Surely that’s attempted murder?
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This happened the last time they tried to run this race. It was a local farmer. I’m surprised he hasn’t been attacked yet, hopefully he will!
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Teenager, drugs, feck off big, fully-laden tractor at full tilt… what could go wrong?
(I thought I’d leave politics off this week 
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Just watched this on the Been, the other driver was sooo lucky not to be killed. We have loads of tractors driven by kids through our village and knowing how stupid some of them are, it is very worrying.
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What is wrong with these “people”?
Birching is too good for em:face_with_symbols_over_mouth:
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And that made what point? Dunno what the parents/social media are teaching some kids these days but I despair
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Have to agree, did Capt Tom have a private jet? No me thinks, so why deface his memorial 
Some people today do not have any decency at all. I’m all for free speech and free expression, but it has to be constructive and not destructive.
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If they’d poured human waste over some financial speculator’s private jet instead of over a public-spirited old man’s memorial, that would have made some sense. As it is, they have just brought bad publicity to themselves and their cause. Idiots.
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Shock tactics of the “look at me brigade” fucking idiots only way to get attention.
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2nd time this week, Liz (rabbit in the headlights) Truss for another shambolic performance on the Laura Kuensberg show. 1. Blaming the global economy for the drop in the £ even after being shown the graph of decline starting on the day of the "fiscal event. 2 Blaming the Bank of England for the interest rate hike (as if they had a choice)
3. Blaming her chancellor for the removal of the 45% rate. 4. Admitting that they didn’t discuss any of their plans with the rest of the cabinet. Makes Boris look competent.
I didn’t watch the program so don’t know what was discussed, but by Friday the Pound had recovered to more or less the same level as it was pre “fiscal event”.
The bank of England is independent of government so she has no influence on the decisions they take and they haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory either in recent times. Their one job is to keep inflation below 2% and it was running at 10% pre “fiscal event” - perhaps if they had previously reacted in a timely manner they wouldn’t have had to respond now in such a dramatic fashion.
No one can predict whether the current economic strategy will be a success or failure, we’ll have to wait and see. Those predicting catastrophe at this point are doing so because they are desperate to see the economy and therefore the government fail.
Even factoring in external factors there are many indicators that show we are declining economically. It’s not working, it’s reaching a peak impact to the population, and the Conservatives are imploding.
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There’s only so much a bank can do regarding inflation, and when did you last hear of the bank of england buying bonds to support sterling?
And what makes you think that the U.K. should be immune from world events like a global pandemic and a European war?
Economically, the U.K. is in a similar position to the rest of the world. Some numbers for you:
Inflation -
U.K. - 9.9%
EU - 10.1% (Germany 10.9%)
USA - 8.3%
Economic growth (2nd qtr 2022)
U.K. Growth 0.2%
EU Growth 0.6%
USA Decline 0.6%
Interest Rates (all will continue to rise, it’s just timing)
U.K. 2.25%
EU - 1.25%
USA - 3.0% to 3.25%
I know you want it to be all the Tories fault, but it really isn’t, we’re all in the same boat.
Pat - was that a nervous laugh 
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You’re right of course. Many countries are in the smelly sticky stuff right now and the Chinese economy has been in decline for quite a long time now. Trouble is a lot of people listen to the shit put out by the BBC scaremongerers who just want to stir itall up.
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One more final set of stats for what it’s worth….
Unemployment
U.K. 3.6%
EU 6.0% (Germany 3.0%)
USA 3.7%
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One thing that I found surprising was when I saw what rates government borrowing was at, It was something like
Germany 2%
Italy 4%
Greece 4%
UK 4.5%
That’s what hurts, all that debt has to be paid by us and recently we ended up paying a worse rate than what I thought were the basket cases in Europe! Not sure if it’s settled back down since the bank of England intervention though.
Can’t believe there are still people trying to explain this clusterfuck away. Forget unemployment, forget the BBC, forget Ukraine, Kwasi Kwarteng did this all on his own. He’d barely sat down before the meltdown began. The only reason we’ve seen Sterling recover and things settle is because the Bank of England blew 65 billion buying up debt. You might not have been quite so equanimious if your pension fund had gone tits up, and it was on the cards. They are a shower of shit. And basically all to make wealthy people better off at the expense of the poor bloody infantry. Idealogues, they need the bullet ASAP. 
PS even as l type he’s scrapped the 45p tax pledge. Clearly knows exactly what he’s on with.