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[xxxxxy] 27/9/2021 07:15

FTSE tech listings hit all-time high since dotcom bubbleThe number of tech firms on the FTSE 350 has hit a 20-year high after crashing shortly after the millenniumByJames Titcomb... Daily Telegraph

[xxxxxy] 27/9/2021 07:12

With Germany now politically paralysed, who will direct the EU?Plus, the impact of the largest EU economy's power vacuum on Brexit Britain?Montage © Facts4EU.Org 2021The post-Merkel election results yesterday mean months of Teutonic infightingYesterday, Sunday 26 Sept 2021, the second round of federal elections in Germany took place. This was supposed to decide who governs Germany in the post-Merkel era.With Germany's Chancellor of 16 years, Angela Merkel, having supposedly retired, the EU and the rest of the world must now wait to see who will replace her. So far we have two sides claiming victory simultaneously.The 'scores on the doors'Due to the Byzantine complexity of the German electoral system it can take some time before the final results are calculated and declared. However, below we can show the latest official information from the German Federal Returning Officer, as at 6am UK time. We believe this to be the final result.BREXIT FACTS4EU.ORG SUMMARYGerman Election Results 20211. Share of the votes?© Brexit Facts4EU.Org - click to enlarge2. Projected seatsSPD: 206CDU/CSU: 196GREENS: 118FDP:: 92AfD: 83LEFT: 39SSW: 1?© Brexit Facts4EU.Org - click to enlargeHow do they count German votes?The post Second World War voting system used in Germany is unique and must be one of the most complicated in the world. We suspect that summarising how it works would even challenge the skills of the UK's most-respected psephologist, Professor Sir John Curtice.In short, Germany's is a proportional representation system on steroids and we do not propose to shorten your or our lives by attempting to describe it here. Germans argue that it produces the fairest result, while still accommodating a desire to produce a functioning government.So, do we think we know who won?Yes. The two largest parties both say they won. Olaf Scholz, leader of the 'centre-left' Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD), and Armin Laschet, leader of the 'centre-right' Union of the Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU) and the Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (CSU), each claim victory.Each now face the challenge of putting together a coalition government and this will happen regardless of the official result. There appear to be four possible combinations which would give a government a ruling majority in the Bundestag, involving up to four main parties. The two we have not mentioned so far are the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Greens) and the Freie Demokraten (FDP).The process of building a coalition in the past has taken months and this time around is likely to be no different.

[xxxxxy] 27/9/2021 07:06

?John Redwood@johnredwoodOn line companies have attracted lots of extra drivers to do parcel van deliveries. HGV employers need to learn from them how they did it.

[joestalin] 27/9/2021 05:43

White men have been urged not to “dominate̶1; speaking slots at Labour Party conference.

During a debate on housing and transport, the chairman of the session noted the people putting their hands up to contribute did “not reflect the diversity” of those in the hall.

Mark Ferguson, a member of Labour’s National Executive Committee, told delegates in Brighton: “I am afraid, and I am not speaking from a position of particular strength here, there are too many white men putting their hands up.”

Fringe loonies! White working class men built the Labour Party.

[xxxxxy] 26/9/2021 23:08

Why we voted leaveMARCH 23, 2018 226 COMMENTSOn 23rd June 2016 17.4 million voters told Parliament we should leave the EU.Leave voters voted to take back control.We voted to take back control of our money, our laws and our borders.We voted to be a sovereign people again.The overarching aim is to restore our freedomsTo become self governing as we used to beWe wish our Parliaments to frame our lawsTo levy and spend out taxesTo make our borders safeTo award the precious gift of citizenship to those we choose to inviteWe did not vote in the belief that future Parliaments will always be wiseNor that they will always get it rightWe voted to restore powers to Parliament because it is our ParliamentWe can lobby and influence itWe can dismiss it and replace the MPs when they no longer please.I find it surprising that some find it difficult to understand this overriding wishFor it is based on our long standing pursuit of freedomIt springs from our historyThe history of the UK is the story of the long march of every man and every woman to the voteThe story of asserting the rule of law against all, however mighty.We prize the gift of freedom under the law for all on an equal basisWe share an aversion to slaveryA dislike of military ruleA resistance to arbitrary governmentA rejection of the patronising errors of elitesA distaste for overmighty bureaucracies cramping our freedomsA belief that we should be free to do whatever we please unless the laws prevents itThe signposts to democracy run through Magna Carta to the first ParliamentsFrom the 1660 settlement to the Glorious RevolutionFrom the Great Reform Act to the triumph of the suffragettesWe carelessly lost some of these freedoms,casting away much of the power of our vote and voiceby passing powers to the European UnionWe allowed the EU to impose laws we did not wantTo levy taxes we disagreed withAnd to spend our money as they saw fitBrexit is designed to recall those lost powers... John Redwood.... Nos da. Cymru am byth.

[medieval blacksmith] 26/9/2021 22:52

I don’t think they have Ace. Still in denial. :)

[xxxxxy] 26/9/2021 22:23

The Falling of Germany soon..... R Gregory26 Sep 2021 9:48PM"Those were 16 good years for Germany," Mr Laschet said.They might have seemed so at the time. But if you ignore current problems, or create ones that will come to fruition in the future, then history might say different.1/ Sucking up to China has plenty of short term - cash - gains ; but might prove more problematic down the line2/ Taking Britain and its electorate for granted by dismissing Diddy Dave's attempts at reforming the EU, might have looked very clever. But like most German Chancellors she didn't understand Britain and on June 23rd 2016 - she suddenly realised it. Too late3/ Playing to the dreamy Greenies, by killing Germany's Nuclear industry looked very clever at the time. Putting yourself in hoc to Russia for energy supplies - less so.4/ Pretending Germany doesn't need borders might have looked wonderful to the the global elites who think likewise ;  but the full consequence of this, has yet to play out. She's been all short term tactics with precious little long term strategy  - and has been a disaster for Germany and for the EU bloc. And future events will bear that out... Daily Telegraph

[xxxxxy] 26/9/2021 22:14

Women matter.Men matter.People matter.Labour doesn't matter.Labour is irrelevant.

[xxxxxy] 26/9/2021 22:12

Labour = Cesspit of thinking

[medieval blacksmith] 26/9/2021 21:41

Who would vote for a family who spent their teenage years with their pants around their ankles?

As apposed to a middle-aged male who spends most of his thoughts with regards to pants around his ankles?

LOL!!

[joestalin] 26/9/2021 21:40

Angela Rayner was a grannie by the age of 32. Who would vote for a family who spent their teenage years with their pants around their ankles?

[scruff1] 26/9/2021 20:08

asa
I dont know what it will be but youd put your shirt on there being one. The interest rate malarky promises to be fun. Talk about getting yourself between a rock and a hard place.
IMO there will be an extended tussle between economists and politicians. Everyone worried about it in 2008 but it seemed to go away. Somehow I dont think its going to go away this time. I know theres dozens of different views about QE but there's a lot of it floating about. I knew there was an ulterior motive for going cashless. They dont want pictures of a Tesco worker going home with a wheelbarrow full of £50 notes.
Anyone who has a loan not on fixed interest - good luck.

[scruff1] 26/9/2021 19:25

Jl
I understand spots and futures. I also understand that Kwarteng is planning a tax grab on energy 'generators and traders' making 'excess profits'

Theres an article in IC apparently (Ive not read it) that quotes a source as saying a 10% corporation tax surcharge is being planned on companies making 'excess profits'.

It wont be long before they chase their losses on the high street by filling their boots from the logistics companies.

Fatso is skint

[jl5006] 26/9/2021 19:10

Just forgot to mention that the subsidies paid to ppl to put panels on their rooves are paid for by you the users.
likewise - all the windmill costs are on you bill
I thought that double taxation was a thing of the past - Wilson resurrected - next surtax.
This is a deeply insincere /disingenuous period in Govt.

[medieval blacksmith] 26/9/2021 18:57

Boris is creating opportunity to take him down almost daily, yet in opposition we have this:

“ Labour conference: Not right to say only women have a cervix, says Starmer”


FFS, get rid of the woke imbecile!

[jl5006] 26/9/2021 18:47

Lastly - Milliband the bacon butty - and 2 kitchen intro'd the energy cap- and the effing Blue labour party continued it - same effing quango - labour built
Where is the effing Quango that caps the tax ni take?
U cant screw the providers when their source cost increases?
Effing stupid Ofgem created pathetically weak energy coys - cos they wanted to - they offered stupid tarrifs - i guess with no hedging
Bit like our NIRP = built on fresh air!