StefanAVFC Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 59 minutes ago, Genie said: I’m surprised it’s not EU Lawyers trying to tell the UK what it can and can’t do. You’d hope people would start to see through this bullshit ’vote leave to stop the EU telling us what to do’ *we leave the EU and still can’t do whatever we want to do* ’lefty judges’ what next? No more courts? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 (edited) First time I have seen this picture of the Johnsons. Who'd have guessed back then the teenage girl on the left would become PM. Edited June 9, 2022 by markavfc40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 6 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: Firs time I have seen this picture of the Johnsons. Who'd have guessed back then the teenage girl on the left would become PM. Looks like a scene out of village of the damned. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Is that the nanny old man Johnson was shagging or is that a different one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 I’m not an economist so can anyone help me with my question: If we give more people access to the existing limited housing stock, will this help more people get homes, or will the usual rules of supply and demand apply? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Quote Rishi Sunak has been accused of failing to act soon enough to save £11bn of taxpayers' money that has been used to pay interest on government debt. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said the losses stemmed from the chancellor's failure to insure against interest rate rises. It meant higher than necessary payments on £900bn of reserves created through the quantitative easing (QE) programme. The Treasury said it has "a clear financing strategy" on debt. The NIESR's Professor Jagjit Chadha, told the Financial Times that Mr Sunak's actions had left the country with "an enormous bill and heavy continuing exposure to interest rate risk". According to the FT report, the Bank of England (BoE) created £895bn of money through quantitative easing, most of which was used to buy government bonds from pension funds and other investors. When those investors put the proceeds in commercial bank deposits at the Bank, it had to pay interest at its official interest rate. Last year, when the official rate was still 0.1%, the NIESR - an economic research group - said the government should have insured the cost of servicing this debt against the risk of rising interest rates. It suggested converting the debt into government bonds with longer to pay it back. Prof Chadha said Mr Sunak's failure to do this had cost taxpayers £11bn. "It would have been much better to have reduced the scale of short-term liabilities earlier, as we argued for some time, and to exploit the benefits of longer-term debt issuance," he told the FT. BBC Just £11b spent unnecessarily on interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow1988 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 9 hours ago, markavfc40 said: First time I have seen this picture of the Johnsons. Who'd have guessed back then the teenage girl on the left would become PM. Who would have thought that the little one on the right would grow up to become Jimmy Saville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Davkaus Posted June 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) Adjusted for inflation, that's just a bit less than the higher estimates of what that gold sale by Brown apparently cost us, that still gets banged on about 23 years later. This will be old news by lunchtime. Edited June 10, 2022 by Davkaus 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Tory bootlickers defence: The cost of living crisis is a global issue. Tory bootlickers attack: The global financial crisis of 2008 was Labour's fault. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jareth Posted June 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 10, 2022 11 hours ago, markavfc40 said: First time I have seen this picture of the Johnsons. Who'd have guessed back then the teenage girl on the left would become PM. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) Few things I noticed in the States is that they have a lot of the issues we have. Fuel costs, whilst much lower than ours are accelerating fast. Inflation is a major issue and food/drink prices are rising rapidly. Labour shortages also a big issue. Several restaurants we went in had notices about shortages of staff and supply chain issues meaning a reduced menu offering. Big theme parks who usually have waiting lists of staff are having to advertise for vacancies. Edited June 10, 2022 by Genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 10, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted June 10, 2022 12 hours ago, markavfc40 said: First time I have seen this picture of the Johnsons. Who'd have guessed back then the teenage girl on the left would become PM. He even looks like a word removed back then 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 5 hours ago, Genie said: BBC Just £11b spent unnecessarily on interest. What are people voting for when they vote for these guys now? Is life better under them? The corruption, the wasted money, the cuts to public services, the disaster that is GPs and Hospital emergency rooms. Whats so scary about labour or others that people deem this is the best way for the country to go? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 4 minutes ago, DCJonah said: What are people voting for when they vote for these guys now? Is life better under them? The corruption, the wasted money, the cuts to public services, the disaster that is GPs and Hospital emergency rooms. Whats so scary about labour or others that people deem this is the best way for the country to go? They are all the same seems to be the stock response. Based on nothing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) 9 minutes ago, DCJonah said: What are people voting for when they vote for these guys now? Is life better under them? The corruption, the wasted money, the cuts to public services, the disaster that is GPs and Hospital emergency rooms. Whats so scary about labour or others that people deem this is the best way for the country to go? Yes, even if you were a massive fan of Brexit and loving life outside of the EU it’s done now and in the past. You don’t need to keep voting for the Tories on that basis. There really is nothing else is there? Maybe this is why Labour / Starmer are keeping quiet on the B subject as The Tories will be all over it “if you vote Labour they’ll try and rejoin the EU” which will alienate a lot of voters. Edited June 10, 2022 by Genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Just now, Genie said: Yes, even if you were a massive fan of Brexit and loving life outside of the EU it’s done now and in the past. You don’t need to keep voting for the Tories on that basis. There really is nothing else is there? Going to make a clumsy analogy here, you get U2 fans who bought the first few albums, loved them and continued to buy them, time went on, the albums got weaker but you still bought it because the Joshua tree* was a blinding album, you can't give up as you invested in it, you are a fan, it's who you are even if they really are not what you are anymore. That's the Tories, you were in for Brexit, it was fantastic, but as time has gone on, things change, they aren't you anymore, you are committed though, you gave them your vote but it's been so long now you can't remember why. *It's not. It's like every other recording by U2, putrid beer with cigarette ends floating in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 13 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Going to make a clumsy analogy here, you get U2 fans who bought the first few albums, loved them and continued to buy them, time went on, the albums got weaker but you still bought it because the Joshua tree* was a blinding album, you can't give up as you invested in it, you are a fan, it's who you are even if they really are not what you are anymore. That's the Tories, you were in for Brexit, it was fantastic, but as time has gone on, things change, they aren't you anymore, you are committed though, you gave them your vote but it's been so long now you can't remember why. *It's not. It's like every other recording by U2, putrid beer with cigarette ends floating in it. Yeah, given how tribal Brexit was there will be an element of doubling down to avoid any “told you so”. Saying that, I’ve seen plenty of Brexiteers on social media putting the boot into Boris and his parties antics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 The BBC also deciding to allow comments on that story about Rishi Sunak wasting (another) £11b. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted June 10, 2022 Author Moderator Share Posted June 10, 2022 49 minutes ago, Seat68 said: *It's not. It's like every other recording by U2, putrid beer with cigarette ends floating in it. It isn’t. It’s the last album they made before disappearing up their own fundament. It’s a decent album. Politics and the tories, it’s like there have and always will be only 2 bands, U2 and Coldplay. What a terrible thought. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 3 minutes ago, blandy said: It isn’t. It’s the last album they made before disappearing up their own fundament. It’s a decent album. Politics and the tories, it’s like there have and always will be only 2 bands, U2 and Coldplay. What a terrible thought. Can't get on with them, never could, Joshua tree made them unavoidable. Like the Tories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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