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if you're going to Beijing or Shanghai you'll love it. I just got back from a trip to both. Safe, clean, modern, fully-functioning cities. Get around by Didi (equivalent of Grab). More food choices than in Bangkok. Watch out for the 'silent killers' (electric motor bikes everywhere). Take high-speed trains between cities.

It means giving billions of $ to the climate-change industrial complex so that all those useless high-paid 'activists' employed by NGOs can keep their jobs for another few years.

"Britain could adopt a balanced approach that prioritizes fairness and common sense without veering into unnecessary virtue-signaling. The question is whether Britain still remembers what those values are." The majority of Britons do remember what those values are, but their wishes have been ignored by the governing elites for at least a quarter of a century. We have far greater problems than gender-neutral toilets. The police should get away from their computer screens trawling for 'Non-crime hate incidents' and get back on the streets arresting real criminals. Meanwhile, burglaries, shoplifting and car thefts are no longer even investigated. Hundreds of fighting-age young men arrive on our shores every week in rubber dinghies, to be housed, fed and given mobile phones at the taxpayers' expense. Those winds of change from across the Pond can't come soon enough.

As another poster has said, the information is available to the TRD if they decide to audit you. Are you feeling lucky?

Where's your proof?

It's almost as though they're deliberately trying to destroy the country......oh wait, just let me call Davos for clarification.

Propaganda works both ways. You think the Guardian is unbiased?

Confusing only to Guardian readers, wringing their hands over 'tyranny'. Trump has started his second term with a clear plan of action, and is determined not to be derailed this time around by the deep state. As a Washington outsider in 2016, he was advised to choose deep state insiders in key positions who could be easily manipulated. They blocked or watered down his policies to their own agenda. This time he has a team of loyalists who know exactly how to get things done. It will be fun to watch.

So they weren't all working from home then?

Great to see the Davos crowd squirming in their seats as Trump tells them a few home truths. Even more fun was Javier Milei's speech. Pity he didn't bring his chainsaw with him.

All entirely predictable. She was told by the OBR this would happen before she changed the non-dom rules. But socialists never learn - money goes where it is treated best. I expect Chomps will be along soon to tell us getting the most productive people to leave the UK is all part of the grand Labour plan.

You'll need an executor in the UK that you name in the will. Someone you trust, or you can pay a solicitor to do it.

Just make a UK will leaving everything to your wife. Any decent UK solicitor can handle it.

Along with Bliar.

None so blind.....

Try this for size. I know you'll believe it as it comes from the BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwxzpqrnjko

Are you so blind as to not see that the UK's out-of-control government spending goes far beyond the issue of disability benefits? The Lords report covers just one symptom of an underlying disease. Tinkering around the edges will not resolve the fundamental problem, as Rachel from accounts is finding out.

" the only option is to question why we are, on paper at least, so chronically more sick than the rest of Europe." There's you answer. Declaring you have a self-diagnosed 'metal health' issue has become acceptable, even fashionable. And the gullible benefit assessors go along with it, so that millions can sit on their sofas watching daytime TV and stuffing themselves with junk food, which of course exacerbates their 'metal health' issues'.

I actually find myself in agreement on something with Tony Blair. I'm going to lie down in a darkened room until it passes.

"The report notes that £65 billion is spent annually on health-related benefits, surpassing the government’s defence budget of £54 billion." That's not even the biggest problem for Rachel from accounts. From the FT: "The Treasury will spend £110bn on debt interest in 2023, according to a forecast by Fitch. At 10.4 per cent of total government revenue, that would be the highest level of any high-income country." National debt and government spending are out of control, while public services get even worse. It's the perfect storm.

"This raises concerns about what children are being taught regarding immigration and whether they are encouraged to critically evaluate the impact of such policies." I doubt if children are being taught to critically evaluate anything. What our masters want is ignorant, obedient voting fodder who believe everything they're told and follow orders.

These clowns have been filmed clocking in at the Parliament office for 5 minutes on a Friday morning to collect their weekly allowances, then b*****ing off home for a long weekend. The European Parliament is about equivalent to the plenum of the CCP - a powerless talking shop set up to rubber stamp Queen Ursula's proclamations. And handsomely paid for the privilege, not to mention the numerous scandals concerning their expenses over the years, The only time it served any purpose was when Nigel Farage was an MEP and regularly let off steam at the bunch of useless Eurocrats running the show.

What exactly do you disagree with in the article?

Agreed....but to replace them with what? I don't see any shining lights on the Labour front bench.

The guy with a Greek name (who may or may not be Greek, have you seen his passport?) is running a news outlet that opposes ILLEGAL immigration and is in favour of a cap on the number of legal migrants to the UK. Perfectly sensible positions which the majority of the British public agree with.