Brexit slowly becoming a Farce.

[coprolite]

32 minutes ago, Suspect Device said:

 

 

 

I don't see why he needs to come here at all. France is a perfectly safe country so he should just stay there. He's not a genuine refugee so if he tries to cross the channel he should be sent to Rwanda. Lovely country, excellent human rights. 

[John Lambies Doos]

But but the special relationship [emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/20/pelosi-warns-changes-to-northern-ireland-protocol-could-affect-us-trade-deal-with-britain

[Granny Danger]

1 hour ago, coprolite said:

I don't see why he needs to come here at all. France is a perfectly safe country so he should just stay there. He's not a genuine refugee so if he tries to cross the channel he should be sent to Rwanda. Lovely country, excellent human rights. 

You b*****d!  Have the people of Rwanda not suffered enough?

[carpetmonster]

 

[Theroadlesstravelled]

Didn’t the Daily Mail gammons want work shy, benefit scroungers bussed in to pick fruit?

Simple as, they said.

[carpetmonster]

8 minutes ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

Didn’t the Daily Mail gammons want work shy, benefit scroungers bussed in to pick fruit?

Simple as, they said.

That was Mr Healthy Meal For 30p himself - https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-candidate-wants-nuisance-council-20913610

The fact that he's coming out with that pish as a *candidate* and being elected as a result is depressing, if not predictable. 

[101]

Very slowly but surely they are realising you can't have Brexit just by hurling slogans around.

[Granny Danger]

On 21/05/2022 at 23:38, carpetmonster said:

That was Mr Healthy Meal For 30p himself - https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-candidate-wants-nuisance-council-20913610

The fact that he's coming out with that pish as a *candidate* and being elected as a result is depressing, if not predictable. 

There was a builder who used to do sub contract work for me who once said to me that folk on benefits should be “made to work”.

I asked him if he would want folk working for him who really didn’t want to be there.  He quickly admitted that he wouldn’t and that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea after all!

[topcat(The most tip top)]

From today's FT
https://www.ft.com/content/ee2ce542-eb19-48c1-9a1d-57a8200a47ae

Economic growth in the UK will grind to a halt next year with only Russia, hobbled by western sanctions, performing worse among the G20 leading economies, the OECD forecast on Wednesday.

The Paris-based organisation’s forecast highlighted the effects of high UK inflation still squeezing household and corporate incomes in 2023 alongside a further round of tax increases as the main drivers of the country’s expected weak economic activity.

The forecasts underscore the difficulties a weakened Prime Minister Boris Johnson is likely to face in the months ahead as he tries to shore up support within his Conservative party after surviving a no-confidence vote on Monday and demonstrate the government can manage the economy effectively.

Speaking about the specific weaknesses of the UK economy compared with other rich countries, Laurence Boone, chief economist of the OECD, said the UK was unique in simultaneously grappling with high inflation, rising interest rates and increasing taxes.

“Inflation is high compared with other OECD countries in the G20 . . . that’s one thing. The other thing is there is fast monetary tightening which is obviously responding to [the inflation] and there is fiscal consolidation which is the highest in the G7,” she said.

“There is the sensitivity of manufacturing to the global supply chain and there is also probably a bit of Brexit [in explaining the poor performance] although we are not really able to disentangle each of these factors specifically.” The OECD forecast that the UK economy would record growth of 3.6 per cent in 2022, although much of that reflected recovery from coronavirus at the end of last year.

But this growth would fall to zero next year as households are increasingly squeezed. Inflation would remain high and average 7.4 per cent next year having hit double digits later this year. The OECD said the economy would be “stagnating in 2023 due to depressed demand”.

There were many risks, it said, and most of these would make the situation even worse if these materialised. “Spillovers from economic sanctions and higher than expected energy prices as the Ukraine war drags on, and a deterioration in the public health situation due to new Covid strains are significant downside risks,” the report said.

It added that higher than expected goods and energy prices could reduce real incomes even further and there was no guarantee that the Bank of England would be able to get inflation quickly back to its 2 per cent target.

“A prolonged period of acute supply and labour shortages could force firms into a more permanent reduction in their operating capacity or push up wage inflation further,” the OECD said.

The organisation said it expected the BoE to raise interest rates from the current 1 per cent to 2.5 per cent as a result of the significant inflationary pressure and because it had noticed some “upward drift” in professional forecasters’ expectations of inflation in the UK, unlike in all other advanced economies except the US.

[williemillersmoustache]

 

 

 

[coprolite]

8 minutes ago, williemillersmoustache said:

 

 

 

This is unfair 

They shrunk it a lot with Austerity first. 

[williemillersmoustache]

1 minute ago, coprolite said:

This is unfair 

They shrunk it a lot with Austerity first. 

I need this analysis to be properly, Britishly set out in pecks, bushels, groats and cubits per furlong.

On a blackboard, obviously. 

[D Angelo Barksdale]

2 minutes ago, williemillersmoustache said:

On a blackboard, obviously. 

I believe they throw you in jail for calling it that now.

[williemillersmoustache]

Just now, Ervin H Burrell said:

I believe they throw you in jail for calling it that now.

Along with anyone that says that they're English, these days. 

[coprolite]

6 minutes ago, williemillersmoustache said:

I need this analysis to be properly, Britishly set out in pecks, bushels, groats and cubits per furlong.

On a blackboard, obviously. 

To parapgrase the British press's coverage of austerity and Tory mismanagement of the economy, "JEREMY CORBYN IS AN ANTISEMITE!" 

[williemillersmoustache]

1 minute ago, coprolite said:

To parapgrase the British press's coverage of austerity and Tory mismanagement of the economy, "JEREMY CORBYN IS AN ANTISEMITE!" 

Minus points for the lack of Marxism/Coalition of CHAOS.

[BFTD]

39 minutes ago, williemillersmoustache said:

Minus points for the lack of Marxism/Coalition of CHAOS.

It's been interesting to see the redefinition of Marxism to include anything that doesn't involve withdrawing money from the public purse for redistribution to your wealthy donors and mates.

[Highlandmagar]

3 hours ago, BFTD said:

It's been interesting to see the redefinition of Marxism to include anything that doesn't involve withdrawing money from the public purse for redistribution to your wealthy donors and mates.

All these Reds under our beds! Thank god for Johnson.

[Jacksgranda]

6 hours ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

From today's FT
https://www.ft.com/content/ee2ce542-eb19-48c1-9a1d-57a8200a47ae

Economic growth in the UK will grind to a halt next year with only Russia, hobbled by western sanctions, performing worse among the G20 leading economies, the OECD forecast on Wednesday.

The Paris-based organisation’s forecast highlighted the effects of high UK inflation still squeezing household and corporate incomes in 2023 alongside a further round of tax increases as the main drivers of the country’s expected weak economic activity.

The forecasts underscore the difficulties a weakened Prime Minister Boris Johnson is likely to face in the months ahead as he tries to shore up support within his Conservative party after surviving a no-confidence vote on Monday and demonstrate the government can manage the economy effectively.

Speaking about the specific weaknesses of the UK economy compared with other rich countries, Laurence Boone, chief economist of the OECD, said the UK was unique in simultaneously grappling with high inflation, rising interest rates and increasing taxes.

“Inflation is high compared with other OECD countries in the G20 . . . that’s one thing. The other thing is there is fast monetary tightening which is obviously responding to [the inflation] and there is fiscal consolidation which is the highest in the G7,” she said.

“There is the sensitivity of manufacturing to the global supply chain and there is also probably a bit of Brexit [in explaining the poor performance] although we are not really able to disentangle each of these factors specifically.” The OECD forecast that the UK economy would record growth of 3.6 per cent in 2022, although much of that reflected recovery from coronavirus at the end of last year.

But this growth would fall to zero next year as households are increasingly squeezed. Inflation would remain high and average 7.4 per cent next year having hit double digits later this year. The OECD said the economy would be “stagnating in 2023 due to depressed demand”.

There were many risks, it said, and most of these would make the situation even worse if these materialised. “Spillovers from economic sanctions and higher than expected energy prices as the Ukraine war drags on, and a deterioration in the public health situation due to new Covid strains are significant downside risks,” the report said.

It added that higher than expected goods and energy prices could reduce real incomes even further and there was no guarantee that the Bank of England would be able to get inflation quickly back to its 2 per cent target.

“A prolonged period of acute supply and labour shortages could force firms into a more permanent reduction in their operating capacity or push up wage inflation further,” the OECD said.

The organisation said it expected the BoE to raise interest rates from the current 1 per cent to 2.5 per cent as a result of the significant inflationary pressure and because it had noticed some “upward drift” in professional forecasters’ expectations of inflation in the UK, unlike in all other advanced economies except the US.

French, eh? I think we can safely file that in the bin, then...

[Highlandmagar]

6 hours ago, Ervin H Burrell said:

I believe they throw you in jail for calling it that now.

Tableau Noir?