Brexit, the economy and house prices part 5

Arklight · 10 November 2017 at 1:57PM

ukcarper wrote: »

I never said being in EU had nothing to do with just that wasn't the main reason. UK inflation was 18% in 1980 and 7% in 1972.

What Arkwright seems to forget is the main reason we were considered the sick man of Europe is the damage the non stop strikes were causing.

The non stop strikes were caused by boomers striking for a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. Something that became a reality when we joined the EU.

The Tory nightmare of zero hours gig economy, non unionised transience that we are heading towards now is the biggest threat to British workers we have faced for decades.

mrginge · 10 November 2017 at 2:30PM

ilovehouses wrote: »

Laudable I'm sure. Unfortunately there's not much you can do about most of the 60m people in the UK. The 600 odd in parliament - we could start there though?

Not that difficult - we might start by defining honesty as not telling lies perhaps. Baby steps.

I remember the good old days where all MPs were honest and virtuous.

GreatApe · 10 November 2017 at 2:53PM

Arklight wrote: »

The non stop strikes were caused by boomers striking for a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. Something that became a reality when we joined the EU.

The Tory nightmare of zero hours gig economy, non unionised transience that we are heading towards now is the biggest threat to British workers we have faced for decades.

Wealth is productivity not protests

You can't protest a nation into wealth and wellbeing

cogito · 10 November 2017 at 3:29PM

Arklight wrote: »

The non stop strikes were caused by boomers striking for a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. Something that became a reality when we joined the EU.

Boomers? In the ‘70s? I doubt it.

Mostly miners, railwaymen, steel workers and car workers born in the 20s and 30s.

setmefree2 · 10 November 2017 at 3:49PM

Prime Minister Theresa May announced she wanted the date the UK leaves the EU - 29 March 2019 - enshrined in law.

The prime minister said the decision to put the specific time of Brexit "on the front page" of the Brexit bill showed the government was determined to see the process through.
"Let no-one doubt our determination or question our resolve, Brexit is happening," she wrote.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41941414

setmefree2 · 10 November 2017 at 3:52PM

Britain’s economy has picked up speed and expanded around 0.5 percent in the three months to October, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) estimated on Friday.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-economy-niesr/uk-economy-picked-up-speed-in-three-months-to-oct-niesr-idUKKBN1DA1R4

setmefree2 · 10 November 2017 at 4:06PM

ukcarper wrote: »

She was sacked as a minister, if you sack every MP who has lied the commons would be empty.

Let’s be honest, who really believes that the scandals now rocking Westminster are seriously matters of political life and death? The first time many people would ever have heard of Priti Patel was when the headlines started screaming about the ‘scandal’ of her holding some, apparently unofficial, meetings with Israeli officials while on holiday in the Middle East. To judge by the condemnatory tone of the media and political reaction, they might be forgiven for thinking she must have commandeered an Israeli tank and rampaged through a Palestinian village with all guns blazing......

Boris Johnson, has also come under pressure to resign or be sacked, for uttering a few ill-chosen words in support of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran. Johnson suggested that it was wrong for the Iranian regime to lock people up merely for ‘teaching people journalism’ – a remark which apparently contradicted Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s defence line that she was in Iran only for a holiday with her young daughter. The furious reaction to this supposed Boris blooper made it sound as if the UK foreign secretary rather than the Islamic state was persecuting a political prisoner, with MPs demanding he be sacked and online petitions calling for his head.

What’s going on?

They have been blown out of all proportion because they are being used as ammunition in the Battle for Brexit. The outrage around each successive petty scandal is being stoked and exploited by influential Remainers in politics and the media. They hope to get rid of pesky leading Brexiteers and perhaps even bring down the government, throwing the future into such confusion that the Remain camp can overturn the referendum result by default.

This is the other political scandal that needs to be highlighted now, far more important than all the others put together: you might call it ‘Remainergate’.

setmefree2 · 10 November 2017 at 4:11PM

By the way, there is no need to take my word for it. Just read the overexcited Remainers themselves......

Also, listen to The Arch Remoaners like Anna Soubry MP, the godmother of Tory Remainers, has been across the media urgently stirring the scandal about everything from ‘kneegate’ to foreign affairs. Boris Johnson, she now decrees, should be sacked because he ‘has proved himself lacking in the qualities needed in a foreign secretary’. The main ‘quality’ he currently lacks being an obvious willingness to kowtow to the EU.

In short, the Remainer political elites now view every issue through the prism of Brexit.

If the biggest vote for anything in British political history can be undermined or overturned by a conniving elitist political class then we can hardly claim to live in a democracy, no matter how many new codes of conduct MPs impose on themselves.