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Don't post on here often, but read it every day. Can't sit by and watch @Ozanne getting picked on for doing little other than make a polite 'point of order' request without my saying something. F

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Obviously horrible news. But I think pointing the finger at Rayner is not only unfair to her, but also serves to help silence critics of the Tories. Don't forget that over the years, BJ's words h

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Man I'm furious. He's not remotely apologetic. Look at his face while Starmer is talking. I've tried to avoid taking this too personally but my mum died in hospital last summer and I wasn't allow

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10 hours ago, Matt42 said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/06/01/wetherspoons-boss-calls-eu-migration-tackle-bar-staff-shortage/

Major hospitality staff shortages around here. And of course, everywhere is absolutely slammed too. Don't know if it's entirely Brexit related or other factors too. Would guess some people might not want to work in a job that brings them in to contact with a lot of people. And of course, not wanting to risk losing your job if there are more lockdowns.

We're not too bad as we have a couple of factors in our favour (a company that a certain type of person wants to work for but more importantly, cheap accommodation for staff) and I think we've filled nearly all the seasonal roles we have but I know we were choosing from fewer applicants than usual. But there are places around which are desperate. I'm seeing job adverts offering much higher wages and better terms than I've ever seen

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Not sure it's specifically about Brexit ttho brexit probably doesn't help. Around me it seemed like the pandemic had a lot of Europeans people return to their home countries... And they don't seem to have come back yet. In theory they can come back but there's lots of different reasons why they might choose not to brexit means that other Europeans can't come in place of them.

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Useless Dowden and Johnson are quick to stick up for that cricketer’s decade-old tweets (obviously is a long time ago so the punishment does seem harsh) but not so bothered about the racists booing the footballers taking the knee (they ‘respect people’s right’ to do the action - but nothing about without abuse): https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/57383097.amp

There was a West End fundraiser event last night, festivals and grassroots venues/smaller sports teams are being crippled. Shouldn’t the culture secretary be more focused on issues like that? 

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Useless Dowden and Johnson are quick to stick up for that cricketer’s decade-old tweets (obviously is a long time ago so the punishment does seem harsh) but not so bothered about the racists booing the footballers taking the knee (they ‘respect people’s right’ to do the action - but nothing about without abuse): https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/57383097.amp

There was a West End fundraiser event last night, festivals and grassroots venues/smaller sports teams are being crippled. Shouldn’t the culture secretary be more focused on issues like that? 

shocked that some England fans are racist.

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20 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

that will be all those people watching Piers Morgan's Life Stories.

I only saw 1 clip of it when he was talking about his Mums passing, it was sad. From the brief clip, Starmer came across quite well.

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15 hours ago, Ryan1984 said:

Useless Dowden and Johnson are quick to stick up for that cricketer’s decade-old tweets (obviously is a long time ago so the punishment does seem harsh) but not so bothered about the racists booing the footballers taking the knee (they ‘respect people’s right’ to do the action - but nothing about without abuse): https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/57383097.amp

There was a West End fundraiser event last night, festivals and grassroots venues/smaller sports teams are being crippled. Shouldn’t the culture secretary be more focused on issues like that? 

Listening to Matthew d'Ancona talking about this on R4 Today programme...all part of the strategy to keep the cultural war thing going on...govt are on the side of all those supposedly against woke. This is going to go on and on. Grim.

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39 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Listening to Matthew d'Ancona talking about this on R4 Today programme...all part of the strategy to keep the cultural war thing going on...govt are on the side of all those supposedly against woke. This is going to go on and on. Grim.

Somone needs to ask those people what it is they object to about taking the knee here's betting they can't give a coherentl answer.

 

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4 hours ago, mattiloy said:

 

Not to mention this one.

Lab -2, Green +2

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Labour loses Batley and Spen, still remains a long way behind in the polls for next year as economy recovers and we can start having sex again, Starmer comes under increased pressure to quit, quits, replaced with Rachel Reeves...centrists rejoice.

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46 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Labour loses Batley and Spen, still remains a long way behind in the polls for next year as economy recovers and we can start having sex again, Starmer comes under increased pressure to quit, quits, replaced with Rachel Reeves...centrists rejoice.


Perhaps, a years a long time in politics.

The economic recovery is not certain. There are a lot of strange effects going on at once both domestically and in the wider world. Uncharted territory really. My gut feeling is that a lot of growth stocks are overvalued at the moment and so a lot of small investors are quite heavily exposed to inflation, meanwhile the housing market has had a big bubble owing to that same boom in investments/savings (which since interest has been so low has also largely taken the form of investments in financial assets). So depending on the size of a big consumption boom (ie if its sharp enough to be a ’shock’) coupled with higher inflation could certainly have adverse effects on small investors and the housing market. A downturn in the housing market always has negative effects on the wider economy.

But lets see anyway!

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