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Forensic,

You’re not allowed to point out UK good news to the SNP numpties on here or Labour fans or Remoaners. They’d rather run the nation down and stick their fingers in their ears. You wouldn’t want some of them next to you in the trenches would you ? 🙄

Darth/Mach,

“Livestock, I appreciate the articles and links.. ”

Maybe you can learn from him. At least he posts positive articles alongside not so positive ones. You just post negative ones 🙄

STP,

Maybe you haven’t lived through a Labour government, I have……several.

Taxes will go up even more under Labour. They will pour billions down the NHS plughole and succumb to the blackmail threats from their union paymasters. Always have had, always will do. Not sure what planet you’ve been living on.

Sticky,

“ However, the ONS has improved its analysis of the economy in the first three months of the year, suggesting GDP increased by 0.3pc compared to earlier estimates of 0.1pc.

It comes after separate data released earlier this month showed the UK economy shrank less and bounced back faster during the pandemic, after the ONS admitted its previous assumptions were too gloomy.

It said that the economy had shrunk by 10.4pc during the first year of Covid rather than 11pc, while it grew by 8.7pc and not 7.6pc in 2021.”

My reference is todays News.

Mach/Darth,

There you go again using Scottish insults. You’re fooling no one that you’re not Scottish and aren’t Mach. Not very clever are you ?

Darth posted this on Aug 19th

“Gboy, your dislike for scots is well documented on this BB“

I challenged him to quote me because he had lied and I’ve never said anything of the sort. So he then announced he’d filtered me because he’d been called out and wasn’t big enough to apologise. He’s Mach.

TFE,

Darth/Mach is just playing his trolling silly games pretending to have me on filter. He knows I’ve posted a positive article about the UK on this thread. As I’ve called him out on his constant doom and gloom articles, this is his puerile attempt at revenge. News on the SNP is thin on the ground at the moment so he’s got very little to say…….

The UK economy has performed better than France and Germany since the pandemic, revised official figures suggest, delivering a boost to Rishi Sunak days before the start of the Conservative party conference.

Statisticians now believe that the British economy is 1.8pc larger than before Covid struck, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). France is believed to have grown by 1.7pc since Covid and Germany 0.2pc.

The UK economy was previously thought to be the only one in the G7 to remain smaller than before the pandemic, but the latest figures place it in the middle of the pack.

Previous figures suggested the British economy was 0.2pc smaller than its pre-pandemic size.

The data also showed that the UK economy grew at 0.2pc in the three months to June as previously estimated.

*Then*

Wait till Labour get in. They you’ll really know what tax is…..

“ Labour is planning a “devastating” multi-billion pound inheritance tax raid which could affect farmers and family business.

The party is considering scrapping two exemptions – agricultural and business property relief – that currently allow farms and businesses to be passed down at death without their families paying the divisive 40pc charge.

It is part of a plan to scrap a number of tax reliefs in a “loophole” closing exercise which the party believes could raise as much as £4bn, according to the Times.

It is unclear whether Labour is considering scrapping the relief in its entirety or reforming the exemption so it can no longer be used by investors who own agricultural land but are not full-time farmers.

Under the current rules, agricultural property can be 100pc exempt from death duties. Business property relief also protects family firms being passed down the generations, but also exempts some Alternative Investment Market (Aim) shares from inheritance tax – providing a tax planning tool for those with spare cash to invest.

It in part explains why wealthier individuals on average pay a lower effective rate of inheritance tax on their estates compared to middle-class families who typically have the majority of their wealth tied up in family homes which are not protected by the same tax breaks.

Experts warned scrapping the reliefs in their entirety would lead to the sale or break up of family farms and businesses in order to pay inheritance tax bills.”

What did Tony Bliar fail on Antony ?

Antony,

You may well vote for leaders rather than a party but the rules allow a party to change its leader, like it or not, whilst in power. Labour did the same with Gordon Brown.

The irony lost on some of the Remoaners here is that many are Labour supporters and a large percentage of Labour supporters voted for Brexit. Nice to see some of them calling their own voters idiots. Speaks volumes about them 🤣🤣

Avocet123,

“That's because it was a dogshixt idea, voted for by idiots”

If you can’t stand democracy and want to carry on whingeing about it, go and live in North Korea. We’ll whip round for a one way ticket 👍

Sticky,

Try a global pandemic, a war in Ukraine causing inflation globally and France being paid millions and millions of pounds and doing next to nothing to stop the dinghies leaving their shores (oh and a ECHR sympathetic to leftie lawyers).

You really ought to take in the news a bit more as your lateral thinking seems to be rather limited.

Reform Party for me at the next GE Brix 😉

They’re probably covering their bets in case we end up with a Labour Government mick……

The main player in the Eurozone is the centre of attention again.

German recession will be worse than feared, economists warn

A recession in Germany this year will be worse than previously feared, leading economic institutes have warned, as high inflation and an industrial slowdown hit Europe’s top economy.

The economy will shrink 0.6pc in 2023, the institutes said in their latest joint forecast. They had all flagged in recent months that a downturn was expected, although the figure is worse than those previously mentioned.

Oliver Holtemoeller, from the Halle Institute for Economic Research, one of the five groups behind the forecast, said: “The most important reason for this revision is that industry and private consumption are recovering more slowly than we expected.”

German policymakers face challenges on multiple fronts - from still-high inflation that began surging after Russia invaded Ukraine, to weakness in manufacturing and the impact of record eurozone interest rates.

It comes as German inflation is likely to ease significantly in September based on data from five key German states today, signalling what could be the beginning of the end for high inflation that has weighed heavily on Europe’s largest economy.

Inflation in all five states - Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse - fell by at least a percentage point, with Baden-Wuerttemberg recording the largest drop, to 5.1pc in September from 7pc the month before.

They always reach a last minute compromise. Not posting Armageddon articles again Darth/Mach surely ?