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I think on matters of economics I would trust the opinion of a rocket scientist over that of an economist.
I gather our new Chancellor of the Exchequer was once an economist at the Bank of England. What could possibly go wrong?
DaveS
Sky News Australia on loss of trust in UK police. Thought they over-egged the headline "incident", but the rest of it rang true enough.
I don't understand the whole open immigration thing. How has it become doctrine? Would it all go away if we were to move to a different measure — say GDP/capita — of overall economic wellbeing rather than plain GDP?
There would likely be objections from economists that GDP per capita tells you little about the size of the whole economy. Here's an idea: use GDP when talking about the whole economy, and use the per capita figure when talking about the welfare of the people. Rocket science?
Robert Swan
tomo, DaveS,
Sheesh.
It seems we have sorted the old deprecating remark about First World problems: First World is now in a truly pitiable state.
Robert Swan
tomo
DaveS
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Robert
the more I see of the present crop of BBC reporters the more I think they're simply vapid, profoundly ignorant stenographers who couldn't actually explain what hard right even is, even in their own limited vocabulary. Mind you, there's a few grizzled poisonous lefty info-warriors lurking too feeding cues.The toxicity of today's UK media on full display.
I strongly suspect that state provocateurs are racking up lots of overtime too. .This lot seem to have had some organisation assistance imho. ££££££££££ of public funds is being poured into "Islamic resilience".
That video opening sequence reminded me of Nigerian railway yards at Apapa (docks) - Lagos - nothing moved after "independence"
tomo
tomo,
Yes, the BBC are holding firm: all evil comes from the "far right". I wonder how exactly the Southport protests have "revealed" the far right's organising tactics. The tactics truly on show are the BBC's. Weren't the protests triggered by a lunatic murdering young children? Who do they think organised that?
I found this travel video around the land of my birth (Zimbabwe) to be entertaining but grim. It shows the natural outcome when you indulge the the politics of envy.
Many of the comments to the video see parallels in the UK.
Robert Swan
That Starmer would be hopeless was a more or less inevitable, but the ineptitude he and his cabinet colleagues have shown in less than a calendar month is impressive.
DaveS
The UK's premier propaganda factory is busy at the behest of the twerps in the Labour Party.
See this afternoon's front page offering - you 'orrible climate deniers are next up.
BONUS:
An evaluation of Kamala Harris from somebody who knows her well and has well, darker skin....
tomo
Robert
those salaried bureaucrats feel invulnerable. They largely control access to information. - when legal pressure is applied - that access is controlled by more salaried bureaucrats. In my direct experience in the UK the bureaucrats art The Environment Agency simply choose to ignore questions they don't like - or lie about the availability of evidence - and even when caught telling lies and missing documents retrieved - the intent of the obstruction succeeds - in one case withholding pivotal evidence from a Judicial Review and in another withholding evidence for a year from a Parliamentary Select Committee.
tomo
Supposedly there is this billions of pounds black hole that is going to cause taxation to rise.
Wonder when the media will get around to asking them how they then intend to cover the cost of 100,000 migrants a year coming in to the UK if this black hole is so massive?