21-08-2023, 10:33
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
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I only wish it were not true.
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21-08-2023, 10:41
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#887
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
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a good one!
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21-08-2023, 10:41
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
Brilliant letter
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21-08-2023, 10:43
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
For the record, Braverman is useless and I hope someone effective replaces her in a future reshuffle.
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21-08-2023, 13:02
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
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For the record, Braverman is useless and I hope someone effective replaces her in a future reshuffle.
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Like someone from a different party?
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21-08-2023, 13:11
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
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Like someone from a different party?
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In the short-term, it will have to be someone from the same party. It's not so much that there is a big pool of available talent in the Conservative Party, it's more that anyone vaguely competent some of the time could do a better job.
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21-08-2023, 15:12
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
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In the short-term, it will have to be someone from the same party. It's not so much that there is a big pool of available talent in the Conservative Party, it's more that anyone vaguely competent some of the time could do a better job.
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Most, if not all, of the vaguely competent Tory MPs were removed from parliament some time ago as they were deemed non-believers.
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21-08-2023, 15:36
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
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Barnett Waddingham has estimated that more than a third of FTSE 350 defined-benefit schemes were fully funded on a buyout basis as of May 31 this year
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So 2/3rds aren’t…
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21-08-2023, 19:56
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
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For the record, Braverman is useless and I hope someone effective replaces her in a future reshuffle.
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Wonder who does her staff report? And is her pay rise performance related, like her minions?
I'd recommend she join a union, quickly....
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24-08-2023, 02:37
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
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For the record, Braverman is useless and I hope someone effective replaces her in a future reshuffle.
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Sunak needs Braverman or he loses the right wing and he will be thrown out too
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24-08-2023, 08:42
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
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Sunak needs Braverman or he loses the right wing and he will be thrown out too
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Not sure the right wing rate Braverman anymore since it turns out she doesn't have Canute like powers to stop boats.
These nutty right wingers are all very popular until they get power, or get their way (e.g. Farage with Brexit). They are found out to be useless/have told a pack of lies.
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24-08-2023, 23:48
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
The Telegraph, sometimes seen a guide to Conservative party sentiment, urged under-50s to leave the UK.
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The historian Niall Ferguson once remarked that “if young Americans knew what was good for them, they would all be in the Tea Party”. If young British people knew what was good for them, they’d be on the next plane out of the country. Emigration is, after all, the time-honoured path to prosperity for those trapped in stagnating countries.
And the UK is not so much stagnating as it is fossilising. Fifteen years of anaemic growth mean that real wages are still below their 2008 peak – there are 30 year olds who have seen their entire working career go by without seeing meaningful growth in wages. The result is that countries we are used to thinking of as our peers are surging ahead.
Our GDP per capita, adjusted for actual purchasing power, is closer to Slovenia’s than it is to Denmark’s or Australia’s. American levels of prosperity are so far out of reach that we would need an economic Apollo mission to bridge the gap between us; the general manager of a Buc-ee’s petrol station in Texas is paid more than our Prime Minister.
Young people wanting to start families are finding things previous generations took for granted to be effectively out of reach. It’s hard not to connect this dysfunction with the birth rate reaching record lows. Fertility intentions – the number of children women want to have – have been pretty much at replacement level in Britain even as the number of children they actually have has fallen.
To the extent that it is no longer possible for many to have the family lives they dream of in Britain, that’s a pretty convincing reason to leave
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25-08-2023, 08:04
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
If only they hadn’t thrown up a metaphorical Berlin Wall.
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25-08-2023, 09:26
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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
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If only they hadn’t thrown up a metaphorical Berlin Wall.
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Can't have young folk leaving the UK too easily! Who else would wait upon our better-off older generations?
I found this quite damning:
Fifteen years of anaemic growth mean that real wages are still below their 2008 peak.
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