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Old 10-25-2022, 08:19 AM
 
Location: SE UK
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Originally Posted by vincenze View Post
The UK will be ruled by a rich guy who is elected by British billionaires.

Will he help British workers? I doubt so.
What does his wealth have to do with anything? Rich people can do a good job as well as poor ones. What he has to do is ignore the 'bots', the EU, remainers, Communists etc and actually get on with it. It's about time Politics was about 'Politics' again instead of this pathetic constant 'mud slinging' that has replaced it both here, across Europe and over in the US.

Does anybody stop to wonder why Politics has gotten so 'nasty' recently? Something to do with our dictatorial autocratic 'friends' on this planet perhaps!

The West is sleepwalking itself into destruction while the evil dictators of this world strive to bring discord and division to what it sees as its 'enemy'...............the free world!

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Old 10-25-2022, 08:24 AM
 
Location: NMB, SC
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Originally Posted by vincenze View Post
The UK will be ruled by a rich guy who is elected by British billionaires.

Will he help British workers? I doubt so.
Why the hate for the "rich guy" ? He must have some smarts if he's rich so why not use that skill to guide the country ?

would you rather someone who is poor with bad life choices ???
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Old 10-25-2022, 09:02 AM
 
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9 of 10 People delay turning heating on as UK inflation soars


No sympathy for self-inflicted wounds! All of this can end rather quickly. There's an easy solution and it's the elephant in the room. I wonder, why did BoJo blow up the peace talks?
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Old 10-25-2022, 09:04 AM
 
Location: NMB, SC
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9 of 10 People delay turning heating on as UK inflation soars


No sympathy for self-inflicted wounds! All of this can end rather quickly. There's an easy solution and it's the elephant in the room. I wonder, why did BoJo blow up the peace talks?
Because the US needs a war to get out of the financial mess we are in.

Why is Biden calling the shots for a war between Ukraine and Russia ????

$87 billion so far to Zelensky from the US and the money spigot has not been shut off.
And there's money being moved from the DoD to the State Dept who is then sending it to Ukraine....over $1 billion just in October ...money given to Ukraine "on the side" all under the "Foreign Assistance Act".
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Old 10-25-2022, 09:08 AM
 
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Because the US needs a war to get out of the financial mess we are in.

Why is Biden calling the shots for a war between Ukraine and Russia ????
Bingo!

And Europe/EU (esp. the Germans) do whatever we tell them to do. ~ Like end NS2, right before it went online, which forces them to buy American LNG. Europe depends on us (America) for their defense, their weapons and their healthcare (we subsidize their drugs, through higher healthcare costs here at home).

And now their energy! That's the main reason we spent 20+ years in the Middle East. Securing ROWs to build pipelines from the Gulf to Europe. Iraq and Syria occupy strategic real estate to bring natural gas from Qatar to Europe.

And then suddenly what happens in Ukraine in 2014 around the same time as ISIS was raging in Syria/Iraq almost into Turkey? A resource war all about energy pipelines that feed Europe. Coincidence? Of course not!
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Old 10-25-2022, 09:13 AM
 
Location: Great Britain
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9 of 10 People delay turning heating on as UK inflation soars


No sympathy for self-inflicted wounds! All of this can end rather quickly. There's an easy solution and it's the elephant in the room. I wonder, why did BoJo blow up the peace talks?
Any peace deal was down to Zelensky and Ukraine and Britain did not blow up peace talks, with any advice from other countries being just that advice.

As for Russian gas it accounted for 3% of UK energy and the UK Government has put in place an energy price cap for residential houses and businesses that is twice that of the rest of Europe, whilst welfare and increased winter fuel payments for the most vulnerable is currently under review.

The left wing BBC's narrative is therefore highly controversial and biased.
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Old 10-25-2022, 09:18 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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https://www.theguardian.com/business...h-what-we-know

Mainly because of the war in Ukraine and the knock on effect no?
No. Inflation is a global problem because many central banks over-printed as governments overspent, not just the US's Federal Reserve.

I like the way the IMF Director describes how badly the central banks screwed up on this and described them derisively as "a bunch of 8 year olds playing soccer" who recognized that maybe too much money in circulation and too few goods would be a problem (it's the textbook cause of inflation), but they "didn’t really quite think through the consequence in a way that upfront would have informed better what we do." Quite true.

IMF Director Admits Central Banks "Printed Too Much Money"
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Old 10-25-2022, 10:09 AM
 
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Hello, the UK AGAIN!? Things are no worse here than they are anywhere else on the planet! Inflation is global, the alarming rise in energy costs is global, In fact things are actually better here than in (for example) the EU which, unlike the UK, relied heavily on Russian gas

https://www.theguardian.com/business...h-what-we-know

Perhaps you can tell me why you, among others obsess over the UK?
Inflation is US created. When US print, other countries print as well to maintain exchange rate, in fact, some of them even out done the US because unlike USD, they are not the reserve currency.

Another thing is energy price hike because of the unnecessary. Of course, bad for us, good for the elitists.
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Old 10-25-2022, 10:13 AM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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Yes I did! Perhaps you should go and read post 32 again!
nope, you didn't. here it is for the 4th time:

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was that not you who claimed i was 'obsessed' with the UK, then denied doing so just minutes later?
it's a yes or no question.

2nd time for this one:

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and why have you posted 3 times on the 'Pound tanking' thread, but not once did you angrily accuse the originator of that thread of 'obsession'?
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