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Is Mark Carney the man to defeat the Conservatives? – politicalbetting.com
Is Mark Carney the man to defeat the Conservatives? – politicalbetting.com
Mark Carney (yes, that Mark Carney) opens as 6/5 favourite to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal Party Leaderhttps://t.co/DIiC9EqRU8 pic.twitter.com/Kyli4i1kId
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5 minutes before a new header is posted, TSE or whoever's in charge at the time posts a 5 minute warning in bold on the old thread. Would help to moderate the curse of the new thread and reduce the FPT count.
Maybe the Green Party of Canada can try and get Lorna Slater back. Please.
Gulf of Mexico to become Gulf of America
Substantial tariffs on Mexico and Canada
No windmills to be built
How Rachel Reeves snuffed out Britain’s house price boom
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/house-prices/how-rachel-reeves-end-britain-house-price-boom/
Edit: Beaten to it by @Northern_Al .
The Donald Quixote?
It is in UKs interest to negotiate a deal with the US
It raises an interesting question. If the US does invade Greenland can Denmark invoke NATO Article 5?
The agribusiness lobby is way too strong and we should not accept the changes they would insist on
American food is fundamentally unhealthy except at the very top end.
Musk wants Greenland's metal deposits, and a lot of the MAGA would also genuinely love to see parts of Canada and Mexico incorporated.
(edit - I'm slow today.)
A trade deal with the US makes the UK beholden to Trump, a man who does not believe that deals are worth the paper they are written on. Just ask Canada and Mexico.
The device is powered by an Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which houses separate, linked components on a single chip to reduce the time it takes to move data between them.
The superchip features an Nvidia Blackwell graphics card and an Nvidia Grace processor, packaged with 128 gigabytes of memory and 4 terabytes of SSD storage.
https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1876484153774158308
Decent bang for the buck.
Considering it's a 0.2% drop, and we had a 0.9% drop as recently as March, or that last month was a 1.2% rise, it appears to be a nothing stat right now.
What a precious gift of goodwill Trump is.
Captain America, with a golden heart.
In any case, Canada and Mexico negotiated a deal with Trump, which he is now royally ratting on. There is zero value in any deal with Trump as he is a fundamentally unreliable partner and if we do a deal it will, on balance, tie us closer to the US and so make us more vulnerable to their policies.
I cannot believe I fell for the govt in waiting schtick. Mugged off doesn’t even enter into it.
This transforms a two-week manual process into real-time monitoring across thousands of kilometers of North American coastline, where conservation teams can now instantly redirect ships, pause drilling operations, and adjust fishing zones to protect whales..
https://x.com/btibor91/status/1876630816199217208
The Atlantic and the Pacific can't both be the American Ocean.
Luckily there is polling to tell us how people think her and the government are doing at the moment. And there is the markets.
It was always a bollocks analogy.
As in his case, there's a good chance of it being both.
But. The US is the bedrock of Nato. Without it, Nato changes hugely and arguably becomes something else entirely.
What we should foresee and prepare for is Trump demanding Greenland, and other things like that, in return for continued American membership. At that point, we have to tell Trump where to go.
This does not make Trump’s threats any saner, they are quite funny, in a dark way. If he’s got any good advisors they should tell him he doesn’t even need to invade - from what I know of Greenland (and I’ve been there) they want to cut ties with Denmark. And despite what the Greenlandic leader says, if America offered a sweet enough deal they would join the USA as a kind of cold Puerto Rico, but way more valuable
There are only 60,000 Greenlanders. Trump could literally offer them each $100,000 = $6bn. That’s nothing to the USA
They would take it. Heck, I reckon most Brits would take it
But I don't see a UK-US trade deal without the UK being obliged to accept American agricultural produce and standards, and I don't see parliament - pressured by the public - being willing to accept that. Particularly with a majority of Labour MPs.
"America needs living space.. :
He is changing the world order with far reaching consequences
He said that if all the hostages are not released by his auguration 'all hell will break out'
He is demanding 5% NATO spending, is to implement substantial tariffs on Mexico and Canada and he was very disparaging about the EU no doubt also with the intention of imposing tariffs
He has scrapped Bidens ban on oil and gas exploration together with a ban on building wind farms
It seems he is likely to meet Putin very soon and it looks like he will demand peace within 6 months
He wants to take back the Panama canal even by force and has Greenland in his sights
Forget the EU leading it.
I assume the states will just tell him to FO, including a number of red states (like Texas) that have vast and growing wind resources.
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1876681621426065625
it induces, in me, a kind of existential dread for my nation. We are governed, and have been governed for a long while, by outright morons. This applies to the Tories as much as Labour, indeed it applies to the entire governing classes - civil servants, quangos, legal system, judges, the whole shebang. Possibly the monarchy as well
Sweep it all away
There must be literally millions of posts being made on UK internet forums every single day.
Whilst numerous posts might be deemed to possibly be in breach of a strict interpretation of the Act it is surely completely impractial to think that the police (and in turn CPS) are going to pursue anything other than the very most serious posts - ie posts in connection with things like suicide.
Otherwise where on earth would they start?
I'm not saying I agree with the Act - I don't and I agree with most of the comments posted yesterday. But from a practical point of view I can't see it having any effect on anything which could be considered normal political debate.
Oh, and an annual stipend for 99 years.
Fundamentally, I want that choice, not for products to be totally excluded from the market for me; I'll decide thanks.
We make ethical choices as consumers all the time.
However the Greenlandics don’t like it. They grudgingly accept it for now (coz subsidies) but they dislike the patronising colonial aspect - Danes flying in to do the important jobs coz the locals are too drunk and suicidal
A clever American offer could easily win them over, I suspect. American citizenship, lots of money, protection by the American military. Quite persuasive
James Cartlidge, the shadow defence secretary, has taken on a campaign to get the ship operational again, asking the Ministry of Defence about the cost of repairing it.
There is just one problem: the boat is a fictional frigate seen in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.
Cartlidge and his party accidentally mixed up the boat with the HMS Northumberland, the Type 23 frigate that is due to be retired this year because of structural damage.
In a written ministerial question in November last year, the Conservative MP for South Suffolk asked John Healey, the defence secretary, “what estimate he has made of the cost of repairing structural damage to HMS Devonshire”.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/shadow-defence-secretary-mixes-up-james-bond-ship-with-real-one-nv8s589m5
As I remember, the Faroese want independence the most.
Wasn't this one of Wilson's things though? UK needed a proper economic plan. He even set up separate department to plan economics as the Treasury couldn't be trusted to do the job.
Which was a crap deal, but we were desperate.
And those 50 x obsolete destroyers I think we'd all mothballed by 1948, although some were reactivated for Korea.
🎵 Ode to joy 🎵
The reason we have this problem is we have TOTAL DROSS entering parliament, rubbish salaries, an awful culture, ridiculous hours, and horrific abuse.
Look at the quality of politicians in the 1970s and 1980s, who'd had solid business, economic and leadership careers (real ones) and compare to now.