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[scruff1] 17/9/2024 21:00

Trouble is gecko they are all the same. Its beyond repair. Kk is right. If somebody wants to be a politician that alone should disqualify em. The bbc is riddled with em. They just haven't stood for election but they are dictating the political slant of the news and tv productions. It's now not much different from Russia or China. Starmer will increase control.

[daddy warbucks] 17/9/2024 20:53

Brilliant.

[geckotheglorious] 17/9/2024 20:23

Michael Deacon
Keir Starmer’s hypocrisy on sleaze has been exposed for all to see
After all his outrage over Boris Johnson’s wallpaper, how unfortunate to see the Labour PM mired in an eerily similar row



The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrive at Number 10 Downing Street upon his appointment
Rory Arnold / No 10 Downing Street
Michael Deacon
Columnist
17 September 2024 7:00am
Michael Deacon
When Boris Johnson was reported to have bought expensive wallpaper using donations that hadn’t been properly declared, Sir Keir Starmer was utterly appalled. Addressing the Commons in April 2021, he referred to the then prime minister as “Major Sleaze”, and accused him of being “mired in sleaze, cronyism and scandal”.

How incredibly unfortunate, then, that a mere two months after becoming PM himself, Sir Keir is in the midst of an eerily similar row – having failed to declare that a multimillionaire Labour donor bought expensive outfits for his wife, the impeccably on-trend Lady Starmer. Thanks to his celebrated powers of hindsight, Sir Keir is doubtless now able to see that it might have been wiser not to kick up such a stink about Mr Johnson’s wallpaper. Because it’s made him look ever so slightly like a screaming hypocrite.

Happily, he’s at least got the brilliant David Lammy to defend him. The Foreign Secretary has helpfully explained to the public that, in the US, presidents receive “a huge budget paid for by the taxpayer” to help their wives “look their best”. Sadly, UK taxpayers are rather less generous – which means that, to ensure their wives look nice “for the country”, prime ministers have no choice but to “rely on donations”.

I’m sure the public will have been overcome with sympathy. In 2022-23, after all, Sir Keir made just £404,030, so how could he possibly afford to buy his wife a new dress? The poor man can’t even stretch to a pair of glasses, and has instead had to rely on the same Labour donor to buy some for him.

As a result of the cost of living crisis, all too many of us know just how hard it can be to keep our wives in £725 ankle gowns. But now that even our political superiors are suffering, something must be done.

On behalf of all taxpayers, I urge the Government to create a Winter Frock Allowance, to help the wives of struggling premiers survive the Christmas party season. Black holes be damned. The money must be found.

At last, the BBC finds a type of welfare cut that isn’t so bad
Luckily, the cuts to pensioners’ benefits should help. When the Government first announced this plan, I must admit that I was somewhat critical of it. It would seem, however, that I was making a fuss about nothing. Pensioners, it turns out, don’t need help heating their homes – because they’re absolutely stinking rich.

That, at least, is the impression I received at the weekend from an article on the BBC News website. Under the headline “Our Winter Fuel Payment Goes into the Holiday Kitty”, it featured interviews that the BBC had conducted with some pensioners, each cheerfully declaring that the Government is quite right to remove their financial support, because it was always unnecessary and they only used to fritter the money away on cruise holidays, fine dining, diamond-encrusted bathroom slippers etc.

After what must have been a long and arduous search, the BBC did finally manage to track down a couple of pensioners who are worried about how they’re going to stay warm this winter. It squeezed their concerns in right at the end of the article, a mere 795 words in. Unfortunately, however, it seems the BBC ran out of space to mention the research carried out in 2017 by an organisation known as the Labour party, which predicted that such a policy could cause the deaths of 4,000 pensioners.

None the less, it was a fascinating article. Mainly because, for the BBC, the choice of angle was so unusual – perhaps even unprecedented.

Whenever the Tories attempted to reduce the welfare budget, the BBC responded by focusing on the most vulnerable potential victims of the proposed cuts. It emphasised their fear, their distress, their horror at the government’s callousness. To the best of my recollection, the BBC never produced any articles suggesting that the Tories were right to slash benefits on the grounds that some recipients didn’t need the cash. I certainly don’t recall any BBC stories headlined, “Our Dole Money Goes into the Sky Sports Kitty”, with interviewees cheerfully pointing to their iPhones, PlayStations and 65-inch TV screens.

On this one occasion, however, the BBC appears to have taken a strikingly different approach to covering a welfare cut. Why this should be, we can only speculate. Personally, though, I’m rather surprised. After all, research has shown that the average age of BBC One viewers is over 60. So, if I were running the BBC, I’d be desperate to keep my remaining audience alive for as long as possible.

Still, if you happen to be one of the apparently very few pensioners who are worried about paying their energy bills this winter, don’t despair. Simply write to a multimillionaire Labour donor. They’re extremely generous and kind-hearted people. Always eager to help those in need.

[kkclimber56] 17/9/2024 20:01

I follow that logic but I keep reminding myself that analysts are usually wrong!I think the elephant in the room for the US economy is "who is going to buy US debt in the medium term. The Chinese dont want it and neither do the japanese. I cant see rates falling below 3%. Nobody will want it.There is going to be a blow out at some point.

[kkclimber56] 17/9/2024 19:54

There should be a law which automatically bans anyone who wants to become a politician from becomming a politician.I agree with you that they are all a curse on society

[jl5006] 17/9/2024 18:22

There was a thought - once - that UN would enable reconciliation - wrong it thinks it is it!
Again there was an idea that the north atlantic treaty org was there to manage conflict. wrong.

Power corrupts
Just looks at kneel now just another in the ilk of bliar. Expenses not paid by a rich man. and u voted for the trud!

[jl5006] 17/9/2024 18:15

the deluded who think they are it!
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, revealed in his address to the nation that he has "more than 90 percent" of the so-called Victory Plan for Ukraine ready to be presented.

The Ukrainian president is expected to travel to Washington this month to present his plan to US President, Joe Biden, and his two candidates, Vice President, Kamala Harris, of the Democratic Party and former Republican President, Donald Trump.
Utter lunact - go see our lunatic - kneel -

[hardup1] 17/9/2024 17:33

No shares bought back today so no change to figures for 12th September.

After 143 trading days, buyback complete to date:
Total shares to date........................2,739,822,738
Aggregate cost to date... ..................£1,471,996,364.43
Average price paid to date..................53.7260p
Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed..73.6%

[hardup1] 17/9/2024 17:03

I think most analysts think opposite, if they cut by 25 bpts it will calm the markets and there will be a rise in the markets, but if the FED cuts by 50 bpts this will be interpreted as a panic move by the FED because they have not acted quick enough to lower rates and would result in a downward move in the markets. We will find out tomorrow.

[kkclimber56] 17/9/2024 16:57

I see Ed Davey is suggesting thst part of the solution to the NHS 's problem is to employ more managers to train the existing msnagers in budgetary control. Those managers were themselves brought in to improve financial management in the NHS

[kkclimber56] 17/9/2024 16:41

A real tussell between bulls and bears at the moment.At a certain moment markets sre going to break violently one way or the other. Question is , which way?My gut feel is that if there is only a 25pt reduction from the FED this week then the breakout in the markets will be on the downside.

[gotnorolex] 17/9/2024 15:19

Brown trousered after the non-event on the golf course, Trump pleaded with the secrete service to check every bo-weevil mound on the green and fill their popup tunnels with concrete to stop these democrat critters spying on him with rodent periscopes!

[hardup1] 17/9/2024 11:11

That's because she is a non person. Thick as mince.

[mikemichael2] 17/9/2024 09:40

Diane Abbott: 'Starmer treated me as a 'non-person'

Well done Starmer.

[xxxxxy] 17/9/2024 08:05

Richard RussellLabour and the Tories are utterly clueless when it comes to growth. Their track record? Two decades of no growth in GDP per capita, yet they still try to tell us their policies don't affect growth. It's pure nonsense. Take their beloved hard net zero, for example-it's been strangling growth for 25 years. Energy costs have skyrocketed, de-industrialising the UK into oblivion. And then there's the mass migration they've pushed, which has driven wages so low that today's paychecks have much less purchasing power than they did in the 90s. They have stolen our children's futures.To suggest that October's budget won't harm growth is laughable-it's like watching two sides of the same coin trying to convince you it's different. They are clueless about what it takes to foster growth. The UK won't see any real economic recovery until Reform takes charge, with actual policies designed to generate growth. Meanwhile, Labour is just ramping up the taxes that even the Tories didn't have the guts to. If you want growth, it's simple: it's time for Reform.....Daily Telegraph

[gotnorolex] 17/9/2024 07:56

"Tump's failed assassination attempt"...... Routh was minding his own business in the bushes where he setup camp on the golf course, has the constitutional right to shoot the albatross should Trump hit one! (hic) The guy was clearly a pink tee-shirt wearing hobo from Hawaii who couldn't afford a Palm Beach Motel. "Routh charged with gun crimes" though the FBI confirmed no shot was fired but it's a criminal offence to tout an AK47 if you are a branded felon. By the same measure Trump as a convicted felon himself should have his gun confiscated and charged with violation of US gun laws!
Farage rushed off to Florida to lick Trumps hurt feelings!

[scruff1] 17/9/2024 06:42

No Aintree this year. No one to run it. He's jailed em all