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The irony was St George was an immigrant...half Turkish half Palestinian with a violent past. Assume he must have been a Muslim judging by peoples judgements of Palestinians on this board...

Which ones that aren't backed by other entities/legal frameworks?

You think Reform, who have never governed, have a snake oil salesman as leader (and you have said multiple times you supported staying in the EU), has no-one who knows anything about governing a country apart from that chancer Kruger, and you still think they are more credible than Labour? If you were a Remainer you would not vote for Reform. 110%. Who do you think are credible parties for the next election? Assume the Tory's aren't in there under Badenoch as no-one thinks they're credible.

Just out of interest, is it the ECHR that is stipulating the right to frivolous legal challenges?

So you're removing kids from their parents and putting them into our superbly funded and run social care system? What a good idea.

What's that got to do with the ECHR though? Essentially he's been paid to not appeal, which would cost far more in legal costs anyway.

To be fair this has been mooted many times - essentially paying illegal immigrants to fuck off back to their countries.

To be fair we sacked Jones and Selles fairly quickly and we got nowhere doing that.

The best type of being legal, is the legal type.

Are you going to tell us, or are you just parroting again without really knowing what you're arguing for?

Just more ammo for Digital IDs reading that story. Also looks like a migrant who has overstayed their Visa rather than an illegal immigrant.

Yes, I know you don't decrease the deficit by increasing spending - what I meant is we are in the difficult position where we need to do both. In respect of your questions above: 1. Interest Rates could come down now, so I think you could say what they've done so far has contributed to that. But, as I've said many times, interest rates at the moment aren't high or low due to government policy, it is due to the external factors on inflation. The issue is the BoE are managing this all very poorly and are using old school economic theory to try to solve it, when that is not what is needed now. 2. Decreasing planning laws for one will help building and construction and their supply chains. Green investment etc. Encouraging technology investment from the US. If they can get fuel/energy prices down then that is a big win for businesses and the public.

But you're the one who said it, you tell me.

You seem to think I'm defending Reeves here - that is also an issue. What I'm trying to do is show you that what you are saying the article says, it doesn't. We need to encourage investment and spending, and to do that we need to massively decrease interest rates to start with. But let's not kid ourselves, the current deficit needs to be dealt with and we need further investment in public services, alongside forcing the whip on tighter benefits controls. The Business NI increase was stupid. The Tories should not have decreased personal NI contributions - that was done to fuck up Labour in this government.

I'm not traditionally pro-tax by any means, and considering I spent the majority of my working life running my own businesses your second assertion is wrong. Where have I shown I am anti-business? I don't think you quite realise what a mess this country has been left in, and that's where we differ.

What would leaving the ECHR allow us to do?

Won't we find that out at the budget? I'm not sure why you're getting annoyed at that article, and what you think it proves.

I never said it has nothing to do with government policy, I said that the vast majority of inflation was due to external factors and not to do with interest rates, hence why I was encouraging large cuts to interest rates as it shouldn't affect inflation. This should encourage growth by the way. You've clearly not spent a lot of time in boardrooms, but I am genuinely interested in what you think my views are?

What things?

Really, where?

No, you certainly don't patronise me. How have you got to your age without really understanding macro-economics and taxes, because you consistently show a poor understanding of how economies work. It has nothing to do with agreeing with a world view, it has to do with how capitalist economies work. You consistently say I'm a socialist. I'm not. I'm a traditional Conservative voter. However, the state the country is in and was left in after years of pathetic Tory re-distribution of wealth has led us to a situation where taxes have to be increased.

Sorry, what? It's a BBC news article, not a Reeves news article. If you read it then it will give you your answers if it has them. Show us where Reeves has said that increasing taxes will grow the economy.

You do know they're not trying to increase growth with higher taxes, don't you? And do we really have the highest tax burden since the 1940s, because I don't think we currently do.

He reminds me of me when I got out of University - he's very headstrong with very little knowledge but thinks he's world-wise. I assume he is quite young judging by his frame of references and lack of empathy.

No, if we have a National Health Service, we need higher taxes. There is no way around that. But that's fine, perhaps if we want to keep low taxes we need to look to fund the NHS in a different way. https://ifs.org.uk/taxlab/taxlab-key-questions/how-do-uk-tax-revenues-compare-internationally You have clearly never looked at process and system improvements for large companies. As it is where I made my living I can tell you it will cost tens of billions to do, and by the time it's done the technology and processes will be out of date and need replacing again. All we can do is small iterative changes, but unfortunately that means the scope remains small and tends to be dealt with in silo's with no real thought to integration to the rest of the "company". If you want a root cause analysis and process improvement for public services, the only realistic way to do that is to privatise as they will look to save everywhere to ensure efficiencies. This is not a green field architecture you're talking about here, it's embedded with legacy systems, architecture and processes.