There have been recent calls for the FCA to review its creditworthiness and affordability rules but these regulations are not the problem. The cost-of-living crisis has made consumer credit unaffordable for many. Our blog https://t.co/nH22SajZQv
John Kelly said Trump used to speak admiringly of Adolf Hitler and would seek to govern as a dictator.
“It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterised by a dictatorial leader, centralised autocracy, militarism".
Q: Do you think Trump is a fascist?
Trump’s Chief of Staff John Kelly: Well, I'm looking at the definition of fascism. It’s a far-right movement with a dictatorial leader and forcible suppression of opposition… So certainly in my experience, he falls into the definition of a fascist
“[the BoE] is now paying 5% interest on £700bn of bank reserves at cost to the exchequer of £35bn a year … [but not paying] one-third of the reserves … would save [the chancellor] just over £22bn a year … without the need for spending cuts or tax rises” https://t.co/wOe90Kx0dU
new paper finds that "self-disciplined behaviour indebted employees adopt to avoid losing income and defaulting does not only make them more risk-averse in their individual wage negotiations, but also makes them less willing to unionise." https://t.co/diBNeDcrBa
macron's party has taken to condescending the left, calling lucie castets' attempt to be prime minister a "publicity stunt" and saying she can't just "improvise parliamentary work". but she has a plan for france, whose state has the largest debt in europe https://t.co/GCQXATRM4z
"To ... Thiel & Musk, bitcoin is both the technological & political expression of what they believe ... Thiel has even suggested that democracy is incompatible with capitalism ... the US Federal Reserve is the deep state in its most harmful form". sigh https://t.co/8W3OtTEiyf
one of the problems of housing as an asset, not a basic necessity, is that the moment it’s not giving the desired amount of profit to landlords they sell up and displace those renting from them. this trend has fucked a load of my friends in london already https://t.co/rbBs3XGqK6
when netanyahu congress that israel has taken more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history he was lying. un reports contradict him. now an icc arrest warrant is out for him for war crimes and today the uk will not challenge that https://t.co/1CffvTLywa
Lots of his ideas deserve the scorn, but I actually like this one! As electorate ages politicians will increasingly value comfort of the elderly over investment in the young. This would go some way to correcting that.
@carlgardner i just think it’s odd to say i wont consider things outside this courtroom before justifying a sentence that is in part designed to scare other people wishing to do the same, and to be more of a deterrent to people he explicitly notes as being undeterred by criminal law
despite judge explicitly saying sentencing is proportionate to this incident & no other (para44), clearly it was considerate of perception of criminal law (not a crime) and made harsher ("exemplary") as a warning/deterrent. They're being made examples of https://t.co/D5rKnbycq5