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[utrickytrees] 07/6/2020 09:42

The concept is simple. Get the rest of the UK to cover the loan we need to give everyone in Scotland £5000 pa for the rest of their lives in return for their vote for Scottish Independence. 10 -15 yrs after independence Scotland becomes the next Venezuela.

[bbalanjones] 07/6/2020 09:41

ah. . . at last some good news . . .

According to an analysis by Politico's Jeff Greenfield, recent voting trends combined with Donald Trump's unpopularity with the electorate will likely see Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) lose his power following the November election.

First proposing, "It's a question as obvious as it is critical: How will the trio of crises—the pandemic, the economy, the demands for racial justice—affect the 2020 race for the White House," the columnist said it will be a major factor this election cycle and that is not good news for Republicans.

[utrickytrees] 07/6/2020 09:34

UBIS should buy enough votes to secure indy ref 2. How disappointing it's been scaled back!

[alphorn] 07/6/2020 09:32

John Redwood and others who keep spouting 'Remain' just highlight how they are still locked in years gone bye and have not realised that the sole issue today is what the trade agreements post 01/01/2021 will look like.
He needs to stop writing from his lockdown hibernation and focus his mind on the future.

[stonedyou] 07/6/2020 09:27

Vaccine scientists ‘on verge of antibody treatment for most vulnerable’


Backing from an Indian firm is crucial if the treatment is to move to the next stage.



Scientists working on a potential coronavirus vaccine have almost reached a breakthrough on an antibody treatment which could saves the lives of the elderly and vulnerable, it has been reported.

An injection of cloned antibodies which allows the body to counteract Covid-19 could prove hugely significant for those in the early stages of infection, according to British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

The company has already started to manufacture the Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine to ensure, if it does pass human trials, it can be made available in the autumn.

On Thursday, AstraZeneca signed a deal with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (Cepi) to help manufacture 300 million globally accessible doses of the coronavirus vaccine candidate being developed by the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford.

[bargainbob] 07/6/2020 09:27

Pete , is the zoo in a bad shape financially .

[cheshire pete] 07/6/2020 09:25

Expect more tosh from the remainer media right up to 1st July maxk. Predictable as night follows day...

..we're not ready...we won't be able to do this or that...coronavirus has changed the world...and other claptrap appealing to the heart on the sleeve brigade too stupid to realise what a great future we have now that we have left the EU.

[bbalanjones] 07/6/2020 09:24

maxidi:
"Sociology helps law to better understand society for smoother regulation and formation of laws. Similarly, the law is important to regulate a society. Norms, customs, traditions all these come under the law; if the law did not exist then the society would not be less than a jungle.

[maxk] 07/6/2020 09:22

Shona Robison, chair of the Commission said: “It’s the right time for an open and progressive debate to help create a fairer Scotland where everyone is recognised and rewarded for the contribution they make




Even if it's nowt

[utrickytrees] 07/6/2020 09:13

xxxxxxxxx Jock News xxxxxxxxx

FUKIN ADA!! Expect a riot!!

Scotland may have to scale back its plans to pilot Nicola Sturgeon's flagship UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME SCHEME, as corona takes its toll.

The pilot scheme which would have seen 17000 people recieve a basic entitlement of about £5000 pa whether they are working or not may have to be scaled back due to constrictions on the public purse.

[maxk] 07/6/2020 09:01

We need the strength of our €uropean partners to combat the jolly chinaman threat.



Or some such tosh .. wait for it..

[cheshire pete] 07/6/2020 08:54

Dump HSBC then. Never succumb to threats or blackmail. Took out my mobile phone contract with a Huawei handset before security concerns. Expires soon and will be switching.

[maxk] 07/6/2020 08:48

Coronavirus lockdown: now it’s the economy, stupid

Fears of a return to 1980s levels of unemployment have put jobs at the top of the PM’s agenda. Dominic Cummings’s pet schemes may have to wait


Tim Shipman
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Sunday June 07 2020, 12.01am, The Sunday Times


The moment Boris Johnson decided to move faster to lift the coronavirus lockdown can be dated precisely to a meeting on Tuesday morning when the prime minister blurted out the word “Christ!” Johnson was listening to a presentation on the economy from Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, and Alok Sharma, the business secretary. Johnson’s outburst was prompted by Sharma outlining how 3½ million jobs would be lost in the hospitality industry if pubs, bars and restaurants were not open to reap the rewards of summer.

[joe say] 07/6/2020 08:05

See BLM protests turn violent again There's a surpriseHope they were filmed Hope they are fined

[xxxxxy] 07/6/2020 07:46

A new trade vision for the UKBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: JUNE 7, 2020I find some of the media and email arguments I read  and hear about our trade future bizarre. Remain politicians and spin doctors are still peddling the lie that we cannot live with any changes to our  current tariff  free trade arrangements with the EU, whilst we must not enter into a tariff free  Agreement with the USA.There has always been a central lie behind the Remain position on  trade, based on  the so called gravity model. This states that trade with near neighbours is both more likely and more important than trade with countries further away., The model's economic forecasts are  weighted so EU trade matters and rest of the world trade doesn't, for no particularly good reason.In recent years our single biggest national trading partner is the USA, not Germany or France. 3000 miles has beaten a few hundred miles of distance. Our trade with China on the other side of the world has grown far more quickly than our trade with the low countries, near by.  This is despite facing tariffs on our non EU trade and no tariffs on our EU trade. How much more could we   trade with  the TPP and the USA on a tariff free basis?The dislike of opening a Free Trade Agreement with the USA predates President Trump but has been intensified by Remain's distaste for the present incumbent of the White House. There has been an orchestrated attempt to disrupt good relations between our two countries, and to vilify US food. The people who do so have often flown across the Atlantic and enjoyed US meals in hotels and restaurants without a murmur then about what they are eating other than to sometimes praise it and their hosts.In a few posts I am going to explore some of these issues one more time. Today I wish to stress four obvious truths from the figures concerning our trading patterns in recent years.Our trade has grown more quickly with the rest of the world than with the EU in recent years, despite EU barriers and tariffs and despite distance. Non EU trade is now the majority of our trade.Our non EU trade shows you can have a substantial and profitable trade without a special FTA in place. FTAs are helpful but not essential to trade, expanding it a bit.If you enter a Free Trade Agreement with another country you do not have to obey their law codes, and you do not have to buy products they make which you do not want or like.Once we are fully out of the EU we will decide on our animal welfare and food growing standards.

[alphorn] 06/6/2020 22:39

cheshire - unfortunately I think that it has changed.

[minerve 2] 06/6/2020 22:21

All Tories betray the British people. She was no different.

You get the government you deserve.


UK soon to be the leper camp of Europe.

[cheshire pete] 06/6/2020 22:19

Agree Alphorn, still the case in normal walks of life. May betrayed the British people though.

[minerve 2] 06/6/2020 22:18

Black lives matter, COVID deaths don't.

And forget about the thousands of Africans who die everyday. Where are the protests for them?

Morons, all of them!

[minerve 2] 06/6/2020 22:14

Hard to believe the infection rate is increasing after all the clapping we've been doing.



CLAP HARDER YOU PLEBS!

[chinahere] 06/6/2020 22:12

The government under Johnson decided it better to leave and later unpick the Withdrawal Agreement rather than try and renegotiate it and open another can of worms.

Very sensible I reckon!

[alphorn] 06/6/2020 22:11

Since 1801 the motto of the London Stock Exchange is "dictum meum pactum".

That will change too no doubt.