TheBlueGibbon
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Current Affairs 2017 General Election
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Gardiner and Davis seem the most capable on either side to me. Would trust them much more in brexit dealings than Corbyn or May tbh.
gorgeousgeorgeEFC
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Serious question here: Is Theresa May ill? Or is she actively trying to lose the election? This is not a political point, but she's missed debates (she even sent the recently bereaved Amber Rudd last night), she's largely avoided canvassing & meeting "ordinary" people and she even cancelled her scheduled appearance on Radio 4's "Women's Hour" earlier today.
The bizarre anti-OAP policies in the Tory manifesto are also pretty inexplicable.
Maybe the diabetes has got worse? Or maybe she can't face all the Brexit negotiations etc. Or maybe I'm sounding like a conspiracy theorist!
The bizarre anti-OAP policies in the Tory manifesto are also pretty inexplicable.
Maybe the diabetes has got worse? Or maybe she can't face all the Brexit negotiations etc. Or maybe I'm sounding like a conspiracy theorist!
gorgeousgeorgeEFC
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David Davis is a good man and a good MP. Patriotic, decent and helpful to his constituencies. And I speak as a passionate LABOUR supporter who used to live in his constituency.
He's not your typical toffee-nosed Tory. He grew up on a council estate and fought for our Armed Forces etc.
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tsubaki
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I didn't watch Newsnight, but apparently David Davis directly contradicted something that Theresa May said earlier today with regards to the immigration cap. It is that bad that even Kuenssberg has picked up on it:
Also kudos to Laura for saying that "right now it feels like the Tories are having a choppy campaign".
Also kudos to Laura for saying that "right now it feels like the Tories are having a choppy campaign".
gorgeousgeorgeEFC
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I didn't watch Newsnight, but apparently David Davis directly contradicted something that Theresa May said earlier today with regards to the immigration cap. It is that bad that even Kuenssberg has picked up on it:
Also kudos to Laura for saying that "right now it feels like the Tories are having a choppy campaign".
Choppy campaign? More like catastrophic campaign!
As an aside, am I the only one who finds Laura Kuennsberg attractive? Bloody gorgeous!
orchard
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The myths about money that British voters should reject
Ha-Joon Chang
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...-money-british-voters-economy-britain-welfare
Ha-Joon Chang
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...-money-british-voters-economy-britain-welfare
For me it's less about the huge amount of borrowed money and more about the realistic amount that can be achieved in five years. We're in the most important negotiations of our time, and assuming we do actually leave the next parliament will be dominated by managing Brexit. Even aside from the almost inevitable economic hit it will bring (short-term at the very least), it will also consume a huge amount of government resources, both in negotiations themselves and then managing the aftermath. That's likely to be enough for most parliaments in our lifetime, but on top of that Corbyn wants to nationalise railways, utilities and the post office, micro-manage labour contracts, oversee huge infrastructure investments and goodness knows what else.
Not only is such a wishlist likely to be hugely unrealistic, Brexit itself is going to add enough chaos and uncertainty to markets, without all of this extra change and uncertainty on top. It's a recipe for disaster.
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You're right to state that there's a lot of critical work required of the next parliament.
However, you're wrong to single out labour, who, afterall, wish to maintain several European agencies standards that the con's will either have to replace or ignore and damage our society.
Additionally, the con's want to push the commercialisation of the NHS and re-write our human rights, and probably a raft of other critical social measures. I'd rather have a slight error in nationalising a crap rail system that's already heavily paid for by tax-payer's than any of the things the con's propose.
However, you're wrong to single out labour, who, afterall, wish to maintain several European agencies standards that the con's will either have to replace or ignore and damage our society.
Additionally, the con's want to push the commercialisation of the NHS and re-write our human rights, and probably a raft of other critical social measures. I'd rather have a slight error in nationalising a crap rail system that's already heavily paid for by tax-payer's than any of the things the con's propose.
Jesus Christ!
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Amber Rudd Really Is that Horrible 278
31 May, 2017
A multi-millionairess like all the Tory elite, Amber Rudd truly is every bit as horrible as the persona she exhibited on the BBC Leaders’ Debate this evening. A former banker with J P Morgan, she was also a director of two offshore tax avoidance asset management firms in the Bahamas. She never declared this and the information came out in a leak.
The refined journalists of the Financial Times are of course much more her choice for public engagement than having to stoop to discuss policy in front of the great unwashed, for whom she has a profound contempt. This is what she thinks of her constituents in Hastings:
“You get people who are on benefits, who prefer to be on benefits by the seaside. They’re not moving down here to get a job, they’re moving down here to have easier access to friends and drugs and drink.”
So why did she go to Hastings to represent such awful plebs? She explained that to her friends at the Financial Times as well:
“I wanted to be within two hours of London and I could see we were going to win it.”
According to the normally reliable CompanyCheck, as an MP Amber Rudd has constituted herself as a company, presumably for purposes of tax avoidance. That would of course give her a personal interest in low levels of corporation tax. But strangely Companies House itself has no company with the registration number given by CompanyCheck.
What Company House does have, however, are the records of Monticello PLC, a short lived company of which Rudd was a Director. It attracted many hundreds of investors who put money in, despite never appearing actually to do anything except pay its directors – presumably including Rudd. Trawling through its documents at Companies House, I find it difficult to conclude that it was ever anything other than a share ramping scheme designed to rip off its investors. After just over a year of existence it went bankrupt with over £1.2 million of debts and no important assets. I should be very interested if anybody can go through those records and come up with any different conclusion to mine.
Interestingly Amber Rudd’s father Tony, who died this week, had been debarred as a company director after being found to have asset stripped another investor vehicle, Greenbank Trust, and misused its assets to personal benefit. As with Emma Barnett, we again come across a wealthy Tory whose privileged upbringing was financed by the criminal behaviour of the wealthy.
It is a bit of a stretch to imagine that, nationally, Labour will get the 4.7% swing that would be needed to oust Rudd from Hastings. But perhaps it is not too much to hope that there may be a local revolt from the people she despises.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2017/05/ambder-rudd-really-horrible/
31 May, 2017
A multi-millionairess like all the Tory elite, Amber Rudd truly is every bit as horrible as the persona she exhibited on the BBC Leaders’ Debate this evening. A former banker with J P Morgan, she was also a director of two offshore tax avoidance asset management firms in the Bahamas. She never declared this and the information came out in a leak.
The refined journalists of the Financial Times are of course much more her choice for public engagement than having to stoop to discuss policy in front of the great unwashed, for whom she has a profound contempt. This is what she thinks of her constituents in Hastings:
“You get people who are on benefits, who prefer to be on benefits by the seaside. They’re not moving down here to get a job, they’re moving down here to have easier access to friends and drugs and drink.”
So why did she go to Hastings to represent such awful plebs? She explained that to her friends at the Financial Times as well:
“I wanted to be within two hours of London and I could see we were going to win it.”
According to the normally reliable CompanyCheck, as an MP Amber Rudd has constituted herself as a company, presumably for purposes of tax avoidance. That would of course give her a personal interest in low levels of corporation tax. But strangely Companies House itself has no company with the registration number given by CompanyCheck.
What Company House does have, however, are the records of Monticello PLC, a short lived company of which Rudd was a Director. It attracted many hundreds of investors who put money in, despite never appearing actually to do anything except pay its directors – presumably including Rudd. Trawling through its documents at Companies House, I find it difficult to conclude that it was ever anything other than a share ramping scheme designed to rip off its investors. After just over a year of existence it went bankrupt with over £1.2 million of debts and no important assets. I should be very interested if anybody can go through those records and come up with any different conclusion to mine.
Interestingly Amber Rudd’s father Tony, who died this week, had been debarred as a company director after being found to have asset stripped another investor vehicle, Greenbank Trust, and misused its assets to personal benefit. As with Emma Barnett, we again come across a wealthy Tory whose privileged upbringing was financed by the criminal behaviour of the wealthy.
It is a bit of a stretch to imagine that, nationally, Labour will get the 4.7% swing that would be needed to oust Rudd from Hastings. But perhaps it is not too much to hope that there may be a local revolt from the people she despises.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2017/05/ambder-rudd-really-horrible/
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