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[xxxxxy] 13/6/2021 07:43

5 months out of the EU single market – progress so farJUNE 13, 2021 10 COMMENTSI have had a couple of emails from Remain voters asking what benefits we have seen from our exit from the EU, as they are still unhappy about the decision taken in a referendum and reinforced by two General elections.  After five and a half  months it is still early days but so far it looks as if we will have a good first year out.The main benefit of Brexit is we are now a self governing country that can make our own decisions, change our own laws, and run our own budgets. If in the future government did badly we can rid of it at the next election and change the laws and policies which were wrong. A General election here could not change a single EU law, tax or budget decision when we were members.We have already seen early evidence of the advantage in our decision not to join the EU vaccine policy but to pioneer a new vaccine here in the UK with government support and orders to back it.  This resulted in an earlier roll out of vaccinations for all here and the offer of a crucial low cost treatment to the rest of the world. We are busily creating a new and enlarged vaccine production capability in the UK.  Spending on the NHS has gone up by more than £350 m a week.  We will now start to save larger sums on EU levies  as we are no longer liable for new contributions to the EU growing budgets.The UK has as promised rolled over the trade agreements we shared with the EU with a  number of other countries, and is now well advanced on a new round of trade deals with countries that do not have such arrangements with the EU. This year will be our first outside the EU and its single market. According to international bodies the UK should see its fastest growth rate for many years at 7%, ahead of the EU average. Contrary to Remain predictions sterling has been strengthening since we left, house prices have been rising and employment is still at high levels despite the pandemic damage. It is a matter of regret that the EU wishes to damage its exports to us by placing barriers in the way of trade. Fortunately many other countries see this as an opportunity and are keen to sell to us and understand that means they should also be willing to buy more from us. One of the big gains from Brexit will be growing and making more for ourselves, to cut the food miles and create more better paid jobs at home.The latest trade figures show a welcome cut in our trade deficit with the EU thanks to a fall in imports to the UK. We are buying home produced or cheaper and better from the rest of the world.We live in an age of governments wishing to pursue national resilience. The USA has awoken to the way China has used free access to western markets whilst continuing to protect and control its own to gain a stronghold over crucial technologies, essential raw materials and important manufactures. The USA has embarked on a crash course of regaining the initiative in technology, onshoring more production and securing its position in a range of things from rare earths to semiconductors and from batteries to 5G communications. The UK too can now do something similar. Our industrial and agricultural  base in many crucial areas like steel, electricity production, shipbuilding and temperate foodstuffs was hollowed out by EU competition. In control of our own state aids, public procurement and competition policies we can now set about rebuilding.... John Redwood

[xxxxxy] 13/6/2021 07:40

Freedom Day....CL Taylor12 Jun 2021 8:56PMThis is very bad news and no surprise. I've run out of words to describe how sick I am of this Government's incompetence; its unethical, callous treatment of its citizens; its devastation of the economy and consequent impact on our lives.We were urged to do our bit by getting vaccinated and most did so. Those who didn't had every right not to. Now it seems not to matter at all.All I can do is refuse to comply anymore with wearing a mask and social distancing, which won't matter at all unless millions of others do the same..... Daily Telegraph

[grahamite2] 13/6/2021 07:36

Just a reminder, GB News starts broadcasting at 8 p.m. today on Freeview 236, Sky 515 and Virgin 626.

[nick100] 13/6/2021 07:26

https://flip.it/UkCHwv

[nick100] 13/6/2021 07:14

https://flip.it/UkCHwv

[jrphoenixw2] 13/6/2021 00:36

Anything about Lloyds on this thread or do shareholders need to start a new thread and leave all the random talk here?

[sentimental rules] 13/6/2021 00:23

Vermin still cryingBigger boat lads

[minerve 2] 12/6/2021 22:40

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Here I go now
Here I go into new days
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I'm pain, I'm hope, I'm suffer
Yeah, hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah
Here I go into new days
Hey, hey, hey
Ain't no mercy
Ain't no mercy there for me
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Ain't no mercy
Ain't no mercy there for me
I'm pain, I'm hope, I'm suffer
Yeah, yeah, hey, hey no mercy
Ain't no mercy there for me
Do you bury me when I'm gone
Do you teach me while I'm here
Just as soon as I belong
Then it's time I disappear
Ha!
Hey, hey, hey
And I went
And I went on down that road
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And I went on
And I went on down that road
I'm pain, I'm hope, I'm suffer
Hey, hey, hey, yeah, and I went on
And I went on down that road
Do you bury me when I'm gone
Do you teach me while I'm here
Just as soon as I belong
Then it's time I disappear
Do you bury me when I'm gone
Do you teach me while I'm here
Just as soon as I belong
Then it's time I disappear
Disappear, huh!
I'm gone, I'm gone
I'm gone
Oh yeah, I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone baby
I'm gone, I'm gone
Do you bury me when I'm gone
Do you teach me while I'm here
Just as soon as I belong
Then it's time I disappear
Do you bury me when I'm gone
Do you teach me while I'm here
Just as soon as I belong
Then it's time I disappear


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[xxxxxy] 12/6/2021 21:11

ByChristopher Williams, BUSINESS EDITOR and Edward Malnick, SUNDAY POLITICAL EDITOR12 June 2021 • 8:39pm?The BBC has been accused of an eleventh-hour "ambush" intended to "damage" Sunday's launch of the right-leaning television network GB News.The corporation is alleged to have been pushing to bar GB News from accessing footage of public events via a "pooling" system run by the country's three main broadcasters.The move would leave the new channel unable to broadcast many major events where there is only space for one camera.A GB News spokesman said: "This is an ambush by the BBC designed to damage the launch of GB News and protect their dominance of UK news broadcasting.  We will fight it.  And our launch continues."   The move reignites a row that surfaced in 2010 when the Press Association, the national news agency, complained that it was unable to access footage from "single camera assignments" filmed as part of the UK Broadcast Pool, which comprises the BBC, Sky News and ITN..... Daily Telegraph

[xxxxxy] 12/6/2021 19:16

Wales Night. Drive carefully. Black Sheep Matter.

[xxxxxy] 12/6/2021 18:14

?Brexit is once again on the agenda this week as left-wing US President Joe Biden came to Cornwall for the G7 summit, sticking his oar into our affairs as his pro-Irish administration dealt a diplomatic rebuke to the UK over disputes about the hated Northern Irish Protocol.Details of a tense meeting on June 3 emerged as Biden arrived in Britain, with America's top diplomat in the UK, Yael Lempert, allegedly accusing top Brexit man Lord David Frost of "inflaming" tensions by trying to resolve the mess created by Brussels?'? bully boy tactics.The news has led to stinging criticisms of the controversial US President from prominent Brexiteers, with one Tory MP claiming that Biden is "so senile that he probably won't remember what we tell him anyway."Biden's cognitive capacities have been a subject of spirited public debate in the States, with a former White House doctor under both Obama and Trump warning that a recent public appearance "should concern every American who wants to know that their president is fit for duty and in control."All that being said, isn't it odd that Biden – who supposedly cares so much about the Good Friday Agreement – was virtually silent earlier this year when the globalist European Union briefly erected a customs border on the island of Ireland to hoard its own paltry vaccine supplies? Pure cowardice...?BECOME A MEMBER OF THE FOXHOLE?Biden wasn't the only foreign leader to take a bitter swipe at Brexit Britain this week though, with Emmanuel Macron once again attacking Britain in a desperate bid to distract French voters from his woeful domestic record ahead of next year's elections.He's now vowed to block any attempts to reopen talks on the Brexit deal and the Northern Ireland Protocol, saying that "it's not serious to want to review in July what we finalised after years of debate and work in December."To be fair to Macron, we can fully understand why he's in such a foul mood heading into this weekend. After getting the taste slapped out of his mouth on Tuesday as he was heckled by members of the French public, his fragile ego is no doubt very much wounded.Hopefully it will be wounded even more deeply next year when he gets booted out of office by a fed up French electorate. With firebrand nationalist Marine Le Pen getting ever more confident as opinion polls continue to show a tight race, Macron could well be in for a serious thrashing at the polls.??With Biden trying to get involved and Macron now vowing to block any further talks, isn't it time for the government to wake up, smell the roses, and take unilateral action to protect the integrity of the United Kingdom?We already know Britain is on the verge of a so-called "sausage war" with the European Union over British plans to continue shipping chilled meats into Northern Ireland, but what we need now is a full-scale rebuke of the hated Protocol and decisive action from the government to bin it off.That's why we've been pleased in recent weeks to support a crowdfunding campaign from legendary DUP MP Ian Paisley, raising funds for a key legal action that aims to force the UK government to admit in a court of law that the Protocol is discriminatory against British citizens and businesses in Northern Ireland.Any help you can provide to get the case heard is greatly appreciated, as we continue to fight back against this wretched EU plot to carve up the United Kingdom as sick revenge for our decision to quit their corrupt political project.And as always, you can also support the Leave.EU campaign too and help put us on a sustainable footing going forward – you can do this directly at leaveeuofficial.com/get-involved or by becoming a Foxhole member at foxhole.news/membership. We're a small team looking to just cover our costs and keep the campaign running, and any help you can give will go a long way.Yours,The Leave.EU Team

[sabre6] 12/6/2021 18:11

Numpties verses Doughnuts
Who's going to win?

[xxxxxy] 12/6/2021 18:06

Feel a bit sorry for the French People. But Macron is Sewage.

[freddie01] 12/6/2021 18:06

Absolutely awful in Denmark. Hope the fella can pull through. Football means jack sh*t in times like this.

[xxxxxy] 12/6/2021 18:06

French markets jittery over Le PenBut as the polls reveal a much tighter race with a deeply unpopular Macron this time, bond markets are already showing signs of nerves on what an avowedly populist Eurosceptic president would mean for France's already struggling public finances. One senior analyst calls a Le Pen presidency a "dagger in the heart" of the European project.ADVERTISINGNerves in financial markets over French government debt have been building for months, reflecting the narrowing race.Whereas Le Pen hopes to follow the example of Francois Mitterand and Jacques Chirac and win at her third attempt, no sitting president has been re-elected in two decades. In France's two-stage race, the National Rally leader emerges as a winner in the first round, but polling puts her at 47pc in the final run-off, signalling a much closer contest than Macron's dominant 66pc of the final vote in 2017.That uncertainty has shaken markets for French government debt, which - like other major economies - is soaring after vast Covid support spending. According to the European Commission, France's total debt stands at 115pc of GDP and the country expects to sell €338bn (£290.1bn) of bonds or OATs (Obligations assimilables du Trésor) to meet its financing needs..... Daily Telegraph

[alexgc] 12/6/2021 17:32

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