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Builds new factories and improves older ones. Engineering & psychology. Star sailing, greyhounds rescuing & reading.
We need to reduce inequality and build a better society. Good homes, food, healthcare and education work well for everyone!
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The fall in capital investment was pretty broadly based (working on old memory), but Honda’s closure certainly accelerated the general trend.
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Take sycophancy to level 9 …
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Capital investment plummeted following 2016 and the brexit referendum.
Unsurprisingly, volumes went down and down as capital investment levels are a lead indicator of future activity levels.
Brexit sunlit uplands.
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The maga has pronouns too.
Twit.
Fool.
Idiot.
Dunning-Kruger.
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Waiting for TACO to reverse this …
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Love a skylark!
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I’m sure the telegraph used to be a serious newspaper with some useful information.
Am I really that old and my memory that bad?
What a long, long fall.
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I certainly think it’s worth giving public ownership a try. I mean, it will not be worse than treating an essential utility as an asset for financial engineering and price carving.
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Have they just copied, pasted and edited a tweet about Ukraine from February 2022?
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Because they’re all about efficiency you know … 🤦♂️
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And exceptionally high call volumes is the normal or default message. 🤦♂️
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The off-ramp is the same now as it has always been after Putin’s three-day war of choice found itself in it’s third year.
Russia go home and lie to the Russians that all objectives of the war of choice were achieved.
The off-ramp is to lie. But just leave Ukraine.
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If we take a decade and then regret the decision we can then … oh, it’s so confusing!
Brexit dies a little more every day.
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Errm. The second and third largest fleets did not fare very well in 1805. Be careful!
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So if Elon breached the terms of his visa then he would not be allowed back into the US at customs, right?
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For sure.
But the huge numbers changed the course of things. Arms matter, but quantity has a quality all of its own. The crowd was huge and packed.
And to get the number of people out had some organisation and mobilisation.
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It never ceases to surprise how frequently tests seem to be untested for clarity or misunderstanding.
Whatever happened to the stage where the developers say to others, “please try and break this“?
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Glasgow and London turned out a huge crowd that simply overwhelmed the immigration teams. The crowds were huge. Immigration decided to run away.
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Then followed Starling ….
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DOGE has overseen record spending. Not quite the espoused plan.
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“Well known” … for all the wrong reasons Steve. All the wrong reasons.
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Google as a public service providing information on demand.
Poor Baker. Not because nobody wants him. Poor, because he is determined to not understand why people don’t want him.
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We cannot afford both the capital investment and the dividend payments.
Time to lose the dividend payments. Nationalise!
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Is BET any easier?
Or LET?
Sorry. I will GET my coat.
Some really funny ones on the replies. Not mine. I was just desperate to add something and went for the lowest common denominator. (Except maybe derivatives of It.)
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Come on. You cannot be sure of that.
Trussonomics would easily be surpassed and made redundant in the shadow of Faragonomics!
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VET
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Reminds me of our trip with the orca in the San Juan Islands. Beautiful.
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I’m thinking Harry can’t articulate his views very well.
But then reform can’t articulate any answers to problems. They just like to say, “Well we wouldn’t do that“!
Worse than Truss.
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Make America Gullible Again, apparently.
How can people do something as complicated and demanding as run a farm and be unable to double-check what they’re told?
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Says the guy who rolled out the red carpet to andrew tate …
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Yes, Russia was forced.
Forced by Putin.
That’s how dictatorships work.
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Badenoch. Just Bad is enough of a description.
So the conservatives and reform are putin apologists. They are not fit for office.
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A convincing win in Putin’s three-day war of choice? Is that in the first or second five-year plan.
I presume no details given on russian casualties and losses.
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Recent generations have seen retirement become longer and healthier. That’s great. I’d like a long and healthy retirement.
We pay for retirement with a balanced working to retired population ratio. As the country ages, we need incremental growth in the workforce. We need migration above 120k.
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Go now, would be my vote.
Confidence over knowledge has been found wanting again.
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I would rather the government be close to the IFS analysis over the IEA dogma.
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Good work Good Law.
Thank you!
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We need to make a positive case for migration.
A long and healthy retirement is a part of that positive case.
I plan on having a long and healthy retirement.
Do others?
How will it be paid for if the country simply gets older with a lower working:retired ratio?
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We had better hope migration does not stop or reduce hugely.
The UK is ageing with low fertility and a large national debt.
Long and healthy retirements are largely paid for by a sufficiently large working population.
Without migration the working:retired ratio will result in poverty and worse.
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Whilst the UK applying to join the EU and then join is a process that will take too long (and therefore perpetuate the damage caused for longer), I fear the UK will rejoin the EU before the US gets universal healthcare (and therefore perpetuate the damage caused for even longer).