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Re: Labour cuts v Tory cuts – politicalbetting.com
Scary as Trump is, what is far more troubling is the clique of fluffers around him, spinning his brilliance to all who will listen (the main-stream media). There is no acknowledgment that this was a Grade A Fuck Up by Trump. To the obsequious onanisists, this was always the plan.Trump is stuffed. Even the Telegraph are criticising him:The world seems to have split into two camps:
How fears of market Armageddon forced Trump into a Truss climbdown
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/04/09/fears-market-armageddon-forced-trump-truss-climbdown/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first
Heck, even the New York Post is less than glowing:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/09/us-news/how-nyc-ports-are-coping-with-trumps-tariffs/
Those who know Trump caved
Those who think Trump is infallable
I posted yesterday that there was no way out for Trump. Even if he climbed down and reinstated status quo ante on tariffs, the world won't say "fair enough" and go back to business as usual. Trump is Fucking Mental. You can't do business with America, can't trust anything America says, certainly can't trust America with your money.
All the 90 pause shows the world is that the clown isn't fully in charge of the circus. Which makes forward planning even more impossible unless you plan for the obvious strategy - avoid the circus.
Yeah, right. How has destroying trust, actively causing long-time friends to go elsewhere, terrifying the bond markets and making the US a far less attractive place to do business ever part of any coherent plan to return America to some form of mythical greatness (back when the genie of racial, sexual and religious equality was firmly stuck in the bottle).
Re: Labour cuts v Tory cuts – politicalbetting.com
On US financial crisis.
This is 'aint over by a long shot imho.
Too many people relaxing as if everything is back to normal.
This is 'aint over by a long shot imho.
Too many people relaxing as if everything is back to normal.
Re: Labour cuts v Tory cuts – politicalbetting.com
From this:
The government will no longer defend a decision, made by the previous government, to allow a controversial new coalmine in Cumbria.
The new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Angela Rayner, has accepted there was an “error of law” in the decision to grant planning permission for the mine in December 2022.
Consequently, the government will not now be defending two legal challenges next week against the mine – by Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on Climate Change (SLACC).
It has instead informed the court that the decision to grant planning permission should be quashed.
West Cumbria Mining wants to build the UK’s first deep coal mine in over 30 years. It would produce metallurgical coal, also called coking coal, for use by the steel industry.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99w1qjp8qko
to this:
The government has offered to buy the coking coal that is essential to keep steel production going at British Steel in Scunthorpe, the BBC has been told.
British Steel has been warning for several days that the raw materials needed to keep its plant's two blast furnaces operational are running out.
Sources said the government was putting the offer in writing to British Steel's Chinese owner Jingye, which will decide on whether to accept it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp311nr7w34o#comments
Who needs private investment in a British coal mine when the government is willing to buy foreign coal.
The government will no longer defend a decision, made by the previous government, to allow a controversial new coalmine in Cumbria.
The new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Angela Rayner, has accepted there was an “error of law” in the decision to grant planning permission for the mine in December 2022.
Consequently, the government will not now be defending two legal challenges next week against the mine – by Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on Climate Change (SLACC).
It has instead informed the court that the decision to grant planning permission should be quashed.
West Cumbria Mining wants to build the UK’s first deep coal mine in over 30 years. It would produce metallurgical coal, also called coking coal, for use by the steel industry.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99w1qjp8qko
to this:
The government has offered to buy the coking coal that is essential to keep steel production going at British Steel in Scunthorpe, the BBC has been told.
British Steel has been warning for several days that the raw materials needed to keep its plant's two blast furnaces operational are running out.
Sources said the government was putting the offer in writing to British Steel's Chinese owner Jingye, which will decide on whether to accept it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp311nr7w34o#comments
Who needs private investment in a British coal mine when the government is willing to buy foreign coal.
Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
No those bastards have to pay a high tarrif. They refused to negotiate.So everyone is being tariffed at 10% now apart from China it seemsEven the penguins?
kjh
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Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
Trump holds firm on tariffs = MAGA “this is all a master plan. He is a genius!”
Trump backs down on tariffs = MAGA “this was his master plan all along. He is a genius!”
As to be expected.
Trump backs down on tariffs = MAGA “this was his master plan all along. He is a genius!”
As to be expected.
Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
@kylegriffin1.bsky.social
New on @MSNBC: The White House will not release the list of 75 countries that have reached out on trade deals, despite requests from NBC News.
@jasonkirk.fyi
She goes to a different school
New on @MSNBC: The White House will not release the list of 75 countries that have reached out on trade deals, despite requests from NBC News.
@jasonkirk.fyi
She goes to a different school
Scott_xP
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Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
Yep. We have seen a total failure on Ukraine with Trump's peace plan going absolutely nowhere and the humiliation of Zelenskyy in the White House having been for nothing.Remember when we had all that fuss and excitement about some politicians and the odd cop putting a few quid on the date of the election? What we have just seen is a $1trillion dollar play with inside information available to the Tech bros that surround the Orange one. It almost makes us seem quaint, old fashioned, even child like.The corrupt, contemptuous, lying and lawless nature of this fascistic USA regime is much more significant than its incompetence on tariffs.
No doubt the SEC is already on the case and charges will follow rapidly.
Tariffs has drowned out everything else for days. Covering up a range of authoritarian moves, and covering up too the abject fails on the proud promises on Ukraine/Russia etc.
We still have the absolutely bizarre beach front idea for Gaza floating about whilst the peace there that Trump was trying to claim credit for falling apart.
We have this fiasco with tariffs.
We have innocent people wrongfully sent to a third world jail.
We have had the wilful disregard of court orders by government officials.
It just goes on and on and on.
DavidL
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Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
Sorry, I'm reading further and the 10% base doesn't apply to Canada and Mexico after all.
But the fact that the White House had to clarify means the shit show continues.
How can you do business with a country that swings from 10% to 99% tariffs in the space of a few hours then back again?
But the fact that the White House had to clarify means the shit show continues.
How can you do business with a country that swings from 10% to 99% tariffs in the space of a few hours then back again?
Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
As usual the only explanation is that the whole thing is a reality tv show and nothing matters more than having endless drama and crisis to keep ratings.
Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
The man's a loon.
4D chess my arse.
He'd lose at tic tac toe.
4D chess my arse.
He'd lose at tic tac toe.
