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How does China cope with such trade barriers?
In part by controlling the value of its currency Out of the top 4 Irish imports by country, only 1 of them is in the EU 2 out of top 5...lol, idiotic contrived stat by cider Add em up. |
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Pat Mcfaddens answer this morning on Laura Kuenssberg show when asked if he had ever passed on confidential government emails to anyone outside the government.....
"I don't think so " ........ |
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lapsy pa 08 Feb 26 17:25
You all know that this government was handed a poisoned chalice, other than that shocking appointment which i think might have had outside influence they are doing okay with the cards they were dealt with. ..................... Brilliant  |
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How does our political system engender such power in No.10 to these non-politicians? I presume this guy is a civil servant.? He is certainly unelected.
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New Labour (for real)
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They wanted to be able to give alcy much more authority and influence, and changed the rules, effectively creating the spad role. They also perfected the art of giving peerages to get non elected people [friends] into cabinet (yes, including Mandy)
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If politicians can outsource something, they nearly always do (New Labour again).
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How does our political system engender such power in No.10 to these non-politicians? I presume this guy is a civil servant.? He is certainly unelected.
Advisors advise, leaders decide. Giving a politician a large majority is akin to making them king, many kings had poor advisors in days before parliament took power away. That guy you saw on newsnight would answer your question more accurately than me, .. and is a warning to all of us of power falling to wrong people, or at least a reminder, as surely we all remember. |
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Power didn’t “fall” on this guy, it was vested in him, by Starmer. Another dreadful shortcoming of Starmer’s judgement.
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That's what I said.
Advisors advise, leaders decide. |
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F I L T H
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No Stringvest, McSweeney isn't filth at all,your replies are one sided without thought, the Harp club was down a gentle hill with a taxi company next door,as an ex patron i expect better.
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Its shut down now, best go to The Swan in Stockwell
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Will i see Morgan there?
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Possibly
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What is going on on this Forum ?
The good Friday agreement has been Mentioned ,Is that because Mandy wrong un was a big part of it ? Yak, has blocked Cider because he is a Racist Cider is a Racist ? Yak prob has me blocked , can he post why Cider is a racist,Im sure one of the lefties on here can ask him All the left have left to shout is racists , Trump being a racist is the best , perhaps they forgot that back in the day , Jessie jackson and Al Shrapton were his buddies Look at the state of this Government , thats what the Woke left have left us with , you would think they would retreat in to a dark place and keep quite .. |
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Ministers queuing up to back Starmer...
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LABOUR SCOTLAND , have put the boot in
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1.3 to go this this year , Labour 10s to win Gorton , Look at best to be 3rd behind The Greens and Reform , 13000 Majority 50 % of the Vote , GONE
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It seems as if anyone associated with ep stein is severely punished in the UK,not so in the US.Why?
I would re iterate my point that Labour are doing ok, wage growth up,inflation falling , GDP per capita growing,good relations world wide and migration collapsing to circa 200k. It would be a wrong move to rid i would think. |
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Trumpy must be worried that his efforts to brush this under the carpet are being somewhat undermined by it bringing down a major leader elsewhere who hasn't even been named once in the files, never mind 38,000 times.
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Trumpy doesn’t appear unduly worried about anything.
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I dont think many people are punishing labour over epstein other than themselves. Massive streisand effect. The more they defend him the more he looks like he needs defending
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^ Andrew and Mandleson were booted out of their positions as fast as their legs could carry them, rightly? of course, why isn't it the same in the US?
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I think Mandy was booted out for passing on files. Aside from that he was holding onto his job with the whole ‘i deeply regret the friendship’ etc
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lapsy appears to deliberately forget that Starmer gave his 'full confidence' to Mandy at the despatch box. In full knowledge at he was associating with Epstein after the paedo conviction.
of course, getting Starmer's confidence is not necessarily a positive |
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Mandelson had backing of farage as we already know.
Farage was even touting himself for the job before he got ridiculed. It's not epsteins pedo crimes that are bringing down Mandelson, it's Mandelson's traitorous leaking of state secrets to epstein. He was tolerated as ambassador by many as they thought his previous contacts in USA and links to Trump might help UK through a difficult period. Once his treachery was unveiled by release of epstein files he became untenable. It's quite a sad indictment of where UK is at that so many supported his appointment in first place and that had he not leaked stuff he still would be in place. placement |
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Just my brain ticking over Cider but would you think Trump may have had any influence whatsoever on the US ambassador?
Of course it does in regards Starmer appointing him but things may have come to light down the line. Credit to the UK who seem to be taking who are on the files to account, why do you think Trump isn't in the US? |
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I genuinely have absolutely no idea about what is happening in the US. But I do know it's a presidential system, thus completely different to ours. Starmer was forced to kick Mandy out [again].
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Lapsy states :
I would re iterate my point that Labour are doing ok, wage growth up,inflation falling , GDP per capita growing,good relations world wide and migration collapsing to circa 200k. It would be a wrong move to rid i would think. Inflation falling ? It was up to 3.4% in December 25, having been 2.2% when Labour took over in 2024. Migration "collapsing" is hardly down to anything Labour have done , there was a large increase in emigration from 517k to approx 693k which accounts for 40% of the drop over the year. And lets not forget that a lot of the measures that have been taken to reduce immigration were actually introduced by the Tories. And unemployment is up to 5.1% now compared to 4.4% when Labour took over. |
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Net Migration: 204,000 (down from over 600,000+ in previous years).
Immigration (Inflow): 898,000 people arrived, a 31% decrease from the previous 12 months. Emigration (Outflow): 693,000 people left, a 7% increase. |
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Inflation is fc 2.3% for Summer 2026.
Migration figures are correct,they are reasonable rather than the previous 1 million + I cannot argue with unemployment with you and note you didn't argue my point that the UK is viewed much more positively since he took the reins. |
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Inflation isn't the inflation forecast
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If we relied on economic forecasts lapsy we could all make a mint ! even if correct it's still higher than when they took over.
As mentioned, the tories had taken measures to reduce immigration that have now bedded in, little of the decrease is down to Labour initiatives. As for the UK being viewed more positively , which metric are you using rather than your own perception ? Try asking the people who really matter (the UK electorate) what their views are of this government ! |
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As target is 2% then it's likely to be higher than the 2.2%
that was caused by draconian interest rates imposed by boe when it went out of control due to imported inflation. When looking at inflation you really should be looking at inflation and interest rates... (and unemployment) One may be a price worth paying for another but getting them all in order is better. |
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You are right,it is my own perception.Biden hated Johnson,the EU did not get on with him or the UK for their attitude, relations with next door neighbour Ireland were rock bottom, do you think it is fair to say Starmer has improved the negative feeling?
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When sunak was booted, interest rates were 5.25%
If they were held at 5.25% inflation would likely be negative figs today. Boe cut rates to 3.75% giving 5 cuts of 0.25%. Pretty much as would have happened as predicted. They are predicting a further cut of 0.25 this year, and a possible 2nd cut if things go to plan. Obviously cutting rates is thought to be inflationary |
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They appreciate a lapdog. Of course they are going to like Starmer if he concedes everything. But the Chinese are laughing in his face today.
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I would have thought that as PM you should be more concerned with your own citizens feeling the positivity rather than foreign dignitaries.
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Pleasegivemeanailedontip 09 Feb 26 18:34
I dont think many people are punishing labour over epstein other than themselves ............... I saw some of his sorry speech the other day, I couldn't understand his almost tearful apology to 'the victims' (of Epstein, I assume). What have they got to do with Starmer  |