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Seems to me one of the biggest drivers of food inflation is our food imports rose almost 20% last year, meanwhile food production in the UK has fallen. The B word has added almost £6Bn to the cost of food imports from the EU even with the delay of further checks, it’s also robbed our farming...

Doesn’t QE by buying bonds and selling assets to stimulate the economy (which is what the BOE has been doing) help reduce long term interest rates?

It was an observation more than a comment. No need to be so touchy about it ;) The problem is though Steve that interest rates are a reflection on the state of the country. They’ve just very quietly announced that we’re delaying taking back control of our borders again because it will hit food...

Interest rates expected to rise again later. Sunak couldn’t have picked a better day to go on holiday.

Still not taking back control. Brexit border checks to be delayed again. Government shitting it because the extra brexit red tape will add to food inflation. https://www.ft.com/content/d0673acb-eb87-4548-b90f-009be5ab14c3

Projection. It’s a personality trait that goes hand in hand with being obstinate to expert advice.

Dude. Like I already said on the thread about the American bloke (ie not the politics thread in the off topic section) love his first name not so keen on his surname. Even got some likes for my comment. If you spent more time on the football threads and less time in the politics threads you...

Try a latte with oat milk instead of dairy WM, they’re the bollocks even without the syrup.

Fernando sweetheart. Leaving in the EU and remaining in the EEA was not the question you were asked in the referendum. You had 2 options. Remain, better the devil you know. Or Leave and enjoy a Tory brexit rolling out the red carpet for Boris to be PM in the bargain. You voted for the latter...

God almighty Fernando, I know. You seem to be back tracking on it being “worse” when the truth is it is worse because we jeopardised access to an even larger market place than the EU on our doorstep for empty slogans. Still, that’s what happens when you put your faith in Boris.

Also quietly announced yesterday was that when Truss crashed the economy devaluing the pound it added £91B to the Brexit divorce bill. Which begs the question how much would the Brexit divorce bill have been had the referendum result not crashed the pound?

I couldn’t say for certain but I would guess not on new products. We lost the ability I would think to accredit goods when we left both the EU and the EEA (the CE mark covers both the EU and EEA). The EU took back control. If it’s product with an existing CE mark I would guess that it makes no...

Was quietly announced yesterday but scraping the EU CE standard and mark is now not happening. Still tried to make out that it was a Brexit win though as the climb down would now not create the extra brexit red tape that it would have created for UK manufacturing and distribution had we...

I think for a lot of people are choosing to be offended. Some might call them snowflakes.

Former Labour safe seat. If Starmer doesn’t win this back Sunak will be claiming it as a Tory victory. Most interesting thing about it will be that it’s a test of how strong SNP support remains given the turmoil that the party is in. A first insight into what may happen at the GE.

I’d only heard of it because I’ve been to the IOM and people were still talking about it 25 years later.

Like the first name. Not so keen on the surname.

But I was a child with heavy influence from the mainstream on how to identify. I feel short changed now based on your critique on the power of Sam Smiths influence on children.

How did I survive the 70’s and come out the other side as someone who still identifies white heterosexual male after being born a white heterosexual male? Dick Emery, Les Dawson, Roy Baraclough, Alec Guinness regularly identifying as a woman in the constant stream of black and white movies...

All this talk of Nazis. Maybe my memory differs from other peoples but wasn’t the Nazis scared of minorities (including non heterosexuals) and targeted/persecuted them as the problem. They even went as far as persecuting people with the wrong shaped nose because of the stereotypes they held of...