deskjetprinter.bsky.social
Former journalist turned master of the dark arts.
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How about ensuring care agencies are receiving the necessary funding from local commissioning bodies to be able to pay higher rates that might attract more UK workers before cutting off the only current means they have to staff these vital roles? Cart before horse, and a recipe for disaster.
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And yet the reporting is that Labour feel it will give them a much needed boost after the elections - which shows just how utterly tone deaf they are.
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I don't trust our Government not to give everything away and look like complete fools while the rest of the world hangs tough.
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Even though the statute he's relying upon to introduce tariffs specifically excludes films.... bsky.app/profile/down...
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Thanks to Labour’s cowardice, Britain is stumbling into one of the most cruelly anti-trans regimes in the western world. A bathroom ban is neither workable, ethical, popular nor debated by legislators but they’re just waving it through
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Given that there are 195 recognised countries in the world, that's quite an achievement. Ah, of course, I was forgetting about those islands with the penguins.
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I’ll bet. Given they’re in a trade war simultaneously and unilaterally with the whole world you have to think it puts them in the worst position if the rest of the world decides to turn the screw on them instead?
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I’ve just realised that this is all effectively a continuation of The Apprentice, but now the deluded, talentless no-hope wannabes grovelling to Trump are the Cabinet.
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Plus 10% universally, plus 25% on cars and steel. Upper tariffs have gone away for other countries for now, but the new 125% rate for major partner China means it all still works out pretty much the same as it did first thing yesterday.
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Something utterly outrageous gets announced, massive reaction, then when it's inevitably pushed back to something which is still outrageous and damaging the media and markets go, 'Phew - glad that's all over!'
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Even if Chinese imports halve, the effective rate is still huge.
That's the main point.
Trump might have blinked, but this is still a US-inspired unilateral trade war against the world
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I'm amazed and frustrated by the 'Trump has paused his reciprocal tariffs' reporting. He hasn't. New 10% tariff minimum universally, and 25% on cars and steel, while the hike yesterday to 125% on massive trading partner China puts the overall average roughly to where it was yesterday morning.
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Citi says avg tariff rate is still 21 percentage points above where it began the year: “Pausing reciprocal tariffs excluding China does not mean the US economy has avoided a slowdown in growth and rise in inflation…”
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The reporting of a 'pause' seems to overlook that the 10% tariffs stay, and apply to all countries
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The U.K. Government stating ‘cool heads prevail’ as if vindicated, when we’re still facing the same tariffs as this morning and it was only because China stood up to him that he caved in to any extent with other trading partners
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But he held all the cards? You know, I can't help but think it's just possible that, in years to come, the expression 'holding the trump card' is going to have a very different meaning.
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Yeah, but swap the horse-drawn carriage for a 2012 Vauxhall Zafira.
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He'd cruise around to pick up a prostitute, before carefully driving her to Citizens Advice, offering to represent her pro bono in a tribunal over a benefits sanction.
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When the stock market is tumbling and the pressure is causing cracks to appear between Trump and his backers, and there’s speculation he might be forced to abandon his tariffs, why would any nation rush into a bad deal with the US?
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Israel has learned its lesson. In the future they'll search the bodies for phones.
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The other phrases aren’t a play on expressions, though, so where’s the consistency?
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Should it not be 'Calm and Collected' and 'Charming and Dangerous'?
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I think he’s going to drag this out longer than Booker.
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I can't help but think there's a sense that populist right wing poltiicians need to be indulged like badly behaved, petulant children - their misbehaviour understood, accepted and forgiven. Other politicians are expected to behave like adults and follow the rules.
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Well, you can't make an omelette without accidentally and illegally sending completely innocent people to the unending hell of an El Salvador maximum security prison packed with hundreds of the scariest gang members in the world and no hope of ever seeing their loved ones again.
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Insecurity fuelled by a lack of intelligence and class.
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I’m confused as to whether it’s €1 million or €100 million and would need clarity on that before I could possibly accept.
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Ukraine needs to watch that it doesn’t escape one despot by finding itself under the control of another.
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It's well worth watching this video going inside the El Salvador mega-prison. It's mind-boggling. I can't imagine being an innocent ending up in this environment..... youtu.be/H42zWaD4A4s?...
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Any interest in doing an analysis of possible global consequences of enacting the Mar-a~Lago Accord, if this is indeed what this represents? think.ing.com/articles/mar...
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And it should be noted that she delivered that with a big, smug grin.
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Except the Supreme Court have already determined that Trump is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. So Trump has no need to rely on pardons. His cronies, maybe, but I doubt he cares.
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I fully expect Trump to come out of this call hailing it a huge success, and that he and Putin have got it all sorted, and now here are the terms of Ukraine's de facto surrender
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This would never have happened if Trump had been President.
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I'd highly recommend this video, @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social. Gillian Tett from the Financial Times breaks down the clear objectives of the Trump administration, which closely align with the Mar-a-Lago Accord. Well worth a watch! 👇 youtu.be/3PXVrLH4zSU?...
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The sins of the father….
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Some form of... supranational union, of some sort`?