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Plato, with some respect you really are quite boring. :-(
Agreed Gazzle, One of my bros was a plumber.....actually an essential and highly skilled job who often made more than me (accountant) in a good year. People get desperate for plumbers but not for accountants LOL
big bang tomorrow then ,lol
It does seem removing the Brussels tier of bureaucrats has had little positive effect and its removal confirms the problem lies closer to home.
Good luck with scaling down the rest,it's a pity we had to destroy our trade and relations with close neighbours to prove a point.
Global stock markets rose on Monday and oil prices eased as investors hailed strong U.S. holiday season sales and some grew less fearful about economic damage from the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
Still, fears that the pandemic could hurt economic growth pushed gold prices to the highest in more than a week despite pressure from a firmer U.S. dollar.
China's central bank will by the end of the month issue a first batch of low-cost loans to financial institutions to enable carbon emissions cuts, state-owned Xinhua reported on Tuesday, citing an interview with central bank governor Yi Gang.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) in November said it would provide 60% of the loan principal taken out by financial institutions for carbon emission cuts, with a one-year lending rate at 1.75%, without specifying when the lending would be issued.
Ziquarat- beautiful, absolutely spot on.
BZ, yes agree there, especially with the lords, what an absolute bunch of frog the HofL is.
Why don't we reduce the number of them and return local issues to local people. 660 clowns in the commons, over 1000 Lords, MEPs previously, Scottish, Welsh and NI parliamentarians, P&C Commissioners, local mayors, county councillors. The whole bloody thing is designed to promote conflict and confusion while strangling genuine attempts to introduce legislation. That is before we even consider special advisors, Qangos, the civil service, local authorities or lobbying bodies. Too much dead weight and too little freedom. The public sector is a necessary but self-promoting evil. Good government is small government.
we have no chance of recovery with the majority of the current crop of 650 moral morons, egotistical, self serving buffoons. we have a ruling elite of Eton educated (i don't mind this fact personally) well spoken idiots whose sole raison d'etre, is the feathering of their own nests.
They are all good orators who serve very little to no purpose at all. the main opposition seems to be staffed by loud mouthed socialist imbeciles who seem to think that i should pay for everyone to have a minimum wage, whilst they all (650) leap aboard any ideological bus that they see as a method of transporting them to their own goal of wealth and celebrity.
What we need (in my opinion) is to give them all a massive pay rise (i wouldnt work for their wages - neither do most of them), of 100 thousand a year. as a pay increase on top of what they already earn.
then, we reduce the amount of politicians by 100. capped by law to a maximum of 550.
we remove their ability to hold a paid second job legally, we remove their ability to get a full pension unless they have served for at least 8 years, we remove their ability to make an obscene profit from second London homes by making these homes a government purchase and as such, owned by the people. they could live in these residencies rent free whilst renting out their own properties should they see fit. We reduce their expenses to receipted only expenses, in line with every other member of society. we reduce the subsidised alcohol in the houses of liars and cheats and then proceed to bring the archaic practices and pomp, into the 21st century.
We then immediately, deselect and fire/ban/oust any politician convicted of an offence whilst being a standing MP, eg, lying about a driving offence and being found guilty.
ALL and any politician found to be benefitting financially from lobbying should lose their job and their pension.
we need to make being a politician about looking after the people, the constituents, the natives of this country (totally irrespective of creed, colour, religion, race, or any other trait that can cause discrimination). we need to pay them a decent wage to attain this and that wage needs to be controlled by the people, not by parliament or an independent body, set up by members of parliament.
we also need to encourage politicians to answer a question when asked and not give a stock party line answer, such as, ''i have been assured that all guidelines were followed''. if we ridiculed them remorselessly for this, they might soon realise how stupid we think they are and how this will not benefit them at the next election.
Dont even get me started on the house of lords.........
just some thoughts off the top of my head
We have no chance of recovery with Boris and his nodding donkeys at the wheel.
A study this week in The Economist places the UK at the absolute rock-bottom of the "world Covid economy" rankings for performance among 23 major nations from 2020 to 2021. Worst for GDP decline, worst for Covid deaths, worst for debt pileup, worst for investment, worst for household income falls, and so on. Will take decades to recover from. Pretty depressing stuff.
Economists are pencilling in growth of 4.7 per cent next year, following estimated growth of 7 per cent this year.
The economy shrank 9.4 per cent last year, its worst performance for a century as Britain's businesses reeled from the coronavirus outbreak.
Deutsche Bank, Consensus Economics, and the Economist Intelligence Unit expect growth of around 4 per cent.
Panmure Gordon chief economist Simon French forecast the economy would grow 4.75 per next year, but a hard Covid lockdown would push this back to 3.3 per cent.
Professor Trevor Williams, of Derby University, has cut his 2022 forecast from 4.5 per cent to 3 per cent, while George Buckley, chief UK economist at Nomura, is looking for 4.5 per cent.
French said: 'The UK economy is, Covid permitted, expected to continue its rapid rebound in 2022 with low unemployment and high household cash reserves all contributing to a second successive year of above trend growth.'
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"Dollar terms" is superfluous .
The world's economic output will exceed $100 trillion for the first time next year and it will take China a little longer than previously thought to overtake the United States as the No.1 economy, a report showed on Sunday.
British consultancy Cebr predicted China will become the world's top economy in dollar terms in 2030, two years later than forecast in
year's World Economic League Table report.
India looks set to overtake France next year and then Britain in 2023 to regain its place as the world's sixth biggest economy,
"The important issue for the 2020s is how the world economies cope with inflation, which has now reached 6.8% in the U.S.,"
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-economy-top-100-trillion-2022-first-time-report-2021-12-26/