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Election 2024

Discussion in 'The Premier League' started by brb, Jan 18, 2024.

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How are Labour doing after their first month in charge?

  1. Excellent, Keir is my hero

    47.1%
  2. Ok ish

    11.8%
  3. It's been like a month of Sucky on weed

    23.5%
  4. BobbyD for Prime Minister

    11.8%
  5. Love not Hate

    5.9%
  6. Duggie wants his Winter Fuel Allowance back

    47.1%
  7. brb is **** at polls

    23.5%
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  1. Welshie

    Welshie Chavcunt fanboy dickhead

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    I think he's very nostalgic for the olden days inhe. When he was younger, better looking and pretty popular.

    I think he associates everything from his youth as inherently better, a lot of his policies point towards it
     
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  2. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

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    Lol

    He should be in there

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/25/trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-timeline
     
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  3. brb

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  4. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
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    The Birdbrain of Alcatraz...

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  5. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

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    Massive trade deal between UK and India confirmed

    Biggest trade deal since Brexit, even though we were told that trade deals would be the easiest thing ever it’s taken 8 years and an incoming labour govt to sort it out

    Well done to Sir Kier for taking care of UK business on the global stage.
     
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  6. Saf

    Saf Not606 Godfather+NOT606 Poster of the year 2023

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    After three years of on-off negotiations, the UK and India have agreed a trade deal which will make it easier for UK firms to export whisky, cars and other products to India, and cut taxes on India's clothing and footwear exports.

    The deal does not include any change in immigration policy, including towards Indian students studying in the UK, the British government said.

    Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the benefits for UK businesses and consumers were "massive".

    Last year trade between the UK and India totalled £41bn and was already forecast to grow, but the government said the deal would boost that trade by an additional £25.5bn a year by 2040.




    It’s already at 41bn and it’s going to 66b by 2040!

    Hardly deal of the ****ing century is it <laugh>



    Oh I read that wrong. Seems a good deal tbf.
     
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  7. brb

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    Good for our exports but watch our import market get flooded with cheap textiles. Bangladesh were exporting their stuff through India until recently to get around tariffs I assume in Europe and the US. That was until relations between the two turned sour after India harboured Sheikh Hasina who fled Bangladesh due to corruption and criminal charges which include the deaths of protestors. So in short we are dealing in slave labour and a country that gives home to a tyrant. Nothing to see here though as it don't involve the IDF killing people, so everything is OK...

    https://news.sky.com/story/ousted-p...nity-bangladeshs-interim-leader-says-13321285

    I did post about this a while back ^ but can't remember on what thread I posted it, highlighting the horrors at the time.
     
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  8. Star of David Bardsley

    Star of David Bardsley 2023 Funniest Poster

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    5 for £4, 5 for £4, £1 fish
    Very very good, very very cheap, £1 fish
     
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  9. brb

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    More good news, it appears employers and employees will not have to pay NI on workers from India, so employ Indians not British.

    You really couldn't ****ing make this up. <laugh>
     
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  10. Saf

    Saf Not606 Godfather+NOT606 Poster of the year 2023

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    Tax hike for Brit workers
    3 year tax exemption for Indian workers

    I’m sure this will go down well with the masses <laugh>
     
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  11. brb

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    <laugh>
     
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    That sorts out all the working from home nonsense
     
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  13. brb

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    I expect they would go into the hospitality sector if it's students.

    Edit: my logic to that being it's for three years, so I'm assuming the period of time they are studying.
     
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    I’m pretty sure someone just did…
     
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    I'm curious if it's even allowed, I assume it must be if our Prime Minister is rubber stamping it. I thought it would have come under the equality act 2010, regarding equal pay. I think by employing 'Indians' and allowing them tax exemption must fall foul of it personally. There is a note within the act that makes allowances for 'market conditions' - I assume you could apply certain market conditions to this, but also Labour created some of those market conditions by increasing NI (I'm thinking hospitality here). Like I say it must be allowed, I just think it's double standards once again. Also from a textile point of view, we work on constantly increasing the minimum wage in this country, yet then we rubber stamp slavery in offshore deals (knowing it means cheap imports), although the latter has always been the same, even before Labour.
     
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  16. Sucky

    Sucky peoples champ & forum saviour

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    The difference between the Tories and Labour was under the Tories it was happening and as long as it did not damage our economy it was not a problem, Labour are standing on soap boxes and bragging about it as if it is the best thing since sliced bread, especially Ed Coke Eyes Miliband who's whole plan would implode if we did not buy Solar Panels made by SLAVE LABOUR
     
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  18. Solid Air 2

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    i think this applies to Indian workers employed by Indian companies who are sent here and is because their employers are making social security payments in India
     
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  19. brb

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    The Tories had been working on this deal for two years, Labour one year as I understand it. Labour conceded to the tax breaks that the Tories wouldn't in this deal. So now we rewind back to the EU days where we were under paying Eastern European lorry drivers, compared to their counterparts, we were paying below the minimum wage to farmhands, by exploiting the rules...and here we are again! We were suppose to be tidying up our act on employee rights, seems we've just thrown them out the window again, the trade off for getting the deal. I get it, we are making a deal with a country of a population of 1.4B, but is it worth that trade off for the sake of a few morals and foresaking British workers.
     
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  20. brb

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    Ah right, fair enough, you got anything that shows that?
     
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