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Post by baldrick on Sept 2, 2024 7:48:42 GMT
Do you follow those X users or have they popped up on your account?
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Post by icegas on Sept 2, 2024 8:06:53 GMT
Do you follow those X users or have they popped up on your account? They just pop up. They are everywhere, there are many funny anti Trump one's out there, but as I stated the other day, A.I and it's technology is truely frightening.
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Post by Nobbygas on Sept 2, 2024 8:43:04 GMT
Are these people in government serious? How can they sit there and spout this utter nonsense.
"House of Commons Leader Lucy Powell claimed Britain could have faced a run on the pound and an economic crash if the Chancellor hadn't axed winter fuel payments to plug the "black hole" Labour has found in the public finances. Ms Powell said there was "no alternative" and the decision was needed to avoid an economic catastrophe. She told Times Radio: "This is one of those very difficult decisions we had to take. "But we have faced this huge additional black hole for this current financial year, borrowing higher than anybody understood. "If we hadn't taken some of these tough decisions we could have seen a run on the pound, interest rates going up and crashing the economy. It's something we were left with no alternative but to do.""
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Post by Nobbygas on Sept 2, 2024 8:45:09 GMT
Do you follow those X users or have they popped up on your account? They just pop up. They are everywhere, there are many funny anti Trump one's out there, but as I stated the other day, A.I and it's technology is truely frightening. Let's get this tech working so we can have driverless trains. It'll save billions of taxpayers money plus stop any future industrial action that holds the taxpayer to ransom.
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Post by baldrick on Sept 2, 2024 8:45:48 GMT
Do you follow those X users or have they popped up on your account? They just pop up. They are everywhere, there are many funny anti Trump one's out there, but as I stated the other day, A.I and it's technology is truely frightening. Fair enough, they seem to have a certain outlook on life full of conspiracy theories. This one seems to have a Bill Gates/mRNA issue, the one about Adele is quite a link. Easy to go down rabbit holes on Twitter.
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Post by icegas on Sept 2, 2024 8:51:53 GMT
They just pop up. They are everywhere, there are many funny anti Trump one's out there, but as I stated the other day, A.I and it's technology is truely frightening. Fair enough, they seem to have a certain outlook on life full of conspiracy theories. This one seems to have a Bill Gates/mRNA issue, the one about Adele is quite a link. Easy to go down rabbit holes on Twitter. As is the case with believing everything that the MSM tells us is fact.. Twitter/X is the equalizer for free speech.Its not perfect, and you have to sieve through what's on there, but I would rather have it there then not. What's happening in Brazil in regards to this is scary.
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Post by baldrick on Sept 2, 2024 8:56:19 GMT
Fair enough, they seem to have a certain outlook on life full of conspiracy theories. This one seems to have a Bill Gates/mRNA issue, the one about Adele is quite a link. Easy to go down rabbit holes on Twitter. As is the case with believing everything that the MSM tells us is fact.. Twitter/X is the equalizer for free speech.Its not perfect, and you have to sieve through what's on there, but I would rather have it there then not. What's happening in Brazil in regards to this is scary. Twitter CAN be a leveller in free speech, there are a lot of things incorrect or misleading and when reading the replies it's concerning how many simply accept it as fact without recourse. Algorithms don't help in feeding one side or another. The 'reader message fact check' facility will help to a degree.
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Post by lostinspace on Sept 2, 2024 9:18:16 GMT
tax rises and employment rights has "dented confidence in the environment for business in the UK", said Anna Leach, chief economist at the Institute of Directors business group.
The group said business leader confidence had fizzled out in August with investment intentions for the year ahead seeing the sharpest decline since the beginning of the Covid pandemic lockdowns.
Revenue and headcount expectations for business bosses also fell last month.
"We are calling on the government to take time to get policy design right for the long-term, and deliver the stable tax and policy framework needed to drive business confidence and investment," Ms Leach added. Just a piece taken from a BBC interview in relation to proposed tax rises aimed at the energy industry, Due to be implemented on 1st November this year
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Post by Nobbygas on Sept 2, 2024 9:37:25 GMT
tax rises and employment rights has "dented confidence in the environment for business in the UK", said Anna Leach, chief economist at the Institute of Directors business group. The group said business leader confidence had fizzled out in August with investment intentions for the year ahead seeing the sharpest decline since the beginning of the Covid pandemic lockdowns. Revenue and headcount expectations for business bosses also fell last month. "We are calling on the government to take time to get policy design right for the long-term, and deliver the stable tax and policy framework needed to drive business confidence and investment," Ms Leach added. Just a piece taken from a BBC interview in relation to proposed tax rises aimed at the energy industry, Due to be implemented on 1st November this year Let's not forget that Labour promised to fund everything by "growing the economy". From what we have seen so far that is a task that is far beyond them.
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Post by oldie on Sept 2, 2024 10:13:19 GMT
tax rises and employment rights has "dented confidence in the environment for business in the UK", said Anna Leach, chief economist at the Institute of Directors business group. The group said business leader confidence had fizzled out in August with investment intentions for the year ahead seeing the sharpest decline since the beginning of the Covid pandemic lockdowns. Revenue and headcount expectations for business bosses also fell last month. "We are calling on the government to take time to get policy design right for the long-term, and deliver the stable tax and policy framework needed to drive business confidence and investment," Ms Leach added. Just a piece taken from a BBC interview in relation to proposed tax rises aimed at the energy industry, Due to be implemented on 1st November this year Vested interest taking a position. Much better to wait until a detailed policy is published, then we can tear it to shreds or support it. In the meantime it's just people shouting at clouds
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Post by baldrick on Sept 2, 2024 10:23:24 GMT
Sensible decision on the Ofsted wording, surely. Should be acknowledged.
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Post by oldie on Sept 2, 2024 10:30:53 GMT
Sensible decision on the Ofsted wording, surely. Should be acknowledged. Very much so. I cannot see how a single word description ever served parents well. But it made the Tories appear "hard" Which is an oxymoron.
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Post by baldrick on Sept 2, 2024 10:39:10 GMT
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Post by Nobbygas on Sept 2, 2024 10:42:42 GMT
tax rises and employment rights has "dented confidence in the environment for business in the UK", said Anna Leach, chief economist at the Institute of Directors business group. The group said business leader confidence had fizzled out in August with investment intentions for the year ahead seeing the sharpest decline since the beginning of the Covid pandemic lockdowns. Revenue and headcount expectations for business bosses also fell last month. "We are calling on the government to take time to get policy design right for the long-term, and deliver the stable tax and policy framework needed to drive business confidence and investment," Ms Leach added. Just a piece taken from a BBC interview in relation to proposed tax rises aimed at the energy industry, Due to be implemented on 1st November this year Vested interest taking a position. Much better to wait until a detailed policy is published, then we can tear it to shreds or support it. In the meantime it's just people shouting at clouds And just when will this "detailed policy" be published? Has such a thing ever existed?
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Post by oldie on Sept 2, 2024 10:52:50 GMT
Vested interest taking a position. Much better to wait until a detailed policy is published, then we can tear it to shreds or support it. In the meantime it's just people shouting at clouds And just when will this "detailed policy" be published? Has such a thing ever existed? My working assumption is around the Autumn Statement/ budget.
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Post by lostinspace on Sept 2, 2024 11:08:12 GMT
tax rises and employment rights has "dented confidence in the environment for business in the UK", said Anna Leach, chief economist at the Institute of Directors business group. The group said business leader confidence had fizzled out in August with investment intentions for the year ahead seeing the sharpest decline since the beginning of the Covid pandemic lockdowns. Revenue and headcount expectations for business bosses also fell last month. "We are calling on the government to take time to get policy design right for the long-term, and deliver the stable tax and policy framework needed to drive business confidence and investment," Ms Leach added. Just a piece taken from a BBC interview in relation to proposed tax rises aimed at the energy industry, Due to be implemented on 1st November this year Vested interest taking a position. Much better to wait until a detailed policy is published, then we can tear it to shreds or support it. In the meantime it's just people shouting at clouds Starmer had, for the previous 12 months or so prior to the GE been spouting " we are ready to run the country" ...obviously not..or this should/ would have been sorted from day 1 after the election....
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Post by oldie on Sept 2, 2024 11:32:31 GMT
Vested interest taking a position. Much better to wait until a detailed policy is published, then we can tear it to shreds or support it. In the meantime it's just people shouting at clouds Starmer had, for the previous 12 months or so prior to the GE been spouting " we are ready to run the country" ...obviously not..or this should/ would have been sorted from day 1 after the election.... Come on LiS
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Post by oldie on Sept 2, 2024 12:41:38 GMT
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Post by baldrick on Sept 2, 2024 14:09:50 GMT
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Post by baldrick on Sept 2, 2024 14:11:53 GMT
Interesting bit: "Bank of America expects the UK’s next rate cut to come in November, followed by four quarterly cuts in 2025 and two cuts in 2026 – resulting in a 3.25 per cent base rate by the middle of 2026."
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