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Happy Daniel Hannan day! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/24/daniel-hannan-day-celebrates-his-chronicle-of-brexit-idiocy-foretold It’s 24 June, 2025, and Britain is marking its annual Independence Day celebration. As the fireworks stream through the summer sky, still not quite dark, we ...

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Shifty is fundamentally about the decline of the UK—not through sudden collapse, but through decades of subtle social, political, and cultural shifts. Curtis traces how: Thatcher's policies broke collective institutions. Media, surveillance, and PR replaced truth with spectacle. The public lost trus...

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1 Steve Hansen 85 % RWC 2015, multiple Six Nations, 3× CoY 2 Rassie Erasmus ~78 % RWC 2019, Rugby Champt., 1× CoY 3 Joe Schmidt ~77 % Six Nations x3, Grand Slam, 1× CoY 4 Eddie Jones 72.8 % Grand Slam 2017, 2× CoY 5 Warren Gatland ~68 % Multiple Six Nations, Grand Slams 6 Fabien Galthié ~68 % Top‑3 ...

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DOB wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 3:24 pm Did anyone watch the Eddie Redmayne series? I thought it was well made, very intense, but the ending was shite.

The ending did suck bollocks. Would have been fun/ballsy if they made the target an existing politician like the original

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/book ... -dead.html

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Brexit pushes Gibraltar into EU customs union and Schengen area The Rock’s government has sought such a deal for years — complaining that border crossings have become more onerous since the U.K. left the EU. https://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-gibraltar-deal-eu-customs-union-schengen-sefcovic/?ut...

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Wall Street banks have added 11,000 EU jobs since Brexit In the five years since the UK officially left the EU, the world’s biggest investment banks have shifted thousands of roles https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/wall-street-banks-have-added-11-000-eu-jobs-since-brexit-f3a040ed?utm_source=chatgpt....

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He did nothing wrong!

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Rocketz is making me really angry posting all these facts. He needs to get a life. Suggest we teach him a lesson at breaktime. :x I prefer posters who stick to phrases like "a tad more", "ludicrous", "the ok to buy from list", "the big boys". Posters who tell it like it really is! If the UK wants a...

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Swiss style deal Switzerland and EU mark formal end to negotiations https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-affairs/switzerland-eu-negotiators-initial-package-agreements-in-bern/89388901 Switzerland and EU mark formal end to negotiations - SWI swissinfo.ch Economy & Trade On May 21, 2025, Switzerland a...

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Eligibility to Apply EU companies are automatically eligible. UK companies are not automatically eligible and must apply and meet extra conditions. UK companies require an independent UK-EU Defence and Security Agreement to fully participate. EU companies are fully covered by SAFE rules. UK companie...

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The OG colonisers have become the colonised. Following rules by nameless bureaucrats from another country. You cannot make this up You mean a bit like when the WTO rules against the EU? Participation in any EU programs (Horizon, European Defense Fund etc) is ruled by the ECJ Bow your heads

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The OG colonisers have become the colonised.

Following rules by nameless bureaucrats from another country.

You cannot make this up

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Having said that

This deal is nice and all but it will only last 4 years when Farage becomes PM and scraps it.

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 7:55 am You know it's a success for the UK when old Rocky didn't jump straight on the Internet. Suck it up buttercup.

Suck what up? The coloniser has officialy become the colonised. Our rules or no game.

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Welcome back UK most of the same without the voting rights The UK just signed a sweeping post-Brexit deal with the EU — and yes, it involves aligning with EU rules again. Key points: – UK food and agriculture exports regain easy access to the EU, but only because the UK agreed to dynamically align w...

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Pakistan and India in open military conflict. Wouldn't have happened under Biden's watch. Trump is so weak. [/sarcastic mode off]. More russian funded terrorists kicking off a war between two supporters of the coalition of the willing. Colombian cocaine, Afghan heroin and Syrian captagon. Russia ha...

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They're going to struggle with not being able to find maids and servants who will work for peanuts. Of course - like other countries - we also have many intelligent, highly qualified and wealthy citizens with extreme right politics. There will be some of those I suppose. But they could hardly quali...

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Religious, conspiracy theorist, barely educated and lazy. They're going to struggle with not being able to find maids and servants who will work for peanuts. Of course - like other countries - we also have many intelligent, highly qualified and wealthy citizens with extreme right politics. There wi...

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Chopper Strikes

An ausie american economist gives the hard truth about the UK/USA trade deal

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/business ... lcl-digvid

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UK is ‘compliant servant of communist China,’ Trump’s trade adviser says “If the Chinese vampire can’t suck the American blood, it’s going to suck the U.K. blood and the EU blood,” Peter Navarro tells the Telegraph. https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-compliant-servant-communist-china-donald-trump-tr...

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Brilliant

Why Trump Could Lose His Trade War With China | The Ezra Klein Show

https://youtu.be/UqBa0hBAQBA?si=3ogu4kX6qUpBWU-9

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The gap in economic performance and well-being indicators between Ireland and Northern Ireland is widening, a report has found. The research found that Ireland is outperforming Northern Ireland in most areas, including labour market trends, living standards, economic structures, education, health an...

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Forget soft Brexit if you strike trade deal with Trump, EU
warns UK
Some Brussels insiders believe the US may want to drive a wedge between Britain and the European Union

https://archive.ph/xPkdI

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Forget soft Brexit if you strike trade deal with Trump, EU i
warns UK
Some Brussels insiders believe the US may want to drive a wedge between Britain and the European Union

https://archive.ph/xPkdI

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https://www.thesouthafrican.com/sport/r ... rugby-news

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https://i.imgur.com/QDewFCJ.png U.S.–Germany 10-year yield differential both have been climbing this month, in a pretty unusual dynamic. Normally, higher U.S. yields would boost the dollar and push the euro lower. But what’s happening now (since "Liberation Day") reflects a notable shift in how mar...

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covrich wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 7:04 pm Smart phones and computers now exempt Trump continues to blink

Trump is blinking so fast these days you can judge the effectiveness of everything he says not by polls or facts but by flutter-to-reality ratio.

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Trump Brings Britain’s ‘Moron Premium’ to the U.S. Economy
What America might have learned, but didn’t, from Britain’s 2022 financial-markets debacle

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/arc ... ource=feed

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Pure economic colonialism

WTF are NON TARRIF BARRIERS ?

It seems anything that the USA doesn't like

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EU offers Trump removal of all industrial tariffs

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-offe ... l-tariffs/

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Interesting that people here talk about capitalism as a fixed philosophy. There are diffent forms of capitalism. Shareholder Capitalism is what the USA is exporting. The US has in effect one product, and that is profit related to cash value, but then you have David Ricardo's capitalism where the mea...

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Just to put cost of labour into perspective. US minimum wage: $7.25/hr but there's push for at least $15/hr South Africa: ZAR28.79/hr (US$1.51) Vietnam: VND4960000 /mnth (US$192.21) equals about $1.14/hr assuming a 40 hour week Lesotho: LSL1285/mnth (US$ 67.64) equals about $0.40/hr assuming a 40 h...

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https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/819684/us-officials-introduce-law-to-sanction-south-africa/ In case you missed our earlier post today. Here's more information on the matter of; US officials introduce law to sanction South Africa. What the Bill says The bill states that no later than 120 d...

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China hitting back with 34% tariffs. Stock markets everywhere in free fall. And it's only getting going! :lol: The funny thing is they havent even touched services with their tarrifs. I think China is keeping its powder dry. Trump is gonna jeapordise close to 1 Trillion USD in Services In 2023, the...

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Leaked!!! The EU response to the 20% Tarrifs imposed on them by USA (just joking like trump I used chatgpt to determine our economic policy) **European Union Retaliatory Trade Strategy – Response to U.S. 20% Tariffs (Red State Focus)** **Objective**: Impose sustained economic pressure on politically...

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