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Panorama highlighting the extreme far right groups in the UK.

The amount of people criticising the highlight trending on Twitter just goes to show what a racist society we're living in.
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Bank of England came out and confessed they printed money to give to the government as they were almost skint.

I think the financial repercussions of the lockdown will be felt for a long time and I think even a regional lockdown would be even more devastating for regional economy.

Even more bad news as the company who runs Eldon Square and The Metrocentre, the 2nd and 3rd biggest shopping centres in the UK - Only The Trafford Center is bigger - Is on the verge of going bust, my job affected by this too.
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The Brits seem to be ploughing ahead with no deal Brexit at the end of the year. Even just from a purely selfish point of view when it comes to their political careers, you would think this is something they would want to avoid with the economic sh*t storm that is coming thanks to the pandemic. It's going to make things a million times worse. 
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Originally posted by the_walls the_walls wrote:

The Brits seem to be ploughing ahead with no deal Brexit at the end of the year. Even just from a purely selfish point of view when it comes to their political careers, you would think this is something they would want to avoid with the economic sh*t storm that is coming thanks to the pandemic. It's going to make things a million times worse. 

They will use the covid economic tsunami as cover for the brexit shambles - everything will be blamed on covid unfortunately and ****s like Gove Johnson will get off Scot free on  brexit - though hourly they get the blame for their covid handling 
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Hard to blame COVID when they've been openly invited by the EU to extend the transition period without reply.

Problem is from their perspective is saying yes will provoke a negative response from their right wing voters, saying no will lead the country into economic uncertainty for years.

Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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Originally posted by coyne coyne wrote:

Bank of England came out and confessed they printed money to give to the government as they were almost skint.

Helicopter money
David McWilliams was saying early in lockdown that Ireland should do it 
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Originally posted by coyne coyne wrote:

Hard to blame COVID when they've been openly invited by the EU to extend the transition period without reply.

Problem is from their perspective is saying yes will provoke a negative response from their right wing voters, saying no will lead the country into economic uncertainty for years.

Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Most people won’t or aren’t capable  of making the distinction or will they care 

As somebody said in the JD thread if he had of hung on a couple of months the shocking state of the fai finances woukd of been blamed on covid  
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Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

@duponline
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 asks the Prime Minister to explain, “how Northern Ireland can remain a full part of the United Kingdom if people coming from the rest of the UK into Northern Ireland have to pass through a border control post?”.




Poor Sammy going to get even redder LOL

Only dawning on him now that unionists have been f**ked under the bus by "the mainland" again LOL. Of course Boris continues to say black is white and deny that the blatantly obvious is going to happen as regards to an Irish Sea border. 
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Labour's problems resurfacing now the attention is away from COVID. As previously predicted.

Shadow Cabinet members sharing antisemitic on Twitter, been immediately sacked for it which means Starmer has done more for the Labour party in 1 day than Corbyn did in 5 years, even if he is a Tory at heart.
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Originally posted by coyne coyne wrote:

Labour's problems resurfacing now the attention is away from COVID. As previously predicted.

Shadow Cabinet members sharing antisemitic on Twitter, been immediately sacked for it which means Starmer has done more for the Labour party in 1 day than Corbyn did in 5 years, even if he is a Tory at heart.
That country is mad. All she did was say something about Israel. Why in the UK is everyone automatically barred from saying anything bad about Israel? Is it an anti Muslim thing or something? 
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Originally posted by Jackal Jackal wrote:

Originally posted by coyne coyne wrote:

Labour's problems resurfacing now the attention is away from COVID. As previously predicted.

Shadow Cabinet members sharing antisemitic on Twitter, been immediately sacked for it which means Starmer has done more for the Labour party in 1 day than Corbyn did in 5 years, even if he is a Tory at heart.
That country is mad. All she did was say something about Israel. Why in the UK is everyone automatically barred from saying anything bad about Israel? Is it an anti Muslim thing or something? 

It’s a f**king joke, Israel is an apartheid state but if you criticise it you get labelled anti-Semitic.

There’s a difference in anti-Zionism and anti-semitism.
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Originally posted by BrendanD88 BrendanD88 wrote:

Originally posted by Jackal Jackal wrote:

Originally posted by coyne coyne wrote:

Labour's problems resurfacing now the attention is away from COVID. As previously predicted.

Shadow Cabinet members sharing antisemitic on Twitter, been immediately sacked for it which means Starmer has done more for the Labour party in 1 day than Corbyn did in 5 years, even if he is a Tory at heart.
That country is mad. All she did was say something about Israel. Why in the UK is everyone automatically barred from saying anything bad about Israel? Is it an anti Muslim thing or something? 

It’s a f**king joke, Israel is an apartheid state but if you criticise it you get labelled anti-Semitic.

There’s a difference in anti-Zionism and anti-semitism.
To be fair to the British, they did have Europe's last apartheid state themselves.


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Originally posted by BrendanD88 BrendanD88 wrote:

Originally posted by Jackal Jackal wrote:

Originally posted by coyne coyne wrote:

Labour's problems resurfacing now the attention is away from COVID. As previously predicted.

Shadow Cabinet members sharing antisemitic on Twitter, been immediately sacked for it which means Starmer has done more for the Labour party in 1 day than Corbyn did in 5 years, even if he is a Tory at heart.
That country is mad. All she did was say something about Israel. Why in the UK is everyone automatically barred from saying anything bad about Israel? Is it an anti Muslim thing or something? 

It’s a f**king joke, Israel is an apartheid state but if you criticise it you get labelled anti-Semitic.

There’s a difference in anti-Zionism and anti-semitism.

Spot on. 
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The problem is that it’s still a very taboo topic within the party regardless of the context because of Corbyn’s ignorance towards it.

He effectively alienated the entire Jewish vote so sharing material of the sort is probably the very last thing you want to do if you’re representing the Labour party.

The person in question nominated herself for Labour Party Leadership also, had she won and then did that would of probably caused a sh*tstorm


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