James105

It seems bonkers to me that there is a 2 month gap after the election where the outgoing president stays in post and the newly elected one cannot really do anything if the outgoing one decides he wants to set the world on fire.

The UK Labour government jetted over 470 delegates to this on the taxpayers expense. 470. They know they are despised and will be a one term government so they are going to abuse every single minute they are in power. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14091247/Keir-Starmer-Britain-delegates-climate-change-Baku.html

Things that are unaffordable: 1. Foreign aid 2. Public sector pensions 3. Net zero 4. Labour government 5. A bloated unreformed NHS 6. Debt servicing for the ever increasing borrowing. 7. Illegal immigrants and low or no skilled legal immigrants Letting working people keep a little bit more of the money that they earn in comparison is peanuts in comparison to the above. Labour lied before the election and they have done nothing but lie since the election. They are the definition of a one term government and are despised by the majority now, including the people that voted for them.

Zelensky said that Ukraine are an independent country and cannot be forced by the USA to the negotiating table, which of course is true. What is also true is that the USA is an independent country and it cannot be forced to continue giving Ukraine money for this war, which will in turn force the Ukraine (an independent country) to the negotiating table.

BlueSky are facing the consequences of having all these easily offended leftists join their platform who don't like to see opinions they disagree with. Seems like they are going to need a bigger moderation team. Also, the use of the word "triaging" as though they are working in A&E and are saving lives with their moderation

Starmer is making them all look extremely competent in comparison. I don't recall any of them being too afraid to actually answer the questions directly in PMQs like this coward of a man.

You seem to be implying that running an economy for an entire country is somewhat easier than the trivial task of managing a credit card, which she clearly wasn't competent enough to do. She also lied on her CV as well. https://order-order.com/2024/11/15/chancellor-caught-changing-linkedin-cv-after-economist-myth-exposed/ So apparently she was an "economist" at the Bank of England, then her next job was to work in a small complaints team within HBOS which managed administration, process, IT Matters and small projects and planning. Since no-one typically makes such a huge downwards move in their careers then either she wasn't an economist at the Bank of England or she was so terrible at that job she was removed from it. Results also speak for themselves as growth has shrank to 0.1% and I expect within the year there will be negative growth leading to a full recession for the UK. She is out of her depth in a job she is not qualified to do and lied about her qualifications to do it. She should resign.

They know its a scam. We know its a scam. They know that we know its a scam. Thankfully Trump and Elon Musk also know its a scam so maybe, just maybe, all those scientists that have had research funding paid for on condition to support this nonsense will be able to get their research funding without needing to participate in the scam, and scientists can start to be honest about the reality of climate change and how little it is affected by human activities, and no matter how far back towards the dark ages we go, no matter how much extra tax we pay, it will no more affect the climate than Canute affected the tides.

He is such a weak, cowardly man, an embarrassment to the UK and the position of Prime Minister. Why does he not answer any questions directly in PMQs? What is the point of the speaker position if he doesn't insist that direct questions get direct answers? A petulant child would be more suited to this position than him.

The EU merely forced the UK to close coal and oil powered plants. They didn't stop the UK from building nuclear plants. That honour goes to EU super fan Nick Clegg of the coalition government of 2010-2015, who in his unparalleled wisdom blocked this and said "By the most optimistic scenarios from the government itself, there’s no way they are going to have new nuclear come on stream until 2021, 2022. So it’s just not even an answer". Labour also didn't build any from 1997 to 2010 either.

You cut off part of my quote. The full version is: "The same chancellor who has never ran a business and had her parliamentary credit card confiscated as she couldn't even manage the spending on that. I've bolded the part that was inconvenient for you. She couldn't even manage her own finances and this economically illiterate clown is telling businesses that they should be able to adjust and absorb the costs.

The EU version of communism is to increase the size of government and tie itself up in regulations. The results speak for themselves. I'd expect this gap to widen significantly under Trump as he allows the US to flourish whilst the EU continues to over regulate businesses and prevent the kind of innovative freedom that the US allows.

Top money saving tip. Stop wasting money on policing social media on behalf of the easily offended and sending out police to investigate non-crimes, and just focus on... crimes! Should easily cover the cuts I should think.

The same chancellor who has never ran a business and had her parliamentary credit card confiscated as she couldn't even manage the spending on that. Of course reducing spending and asking any government departments to adjust and absorb the reductions would have never have crossed her feeble little mind. Economically illiterate clown.

Only moronic leaders actually went, leaders that care about protecting their industries and want growth for their countries did not. Azerbajan (the hosts) took the opportunity to try and sell their oil and gas to countries like the UK who now are dependent on importing this at a high price after destroying its energy industry. Here is what we could have had:

Must be serious as there are thousands of Hamas supporters marching on the streets of London every week and even more venting their vile opinions on social media. Merely supporting Hamas and calling for genocide of Israel doesn't get people arrested typically.

The greater good is the world is rid of a terrorist group responsible for some of the worst crimes imaginable. It's easily avoided today, right now in fact, as all that needs to happen is that Hamas unconditionally surrenders, releases ALL the hostages they kidnapped, and answer for their crimes. War over. Women and children saved. Not sure why more left thinking people are not calling for this approach really and siding with the terrorists that use women and children as human shields.

He wasn't in high school or sixth form though was he? He was in opposition whose purpose is to hold the UK government to account and prepare for office should they win. Instead of doing this he spent this time spouting nonsense making libelous & defamatory claims about the president of a country that is not the UK. He is unfit for the role of foreign secretary and is an embarrassment to the UK, and his continued DEI appointment is at the very least not helpful when it comes to US/UK relations and at worst quite harmful. The foreign secretary role should be given to someone with at least some diplomatic skills who does not have a history of antagonizing leaders of other countries.

Awww thats a shame. Who is going to be brave enough to report from the 3rd world war zones now?

Someone should really be checking his hard drive at this stage. I don't care who it is, a best friend, a relative, an employee, whoever. If I knew with certainty of someone who was abusing children I would report them post haste to the law without a second thought. If someone protects a child abuser then this is a giant red flag that needs investigating.

Deport the illegal immigrant and the family can follow to where the illegal immigrant came from if they want to. The American passport is quite good so they should be able to get into the country the illegal immigrant is from (legally) without too much trouble. Or alternatively, illegal immigrant leaves voluntarily now and then applies to enter the US via a legal route. I do think Trump should announce that any illegal immigrant who leaves voluntarily before January 20th will have a chance to apply for a legal route and enter the US properly, and anyone who doesn't leave before that date will have zero chance at getting approved if the US has to forcibly deport them.

So you are in favour of Universities also being hit with this then as that would raise tuition fees for students by 20%? They are currently exempt VAT.

Why are they so quiet about it then? Try and imagine what would happen if a western country announced this kind of policy and the outrage and protests it would generate.

Sounds like the left still have a lot of learning to do about why Trump won and the left spectacularly lost. Maybe one day, probably after losing the next 2-3 elections, the left will learn that calling political opponents Hitler because they disagree with their political views is not a winning strategy.