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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
That's just wrong.
Even if the presumption that the state failed it's role before brexit was correct goods still came in through european ports where they were checked before brexit (because ironically enough Britain hasn't had a world class port in half a century).
Oh, you thought we were already the dustbin, strap up, it'll get worse.
He surely means to 7.1% up from 6.8% right?
The fact that raising interest rates through the roof has barely touched inflation surely demonstrates this isn’t a case of tempering discretionary spending, the cause is rampant corporate opportunism. It’s going to come to the point where a large section of the population cannot afford basics. I’m not sure how this is going to end, it’s very worrying.
Yep.
When are we going to talk about Brexit?
We're not. There is zero political space for anyone to stand up and say "Brexit has turned a fire into an inferno".
Probably never. There's always another excuse they will latch on to. First it was the pandemic, now the war in Ukraine. Next one will be some other geopolitical event or climate change.
This is unacceptable.
Hearing comments from senior tories and bankers that we 'need' a recession to bring down inflation. like its just going to be an inconvenience for a while. same mentality that led to a decade of austerity which caused untold suffering to millions of the least well off. when none of the posh twits who caused the banking crisis in the first place have ever been held accountable, and they were happy to leave their free market ideology to one side when taking hundreds of billions of taxpayers money to bail them out.
they really dont give a feck about millions of people in this country who suffer as a consequence. no mention of corporate greed and artificial consumer price hikes, or energy costs being controlled by proper taxation and proper subsidy for bill payers. its always the poorest who suffer. feck the red wall and their obsession with coloured people being the cause of their woes, the forelock tugging racist twits.
they really dont give a feck about millions of people in this country who suffer as a consequence. no mention of corporate greed and artificial consumer price hikes, or energy costs being controlled by proper taxation and proper subsidy for bill payers. its always the poorest who suffer. feck the red wall and their obsession with coloured people being the cause of their woes, the forelock tugging racist twits.
One of them is now the Prime Minister.
Great burn here 
. Tories don't like it when you get personal back.
. Tories don't like it when you get personal back. Don't need to, I already left
Maybe not when you’re applying it to counterfeiting but when you apply it to food standards, electrical standards etc then it is a direct consequence
sunak complaining about personal attacks and starmer using prepared scripts. the bloody hypocrite.
The difference is that UK Customs were always awful but the government were answerable to the EU and EU Industry bodies for allowing goods that should have not entered the country and thus into the Single Market. Underdeclaring of VAT and fines for allowing illegal goods into the Single Market were common.
Now outside the Single Market, good luck.
Now outside the Single Market, good luck.
I would argue that's a direct consequence of electing a Trory Government, they are the ones that have chosen a path that they didn't have to
Without Brexit they wouldn't be able to. They haven't changed the standards yet. Wonder if Starmer announces in his manifesto whether he's going to keep alignment to EU standards and drop the new UKCA standards due to be introduced at some point.
He won't say that. He'll say that if you're approved to the appropriate EU standard you've got an automatic pass - he'll describe it as minimising red tape for hard working UK exporters. The UKCA thing will quietly die of disuse and abuse.
The UKCA will only apply to imports or for products produced in the UK for use only in GB.
For exports the manufacturers will have to be certified by the countries they're exporting to.
It's going to get highly complicated for UK producers, importers and exporters.
PS The UK government have extended the deadline for acceptance of the EU CE mark on imported goods as follows:
The deadline for when businesses need to use the UKCA mark has been extended.
You can continue to use the CE marking and reversed epsilon marking on the GB market until 31 December 2024.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-ukca-marking
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Andrew Bailey under the bus.
This government makes me want to rip up my economics degree, make it into a rope and hang my rational self.
In all fairness, anyone with an economics degree should do the same, regardless of the govt....
What is the rational answer to the current situation?
2 different answers for BOE and the government really. The BOE only has the interest rate to do anything meaningful, and it's going to go up.
The government should look at the drivers of inflation, many of which are homemade by it's predecessors (or themselves depending on your point of view really).
Let me guess: You do real work?
I repeat, we are mugs. These feckers mug us off for fun.
Don’t MP’s have calendars that are public?
The government is perfectly happy to hide behind the anger against the BoE and Andrew Bailey in particular.
But what is our government actually doing to help with this grave situation.
Answer.... nothing.
The BoE has 1 primary lever. Interest rates. Apart from QE or Quantative Tightening.
The government has a wide range of options, one of which is doing nothing.
And they are letting the BoE take all the flack at the moment because that suits them nicely.
He was having drinks, of course he can't remember, he was rat arsed!"I can't remember Monday"
I almost admire the cheek on that one
You're welcome.
This is like austerity on steroids.
The BoE is now responsible for the biggest attack on living standards in decades. And not just for those buying or renting a house. All of us are being affected. And I say this as someone who lived through the significantly higher inflation of the 1970s.
And the BoE has chosen to become the prime cause of the inflation they are supposed to be curbing.
But it is not all the fault of the BoE.
The government has chosen to hide behind the BoE instead of taking the lead and being proactive on the cost of living crisis and especially inflation, instead of doing absolutely F All as they have been.
What is the chancellor doing, besides F All.
I almost find it odd to think that this is a democratically elected government. I don't understand who they're supposed to represent and what they are supposedly doing for their voters. Since Brexit, have the tories done anytything at all of note to make life better for, well, anyone in the UK?
I'm just looking from the outside so I'd be happy to be told that things are actually wonderful over there.
I'm just looking from the outside so I'd be happy to be told that things are actually wonderful over there.
They helped their mates steal billions
This once great institution is in the gutter.