Off Topic The Politics Thread

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%
  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
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A massive underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock in Norway, pitched as the world’s largest, is big enough to satisfy world demand for fertilisers, solar panels and electric car batteries over the next 100 years, according to the company exploiting the resource.

We used to stick a lot of it up our noses.

Oh no, that was Sulphate, wasn't it?
 
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Good to see the retailers and banks being questioned over their greed. These huge profit-making conglomerates are being shown for price hiking and controlling prices for excessive profit. Holding back reductions and saver interest rates for their own bonuses and shareholder profits.
We have been seeing 98-99% of people paying by contactless since the pandemic, increasing banks profits massively, while we see no reduction (literally zero - not even 0.01%) in fees taken on all those payments. It’s a disgrace.
What we need to see now is action from whoever/whatever government is in charge to create greater competition and awareness of choice through clear comparisons of services and products. Only competition will bring fair value (and fair profit) - at the moment it is being controlled by the retailers.
 
Turns out Captain Tom’s daughter was a massive con artist and exploited her dad mercilessly pretty much killing him. Who’d have thought it?
 
Good to see the retailers and banks being questioned over their greed. These huge profit-making conglomerates are being shown for price hiking and controlling prices for excessive profit. Holding back reductions and saver interest rates for their own bonuses and shareholder profits.
We have been seeing 98-99% of people paying by contactless since the pandemic, increasing banks profits massively, while we see no reduction (literally zero - not even 0.01%) in fees taken on all those payments. It’s a disgrace.
What we need to see now is action from whoever/whatever government is in charge to create greater competition and awareness of choice through clear comparisons of services and products. Only competition will bring fair value (and fair profit) - at the moment it is being controlled by the retailers.

They need to stop closing people's accounts for political reasons too, and the FCA needs to grow some balls over all these issues.
 
There might be a good reason nine separate banks don’t want a wealthy man to bank with them. Banks aren’t typically leftie woke organisations.

And what about the vicar that had his account closed for commenting on transgender issues? Actually, banks, like the police, have a highly woke agenda, and banks are chasing the Rainbow investments. The Bank of England, which currently has misguided and ineffective leadership, is following Stonewall and has just ruled that any of its employees of any gender can be pregnant. It's making a whole floor available for these birthing people.
 
And what about the vicar that had his account closed for commenting on transgender issues? Actually, banks, like the police, have a highly woke agenda, and banks are chasing the Rainbow investments. The Bank of England, which currently has misguided and ineffective leadership, is following Stonewall and has just ruled that any of its employees of any gender can be pregnant. It's making a whole floor available for these birthing people.
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess this vicar who I’ve not read about isn’t telling the full story just as Farage isn’t.

Banks like all businesses will have a PR team doing that. Ultimately they want wealthy people banking with them and it’s generally confidential unless the likes of Laurence Fox choose to have a big hissy fit over Twitter.