General Election 2024
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I've met with policy teams up here in Scotland that are having to act fast to replicate because any disparity would kill imports north of the border. Despite the fact everyone knows it's wank.
Your best work was when you disappeared for a couple of years and the entire mood of the forum lifted.
If they continue with this crazy policy it's going to be hell for imports, exports, workers rights , investment elsewhere. It's probably one of the worst policies currently.
I'm really not sure who you are exactly. Did I shit in your handbag in the past or something?
Thank Brexit and Neoliberalism. Also it's too far down the line to change course much. Not that Labour would anyway.
No I did not, I will when I get home I promise
It's ok really. I know it takes a big man to admit they were wrong.
Yes. But this will do considerable damage to the UK. Amateurs running the show.
In the case of freeports, they aren't so much running the show, as handing it over to some of the most corrupt companies in the world.
The end game is for these places to have seperate legal responsibilities to the country, where things like employment rights are controlled not by goivernment, but by the owners of the freeport.
And its not just the port part, the one proposed on the south coast stretches across half of devon and dorset.
When will Rishis reappointment be confirmed?
Yes. Agreed.
Which in turn means imports into the country will have to pass through these legal separated areas and exports will be non-viable for anything produced in these areas as they will be having unfair advantages regarding rights, tax, wages etc and won't be able to sell anything other than to corrupt nations.
And goods produced to be sold in the rest of the UK within these areas will have to be taxed on entry as they will have unfair advantages over goods produced in the rest of the UK.
This would be even worse than Brexit itself. Truly insane policy.
Insane for some, not for others. I'e had a bit of experience of free trade zones in the US, and its a license to con people. Over there, the 'made on America' tag is exploited by businesses who use these places. They have soenthing like a leather bag made for them in Singapore or wherever, then imported into the port zone where they have a warehouse.
Then, in the warehouse, before anything leaves the port zone, they will have people fixing the handles onto the bags or making some kind of small alteration. This allows them to then legally declare the bag as 'made in America'.
Suddenly, a $10 bag becomes a $50 bag. Expect to see that here soon enough.
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Been posted some pages back but we have grown public service investment at a similar rate to European peers but our population has grown significantly more quickly. That's why the public services have suffered. It's not immigration or underinvestment in isolation.
Just back from voting Labour.
Voted!
I voted Green. Came back home and the powers fecking off. 
Putin's LabourI voted Green. Came back home and the powers fecking off.
I’m removed myself from the political circus news stream this past 6 months or so outside the odd bit here or there. Are we still looking likely for a Labour landslide here?
Right then. Wheres the betting value? Got to be something interesting to waste a fiver on.
When should I be turning on BBC? I see they have a live stream that I can access from Norway on their site.
At this point, if they don't have more than 400 seats it would be a shock.
10pm UK time for the exit poll.
Polls close at 10pm UK time (BST), won't be anything worth watching until then, they are not allowed to discuss actual votes while people can still vote. The exit polls normally come just after voting ends.
Right, cheers.
Lib Dem to beat the tories is a fun one.
Tory obliteration but the rise of Reform then?
No, surely Paul, nothing can be that bad, you have been telling us for ages, Brexit is the abyss the end of the world (trading world that is!), now you are saying there is something worse than the abyss it's called FREE PORT ! One of the benefits of FPTP is that it makes it very difficult for Reform to gain many seats.
Or at least that’s what people are optimistically saying.
Sorry, so a billion people can vote in our elections?
Exit polls are announced at 10pm UK time, that's the biggest indicator, a few early seats will come in between 10 and 1am so snooze then, then from 2-6am is t when all the results start piling in
In vote share reform is probably going to be close to the lib dems. In seats, they are probably going to be somewhere close to the greens.
But with farage in parliament, the media will platform him even more, and I sispect that it is the next election where that problem will turn into something dangerous.
There is a residency clause.
Hopefully no more than a handful of seats, so they have bugger all power but just enough rope to hang themselves with courtesy of their natural instinct to get in front of a camera and say racist things.
You have to be resident .
starmer’s trousers to fall down in the speech where he declares victory.
Good people of Britain: happy election day. Democracy in action, beautiful stuff.
And remember, your job now is to stand by your Prime Minister.
And remember, your job now is to stand by your Prime Minister.
If they are living here and on the vote register they can vote in an election. You can't just turn up to the country for a weeks holiday and vote.
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