depressed demand for British exports. But if this month's figures are anything to go on, the impact from leaving the EU may well have been less than £400 million a month.
That demonstrates two things. The first is that membership of the single market, despite all the hype around it, doesn’t make much difference to most exporters. There is no question that it has an impact on a few, especially in sectors such as food and drink where the EU is very strict about what it allows into the bloc (mainly to protect its farmers from any form of foreign competition as it happens). For the vast majority, however, once a few pieces of slightly dull paperwork have been sorted out, it is neither here nor there.
The second is that while there will be a hit to the UK economy from leaving the EU, we now know that it was completely trivial. The ‘lost exports’, which we have been told for the last decade would be catastrophic for the British economy, and would cost us a few million jobs, could come to around £4.8bn a year, not much more than a rounding error for an economy worth £2 trillion (it is about 0.25 per cent of total output).
In truth, the Brexit ‘chaos’ is already over – and anyone looking back on the whole episode a decade from now may find it hard to work out what all the fuss was ever about.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/matthew-lynn
Last years 'monthly' average is a useless statistic as exports were down in record terms all across the board due to pandemic.As usual egg all over the usual flotsam and jetsam face on here. Still b.origami sorts cant do maths and economics nor reality so one doesnt expect any contrition.
What happened to the great Brexit trade chaos?
The ports would reek from the smell of rotting fish. Factories would close en masse as orders got snarled up in red tape. There would be chaos at the borders as deliveries were blocked, and services would hit a wall of ‘non-tariff barriers’ that would make it impossible for British firms to sell...
The UK’s exports to the EU rose to £11.6bn in February, up from £7.9 billion in January. Overall, they were only slightly below last year’s £12 billion monthly average. That is a remarkably small difference, given that we were still effectively still inside the EU last year and this year we are not.
Here are the actual statistics
Both will have been affected by the pandemic, but only EU trade is affected by Brexit. Comparing EU and non-EU trade in goods to its level in the same month two years previously[1] shows that whereas non-EU trade was 10 per cent lower, EU trade was 36 per cent lower than it had been in January 2019. Similarly, in February EU trade was 25 per cent lower than in the same month two years previously but non-EU trade was only 6 per cent lower. Interestingly, looking back earlier in 2020 shows that both EU and non-EU trade were a similar amount lower relative in the summer and autumn, suggesting that the pandemic reduced EU and non-EU trade roughly equally. The 26 per cent difference between the falls in EU and non-EU trade in January and 19 per cent difference in February can therefore be attributed to Brexit.
Project Fear or Project Fact? How EU Trade Has Fared in the Months Following Single Market Exit
Project Fear or Project Fact? How EU Trade Has Fared in the Months Following Single Market Exit
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The 26 per cent difference between the falls in EU and non-EU trade in January and 19 per cent difference in February can therefore be attributed to Brexit.
Project Fear or Project Fact? How EU Trade Has Fared in the Months Following Single Market Exit
Project Fear or Project Fact? How EU Trade Has Fared in the Months Following Single Market Exitinstitute.global
Utter drivel. Caused by stockpiling ahead of brexit as proved by subsequent months.
You may as well claim the EU vaccine program is going well.
Are you Lord Adonis?
nah actually Ali "dodgy dossier and Blair never told a lie" Campbell sounds more like it.
Ah so that's stockpiling, but exports to EU and Non EU down by 50% for the whole year makes up a great benchmark is it? seriously, i know you are biased but don't be stupid.
Going extremely well, how's AZ going? haha
All my mates who had the AZ vaccine in UK are now pissed off. haha
It was a blessing in the end.
Are you Nigel Farage? no one is buying your snake oil.
Exports in MARCH are down by 18% compared to 2019/2018 and 2017. Amusing to see you gloating about it.
I own a business, the cost of exporting in and out of EU has made my products 22% more expensive, which i had to pass it on to my customers which made my products terribly pricey.
That's the reality of Brexit, i am not an express or spectator reader so i might not be as educated as you.
Says the guy who counts ' direct cash expenses' only. Even then you are wrong. By OBR's own projections, it's been far far bigger than your number
Hopeless meds, you are David Warner in England
. I have hired several people in my company alone to look into this, costing me *****loads of money per year. Are you accounting for that too? SME are bleeding money. It's called non-tariff barriers , you should look into it. Cost of delays are killing people, knocking 2/3 days off shelf life, meat/dairy/seafood exporters are bleeding badly right now. I assume express hasn't posted it?
Businesses still grappling with the complexities of Brexit
Companies still getting bogged down in red tape as they try and cope with new levels of bureaucracy that came in on January 1
Export specialist Andrea Collins who is delivering information sessions on behalf of the hub, said: “The rules around Product Origin are proving very difficult for businesses to understand and creating a barrier.
“VAT is also causing issues and, combined with inflated shipping costs has forced many e-commerce retailers to stop shipping because the margins are not there right now.
“Unusually for the Growth Hub, we’ve had several larger companies attending our sessions, some of them confident they’ve prepared well. Within a short space of time, we have been able to uncover significant vulnerabilities, that if left unaddressed, could have impacted them considerably.
“We’re all still grappling with the new systems and we don’t know what we don’t know, so having a specialist cast an eye over things makes sense.
Shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves cited Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that leaving the European Union has reduced Britain’s gross domestic product by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2021 and will lead to a 4% hit to U.K. productivity over the longer term.
Just out of interest meds, how much is 0.5% of 2.8 trillion?
And what happened to the promised trade deals with US/China/India etc?
And what happened to SG in Thames? Corporate tax rates are going up aren't they?
LOL!
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LOL you don't even know the guy I was quoting, so how can you say "as usual"?
Those angry pills sure give you value for money mate, but not sure they benefit anyone on here much.
You really are getting quite tiresome with your intemperate snarling.
