RayC

I'm sorry that you got mugged but, unfortunately, it happens. However, it certainly doesn't prove that London as a whole is some crime-infested cesspit as some posters have suggested, or that London is a worse place to live than it was 40 years ago. The demographics change. Imo most of South London is a much healthy and wealthier place to live compared with 40 years ago. Some areas (e.g. Tower Hamlets?) may be worse.

I've no idea why you would reach that conclusion. She embellished her CV. Is this really that important? Why 'apparently' and quotation marks around economist? Is there any doubt that she was an economist at the BoE? So experience in a broad range of business related processes. False argument leads to false conclusion. Time will tell.

No it wasn't https://markets.ft.com/data/announce/detail?dockey=1330-1000914114en-7T4PD6PCHCKR3ERM89GBSJ3P0O#:~:text=In 2023 EDF was the,down by 26% from 2022.

Despite the categorisation of London as "crime infested" dump by some posters - whose recent experience of the UK capital city probably amounts to no more than a couple of hours every few years - London figures highly (top 20%) in many surveys such as the annual Berkshire Hathaway Safest Cities of the World and The Economist Intelligence Unit Livability Index, more often than not ahead of cities such as Bangkok, NYC and Paris. ahead of New York City, Tokyo, and Paris.

So the fact that Reeves hasn't run a business is irrelevant then? Running an economy is not the same as running an individual's personal finances.

How so?

That was in 2022. EDF returned €10bn profit in 2023.

Agreed but the post to which I replied seemed to imply that EU regulation was a barrier to member states' having an efficient energy industry. The French experience suggests otherwise.

Bad food? 50 years ago you were right. Nowadays - thanks to immigrants mainly - choice and quality of cuisine has greatly improved. Bad teeth? Maybe but those braces and uniform pearly whites seen in the US mean that sunglasses are a necessity. Speak funny? Now you are 'aving a larf?

And yet by following the same EU directives and regulations as the UK, the French energy sector has thrived. Very strange.

Neither have many recent chancellors e.g. Osborne, kwarteng.

Can I interest anyone in a bowl of whale head soup or, perhaps, some bear cub pate?

Another of your private conversations?😉 In any event, that may or may not be the case, but it's not the answer to the question which I posed.

Where is the evidence to support that contention?

Didn't you state previously that "Oirish" - your often used prefix - Joe Biden was anti-British? However, you now suggest that American Liberals - presumably this grouping includes Biden? - are obsequious in their dealings with British Royalty. Seems contradictory.

So basically women are money-grabbing prostitutes in your eyes?

Nothing like the same thing. And btw in your example a crime will have been committed.

Thanks for posting a fact. Unfortunately, it lives in splendid isolation amongst the bias, misogynist opinion in this thread. I have no idea whether a rape took place as I haven't followed the case or read the evidence. However, trivialities such as having a prior knowledge of the details of the case do not stop the misogynists knowing that McGregor has no case to answer. Instead, they know intuitively that the woman was an opportunist, who was influenced by McGregor's purse for the Mayweather fight among other things to gain a 'pay day'.

The Pfizer executive did not say that the vaccine "did not stop transmission". Pfizer stated that their vaccine was not tested to see whether it reduced the incidence of transmission before it was launched. However, Initial studies did indeed suggest that the vaccine reduced the incidence of transmission of the virus, although later studies have questioned this conclusion (hindsight is a wonderful thing). Given what was known at the time (2021), why should an individual, who didn't wish to be vaccinated, be permitted to increase my risk of contamination? I certainly didn't sanction it. These individuals knew that by refusing to be vaccinated, they might lose their jobs. The decision whether to vaccinate was forced upon them, but they were not coerced into being vaccinated: The decision was the individual's and the individual's alone.

Perhaps Trump - or someone else - could commission a new bust of Churchill. Imo this one is bloody awful and should be melted down.

No it wasn't. It was a change in the conditions of employment. You either accepted it or you didn't. The choice rested with the individual.

+/-20% of the US population remain unvaccinated against COVID and +/-10% in England. This knocks your theory that the population was forced into taking the vaccine into a cocked hat. Whether to be vaccinated (or not) was, quite rightly, left to the individual.

You appear to believe that it is almost sacreligious to levy any criticism at the Blessed Nig. No, you didn't mention GB News, I did. It is another of Farage's activities which is unrelated to his constituency work. I've no idea how much time Ed Davey spends in his constituency, but it appears that he at least holds some surgeries there, which is more than you can say for Farage https://www.kingstonlibdems.org.uk/eddavey-mp/contact https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l47e86r39o.amp I am a betting man, and if I can find a bookie offering some decent odds, I'll place a bet on Farage not featuring in the short-list for 'Constituency MP of the Year'.

Ahh ... It's not an invasion. It's nothing more than 'A special Military Operation'. Same same but different. Not in this case. I'm well aware of the size of Russia. You may not believe that Russia wants more terrority but the fact remains that Putin views Ukraine as part of Russia http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181 I can only assume that the set of " ... real experts, professors at highly acclaimed western and eastern universities", to whom you have listened did not extend, for example, to the academics at Dartmouth College or the experts at Chatham House. https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/02/voices-russian-invasion-ukraine-one-year https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/05/myths-and-misconceptions-debate-russia/myth-01-russia-and-west-are-bad-each-other There are two indisputable pertinent facts, not mere opinion: 1) Ukraine has internationally agreed borders which Russia has violated 2) If Russia had not invaded, the deaths of military personnel - on both sides - and of innocent, Ukrainian citizens would not have occurred. Those simple, undeniable facts mean that Putin has blood on his hands.

I clearly am. Not sure how I missed that? Thanks for pointing it out. Imo increased globalization meant that simply remaining as a trading block was never an option. I accept that the EU is far from perfect. For example, Imo transferring some functions from the Commission to the Parliament would improve transparency and accountability. More importantly, it is difficult to see how monetary union can be made to work efficiently and effectively for all members at the same moment in time. Nevertheless, I still believe that the UK is better off inside the tent than outside.