The idea of constant growth is completely unsustainable anyway. And when it only makes the wealthier even more wealthy anyway, the whole social fabric begins to erode. Economies should be based on how well they provide for their citizens, in terms of housing, schools, hospitals, transport, public services etc. But the neo-liberal capitalist model is a dog eat dog world, which creates countries that can use leverage to quash smaller economies (trapping them in eternal debt)
We seem more interested in filling blackholes as opposed to just you know, making more ****ing money. I find it baffling to be honest. There's so much untapped cash we have wizzing around the UK that the government just watches float on by and they don't want to tap into it because they're terrified of Google n Microsoft deciding they wont want to work here anymore. An utter nonsense idea tbh. All the whilst people demand a "wealth tax" you want to tax the people living in the UK on their personal wages n wealth, but don't want to tax the massive goliath £200b corporation/bank that actually pays those wages, it's just vindictive eat the rich nonsense tbh and lacks any logic.
They only gave him page 1 lol He'll probs have a paddy on the ****ter later when he sees that Iran are on the list.
Ok lads, normal play resumes after it's taken half hour to say a goal was offside....****ed like the economy.
Fox News will have to inform him of it cos apparently thats where he gets most of his information from
If there was need for a retaliatory tariff you could stop giving Tesla it's grant and remove US electric vehicles from EV incentives, essentially making it more expensive to drive American and cheaper to drive European/British.
Exactly... If everyone puts tariffs in retaliation back on the US but trades freely amongst themselves, the only loser here is the US. It's almost like it's placing a trade embargo on itself (a common punishment tactic the UN floats).
I love wild blackberries- free food. I'd guess about 2 acres of our property is nothing but blackberry brambles. There's a patch where trees had once been cut (I think the previous owner was planning on putting houses on our land, but the land is really not suitable/too slopy/ too much water run off) - not enough big shade trees on that part of the property so blackberries have taken over. Makes for far more blackberries than I could ever eat. Made lots of homemade wine/jam from them over the last few years while here. Didn't stop me buying some blackberry plants to plant closer to the house though (thornless and seedsless, so worth the buy)
Hit the stupid **** with retaliatory DST that will make the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google pay more equitably in territories where their income is actually derived from .. show the pompous, swollen, orange, wiggy blimp the consequences of his posturing ... and make Americas biggest corporations aware that the idiot in The Whitehouse caused their increased foreign tax burdens...
This is why the farmers markets are so good. Sell direct to the public and cut out the middle man and all of the bureaucracy I work with producers at the markets who all started out importing their lamb, pork, chicken etc into the EU and who now just sell direct to their customers. A lot of that came about after brexit as they were just getting shafted by extra checks and red tape. But as a business you need to pivot when necessary and the result is that a good network of local food producers now sell direct to the public The quality is better, the price is better and the whole food chain, food miles etc stuff is better.
I understand that the point I was making is much more complicated but what I'm getting at is there are alternatives to a lot of import export situations and many producers need to reset and look at whether they actual need to export all over the world. Same with the Peruvian asparagus or Spanish blackberries, just stop it's not required.
This is because consumers want everything, on tap, all year round. Or at least that's what the supermarkets have pushed us to believe. Asparagus only grows for a short period in the UK, between about now and mid June. And you only used to be able to get it then. It's the same with loads of things, Strawberries in winter will come from Spain or Morocco. If we want to opt out of this model we'll have to learn to eat seasonally again. Fruit in the summer, squash in the Autumn and Cabbage and Cauli etc in the winter etc. But folk want their Mangos and Avocados year round along with all of the things they'd only get seasonally in the UK. The worst part is that lots of it ends up getting thrown away anyway, after it's been shipped halfway around the world, then driven in refrigerated trucks to supermarkets, sat in another fridge, driven home when it's bought, stuck in the fridge again and then lobbed in the bin a week later.
This is where we need to just stop, **** consumers wanting things, it's not available live with it, eat something else.
Down here you can buy Sardines in a tin that have come from Portugal, or you can walk 50 yards down the road and buy them fresh from a boat that has landed them 2 hours ago. There's loads of examples around the country like this where you can get local food from butchers, fishmongers, markets etc. But the supermarket has become king, because they drive down producers profits so much in order that they can offer 'cheap' food. Also they offer everything under one roof and free parking, so it's just become loads easier do to your shop in one go, rather than paying to park in a town centre and then walk around to all the different shops.
