Election 2024
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His wife is a serial killer... have you ever noticed, the original detective... if his wife takes up tennis, a tennis player dies. If she takes up biking, a cyclist dies. When she gets interested in history, a local history buff dies.
I think the final episode we'll just find out she was the murderer of everyone all along.
Probably best to just wash the cowpat off your face then ...
... coz it is absolutely true ... lived on Hertfordshire for the last 30 years where Peter Lilley enjoyed an ultra safe Tory seat for most of it... Labour vote almost non-existent ... so my vote was always for exactly the reasons I've given ... plus, admittedly, 'part protest' ...
and before
oh and that means this was definitely bullshit
"My vote has always been based on the manifesto of individuals standing in the constituencies in which I have lived, never blindly along party lines ..."
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Not at all - Tories will Tory ... Labour too tend to tow the 'party line' in General Elections ... but Independents, the Lib-dems and the Greens, at least in our Hertfordshire constituency - have consistently included local issues and concerns in their manifestos ... hence being way more deserving of my vote IMO ...
Probably just reminded everyone that in 14 years in power the Tories managed just about **** all - and that was why they got absolutely decimated in the General Election ...
They managed to **** up better than any government in living memory by losing out on the trading power of being in the EU. Being worst government in recent history is pretty impressive.
That was down to the public, we decided that.
I still believe it was absolutely the right thing to do.
The reality of Brexit...
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Yup not changed my mind either.
We got cheaper prices due to exploiting people, exploiting the slave farmhands, taking in Eastern European truck drivers, who would work all hours for less than the going rate. I posted examples of all this years back.
Since we have increased NI on employers, also increased the minimum wage for those that were paid within the legal requirements, stopped all the exploitation although some are still being caught and all this cost has to go somewhere and that's the consumer.
Cheap food comes at a cost to someone, something often overlooked.
Edit: I forgot the war in Ukraine as well, which affected energy prices, again pushing the cost of food up.
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I believe another huge thank you is owed to us by the remainers. Cashing in on all the Brexit bonuses lately
Trump threatens Apple with 25% tariff on iPhones made outside US and recommends 50% tariff on EU from June
I believe another huge thank you is owed to us by the remainers. Cashing in on all the Brexit bonuses lately
Trump threatens Apple with 25% tariff on iPhones made outside US and recommends 50% tariff on EU from June
Yup, I was listening to a Labour MP only a few days ago, and he was saying how we are able to all these different deals because we are outside the EU.
I also heard that the EU deal is costing us £20B (if I understood correctly?), not sure how that is paid or over what period of time, although it's stated, again no finer detail given on it, but it means we will make £90B, I assume over the term time of the deal.
My only real concern that I had in all of it, was thinking was Keir Starmer too keen to do the deal, obviously it's good to trade with our neighbours, but did we undersell ourselves in doing so?...just a few vibes I picked up.
Edit: which just made me remember something else, I also heard the reason the Prime Minister was wavering on the winter fuel payments, because he was getting challenged on this £20B payment to the EU....when we supposedly had a black hole of the same amount, hence why we supposedly took the payments away. Back benchers felt this was not a good look.
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I believe another huge thank you is owed to us by the remainers. Cashing in on all the Brexit bonuses lately
Trump threatens Apple with 25% tariff on iPhones made outside US and recommends 50% tariff on EU from June
Potentially good news for any iPhone users outside the US; not so good for those in the USA where the costs of buying a new one will undoubtedly soar - Apple will pass on any tariff to the consumer and US manufacturing can't possibly meet demand ... and what happens when demand exceeds supply? Retail price goes up.
Apple will still need markets to sell the 'excess product' being made in India and Vietnam ... and what happens when supply is in excess of demand? Retail price comes down.
Expect loads of American tourists purchasing iPhones whilst on vacation ... excellent news for tourism throughout Europe ...
Donny has to be one of the stupidest individuals on the planet
If the Gaseous Orange Blimp gets his trousers pulled down yet again it will be quite hilarious... and is very possible...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje7ledqvyqo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje7ledqvyqo
Although this is a recent article, I think it might be about 5 months old, because I saw an old article with similar data, so not sure why it's been rehashed now, but interesting none the less...
Volcanic white gold: A lithium deposit valued at $1.5 trillion has been discovered in the U.S.
https://www.earth.com/news/volcanic...-1-5-trillion-has-been-discovered-in-the-u-s/
Volcanic white gold: A lithium deposit valued at $1.5 trillion has been discovered in the U.S.
https://www.earth.com/news/volcanic...-1-5-trillion-has-been-discovered-in-the-u-s/
Any extra monies received is always welcomed, but £26M will only paper the cracks nationally. Then it will be the stigma attached to it by seperating MH out. Also a lot of mental health can be secondary causes, often linked to another medical condition.
Take the recent case of the Tiktok suicide, no one even knew the basics of BSL, which in my view is shocking, we can't even get the basics right (*see below for more detail), new carpeted outhouses will not fix the problem it will just give you more space.
We don't have the psychologists like we use to, we have 'talking therapy' which is worlds apart, a plaster instead of a bandage for a gaping wound....more wrong calls leading to an incident.
We've been pretending to care for decades, we went from Chartham nuthouses that abused people, to nothing. Your biggest problem will be getting people to walk through the door.
Let alone it will cost billions not millions and in 10 years as is the goal, it will be long forgotten as a new party comes to power.
*Addendum to above:
In the UK, it's estimated that around 12 million adults have hearing loss. This translates to approximately 1 in 5 adults being deaf or hard of hearing. By 2035, the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) estimates that number will rise to 14.2 million. Additionally, there are approximately 151,000 BSL users in the UK, with 87,000 of them being Deaf.
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