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@pakman said in British Politics:
@mikethesnow said in British Politics:
Could have gone in PC thread
So could this!
Jesus wept
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Johnson supposedly crafting a relocation strategy for Afghan refugees
Will be interesting to see how this plays out amongst the working class Tory voters based on the Tory Government’s failure to look after British Afghanistan campaign vets
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UK bouncing back quite hard
953,000 Job vacancies - major mismatch in acquired skills vs required skills. Basically a combination of Brexit, Covid & departing migrants. In turn causing a real wage growth rise.
Currently 1.4 mill out of work, so in theory only 500k job shortage.
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@majorrage said in British Politics:
UK bouncing back quite hard
953,000 Job vacancies - major mismatch in acquired skills vs required skills. Basically a combination of Brexit, Covid & departing migrants. In turn causing a real wage growth rise.
Currently 1.4 mill out of work, so in theory only 500k job shortage.
If we get real wage inflation we will be up shit creek without the proverbial. Even a 1% rise in interest rates would cause havoc in many peoples' finances.
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Fucking hell
How is this guy still in a job?
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@catogrande said in British Politics:
@majorrage said in British Politics:
UK bouncing back quite hard
953,000 Job vacancies - major mismatch in acquired skills vs required skills. Basically a combination of Brexit, Covid & departing migrants. In turn causing a real wage growth rise.
Currently 1.4 mill out of work, so in theory only 500k job shortage.
If we get real wage inflation we will be up shit creek without the proverbial. Even a 1% rise in interest rates would cause havoc in many peoples' finances.
Whilst I don’t disagree, the increase is inevitable over the next five years.
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@pakman said in British Politics:
@catogrande said in British Politics:
@majorrage said in British Politics:
UK bouncing back quite hard
953,000 Job vacancies - major mismatch in acquired skills vs required skills. Basically a combination of Brexit, Covid & departing migrants. In turn causing a real wage growth rise.
Currently 1.4 mill out of work, so in theory only 500k job shortage.
If we get real wage inflation we will be up shit creek without the proverbial. Even a 1% rise in interest rates would cause havoc in many peoples' finances.
Whilst I don’t disagree, the increase is inevitable over the next five years.
And whilst I don't disagree with you, the increase has been inevitable for the last ten years! However, the longer it goes on the nearer the reversion becomes, so yeah I do sort of agree with you.
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@majorrage said in British Politics:
Jeeze, who didn't see this coming ....
Downvote for all my Scots friends.
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@catogrande said in British Politics:
@majorrage said in British Politics:
Jeeze, who didn't see this coming ....
Downvote for all my Scots friends.
It maybe because I read a bit too much GB media and not enough Scots, but things seem to be turning on Ms Sturgeon of late.
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@majorrage said in British Politics:
Jeeze, who didn't see this coming ....
That's exceptionally odd. Every government since time immemorial has always sought to limit its power. Must be a typo.
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@majorrage said in British Politics:
@catogrande said in British Politics:
@majorrage said in British Politics:
Jeeze, who didn't see this coming ....
Downvote for all my Scots friends.
It maybe because I read a bit too much GB media and not enough Scots, but things seem to be turning on Ms Sturgeon of late.
I feel that many will be judged on their conduct through the pandemic. Not just how they’ve handled the crisis but how they have used it to further their own ends. Sturgeon has simply just had to be seen to be different to the rest of the UK so that she can be more “Scottish “. Whether any of her actions or inactions were actually detrimental is not even the issue, the perception is that she has politicised Coronavirus and tried to make it a them and us issue. No wonder her stock is falling.
Despicable and somewhat pathetic.
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@catogrande said in British Politics:
@majorrage said in British Politics:
@catogrande said in British Politics:
@majorrage said in British Politics:
Jeeze, who didn't see this coming ....
Downvote for all my Scots friends.
It maybe because I read a bit too much GB media and not enough Scots, but things seem to be turning on Ms Sturgeon of late.
I feel that many will be judged on their conduct through the pandemic. Not just how they’ve handled the crisis but how they have used it to further their own ends. Sturgeon has simply just had to be seen to be different to the rest of the UK so that she can be more “Scottish “. Whether any of her actions or inactions were actually detrimental is not even the issue, the perception is that she has politicised Coronavirus and tried to make it a them and us issue. No wonder her stock is falling.
Despicable and somewhat pathetic.
And entirely expected
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BBC Question Time Afghanistan Special the day before yesterday
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000z84j/question-time-2021-afghanistan-special
Excellent
Exemplified British politics to a tee
The Tories, represented by James Cleverly, knew exactly what was going on and don't care.
Labour, represented by Lisa Nandy, appear to care but have zero idea what is going on and zero idea of what to do.
Mehdi Hasan was a Washington windbag.
Both Rory Stewart and Nelufar Hedayat live in the real world and came out of this as shining lights.
It's a shame Stewart didn't beat Theresa May, he seems a genuinely decent bloke.
But since he left the Tory Party his contempt for it is there for all to see.
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@mikethesnow said in British Politics:
Rory Stewart
He's an expert on Afganistan though, isn't he? I remember listening/watching a two-part documentary on it and he appeared to know his stuff (or at least, his researchers did).
Here:
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@mikethesnow said in British Politics:
BBC Question Time Afghanistan Special the day before yesterday
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000z84j/question-time-2021-afghanistan-special
Mehdi Hasan was a Washington windbag.
Both Rory Stewart and Nelufar Hedayat live in the real world and came out of this as shining lights.
It's a shame Stewart didn't beat Theresa May, he seems a genuinely decent bloke.
Pleased the BBC put a one-hour debate on their main channel in prime time.
I used to know Mehdi a bit when he lived in the UK. Decent bloke but rather polemical.
Rory Stewart is very smart indeed. Big loss to UK politics. I hadn't heard of Nelufar Hedayat before but she came across really well.
I agree with you about both Cleverly or Nandy.
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@mikethesnow said in British Politics:
Exemplified British politics to a tee
The Tories, represented by James Cleverly, knew exactly what was going on and don't care.
Labour, represented by Lisa Nandy, appear to care but have zero idea what is going on and zero idea of what to do.
Absolutely spot on accurate analysis of the two current big parties up here.
Labour's biggest problem is they could have a spokesman on today saying x, whilst tomorrow a different spokesman saying x is complete crap and should be focusing on y.
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