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

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    Votes: 56 47.9%

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    Votes: 61 52.1%
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sb_73 said:
Our government, which is preparing to fight an election on culture wars, and is allegedly against cancelling of speakers whose views might upset listeners, has a policy that anyone who has criticised it, or one of its ministers, in any format (speech, social media etc), at any time in the past and for whatever reason, is barred from speaking at government sponsored/supported events. No matter how expert and renowned they are and how irrelevant the opinion is to the subject of the event.

Therefore, Dan Kaszeta, a world leading specialist in nerve agents, has had his invitation to talk at the Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference, where he was due to talk about technical details such as which drill bits are best to deactivate buried weapons, rescinded. Because he has criticised government policy on asylum and homelessness and mocked Boris Johnson and Liz Truss onTwitter.

Actual Chinese government representatives, who are presumably communists, have not had their invitations to the conference withdrawn.

This is one of Jacob Rees Mogg’s rules, making sure the Cabinet Office spends its time doing urgent work background checking all potential speakers at government events in case they harbour mainstream criticisms of the government. What a ****. And all the ones who haven’t revoked this rule are ****s too. Oops, that’s me barred…..nothing sinister about this at all, move on.
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Lee Anderson has been lined up to take his place so it’s fine.
 
kiwiqpr said:
Inflation here is 6.7%
Interest rates went up another quarter per cent today
**** you starmer
Or is it Brexit
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6.7% obviously isn’t great but historically not atrocious. We’ll be looking at more than that once the things excluded from this number are included.
 
Bwood_Ranger said:
Doesn’t sound great tbh. Probably Starmer’s fault.

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Question out of ignorance. Why would you exclude food from ‘core inflation’? Surely that, energy and fuel prices are the most important for most people?
 
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sb_73 said:
Question out of ignorance. Why would you exclude food from ‘core inflation’? Surly that, energy and fuel prices are the most important for most people?
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It excludes things which are more volatile though food hasn’t been particularly volatile for a while- just constantly inflating. In theory you get a shock like Ukraine so things spike briefly then come down. In reality you’re of course correct.
 
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sb_73 said:
Question out of ignorance. Why would you exclude food from ‘core inflation’? Surely that, energy and fuel prices are the most important for most people?
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Furthermore I guess the biggest expense for most people is their rent/mortgage. That’ll be stable for most people for a certain period of time but for anyone having to negotiate a new deal or coming to the end of a tenancy or on a variable rate is going to get ****ed hard and fast which is probably a bigger cost pressure than any of the above. Rates are only going one way with inflation above 2% and that’ll be happening for a long time.
 
We’ve got so many foreign criminals we’re building foreign prisons.







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Simon Jones
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200 Albanian nationals jailed in England and Wales will be sent home for the rest of their sentences - amid concerns that UK prisons are nearing capacity. In exchange, the British taxpayer will contribute money to help Albania modernise its own prison system.
 
My god!
Can you imagine? *British people* having to pick fruit!!
Surely that's only a role fit only for those poor EU types?
We must import a few truck-loads forthwith!
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kiwiqpr said:
Adam Brooks
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Brexit…


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bbc.co.uk
Germany falls into recession as inflation hits economy
Rising prices have dampened demand from households and businesses in Europe's largest economy
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The various bright minds of GB News have been taking great delight at our stunning 0% growth because of this. There’s a worrying number of people who would rather we marginally out-grow Germany at 0% than see our economy grow 10% if Germany’s is 11%.
 
Imagine the fury and outrage of the right wing media if the levels of immigration announced yesterday had happened pre-Brexit, or under a Labour government.

Where is that outrage today?
 
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Stroller said:
Imagine the fury and outrage of the right wing media if the levels of immigration announced yesterday had happened pre-Brexit, or under a Labour government.

Where is that outrage today?
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Still quite a lot of outrage tbf. Misplaced, sensationalist outrage aimed at idiots but outrage nonetheless. If the immigration bogeyman wasn’t an effective strategy they wouldn’t do it.
 
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