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‘New quarterly National Accounts figures from the Office for National Statistics won’t make happy reading for Reeves and Starmer. Signs that the economy’s recovery is grinding to a halt keep popping up.

GDP growth in the second quarter of 2024 has now been revised down to 0.5% from 0.6%, against economists’ expectations. Economic output flatlined for the third time in four months as consumer confidence dives ahead of Reeves’ tax-raising October Budget. Meanwhile GDP growth for the whole of 2023 is revised up from 0.1% to 0.3%. This revision is another spanner in the works for Starmer’s stated mission of getting growth to 2.5%. At least it isn’t falling as fast as his popularity’ hehe.

That's an up tick from me MV.

The tentacles of Aman and Mossad spread far and wide.

A bit like all the numpties on here changing their username on this BB when their posts are constantly exposed as ludicrous, hypocrisy, boasting, false, conjecture, lies and downright stupidity.

You get my drift, wonder who I'm referring to?

No names, no pack drill. 🙂

Maybe it's a sign of a stagnant management run out of ideas. When there's not enough happening within a company you're sure to get some bright sparks coming forward with a raft of new concepts.

A new company logo focuses the public perception but not always in a good way.

But that's just the cynic in me.

When you're in government you're under constant scrutiny, so you just have to learn to accept criticism.

And it will keep coming, best to just suck it up.

It's not like before the election when every labour MP was doing the news rounds All saying the same message, like 14 years, fully costed and fully funded. 😂

Minister Chris Bryant (Minister of State for Creative Industries Arts and Tourism), admitted to a Politics Home event at Labour Conference:

“My memory of the general election is we basically didn’t say we were going to do anything.”

Most accept the outcome of the labour win, unlike the ‘remoaners’ of which the staunch labour supporters here still go on about Brexit.

You know who you are. The difference is that the majority voted for Brexit, unlike this lot.

However I prefer FPTP versus PR, but that's just me.

“5.2 million the Tories open the door to from Hong Kong alone”

An additional 5.2 million since we handed it back to the Chinese.

Really?

I see mick-b has given up on the political comments and started on the value of Stirling and financial matters.

Wise decision mick-b. Just like this government you've quickly learnt that it's easier to denigrate the opposition than to defend the actions of the incumbent one.

Unless you believe that labour is responsible for the recent rise in sterling. I wonder what you'll say when they have to bring in the IMF again?

Its only a laugh but some here just don't get this joke of a government.

More on the sausages, see it here. A 10 second clip when they're coming home?....

https://youtu.be/0FuHqw80AxI?si=dl31r-0zaCSTL0E8

Every single labour government has left office with unemployment substantially higher than when they entered. Not to mention with the economy on its knees, (Oops I just did).

Looks like the feckless idiots on this Lloyds BB who elected this shower are desperately trying to justify their vote.

When the dying embers of

this current rabble are apparent to all. They too will have disappeared into oblivion, ashamed for what they have done and emerge once again under a new username.

So long sucker's I've got to turn the phone off. ✈️

“Enjoy the weekend political drivel.”

JMHO.

Enjoy the weekend

Lloyds consolidation drivel.

“A Survation survey of 102 Labour MPs reveals that the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is considered the lowest priority, with 48% ranking it at the bottom—three times more than those who placed the Skills Bill second to last.”

“Shock to no one that cracking down on peoples’ freedoms is not as important as energy, crime and employment.”

“Meanwhile, Starmer is facing yet another rebellion from his own MPs, as Mary Glindon has tabled an early day motion in Parliament voicing opposition to the plans to ban outdoor smoking — a nanny-state move that could see three pubs shutting down each week if it came into force. Starmer should listen to his MPs. His puritanical urge to control Britons’ lives is not what his party, or the public, wants.”

This new bloke needs to get off his high horse, the prat.

The last thing we want or need is someone telling us what we can and can't do.😣

That's me, I'm off for a few bevvies.

“Chief Economist at the Bank of England Andy Haldane warned Reeves’ ominous black hole chat generates “fear” amongst businesses, investors and consumers. He told Sky News last night.”

“That’s generated fear and foreboding, an uncertainty among consumers among businesses among investors…which is unfortunate because just after the election there was a sense of refresh, a sense of renewal a confidence about the UK both domestically and internationally.”

Then peeps realised that it was labour who gained the majority of seats.

“For a party claiming to be one of business and growth, Reeves should know that showing weakness and uncertainty doesn’t exactly fuel a position of strength.”

“Bros as I sees it the Govt has been cozying up to the banks.”

Gunsup.

I believe this government is just copying the US outcome on Basel 3, where they relented to lobbying by the major banks.

But this won't stop the socialist from achieving their anti capitalist warped ideology. A further tax on banks is surely in the mix.

Any people or organisation is fair game to this lot.

“if one is stupid enough to vote Liberal Labour Tory in the last 50 years, stop bleating whinging moaning all your own fault.”

Brixton.

Which one of these would you have voted for instead?

Labour Party

Co-operative Party

Conservative and Unionist Party

Liberal Democrats

Scottish National Party (SNP)

Sinn Féin

Reform UK

Democratic Unionist Party

Green Party of England and Wales

Plaid Cymru

Social Democratic and Labour Party Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

Ulster Unionist Party

Traditional Unionist Voice

The list is not exhaustive and not all of them have been around for 50 years.

Kinda restricts your choices.

If you don't vote at general elections, surely you don't have a voice.

Just saying.

Ed Miliband and for that matter, the whole labour party, would be a classic example to use when explaining the Peter Principle to peeps.

In short….

"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”

"In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties."

"If co-conspirators thought it couldn’t get any gloomier listening to Labour’s constant rhetoric of ‘we will be unpopular and the next few years will be hard,’ they haven’t seen the Office for Budget Responsibility’s latest doomsday warning.

The quango has said British families face an additional £40 billion of tax rises or spending cuts every decade to avoid a “spiral” of public debt, as public finances are on an “unsustainable path.” Ever the optimists…

Still, if Labour wanted to point to the inheritance from the Tories (yet again), they might find it tricky, as OBR chairman Richard Hughes rejected the claim. Hughes pointed to an ageing population, surging debt interest, and the shift to net zero as the main factors for the dire outlook.

A reminder that Labour has already dug its own black hole, adding £9 billion to it through increased public sector pay rises and pushing forward with their costly GB Energy climate crusade. It won’t make happy reading for the Chancellor, though the OBR has a record of being wrong more often than not."

But don't worry folks with Reeves 'fiscal lock' law to ensure any government budget decisions can no longer bypass scrutiny by the OBR. We are in safe hands.

What could possibly go wrong? Lolololololol.

STP/DCB.

If you get to thinking’ you’re a person of some influence, try ordering’ somebody else’s dog around.

,Tier 1 capital requirements for major lenders remain “virtually unchanged”

The Bank of England has relaxed a proposed overhaul of the UK banking system, with officials arguing the updated package will support “growth and competitiveness”.

In a statement today, the BoE said that tier one capital for major UK firms will be “virtually unchanged”, with an aggregate increase of less than one per cent from January 2030. That’s down from three per cent in its last update in December and an earlier estimate of six per cent.

The implementation of the rules will be delayed until 2026, six months later than it said previously, but in line with other international jurisdictions.

Regulators around the world have been refining their interpretations of the rules amid strong industry lobbying to make them less stringent. The Fed announced on Tuesday that it would halve the capital increase faced by the biggest Wall Street banks after some threatened lawsuits over the rules.

LABOUR FOREVER ❤️

If you want to end up like Venezuela.

Your last leader thought they were the dogs bo....cks, a country to aspire to.

And if I remember correctly so did Emily Thornberry, currently overlooked for the attorney general's job.

What a rabble.