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The Labour Party has suspended MP Dan Norris after "being informed of his arrest", a party spokesman has told the BBC.

How is your popcorn btw?

A post on the BBC HYS which I can’t take the credit for but I found amusing regarding tariff’s on the Heard and McDonald Islands.

‘Trump hates Penguins because he cannot get the wrappers off!’

Interesting how history seems to be repeating itself again. In the 1030’s America created the Great Depression and nearly 100 years later Donald is potentially going to repeat the same disaster again.

Read up on what caused the GD and especially focus on the ‘Smoot-Hawley Tariff’.

If we really do end up in the same situation then all our shares are worthless, perhaps those that are selling up are the clever ones.

Loopyloo

“ Yup, a millionaire is leaving the country every 45 min, a record rate taking his/her wealth with him/her.'

Naturally you have evidence to back that up?”

According to the Henley Private Wealth Migration Report, Britain lost a net 10,800 millionaires in 2024—a staggering 157% increase from the previous year.14 Feb 2025.

I have done the maths and the answer is interesting based on the above source.

Loopyloo

“ Who was it that remarked 'you can't attack the argument, so you attack the man'?”

Loopyloo who has aspirations one day to be a man, might even happen in my lifetime.

Loopyloo

“ That stays in their bank accounts and in their offshore accounts and in their assets on which they take even more on the nations wealth.”

Loopyloo who believes people who have savings and some wealth need to give it all away to others like himself who are jealous of others ability to look to the future.

STP

“ Giant rats seen in Birmingham”

At last STP has got something right in describing the Labour councillors in Birmingham.

Loopyloo

“ We have to rid us of our rights as human beings too!”

There are human rights and then there is taking the p1 ss human rights.

P51

“‘If the Government continues to increase costs on businesses in the same way as they have begun, there will not be any businesses left on our high streets”

They will become ghettos where it won’t be safe to venture out to when it is dark, just like being in the Middle East, so it will feel like home to many millions of boat people.

Three more councillors have resigned from the Labour Party in Dudley as the fallout over the government's welfare cuts continues.

Councillors Peter Drake, Karl Denning and Matt Cook confirmed they had quit the party and would sit as independents on Dudley Council in the West Midlands.

It came after the local Labour group's former leader, Pete Lowe, stepped down from his leadership role and from the party on Tuesday.

The resignations follow discontent within Labour over the government's plans to reform the benefits system, which were announced in Parliament on Tuesday.

In a statement posted on Facebook, external, Mr Drake, who represents the Coseley ward, accused the government and the national Labour leadership of "attacking the people they are meant to represent".

"They're undermining our country, and we cannot defend that. Principles matter," he said.

Mr Denning, who represents Castle and Priory ward, also posted his resignation on Facebook, external. "This morning, I have resigned the Labour Whip and will be standing as an independent in the Castle & Priory Ward where I continue to serve.

Now where’s that popcorn?

Going well for Labour then?

The EU has already set up an office in Greenland to flesh out closer possible ties and guess what is top of the list……”fish”, no surprise there then.

Basically from an EU perspective it is only interested in what’s in it for them. If Greenland did join the EU in some shape or form and had to give up large chunks of fishing rights what would the EU be prepared to give them in equal value, bugger all that is tangible that I can see.

Reeves isn’t going down the austerity route is she? How unlike Labour.

You still haven’t shown me the primary evidence of the Russians involvement financially or otherwise.

Loopyloo

That’s not what I meant and you know it. Come up with something more credible to back your argument up with.

Loopyloo

“ ...and the Russian campaign to weaken the EU, with Brexit etc.”

Would you like to remind us what that campaign was and how it was distributed? Just curious.

Loopyloo, another socialist that believes we should all have the same salary regardless of job, the same car, the same house, the same holiday etc etc.

Where is the incentive to drive growth, improve oneself and have self respect in what we do.

Fleccy

“ Because Im hard pushed to find much about Lloyds on this chat page.”

Anything pressing that you want to talk about? Just speak out and see what responses there are.

They should be painted blue, made of fibreglass, seat one person and have a two stroke engine. I know the perfect vehicle to give them, just need to get the 60 year old plans out.

The UK's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.1% in January, according to data released on Friday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This was below analyst estimates of 0.1% growth and was down from 0.4% growth in December.

This has dealt a fresh blow to UK chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of the spring statement, which she is due to deliver on 26 March.

Joe Nellis, economic adviser at accountancy and advisory firm MHA, said that the data has "brought the chancellor back down to Earth after the surprisingly high" growth in December.

Still going well for you then STP, keep taking the popcorn, it will help deliver growth to the UK economy.

STP, you are such a kn ob, let’s go back into the past and look at the con artist Blair and PFI for NHS hospitals, I hope below makes interesting reading for you.

A new league table has revealed that private finance initiative (PFI) deals signed off by Tony Blair’s government continue to cripple the National Health Service, hampering its efforts to treat more patients.

This new analysis by We Own It shows how badly historic PFI deals are ripping off different NHS trusts in England and preventing them from fixing their hospitals to treat more patients.

The research found that:

NHS Trusts in England with current PFI debt will have paid back on average almost eight (8) times the initial PFI capital put into their trusts, with Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust having the worst payback ratio at 27 times what was borrowed.

On the average PFI project, NHS trusts have already paid back over three and half times what was borrowed, but they still owe £605 million on average or £44 billion across all 80 PFI-laden trusts

78 out of the 80 NHS trusts with current PFI debt have already paid off the initial capital investment. Of the 78 trusts that’ve already paid off the capital amount, 60 (or almost 8 out of 10) could clear the entire trust’s repairs backlog with the amount they still owe in PFI debt.

Almost half of all MPs (294) represent constituencies served by NHS Trusts with historic PFI debt.