@MartinRemains@HelenSalmon2 Treacherous to the core as they wave the flag, wrecking people’s lives, our NHS, BBC, Civil Service, democracy, economy, public purse...these ‘pillars of the establishment’, lighting a bonfire under the UK, all for personal gain.
@implausibleblog@tutt_brian yes it was deliberate. They also paid their mates millions to use their hotels. Who says you can’t get rich on government handouts!
@MbarkCherguia Go back to the performance art of the Italian Futurists in 1900, the Dadaists, Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Urinal’ or even further back to Van Gogh and the Impressionists. All were mocked in their time. There are numerous art forms and artists have always pushed boundaries.
Today my friends and I ordered a Cream Tea. The scones arrived, already cut in half and with the cream and jam ALREADY spread on them! We were aghast! Surely this isn’t the way to serve this most traditional, and personal, of afternoon teas!? 🫖☕️
President Trump on his conversation with Labour's Andy Burnham,
"I think he's going to open up the North Sea.. If they open up the North Sea the UK would be rich again"
Putting aside environmental issues..
Opening the North Sea to extensive new oil and gas development could generate around £165 billion in additional economic value by 2050, but that is not government revenue. After investment costs, tax allowances, operating expenses and decommissioning relief, the additional tax received by the Treasury would more plausibly be around £20–50 billion in total.
Rejoining the EU could eventually restore approximately £45–50 billion a year in tax revenue, based on the OBR’s estimate that Brexit leaves the economy around 4% smaller than it otherwise would have been. Assuming the economic benefits developed gradually after rejoining, this could produce approximately £750–950 billion in additional tax receipts by 2050, or roughly £300–600 billion net after paying EU budget contributions.
Therefore, on central estimates, rejoining the EU could deliver around 10–25 times the net Treasury benefit of opening the North Sea.
Put simply, additional North Sea production might recover roughly the equivalent of only one year of the tax revenue currently being lost because of Brexit.
If the objective is to make the UK rich again, North Sea isn't the way, rejoining the EU is the way
KFC has broken its promise to take fast-growing #Frankenchickens off the menu. The company must stop profiting from suffering. I’ve just sent them a clear message that their actions are unacceptable. Will you stand up for chickens and email KFC too? https://t.co/eqzkUzmlIh 🐔📢