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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    No it's just he got his degree paid for and thereafter never paid a sov bac
    Cy is well able to answer for himself, and more articulate than I after a couple os scoops , however in my time there were no student loans hence no debts, as a post grad I had option of paid work to offset my living costs .Luckily as a succesful card counter back in a less surveillance era, I needed no loans, still barred from playing blackjack a few casinos, Konstanz my free atm et al.
    Entry costs €3 all day, every day. A dress code is in effect for table games with a shirt and jacket required for the men. Should you get the sudden urge to play some Blackjack and are without a jacket, the casino always has a few on hand that you can borrow.

    As I understand English students in England pay 27k up but only obliged to repay once reached a reasonable salary, no idea of the number, but many who get low paid or no job will not be loable.

    To the best of my knowlege (it is over 31 years since I was a lecturer in UK)
    Overseas students pay a lot more to the extent that many Unis see them as a vital source of funding. Some may now be deterred as dependents no longer allowed as seen rightly or wrongly as backdoor immigration.

    As a non Englishman I wish the entire population 174 of my village would emigrate to make it quieter, many of these sons of the soil enjoy and proffer 60%+ yadong, Lao Khao gargle or two as do I but their taste and music volumes of a Saturday makes me look forward to deafness like Beethoven.
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    Cy is well able to answer for himself

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    Well I hope all that filled a void in your weekend, you silly old duffers.

    Not quite as entertaining as when numpt used to post blind drunk in the dog house, but never mind.

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    So Labour have screwed any economic grpwth, interest rates have popped back up and inflation will remain higher fpr longer so what is Starmers big idea to help growth...... from the iNewspaper long reads


    Starmer's Tory-style plan to cut red tape and make you richer


    PM hopes deregulation can kickstart economic growth - but removing protections could leave public exposed


    The new year has begun with Britain on a trajectory of zero GDP growth and rising inflation, both bad omens for the first and most important of Labour’s five “missions” for government – boosting the economy.


    The UK’s long-term borrowing costs have also hit their highest level since 1998, amid fears the country is set to enter a period of stagflation, where the Bank of England is constrained from cutting rates to support the economy.


    In a bid to kickstart economic dynamism, Sir Keir Starmer has taken the step – unusually for a Labour leader – of announcing an agenda of deregulation.


    On Christmas Eve, the Prime Minister wrote to Britain’s largest regulators asking them to come up with ways to be “more pro-growth and pro-investment” – and he will place further emphasis on this in the following weeks and months.


    Ultimately, boosting the economy and growth would help Starmer to put more money in people’s pockets – something he has pinned his political fortunes to before the next election.


    He began thinking seriously about how to lower the regulatory burden when he was preparing for the Government’s investment summit in October, according to allies.


    It was Rachel Reeves who made the first move, telling City bosses that financial rules imposed after the 2008 crisis had “gone too far” and led to “a system which sought to eliminate risk-taking”.


    But the Prime Minister is understood to be taking the lead in planning the next steps. A Downing Street source told The i Paper: “The PM himself is really motivated by it.”


    Successive Tory-led governments pushed a deregulation agenda, particularly David Cameron, who in the Coalition years imposed a “one in, one out” rule, meaning that for every new regulation introduced, ministers were told to find another that they could get rid of.


    Starmer’s Government has faced warnings that deregulating the City could threaten the UK’s financial stability and even jeopardise growth.


    And he has been urged not to deregulate at the expense of protections for consumers.


    On the other hand, business groups have broadly welcomed the new focus.


    Jordan Cummins, of the Confederation of British Industry, said: “The Government has an opportunity to boost UK competitiveness using smart, proportionate regulation.


    “Correctly implemented regulation, and the work and independence of regulators, is critical to the UK economy – as well as safeguarding the interests of consumers and enabling good business practice.”


    And Jonny Haseldine, from the British Chambers of Commerce, added: “Businesses of all shapes and sizes will be pleased to see any unnecessary regulation and barriers to growth removed.”


    But he warned that some measures already taken by ministers are increasing rather than reducing the burdens on firms – including the Employment Rights Bill currently passing through Parliament, which will strengthen the rights of workers.


    Successive governments, particularly Conservative ones, have promised a “bonfire of red tape” to boost growth. But Robert Colvile, of the centre-right Centre for Policy Studies, warned that, in reality, regulation has not always had the sustained attention that it deserves.


    “No one in government really historically has taken regulation seriously,” he said. “They haven’t taken it as seriously as taxation. In both cases you are imposing a cost, you are dictating how businesses can operate and reshaping their cost base. But tax and spend gets infinitely more attention than regulation. We should be doing much more to evaluate the costs of government decisions in advance.”


    He admitted there were often political constraints on how far ministers can go to remove regulations, given the risk of being seen as avoiding action against society’s ills.


    He pointed to the example of “nutrient neutrality” rules which the Tories tried to scrap in order to make it easier to build new homes, before backing down in the face of accusations they were allowing polluters free reign.

    Colvile added: “When you have things like Grenfell [Tower] or the state of the rivers, things that people get justifiably upset about, you don’t want to be the guy saying, ‘Yes but won’t someone think of the poor companies?’ How you frame a narrative on this is really, really hard.”


    In the final report of the Grenfell inquiry, inquiry chair Sir Martin Moore-Bick warned that the deregulation agenda under Cameron’s Coalition government had “dominated” thinking to the point where safety matters were “ignored, delayed or disregarded”.


    Already, critics from the left are warning Starmer against going too far too quickly in cutting regulation.


    John McDonnell, the former shadow chancellor, told The i Paper: “Have we learned nothing from our experience over decades of deregulation drives and the resultant scandals?


    “Deregulation in the finance sector brought our whole economy to its knees in 2008. Failures of proper regulation of big pharma have caused scandal after scandal from thalidomide to Primodos. In the workplace, inadequate regulatory protection resulted in P&O sacking by video 800 workers, and resulted in blood on the tracks as a result of regulation failures under rail privatisation.


    “Stripping basic consumer protections creates a rip-off culture of higher prices for poorer services and increases safety risks. There is a difference between creating a stable economic climate to engender growth, and creating short-term profiteering opportunities causing greater risk for consumers, workers and society overall.”


    Pranesh Narayanan of the left-leaning IPPR think tank said it was a good idea to “tap in” to the expertise of regulators by asking them for ideas on growth and suggested that changing the way energy markets work, as well as reforming the planning system, could have a positive impact.


    But he added: “I am a little sceptical that blanket deregulation is the driver of growth, or the lever that government should be pulling for growth.


    “Governments have been looking to cut red tape for as long as they have been around – a lot of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked. And you think about why regulations exist in the first place, a lot of the time they do exist for a good reason and a lot of people take them for granted in terms of how they offer protection to consumers.”


    Banking regulations were a particular danger, he warned: “If you are trying to achieve growth through financial sector reform, you are opening up the risks of another 2008 and you are also potentially focussing on the wrong part of the economy in my opinion.”


    Last month, 50 economists and policy experts issued a warning to Reeves, telling her that deregulation and allowing the financial services sector to expand risked “undermining the Government’s efforts to grow the economy” and posed “particular risks to the Government’s wider industrial strategy and missions”.


    They said that “the financial sector can only continue to grow by taking excessive risks and increasing the economy’s debt burden until the inevitable collapse”.


    Even some businesses have emphasised that in some areas, tighter rather than looser regulation could be the answer to promoting growth.


    Tina McKenzie of the Federation of Small Businesses said: “Regulating for growth does not always mean deregulation – sometimes it means better protections for small firms as consumers.”


    She suggested greater protection for company directors guaranteeing business loans, and a mandatory cooling-off period when firms sign up to a new energy provider, as areas where beefing up the existing rules could be economically helpful.


    The regulators contacted by the Prime Minister last month are expecting to respond over the winter and spring. While most regulators declined to comment, they insisted they are already aware of the need to boost growth and working on ways to simplify their rules to make it easier for businesses to comply.

    Starmer's Tory-style plan to cut red tape and make you richer
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    Keir Starmer is about to get a taste of his own bitter medicine.

    Labour is blind to the scale of the global Right-wing vibes shift, and the fury of the Trump administration




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    08 January 2025 6:31pm GMT


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    Keir Starmer is in terrible trouble. Desperately unpopular at home, he is losing his friends abroad. Almost the last socialist standing in a world shifting Right-wards at breakneck speed, our accidental Prime Minister cuts an isolated, befuddled, almost pitiful figure. His Leftist comrades Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau and Olaf Scholz are on the way out; Emmanuel Macron is a laughing stock.

    The future belongs to Donald Trump, Canada’s Pierre Poilievre, Argentina’s Javier Milei and even Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s crime-busting, pro-Bitcoin president, and to the Eurosceptic, anti-immigration parties rising across Europe.

    All look at Britain with a mix of sadness and incomprehension. To the Right-wing counter-elites seizing power worldwide, Starmer embodies our accelerating decline, his values at odds with the global mood, the inadequacies of his Government painfully obvious. We are the country nobody wants to copy, a case study in what not to do, the subject of a cruel experiment in destroying a successful and cohesive society.


    Like a dinosaur who miraculously escaped the mass extinction of his companions, Starmer plods on, unable to recalibrate to the new zeitgeist, chasing an EU mirage that no longer exists, stubbornly hiking tax and spend, doubling down on mass immigration and overpriced energy, oblivious to the flashing red lights in the City as gilt yields rocket to their highest levels since 1998.


    The Prime Minister was caught by surprise by the verbal onslaught unleashed by Elon Musk over the grooming gangs abomination, but that is nothing compared to what will happen when Trump takes office on 20 January. Starmer’s inflexibility means the special relationship is unlikely to survive: its demise, catastrophic for UK interests, would serve as the epitaph of his failed premiership.

    Trump sees the UK and European countries as whingeing, ungrateful scroungers. He will demand much greater defence spending, but Rachel Reeves, facing a renewed fiscal crisis as our borrowing costs surge, won’t want to slash welfare and is unlikely to deliver more than a token increase. Trump will react furiously.

    If that doesn’t break the special relationship, the administration’s likely embrace of lawfare will stun a Westminster establishment that doesn’t understand the modern Republican Party. Starmer, a Left-wing lawyer, is about to be given a taste of his own medicine.

    Even though Israel possesses its own independent courts and its own robust democracy to deal with law-breaking or abuses, and despite the fact that the Jewish state is meant to be our ally, Starmer imposed sanctions against a handful of Israeli settlers accused of attacking Palestinians. Biden approved similar sanctions.

    The Left cheered at this embrace of extra-territoriality and disregard for national sovereignty, but, in its arrogant belief that the wokerati would always be in power, failed to grasp the threat to its own interests of setting such a precedent.

    The Maga Right has none of the inhibitions of its predecessors. It is planning to leverage the power of a recaptured state to annihilate its enemies. Many US conservatives are now calling, in all seriousness, for sanctions to be imposed on British politicians deemed to have not done enough to combat the obscenity that are the grooming gangs. Some want UK citizens convicted of raping young girls but released after short sentences to be directly penalised by the US.

    Britain risks being treated like a country with a broken justice system by a global super-power: it is a farce and an embarrassment. Foreign intervention on a domestic matter, even if spearheaded by well-meaning conservatives, isn’t the solution: the answer is a better UK government committed to delivering justice to the victims. Our morally bankrupt bien-pensant elite is triply to blame.

    There is an even stronger campaign underway to impose sanctions on British officials who restricted arms sales for Israel, for tacitly helping enemies of America. The International Criminal Court is certain to be targeted: its chief prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan is British. There may be extradition requests, as well as attempts to go after Labour for allowing activists to campaign for Kamala Harris. The “human rights” house of cards could be toppled, destroying the centre-piece of the Starmerite worldview.

    More generally, America is about to start exporting Right-wing values again, putting it at odds with Labour’s Britain. US foreign policy has long been profoundly ideological, though the belief system has varied: America backed our membership of the European Community (bad), supported anti-communism (good), fought Islamism after 9/11 (good), and became a massive exporter of woke and environmental nostrums, working with Wall Street and Silicon Valley (bad).

    The British Left embraced this latter onslaught: it welcomed donations to the pro-EU camp from US banks. Starmer took the knee in 2020, defying Trump and aligning himself with the far-Left, US BLM movement. British firms adopted deranged teachings of US-centric critical race theory.

    All of this is now being reversed. We are living through the greatest “vibe shift” to the Right since 1979-1980, confirming, as per Newton’s Third Law of Motion, that “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”.


    Far from promoting DEI, the US will combat it. Trump wants to frack and ditch green targets and treaties. Musk wants to reinvent himself as a Right-wing George Soros, funding Right-wing causes globally, terrifying the British Left. Scores of corporate giants are ending DEI. Numerous Wall Street banks have pulled out of net zero initiatives. Meta – which owns Facebook and Instagram – has reembraced free speech, parting company with Nick Clegg and aligning itself with Musk’s X. Exporting the First Amendment may become a US foreign policy priority. We can expect trade sanctions against UK and EU interests if Starmer or Brussels seek to prevent American social media firms from hosting material that is legal in the US.

    Britain and Europe will face a new kind of conservative US imperialism, manifesting itself not just in attempted land grabs (such as reversing the surrender of the Chagos, or trying to absorb Greenland) but by tying trade sanctions to politics and policy. Everything is about to change.
    Starmer doesn’t stand a chance.

    THE TELEGRAPH


    Come on Trump and Musk.

    You’ll be doing us all a huge favour by continuing the attack upon this despicable, desperately corrupt, cynical , woke-cult, tyrannical , lying bunch of spiteful rape gang facilitators, economic ignoramuses, and self destructive brit hating marxists.

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    Here,here!

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    So Labour have screwed any economic grpwth, interest rates have popped back up and inflation will remain higher fpr longer so what is Starmers big idea to help growth
    It really looks like they are fooked. Government borrowing costs at their highest this century. Pound sliding steadily.

    Pound falls as borrowing costs rise to highest since 2008

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    Too much is made of a so-called "special relationship" between the USA and the UK. It really isn't special at all. It all revolves around British governments sucking American cock. Simple as that. Stop sucking and there won't be much friendship at all.

    As for Starmer, I really don't think he will last five years. The Labour government might, but he won't.

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    My post looks at odds with that headine, it isn't.

    10-year bonds, highest rate since 2008, during the global financial crisis.

    30-year bonds:

    The yield on the 30-year gilt reached 5.35% on Wednesday, surpassing a previous high in August 1998.

    Faisal Islam: Soaring UK borrowing costs are a problem for Rachel Reeves

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    The book for prosecutions of the hundreds of Pakistani grooming gangs that raped a generation of white English girls lies at Herr Kier Starmers door.

    Talk about two tier standards, he emptied the jails of convicted criminals to replace the inmates with ordinary working and middle class protesters who were exercising their free speech.

    Not only that he's freezing the pensioners.

    Not one person I know in the UK has a positive thing to say about Starmer and his Starmtroopers.
    The next GE will be interesting with a potential break from the two party system.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    Not one person I know in the UK has a positive thing to say about Starmer and his Starmtroopers.
    Looked at from this far away, I have to say that I cannot see the positives. Raise taxes, because obviously having less money in your business will kick start growth, for some strange reason the markets think the ideas suck, borrowing rates go up, all the extra money grabbed in taxes goes to pay the higher interest rates on bigger government borrowings. Lose lose.

    Promises, promises. Paul Simon called it:

    I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told
    I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles
    Such are promises
    All lies and jest
    Still a man hears what he wants to hear
    And disregards the rest, hmm

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    The book for prosecutions of the hundreds of Pakistani grooming gangs that raped a generation of white English girls lies at Herr Kier Starmers door.

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    Musk with his control of vast social media resources and the money to buy our fine politicians has for all practical purposes become king of the world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neverna View Post
    Too much is made of a so-called "special relationship" between the USA and the UK. It really isn't special at all
    I agree , US special relationship is with Israel, it has few other friends.

    As to UK government , the exchange rate and bond rates are largely beyond its control and heavily influenced by the Fed.

    Starmer and Labour have fallen in the polls with both them Tory and Farage polling about a quarter of votes but there is no general election pending and it could be 56 months away by which time the N Koreans have reached Calais, Trump has been assassinated by Melania's hitmen and BLD Willy and Armstrong have shacked up in a menage a trois in snubsters basement.
    Chitty sailed his yacht up the St Lawrence to woo MM only to discover she'd married the new "Tomcat" Rubba Johnny finished Sybmasterspelling course and Lulu ran out of multinicks

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    Looked at from this far away, I have to say that I cannot see the positives. Raise taxes, because obviously having less money in your business will kick start growth, for some strange reason the markets think the ideas suck, borrowing rates go up, all the extra money grabbed in taxes goes to pay the higher interest rates on bigger government borrowings. Lose lose.
    she's making a fuking horlicks of it, it all started with Labour spending the first 3 months talking the economy down and then setting an anti business budget. Looks like her own MPs are turning on her.

    Reeves vows war on waste to save public finances as Labour critics circle

    Chancellor to lead major new drive to tackle unnecessary spending amid calls for her to resign


    Rachel Reeves is facing mounting economic pressure ahead of the Spending Review as well as questions from within her party over her tax and spending policies Credit: Phil Noble


    In an attempt to get back on the front foot after a week of turmoil in financial markets, the Chancellor will lead a major new drive to tackle “waste and inefficiency” across the public sector which will leave “no stone unturned”.


    Writing in The Telegraph, Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said that officials will work with the private sector to “embrace their ideas, expertise and innovation to further our public services” as part of the drive to clamp down on unnecessary spending.


    He added that “challenge panels” made up of external experts are being set up across every department to bring a “fresh perspective on whether every penny spent is necessary or not”.


    On Monday, the Prime Minister will also launch a new government strategy on Artificial Intelligence aimed at boosting growth by encouraging more AI companies to invest in the UK.


    It comes as Ms Reeves faces mounting economic pressure ahead of the Spending Review as well as questions from within her party over her tax and spending policies.


    On Saturday night, Labour MPs warned that support for the Chancellor was “evaporating” even among her supporters, with some now privately calling on her to resign.


    It followed a week in which the Treasury was forced to intervene to stabilise financial markets following the suggestion that rising debt costs had wiped out all of Ms Reeves’s headroom and put her in breach of her own fiscal rules.


    ‘Those who supported her at first are now wavering’
    It came after a dramatic sell-off in the global market for government debt, fuelling a rise in the UK’s long-term borrowing costs to the highest level since 1998.


    One pound in every four of the £40billion in tax rises Ms Reeves imposed in autumn has been swallowed up by rising borrowing costs as international investors waver over the scale of government debt.


    Speaking from Beijing on Saturday, the Chancellor said that closer links with China are “crucial” for economic growth.


    But her announcement came amid criticism from the Conservatives that she should have remained in the UK to “fix this mess of her own making”.


    She was also facing mounting attacks from within her party. One Labour MP told The Telegraph: “The Government’s whole strategy depends on growth. But there is a lack of confidence. Growth depends on low energy prices, confidence, investment in infrastructure and she has done the exact opposite.”


    They went on to say: “The support for her has evaporated - even those who supported her at first are now wavering” and said that there “just isn’t a solution with her in place”.


    They said that Ms Reeves’ “hopeless” tenure so far is now “the first if not the second topic of conversation wherever MPs sit down and have a chat for a cup of tea or a pint of beer or bump into each other on the corridor”.


    Another Labour MP said that her trip to China “smacks of desperation” and indicates that she is “running out of options” to boost growth in Britain.


    “I don’t think we can continue like this until the end of the year, let alone for another four years. The whole shtick was about growth and now we are coming up against the harsh reality”.


    Labour MPs cited a string of unpopular Treasury decisions including cutting the universal winter fuel payments, introducing the so-called “family farm tax” and denying compensation to the Waspi women.


    “At first people were critical of the other ministers but now I think the penny is dropping that the buck stops with her,” one Labour insider said.


    “She wouldn’t be under half the pressure or criticism if it wasn’t for the political own goals that she has made - it feels like one thing after another.


    “Even the loyalists are becoming quietly frustrated, it is inevitable that [criticism from] the new MPs is going to get louder. It is bubbling.”


    Writing in today’s Sunday Telegraph, Mr Jones adds: “When speaking to our colleagues in Cabinet, we have been abundantly clear about the mess we were left and the fiscal picture in front of us.


    “Firstly, we simply cannot operate in a business-as-usual way when reviewing departmental budgets for the coming years. Secondly, when it comes to tackling waste, nothing is off the table,” he said.


    “That’s why we will leave no stone unturned when it comes to rooting out waste across the public sector. Departments have been told they must find savings and efficiencies across their budgets while making sure every pound of taxpayer money is spent wisely.”


    He added that Britain has “already endured years of waste and inefficiency in the public sector” and that billions of pounds have been lost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Musk with his control of vast social media resources and the money to buy our fine politicians has for all practical purposes become king of the world.
    As I have pointed out several times, the only real difference between the West and Asia worlds is that the former has legalised corruption.

    I have found that it is cheaper and much more fun to have corruption in its raw form...the Thai way... you pay or you wait

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    she's making a fuking horlicks of it
    She is. The markets are unimpressed, so Sterling slides and borrowing rates climb. She can blame others and point out that other countries share some problems, but at the end of the day it is her job to fix the allegedly broken economy and she is failing dismally. All this stuff about 'increasing efficiency' and AI is window dressing to draw attention away from the core issues.
    Her options are very limited. 1: Raise more taxes - that will help boost growth how? 2: Slash spending - trimming inefficiencies isn't going to cut it, all those promises about the NHS will evaporate. 3: Borrow more - at the higher rates, digging a deeper hole.
    My own opinion is that her only hope is some black swan event that tears up the rule book and hides her failure. Anyone fancy a war?

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    markets are expecting an 8% drop in the £, still she came back from China with £600m of investment commitments. They had 14 years to work this out and the OBT endorsed her budget, just goes to show neither are fit for purpose

    where's that idiot Mystic Sausages?

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    ^ Would be so much easier if you listened to the experts....and stayed in the EU.

    You Brexit shitheads get what you deserve, whichever government is in power...ha fucking ha!

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    Brexit hasn't affected me at all, Troy, but if I recall correctly, it has affected you somewhat. You should have got that German passport.

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    Brexit was implemented incorrectly.

    The Brexit minister in charge at the time was a staunch remainer, what could possibly go wrong has gone wrong!!

    It's all fvcked up now and the real reason why peeps voted leave has gotten worse!

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    ^ That's a typical Farage bullshit excuse.
    There was no good implementation of Brexit. It was a joke and has fooked up Britain for a very long time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    As I have pointed out several times, the only real difference between the West and Asia worlds is that the former has legalised corruption.

    I have found that it is cheaper and much more fun to have corruption in its raw form...the Thai way... you pay or you wait
    I've gotta agree
    Love a bit of corruption when it's working in my favour but in the West the game is rigged. In asia we just play the game
    Usually works out fine

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    I have found that it is cheaper and much more fun to have corruption in its raw form...the Thai way... you pay or you wait
    A wry view but of course most of us have more choices than the rural Thai who cannot grease for better health, education for their kids or the many ways they become indebted to try to have the lifestyle most here regard as a bare minimum, a safe affordable shelter and food that is tasty nourishing and sufficient.

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    Tulip Siddiq has resigned from her role as a Treasury minister.

    Siddiq, whose ministerial role included tackling corruption in UK financial markets, was named last month in an investigation into claims her family embezzled up to £3.9bn from infrastructure spending in Bangladesh.

    Her aunt is the former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina, head of the Awami League, who fled into exile after being deposed last year.

    Siddiq has also come under intense scrutiny over her use of properties in London linked to her aunt's allies.

    The MP insists she has done nothing wrong, but the prime minister has faced calls from Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch to sack her as a minister.

    In a letter accepting her resignation, Sir Keir said the "door remains open" for her.

    Tulip Siddiq resigns as Treasury minister - BBC News

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