Sapan Gai, CCO at Sovereign Metals, discusses their superior graphite test results. Watch the video here.
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The Brexit referendum brought to the fore the economic dislocation that has taken place since the 1980s revealing deep class as well as generational and ethnic divisions. Marginalised voices voted Leave to kick back against a post-war party system that has failed them and a professional political elite that has largely ignored them. And in this election, they just wanted the job done, so they voted for the party that promised to do just that.
Getting Brexit “done”, however, is unlikely to resolve the deep-rooted social and economic problems facing many of the people who voted for it.
Some predictions estimate that leaving the EU will further exacerbate place-based inequality across the country, causing England’s regions to grow 13-16 percent less than they would have done if the UK had remained in the EU. Moreover, some regions like Cornwall are forecast to lose up to an additional £60m ($78.5m) per year in EU funding.
This was clearly not a message that the Conservatives wanted broadcast, so their rebuttal tactics were robust. Any attempt by the media to get the Conservative candidates to talk about the risks and realities of leaving the EU, or anything else that shows them in a bad light, was side-stepped – sometimes literally. The approach was straightforward – dodge the detail, just repeat the mantra, “Get Brexit Done”.
This resulted in a series of tactics of evasion and misinformation. The Conservatives tried their best to avoid difficult debates, with Johnson refusing to be interviewed by BBC’s Andrew Neil, a veteran journalist known for his combative interview style. The prime minister also vetoed several other programmes during the election campaign, including a climate debate on Channel 4, where he was replaced with an ice sculpture.
When a reporter used his phone to show Johnson a picture of a boy with pneumonia lying on the floor of a Leeds Hospital due to lack of beds, the prime minister took the phone and hid it in his pocket to avoid answering questions. And then there was the time the prime minister hid in a large fridge at a dairy in order to avoid giving an interview to ITV’s Piers Morgan.
The Leave campaign was built on lies, and as the UK hurtles toward the brink the liars who told them are laughing all the way to the bank.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/brexit-lies-and-rich-folk/
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RE: UK Cabinet members resigning
These former cabinet ministers will have already explored their options of nice little earners a part time basis in the private sector, it's all part of the party politics game of you scratch my back, their seat swill be waiting for them on the board of one of companies who support the torys because they want to be given business advantage or worsen the terms and conditions of their staff and exploit their customers!
"Power tends to corrupt, said Lord Acton. This two line quote, the second line being “absolute power corrupts absolutely”, is far more well known, a hundred and fifty years later, than anything else Lord Acton ever did!!"
https://fullfact.org/economy/boris-johnson-good-morning-britain/
https://fullfact.org/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/peter-geoghegan/
hernukhin's total donations to the Conservative Party and MPs to more than £2.2m since 2012.
The Tories have also accepted more than £30,000 from Aquind Limited since the turn of the year, including £12,500 in March, according to data released by the Electoral Commission.
Aquind is co-owned by a Russian-born oil tycoon, Viktor Fedotov, and Alexander Temerko, a Ukrainian-born former vice-president of the Russian energy giant Yukos. Temerko has donated £730,000 to the Conservatives since 2011 and has been named as a personal friend of Boris Johnson.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/buckingham-palace-early-election-boris-johnson-105754050.html
The Lascelles Principles mean the Queen is able to reject the request and order the government to find "another prime minister who could govern for a reasonable period with a working majority in the House of Commons".
https://mtplaw.com/legal-news/the-lascelles-principles-when-a-premier-or-pm-cant-demand-an-election-an-annulment-for-impotence-and-a-false-claim-to-inherit-a-house/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSYVE8RdBTo
Another former Tory cabinet member and complete stinker
https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Osborne
https://fullfact.org/economy/turning-corner-facts-economy/
https://fullfact.org/economy/does-george-osborne-have-44bn-black-hole-his-budget/
https://fullfact.org/news/george-osbornes-tax-book-example/
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/12/18/how-the-british-media-helped-boris-johnson-win
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Praise the lord the fat lying stroppy pathetic tw*t is leaving, kicking & screaming
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the problem the tories have now is those previous red wallers who voted blue this time for BJ, will go back to red on the next election and you can bet there will be a forced general election
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He isn't kicking and screaming Camkite that is what the rest of the Tory herd are engaged in. The country will be more chaotic now it thinks problems can get solved when they really have to be tolerated.
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Re Brexit mrtibbles, I think Boris has used the EU money saved as a personal political fund for his projects to reward himself for getting brexit done and he thought it would help with furlough/covid (the scademic which I hated), a lot of the funds going on pop ups from tory types gaming the system and furlough unwinding causing employee shortage as capacity at airlines etc shrinks.
He was genuine I believe in levelling up but the funding was just peanuts and not enough structural changes and HS2 and Elizabeth Line have been as much as can be afforded further disadvantaging the North with that infrastructure giving commercial opportunity to that southern hinterland.
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I hope Sunak does not win after reading a Hubble missive. Apparently recession will bring inflation down and in the meantime create greater profits for business that thrives thus paying for the state. Inflation reducing increases real return and therfore cost of debt so to tax your way to lower inflation is not the way to go if too exhorbitant for wealth generators. Increasing the money supply via the welfare state should be kept to a minimum, Badenoch wants to make it tougher for scroungers/unemployed. She seems the best on offer.