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Can anyone explain why if as Trump said they’ve obliterated Irans nuclear weapon development sites why can’t the UN’s nuclear watchdog detect any increase in radiation at these locations? I don’t doubt that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons but I do doubt their ability to to develop...

Not in real terms. The NHS also had to take up the slack from other areas. The obvious one being mental health services pre austerity largely being supported by local authorities. The NHS, police and prison service all had to pick up the slack at a time when the police force lost 10,000...

There was a terrorist attack in Hartlepool that was motivated by the killing of Palestinian children. Fresh issues of threats to the UK Jewish community has been reported in just the last couple of days on top of the 140k+ of recorded hate crimes towards British Jews in 2024 with a trend that’s...

Finally. A Brexit benefit.

Quantitative easing is the manufacturing of money specifically to stimulate the economy. Manufacturing money for the purpose of investing in capital expenditure is not quantitative easing, it’s investment. To use the simplistic analogy of household spending it’s borrowing money just so you can...

Poor business on the Tories part then as they clearly signed up to a scheme with no get out clause. Thank god they didn’t get in and potentially spend another £9.7 billion on a gimmick that we’d never have gotten back or had any benefit from.

WTAF are you talking about?

Ha ha ha, trying it out for a while. Good one. The Tories tried it out for 2 years. They planned on spanking as much of £10 billion on it if re-elected. Labour saved the country £9.7 billion simply by being elected. I bet come the next GE no one will be running on a manifesto to bring it back...

Ha ha ha, without an alternative. What’s the alternative to spanking £700 million to achieve nothing? Not spanking £700 million to achieve nothing?

Ahh okay. So if that’s your metric the trend under Labour (although there’s yet to be a full year with Labour in government) is down. Considerably. So based on that shouldn’t the thread title be Conservatives lost control of borders.

The one thing no one is talking about is where the money is coming from. It’s not just that Jenkyns is saying it’s £12B, which it clearly isn’t, she also wants you to believe it’s new money. It isn’t. The majority if not all of the money is coming from the ODA fund. It’s money already spent only...

Going by the date on your link then shouldn’t the thread title be Sunak lost control of the borders?

Ahhh, that’s cute. You actually believe that Rwanda was a credible plan. Labours plan was far more effective. Just simply process them. Hence the successful reduction in approvals and why they’ve returned more home in their first 6 months than would have been sent to Rwanda in 100 years at the...

That’s fell under Labour to around 41% you’ll be pleased to hear. They’re also processing them faster than the Tories ever did so they’re being sent back quicker than ever. Just a shame we’re no longer part of the Dublin agreement, it no coincidence that the number of boats crossing went up so...

So.. does that mean that the title thread should read Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak lost control of the borders?

Imagine what the press would be saying about him if he wasn’t a rich white man with influence but instead was a working class guy with that many children from that many baby mamas, many of who he’d abandoned like good old Alexander. And what would they say about the working single mothers with...

The UK leases land at huge costs all around the world and mainly in former colonies for military bases. The Chagos was an unusual case because we basically annexed it like a dictatorship and then because of the legal process we actually know what this is costing unlike other leases which aren’t...

Are you sure about that?

Yes.

Is it better to have an extra £100B in trade every year or not? In terms of economics (which is what your question is really about) you’d take the 50% tariff everyday vs not loosing the £100b in trade with the EU.