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[hey50] 14/3/2021 12:36

Shame there's not a thread for sad Oh what we could of had or Oh what we've lost. This is still Lloyds last time I looked you moaner....

[stonedyou] 14/3/2021 12:20

Andrew Neil shuts down BBC host as he exposes broadcaster's bias in heated interview

ANDREW NEIL has hit out at the BBC for its "patronising left-wing bias" during an interview on the broadcaster, as he claimed" 90 percent of its news presenters are Remainers".


Andrew Neil shut down a BBC host during a fiery interview on the BBC News itself over the broadcaster's alleged left-wing bias. The former BBC presenter hit out at the broadcaster during an interview with reporter Amol Rajan. Mr Neil, who is now chairman of the television news channel GB News, remarked the BBC is "metropolitan in its outlook".


He added that "90 percent of the BBC's presenters were on the Remain side of the argument".

Mr Neil told Mr Rajan: "If you look at the major news providers, they all come from various shades of left.

"Not radical left, but centre-left, a bit more left, and so on.

"For the BBC I would say its a moderate centre-left outlook. It's a metropolitan outlook, with metropolitan values."


He continued: "It's not me saying it. The Director-General has said it. Andrew Marr has said it.

"The BBC was happiest when Tony Blair was Prime Minister because they have a Blairite view on life."

Questioned about whether GB news would be "right-wing," Mr Neil responded: "If a number of our presenters were on the Brexit side of the argument, so what?

"90 percent of the BBC's presenters were on the Remain side of the argument.

[xxxxxy] 14/3/2021 12:19

UK forced to change tack as trade with EU descends into chaosWith the levelling-up agenda and a determination to make the economy more self-reliant, now is the time to make more of our own goodsJEREMY WARNER14 March 2021 • 5:00am?Have you tried importing anything from the Continent of late? Despite the further delay in imposing UK border controls, to help ease the complexities of new trading arrangements with the EU, it is already proving a costly pain in the proverbial. As I have learnt to my cost in purchasing a piece of furniture from the online retailer Etsy.For starters, it has taken more than two months longer to deliver than advertised – blame it on Brexit, says the Portuguese manufacturer. It has also cost around 40pc more than the price agreed in additional VAT, "use of deferment", and customs clearance charges. So much for the tariff-free trade the recently signed "Trade and Cooperative Agreement" was meant to deliver. I very probably would not have bought the item had I known about these extra costs.Technically speaking, the additional VAT charge has nothing to do with Brexit; it was separately introduced at the same time to stop platform retailers such as Etsy escaping VAT on imported, lower cost items. Yet it has all come together to make buying stuff from abroad very much more cumbersome and expensive than it was. About time too, some will argue.For too long, the UK market has been an easy touch for foreign, and particularly European, producers, helping to generate one of the largest trade deficits in goods of any advanced economy in the world. Put simply, we buy a lot more produce from them than they do from us.ADVERTISINGOnly once in my time as a financial journalist has this deficit shown any sustained sign of reversing – in the aftermath of Britain's departure from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in the mid-Nineties.Ever since the turn of the century, however, it's just got bigger and bigger. Fortunately, this widening gap in goods has been partially offset by a growing surplus in services, particularly high value business and financial services.Even so, the UK economy manages to generate a consistently large current account deficit, making it highly dependent on inflows of foreign capital to prevent things tipping over into a fully blown balance of payments crisis of the sort that used to plague the nation in the Sixties and Seventies.For a multitude of reasons, it would therefore be nice if we made more stuff. With its levelling up agenda, and its determination to make the economy more self-reliant and resilient, the Government thinks so too. Might Brexit provide such an opportunity?Some background. It's hard to put an exact date on when the UK lost the plot as a manufacturing nation, but roughly speaking it coincided with Britain's accession to Europe's common market.Full article.... Daily Telegraph

[xxxxxy] 14/3/2021 12:09

VIDEO: Nicola Sturgeon's 50 shades of greyed out memories"I don't recall" – Behaviour like this in an elderly person might lead to tests?Credit: Scottish ParliamentHow much incapacity does Nicola have to show before Scots say "Enough"?Today Facts4EU.Org looks at the apparent lack of accountability from the SNP government in Scotland. Last week Nicola Sturgeon faced almost eight hours of questioning from the Scottish Parliament's committee looking into the devolved government's handling of the Alex Salmond affair.Ms Sturgeon appears to have developed an advanced form of amnesiaMembers of the Facts4EU.Org team watched Ms Sturgeon's testimony to the committee with increasing incredulity. Faced with the difficult questions, Scotland's First Minister and the SNP leader appeared to be suffering from an advanced form of amnesia. We use the qualifying adjective 'advanced' because the forgetfulness was selective and it was delivered in a homely, 'oh poor me', apologetic, faux-sincere style. This was quite a performance.As a party-neutral organisation, Facts4EU.Org does not usually publish videos from political parties, but in this case we felt that the video produced by the Scottish Conservatives in response to Ms Sturgeon's testimony really says it all.Click the image to view the video?Click to viewThe EU has already split the UK over Northern Ireland – now Nicola wants to make it worseMs Sturgeon's avowed intent – and that of her party the SNP – is the break-up of the United Kingdom. She has met EU officials and politicians on many occasions over the past few years, even at very sensitive times in talks between the UK Government and the EU over Brexit, and the best that can be said is that these were very unhelpful in securing a successful outcome for the United Kingdom as a whole.Foreign policy is the sole prerogative of the UK Government and yet Ms Sturgeon and her colleagues have ignored this. Time and again they have sought to establish support in Brussels for the admission of an independent Scotland into the European Union. Despite their best efforts, they have been wholly unsuccessful in securing any meaningful words of encouragement from the EU machine.OBSERVATIONSDemocracy must include responsibility and accountabilityIt is an essential element of any democratic government that they can be held to account for their actions. No doubt Ms Sturgeon and the SNP would argue that her eight hours of testimony before the committee of the Scottish Parliament demonstrates that she is more than willing to answer questions on her actions and on those of her devolved government.This would be true, were it not the case that Nicola Sturgeon repeatedly failed to answer numerous key questions, giving a variety of excuses revolving around her 'inability to recall'. Appearing before a committee of your peers is one thing, but then failing to be of any use in providing truthful answers is quite another.Nicola Sturgeon's appearance comes on top of a series of extraordinary attempts by the SNP government to block the committee from having access to the papers and other information it has requested. Where information has been provided it has been late, highly redacted, and only given after extreme pressure was brought to bear.Even more extraordinarily the SNP government has claimed that no minutes were taken at certain key meetings. The number and variety of excuses like this have now stretched credulity beyond breaking point.Meanwhile, the scandal of Scotland's No.1 ranking for drug-related deaths in Europe, its failing education system, its latest hate speech law, and its blatant use of the BBC for daily propaganda broadcasts by Ms Sturgeon are all very serious causes for concern.Surely the Scottish people deserve better than this?

[minerve 2] 14/3/2021 11:38

Good post Smarty.

[minerve 2] 14/3/2021 11:29

Hey50

There is another thread for Lloyds so you can get over the fact this thread doesn't spoon feed you the info you should really be sourcing yourself and you can move on.

[minerve 2] 14/3/2021 11:27

Our currently useless naval fleet you mean. We depend on the French and the US.

[hey50] 14/3/2021 11:07

When will people stop harping on about Brexit and talk about Lloyds, which after all this forum is about. It's happened, get over it and move on FFS

[minerve 2] 14/3/2021 10:57

"Never mind, we can always bank on European forces help us out !!!"

Is that your version of sovereignty.

You were sold a lie. Admit your mistake and you'll get respect from Minerve.

[mikemichael2] 14/3/2021 10:55

"Ha ha ha ha ha. Brilliant!

Ships that don't work in warm water.
Aircraft carriers with no supply ships or aircraft.
Major MOD contracts being broken into little bits so cottage industries can get involved.
Ageing nuclear fleet.
Marines with limited boats"

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Never mind, we can always bank on European forces help us out !!!

[utrickytrees] 14/3/2021 10:52

Spot on Scruff. The BBC is regarded in the US as a beacon on impartially they have more clout in the US than in the UK which is odd but explains why they have been so quick to promote BLM and Wokeness Two issues which have very little to do with the UK.

Merve, with all the money were saving on ERASMUS an EU subscriptions it's only a matter of time before we can equip our planes & ships with walkie talkies.

[minerve 2] 14/3/2021 10:49

How many MORE STORIES in the news can we find that make you lot look like the turnips you are I wonder. Plenty to choose from.

Guffaw guffaw.

[minerve 2] 14/3/2021 10:45

China could do it because of low labour rates. Not the same here unless you want your kids doing slave labour.

[minerve 2] 14/3/2021 10:44

"Gina Hinde from the association said that last year its members were being charged about $1,200 to get a container over from China and Indonesia. This year, they're being charged anywhere between $7,000 and $10,000."

Have you Brexit goons discounted the cost of containers in your stupid world trade ideas? It works both ways as well you know!


What a bunch of losers.

[minerve 2] 14/3/2021 10:41

Eton Rifles?

More like Eton Trifles!

LOL!

[sentimental rules] 14/3/2021 10:40

Loooooooooser

[sentimental rules] 14/3/2021 10:39

Mr Deluded himselfRodgered each and every day hereSo sad