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January 6th is what some Republican congressmen are now calling a “tourist visit” – politicalbetting
January 6th is what some Republican congressmen are now calling a “tourist visit” – politicalbetting.com
It is now more than four and a half months since the dramatic events in Washington when supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building in the effort to stop Congress officially certifying that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election – yet what happened that day looks set to dominate US politics for a long time to come.
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Being made to compete with the rest of the world would force the industry to improve and become more efficient and more productive, just as happened with New Zealand when they eliminated their trade barriers and subsidies.
An improved and more efficient agriculture industry would improve our security, wouldn't it?
Your extremist ideology is just as bonkers as that of the autarkists you so despise.
A decision in Brussels to add the UK to an EU “white list” of countries from where tourists will be welcome this summer is to be delayed, it is understood, due to concerns over the Covid variant first identified in India.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/21/eu-decision-to-add-uk-to-travel-white-list-to-be-delayed-due-to-covid-variant-fears
Have you ever eaten Australian meat? Its excellent top quality.
Your xenophobia at imports is weird, especially while seeing 27 other nations getting free access to export their meat to us zero tariffs, zero quotas.
There was never the slightest risk that these idiots and their idiotic leader would endanger the democracy of the United States. Their behaviour was reprehensible and it is difficult not to be contemptuous of a Republican party who refused to support impeachment on the basis of it but some sort of perspective needs to be maintained on this and I very much doubt that it will have the political impact that Mike seems to think.
These people were a sick joke with some very sad consequences but trying to pretend that they were deadly serious made many of the commentators look almost as ridiculous as they were.
While Biden's approval rating is also about average and above Trump's, it is actually significantly below the 65% rating Obama had at this stage of his Presidency and even Obama saw his party lose control of the House in his first midterms
https://news.gallup.com/poll/350129/biden-congress-approval-ratings-steady.aspx
Effective policing needs to be be immediate and responsive and have a clear deterrent effect.
The reason why GOP dipshit Housemembers are describing this as a "normal tourist visit" is because they know their core vote supports that absurd description.
I was hoping that Trump losing office would see his grasp on the party removed, just as after Corbyn lost power. But it seems the Trumpists want to hold on, even after defeat.
Maybe they need to be defeated a second time, like Corbyn himself.
https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1395667309344210944?s=20
Some people are just a bit weird.
Then goes on to say that the April-02 variant 'may be more transmissable than the Kent variant.'
Interesting language choice. I wonder why the SNP leader doesn't call the Kent variant the December-01 variant or similar? 😂
It is Independents who tend to be key in midterms and they tend to prefer split government, at the moment it seems they are minded to return the GOP to power in the House and remove Pelosi even if they are also minded to re elect Biden-Harris in 2024 over Trump or whichever Trumpite candidate the GOP nominate
Yes, a sure way to a secure and prosperous future.
British tourists will be allowed to enter Spain from Monday without having to show a negative Covid-19 test.
Spain will follow Portugal's lead and let UK holidaymakers in the country from next week, the Spanish government confirmed on Friday in an official state bulletin.
Well-placed Spanish Ministry of Tourism sources also confirmed British tourists would be let in without having to show a negative coronavirus test or proof they had been vaccinated.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9603825/Spain-allow-British-tourists-Monday-despite-UKs-amber-list.html
"Bolton’s infections data does not support Boris Johnson's unlocking optimism"
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1395699114613133316?s=19
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-05-21/boltons-infections-data-does-not-support-boris-johnsons-unlocking-optimism
(In all seriousness, the article is terrible. Completely brushes over hospitalisations remaining flat and just focuses on infections....)
They may be playing silly buggers, and of course it is their right to do so - however if that's the case they're doing it in a typically EU way which hurts them more than it hurts us. It's an inconvenience to British tourists not to be able to go on holiday to the Med; but it's existentially threatening to thousands of businesses in the Med, and not inconsequential to the economies of Spain, Portugal and Greece. And thereby not inconsequential to the future of the Euro.
Now maybe the Indian variant is genuinely terrifying and confined exclusively to India and the UK. And what do I know, I'm just some bloke on the internet. But that's not what it looks like to me. Anyway, we'll see what today's figures from Bolton look like.
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In contrast Sweden uses 6.5% of its land for agriculture to generate 1.44% of GDP.
Norway uses 2.7% of land to agricultural use in order to generate 1.93% of GDP.
That the coup attempt was completely unorganised is by the by, let's say Pence was killed. He had good protection, so it was always highly unlikely but there were many tooled up MAGAs there - so it was a possibility.
Trump laments the passing of Pence, the perpetrators are sent to death row if they're not already dead but anyway he has to appoint a new VP, say err General Flynn. Flynn presides over the count and reads out the nonsense electors from Georgia "as determined by State legislature". Flynn finds Democrat objections 'not in order'.
That it's a constitutional nonsense at this point doesn't matter because the President and VP have de facto control over the military and so forth - and at this point the process is 'orderly'; no Democrats are trying to storm the Capitol as there are thousands of National Guard outside.
Does Roberts still swear Biden in at that point even though there's been a rigged Electoral count against him ?
Unlikely ( < 1%) , but I believe such a scenario was certainly possible when police lost control of the Capitol.
The Public Accounts Committee found that licence fee sales have fallen by almost half a million in the past two years. MPs have labelled the BBC “complacent” for its attitude towards declining audiences, with 200,000 people per year cancelling their licence fee and young people switching to Netflix.
The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also accused the publicly owned broadcaster of having “ducked the hard choices” when it came to shoring up its finances, and branded its plans to raise revenue outside the annual £159 television licence “unambitious”.
Parliament’s spending watchdog, in a report published on Friday, urged bosses at Broadcasting House – who are in talks with ministers over the future of the licence fee – to “radically re-engineer its offer” in the face of declining audience numbers.
The committee’s BBC Strategic Financial Management report said that in the last half of 2017, 16 to 24-year-olds were spending more time on Netflix than BBC TV and its iPlayer service.
During 2019, the corporation also lost its place as the media provider that youngsters aged six to 15 spent most time with, while licence fee subscribers continue to dwindle, with sales falling by nearly half a million in the past two years, MPs said.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2021/05/21/bbc-complacent-about-dwindling-viewer-numbers-say-mps/
Another suggestion would be that we use our land better and get more return from it and be more efficient.
Why is it that Sweden can use 1/10th of its land as we do for agriculture, but get a better GDP return than we do?
I am in favour of open border free trade areas with places we can buy food from, its one reason to support this very good Australian deal it looks like we're about to get. 👍
In any case, all that tells us is that Scandinavia is not heavily populated. What proportion of Sweden is urban?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-57162187
But I choose to travel half way around the world during a global pandemic knowing these were the rules.
Again, our hotel quarantine system is far more relaxed than many. Some its 3 weeks, some you aren't even allowed out for any fresh air for the whole time, that its if they even allow you into the country, and there are no ifs, buts and maybes.
Japan would probably be more comparable to the UK. They dedicated 12% of land to agriculture and they get 1.14% of GDP from agriculture.
Why is ours so inefficient compared to everyone else?
Like you say, part of his success has been to get out just before the music stops, or to fail upwards. It's why he gets away with it so often.
But that approach doesn't work when you're Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. There isn't really anywhere to fail up to from here. He can't leave the UK in the lurch while he runs off with a younger, sexier country- fantasies about his New York birth notwithstanding.
So when the music stops... because he's not the Messiah, so the music will stop... what does he do then?
In any event, I'm not sure I understand the US anymore.
Read this and tell me that you do...
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/06/tiktok-house-collab-house-the-anxiety-of-influencers/
Newly leaked video shows a UFO disappear into the water
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/05/19/ufo-navy-video-jeremy-corbell-orig-jm.cnn/video/playlists/business-spacex/
Perhaps it's do with our brand. Brit food doesn't have the best rep.
I think you need to compare actual output rather than "% GDP", which is highly misleading. How much of Japan's 'agricultural' output was fish?
Free trade. Free free free. No quotas or tariffs. Deregulated mangy beef. Don't like it? So don't eat it then. Problem solved. Choice. The market pure and simple. And omg Australia. Red on the map. Trad Commonwealth. Five eyes. FAMILY.
7th Heaven in other words.
I rarely succeed in changing your view on anything but I sometimes like to try. Not here though. It'd be too close to the bone.
"That would be less worrying if there was also a steep rise in Covid testing in Bolton. But there isn't.
As you can see here, the ratio of positive test results to tests carried out in Bolton - the positivity ratio - is holding fairly steady at about 7.5."
So in fact their is a surge in testing, as there must be to show an increase in cases... There is no other way to generate the rise in cases. Words fail me. Can he/they be that stupid or mathmatically innumerate?
They dedicate 41.7% of land to agriculture and it generates 1.93% of GDP.
We dedicated 71.7% of land to agriculture and it generated 0.61% of GDP.
What would be so wrong about going down the Italian route, freeing up countless hectares across the country, while tripling our domestic agricultural output? What is the downside?
The remedy doesn't change from previous though, just needs you need to redouble vaccination efforts.
I used to live there you forget, I grew up downunder.
American food is shit, when you talk about shit food and you're talking about American deals you have a point. Australian meat is top nosh. Great quality.
Has anyone on this site ever gone to Australia, eaten beef there and thought "urgh this is mangy dog food shit"? Don't be ridiculous.
Can you imagine how many articles like this we'd have had if we'd done an Australia and left people stranded overseas for a year?
Kraft "cheese" and stuff like that probably doesn't do America's reputation much good. 😂
And again, why are they travelling....they say to need to see a relative, do your whole extended family need to go? Especially ones with pre existing health conditions, travelling to a country with high covid rates....
Seeing it all written down the case against E.on is utterly shaming - but I am relieved beyond words that this now has senior management investiture.
We won't ever make the same agricultural and food products as Italy and it won't ever be worth the same GDP as what we produce. Additionally, the UK economy is significantly more diverse than Italy. We have huge tech, financial and pharma sectors that Italy could only hope to imitate. Italy has got GDP of $2tn and falling, the UK has got GDP of $3tn and rising. 0.61% of GDP for agriculture isn't necessarily a bad thing when you take into account the sheer size of the UK economy vs others that are being compared to.
I'm not fussed about Australian food imports, in fact I think that they will be a net benefit to the country and having been to Australia a few times the quality of their red meat is excellent, it's comparable to our own. I'm not sure you can make cross country comparisons on the agricultural economic contribution as those numbers are, IMO, fairly useless in isolation.
Let alone comparing with the likes of Italy and Japan with much more comparable population densities were the same thing is very much the case.