“If they could use hand-knitted computer code to make a frictionless re-entry to Earth’s atmosphere in 1969, we can solve the problem of frictionless trade at the Northern Irish border,” Johnson wrote in a column that gave no specifics on how this could be done.

“There is no task so simple that government cannot overcomplicate if it doesn’t want to do it. And there are few tasks so complex that humanity cannot solve if we have a real sense of mission to pull them off.”

He added: “It is time this country recovered some of its can-do spirit. We can come out of the EU on 31 October, and yes, we certainly have the technology to do so. What we need now is the will and the drive.”

Stupid facking tossser, and stupid facking tosssers who believed him in the face of all available evidence.

clappers

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/city-london-chief-says-brexit-disaster-cost-40000-finance-jobs-2024-10-16/

‘Britain's departure from the European Union cost London's financial centre about 40,000 jobs, the Lord Mayor of the City of London told Reuters, a far deeper impact from Brexit than previous estimates.

Michael Mainelli said Dublin had gained most, attracting 10,000 positions, while cities such as Milan, Paris and Amsterdam had also benefited from jobs migrating from London after Britain voted to quit the EU trading bloc in 2016.

"Brexit was a disaster," said Mainelli, the ceremonial head of London's City financial centre, which stretches over a square mile including the Bank of England, international banks and insurers. "We had 525,000 workers in 2016. My estimate is that we lost just short of 40,000."

The tally by Mainelli, who spent years charting the fortunes of Britain's financial centre before becoming Lord Mayor and has contact with hundreds of City firms, is far higher than the 7,000 jobs that consultants at EY calculated had left London for the European Union by 2022.’

comment by Robbing Hoody - keepy up arbiter. Don’t talk to me unless you can do ten (U6374)
posted 17 minutes ago
Yep. You’re having an absolute mare as usual.
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You’re idiot

comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 3 minutes ago
clappers

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/city-london-chief-says-brexit-disaster-cost-40000-finance-jobs-2024-10-16/
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Like I said there are more jobs.

comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - keepy up arbiter. Don’t talk to me unless you can do ten (U6374)
posted 17 minutes ago
Yep. You’re having an absolute mare as usual.
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You’re idiot
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comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - keepy up arbiter. Don’t talk to me unless you can do ten (U6374)
posted 17 minutes ago
Yep. You’re having an absolute mare as usual.
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You’re idiot
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comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 3 minutes ago
clappers

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/city-london-chief-says-brexit-disaster-cost-40000-finance-jobs-2024-10-16/
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Like I said there are more jobs.
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And?

Like I said, there have been huge job losses to the EU, exactly as ‘Project Fear’ warned.

comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - keepy up arbiter. Don’t talk to me unless you can do ten (U6374)
posted 17 minutes ago
Yep. You’re having an absolute mare as usual.
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Journalist: Is the $10,000,000 prize for Jolani still valid?

State Department spox Mathew Miller: It is.

https://x.com/suppressednws/status/1869343479425565080?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

Say this is true, with the US military facilities stationed all around the Middle East, why wasn’t this guy stopped?

comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 3 minutes ago
clappers

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/city-london-chief-says-brexit-disaster-cost-40000-finance-jobs-2024-10-16/
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Like I said there are more jobs.
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And?

Like I said, there have been huge job losses to the EU, exactly as ‘Project Fear’ warned.
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Sick of experts but throw a catchy (untrue, misleading or gaslighting) three word slogan their way and it's lapped up.

comment by Maximus Decimus Meridius (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
Journalist: Is the $10,000,000 prize for Jolani still valid?

State Department spox Mathew Miller: It is.

https://x.com/suppressednws/status/1869343479425565080?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

Say this is true, with the US military facilities stationed all around the Middle East, why wasn’t this guy stopped?
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Wasn't that dude a Muppet Show character before he was gov't spokesperson?

comment by Ruben The King Amorim Tim Tagi Dim (U10026)
posted 4 hours, 4 minutes ago
comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 1 minute ago
Here's how the triple lock will destroy public finances...

UK inflation vs. UK average wage increase by year, 2022-2024:

7.9% - 5.9% (inflation works ahead of wages)
6.8% - 5.8%
2.3% - 6.9% (wages catch up)

So CPI across three year period: 17.9%
And average wage increase: 19.8%

Then how that translates to pension increases:

2022 - 7.9% (CPI), 2023 - 6.8% (CPI), 2024 - 6.9% (wages) -» 23.2%

It's Emporer's New Clothes stuff, and it'll absolutely bankrupt Millennials and Gen Z.
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I read this as Employer’s New Clothes.
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silk suits all round....