It was tempting to think that the authorities were simply blind to the risk of opening our doors to men, about which we know nothing, from nations with entrenched cultures of misogyny and rampant sexual violence. But they knew all along. They just did it anyway.
@afneil Also Liability-Driven Investment (LDI) funds were at the core of the financial stability crisis that followed the Truss mini-budget. The fiscal announcements triggered a massive sell-off in gilts, the high leverage in LDI strats amplified the shock & forced BOE to act.
She didn’t ’crash the economy’. That’s a Labour propaganda meme. She did discombobulate the financial markets with a reckless budget, including unfunded tax cuts, which saw yields on UK debt spike. But she wasn’t in power long enough to crash the economy. GDP was untouched by her thankfully brief tenure. And, of course, yields on 10-year gilts are now even higher than when they peaked during the ClusterTruss.
We're so screwed. Incidentally, look at the rate of increase of spending that happened under Brown - unmatched until Covid hit. Brown was a pandemic-level event for the UK economy. (Actually, if you do the sums, he was two Covid-level events - one pre-2008 and one from 2008-2010: https://t.co/P89Y19z34A)
These people have literally no idea what they are talking about.
They are spinning tops. Ludicrously unqualified for the roles they pretend at.
Zero experience of any significance to draw upon.
They speak for no one.
They are role playing our country to extinction.
I’m pretty sure I would have heard of Nigel Farage without the BBC’s help. Paul Mason, by contrast, was the deputy editor of Computer Weekly before the BBC suddenly decided to put him on Newsnight.
There was a time when the sexual revolution was going to make everyone happy. I recall it being promised that ending sexual repression would stop sex crime, end unwanted pregnancy, reduce abortion, and even lower psychological illness.
Instead, because sex entails all kinds of risks and responsibilities, all those things, plus child poverty and abuse in dysfunctional families, have exploded. And as a bonus, we now get articles like this. No-one is responsible for their sexual behaviour or relationship choices any more, it seems.
https://t.co/k5kwohkHEV
“A time traveller from 50s Britain would probably die of shock within two hours of arriving in modernised Blairland - and be quite glad to do so. The fact that the restaurants are better just would not make up for the fact that almost everything else is worse.”
Peter Hitchens
When a leader of a political party shares an image advocating for the death of a political opponent, they know exactly what they’re doing. Even if the post is deleted within minutes, the message is received by followers. And more people search for the image once it becomes a headline. Has Ann Widdecombe’s death taught the left nothing? Or are they hoping to inspire another killer?
The SNP runs into the Laffer Curve: its 48% top rate of income tax (NICs on top) results in £22m LESS in tax revenues.
Don’t they teach economics in the land of Adam Smith any more?
Or does left-wing virtue signalling — I’m ‘taxing the rich’ more than you — trump everything?
The most frustrating thing about this is it should be front page news in every newspaper that cares about investigating the truth but our ideologically captured, left-wing MSM will never report on it, and so the majority of the population will never hear about it.