Westminster Politics

Taskforce will explore potential of new digital currency
A taskforce has been created by the Bank of England (BoE) and the UK Treasury to explore the possible launch of a “Central Bank Digital Currency”

(CBDC). The new form of digital money would be issued for use by households and businesses, and would exist alongside cash and bank deposits,

rather than replacing them, the BoE said in a statement.

The “Britcoin” would basically be a digital version of sterling and could change the payments system, “the plumbing of the financial system”, says the

BBC’s economics editor Faisal Islam. However, it would not be a “Bitcoin-style speculative asset with wild fluctuations in value” and there would be

“limited appeal for the fans of crypto”.
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TheGame said:
Boris must be seething the ESL is over. Gave him distraction from his corruption!

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As an aside, I wonder how many of those smugly patting themselves on the back today for sticking it to the football elites voted for Brexit or the Tories?
 
Frosty said:
Wow. I wonder if this will cut through? Boris still has crazily high personal ratings.
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It really needs press coverage and until he pisses them off he won't have his name plastered everywhere for these scandals, unfortunately.
 
Is 'Count Binface' in anyway related to 'Screaming Lord Sutch' and the Monster Raving Loony Party?
 
I'm actually surprised that the Cummings story is still headline news. Seems like anything negative about Boris is either ignored or just mentioned in passing.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
I'm actually surprised that the Cummings story is still headline news. Seems like anything negative about Boris is either ignored or just mentioned in passing.
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It’s a good indication that his days are numbered. If this was 12 months ago it would have been buried.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
I'm actually surprised that the Cummings story is still headline news. Seems like anything negative about Boris is either ignored or just mentioned in passing.
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I reckon it's because of Cummings. On one side they've got their love of Boris, but on the other side they know that they have somebody with a load of gossip and is somebody that would be willing to talk about them if he's annoyed enough. They're seeing the potential future headlines over the next few weeks.

The thing I'm most surprised about is that Boris / Conservatives seem to want to bring Cummings into this. Even as an outsider it's obvious that Cummings will do everything to look after himself even if it brings Boris down with him.
 
I'm surprised and disappointed that Cummings couldn't come up with something better than this. Pretty much non-stories, no one gives a toss. They're pretty easy to counter as well, not in a tecnically correct way, but in a way average voter will say 'fair enough'.

Giving contracts to mates now, if true, that's what people should be concentrating on.
 
711 said:
I'm surprised and disappointed that Cummings couldn't come up with something better than this. Pretty much non-stories, no one gives a toss. They're pretty easy to counter as well, not in a tecnically correct way, but in a way average voter will say 'fair enough'.

Giving contracts to mates now, if true, that's what people should be concentrating on.
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I think Cummings is only just beginning. This has got “drip drip” written all over it. He will let Johnson respond and deny before he drops the next bombshell which smashes Boris’ defence.
 
FireballXL5 said:
Ah yes, the same forgiveness that lets his own kiddie fiddlers off the hook time and time again?
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Correct and the exact reason why this man and any of his others have no place in modern society to be commenting on anything. He only recently just came out and acknowledged the church had major issues with racism. Get your own house in order!
 
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