And so to Sunak’s budget starting with an announcement that parts of the Treasury are moving to Darl
? SCOOP: The Treasury is going to Darlington. Rishi Sunak will announce in the Budget the northern town be home to the ministry’s first office outside of London.Officials fought hard for Leeds/Newcastle, but Sunak ultimately sided with red wall Tories.https://t.co/ICmHAjhheG
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First like the bookies.0
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According to my analysis, more than 90 per cent of the intubated, most seriously ill patients always had a migrant background,' he said.
'We agreed among ourselves that we should describe these people as 'patients with communications barriers'. We don't seem to be getting through to them.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9320323/Coronavirus-Germany-90-severely-ill-patients-migrant-background.html
Its a man locally known as Dave again...0 -
Mane I'm tuning into PMQs for the first time in ages, Starmer really is so awful. He's really giving softball questions to Boris about foreign aid.2
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Yippee - trouble is people will now know why I like where I live - hint our communication links are better than almost anywhere else.0 -
What bet Boris immediately references Sturgeon when he gets an SNP question?0
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Hah me too, his questioning at the start of the pandemic was far better. Just a poor set of questions today. More difficult job I guess when it's all going a bit better.MaxPB said:Mane I'm tuning into PMQs for the first time in ages, Starmer really is so awful. He's really giving softball questions to Boris about foreign aid.
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Yemen Questions0
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I always forget, does he respond to Dishy Rishi later or is it the invisible womxn?MaxPB said:Mane I'm tuning into PMQs for the first time in ages, Starmer really is so awful. He's really giving softball questions to Boris about foreign aid.
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Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.3
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Starmer.FrancisUrquhart said:
I always forget, does he respond to Dishy Rishi later or is it the invisible womxn?MaxPB said:Mane I'm tuning into PMQs for the first time in ages, Starmer really is so awful. He's really giving softball questions to Boris about foreign aid.
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Starmer. Dodds will respond to the autumn/spring statements.FrancisUrquhart said:
I always forget, does he respond to Dishy Rishi later or is it the invisible womxn?MaxPB said:Mane I'm tuning into PMQs for the first time in ages, Starmer really is so awful. He's really giving softball questions to Boris about foreign aid.
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It's been playing big on the BBC.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
'nuff said.0 -
Starmer.FrancisUrquhart said:
I always forget, does he respond to Dishy Rishi later or is it the invisible womxn?MaxPB said:Mane I'm tuning into PMQs for the first time in ages, Starmer really is so awful. He's really giving softball questions to Boris about foreign aid.
I must admit I have never understood why this is the case but traditionally the LotO responds to the Chancellor rather than the Shadow Chancellor
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The response will be the same....too slow, i called for this already, not enough money being spent....MaxPB said:
Starmer. Dodds will respond to the autumn/spring statements.FrancisUrquhart said:
I always forget, does he respond to Dishy Rishi later or is it the invisible womxn?MaxPB said:Mane I'm tuning into PMQs for the first time in ages, Starmer really is so awful. He's really giving softball questions to Boris about foreign aid.
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Has it? I wouldn't know as since Covid became the only story I've not watched the news in months.MarqueeMark said:
It's been playing big on the BBC.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
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That's true, but it's a standard PM dodge unfortunately.FrankBooth said:
I don't like that. PM is there to answer the questions put to him whether he thinks they are the right ones or not.RochdalePioneers said:Jesus - Shagger pointing out that Starmer isn't raising "the issues of the hour" but instead is banging on about Yemen.
Nice dig from Mr Speaker after Boris refers to the budget - "I think we already know most of it"0 -
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90% is an extraordinary statisticFrancisUrquhart said:According to my analysis, more than 90 per cent of the intubated, most seriously ill patients always had a migrant background,' he said.
'We agreed among ourselves that we should describe these people as 'patients with communications barriers'. We don't seem to be getting through to them.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9320323/Coronavirus-Germany-90-severely-ill-patients-migrant-background.html
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Also when you don't really have a coherent alternative to propose.Pulpstar said:
Hah me too, his questioning at the start of the pandemic was far better. Just a poor set of questions today. More difficult job I guess when it's all going a bit better.MaxPB said:Mane I'm tuning into PMQs for the first time in ages, Starmer really is so awful. He's really giving softball questions to Boris about foreign aid.
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Salmond was on the offensive, a wronged man with a grievance. Sturgeon is playing defense, a woman with questions to evade. Her solitary aim is survivalAlanbrooke said:For someone who used to be a lawyer Sturgeon sounds surprisingly heavy footed
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She only worked as a solicitor for 3-4 years, before a life in politics, so not really long enough to develop the lawyerly skills that we all hate so much.Alanbrooke said:For someone who used to be a lawyer Sturgeon sounds surprisingly heavy footed
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I'm seriously worried about corporate taxes rising. If the chancellor makes this shirt sighted move it's going to hurt the economy in the long term. Ignore the IFS, ignore "economists" and lower it to 15% and introduce gigantic or unlimited R&D and capital investment allowances.
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She was a solicitor not an advocate. There's a reason people choose one side of the profession or another.Alanbrooke said:For someone who used to be a lawyer Sturgeon sounds surprisingly heavy footed
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bad guys in Top Gun?MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
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I am not sure it really is 90%, it sounds more finger in the air counting. More that again, Germany can't call a spade a spade (hope that isnt racist), even when it is causing them trouble.Leon said:
90% is an extraordinary statisticFrancisUrquhart said:According to my analysis, more than 90 per cent of the intubated, most seriously ill patients always had a migrant background,' he said.
'We agreed among ourselves that we should describe these people as 'patients with communications barriers'. We don't seem to be getting through to them.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9320323/Coronavirus-Germany-90-severely-ill-patients-migrant-background.html
Its a man locally known as Dave again...
Where as here, it does seem the overt recording and push on targeting ethnic minority groups for extra push during the vaccine roll out is seeing results of increasing the uptake.0 -
Sturgeon having to wade through the treacle of her past actions and pronouncements.Alanbrooke said:For someone who used to be a lawyer Sturgeon sounds surprisingly heavy footed
Salmond was much slicker than this
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Has Boris really just discovered what the N in SNP stands for?0
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Germany to ease COVID-19 curbs, ramp up vaccinations
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It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
It also shows what a shallow person you are
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Oh she is on the ropes here0
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If it is 90% I would seriously wonder if there is some genetic explanation.FrancisUrquhart said:
I am not sure it really is 90%, it sounds more finger in the air counting. More that again, Germany can't call a spade a spade (hope that isnt racist), even when it is causing them trouble.Leon said:
90% is an extraordinary statisticFrancisUrquhart said:According to my analysis, more than 90 per cent of the intubated, most seriously ill patients always had a migrant background,' he said.
'We agreed among ourselves that we should describe these people as 'patients with communications barriers'. We don't seem to be getting through to them.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9320323/Coronavirus-Germany-90-severely-ill-patients-migrant-background.html
Its a man locally known as Dave again...0 -
Ode to the Chancellor this pre-Budget afternoon:
His name is Sunak
Oh, Rishi Sunak
Please make me happy
This Budget Day.
Your coke addiction:
A sad affliction
Please don't take
My higher-rate pension tax relief
Away.1 -
I just clicked on that. What a horrible website. Things flashing, adverts coming in from the side, little videos you need to swap away like persistent wasps. Horrible.Leon said:
90% is an extraordinary statisticFrancisUrquhart said:According to my analysis, more than 90 per cent of the intubated, most seriously ill patients always had a migrant background,' he said.
'We agreed among ourselves that we should describe these people as 'patients with communications barriers'. We don't seem to be getting through to them.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9320323/Coronavirus-Germany-90-severely-ill-patients-migrant-background.html
Its a man locally known as Dave again...
Anyway, the story - I wonder what the equivalent figure is here? Certainly last summer it appeared that the geography of positive tests were highly correlated with percentages of South Asian communities. Can't be anything like 90%, though?0 -
Harry Dunn -- tragic but HMG would do better to take concrete measures like stopping US personnel importing left-hand-drive cars.1
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He is right though. It might be the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world but most people have got more pressing matters to worry about at home.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
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Or at least, never drive them off base.DecrepiterJohnL said:Harry Dunn -- tragic but HMG would do better to take concrete measures like stopping US personnel importing left-hand-drive cars.
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No it isn't. The greatest humanitarian crisis in in China where the state is exterminating Uighur people in concentration camps by forcible insemination of women by rape.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
It also shows what a shallow person you are
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They didn't go to public school?DougSeal said:
She was a solicitor not an advocate. There's a reason people choose one side of the profession or another.Alanbrooke said:For someone who used to be a lawyer Sturgeon sounds surprisingly heavy footed
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Er, no offense Mike, but I think COVID, which has killed millions, and caused the greatest global economic and social emergency since World War 2, is a bigger humanitarian crisis than Yemen.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
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This one is impacted directly by a UK government decision. Some conservatives have been against that, I think it was probably worth raising, but it sounds like he devoted too many questions to it.MaxPB said:
No it isn't. The greatest humanitarian crisis in in China where the state is exterminating Uighur people in concentration camps by forcible insemination of women by rape.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
It also shows what a shallow person you are
Honestly, everything else pales in comparison.0 -
Do all military bases in foreign lands drive on 'their own' side? Do British bases in Germany drive on the left?MarqueeMark said:
Or at least, never drive them off base.DecrepiterJohnL said:Harry Dunn -- tragic but HMG would do better to take concrete measures like stopping US personnel importing left-hand-drive cars.
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As an unemployed six litres a week man, I'd rather have Rishi exempt Coke from the sugar tax, a bit like the way budgets traditionally exempted Scotch when they ramped up duties on fags and booze.Endillion said:Ode to the Chancellor this pre-Budget afternoon:
His name is Sunak
Oh, Rishi Sunak
Please make me happy
This Budget Day.
Your coke addiction:
A sad affliction
Please don't take
My higher-rate pension tax relief
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Sturgeon struggling here0
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There's also the war in the Congo, which you never hear about in the West, but has killed millions over the last couple of decades.Leon said:
Er, no offense Mike, but I think COVID, which has killed millions, and caused the greatest global economic and social emergency since World War 2, is a bigger humanitarian crisis than Yemen.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
It also shows what a shallow person you are
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You seem an uncaring very selfish person.MaxPB said:
No it isn't. The greatest humanitarian crisis in in China where the state is exterminating Uighur people in concentration camps by forcible insemination of women by rape.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
It also shows what a shallow person you are
Honestly, everything else pales in comparison.
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And yet if you ask the voters they'll say "where's Yemen?". Labour is completely out of touch.Fishing said:
There's also the war in the Congo, which you never hear about in the West, but has killed millions over the last couple of decades.Leon said:
Er, no offense Mike, but I think COVID, which has killed millions, and caused the greatest global economic and social emergency since World War 2, is a bigger humanitarian crisis than Yemen.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
It also shows what a shallow person you are
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Turns on Sky, two ladies arguing among selves for 5 minutes, not questioning Sturgeon.2
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I'd do your body a favour and come off it. It's weakening your bones from the inside. Have a piece of fruit every time you get a sugar craving - that's actually what your body is asking for.DecrepiterJohnL said:
As an unemployed six litres a week man, I'd rather have Rishi exempt Coke from the sugar tax, a bit like the way budgets traditionally exempted Scotch when they ramped up duties on fags and booze.Endillion said:Ode to the Chancellor this pre-Budget afternoon:
His name is Sunak
Oh, Rishi Sunak
Please make me happy
This Budget Day.
Your coke addiction:
A sad affliction
Please don't take
My higher-rate pension tax relief
Away.1 -
Will be interesting to see how many civil servants, and to what level, this Northern Treasury will consist of.
I suspect a number of relatively junior positions with their managers shuttling back and forth to take their orders from Whitehall.
And living and spending in Northallerton or even Barnard Castle.
Hope not. But expect so.0 -
Which side are we on in Yemen, the Hadis or the Houthis ?0
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The war in Yemen has killed a quarter of a million. The pandemic has killed ten times that but globally. The difference is the fact that the war has a concentrated death toll in one country that is also suffering the pandemic's effects. It is, therefore, appropriate to ask questions about reducing aid there.Leon said:
Er, no offense Mike, but I think COVID, which has killed millions, and caused the greatest global economic and social emergency since World War 2, is a bigger humanitarian crisis than Yemen.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
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So how much more of the magic money forest gets cut down....0
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Yemen is a terrible war in a fascinating country. Its misfortune is to be the Belgium of our times, the battleground for two strands of Islam fighting it out through Saudi and Iran and their proxies.Fishing said:
There's also the war in the Congo, which you never hear about in the West, but has killed millions over the last couple of decades.Leon said:
Er, no offense Mike, but I think COVID, which has killed millions, and caused the greatest global economic and social emergency since World War 2, is a bigger humanitarian crisis than Yemen.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
It also shows what a shallow person you are
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I’m not minimizing Yemen, it’s hideous. But Covid-19 dwarfs everything by an order of magnitudeFishing said:
There's also the war in the Congo, which you never hear about in the West, but has killed millions over the last couple of decades.Leon said:
Er, no offense Mike, but I think COVID, which has killed millions, and caused the greatest global economic and social emergency since World War 2, is a bigger humanitarian crisis than Yemen.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
It also shows what a shallow person you are
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100% agreed.MaxPB said:I'm seriously worried about corporate taxes rising. If the chancellor makes this shirt sighted move it's going to hurt the economy in the long term. Ignore the IFS, ignore "economists" and lower it to 15% and introduce gigantic or unlimited R&D and capital investment allowances.
We need to grow our way out of this, not push up taxes.
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You're mistaken. Loads of people care about impending mass starvation and a long-running war that we continue to support with weapon exports after even the US has withdrawn its backing. It was, after all, one of the earliest actions taken by Biden. You shouldn't assume that everyone is preoccupied with BTL landlords or whatever, just because you mau be.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
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Don't be honest lol, last thing we need
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Covid19 is the biggest crisis in the entire world since World War Two.FrancisUrquhart said:So how much more of the magic money forest gets cut down....
Imagine if people were talking about the "magic money forest" in World War Two.
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Why should the UK be the only country supplying aid there?DougSeal said:
The war in Yemen has killed a quarter of a million. The pandemic has killed ten times that but globally. The difference is the fact that the war has a concentrated death toll in one country that is also suffering the pandemic's effects. It is, therefore, appropriate to ask questions about reducing aid there.Leon said:
Er, no offense Mike, but I think COVID, which has killed millions, and caused the greatest global economic and social emergency since World War 2, is a bigger humanitarian crisis than Yemen.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
It also shows what a shallow person you are
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Like all this use of "percent", saves on mentions of million and billion0
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Ridiculously pessimistic OBR forecast growth figures. Don't believe them for a second.0
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It's obviously in the eye of the beholder. Salmond to me looked and sounded grubby. If Gannex raincoats still existed I'd suggest he modelled them. Nicola by contrast seemed sharp and to me believable. I say that as someone who used to be a fan of SalmondAlanbrooke said:For someone who used to be a lawyer Sturgeon sounds surprisingly heavy footed
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If you're on furlough in August, time to look for another job tbh0
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That's a legitimate question to ask. Another legitimate question is why we shouldn't step up to the plate to make up for said deficiency elsewhere.Philip_Thompson said:
Why should the UK be the only country supplying aid there?DougSeal said:
The war in Yemen has killed a quarter of a million. The pandemic has killed ten times that but globally. The difference is the fact that the war has a concentrated death toll in one country that is also suffering the pandemic's effects. It is, therefore, appropriate to ask questions about reducing aid there.Leon said:
Er, no offense Mike, but I think COVID, which has killed millions, and caused the greatest global economic and social emergency since World War 2, is a bigger humanitarian crisis than Yemen.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
It also shows what a shallow person you are
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Because we're already at the plate. Alone.DougSeal said:
That's a legitimate question to ask. Another legitimate question is why we shouldn't step up to the plate to make up for said deficiency elsewhere.Philip_Thompson said:
Why should the UK be the only country supplying aid there?DougSeal said:
The war in Yemen has killed a quarter of a million. The pandemic has killed ten times that but globally. The difference is the fact that the war has a concentrated death toll in one country that is also suffering the pandemic's effects. It is, therefore, appropriate to ask questions about reducing aid there.Leon said:
Er, no offense Mike, but I think COVID, which has killed millions, and caused the greatest global economic and social emergency since World War 2, is a bigger humanitarian crisis than Yemen.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
It also shows what a shallow person you are
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Simply, why should we?DougSeal said:
That's a legitimate question to ask. Another legitimate question is why we shouldn't step up to the plate to make up for said deficiency elsewhere.Philip_Thompson said:
Why should the UK be the only country supplying aid there?DougSeal said:
The war in Yemen has killed a quarter of a million. The pandemic has killed ten times that but globally. The difference is the fact that the war has a concentrated death toll in one country that is also suffering the pandemic's effects. It is, therefore, appropriate to ask questions about reducing aid there.Leon said:
Er, no offense Mike, but I think COVID, which has killed millions, and caused the greatest global economic and social emergency since World War 2, is a bigger humanitarian crisis than Yemen.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
It also shows what a shallow person you are
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Plan for the best, prepare for the worst.Philip_Thompson said:Ridiculously pessimistic OBR forecast growth figures. Don't believe them for a second.
Twas always the best idea.0 -
That's not true. We may be one of (perhaps the) biggest donor but other countries and the EU have made contributions. You have a point but you weaken it by over-egging it.Philip_Thompson said:
Because we're already at the plate. Alone.DougSeal said:
That's a legitimate question to ask. Another legitimate question is why we shouldn't step up to the plate to make up for said deficiency elsewhere.Philip_Thompson said:
Why should the UK be the only country supplying aid there?DougSeal said:
The war in Yemen has killed a quarter of a million. The pandemic has killed ten times that but globally. The difference is the fact that the war has a concentrated death toll in one country that is also suffering the pandemic's effects. It is, therefore, appropriate to ask questions about reducing aid there.Leon said:
Er, no offense Mike, but I think COVID, which has killed millions, and caused the greatest global economic and social emergency since World War 2, is a bigger humanitarian crisis than Yemen.MikeSmithson said:
It's the greatest humanitarian crisis in our world! As PM putdowns of Opposition Leaders at #PMQs go, this is among the worst.MaxPB said:Fucking hell just shut the fuck about Yemen. No one gives a flying fuck about it.
It also shows what a shallow person you are
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The Houthis slogan appears to be "God Is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam"
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4% growth this year and 1.6% in 2023 is really the worst possible.eek said:
Plan for the best, prepare for the worst.Philip_Thompson said:Ridiculously pessimistic OBR forecast growth figures. Don't believe them for a second.
Twas always the best idea.
Setting the floor low to clear it easily in future years it seems.0 -
Plenty of nice places on the way to Northallerton but far fewer heading west towards Barnie.dixiedean said:Will be interesting to see how many civil servants, and to what level, this Northern Treasury will consist of.
I suspect a number of relatively junior positions with their managers shuttling back and forth to take their orders from Whitehall.
And living and spending in Northallerton or even Barnard Castle.
Hope not. But expect so.
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Hmm, not sure about increasing the minimum wage in this environment. Hospitality is going to struggle as it is, higher wages will make that tougher.2
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Won't make major headlines but lifetime thalidomide commitment is good, incredible no Chancellor had done that sooner. It was never realistic it would be pulled so be honest and sign it off.0
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Indeed, we're almost certainly in the opposite of the situation where I think it should go up (high immigration and low unemployment).MaxPB said:Hmm, not sure about increasing the minimum wage in this environment. Hospitality is going to struggle as it is, higher wages will make that tougher.
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The Treasury in Darlington? Great choice.
Hartlepool 's holding out for the Home Office. Pritti can bring back hanging in a historical setting.4 -
I think that's a smaller change than was supposed to be made.MaxPB said:Hmm, not sure about increasing the minimum wage in this environment. Hospitality is going to struggle as it is, higher wages will make that tougher.
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Presumably the calculation is that the benefit to the great mass of people subsisting on minimum wage crapjobs outweighs the negative consequences for the smaller number who end up being laid off as a consequence?MaxPB said:Hmm, not sure about increasing the minimum wage in this environment. Hospitality is going to struggle as it is, higher wages will make that tougher.
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Remember those election campaigns when the question was
"How will you pay for it all?"
Nah. Me neither.0 -
Lockdown supporter in 'refusal to believe the shattering effects of lockdown' shock.Philip_Thompson said:
4% growth this year and 1.6% in 2023 is really the worst possible.eek said:
Plan for the best, prepare for the worst.Philip_Thompson said:Ridiculously pessimistic OBR forecast growth figures. Don't believe them for a second.
Twas always the best idea.
Setting the floor low to clear it easily in future years it seems.0 -
Also if 20p an hour or £7 a week is significantly important to a business - it's not that profitable anyway...Black_Rook said:
Presumably the calculation is that the benefit to the great mass of people subsisting on minimum wage crapjobs outweighs the negative consequences for the smaller number who end up being laid off as a consequence?MaxPB said:Hmm, not sure about increasing the minimum wage in this environment. Hospitality is going to struggle as it is, higher wages will make that tougher.
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Help to pump up the housing market even more lol3
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And the tax rises?0
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Mortgage guarantee scheme. I'd like to see the detail of it.
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Lockdown is ending. We're not going to be in lockdown in 2023.contrarian said:
Lockdown supporter in 'refusal to believe the shattering effects of lockdown' shock.Philip_Thompson said:
4% growth this year and 1.6% in 2023 is really the worst possible.eek said:
Plan for the best, prepare for the worst.Philip_Thompson said:Ridiculously pessimistic OBR forecast growth figures. Don't believe them for a second.
Twas always the best idea.
Setting the floor low to clear it easily in future years it seems.
So its being out of lockdown we're talking about, not being in lockdown. 🙄0 -
I once worked for a civil service organisation that was relocated out of the South East.dixiedean said:Will be interesting to see how many civil servants, and to what level, this Northern Treasury will consist of.
I suspect a number of relatively junior positions with their managers shuttling back and forth to take their orders from Whitehall.
And living and spending in Northallerton or even Barnard Castle.
Hope not. But expect so.
The senior managers were moved first, so that they could buy the best houses before prices had increased too much. Then everyone else was moved, and so plenty of them had to buy the houses they could afford now that they were doing so after the market had closed the gap with where they were relocating from.
It did at least have the advantage of minimising the loss of senior managers, so the organisation didn't suffer from the move - as I've heard of happening with other relocations.0 -
How does a mortgage guarantee work? If house prices fall and the bank dips out on a repossession, the tax payer makes up the difference?0
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If only he'd announce Street is being turned in to a big Poundland just for youRoger said:The Treasury in Darlington? Great choice.
Hartlepool 's holding out for the Home Office. Pritti can bring back hanging in a historical setting.0
