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[maxk] 26/5/2019 18:25

Providing of course, they vote the right way.

[xxxxxy] 26/5/2019 18:09

William THOMPSON 26 May 2019 5:57PM

I will respect no one who does not respect the sovereign vote of the British people once it has spoken whether it is a majority of one percent or 20 percent.
When the British people have spoken you do what they command. Either you believe in democracy or you don’t. (Paddy Ashdown whilst awaiting the result of the Referendum count 23-Jun-2016)

[bargainbob] 26/5/2019 15:28

Xxxxy ,

Unlike you , some have been doing that for years . It like smoking , the worst anti smokers were smokers lol.

[bargainbob] 26/5/2019 15:27

Goodbye UK.

[xxxxxy] 26/5/2019 15:22

This isnt over. Just the end of the beginning.

So please continue to support the Brexit Party.

Boycott the Con and Labour party of QUISLINGS.

LEAVE and WTO

[xxxxxy] 26/5/2019 15:19

Lifelogic
Posted May 26, 2019 at 5:24 am | Permalink

Perhaps the kindest interpretation of “reducing the debt” is that she simply cdoes not understand numbers or economics. She was after all a Geographer and certainly has no grasp of negotiation or game theory. Nothing in her leaving speech suggests she understands anything very much, even now. She is and I suspect always was a pro-EU, anti-democratic, big government knows best, tax borrow and waste, identity politics, PC, no nation socialist at heart.

Philip Hammond read PPE and (perhaps as a direct result of this) does not understand, business, capitalism, economics, maths or game theory and negotiation. His refusal to allow May to prepare fully for a no deal Brexit ensured the EU offered nothing sensible to the UK leading to hear abject failure.

IHT ratter Hammond’s current policies (with over 100% taxes in many areas) and his attacks on non Doms’, home movers, bank misguided regulation, landlords and tenants, people wanting to make pension provisions, higher earners, car buyers, energy users, hard workers, people who want to pass on their wealth ….. are idiotic, very damaging and idiotically complex too.

[bargainbob] 26/5/2019 15:16

There just jealous Minerve.

[mikemichael2] 26/5/2019 10:20

'I'm going to spend more time on my hobbies'

Here's a beauty to get you started min

[diku] 26/5/2019 09:38

Think Gove will sneak in...serving under May's Government he knows the ins and outs of what was going on...and Gove will have a job lined up for Bojo in Government...leaving their past differences behind they will strike a deal together....

[minerve 2] 26/5/2019 09:33

Hey Jacko, my daughter says hi.

She had an exam the other day, in Italian of course. Passed with flying colours. Pretty good considering she only started learning Italian 15 months' ago.

Something you couldn't achieve old boy.

Enjoy!


LOL

[bargainbob] 26/5/2019 09:05

Boris will be hard to beat , independence for Scotland as a result. So all you Tories get voting for Boris.

[maxk] 26/5/2019 09:05

The destruction is almost complete..

[grahamite2] 26/5/2019 08:50

The Gove article in the online Telegraph continuing to get thousands of comments - pretty well all of them "you must be bloody joking!"

[diku] 26/5/2019 08:13

Think Hammond will be next to step down as Chacellor...

[xxxxxy] 26/5/2019 07:10

We need a new economic policy

By JOHNREDWOOD | Published: MAY 26, 2019

One of the advantages of Mrs May’s resignation is it will allow a rethink over the government’s economic and enterprise policies.

Mr Hammond has continued to tighten the fiscal and monetary stance , squeezing and slowing the economy. He has continued with Mr Osborne’s tax attacks on particular sectors and groups of people, damaging the housing and car markets in particular. Some of the tax hikes as withy Stamp Duty and vehicle Excise Duty have done such damage to transactions and output that it has hit overall revenue adversely.

The world economy is slowing. The Fed overdid the tightening late last year, shocking the markets. That in turn is forcing a rethink at the Fed, who are spending the summer on a kind of study leave to think through a new approach to monetary targeting and interest rate selection. The Chinese authorities also erred on the side of toughness, slowing their economy. Mr Trump’s trade war has added to the gloom. World governments generally have hit out at the production of diesel and even petrol cars, taking actions which have created a car industry recession. As the UK economy has a large overseas trade sector, where the majority of our trade is with non EU , we need to be sensitive to changes of mood and growth rates worldwide. The UK needs to offset some of the gloom and slowdown elsewhere.

Instead we have seen a Treasury very hostile to Brexit spread gloom and negative stories whilst running a policy designed to slow things down anyway. The new government needs to take a sensibly positive view of our prospects on exit. We can afford a stimulus now to our economy, with more spending on priorities like social care and schools, and lower taxes, especially where the current rates collect less revenue. France has just had some tax cuts. France and Italy are trying to woo rich people away from London to their jurisdiction to invest and spend with them instead by offering a better tax deal. The USA has enjoyed a major tax cutting programme which has boosted that economy to be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. China has offered some tax cuts to boost consumption. The Italian government is trying to expand its budget to help reduce unemployment. Only the UK seems wedded to the Maastricht EU rules to get the stock of government debt down as percentage of GDP to the 60% level.

It was symptomatic that Mrs May in her exit speech claimed reducing the debt was a great success of her Administration, when she should have said reducing debt as a percentage of GDP. If you are going to claim something like that as a success, then do show you understand the numbers.

[maxk] 25/5/2019 22:22

You could send Gove in to cover Merkels back.

[diku] 25/5/2019 22:03

Looks like Bojo got an easy ride so far...Gove could be playing the silent poker game waiting on the side lines...