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  1. Al Jazeera faces ‘harassment’ claims as new TV doc targets Jewish Labour activists Qatari-linked TV channel is broadcasting a three-part 'investigation' which aims to once again discredit claims of antisemitism in Labour under Jeremy Corbyn. By LEE HARPIN September 20, 2022, 3:44 pm 4 104shares Al-Jazeera compiled a four-part series The Lobby in 2017 based on six months' of undercover reporting Qatari-based television channel Al Jazeera is facing claims it has engaged in the “harassment” of seven Jewish Labour activists who have been targeted by producers of a new documentary looking into the party under Jeremy Corbyn. The first of a three-part Al Jazeera Investigation, The Labour Files, airs this Thursday and renews claims made by hard left activists, many of whom are now expelled from the party, that Corbyn and his supporters were victims of an alleged “purge” by Labour “bureaucrats”. But an advanced promotional video for the series tweeted by Al Jazeera Investigations ahead of the first episode, makes clear that a central aim of the series is to once again challenge the narrative around antisemitism in Labour under Corbyn. Get The Jewish News Daily Edition by email and never miss our top storiesFREE SIGN UP Back in January 2017, Al Jazeera sparked anger within the community after airing four-part series The Lobby, which attempted to suggest Israel was heavily influencing British politics through its embassy. But this new documentary, timed to coincide with Labour’s annual party conference which begins in Liverpool this weekend, represent a further attempt to challenge Keir Starmer’s decision to remove the whip from the former leader. The second and third episodes of investigation, focusing on discrediting antisemitism claims, will being aired as Jewish families celebrate Rosh Hashanah. Jewish News understands senior figures close to the former Labour leader have openly contributed to the new programmes. A tweet put out by the channel on Sunday advertising the new series includes a quote from Corbyn himself claiming antisemitism is “an evil” which “will not be tolerated in any form” under his government. The video then continues with a female voice saying: “Beneath the surface lies a darker side in British politics.” The next two episodes of the documentary then claim to reveal the “disturbing truth” behind Labour’s “so-called ‘antisemitism crisis’ that helps destroy the party leader and silence debate on Israel and Palestine.” During the final episode claims are made that Labour has created a “hierarchy of racism” which prioritises antisemitism over other forms of racism, a claim made by groups such as Jewish Voice For Labour, and the expelled activist Jackie Walker. Ahead of the documentary, Jewish News has learned that Al Jazeera has sent out 26 right of reply emails and letters to those featured in the investigation, offering them the right to reply to allegations. Among these 26 are at least seven individuals linked to the Jewish Labour Movement, who have openly raised claims of antisemitism in Labour under Corbyn. The programme’s producers aim to discredit the allegations of antisemitism made by the seven, who Jewish News has decided not to name. It is understood Al Jazeera has received a stern response from JLM on behalf of all seven individuals. One senior Labour official also told Jewish News they considered the allegations being made against the seven Jewish members constituted “harassment ” by the programme’s makers. It is understood that lawyers are ready to take action on behalf of Jewish individuals if the three episodes make false claims. The programme already includes an attempt to falsely link the JLM activists as allies of outspoken right-wing campaigners from within the Jewish community, including the blogger Jonathan Hoffman. It is understood that television journalist John Ware is also the subject of sustained attacks in the documentary, focusing on the BBC Panorama documentary on Labour’s antisemitism crisis he presented in July 2019. Al Jazeera will allege that Ware’s programme Is Labour Antisemitic? played a crucial role in shaping the narrative around Corbyn’s handling of the issue ahead of the general election in December 2019. The pro-Corbyn commentator Peter Oborne is filmed suggesting the BBC had been wrong to air the Panorama episode when it did, even though the general election was still months away. Asked by Jewish News to clarify his comments to Al Jazeera, Oborne said he had made them some time ago so could not recall them exactly. The show will also accuse the BBC of failing to feature anyone from the JVL organisation in the Panorama, even though Corbyn and senior figures in his office were all given a right of reply by Ware and his producers. Al Jazeera also attempts to cast doubt on claims made by both Ware’s Panorama and supported by the EHRC in its probe in Labour, that Corbyn’s office openly interfered in a high-profile disciplinary case involving the notorious anti-Zionist activist Glyn Secker. The programme will use the recently published Forde Report to attempt to defend senior figures around Corbyn, including his former communications director Seamus Milne, with the claim that email communications over the Secker case were misrepresented by Ware and the EHRC. But Jewish News understands that the account of the Secker case as detailed in the Forde Report is itself about to be challenged. Another Labour source added: “These three Al Jazeera programmes are dogged by often discredited individuals making discredited claims about John Ware, the BBC, and voices conspiracy theories about establishment attacks on Jeremy Corbyn. “The simple truth is that through Ofcom, through the law courts, and through Keir Starmer’s leadership of Labour, the claims made about antisemitism under Corbyn have been vindicated.” The final episode of the new Al Jazeera series will attempt to push the line that antisemitism complaints are taken more seriously within Labour than complaints about Islamophobia or anti-black racism. It will once again make reference to serious concerns about anti-Black racism in the party outlined in the recently published Forde Report. But again, all of these complaints relate to allegations that took place under the leadership of the Corbyn. It is understood that former senior Labour officials who voiced concern about Corbyn as party leader are among those approached for comment over racism claims by Al Jazeera. But the programme is not believed to examine why official Labour disciplinary statistics published by the party, confirm that there are still a disproportionate number of complaints relating to antisemitism, with over 80 per cent of them doing so in the most recently available figures. “Al Jazeera has every right to raise concerns about anti-black racism in Labour,” insisted a senior party source. Of course all forms of racism should be treated with equal concern. But the claim there is a ‘hierarchy of racism’ in Labour in a false, and indeed dangerous one to be making. It only helps cause further division, and should be challenged fully whenever it is raised.” Jewish News has contacted Al Jazeera for comment on the three-part Labour Files series ahead of broadcast of the first episode on Thursday. The programmes are being shown on Al Jazeera English, an international 24-hour English-language news channel which is owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network and endowed by the government of Qatar. Attracting large audiences, particularly on its Arabic channel, Al Jazeera has been criticised as being both anti-Israel and anti-Hindu in the past. Last year a delegation from Hamas visited the Al Jazeera bureau in Gaza to present the channel with a certificate for its coverage of the last conflict with Israel. Several pro-Israel British activists and a former Israeli embassy employee filed complaints with UK media regulator Ofcom in 2017 that Al Jazeera four-part documentary series The Lobby was antisemitic. The complaints also accused the organisation of bias, unfair editing, and infringement of privacy but in October that year, Ofcom issued a 60-page ruling rejecting the complaints. https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/al-jazeera-faces-harassment-claims-as-new-tv-doc-targets-jewish-labour-activists/ Likewise, i struggle with the uncritical acceptance of the source and content of this article....
  2. I struggle with uncritical acceptance of the source and content of this video.
  3. Labour frontbenchers Navvy Mishra, Labour Whip; Imran Hussain, Shadow Employment Rights; Lisa Nandy, Shadow Leveling Up and Communities attended picket lines and kept their jobs. Sam Tarry was sacked for freestyling an incomes policy whilst on a picket line; Starmer emphasised that the shadow cabinet should agree such a major policy stance collectively. Seems reasonable!? I'm in two minds about Starmer's policy on frontbenchers attending picketlines. But the likelihood is that "Labour's Shadow Cabinet on Picket Lines" would have become the story instead of the almighty mess caused by government economic policy ....as trains ground to a halt and exhausted NHS staff suffered sharp reductions in real income.
  4. To some degree or another, yes, that's the best we can hope for, something between a lesser evil and the moon. I think Starmer's willingness to adopt radical policies will only be tested if he wins an election.
  5. ......at least a lesser evil. It is possible that by then the disintegration of the economy may open the door, through necessity, to more radical and progressive policies on, for example, transport, energy and income distribution than can currently be included on a winning manifesto. Markets and economic activity will have bombed to the extent that the media and establishment's traditional fear mongering will be worthless. If there wasn't such a high human cost to the current economic and political idiocy, this scenario is what I would hope for....maybe it's the Marxian dialectic, maybe it's an unstable hog cycle; maybe a revolution of sorts is coming.
  6. The points are all yours and although I can find no evidence Keir Hardie played basketball, he would be in my dream team if he did. Certainly the next opportunity I get to vote for him, I will.
  7. Sticks in the craw a bit for some no doubt. But I think a lot of Scots probably appreciate what Starmer is trying to do and on rereading your post I do wonder if you are, subtly, suggesting Scots place a tactical vote for Labour at the next General Election.
  8. Electable! But you can quibble over the sound track if you need to. Labour 42 Tory 33 LibDem 10 Greens 5 Politico Poll of Polls 20.9.23
  9. Whether radical or competent remains to be seen. And currently looking popular enough to at least be electable and a darn sight more palatable than Truss. I wish the world were different, if only wishes were enough.
  10. Financial Times, August 22 Why Biden and Starmer keep beating the critics. Political obsessives demand that leaders should be inspirational, but swing voters aren’t so needy. As the waters closed over him at Manchester United, José Mourinho showed three fingers to a group of impertinent reporters. He was comparing his haul of Premier League titles with that of the 19 other coaches in the division. “Three for me. Two for them. Respect. Respect, man.” Now there is a speech on British soil that Joe Biden should plagiarise. Often treated as a figure of fun, he has been on three winning presidential tickets. .......This summer, he has salvaged a failing presidency with major climate legislation. His approval rating is up. He isn’t a Lincoln, no. He is not even a Clinton. But his reputation as an affable klutz dies harder than it should. At a given time, the reigning US Democrat and UK Labour leaders will resemble each other. John F Kennedy and Harold Wilson were slick but shallow icons of generational change. Jimmy Carter and James Callaghan were decent plodders in difficult times...... Biden and Keir Starmer are of a piece, too. Each has a low-to-middling reputation that belies the weight of evidence. Two years ago, the cognoscenti wondered how a man who so bored them could save Labour from terminal crisis. They now scold him for being mere favourite, rather than a racing certainty, to win the next election. From the derisive way he is still discussed, you wouldn’t know that Starmer has bucked all expectations. ......something has to fill that void of belonging. It turns out to be partisan tribe. Politics being no mere interest now, but a source of identity, you crave less a leader than a messianic shepherd to your flock. And so you over-index such things as passion, vision, rhetoric and romance. You develop a blind spot for the electoral power of well-meaning blandness....... .......it amounts to the same thing: a need for human communion through politics, for inspirational leadership.And an incomprehension of those with no such need. .....no wonder, then, that Biden and Starmer are underestimated. Swing voters aren’t as weird and needy as committed ones. They are at ease with the idea that each election pits a lesser against a greater evil. They don’t notice politics the rest of the time, much less use it as a source of vicarious fellowship. And so a leader need not have elemental star-power to woo them. People forget the golf-playing innocuousness of Dwight Eisenhower, the caution and barely middlebrow inner life of Franklin Roosevelt. As for Attlee, the one postwar UK premier who can look Margaret Thatcher in the eye, name one vivid thing he said. When Starmer is called a visionless bore, or Biden a life-long mediocrity, I hear only votes rolling in. Because so many people nowadays seek some kind of rapture in politics, they forget that an electorally decisive number of voters still don’t. Diligent, unprepossessing, best-of-a-bad-bunch candidates have long thrived in politics. What is new is the surprise when it happens. Janan Ganesh (So next time out I'll post my vote for Starmer's party rather than wait up a hill for some truly left leaning political MacEssiah. All the posturing in the world won't stop Truss wreaking havoc).
  11. I think they are still on the go...they performed for the Queen Mother at the 1970 Royal Variety Performance. The Queen Mother, like the recently deceased Queen preferred raw milk and apparently had raw milk delivered to Princes Harry and William at Eton College, where more than two Prime Ministers also attended. The milk was not supplied by the Chelsea cows of Wright's Dairy, of the Kings Road in Chelsea, although Wright's may well have supplied milk to at least two managers of Chelsea Football Club. Mibbes keep the fridge door closed.
  12. Best hawd onto it and don't be thinking of getting on your bike and nipping down the shop for a fresh pint.... “British Cycling strongly recommends that anybody out riding their bike on the day of the state funeral does so outside of the timings of the funeral service and associated processions, which will be confirmed later this week,” Meanwhile, updates are awaited from Dairy UK ......
  13. ......I have clear memories of this.
  14. 2 months ago but a decent summary... https://www.ft.com/content/7a209a34-7d95-47aa-91b0-bf02d4214764 As he battled to save his job this month, Boris Johnson warned his MPs not to get into “some hellish, Groundhog Day debate about the merits of belonging to the single market”. Brexit, he warned his mutinous party in a sweaty House of Commons meeting room, was settled. Later that day, Johnson limped to victory in a confidence vote, but only after 41 per cent of his MPs had voted to oust him from Downing Street. He is safe for now but the defining project of his premiership — Brexit — still hangs like a cloud over Britain’s fragile economy. Johnson may not want his party “relitigating” Brexit but neither does Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the opposition Labour party, around a third of whose supporters voted Leave in the 2016 referendum. Nor does Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England. Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, would rather talk about something else. Brexit has become the great British taboo. But as the sixth anniversary of the UK’s vote to leave the EU approaches, economists are starting to quantify the damage caused by the erection of trade barriers with its biggest market, separating the “Brexit effect” from the damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. They conclude that the damage is real and it is not over yet. Business investment, seen by Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak as the panacea to a poor growth rate, trails other industrialised countries Business investment, seen by Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak as the panacea to a poor growth rate, trails other industrialised countries © Scott Heppell/Reuters The UK is lagging behind the rest of the G7 in terms of trade recovery after the pandemic; business investment, seen by Johnson and Sunak as the panacea to a poor growth rate, trails other industrialised countries, in spite of lavish Treasury tax breaks to try to drive it up. Next year, according to the OECD think-tank, the UK will have the lowest growth in the G20, apart from sanctioned Russia. The Office for Budget Responsibility, the official British forecaster, has seen no reason to change its prediction, first made in March 2020, that Brexit would ultimately reduce productivity and UK gross domestic product by 4 per cent compared with a world where the country remained inside the EU. It says that a little over half of that damage has yet to occur. That level of decline, worth about £100bn a year in lost output, would result in lost revenues for the Treasury of roughly £40bn a year. That is £40bn that might have been available to the beleaguered Johnson for the radical tax cuts demanded by the Tory right — the equivalent of 6p off the 20p in the pound basic rate of income tax. Despite these sobering figures, Johnson’s complaints about the prospect of “relitigating” Brexit was exaggerated, intended to portray himself as the victim of a putative plot by pro-Remain MPs. In fact, British politicians — and the wider country — are still traumatised by the bitter Brexit saga, and deeply unwilling to revisit it. Still, this month has seen the first stirrings of a debate that until now has been buried as the evidence of Brexit-induced economic self-harm starts to pile up. Few are talking about reversing Brexit altogether, but another question is being asked: should the UK start to explore with Brussels ways of softening its edges? Show, don’t tell Downing Street insisted this week it was “too early to pass judgment” on whether Brexit was having a negative impact on the economy, which could be heading into a recession. “The opportunities Brexit provides will be a boon to the UK economy in the long run,” Johnson’s spokesman said. Both Johnson and Sunak insist that it is hard at this stage to separate Brexit’s economic impact from the shock of Covid. In the meantime, the prime minister promotes the “benefits of Brexit”, such as new trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand and the freedom for the UK to set its own rules. Sunak has promised a reform of rules in the City of London, including reforming the EU’s Solvency II rules to allow insurers to spend more money on infrastructure projects. He has announced eight new freeports with special tax privileges. But economists have not yet been able to find any significant positive impacts of these policies. Some, including Johnson’s patriotic promise to put a “crown stamp” on pint glasses in pubs and to allow traders to sell their wares in pounds and ounces, are primarily symbolic. A ‘crown stamp’ on a pint glass Johnson promised to put a ‘crown stamp’ on pint glasses in pubs and allow traders to sell their wares in pounds and ounces © Ben Birchall/PA Critics of government Brexit policy are routinely derided. Suella Braverman, attorney-general, last week accused the ITV presenter Robert Peston of “Remainiac make-believe” after he challenged her over the government’s unilateral plan to rip up the Brexit treaty relating to Northern Ireland. Braverman claimed the so-called Northern Ireland protocol had left the region “lagging behind the rest of the UK”. In fact, Northern Ireland (the only area of the UK to remain in the EU’s single market for goods) is the best performing part of the country, apart from London. When Bailey appeared before the House of Commons treasury committee in mid-May, the BoE governor acknowledged that his predecessor Mark Carney had made himself “unpopular” for saying Brexit would have a negative effect on trade, but that the bank held to that view. Kevin Hollinrake, a Tory member of the committee, says Bailey was trying to avoid becoming a political target and was “deliberately avoiding” talking about Brexit. “It’s a singular issue for the UK,” the MP says. “We have changed our immigration rules. It’s about non-tariff barriers. You’ve got to be willing to look at what’s happening on the ground.” UK military personnel boarding an RAF Voyager aircraft at RAF Brize Norton, as around 8,000 British Army troops will take part in exercises across eastern Europe Kwasi Kwarteng, business secretary, recently focused on the UK’s ability to respond swiftly to Russian aggression in Ukraine © Sharron Floyd/PA While some gloomy predictions have failed to materialise, such as former chancellor George Osborne’s 2016 warning of a recession immediately after a Leave vote, there is growing evidence that Brexit is causing more lasting damage to UK economic prospects. Ministers are becoming more reluctant to proclaim the economic upsides of Brexit. Kwasi Kwarteng, business secretary, was asked last week at the FT Global Boardroom to list some Brexit benefits. He focused on the UK’s ability to respond swiftly to Russian aggression in Ukraine — “it has substantial benefits particularly in international policy” — rather than on business. Sunak’s allies say the chancellor’s approach is to “show, not tell” on Brexit, pushing through City regulatory reforms rather than giving boosterish speeches on its economic merits. The fallout in data The first and most obvious economic blow delivered by Brexit came when sterling fell almost 10 per cent after the referendum in June 2016, against currencies that match the UK’s pattern of imports. It did not recover. This sharp depreciation was not followed by a boom in exports as UK goods and services became cheaper on global markets, but it did raise the price of imports and pushed up inflation. By June 2018, a team of academic economists at the Centre for Economic Policy Research calculated that there had been a Brexit inflation effect, raising consumer prices by 2.9 per cent, with no corresponding increase in wages. Some households, such as those relying on state pensions, were compensated in higher benefits, but the CEPR team found no overall offset with higher incomes. “The Brexit vote delivered a swift negative shock to UK living standards,” they wrote. While the UK was still in the EU and during the Brexit “transition phase”, there were no significant effects on trade flows. But this has changed since stricter border controls were introduced at the start of 2021, imposing no tariffs, but significant checks and controls at the formerly frictionless border. Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the opposition Labour party Johnson may not want his party ‘relitigating’ Brexit but neither does Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the opposition Labour party © Charles McQuillan/Getty Images Economists have used this point in time to contrast how the UK’s trade performance compares with those of other countries before and after the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement’s imposition. The results have been increasingly ugly, especially for small companies trading with Europe. Red tape caused a “steep decline” in the number of trading relationships after January 2021, according to a study by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. The number of buyer-seller relationships fell by almost one-third, it found. The same group found food prices had risen as a result of Brexit. Comparing the prices of imported food such as pork, tomatoes and jam, which predominantly came from the EU, with those that came from further afield such as tuna and pineapples, it found a substantial Brexit effect. “Brexit increased average food prices by about 6 per cent over 2020 and 2021,” according to the research. Summing up the effects on trade in which imports from the EU have fallen while exports have not risen, Adam Posen, head of the Peterson Institute of International Economics, says “everybody else sees a recovery in trade following Covid and the UK sits flat”. The third visible effect of Brexit on the UK economy has been in discouraging business investment. In the first quarter of 2022, real business investment was 9.4 per cent lower than in the second quarter of 2016. That fall was mostly due to Covid, but it had flatlined since the referendum, ending a period of growth since 2010 and falling well short of the performance of other G7 countries. Weak investment is a particular worry for Sunak, who sees business investment as the route to greater prosperity. Before departing the BoE in 2020, Carney told a House of Lords Committee that Brexit uncertainty was holding back business investment. Worse, he said, business planning for various Brexit scenarios was taking up a lot of management effort. “Time spent on contingency planning is time not spent on strategic initiatives,” he said. Since then, negative perceptions of the UK have continued among business with the chancellor finding he had little bang for his £25bn buck of super deductions in corporation tax to encourage capital spending. As Bailey told MPs last month, the super-deductor was “not at the moment having the impact that was expected”. Unhappiness about high immigration was one of the most contentious issues of the referendum, with a central promise of the Brexit campaign being tougher controls over the number of people entering the country. While net immigration from EU countries has stopped, with effectively no change apparent in the two years to the end of June 2021, net immigration from non-EU countries has remained high, with 250,000 in the latest year. Collateral damage There is, as yet, little appetite among Britain’s political leaders for a return to the EU — even if the other 27 member states were prepared to open the door. Even the pro-EU Liberal Democrats admit reversing course is a long-term aspiration, rather than an immediate goal. As part of his attempt to avert a coup, Johnson wrote to MPs this month that he had “created a new and friendly relationship with the EU”. The opposite is true. Brussels restarted legal action against the UK this week over the Northern Ireland protocol: relations are at rock bottom. The EU has warned that British scientists will be excluded from the €95bn Horizon research programme as “collateral damage” in the row about Northern Ireland. The prospect of any kind of rapprochement at the moment, at least while Johnson remains prime minister, seems remote. But in recent weeks, a tentative debate has started over whether the UK would be better off trying to reach accommodations with the EU to smooth trade in some areas, rather than launching a new front in the Brexit war with unilateral action over Northern Ireland. In an article much-discussed at Westminster, the pro-Leave Times columnist Iain Martin wrote this month: “To deny the downsides of Brexit on trade with the EU is to deny reality.” Tobias Ellwood, a former Tory defence minister, suggested Britain should rejoin the EU single market to soften the cost of living crisis, said there was “an appetite” for a rethink and claimed polling indicated “this is not the Brexit most people imagined”. And Daniel Hannan, a leading Tory Brexiter, repeated his longstanding view that Britain should have stayed in the single market under a Norway-style relationship with the EU, while adding that to rejoin it now “would be madness”. Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England Central bank governor Andrew Bailey, who appeared before the House of Commons treasury committee in May. He acknowledged his predecessor Mark Carney had made himself ‘unpopular’ for saying Brexit would have a negative effect on trade © House of Commons/PA Anna McMorrin, Labour shadow minister, was recorded telling activists: “I hope eventually that we will get back into the single market and customs union.” She was forced to apologise by Starmer: such talk remains dangerous in political circles. Even so, a Starmer-led future Labour government would change UK relations with the EU. The party’s mantra has become “make Brexit work”: rejoining the single market may be off the agenda, but Labour wants to find ways to improve on the bare-bones tariff-free trade agreement Johnson negotiated with the EU. Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, told the Financial Times last year that Labour wanted to strike a deal with the EU to reduce the most onerous paperwork and checks on food exports. The party also wants an agreement with Brussels on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications. Even among the Eurosceptics in Johnson’s cabinet, there is now an acceptance that the UK should be seeking to rebuild economic relations with the EU, including in areas like the Horizon programme, to avoid exacerbating the looming cost of living crisis. “Would I like to be in a better place on Brexit?” asked one pro-Brexit cabinet member. “Yes, absolutely. But we’ve got to find a way of doing it without it looking like we’re running up the white flag and we’re compromising on sovereignty.”
  15. ....nobody i knew or know was ever grateful for that.
  16. Quantitative easing is not an everlasting gobstopper. There are costs, like global inflation.
  17. In 1979, a significant proportion of the population had experienced the 1930s. Thatcher was born in 1925 and was 20 years old by the end of the war in 1945. Keen to drive? You want to leave Truss/Sunak behind the wheel?
  18. Oh, that old economists joke! First, assume a magic wand. Still out of Europe; War Raging; Collapsed Global Growth; National Debt remains over 100% of GDP. I don't find it difficult to understand thst other sectors, like the NHS, should take priority over buying debt laden utility companies.
  19. I haven't picked up this morning's paper yet but in order to make sense of what you've just said, I'll expect.....War in Ukraine Ends. Boris undoes Brexit. Pandemic Profiteers Return Loot; Post Pandemic Productivity Soars By 1945, Britain's national debt was around 33% of GDP, the world was on the up. By the end of 2021 Britain's national debt was over 100% of GDP, the world is in disarray. Can you spot the difference in these two pictures?
  20. I agree, the committment is more a headline than a detailed policy.
  21. If the only way of finding out is rejecting the Tory party what is there to lose? Just out of interest, who's on your list of horses**t free politicians?
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