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I phrased it that way because I only saw the headline to the full front page spread devoted to the story but not reading the article.In politics stories accredited to unnamed sources are a regular diet for the media and often the only way some will ‘talk’.
good luck to all“It’s not about making money GT it’s about been a fair system. Something we definitely haven’t had since 2010”.
——————-Those pensioners just above the cut off point for getting “credits” are officially “in poverty”.
Please explain to me Homer, why it is “fair” for Labour to take the £300 Winter Fuel Payment away from poverty stricken pensioners?
I personally have no problem with the payment being means tested, as long as the cut off point is set high enough. Everyone can see this cut off point is nowhere near where it should be.
Value Is EverythingChief Downing St mouser Larry has shown to be a very good judge of character avoiding having his pic taken with the new ministers.With Scottish Secretary Ian Murray describing Larry as a ‘little s***’.Real class Mr Murray just shows you up for what you are!
good luck to allFormer president of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi,also an ex Italian Prime Minister,says in his recently published report The Future of European Competitiveness that things are dire.In the report he was asked to write by the president of the European Commission he concluded the EU faced lasting sluggish growth and that this would threaten the entire social model.If it didn’t act it would face ‘a slow agony’of decline.
Some 20 years ago the USA was 27% of global GDP,the EU 22% and China 5%.The USA remains much the same at 26%,China is now up to 17% and the EU down to 14%.
Already the disagreements have broken out about how to arrest this and change Europe’s future.Not surprisingly there’s no common ground and a ‘fudge’ will no doubt be agreed to cover the cracks and allow them to go on there merry way.
This is what Starmer and other pro EU fanatics want more of …. to shackle the UK to a rotting corpse in terminal decline because they are too stupid to see the writing on the wall that things must change.
The chance that the EU will do anything positive to reform?
good luck to allAbsolute drivel. Starmer has repeatedly ruled out just about anything that brings us in any way closer to the EU. It’s by far his stupidest opinion that will do more to stifle the UK than anything else. Ask almost any small or medium business what has happened to their trade to/from the EU since we left and what effect it’s had on them. You won’t hear anything positive.
If leaving was such a good idea, why do we keep postponing the checks on goods etc that were supposed to have been brought in years ago? Strangely I don’t hear anyone up in arms about this.
You also cite the growth of China. Is anyone advocating for closer ties with them? I’m not hearing it. On the whole people have a negative view of the place. I guarantee you I have a more positive view of China than the average Brit, they are light years ahead of Europe (in fact just about the entire West) in some ways. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Who’s stopping EU members trading with China anyway?
“There’s a light at the end of the tunnel”.
It’s the light of an oncoming train.
Driven by Labour it will hit pensioners head on this winter.
…Unless reverse is immediately engaged.Value Is Everything@ Richard
Starmer and Labour rejected a democratic vote then campaigned for a second in order to overturn the original before then having his ‘road to Damascus’ moment.In interviews etc he’s often expressed the view for closer ties but these weren’t for the public to see,he did so on a visit to Canada earlier this year.He’s an old fashioned socialist as red as any that have gone before him but parades himself as a moderate centralist.Just look at the promises he made to his own party to get elected leader …. ALL DUMPED!
He promised honesty & integrity to get rid of sleaze,I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Government go down the drain faster.At the w/e I read of ministers demanding extra heating for their offices in the Commons and to top it off Home Office staff are to get rises of up to 9% but the cherry is the £20,000 pay rise given to Sue Gray more than some pensioners have to live off for an entire year.
Why are you blaming me for a report written by one of their own and the simple fact the EU’s in decline because of it’s own policies.Italian PM Giorgia Meloni put the problem pithily: ‘America innovates,China replicates,Europe regulates.’ (my reference to China was only to show how their economy has grown compared to the EU)
A few years ago Ken Fisher used to write a regular column in a well know financial magazine ‘Fishers Financial Mythbusters’ in which commonly held beliefs were debunked as so much nonsense he finished one such column
‘Profit motive isn’t sapped because humanity faces challenges.In fact,challenges and the need for innovation can be motivating factors for those willing to take risks to chase future profits.Capital markets are resilient because humanity is resilient.Those who have bet against that have been proved wrong,time and time again
good luck to allStarmer is not any kind of Socialist he’s a Tory in disguise.
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysIt is not just pensioners who are struggling, Ginger. There are some couples who live in Central London who are so poor that they cannot afford to buy their own clothes.
I hear some of them have taken free clothes – and, now one of them has employed a photographer at £68000 per annum of tax payers’ money to photograph them.
It is Angela Rayner with the £68,000 a year photographer paid for by the taxpayer. A pity for her she once tweeted about how it was a disgraceful waste of pubic money when Boris Johnson did exactly the same thing!
As I said earlier, these people are so dim they either don’t remember what they have said or they seriously think no one is capable of doing an internet search.
If it’s wrong now, it was wrong then. Funny how a lot of people and large sections of the media suddenly care about how every single penny of taxpayers’ money is spent when they were silent while literally billions were being blown up the wall.
Water companies overcharging customers hundreds of millions of pounds (including those hard up pensioners of course) by lying about sewage discharges, nothing.
And the BBC trying to tell us that some people in Government are overpaid, good one
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