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🇪🇺#AFCB/#Leafs fan. Football coach, dad. Software architect & sometimes cook. All views patently my own (who else would want them?)
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If we import products produced in a system with lower welfare and husbandry standards, our own farmers will need to lower standards to compete on price - and standards fall across the board. If Gilead wants to sell us their produce they need to be made to up their welfare and animal husbandry game.
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People on this site will know and understand the dangers we face.. but British BlueSky is still relatively tiny. The wider media simply don't seem to care - either due to being complicit or in denial..
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The positive side is that we are lucky that there is no election here until after Trump's term in office is due to end. The real consequences of right wing populism will have been laid very bare by that time and Reform are tightly coupled to Trumpism.
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Every democratic election we see is going to be interfered with by Musk, Putin and China in different ways. Campaign finance law changes are likely but the manipulation of public sentiment through social and mass media is unlikely to be stopped.
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That sentence sent shivers down my spine because that's the same mistake Democrats made prior to Trump getting elected. I urge everyone in the UK to take very aggressive action to prevent the UK from going down the path the US is. Everyone must stop using Twitter and move to Bluesky.
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I don't want a trade deal with Gilead on principle - but it wouldn't make rejoining impossible - it would just mean we'd have to give notice that the deal will terminate on the date of our accession.
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... and Labour are sleepwalking us into it.
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This, of course, is why they're doing it.
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☝️This is the way
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I'll aim for there then 🍻
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I wonder if Elon would still have that opinion if I were to launch a new car company called Tesla..
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The longest game in the history of the universe
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Boooo
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Trump's Mengele.
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I'm prepared to accept it might 'just' be insider dealing rather than market manipulation.. I doubt it though.
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They're not reciprocal though are they, don't fall into line with his terminology.
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It's a security issue for me. If we let steel production go, we'll never get it back.. China will cut production back at some point..
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We need to make sure that we have our own source of steel, and do not fall into the trap as we have in so many other areas, of being dependent on other countries.
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He's also incredibly shit at golf.
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Secondly, giving Trump's broligarchy any kind of reward for their part in his regime is also unconscionable. We should be aiming to hurt these people as much as we can.
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.. but the domestic and global political optics and impacts are terrible. Firstly, giving the world's richest men a tax clut while you're slashing benefits for the disabled is unconscionable and this will not be something you escape electorally.
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I do understand that from an economic perspective it makes sense. The UK tech sector doesn't have an Apple or an Amazon to protect. You don't tariff/tax the stuff you don't produce at home (like Trump is with coffee) so giving a tax break there to reduce tariffs on things we do produce has rationale
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He's just a terrible person.