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The government (under May) did throw some grants to car manufacturers to keep them in the UK post brexit. Seem to recall Nissan getting a big grant and Luton being secured based on paint facilities. Obviously that was a different time and we were still in the we hold all the card because of...

Project fear in it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65612295

We’ll never be as productive as we could be simply because it’s a moving target. It’s an unachievable goal. So it’s a misnomer. You’re adding your own context. I never once inferred that people would rather not work, I was talking in specifics of furlough when I said no one wanted to do it. The...

Yeah but he said it in a posh accent and the audience laughed at the holocaust so…

The government has regularly trotted out the line that scrapping non dom status would stall investment in the UK. Presumably more than it is already stalling despite the availability of non dom status. Thing is the government doesn’t have any figures for how much investment would be lost and...

Where are they going to go for starters? The world is not awash with countries offering non dom status. In fact it seems to be a hangover from colonialism. The handful of countries that do offer non dom status seem to be former British colonies.

It’s such a negative on the UK economy it’s never going to go away.

Who knows what that’s supposed to mean, he went from being an advocate of being a Norway to Brexit must be the hardest of Brexits in less than a 24hour period. I literally went to bed with him saying he’d love it if we could be like Norway and woke up to the leave result and Farage coining the...

Apparently Ferage has admitted that brexit has failed. Anyone heard the comments? Know the context?

Someone once said Braverman is what happens when you feed Priti Patel after midnight.

Braverman was just as bad. Basically trashed her own policies.

He went further in his actual speech but can’t find a clip to hand. Gerrymandering was the exact word he used in his speech By the way, he supported the bill when it went through parliament. It was also in the Tory manifesto in 2019 that he not only was part off he forwarded the motion in...

In related news https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65596283

Rees Mogg admitting that voter ID was an attempt at voter suppression was a highlight. Admitting it backfired and stopped older people from voting, a demographic more likely to vote Tory. Blamed the current government despite the fact it was the Boris government he was in that introduced it.

Sorry Steve, I don’t buy it. It sounds like something straight out of Braverman playbook, teach people to pick fruit and veg. You’d have to force most British people by gunpoint to pick fruit and veg in this country. It’s nothing to do with training, farms are mechanised a lot in the UK, the...

Birds of a feather and all that https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65606131

The cheap labour thing is a myth. Unless you’re talking about specific sectors such as care, farming and hospitality. All sectors that are difficult to mechanise and improve through changing practices. These are jobs (as we seen during furlough) brits just don’t want to do. Freedom of movement...

The ultimate irony is that the EU tax plans in their original conception has hit the buffers but not because of Ireland, because of pressure from the US who wants a global (albeit watered down) response to tax. The very same US we were going to get a trade deal from on day one of Brexit. Again...

Or close some more libraries.

Jees, that brexit weren’t half a waste of time. Sovereignty? What sovereignty? ;) Being serious for a moment though and I apologise in advance as I’m going to have to drop the B bomb and not in jest. This is exactly the reason why the likes of Rees-Mogg, the so called tax payers alliance, rich...