The £ has fallen to a two year low, as a result of the ongoing No Deal scenario. Just wondering how many of the millionaire cabinet are buying it, with a view to making a killing when it rises after No Deal is blocked.
Anyone who has investments in FTSE companies will be profiting from the weak pound. Pound goes down, FTSE goes up - I'll let someone who understands economics better than me explain why.
How worried should we be by this? https://scramnews.com/new-nigel-far...to-fund-brexit/?utm_source=bestforbritain.org
I hear the buffoon has changed his tune and is going a 1000 miles for a New Deal with the EU. Just rip up that little Article 50 and you get the best deal of all.
I would actually like to hear Nigel Farage's true view on the world. How he sees the world coping. Because we need cooperation, not competition, to meet the goals of this coming century. Capitalism has had its day. It made a few people extremely rich. It made many adequately comfortable. Many living without enough nutrition or enough calories, living day by day to get by. And too many on the point of death every time a harvest fails. And the stupid thing about capitalism is that it makes sure a significant proportion of the world is not economically active, at any one time, so they contribute almost nothing to the world economy. How stupid its that? It's an outdated form of existence. These people need to die off along with their outdated ideologies.
People like Farage have no principles, apart from the one that creates as much wealth for them as possible, as quickly as possible. A tiny spark of conscience buried deep inside him knows this can only be a short-term situation, as sooner rather than later the contradictions which Capitalism is built on will see its downfall, possibly with most of the living things on the planet. But he won’t care, because it’s all about the now. None of them care about their own contradictions: for example, Rees-Mogg the devout Catholic, who says he believes that abortion should be illegal even in rape cases, is happy making millions from his investments in a company making abortion pills. Farage the former commodities broker knows just how much shortages of the basic needs of life drive up prices, which create higher profit margins. That is all that matters.
This is what I don't get about these people. I couldn't lay on my deathbed and reflect positively what I'd done with my life if I was in their body. Of course, if I was actually them, I would think their way.
Human beings - all of us - are brilliant at justification; we can all persuade ourselves that what we do, we really do for the common good. Self deception, we’re all guilty of it at times, but I do agree these guys are different level.
Young Pfeffel was clearing inspired by The Proclaimers on his sojourn north of the border being prepared to walk five hundred miles then five hundred more.
Farage, his party and supporters, Spaffer Johnson his unelected undemocratic cabinet and anyone who supports a no deal brexit you're intellectually and morally corrupt deluded fools.
This thread is worth reading. It shows a few examples of roads, businesses, and people’s properties cut in half by the Irish border, which of course since 1997 has just been a line on a map. If we Brexit, the consequences for these people would be hilarious if they weren’t so ridiculously tragic. Some people would need an International Drivers Permit and Green Card insurance just to drive out of their own houses. Anyone who thinks for a second that non-existent technology is the answer to the Irish Border Question is seriously deluded. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1155957402312663041.html
As an instrument and control systems engineer (retired) I'm dismayed that anyone believes technology is in place or anywhere close to being in place. I'm afraid you're preaching to the converted in most cases on here. As for the few leavers logical arguments with verifiable sources don't seem to cut it. Oh not really relevant but thankfully the UK part of my pension was paid before the latest £ slide.
The lack of proper social care is, apparently, costing the UK almost £23 billion per annum. These figures are arrived at by looking at the number of people giving up work to care for loved ones. Based on the national average wage the country is missing out on £8.8 billion of tax payments and £14 billion of National Insurance payments from employees and employers. Anybody know how much would it cost, per annum, to fix the Social Care problem?
I know of a few pensioners that have joined their children abroad in Aussie and the states. In both cases they have suggested that the exchange rates have become so bad that they have had to rely on their savings just to live. Trouble is which ever way this goes it is going to take 2/3 years for it to recover to a reasonable rate if then..........
Listened to Alistair Campbell on LBC today. I have to say that everything he said re:Corbyn makes perfect sense to me as a lifelong Laboyr supporter. The way that he has (not) reacted to the elevation of Johnson to PM says it all really. He pointed out that with the election of each new Tory leader they mounted a campaign to discredit him, even to the extent of being accused of anti Semitism after portraying Michael Howard as ***in. Surely Corbyn should have come out fighting and instantly rebutted Pfeffel's claims. FFS the c*** is even telling Welsh sheep farmers about to be wiped out by his No Deal policy that everything in the garden is rosy. Labour need a competent leader not a dozy grandad intent on pottering about on his allotment.
