What about trying to do trade deals (that you've failed at) and hoping to ship goods halfway across the world when you're biggest customer and supplier is 22 miles across the sea.
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What about trying to do trade deals (that you've failed at) and hoping to ship goods halfway across the world when you're biggest customer and supplier is 22 miles across the sea.
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I guess we might as well not bother about it then.
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Welcome to politics. Power, public perception and timing are key.
A comment that is made one day is terrible but not politically damaging but another day it is.. a sincerely held position may be what you want but if the public doesn't accept it you have to time when to push to change the narrative right and get the changes you want etc.
Most people are boomers that don't get trans issues, but most people understand a mother's love, how painful it must be to lose a child, and how objectionable it is to be rude to guests.. but no instead of using the opportunity to push for acceptance and move the needle, let's just be snarky shits, eh
A comment that is made one day is terrible but not politically damaging but another day it is.. a sincerely held position may be what you want but if the public doesn't accept it you have to time when to push to change the narrative right and get the changes you want etc.
Most people are boomers that don't get trans issues, but most people understand a mother's love, how painful it must be to lose a child, and how objectionable it is to be rude to guests.. but no instead of using the opportunity to push for acceptance and move the needle, let's just be snarky shits, eh
Most people understood trans issues just fine even four or five years ago. The subject has since been weaponised by the right as part of the culture wars and trans folk have been demonised in the same way immigrants are. It’s preposterous.
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I did think this as well. The tories will just tell you they don’t like you.
In a way, Sunak is the real victim here.
Vote Labour!
Abysmal Enoch is on the same intellectual and competence level as the decomposed lettuce. PM material.
Apathy is perfect for another five years of Tory rule. Can't wait guys, the plan is working perfectly.
Answered your own question Paul, first it's illegal activity; second it is not priority for a large section of the public and is taking the headlines away from other matters; thirdly the problems inherent in setting up coherent legal entry routes (even if the government has the will to do so) cannot be solved overnight, it needs a 'joined up' and 'thought out' policy on migration, covering; asylum seekers, economic migrants, returners, dependents, etc. and crucially that has the support of the majority of the UK public.
Not another myth (Brexit or not), in many areas outside of the main conurbations, wages did fall in retailing, parts of hospitality, and in certain areas of health and social care. Even in skilled areas relating to construction, hourly rates fell. It was because wages in the EU had begun to rise that many people decided to move back to their homeland, even before the Brexit vote, in particular Polish construction workers.
No, I believe a way has to be found, and especially in the longer term, to make sure this country survives the aftermath of Brexit. That decision taken in 2016 cannot be reversed, because what we had and the position we had with the EU can never be replaced. Even if the majority in the UK wants to return to the EU, in say ten years, the currency questions, the rebates, the 'opt outs' etc. will not be replaced or indeed replicated. We are now a third country as far as the EU rhetoric is concerned. Also if a new Jacques Delor becomes EU President the march towards ever closer union will once again prove a stumbling block.
Starmer knows he has to make the 'best of a bad' job he knows that very well and will have to move carefully with the EU, as well as at home, to try to fix what can be fixed and to seek new arrangements going forward. The world has changed since 2016 and will change even more in the next two decades, old habits and instincts will linger but they have to be over come, starting from where we are, not where we would like to be. Even the Tories (most of them anyway) who are unlikely to have much of a say in matters for the foreseeable future have realised the sense of retaining the EU laws in many areas... that could be a place for Starmer to start?
No Paul, I was heavily involved in Education, Industrial Training and related Management issues before I retired in 2012. British companies regularly under invested in training, after the ITB's and TECS etc had run their course and government direct funding support virtually dried up. What money there was from the late 1990's was being gradually diverted to establishing a 14 -19 Vocational Pathway, this was suppose to bridge the latter part of secondary education 14-16 and the first part of tertiary education 16-19, and eventually for some leading to High Education Degree's. However this never happened, as it was envisage, since the 14-16 (secondary) was running on 'narrow gauge' and the 16-19 (tertiary) running on 'wide gauge' and nobody noticed until it was too late.
A lot of British industry felt let down and wanted the support of the ITB's to be returned and funded by the Government, but that didn't happen and a lot of British companies effectively 'took their ball home' and effective widespread industrial and some commercial training died out, well almost. From my view point, it was usually the foreign-owned companies, who were more committed to and undertook to provide training themselves or occasionally with private training outlets. Probably why they had a surplus of expertise?
These people utterly disgust me
The tories are around 20 points behind Labour. The plan isn’t working.
People see two very similar centre right parties. Labour are getting picked now because they haven’t been in power for over a decade but no one is expecting anything to get better. Plus it’s the job of politicians to push back against peoples apathy.
The spin begins
If it's not a priority why does the British media and politicians mention it every single day. You, yourself said the boat people needed to be solved first. They do not want it solved. Distractions everywhere.
Where do you get the impression that wages in the EU are lower than the UK. The Uk were before the referendum( and still are) in the bottom half. Yes some Eastern European countries were below but they're catching up fast and will soon overtake the UK. One of the points of the EU is to strengthen the whole of Europe which is what has happened. Now the Uk will be left behind.
How does replacing European workers with agency workers from third world countries increase UK salaries? Those lower waged people did the jobs the British workers refused to do and still refuse to do. So what are the British being trained to do if their better paid jobs will be taken by the newly favoured better trained immigrants. Double stupidity.
The best policy was the one the UK had but were told by the Brexiters that it wasn't. Crazy.
But don't worry - the unemployment figures look really good. Mainly because the unemployed are now classed as economically inactive instead.
Strange that the health service, education service , training services , infrastructure, transport etc etc etc are far superior in France than the UK , from personal experience , and yet they're in the EU. And French people moan about it. They really don't realise how lucky they are.
Training and apprenticeships are great for the youngsters. My two teenage grandsons have had an excellent education , so far ahead of the education my daughters had in the UK, and being helped all the way into starting out in a professional life - it's a different world.
It's the Uk government that has been so bad for so long.
I have no idea how people see labour as the same as the Tory's. Even if labour are centre right (we shall see on that when they get into power), the Tory's are very, very far right of that and incredibly corrupt and inept.
Speaking of our liz, I swear I walked past Therese Coffey the other day.
Felt harsh tbh, incaae it wasn't her. The British public doesn't deserve that.
Felt harsh tbh, incaae it wasn't her. The British public doesn't deserve that.
if there’s a second one, miss uk is going to be one hell of a close contest this year.
Both parties are offering austerity, have conservatives social views and agree on foreign policy(Starmer backed the PM bypassing parliament to bomb Yemen and said on tv that Israel has the right to cut off water and food from Gaza)
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You can disagree with policy decisions and I disagree with quite a few from Labour but in terms of gutter politics and nasty politicians, the Tories are in a league of their own.
I cannot believe he is weaponising his daughter's murder to score cheap political points. I'm sure Kemi will tweet about this tonight.
Sunak is best described in When the sun goes down by the Artic Monkeys:
And what a scummy man
Just give him half a chance
I bet he'll rob you if he can
And what a scummy man
Just give him half a chance
I bet he'll rob you if he can
Also Starmer said on national television that Israel has the right to stop water and power from Gaza. That’s a war crime.
It’s sucks that Labour are now David Cameron Tory party but that is the reality we live.
Hang on are we saying we don't want paedo's locked up?
I thought judges were supposed to be independent of politicians
Also Starmer said on national television that Israel has the right to stop water and power from Gaza. That’s a war crime.
It’s sucks that Labour are now David Cameron Tory party but that is the reality we live.
I don’t agree with Labours policy on Gaza. But I’ll judge them when they are in power. How much money have the Tories given to their mates and decimated public services. If you are comparing one poster to all of the dog whistle and culture war stuff that the Tories have done then it doesn’t even compare.
Also Starmer said on national television that Israel has the right to stop water and power from Gaza. That’s a war crime.
It’s sucks that Labour are now David Cameron Tory party but that is the reality we live.
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Well done Charlie Brooker. You won. We are now living in a big Black Mirror episode.
The UK desperately needs proportional representation. Shame none of the Tories or Labour benefit from implementing it.
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They're trying to chin him out of there