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India next to get us, using the traditional measure of GDP converted into US$. However if you go by that plus what US$100 can actually buy in each country we are already 9th - but above France!
Unfuckingbelievable, it really is, just spent 10 minutes on the comments section on the BBC article, there was so much nananananananana I can't hear you, it's tragic. No I'm not asking for another vote, but all of this **** should have been done and published prior to the vote, never mind brexit at the last time of checking still means brexit
Thanks for that, good evidence that Brexit is harming the economy even before it has happened. To quote directly from the article:
“When it comes to Brexit, there are three ways in which it has slowed the economy, the note argues. They are (in BAML's words):
- "First net immigration is slowing, with the drop in in the past year the largest since records began in 1964. That may, in part, be due to strong Euro-area growth as well as the Brexit-driven sterling fall." Immigrants have been a key driver of strong labour supply in the past decades, so with immigration falling, the economy is almost certain to suffer.
- "Second, while we do not think Brexit uncertainty has driven down growth much, we do think Brexit has had a sizeable effect via inflation squeezing real incomes (squeezed income is why the consumption function forecast consumption growth to weaken through 2017 and stay weak in 2018)."
- "Third, we found evidence that UK exporters are decoupling from world growth, probably in part because of Brexit."
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I wish he'd gone through all 58 sectors. It would have been like this......
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Well happy with my purchase Stan
That’s what €55k buys you
Back home and looking forward to Leeds for a £5 this Sat
One of my buildings I will use to produce a virus migrantory bird strain to fly over and get on Col’s Tits
Attachments
Just bought me a Diane Abbot advent calendar.
I didn't know there were 43 days in December!
I didn't know there were 43 days in December!
Number of Refugees Into U.S. Drops 83 Percent Under Trump
"The president's strategy on refugees is guided first and foremost by the safety and security of the American people.”
12.5.2017
News
Mark Tapson
27
According to Fox News, only 3,108 refugees came to the U.S. in October and November. In the same period last year, under Barack Obama's reign, 18,300 refugees were admitted. That's a jaw-dropping decline of 83 percent.
Trump restarted the refugee resettlement program in October after a four-month moratorium. A month earlier, he had lowered the annual refugee admission cap from 110,000 to 45,000, the lowest on record.
"The president's strategy on refugees is guided first and foremost by the safety and security of the American people,” Trump administration spokeswoman Helen Aguirre Ferré told Fox News. “The United States can also help a larger number of refugees by resettling them in their home region and enabling their eventual safe return home.”
Not only is there a steep drop in refugee admissions, but fewer Muslims are reportedly among them -- only 10 percent, as opposed to about 40 percent in November 2016 under Obama.
Not only that, but the administration said it is backing out of the Global Compact on Migration, a United Nations initiative established in 2016 that called for two years of negotiations focused on organized and safe migration of the world’s displaced people.
U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, said over the weekend that "The global approach in the New York Declaration is simply not compatible with U.S. sovereignty. No country has done more than the United States, and our generosity will continue. But our decisions on immigration policies must always be made by Americans and Americans alone." Bravo.
“It’s tragic, really,” complained Linda Hartke, president and chief executive of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which resettles refugees. “It’s tragic for refugees who’ve fled for their lives, who are simply looking for the chance to be safe and provide for their families and see their kids go to school and live in dignity.”
Hartke also decried the administration's withdrawal from the global talks on migration: “The global compact was an opportunity, including for our neighbors, to be much more thoughtful about the flows of migrants, what’s good for this country and for our neighbors as well,” Hartke said. “Having these conversations in a global context is something we shouldn’t be afraid of.”
You know what else we shouldn't be afraid of? An increase in domestic terror attacks like we've been seeing in Europe ever since they opened the floodgates to Islamic immigration and "refugee" resettlement.
"The president's strategy on refugees is guided first and foremost by the safety and security of the American people.”
12.5.2017
News
Mark Tapson
27
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According to Fox News, only 3,108 refugees came to the U.S. in October and November. In the same period last year, under Barack Obama's reign, 18,300 refugees were admitted. That's a jaw-dropping decline of 83 percent.
Trump restarted the refugee resettlement program in October after a four-month moratorium. A month earlier, he had lowered the annual refugee admission cap from 110,000 to 45,000, the lowest on record.
"The president's strategy on refugees is guided first and foremost by the safety and security of the American people,” Trump administration spokeswoman Helen Aguirre Ferré told Fox News. “The United States can also help a larger number of refugees by resettling them in their home region and enabling their eventual safe return home.”
Not only is there a steep drop in refugee admissions, but fewer Muslims are reportedly among them -- only 10 percent, as opposed to about 40 percent in November 2016 under Obama.
Not only that, but the administration said it is backing out of the Global Compact on Migration, a United Nations initiative established in 2016 that called for two years of negotiations focused on organized and safe migration of the world’s displaced people.
U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, said over the weekend that "The global approach in the New York Declaration is simply not compatible with U.S. sovereignty. No country has done more than the United States, and our generosity will continue. But our decisions on immigration policies must always be made by Americans and Americans alone." Bravo.
“It’s tragic, really,” complained Linda Hartke, president and chief executive of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which resettles refugees. “It’s tragic for refugees who’ve fled for their lives, who are simply looking for the chance to be safe and provide for their families and see their kids go to school and live in dignity.”
Hartke also decried the administration's withdrawal from the global talks on migration: “The global compact was an opportunity, including for our neighbors, to be much more thoughtful about the flows of migrants, what’s good for this country and for our neighbors as well,” Hartke said. “Having these conversations in a global context is something we shouldn’t be afraid of.”
You know what else we shouldn't be afraid of? An increase in domestic terror attacks like we've been seeing in Europe ever since they opened the floodgates to Islamic immigration and "refugee" resettlement.
.The going to be even less Muslims after the immigration ban on those six nations take hold,
Hard on genuine, ambitious, peace-loving refugees, but it will keep US citizens safer at home by keeping out current or will-be Islamic extremists, and I think, will be a vote winner for Trump
They play rugby now?
....haven’t they got quite an explosive pack?
yep, and when confronted, they're adept at a hand off...
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Today marks #creditday - the day Britain exhausts tax revenues and must begin borrowing to fill the budget hole.