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[gotnorolex] 12/12/2019 11:01

Kensington the country's richest constituency is Labour!

[freddie01] 12/12/2019 10:53

I did notice that chesire pete. Hopefully, it's not replicated across the country

[cheshire pete] 12/12/2019 10:48

Freddie, pics are in London. They're all labour anyway - a lost cause and therefore so what.

[pierre oreilly] 12/12/2019 10:46

At least we know the first action Miss Swinson will make if elected. All Tory and labour voters will be sent to sit on the naughty chair.

[gotnorolex] 12/12/2019 10:45

And while you would assume Boris Johnson , Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Swinson and the other leaders will be putting a cross next to their own name, that's not actually the case for the current Prime Minister.

Johnson didn't actually vote for himself when he arrived at at Methodist Central Hall, near Downing Street, at around 8.15am.

But before you start thinking that the PM might have had a sudden (and somewhat drastic) change of heart, the reason why is actually more of a logistical thing.

[dr biotech] 12/12/2019 10:45

Think the brexit party will poll very badly, and given they withdrew from most of the safer Tory seats it probably won’t make a huge difference.

Can’t say I’m enthusiastic about any of them. Johnson is a dishonest coward, Swinson sounds like a sixth former and Corbyn...

Could do without the creationist DUP having any leverage too.

I’m going to vote for a local independent.

[pierre oreilly] 12/12/2019 10:43

Most are probably duplicate votes, as encouraged by labour so I am led to believe.

[grahamite2] 12/12/2019 10:41

Interesting pics of the queues, Freddie. We must hope most of them are wasted votes.

[jacko07] 12/12/2019 10:35

A good Tory majority will be good for shares and the pound. I hope the country gives the undemocratic Labour and Lib Dems a harsh lesson on ignoring the majority.

We all knew LEAVE meant LEAVE, it was clearly stated a thousand times by the Remain side, it was also clearly stated in that pamphlet sent to every household in the UK.

[freddie01] 12/12/2019 10:35

Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom written by John Sullivan, first broadcast from 1977 to 1980.[1]

It starred Robert Lindsay as "Wolfie" Smith, a young Marxist[2] "urban guerrilla" in Tooting, south London, who is attempting to emulate his hero Che Guevara.[3] Wolfie is a reference to the Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone, who used the pseudonym Citizen Smith in order to evade capture by the British. Wolfie is the self-proclaimed leader of the revolutionary Tooting Popular Front (the TPF, merely a small bunch of his friends), the goals of which are "Power to the People" and "Freedom for Tooting". In reality, he is an unemployed slacker and petty criminal whose plans fail through his apathy, ineptitude and inexperience.

[pawsche] 12/12/2019 10:35

@gotnorolex - 12 Dec '19 - 10:09 - 286126

Alp Columbus had no SatNav, neither did Vasco da Gama!

I saw a comment many years ago that the Labour Party should adopt Christopher Columbus as its mascot, on the basis that -

When he set out, he didn't know where he was going.
When he got there, he didn't know where he was.
When he got back, he didn't know where he'd been...
And, he did it all on borrowed money.

How things (don't) change!

[xxxxxy] 12/12/2019 10:26

Posted in Uncategorized | 3 ResponsesWhy the USA grows faster than the EurozoneBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: DECEMBER 12, 2019The USA has for some years put in a much better economic performance than the Eurozone. Thus year its growth rate is around double that of the Euro area.Part of it stems from the monetary policy being pursued, some of it from the fiscal policy and much of it from the enterprise policies.The Fed has twin objectives of keeping inflation down and promoting growth. It has been pragmatic about pursuing these objectives. It made bad mistakes at the end of the last decade like other advanced country Central banks,  but has done much better since 2010. It did tighten too much at the end of 2018 but has now corrected for the mistake. Despite over 2% growth in the economy the Fed has recently pumped $150bn extra liquidity into markets to facilitate bank lending and continued growth.The ECB has ostensibly followed a more dovish stance than the Fed with lower rates and more recent Quantitative easing. It has, however, failed to get all the main commercial banks in its system to address their balance sheet and bad debt problems, so there is still difficulty in transmitting cheap money into more well based  loans to get the economies moving faster.The President of the USA put through major tax cuts which acted as a substantial boost to US growth in the last two years. At the same time the Congress also put through various public spending increases. As a result there was an expansion of the fiscal deficit, which helped generate more activity. In the Euro area the strict application of the Maastricht rules with tough controls on debt as percentage of GDP has left little or no room for fiscal expansion.The USA has a more enterprise oriented culture, with a very strong technology sector that has been leading the world. Lower taxes, more business and start up friendly regulations and a more plentiful supply of equity and credit for new business has ensured the US has grown faster and dominates the western digital world.

[mikemichael2] 12/12/2019 10:24

Whatever happens, you can look forward to at least 2 years of chaos.

[gotnorolex] 12/12/2019 10:23

Promises galore from all parties claiming they know which way the world will turn, both in and out of the EU..........It's what you make of that counts!

[pal44] 12/12/2019 10:15

this time tomorrow JC would be gone and BOJO may be at the palace or Vice Versa ! eeks

[pierre oreilly] 12/12/2019 10:13

I trust none of the 'they didn't know what they were voting for' brigade will be voting today.

As sure as dimwits is dimwits, no one knows in any detail what any party leader will or won't do when elected.

[gotnorolex] 12/12/2019 10:09

Alp Columbus had no SatNav, neither did Vasco da Gama!

[cheshire pete] 12/12/2019 10:07

Prosper, once free of the EU.