Bob George

Thunderian. Engineer. Fear of bats.

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@DPJHodges Ahh those were the days

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@DPJHodges If the markets really went into meltdown at the prospect of Reeves's departure, it'll be because they fear her replacement would be even worse.

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@Euro_toff @trussliz As a result of Brexit we've just received a 10% competitive edge over the EU in terms of exporting to the US...

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@DPJHodges Doesn't his move now give the UK the most competitive edge as an import provider to the US of any major economy?

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@DPJHodges It's his final term, he doesn't care...

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@stevebaggie1 @DPJHodges Nobody can do the impossible

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@DPJHodges @minnymoaner You need to look at their % margins, not their bottom line profit. That's what dictates whether they can afford a certain % increase in costs or not.

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@DPJHodges These figures are totally meaningless. You need to look at their % margins.

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@annemflfc @simongalcock Agricultural land wasn't worth much until it boomed in the past decade or two.

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@DPJHodges Fair point, but I'm not sure that'll work all that well when the budget leads to mass capital flight instead of said benefits

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@nurseybird1 @BethRigby @MailOnline @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour How about someone who is a shareholder in their own business, and grafts to make that business money for them to live off? Why aren't they "working people" just because they work for their own business instead of someone else's?

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@FisherAndrew79 "Working people" is what they said, not "working class", and the problem is that your definition (which seems perfectly reasonable) doesn't seem to match Labour's (which doesn't).

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@SASR666 Well for example let's take an electrician who set up their own business, and works every day to generate income for the business, and gets their income by taking dividends from their business. Are they a working person? I'd say yes, but I'm not sure Labour agree.

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@RatherBeCyclin @Steven_Swinford Not really. That "subsidy" was more than offset by the subsidy of the state education system that parents who choose to send their kids to non-state schools still pay for through their taxes, but don't use.

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@ItsMatt_Again I agree, but I can't help but remember the BBC interviewing pensioners worriedly saying they were going to freeze to death next winter when Theresa May proposed this same policy in her 2017 manifesto. Where are those interviews now?

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@BladeoftheS Would Ukraine have been invaded if they had a nuclear deterrent?

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@PaulE2Spurs @EmergMedDr Pensioners' winter fuel, apparently.

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@RichardHewison I'm sure many EU subjects have done just that. They still have the bottle caps.

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@ArchRose90 Quite so. He knew the oath he would have to take when he stood for election as an MP. If he didn't want to take the oath he shouldn't have put himself forward for election to the commons.

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@carolvorders @chooselove I'm confused Carol. On what are you basing the assumption that Foden, Pickford and Stones have zero immigrant ancestry?