Brexit, for once some facts.

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Free sprechen? U can say anysink u like as long as its vat ve say, ja?
Why is this Kallas one so callous?
Don't talk about ze rooskis or u vill face der consequences, unnestan
 

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Don't expect to drive in Paris with your 'épave' anytime soon. You need a crit'air vignette to drive in Paris.
 

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Trump and Musk fight is good for the stock market!
 

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Trump and Musk fight is good for the stock market!
Betting companies think they'll make up before end of year, which would make tesla good speculative buy - I think not, it's a fight between old and new maga (musk want to strip poor/working Americans of basic services to fund tax cuts for billionaires, some of trump's evangelical backers aren't ready for that)
 
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Betting companies think they'll make up before end of year, which would make tesla good speculative buy - I think not, it's a fight between old and new maga (musk want to strip poor/working Americans of basic services to fund tax cuts for billionaires, some of trump's evangelical backers aren't ready for that)
Maga is divided for sure. US and China will have trade talk in London next week. I reckon that's the bit of good news to cheer the market.
What would you do if the US bonds market blows up?
 
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Want to see some Fasc behaviour?
Here is the Irish Garda's new toy.
Ex Brit water c....n

See it may get very hot in ireland this summer. The Gardai (irish police) worry protesters may get too hot. So commissioner's got a Brit hyper soaker to cool them all off!
Isn't that thoughtful? Nice. :cool:

That other gadget between the two water c.....ns is NOT an Acoustic c....n. It just plays music to tell you they are serving ice cream from the side hatch, hehe

And the Garda commissioner, Drew Harris, ex-Royal Ulster Constabulary, (yes, a UK national policeman has been made commissioner of the Irish police. His right hand man is also ex RUC!) Is NOT recruiting illegals into the Garda, well alright, yes he is. Although he denied it at first until corrected by his own press officer.
So Fasc?

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then the government should increase their winter fuel allowance to compensate.
I knew Starmer and Reeves would blow it with an inadequate response, and they have.

There's approaching three million of us over 80 and we used to get £300 annually, doubled up to £600 in both 2022 and 2023. Over the last eight years since reaching eighty I've received £3000 in WFA. Then nothing in 2024 and a measy £200 now.

What with that and a return to Cold War re-arming over a war that is none of our business and can never threaten us, they can wave goodbye to our votes at the next GE.
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I like Starmer. He's got a tricky job to do and he has done well so far. Few would have managed to work with Trump and the EU and have a huge pent up demand for higher wages and huge health care backlog and 7 million economically inactive and 1 million youths not in education nor employment and a huge public debt and reform growing in popularity.
 

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Does Bulgaria want to join the Euro?
Well the demo-krazis say yes, and the people get NO say!
The poli (many) tic (blood sucking parasite) shuns (how should be treated) said Referendum "not Constitutional", ha! So EUSSR-ist.
 

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7 million economically inactive
We are are NOT economically inactive. We worked for all the money we now have to live on, paying taxes at the time and still paying all our taxes now, income, VAT, capital gains and death duties. In a good, well run country concerned for its citizens well being, we should be aiming to have an ever higher proportion of such people, no longer wage slaves for so much of their lives.

1 million youths not in education nor employment
Solely and entirely the government's fault for preventing them from being employed gainfully by silly and pointless higher education policies.
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We are are NOT economically inactive. We worked for all the money we now have to live on, paying taxes at the time and still paying all our taxes now, income, VAT, capital gains and death duties. In a good, well run country concerned for its citizens well being, we should be aiming to have an ever higher proportion of such people, no longer wage slaves for so much of their lives.
It's just an often used polite form of word to talk about those in working age but choose not to take on a paid employment for other reasons than disability.
You and I are both pensioners, we don't belong to this group but I choose to continue working for health reasons.
The number is rather unexpectedly high.
 

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You and I are both pensioners, we don't belong to this group but I choose to continue working for health reasons.
The number is rather unexpectedly high.
No, I do belong to this group since I stopped employment on passing 50, which I'd planned ever since 16 years old. That is 17 years short of the current retirement age.

Of course I haven't just sat in a chair ever since, I've occupied myself with my own interests which are not work, but which have incidentally maintained my physical and mental health without need to continue being a wage slave for that purpose.

That is the point I am making, that everyone should have that benefit of human advancement, many years for personal and optional diverse interests.

Instead capitalism has used human advancement to keep us alive and still wage slaves for twice as long, simply to increase the wealth of the small elite.

Harold Wilson as PM had the right idea when he spoke of the advancement with the phrase "white hot heat of technology" and how it could enable an age of leisure. That was the promise and possibility, but which has been perverted into the complete opposite by the right wing elite who hold power.
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