Captain Haddock
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Jeremy Corbyn says on the front page of the Observer that Boris is “shaming our nation” over Iran. Fortunately some of us remember Jezza's 'baggage'. Here's just some of it relating to Iran. Boris might have 'mis-spoke', Jezza's views on the crane-hangers is all too clear. (and don't even think about getting me going on his support for IRA murderers and other terrorists).
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Brian Dixon
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all tit for tat stuff there.
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Lab now attacking Gove , anything to try and derail Brexit, would be a major comeuppance for them (ie. Lab) if it turned out that the Iranian woman actually was some kind of spy/ activist
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I thought they were attacking our esteemed Foreign Secretary, the Gove bit is just a sideshow.
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any Tory or Lab Leaver is fair game for these spineless NoMentum flakes
next they'll be after Chris Grayling
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Martina wrote:any Tory or Lab Leaver is fair game for these spineless NoMentum flakes
next they'll be after Chris Grayling
Call me over intuitive but I suspect you voted to leave the EU.
Keith Sansum1
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yes and sounds very rose tinted glasses posts
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
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Martina wrote:any Tory or Lab Leaver is fair game for these spineless NoMentum flakes
next they'll be after Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling: "These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media."
I think you might want to heed that!
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Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Back to Jezza
As we remember the fallen it's possibly a good idea to remember Jezza's 'principles'.
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/929631910707548161"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Guest 2388- Registered: 12 Nov 2017
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:yes and sounds very rose tinted glasses posts
how do you mean?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 2388- Registered: 12 Nov 2017
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how about the 7 or 8 Labour MP's that voted Leave - will they back the government? not heard much about them other than Frank Field, who seems a good sort
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Reginald Barrington
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If the fool could speak English instead of IRA sympathizing anti-royalist these things would not happen
are we sure he didn't say Hezbollah we know he's a fan!
Arte et Marte
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Courtesy of the Telegraph.
The prospect of a radical Left-wing lurch under Jeremy Corbyn is a more serious threat to British asset markets than Brexit and risks setting off a drastic repricing of UK plc, a leading US bank has warned.M organ Stanley has told clients that there is a two-thirds likelihood of snap elections in the second half of 2018 once it becomes clear that the UK cannot secure the sort of Brexit deal it wants and the Conservative Party starts to fracture, bringing political risk into sharp focus. “We could see the biggest shake-up in the political backdrop since the Seventies. This is much more scary from an equity perspective than Brexit,” said Graham Secker, the bank’s chief European equity strategist.
The bank said the "double whammy" of Brexit and a Labour government together could prove toxic for UK stock markets, with the bank’s full-blown ‘bear case’ leading to an economic recession and a 32pc crash in the FTSE 100 index by 2019. Gilts could also face a reckoning given that 10-year yields are trading at 1.26pc while inflation is running at 3pc, with a further depreciation of sterling on the cards. “Bond investors are losing money faster in the UK than almost anywhere in the world,” said Andrew Sheets, the bank’s global asset strategist.
Fund managers must plan for the serious possibility that a developed OECD country may nationalise power utilities, water companies, mail delivery, and rail transport in sweeping moves unseen in the trading life of most investors now alive.
The new agenda includes a rise in corporation tax to 26pc, a surtax on financial entities, and a financial transactions tax or "Robin Hood" tax on derivatives and bonds, as well as some shares. “The direction of travel we have seen for the last 30 years is going to change by 180 degrees,” he said. The thrust of policy would shift “in favour of labour over capital” with rises in the minimum wage, an end to the public sector pay cap, and a revival of sectoral collective bargaining. This would erode profits, especially for low-margin firms such as retailers. “Even if we see good progress in the Brexit negotiations, the scope for UK sensitive assets to rally may be muted, unless we also see an improvement in the Government’s position in the opinion polls,” said Mr Secker.
Worries about a duumvirate of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell – the ‘Marx Brothers’ as they are known in the City – are approaching systemic levels. One senior banker told The Telegraph last week that even family owned-firms are exploring cashing in their wealth before the guillotine comes down, either in the form of a higher capital gains or ultimately through de facto wealth confiscation. The sense of unease has faint echoes of the "red scare" that gripped French investors before Leon Blum’s Front Populaire swept to victory in 1936. City veterans no longer rule out capital controls. Emma Marcegaglia, head of the pan-EU lobby BusinessEurope, said Labour’s apparent tilt towards a softer Brexit would not compensate for the damaging effects of its radical policy manifesto. “What Corbyn proposed during the election campaign is not pro-business, that is for sure. There would not be a good outcome even if there is a fantastic free trade agreement,” she told The Daily Telegraph.
Mrs Marcegaglia said her members are pushing the EU institutions to take an open and friendly line in Brexit talks but also warned the British side to eschew wishful thinking. “The UK must put concrete proposals on the table otherwise things are just going to get worse and worse,” she said.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Looks like he's pissed off the Red Sea pedestrians now!
'A Labour government under Jeremy Corbyn could spell the end to Britain’s reputation as an “honest broker” in attempting to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians'
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/a-jeremy-corbyn-government-would-threaten-uk-influence-in-middle-east-bicom-report-warns-1.449192"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Jezza has said all along that Labour is for the many not the jew.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Jezza wanted candidates in his 75 target seats in place by Christmas, now the deadline is next April.
Asking for trouble in my view with the ever present chance of a snap General Election being called.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Classic response to an Interweb troll.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Totally forgotten about Roy but not sure he is correct on this one, as I remember Militant cost the party votes whilst Momentum seems to be winning them votes.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/02/labour-faces-subversion-momentum-far-left-roy-hattersley-watford-byelection
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