UK officials insist that the EU cannot seriously believe that rabies will enter the UK, make its way to Northern Ireland, and from there spread into the Republic and beyond to the rest of the EU......
Writing in the Belfast Telegraph this week, Lord Frost and Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis accused the EU of focusing on risks (to the single market and consumer health) "that don’t exist".
"Only if implemented in a pragmatic and proportionate way can the Protocol support the peace process and ensure the people of Northern Ireland continue to see the benefits of prosperity and stability. If it does not do this, then it is not working," they wrote.....
By contrast, the UK is now presenting itself as the more reliable defender of the Good Friday Agreement (a posture that has infuriated Irish officials), while also proclaiming a more proactive approach than the European Commission in trying to find solutions.
"The UK has now sent more than 10 papers to the European Commission, proposing potential solutions on a wide range of issues," said a UK government spokesperson. "As yet, we have had no written response from the EU."
Staff shortages beginning to affect hospitality businesses here in the tourist hotspot that is the Yorkshire Dales. Pubs and cafes choosing to close midweek or run limited services despite huge demand. On a different matter, walk-in vaccinations for over-18s seemed to have stopped suddenly - no idea why.
Same in the Lakes. Every single cafe, pub, restaurant I have seen or heard from is hiring.
Demand is off the scale. The other night the usual 35 covers, which is busy for Daughter's small kitchen, went up to 50.
I now have a late blooming career as a waitress. Comfortable shoes are now the only thing that matter to me .......
It might not be long until Younge finds himself cancelled, if he carries on writing articles like this.
He is right though, for the most part statues are dubious works of public art. The broader problem that we should be concerned about is the woke takeover of the historical profession; the overt rewriting of history to suit a fashionable political narrative. It was admirable that the historical profession held out for a long time but the dominoes are now falling at speed. Dominic Sandbrook has written recently about this.
One for the lawyers to comment on. A charge for murder where the person died 21 years after the incident. I don't think I've seen such a delay previously.
A MAN has been charged with murder following the death of a woman who died more than 20 years after being set on fire.
Jacqueline Kirk, 62, died in August 2019 - 21 years after she was set on fire in Weston-super-Mare.
Detectives from Avon and Somerset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team charged Steven Paul Craig, 57, of Brailsford Crescent, York, with murder last night (June 3).
The charge was authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service South West’s Complex Casework Unit.
Craig was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates Court this morning (June 4).
The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that it had authorised detectives to charge Craig with murder.
I see Starmer is already on the 15%, not enough...if it was x, you could hire y more nurses..
I presume it is some witless intern pushing this out. He’s been tweeting about it all week. But previously criticising the Tories for opposing it when they clearly didn’t.
It is one of the most tedious criticism, up there with 20 mins to save the NHS. And shows a lack of understanding / misrepresentation of how tax rates work.
It’s cheap politics of the worst type. There have been several tweets this week saying the Tories won’t sign up to one, it’s a disgrace, they’re starving our NHS etc etc. Now they have and they have got a win on the digital services tax that’s not good enough. People, apart from the hardcore supporters, just zone out after a while.
Last nights ITV news had someone on from a Tax ‘fairness’ group prattling on with the same line too. Implement this and we can give all the critical workers in the sainted NHS 5% and pay everyone’s care costs etc etc.
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
2/ Under the principles of the landmark reforms, the largest global firms with profit margins of at least 10% will be in scope – with 20% of any profit above the 10% margin reallocated and then subjected to tax in the countries where they make sales.
Staff shortages beginning to affect hospitality businesses here in the tourist hotspot that is the Yorkshire Dales. Pubs and cafes choosing to close midweek or run limited services despite huge demand. On a different matter, walk-in vaccinations for over-18s seemed to have stopped suddenly - no idea why.
Same in the Lakes. Every single cafe, pub, restaurant I have seen or heard from is hiring.
Demand is off the scale. The other night the usual 35 covers, which is busy for Daughter's small kitchen, went up to 50.
I now have a late blooming career as a waitress. Comfortable shoes are now the only thing that matter to me .......
One of the restauranteurs down here in south Devon has provoked a shit-storm with a £1,000 signing on bonus for staff....
The issue with people like non-independent sage, is nobody holds their claims to account. By they are provee wrong (or right), they are moving the goal posts and onto the next thing...
And of course our media are too thick to ever call them out.
Staff shortages beginning to affect hospitality businesses here in the tourist hotspot that is the Yorkshire Dales. Pubs and cafes choosing to close midweek or run limited services despite huge demand. On a different matter, walk-in vaccinations for over-18s seemed to have stopped suddenly - no idea why.
Same in the Lakes. Every single cafe, pub, restaurant I have seen or heard from is hiring.
Demand is off the scale. The other night the usual 35 covers, which is busy for Daughter's small kitchen, went up to 50.
I now have a late blooming career as a waitress. Comfortable shoes are now the only thing that matter to me .......
Be interesting to see if this bounce back continues. Haldane's prediction of turbo charged v recovery may be happening.
Certainly the level of building work around me is astonishing.
One for the lawyers to comment on. A charge for murder where the person died 21 years after the incident. I don't think I've seen such a delay previously.
A MAN has been charged with murder following the death of a woman who died more than 20 years after being set on fire.
Jacqueline Kirk, 62, died in August 2019 - 21 years after she was set on fire in Weston-super-Mare.
Detectives from Avon and Somerset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team charged Steven Paul Craig, 57, of Brailsford Crescent, York, with murder last night (June 3).
The charge was authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service South West’s Complex Casework Unit.
Craig was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates Court this morning (June 4).
The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that it had authorised detectives to charge Craig with murder.
One for the lawyers to comment on. A charge for murder where the person died 21 years after the incident. I don't think I've seen such a delay previously.
A MAN has been charged with murder following the death of a woman who died more than 20 years after being set on fire.
Jacqueline Kirk, 62, died in August 2019 - 21 years after she was set on fire in Weston-super-Mare.
Detectives from Avon and Somerset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team charged Steven Paul Craig, 57, of Brailsford Crescent, York, with murder last night (June 3).
The charge was authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service South West’s Complex Casework Unit.
Craig was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates Court this morning (June 4).
The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that it had authorised detectives to charge Craig with murder.
Since the year and a day rule was abolished, rendered obsolete by advances in medical care which can (for example) keep someone alive it I n a coma for years, it’s perfectly possible for such a charge to be brought if the proximate cause of death was the act, with no new act intervening, however long ago it took place. To my mind the difficulty for the prosecution would be showing that the act caused the death but that’s not insurmountable.
I see Starmer is already on the 15%, not enough...if it was x, you could hire y more nurses..
I presume it is some witless intern pushing this out. He’s been tweeting about it all week. But previously criticising the Tories for opposing it when they clearly didn’t.
It is one of the most tedious criticism, up there with 20 mins to save the NHS. And shows a lack of understanding / misrepresentation of how tax rates work.
It’s cheap politics of the worst type. There have been several tweets this week saying the Tories won’t sign up to one, it’s a disgrace, they’re starving our NHS etc etc. Now they have and they have got a win on the digital services tax that’s not good enough. People, apart from the hardcore supporters, just zone out after a while.
Last nights ITV news had someone on from a Tax ‘fairness’ group prattling on with the same line too. Implement this and we can give all the critical workers in the sainted NHS 5% and pay everyone’s care costs etc etc.
All goes unchallenged too.
Don’t worry, it serves the Tory very well having a broadcast media that is so obviously biased.
Wow the tax deal is even better than we were being told yesterday afternoon.
20% tax on profits for companies with global margins higher than 10% to be paid to the country where the revenue is driven. It makes Ireland's business model completey useless.
Wow the tax deal is even better than we were being told yesterday afternoon.
20% tax on profits for companies with global margins higher than 10% to be paid to the country where the revenue is driven. It makes Ireland's business model completey useless.
Expect companies to suddenly discover their global margins are 9.99%
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
They could do but while Labour may have no chance in most of those Home Counties seats the LDs often will and will be campaigning there on a platform of no building on the greenbelt and countryside as they are doing in Chesham and Amersham.
Therefore unless Labour win an overall majority, which is extremely unlikely given present polling, to become PM Starmer would almost certainly need LD confidence and supply and the LDs would veto any largescale development in greenbelt areas of their Southeastern target seats
Wow the tax deal is even better than we were being told yesterday afternoon.
20% tax on profits for companies with global margins higher than 10% to be paid to the country where the revenue is driven. It makes Ireland's business model completey useless.
Expect Labour to harp on at the sidelines about 22% minimum..
Wow the tax deal is even better than we were being told yesterday afternoon.
20% tax on profits for companies with global margins higher than 10% to be paid to the country where the revenue is driven. It makes Ireland's business model completey useless.
Expect companies to suddenly discover their global margins are 9.99%
That's not easy to do though and if they do it legitimately by spending the money on investment then the world benefits from that cash being unlocked into something productive rather than siting on a balance sheet invested in time release deposits.
Staff shortages beginning to affect hospitality businesses here in the tourist hotspot that is the Yorkshire Dales. Pubs and cafes choosing to close midweek or run limited services despite huge demand. On a different matter, walk-in vaccinations for over-18s seemed to have stopped suddenly - no idea why.
Same in the Lakes. Every single cafe, pub, restaurant I have seen or heard from is hiring.
Demand is off the scale. The other night the usual 35 covers, which is busy for Daughter's small kitchen, went up to 50.
I now have a late blooming career as a waitress. Comfortable shoes are now the only thing that matter to me .......
We were in the lakes at the weekend, that was certainly true of what we saw around Ambleside and Windermere. One thing we wondered was how could anyone get somewhere to live and have a standard of living on a tenner an hour if they didn’t have a live in arrangement as part of the job.
When we went out to a local restaurant here I was speaking to the manager and he was saying that one of the big problems was people went off got other jobs for similar wages but not the unsocial hours or demanding environment.
I’d guess paying more isn’t much of an option as it is a very price sensitive industry.
Rishi just announced G7 historic tax system agreement
Will it actually be implemented before Trump takes office for his second term and reverses it?
No, seems very unlikely to ever be implemented. Tory fan boys not particularly concerned and claiming success already. We shall see, hope I am very wrong on this.
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
It might not be long until Younge finds himself cancelled, if he carries on writing articles like this.
He is right though, for the most part statues are dubious works of public art. The broader problem that we should be concerned about is the woke takeover of the historical profession; the overt rewriting of history to suit a fashionable political narrative. It was admirable that the historical profession held out for a long time but the dominoes are now falling at speed. Dominic Sandbrook has written recently about this.
I am trying to remember the name of the Saki short story.
Set in Edwardian times, it has a Suffragette movement come up with the following idea - erect replicas of the Albert Memorial *everywhere* - thousands of them. Unless they are immediately given the vote.
The government and nation are horrified. In an afternoon they pass the most glorious legislation of the 20th cent -
Banning the construction of any memorial statuary within 2 miles of a public highway....
One for the lawyers to comment on. A charge for murder where the person died 21 years after the incident. I don't think I've seen such a delay previously.
A MAN has been charged with murder following the death of a woman who died more than 20 years after being set on fire.
Jacqueline Kirk, 62, died in August 2019 - 21 years after she was set on fire in Weston-super-Mare.
Detectives from Avon and Somerset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team charged Steven Paul Craig, 57, of Brailsford Crescent, York, with murder last night (June 3).
The charge was authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service South West’s Complex Casework Unit.
Craig was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates Court this morning (June 4).
The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that it had authorised detectives to charge Craig with murder.
One for the lawyers to comment on. A charge for murder where the person died 21 years after the incident. I don't think I've seen such a delay previously.
A MAN has been charged with murder following the death of a woman who died more than 20 years after being set on fire.
Jacqueline Kirk, 62, died in August 2019 - 21 years after she was set on fire in Weston-super-Mare.
Detectives from Avon and Somerset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team charged Steven Paul Craig, 57, of Brailsford Crescent, York, with murder last night (June 3).
The charge was authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service South West’s Complex Casework Unit.
Craig was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates Court this morning (June 4).
The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that it had authorised detectives to charge Craig with murder.
Since the year and a day rule was abolished, rendered obsolete by advances in medical care which can (for example) keep someone alive it I n a coma for years, it’s perfectly possible for such a charge to be brought if the proximate cause of death was the act, with no new act intervening, however long ago it took place. To my mind the difficulty for the prosecution would be showing that the act caused the death but that’s not insurmountable.
What happens if they were already convicted of attempted murder and served, say, 10 years in prison? (I don't know whether that happened in this case).
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
They could do but while Labour may have no chance in most of those Home Counties seats the LDs often will and will be campaigning there on a platform of no building on the greenbelt and countryside as they are doing in Chesham and Amersham.
Therefore unless Labour win an overall majority, which is extremely unlikely given present polling, to become PM Starmer would almost certainly need LD confidence and supply and the LDs would veto any largescale development in greenbelt areas of their Southeastern target seats
I don't see the downside. Labour would win the whole of London and large parts of the south east, taking seats off the tories. They would be able to claim to solve the housing problem in London thus scuppering the LD's chances in a load of other seats; the LD;s could not meaningfully campaign on housing issues. Labour could also use the strategy to take seats of the LD's. The LD's would be forced in to the position of becoming anti housebuilding party. Whats the downside for Labour?
Wow the tax deal is even better than we were being told yesterday afternoon.
20% tax on profits for companies with global margins higher than 10% to be paid to the country where the revenue is driven. It makes Ireland's business model completey useless.
Staff shortages beginning to affect hospitality businesses here in the tourist hotspot that is the Yorkshire Dales. Pubs and cafes choosing to close midweek or run limited services despite huge demand. On a different matter, walk-in vaccinations for over-18s seemed to have stopped suddenly - no idea why.
Same in the Lakes. Every single cafe, pub, restaurant I have seen or heard from is hiring.
Demand is off the scale. The other night the usual 35 covers, which is busy for Daughter's small kitchen, went up to 50.
I now have a late blooming career as a waitress. Comfortable shoes are now the only thing that matter to me .......
Be interesting to see if this bounce back continues. Haldane's prediction of turbo charged v recovery may be happening.
Certainly the level of building work around me is astonishing.
The U.K. simply doesn’t have the capacity for everyone to have a staycation... I imagine that people cancelling holidays abroad now are finding it very hard to book anything in the U.K. And if you manage to book somewhere in the Dales, treat finding a car park space in the likes of Malham or Grassington as seriously as reserving a sun lounger by the pool...
It might not be long until Younge finds himself cancelled, if he carries on writing articles like this.
He is right though, for the most part statues are dubious works of public art. The broader problem that we should be concerned about is the woke takeover of the historical profession; the overt rewriting of history to suit a fashionable political narrative. It was admirable that the historical profession held out for a long time but the dominoes are now falling at speed. Dominic Sandbrook has written recently about this.
I am trying to remember the name of the Saki short story.
Set in Edwardian times, it has a Suffragette movement come up with the following idea - erect replicas of the Albert Memorial *everywhere* - thousands of them. Unless they are immediately given the vote.
The government and nation are horrified. In an afternoon they pass the most glorious legislation of the 20th cent -
Banning the construction of any memorial statuary within 2 miles of a public highway....
One for the lawyers to comment on. A charge for murder where the person died 21 years after the incident. I don't think I've seen such a delay previously.
A MAN has been charged with murder following the death of a woman who died more than 20 years after being set on fire.
Jacqueline Kirk, 62, died in August 2019 - 21 years after she was set on fire in Weston-super-Mare.
Detectives from Avon and Somerset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team charged Steven Paul Craig, 57, of Brailsford Crescent, York, with murder last night (June 3).
The charge was authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service South West’s Complex Casework Unit.
Craig was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates Court this morning (June 4).
The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that it had authorised detectives to charge Craig with murder.
Wow the tax deal is even better than we were being told yesterday afternoon.
20% tax on profits for companies with global margins higher than 10% to be paid to the country where the revenue is driven. It makes Ireland's business model completey useless.
Expect Labour to harp on at the sidelines about 22% minimum..
They’ve become totally irrelevant.
The same labour who opposed the recent short term hike to 25%.
It might not be long until Younge finds himself cancelled, if he carries on writing articles like this.
He is right though, for the most part statues are dubious works of public art. The broader problem that we should be concerned about is the woke takeover of the historical profession; the overt rewriting of history to suit a fashionable political narrative. It was admirable that the historical profession held out for a long time but the dominoes are now falling at speed. Dominic Sandbrook has written recently about this.
I am trying to remember the name of the Saki short story.
Set in Edwardian times, it has a Suffragette movement come up with the following idea - erect replicas of the Albert Memorial *everywhere* - thousands of them. Unless they are immediately given the vote.
The government and nation are horrified. In an afternoon they pass the most glorious legislation of the 20th cent -
Banning the construction of any memorial statuary within 2 miles of a public highway....
Rishi just announced G7 historic tax system agreement
Will it actually be implemented before Trump takes office for his second term and reverses it?
No, seems very unlikely to ever be implemented. Tory fan boys not particularly concerned and claiming success already. We shall see, hope I am very wrong on this.
To be fair this is being driven by Joe Biden with full UK support and goes to the G20
If they approve it then expect it to happen quite quickly
It might not be long until Younge finds himself cancelled, if he carries on writing articles like this.
He is right though, for the most part statues are dubious works of public art. The broader problem that we should be concerned about is the woke takeover of the historical profession; the overt rewriting of history to suit a fashionable political narrative. It was admirable that the historical profession held out for a long time but the dominoes are now falling at speed. Dominic Sandbrook has written recently about this.
If you’re referencing the Sandbrook review of a history book written but a noted Twitter moron then it was an absolutely eviscerating. People may not like Sandbrook’s views but they would struggle to construct a compelling argument that his books are either badly written or badly argued (in need of someone to tell him that sometimes less is more, perhaps).
I’m always fascinated by how people without relevant skills and knowledge feel able to write either history or children’s books. The latter in particular draws the “right name will sell any old shit”. I’m sure you can name a few.
Staff shortages beginning to affect hospitality businesses here in the tourist hotspot that is the Yorkshire Dales. Pubs and cafes choosing to close midweek or run limited services despite huge demand. On a different matter, walk-in vaccinations for over-18s seemed to have stopped suddenly - no idea why.
Same in the Lakes. Every single cafe, pub, restaurant I have seen or heard from is hiring.
Demand is off the scale. The other night the usual 35 covers, which is busy for Daughter's small kitchen, went up to 50.
I now have a late blooming career as a waitress. Comfortable shoes are now the only thing that matter to me .......
Be interesting to see if this bounce back continues. Haldane's prediction of turbo charged v recovery may be happening.
Certainly the level of building work around me is astonishing.
The U.K. simply doesn’t have the capacity for everyone to have a staycation... I imagine that people cancelling holidays abroad now are finding it very hard to book anything in the U.K. And if you manage to book somewhere in the Dales, treat finding a car park space in the likes of Malham or Grassington as seriously as reserving a sun lounger by the pool...
Hartlepool Marina Travelodge is £35 a night, lots of availability in July/August.
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
Staff shortages beginning to affect hospitality businesses here in the tourist hotspot that is the Yorkshire Dales. Pubs and cafes choosing to close midweek or run limited services despite huge demand. On a different matter, walk-in vaccinations for over-18s seemed to have stopped suddenly - no idea why.
Same in the Lakes. Every single cafe, pub, restaurant I have seen or heard from is hiring.
Demand is off the scale. The other night the usual 35 covers, which is busy for Daughter's small kitchen, went up to 50.
I now have a late blooming career as a waitress. Comfortable shoes are now the only thing that matter to me .......
Be interesting to see if this bounce back continues. Haldane's prediction of turbo charged v recovery may be happening.
Certainly the level of building work around me is astonishing.
The U.K. simply doesn’t have the capacity for everyone to have a staycation... I imagine that people cancelling holidays abroad now are finding it very hard to book anything in the U.K. And if you manage to book somewhere in the Dales, treat finding a car park space in the likes of Malham or Grassington as seriously as reserving a sun lounger by the pool...
Given that a staycation is staying at your own home it certainly does.
I see Starmer is already on the 15%, not enough...if it was x, you could hire y more nurses..
I presume it is some witless intern pushing this out. He’s been tweeting about it all week. But previously criticising the Tories for opposing it when they clearly didn’t.
It is one of the most tedious criticism, up there with 20 mins to save the NHS. And shows a lack of understanding / misrepresentation of how tax rates work.
It’s cheap politics of the worst type. There have been several tweets this week saying the Tories won’t sign up to one, it’s a disgrace, they’re starving our NHS etc etc. Now they have and they have got a win on the digital services tax that’s not good enough. People, apart from the hardcore supporters, just zone out after a while.
Last nights ITV news had someone on from a Tax ‘fairness’ group prattling on with the same line too. Implement this and we can give all the critical workers in the sainted NHS 5% and pay everyone’s care costs etc etc.
All goes unchallenged too.
Don’t worry, it serves the Tory very well having a broadcast media that is so obviously biased.
But it doesn’t serve the public.
I also don’t see it in terms of bias more that we have a 24 hour news cycle with pressure on costs and overheads in a very competitive field in terms of viewers.
News organisations are more reliant on press releases from lobbying groups, charities and quangos to recycle as news to simply fill air time.
My local news would probably,only be 15 minutes if it was only genuine news not recycled press releases.
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
They could do but while Labour may have no chance in most of those Home Counties seats the LDs often will and will be campaigning there on a platform of no building on the greenbelt and countryside as they are doing in Chesham and Amersham.
Therefore unless Labour win an overall majority, which is extremely unlikely given present polling, to become PM Starmer would almost certainly need LD confidence and supply and the LDs would veto any largescale development in greenbelt areas of their Southeastern target seats
I don't see the downside. Labour would win the whole of London and large parts of the south east, taking seats off the tories. They would be able to claim to solve the housing problem in London thus scuppering the LD's chances in a load of other seats; the LD;s could not meaningfully campaign on housing issues. Labour could also use the strategy to take seats of the LD's. The LD's would be forced in to the position of becoming anti housebuilding party. Whats the downside for Labour?
They wouldn't, only 8 of the top 100 Labour target seats are in the South East, Hastings and Rye, Wycombe, Reading West, Southampton Itchen, Milton Keynes North and South, Worthing East and Shoreham amd Crawley. By contrast 31 of the top 100 LD target seats are in the South East.
Labour might win a few more suburban seats in London plus Kensington but the vast majority of London seats are already Labour anyway.
Labour therefore needs the LDs to win some Tory seats in the South East to have any chance at all of depriving the Tories of a majority in 2024 unless they make serious inroads in terms of regaining their seats in the Red Wall which again on current polling is very unlikely.
If the LDs get close to the Tories in Chesham and Amersham but Labour see their majority down in Batley or the Tories even win it that will just confirm the above.
Not 1 of the 11 LD seats has Labour in second place, so there is also zero mileage for Labour in targeting LD seats
Staff shortages beginning to affect hospitality businesses here in the tourist hotspot that is the Yorkshire Dales. Pubs and cafes choosing to close midweek or run limited services despite huge demand. On a different matter, walk-in vaccinations for over-18s seemed to have stopped suddenly - no idea why.
Same in the Lakes. Every single cafe, pub, restaurant I have seen or heard from is hiring.
Demand is off the scale. The other night the usual 35 covers, which is busy for Daughter's small kitchen, went up to 50.
I now have a late blooming career as a waitress. Comfortable shoes are now the only thing that matter to me .......
Be interesting to see if this bounce back continues. Haldane's prediction of turbo charged v recovery may be happening.
Certainly the level of building work around me is astonishing.
The U.K. simply doesn’t have the capacity for everyone to have a staycation... I imagine that people cancelling holidays abroad now are finding it very hard to book anything in the U.K. And if you manage to book somewhere in the Dales, treat finding a car park space in the likes of Malham or Grassington as seriously as reserving a sun lounger by the pool...
Everyone here I know who has holiday accommodation is booked out through to October, and many of them have put their prices up as well. You haven’t been able to park down by the Park after mid morning for weeks now.
Rishi just announced G7 historic tax system agreement
Will it actually be implemented before Trump takes office for his second term and reverses it?
He's already favourite to be the Republican nominee at 4.5. Those odds can only shorten.
2 years 7 months until the Iowa caucus!
Terrifying.
Unless he is physically incapable (mental capacity doesn't really matter because he's completely brainfucked anyway) he's going to run and he's going to be the the Republican nominee.
He could definitely beat Kamala but could he beat Biden's Lich? Dunno.
I see Starmer is already on the 15%, not enough...if it was x, you could hire y more nurses..
I presume it is some witless intern pushing this out. He’s been tweeting about it all week. But previously criticising the Tories for opposing it when they clearly didn’t.
It is one of the most tedious criticism, up there with 20 mins to save the NHS. And shows a lack of understanding / misrepresentation of how tax rates work.
It’s cheap politics of the worst type. There have been several tweets this week saying the Tories won’t sign up to one, it’s a disgrace, they’re starving our NHS etc etc. Now they have and they have got a win on the digital services tax that’s not good enough. People, apart from the hardcore supporters, just zone out after a while.
Last nights ITV news had someone on from a Tax ‘fairness’ group prattling on with the same line too. Implement this and we can give all the critical workers in the sainted NHS 5% and pay everyone’s care costs etc etc.
All goes unchallenged too.
Don’t worry, it serves the Tory very well having a broadcast media that is so obviously biased.
But it doesn’t serve the public.
I also don’t see it in terms of bias more that we have a 24 hour news cycle with pressure on costs and overheads in a very competitive field in terms of viewers.
News organisations are more reliant on press releases from lobbying groups, charities and quangos to recycle as news to simply fill air time.
My local news would probably,only be 15 minutes if it was only genuine news not recycled press releases.
I tend to think that most of the public are smart enough to realise that most of these people have an agenda and take it all with a pinch of salt.
Wow the tax deal is even better than we were being told yesterday afternoon.
20% tax on profits for companies with global margins higher than 10% to be paid to the country where the revenue is driven. It makes Ireland's business model completey useless.
Is the EU one country or 27 in the context? Presumably there’s still nothing wrong will all of a company’s EU revenue going through Ireland, but now taxed at 20% rather than 12.5%.
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
I missed something.
Tories doing what?
variants of pork barrel politics
Aha - that piece linked earlier with the Guardian in a flap.
Rishi just announced G7 historic tax system agreement
Will it actually be implemented before Trump takes office for his second term and reverses it?
No, seems very unlikely to ever be implemented. Tory fan boys not particularly concerned and claiming success already. We shall see, hope I am very wrong on this.
To be fair this is being driven by Joe Biden with full UK support and goes to the G20
If they approve it then expect it to happen quite quickly
It is not even listed as a story on politico.com. Biden probably only has about 40 reliable votes on a radical tax bill.
While this was Biden’s push in macro, I doubt it would have been possible without some of the policy work and positioning put in by HM Treasury and latterly Rishi.
The devil will be in the detail I suppose, but on the face of it this is a great moment.
The issue with people like non-independent sage, is nobody holds their claims to account. By they are provee wrong (or right), they are moving the goal posts and onto the next thing...
And of course our media are too thick to ever call them out.
Not sure if it’s right but Fraser Nelson tweeted yesterday about ‘real’ Sage’s hospital forecasts - out by orders of magnitude IIRC.
Wow the tax deal is even better than we were being told yesterday afternoon.
20% tax on profits for companies with global margins higher than 10% to be paid to the country where the revenue is driven. It makes Ireland's business model completey useless.
Is the EU one country or 27 in the context? Presumably there’s still nothing wrong will all of a company’s EU revenue going through Ireland, but now taxed at 20% rather than 12.5%.
27, the EU doesn't have competency on tax other than VAT. It's why Ireland's veto to the EU's agreement is completely meaningless.
I could easily see this type of taxation become the global norm and companies will simply have to agree to it if they want to operate in the countries that implement it. So even if Apple Europe is still nominally Irish, in order to sell iPhones in the UK or Italy their UK and Italian revenue is subject to this tax. What can Ireland really do?
Rishi just announced G7 historic tax system agreement
Will it actually be implemented before Trump takes office for his second term and reverses it?
He's already favourite to be the Republican nominee at 4.5. Those odds can only shorten.
2 years 7 months until the Iowa caucus!
Terrifying.
Unless he is physically incapable (mental capacity doesn't really matter because he's completely brainfucked anyway) he's going to run and he's going to be the the Republican nominee.
He could definitely beat Kamala but could he beat Biden's Lich? Dunno.
A lot will depend on the economy. If, as some of the high priests of Keynesian like Summers are saying, Biden has gone too far with splashing the cash around, then there could be big problems by next presidential election.
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
They could do but while Labour may have no chance in most of those Home Counties seats the LDs often will and will be campaigning there on a platform of no building on the greenbelt and countryside as they are doing in Chesham and Amersham.
Therefore unless Labour win an overall majority, which is extremely unlikely given present polling, to become PM Starmer would almost certainly need LD confidence and supply and the LDs would veto any largescale development in greenbelt areas of their Southeastern target seats
I don't see the downside. Labour would win the whole of London and large parts of the south east, taking seats off the tories. They would be able to claim to solve the housing problem in London thus scuppering the LD's chances in a load of other seats; the LD;s could not meaningfully campaign on housing issues. Labour could also use the strategy to take seats of the LD's. The LD's would be forced in to the position of becoming anti housebuilding party. Whats the downside for Labour?
They wouldn't, only 8 of the top 100 Labour target seats are in the South East, Hastings and Rye, Wycombe, Reading West, Southampton Itchen, Milton Keynes North and South, Worthing East and Shoreham amd Crawley. By contrast 31 of the top 100 LD target seats are in the South East.
Labour might win a few more suburban seats in London plus Kensington but the vast majority of London seats are already Labour anyway.
Labour therefore needs the LDs to win some Tory seats in the South East to have any chance at all of depriving the Tories of a majority in 2024 unless they make serious inroads in terms of regaining their seats in the Red Wall which again on current polling is very unlikely.
If the LDs get close to the Tories in Chesham and Amersham but Labour see their majority down in Batley or the Tories even win it that will just confirm the above.
Not 1 of the 11 LD seats has Labour in second place, so there is also zero mileage for Labour in targeting LD seats
The labour crisis is existential though. If they cannot win back the seats in the red wall, which on current perfomance it seems they cannot, then they need another strategy. The one I have outlined would be quite appealing to their woke metropolitan followers. And, they don't actually need to win and implement it, they can just use it to gain seats.
Anyway, it was intended as a thought experiment rather than an actual strategy.
While this was Biden’s push in macro, I doubt it would have been possible without some of the policy work and positioning put in by HM Treasury and latterly Rishi.
The devil will be in the detail I suppose, but on the face of it this is a great moment.
The digital tax is a huge win for the UK. The other European countries were willing to just agree to the 15% baseline, it was Rishi that pushed Biden into the digital tax and convinced the US that everyone wins from it other than the few parasite countries like Ireland and Luxembourg.
I see Starmer is already on the 15%, not enough...if it was x, you could hire y more nurses..
I presume it is some witless intern pushing this out. He’s been tweeting about it all week. But previously criticising the Tories for opposing it when they clearly didn’t.
It is one of the most tedious criticism, up there with 20 mins to save the NHS. And shows a lack of understanding / misrepresentation of how tax rates work.
It’s cheap politics of the worst type. There have been several tweets this week saying the Tories won’t sign up to one, it’s a disgrace, they’re starving our NHS etc etc. Now they have and they have got a win on the digital services tax that’s not good enough. People, apart from the hardcore supporters, just zone out after a while.
Last nights ITV news had someone on from a Tax ‘fairness’ group prattling on with the same line too. Implement this and we can give all the critical workers in the sainted NHS 5% and pay everyone’s care costs etc etc.
All goes unchallenged too.
Don’t worry, it serves the Tory very well having a broadcast media that is so obviously biased.
But it doesn’t serve the public.
I also don’t see it in terms of bias more that we have a 24 hour news cycle with pressure on costs and overheads in a very competitive field in terms of viewers.
News organisations are more reliant on press releases from lobbying groups, charities and quangos to recycle as news to simply fill air time.
My local news would probably,only be 15 minutes if it was only genuine news not recycled press releases.
Back in 1930 the BBC took the view that if nothing important had happened then they should say so:
Staff shortages beginning to affect hospitality businesses here in the tourist hotspot that is the Yorkshire Dales. Pubs and cafes choosing to close midweek or run limited services despite huge demand. On a different matter, walk-in vaccinations for over-18s seemed to have stopped suddenly - no idea why.
Same in the Lakes. Every single cafe, pub, restaurant I have seen or heard from is hiring.
Demand is off the scale. The other night the usual 35 covers, which is busy for Daughter's small kitchen, went up to 50.
I now have a late blooming career as a waitress. Comfortable shoes are now the only thing that matter to me .......
Be interesting to see if this bounce back continues. Haldane's prediction of turbo charged v recovery may be happening.
Certainly the level of building work around me is astonishing.
The U.K. simply doesn’t have the capacity for everyone to have a staycation... I imagine that people cancelling holidays abroad now are finding it very hard to book anything in the U.K. And if you manage to book somewhere in the Dales, treat finding a car park space in the likes of Malham or Grassington as seriously as reserving a sun lounger by the pool...
Given that a staycation is staying at your own home it certainly does.
Point taken with respect to accommodation... however, the same capacity constraints affect the day out at the seaside or walking in the hills...
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
They could do but while Labour may have no chance in most of those Home Counties seats the LDs often will and will be campaigning there on a platform of no building on the greenbelt and countryside as they are doing in Chesham and Amersham.
Therefore unless Labour win an overall majority, which is extremely unlikely given present polling, to become PM Starmer would almost certainly need LD confidence and supply and the LDs would veto any largescale development in greenbelt areas of their Southeastern target seats
I don't see the downside. Labour would win the whole of London and large parts of the south east, taking seats off the tories. They would be able to claim to solve the housing problem in London thus scuppering the LD's chances in a load of other seats; the LD;s could not meaningfully campaign on housing issues. Labour could also use the strategy to take seats of the LD's. The LD's would be forced in to the position of becoming anti housebuilding party. Whats the downside for Labour?
They wouldn't, only 8 of the top 100 Labour target seats are in the South East, Hastings and Rye, Wycombe, Reading West, Southampton Itchen, Milton Keynes North and South, Worthing East and Shoreham amd Crawley. By contrast 31 of the top 100 LD target seats are in the South East.
Labour might win a few more suburban seats in London plus Kensington but the vast majority of London seats are already Labour anyway.
Labour therefore needs the LDs to win some Tory seats in the South East to have any chance at all of depriving the Tories of a majority in 2024 unless they make serious inroads in terms of regaining their seats in the Red Wall which again on current polling is very unlikely.
If the LDs get close to the Tories in Chesham and Amersham but Labour see their majority down in Batley or the Tories even win it that will just confirm the above.
Not 1 of the 11 LD seats has Labour in second place, so there is also zero mileage for Labour in targeting LD seats
The labour crisis is existential though. If they cannot win back the seats in the red wall, which on current perfomance it seems they cannot, then they need another strategy. The one I have outlined would be quite appealing to their woke metropolitan followers. And, they don't actually need to win and implement it, they can just use it to gain seats.
Anyway, it was intended as a thought experiment rather than an actual strategy.
Their woke metropolitan followers already vote Labour though.
At the moment Tory Remainers in the South East are more likely to switch to the LDs than Tory Leavers in the Red Wall are likely to switch to Labour, until that changes it is not a viable strategy
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
They could do but while Labour may have no chance in most of those Home Counties seats the LDs often will and will be campaigning there on a platform of no building on the greenbelt and countryside as they are doing in Chesham and Amersham.
Therefore unless Labour win an overall majority, which is extremely unlikely given present polling, to become PM Starmer would almost certainly need LD confidence and supply and the LDs would veto any largescale development in greenbelt areas of their Southeastern target seats
I don't see the downside. Labour would win the whole of London and large parts of the south east, taking seats off the tories. They would be able to claim to solve the housing problem in London thus scuppering the LD's chances in a load of other seats; the LD;s could not meaningfully campaign on housing issues. Labour could also use the strategy to take seats of the LD's. The LD's would be forced in to the position of becoming anti housebuilding party. Whats the downside for Labour?
They wouldn't, only 8 of the top 100 Labour target seats are in the South East, Hastings and Rye, Wycombe, Reading West, Southampton Itchen, Milton Keynes North and South, Worthing East and Shoreham amd Crawley. By contrast 31 of the top 100 LD target seats are in the South East.
Labour might win a few more suburban seats in London plus Kensington but the vast majority of London seats are already Labour anyway.
Labour therefore needs the LDs to win some Tory seats in the South East to have any chance at all of depriving the Tories of a majority in 2024 unless they make serious inroads in terms of regaining their seats in the Red Wall which again on current polling is very unlikely.
If the LDs get close to the Tories in Chesham and Amersham but Labour see their majority down in Batley or the Tories even win it that will just confirm the above.
Not 1 of the 11 LD seats has Labour in second place, so there is also zero mileage for Labour in targeting LD seats
The labour crisis is existential though. If they cannot win back the seats in the red wall, which on current perfomance it seems they cannot, then they need another strategy. The one I have outlined would be quite appealing to their woke metropolitan followers. And, they don't actually need to win and implement it, they can just use it to gain seats.
Anyway, it was intended as a thought experiment rather than an actual strategy.
Their woke metropolitan followers already vote Labour though.
At the moment Tory Remainers in the South East are more likely to switch to the LDs than Tory Leavers in the Red Wall are likely to switch to Labour, until that changes it is not a viable strategy
Some time before midday on Monday, quite a lot of English MPs will start getting distinctly twitchy. It is then that they will first see the results of a major redrawing of parliamentary boundaries, with a number of seats set to change, even disappear.
While the proposed new boundaries will not be publicly announced before Monday night, MPs can collect information about their own area from Commons officials at midday.
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
They could do but while Labour may have no chance in most of those Home Counties seats the LDs often will and will be campaigning there on a platform of no building on the greenbelt and countryside as they are doing in Chesham and Amersham.
Therefore unless Labour win an overall majority, which is extremely unlikely given present polling, to become PM Starmer would almost certainly need LD confidence and supply and the LDs would veto any largescale development in greenbelt areas of their Southeastern target seats
I don't see the downside. Labour would win the whole of London and large parts of the south east, taking seats off the tories. They would be able to claim to solve the housing problem in London thus scuppering the LD's chances in a load of other seats; the LD;s could not meaningfully campaign on housing issues. Labour could also use the strategy to take seats of the LD's. The LD's would be forced in to the position of becoming anti housebuilding party. Whats the downside for Labour?
They wouldn't, only 8 of the top 100 Labour target seats are in the South East, Hastings and Rye, Wycombe, Reading West, Southampton Itchen, Milton Keynes North and South, Worthing East and Shoreham amd Crawley. By contrast 31 of the top 100 LD target seats are in the South East.
Labour might win a few more suburban seats in London plus Kensington but the vast majority of London seats are already Labour anyway.
Labour therefore needs the LDs to win some Tory seats in the South East to have any chance at all of depriving the Tories of a majority in 2024 unless they make serious inroads in terms of regaining their seats in the Red Wall which again on current polling is very unlikely.
If the LDs get close to the Tories in Chesham and Amersham but Labour see their majority down in Batley or the Tories even win it that will just confirm the above.
Not 1 of the 11 LD seats has Labour in second place, so there is also zero mileage for Labour in targeting LD seats
The labour crisis is existential though. If they cannot win back the seats in the red wall, which on current perfomance it seems they cannot, then they need another strategy. The one I have outlined would be quite appealing to their woke metropolitan followers. And, they don't actually need to win and implement it, they can just use it to gain seats.
Anyway, it was intended as a thought experiment rather than an actual strategy.
Their woke metropolitan followers already vote Labour though.
At the moment Tory Remainers in the South East are more likely to switch to the LDs than Tory Leavers in the Red Wall are likely to switch to Labour, until that changes it is not a viable strategy
Stop worrying. I am not a Labour strategist.
You should throw in an application. It’s pretty much an open position.
At present they seem to confuse tactics and strategy.
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
They could do but while Labour may have no chance in most of those Home Counties seats the LDs often will and will be campaigning there on a platform of no building on the greenbelt and countryside as they are doing in Chesham and Amersham.
Therefore unless Labour win an overall majority, which is extremely unlikely given present polling, to become PM Starmer would almost certainly need LD confidence and supply and the LDs would veto any largescale development in greenbelt areas of their Southeastern target seats
I don't see the downside. Labour would win the whole of London and large parts of the south east, taking seats off the tories. They would be able to claim to solve the housing problem in London thus scuppering the LD's chances in a load of other seats; the LD;s could not meaningfully campaign on housing issues. Labour could also use the strategy to take seats of the LD's. The LD's would be forced in to the position of becoming anti housebuilding party. Whats the downside for Labour?
They wouldn't, only 8 of the top 100 Labour target seats are in the South East, Hastings and Rye, Wycombe, Reading West, Southampton Itchen, Milton Keynes North and South, Worthing East and Shoreham amd Crawley. By contrast 31 of the top 100 LD target seats are in the South East.
Labour might win a few more suburban seats in London plus Kensington but the vast majority of London seats are already Labour anyway.
Labour therefore needs the LDs to win some Tory seats in the South East to have any chance at all of depriving the Tories of a majority in 2024 unless they make serious inroads in terms of regaining their seats in the Red Wall which again on current polling is very unlikely.
If the LDs get close to the Tories in Chesham and Amersham but Labour see their majority down in Batley or the Tories even win it that will just confirm the above.
Not 1 of the 11 LD seats has Labour in second place, so there is also zero mileage for Labour in targeting LD seats
The labour crisis is existential though. If they cannot win back the seats in the red wall, which on current perfomance it seems they cannot, then they need another strategy. The one I have outlined would be quite appealing to their woke metropolitan followers. And, they don't actually need to win and implement it, they can just use it to gain seats.
Anyway, it was intended as a thought experiment rather than an actual strategy.
Their woke metropolitan followers already vote Labour though.
At the moment Tory Remainers in the South East are more likely to switch to the LDs than Tory Leavers in the Red Wall are likely to switch to Labour, until that changes it is not a viable strategy
Stop worrying. I am not a Labour strategist.
That’s quite obvious given they clearly don’t have any.
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
They could do but while Labour may have no chance in most of those Home Counties seats the LDs often will and will be campaigning there on a platform of no building on the greenbelt and countryside as they are doing in Chesham and Amersham.
Therefore unless Labour win an overall majority, which is extremely unlikely given present polling, to become PM Starmer would almost certainly need LD confidence and supply and the LDs would veto any largescale development in greenbelt areas of their Southeastern target seats
I don't see the downside. Labour would win the whole of London and large parts of the south east, taking seats off the tories. They would be able to claim to solve the housing problem in London thus scuppering the LD's chances in a load of other seats; the LD;s could not meaningfully campaign on housing issues. Labour could also use the strategy to take seats of the LD's. The LD's would be forced in to the position of becoming anti housebuilding party. Whats the downside for Labour?
They wouldn't, only 8 of the top 100 Labour target seats are in the South East, Hastings and Rye, Wycombe, Reading West, Southampton Itchen, Milton Keynes North and South, Worthing East and Shoreham amd Crawley. By contrast 31 of the top 100 LD target seats are in the South East.
Labour might win a few more suburban seats in London plus Kensington but the vast majority of London seats are already Labour anyway.
Labour therefore needs the LDs to win some Tory seats in the South East to have any chance at all of depriving the Tories of a majority in 2024 unless they make serious inroads in terms of regaining their seats in the Red Wall which again on current polling is very unlikely.
If the LDs get close to the Tories in Chesham and Amersham but Labour see their majority down in Batley or the Tories even win it that will just confirm the above.
Not 1 of the 11 LD seats has Labour in second place, so there is also zero mileage for Labour in targeting LD seats
The labour crisis is existential though. If they cannot win back the seats in the red wall, which on current perfomance it seems they cannot, then they need another strategy. The one I have outlined would be quite appealing to their woke metropolitan followers. And, they don't actually need to win and implement it, they can just use it to gain seats.
Anyway, it was intended as a thought experiment rather than an actual strategy.
Their woke metropolitan followers already vote Labour though.
At the moment Tory Remainers in the South East are more likely to switch to the LDs than Tory Leavers in the Red Wall are likely to switch to Labour, until that changes it is not a viable strategy
Stop worrying. I am not a Labour strategist.
You should throw in an application. It’s pretty much an open position.
At present they seem to confuse tactics and strategy.
I thought the saying was “amateurs study strategy, professionals study logistics”?
I like that it throws in 'But a scientist pointed to "concerning signs" of the variant's spread' and it then takes a long while before it gets to who 'a scientist' is and what precisely they are saying. 'A scientist' could be any number of people or a lone nutter geologist for all I know, you really need to set the scene for who the scientist is when you bring it up at the beginning.
Breaking: A huge queue has formed outside a health centre in Harrow, in London, which is offering jabs to those aged 18 and over.
Belmont health centre in Stanmore, Harrow, is open on Saturday to over-18s who are still waiting for their first vaccine and who live or work in Harrow.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is being administered all day at the walk-in clinic and people do not need to be registered with the practice to get their vaccine.
I really don't want to get into a rant about american attitudes to guns, but I must say that this opening to the ruling in California against a state ban on assault weapons makes it sound like the judge is on the home shopping network.
In the opening to his ruling, Judge Benitez wrote: "Like the Swiss Army knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. Good for both home and battle."
Rishi just announced G7 historic tax system agreement
Will it actually be implemented before Trump takes office for his second term and reverses it?
No, seems very unlikely to ever be implemented. Tory fan boys not particularly concerned and claiming success already. We shall see, hope I am very wrong on this.
To be fair this is being driven by Joe Biden with full UK support and goes to the G20
If they approve it then expect it to happen quite quickly
It is not even listed as a story on politico.com. Biden probably only has about 40 reliable votes on a radical tax bill.
This may split the GOP though. There’s lots of anti-tech monopoly hatred on the right, these days.
On the actual topic, I think that the trouble with the tories doing this is that labour could do the same thing. One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
They could do but while Labour may have no chance in most of those Home Counties seats the LDs often will and will be campaigning there on a platform of no building on the greenbelt and countryside as they are doing in Chesham and Amersham.
Therefore unless Labour win an overall majority, which is extremely unlikely given present polling, to become PM Starmer would almost certainly need LD confidence and supply and the LDs would veto any largescale development in greenbelt areas of their Southeastern target seats
I don't see the downside. Labour would win the whole of London and large parts of the south east, taking seats off the tories. They would be able to claim to solve the housing problem in London thus scuppering the LD's chances in a load of other seats; the LD;s could not meaningfully campaign on housing issues. Labour could also use the strategy to take seats of the LD's. The LD's would be forced in to the position of becoming anti housebuilding party. Whats the downside for Labour?
They wouldn't, only 8 of the top 100 Labour target seats are in the South East, Hastings and Rye, Wycombe, Reading West, Southampton Itchen, Milton Keynes North and South, Worthing East and Shoreham amd Crawley. By contrast 31 of the top 100 LD target seats are in the South East.
Labour might win a few more suburban seats in London plus Kensington but the vast majority of London seats are already Labour anyway.
Labour therefore needs the LDs to win some Tory seats in the South East to have any chance at all of depriving the Tories of a majority in 2024 unless they make serious inroads in terms of regaining their seats in the Red Wall which again on current polling is very unlikely.
If the LDs get close to the Tories in Chesham and Amersham but Labour see their majority down in Batley or the Tories even win it that will just confirm the above.
Not 1 of the 11 LD seats has Labour in second place, so there is also zero mileage for Labour in targeting LD seats
The labour crisis is existential though. If they cannot win back the seats in the red wall, which on current perfomance it seems they cannot, then they need another strategy. The one I have outlined would be quite appealing to their woke metropolitan followers. And, they don't actually need to win and implement it, they can just use it to gain seats.
Anyway, it was intended as a thought experiment rather than an actual strategy.
Their woke metropolitan followers already vote Labour though.
At the moment Tory Remainers in the South East are more likely to switch to the LDs than Tory Leavers in the Red Wall are likely to switch to Labour, until that changes it is not a viable strategy
Stop worrying. I am not a Labour strategist.
That’s quite obvious given they clearly don’t have any.
Apart from banning leisure travel to the entire rest of the world and then putting a green flag with a big arrow pointing to well known beach-and-sun destination Portugal, they did nothing to encourage it, at all.
"It's holiday time, folks! Here's where you can go:
- a few places that won't let you in anyway; - a few more places no sane person would take a holiday; - Portugal !! "
I’m tempted to go to Malta
Don't. Their "hunters" blast all our migrant birds - on a massive scale.
They are very fond of shooting dogs too and there's fucking rubbish everywhere. Lively nightlife on The Gut though.
On the other hand they have a couple of Caravaggios that I’ve never seen
It might not be long until Younge finds himself cancelled, if he carries on writing articles like this.
He is right though, for the most part statues are dubious works of public art. The broader problem that we should be concerned about is the woke takeover of the historical profession; the overt rewriting of history to suit a fashionable political narrative. It was admirable that the historical profession held out for a long time but the dominoes are now falling at speed. Dominic Sandbrook has written recently about this.
If you’re referencing the Sandbrook review of a history book written but a noted Twitter moron then it was an absolutely eviscerating. People may not like Sandbrook’s views but they would struggle to construct a compelling argument that his books are either badly written or badly argued (in need of someone to tell him that sometimes less is more, perhaps).
I’m always fascinated by how people without relevant skills and knowledge feel able to write either history or children’s books. The latter in particular draws the “right name will sell any old shit”. I’m sure you can name a few.
Yep - fake history is a big problem. Although I do admire Tom Holland, who writes excellent books and hasn't ever had a significant academic position.
Wow the tax deal is even better than we were being told yesterday afternoon.
20% tax on profits for companies with global margins higher than 10% to be paid to the country where the revenue is driven. It makes Ireland's business model completey useless.
The economic liberals are truly in retreat.
This is great news.
I’m getting the impression that Ireland getting a boot in the baws is almost more important than a more equitable international corporation tax deal for some.
I seem to recall at various times during the Brexit Via Dolorosa some Brexiteers suggesting that this was a marvellous opportunity for Global Britain to become more 'competitive' in the tax arena. At least there should be a merciful respite from that sort of guff.
UK officials insist that the EU cannot seriously believe that rabies will enter the UK, make its way to Northern Ireland, and from there spread into the Republic and beyond to the rest of the EU......
Writing in the Belfast Telegraph this week, Lord Frost and Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis accused the EU of focusing on risks (to the single market and consumer health) "that don’t exist".
"Only if implemented in a pragmatic and proportionate way can the Protocol support the peace process and ensure the people of Northern Ireland continue to see the benefits of prosperity and stability. If it does not do this, then it is not working," they wrote.....
By contrast, the UK is now presenting itself as the more reliable defender of the Good Friday Agreement (a posture that has infuriated Irish officials), while also proclaiming a more proactive approach than the European Commission in trying to find solutions.
"The UK has now sent more than 10 papers to the European Commission, proposing potential solutions on a wide range of issues," said a UK government spokesperson. "As yet, we have had no written response from the EU."
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Writing in the Belfast Telegraph this week, Lord Frost and Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis accused the EU of focusing on risks (to the single market and consumer health) "that don’t exist".
"Only if implemented in a pragmatic and proportionate way can the Protocol support the peace process and ensure the people of Northern Ireland continue to see the benefits of prosperity and stability. If it does not do this, then it is not working," they wrote.....
By contrast, the UK is now presenting itself as the more reliable defender of the Good Friday Agreement (a posture that has infuriated Irish officials), while also proclaiming a more proactive approach than the European Commission in trying to find solutions.
"The UK has now sent more than 10 papers to the European Commission, proposing potential solutions on a wide range of issues," said a UK government spokesperson. "As yet, we have had no written response from the EU."
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0604/1226148-tony-connelly-analysis/
Demand is off the scale. The other night the usual 35 covers, which is busy for Daughter's small kitchen, went up to 50.
I now have a late blooming career as a waitress. Comfortable shoes are now the only thing that matter to me .......
He is right though, for the most part statues are dubious works of public art. The broader problem that we should be concerned about is the woke takeover of the historical profession; the overt rewriting of history to suit a fashionable political narrative. It was admirable that the historical profession held out for a long time but the dominoes are now falling at speed. Dominic Sandbrook has written recently about this.
The UK now has over 40m with first doses and over 27m with two doses.
other nations reporting later/tomorrow
https://twitter.com/HugoGye/status/1401134620683423751?s=20
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57368247
A MAN has been charged with murder following the death of a woman who died more than 20 years after being set on fire.
Jacqueline Kirk, 62, died in August 2019 - 21 years after she was set on fire in Weston-super-Mare.
Detectives from Avon and Somerset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team charged Steven Paul Craig, 57, of Brailsford Crescent, York, with murder last night (June 3).
The charge was authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service South West’s Complex Casework Unit.
Craig was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates Court this morning (June 4).
The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that it had authorised detectives to charge Craig with murder.
A spokesman said Ms Kirk had suffered “serious burns injuries” during an incident 21 years before her
https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/19349817.steven-craig-charged-murder-jacqueline-kirk-appears-bristol-magistrates-court/
It’s cheap politics of the worst type. There have been several tweets this week saying the Tories won’t sign up to one, it’s a disgrace, they’re starving our NHS etc etc. Now they have and they have got a win on the digital services tax that’s not good enough. People, apart from the hardcore supporters, just zone out after a while.
Last nights ITV news had someone on from a Tax ‘fairness’ group prattling on with the same line too. Implement this and we can give all the critical workers in the sainted NHS 5% and pay everyone’s care costs etc etc.
All goes unchallenged too.
https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1401133898847948803?s=20
One suggestion is to select about 20 constituencies in the south east that they have no hope of winning and declare that they will each have 100,000 houses in the next five years, all over the green belt/countryside, including a vast programme of council house building to ease the pressure on central london and house every homeless person, with a promise that the remaining consituencies (ie marginal ones that labour have a chance of winning) will be protected with no housebuilding at all.
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2/ Under the principles of the landmark reforms, the largest global firms with profit margins of at least 10% will be in scope – with 20% of any profit above the 10% margin reallocated and then subjected to tax in the countries where they make sales.
And of course our media are too thick to ever call them out.
Certainly the level of building work around me is astonishing.
eatinghow the highly paid tax lawyers manage to find schemes to minimise this new G7 plan.20% tax on profits for companies with global margins higher than 10% to be paid to the country where the revenue is driven. It makes Ireland's business model completey useless.
Therefore unless Labour win an overall majority, which is extremely unlikely given present polling, to become PM Starmer would almost certainly need LD confidence and supply and the LDs would veto any largescale development in greenbelt areas of their Southeastern target seats
They’ve become totally irrelevant.
When we went out to a local restaurant here I was speaking to the manager and he was saying that one of the big problems was people went off got other jobs for similar wages but not the unsocial hours or demanding environment.
I’d guess paying more isn’t much of an option as it is a very price sensitive industry.
Set in Edwardian times, it has a Suffragette movement come up with the following idea - erect replicas of the Albert Memorial *everywhere* - thousands of them. Unless they are immediately given the vote.
The government and nation are horrified. In an afternoon they pass the most glorious legislation of the 20th cent -
Banning the construction of any memorial statuary within 2 miles of a public highway....
This is great news.
2 years 7 months until the Iowa caucus!
Thanks.
They’re a shambles at the moment.
Update: Aha. I see it was one Mr Urquhart that said it:
FrancisUrquhart said:I see Starmer is already on the 15%, not enough...if it was x, you could hire y more nurses..
When I become un-Dictator of the UK I will be applying this one
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/HerIra.shtml
to the issue of Scottish Independence.
If they approve it then expect it to happen quite quickly
I’m always fascinated by how people without relevant skills and knowledge feel able to write either history or children’s books. The latter in particular draws the “right name will sell any old shit”. I’m sure you can name a few.
Tories doing what?
I also don’t see it in terms of bias more that we have a 24 hour news cycle with pressure on costs and overheads in a very competitive field in terms of viewers.
News organisations are more reliant on press releases from lobbying groups, charities and quangos to recycle as news to simply fill air time.
My local news would probably,only be 15 minutes if it was only genuine news not recycled press releases.
Labour might win a few more suburban seats in London plus Kensington but the vast majority of London seats are already Labour anyway.
Labour therefore needs the LDs to win some Tory seats in the South East to have any chance at all of depriving the Tories of a majority in 2024 unless they make serious inroads in terms of regaining their seats in the Red Wall which again on current polling is very unlikely.
If the LDs get close to the Tories in Chesham and Amersham but Labour see their majority down in Batley or the Tories even win it that will just confirm the above.
Not 1 of the 11 LD seats has Labour in second place, so there is also zero mileage for Labour in targeting LD seats
He could definitely beat Kamala but could he beat Biden's Lich? Dunno.
On an unrelated note, today I discovered that 'Newark' has an amusing anagram. How I have never realised this for myself, I do not know.
Now time for an improving book in the garden...
While this was Biden’s push in macro, I doubt it would have been possible without some of the policy work and positioning put in by HM Treasury and latterly Rishi.
The devil will be in the detail I suppose, but on the face of it this is a great moment.
I could easily see this type of taxation become the global norm and companies will simply have to agree to it if they want to operate in the countries that implement it. So even if Apple Europe is still nominally Irish, in order to sell iPhones in the UK or Italy their UK and Italian revenue is subject to this tax. What can Ireland really do?
Anyway, it was intended as a thought experiment rather than an actual strategy.
As in, "you totally Kirsty Wark'ened that"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39633603
I must admit I though it was an apocryphal story, but the BBC confirms it happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_of_the_Stool
At the moment Tory Remainers in the South East are more likely to switch to the LDs than Tory Leavers in the Red Wall are likely to switch to Labour, until that changes it is not a viable strategy
While the proposed new boundaries will not be publicly announced before Monday night, MPs can collect information about their own area from Commons officials at midday.
At present they seem to confuse tactics and strategy.
Sadly he didn’t say “I don’t like, but I’ll have to go along with it.”
Belmont health centre in Stanmore, Harrow, is open on Saturday to over-18s who are still waiting for their first vaccine and who live or work in Harrow.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is being administered all day at the walk-in clinic and people do not need to be registered with the practice to get their vaccine.
In the opening to his ruling, Judge Benitez wrote: "Like the Swiss Army knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. Good for both home and battle."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57368211
Interesting times.
I seem to recall at various times during the Brexit Via Dolorosa some Brexiteers suggesting that this was a marvellous opportunity for Global Britain to become more 'competitive' in the tax arena. At least there should be a merciful respite from that sort of guff.