James105

As you have never run a business (just like Reeves and the Labour cabinet) you will never understand. The end result will be the same as always, less growth, less tax receipts, more borrowing and the people on the lowest incomes will suffer the most.

There will be less working people (in the UK at least) following this budget. https://www.gbnews.com/politics/rachel-reeves-national-insurance-tax-raid-business-closing-labour So 4 factories will close in the UK and they will move production to India or China.

You'll notice that these figures were prior to the tax raid. The profits they make allow them to re-invest into the business and grow, creating more jobs and therefore more tax receipts for the country. When businesses are prevented from growing with excessive taxes (so the Labour government can take the fruits of their labour to give to Lammy to spaff away in African climate aid projects) then they do not create new jobs and the economy doesn't grow, which means less tax receipts. To counter the tax raid all they can do is reduce growth plans or raise prices. If Labour had reduced the tax burden on businesses and found ways to reduce the highest energy bills in the world then this would allow companies to invest more in the UK and the tax receipts would be higher but as mentioned earlier they are economically illiterate clowns.

I didn't mention GB news. How much time does Ed Davey spend in his constituency? I suspect you do not know or care, and nor should you because nobody cares. So why do you care about what Farage does or does not do, who is a leader of a party with just 5 MPs? Because your media overlords have told you to care? Have you ever kept such a close watch on any previous MP ever in history and how much time they spent in their constituencies?

DEI is racist. People who support it are racist. Nobody likes a racist. This is why the left lost.

On this you are correct, which is why they voted in Trump. Using racist policies to correct previous racist policies from decades ago is racist. Do better, be less racist by treating everyone equally and maybe then people will give the left a chance again.

You mean you want him to be focusing on what Brenda at number 14 needs instead of holding the clowns in government to account and acting in the best interests of those being ignored (or jailed) by Labour. I get it, it is the current tedious leftist talking point that every leftist has been issued with to repeat ad nauseam whenever they can. I'm sure Farage (like other party leaders) has admin staff to help Brenda with whatever issue she has.

Every implementation of DEI I have seen excludes straight white people, so is the complete opposite of inclusiveness. Not sure how leftists are completely blind to this and expect white people to bend the knee and accept being second class citizens in their own countries.

The UK has never been offered a vote on PR. I think you may be referring to AV which was what was on offer and was some kind of ranking system that would eventually get to a majority government. It was complex and I don't think it was sold particularly well hence only 42% turnout for the referendum so the majority were ambivalent to it. Farage is a leader of a party that represents over 4 million voters with just 5 seats in parliament. That's about 800,000 voters per MP, so a bit different to a Labour backbench MP who only needed about 20,000 votes per seat. So his role is a bit different to a typical constituency MP don't you think? Who else will represent and stand up for those 4 million+ voters who are being ignored by the Labour party?

They only have additional money in their pockets if prices stay the same though, which quite obviously they will not due to the economically illiterate clowns in Labour raising the cost of doing business in the UK.

Looks like Lammy has turned a corner and now sees past transgressions as "old news" and nothing to be concerned about today. Looking forward to no longer hearing from him about slavery and reparations as this surely meets the definition of "old news".

That doesn't even include the additional business rates they face on their 2300 stores, as well as the increase in minimum wage. Someone even suggested that they should be paying a windfall tax if they dare to increase prices so they don't make a loss! Prices will have to go up and the poorest will definitely suffer for this. It will be an important life lesson though for those who did vote for Labour and are now regretting it. I doubt that the £22bn being spaffed away on carbon capture or the £11bn going to Africa for climate aid will give them much comfort when at the till paying for their more expensive groceries.

Whoever would have thought that increasing costs to business would force them to pass these costs onto the customers, therefore increasing the cost of living for the lowest paid people in the country disproportionately. Labour are economically illiterate clowns.

And just like other decisions that the moronic PM has made, he has effectively doubled down on his stupidity and for the first time in political history for any PM has stated that the current foreign secretary is guaranteed the full 5 years in this role. Every time I feel he has scraped the bottom of the stupidity barrel, he manages to find more stupidity to use inside it. It's a bottomless stupidity barrel! "Starmer makes extraordinary vow to keep Foreign Secretary in post for at least FIVE YEARS despite repeated jibes at president-elect" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14048941/Starmer-David-Lammy-Foreign-Secretary-Trump-Neo-Nazi-sympathiser-tyrant-toupee.html

I'm jealous. If presented with a referendum on the UK becoming a 51st state I would vote for it. The UK electoral system means effectively we get a woke conservative party that has been infiltrated with leftists or a woke labour party. So dark times ahead for the UK, both figuratively and literally, as net zero nonsense means the lights will go out on a regular basis and the few manufacturing companies left relocate to other countries (like America) as the cost of production is significantly cheaper.

So America are going to miss out on this? I'm sure they will be gutted.

I've seen leftists posting on Twitter this election was fixed as the republicans made those extra 15 million votes Biden got in 2020 disappear which made me chuckle due to the irony of it, but I presume there are still millions of votes left to be counted in this one which will get the total closer.

Religion is a belief system. Trump believes in a god. He believes a god saved him. I don't believe in a god, so I don't believe a god saved him, rather a combination of luck and poor marksmanship. You can believe whatever you like, no-one can prove it either way right now.

Perhaps the reason that most people reject socialism is that it hasn't worked anywhere it has been tried and leads to poverty, death, inequality and corruption. How people still clamour for this failure of a system has always been a mystery to me. Let me guess, it is because no-one has done it properly yet? And no Sweden, Norway et all are not socialist systems, they are capitalist.

It shouldn't really be possible to look at a person and know exactly what their views are on Trump, on climate change, on gender etc, but one look at that person and I feel I know exactly what every single one her political views is, that she is a net recipient of taxpayers money and is currently and always will be a burden on the UK.

Well, as I am from the UK I find this highly embarrassing. "Emergency Demo". What is it with the left and their temper tantrums when an election (in a completely different country no less) doesn't go the way they want it to, and what on earth do they think (other than embarrassing themselves and the UK) it hopes to achieve?

You mention his "proven record". What spitefully vindictive things did he do in his previous term? I don't recall him using legal technicalities as a means to try to convict his opponents? Do you have examples?

Starmer rolled the dice and lost spectacularly. "Do not underestimate the damage Starmer has done to relations with the US - the Trump team are ready and waiting to unleash all-out war on him, because he is perceived as anti-American and a whingeing, liberal bore" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14005783/Donald-Trump-unleash-war-Keir-Starmer-wins-Presidential-race-row-Labour-helping-rival-Kamala-Harris.html He should bend the knee to Farage and beg him for help, remove anyone and everyone (which is most of the front bench and London mayor) who has been involved in libellous hyperbole on social media about Trump, and following that resign after calling for a new election to allow the British people to correct the mistake that was made now they have the knowledge of what a disaster it is having these clowns in government.

Bush 2000: 50 million votes Bush 2004: 62 million votes Obama 2008: 69 million votes. Obama 2012. 65 million votes Clinton 2016. 65 million votes (Trump 62 million) Biden 2020. 81 million votes (Trump 74 million). Harris 2024. 67 million votes (Trump 72 million). 2020 seems like quite the outlier here compared to previous elections and this election. Where did the extra 15 or so million votes go? Seems Biden is the most popular president (in terms of vote count) in US history.

I'm quite looking forward to him taking the same approach to unnecessary government employees that he took to Twitter employees. I think he laid off 80% of the staff at Twitter and (despite all the noise from the "armchair software engineers" that have never done anything more advanced than opening or installing a web browser that Twitter would fall over within weeks) it carried on working just fine after that 80% had gone. I expect there are many government employees currently dreading receiving that email from Musk asking them to provide evidence on what they have been working on and what they have achieved in the last week, just as he did at Twitter.