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Off to a cracking start for them - scored the winner today.

Production

Everything he's saying can only drive prices north. It has to be deliberate, and will increase demand for the dollar.

That's acceptable - and consistent.

Genuine question - is he deliberately driving up oil prices? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgj0gn36px8t?post=asset%3Ab68adc34-05e3-4008-b2dc-d1c90e553c13#post

I can't agree on the family benefits punishment at all. It's a collective punishment, and singles out benefit supported families for different treatment to non benefit supported families. You can't punish benefit class families in a way that you can't punish a middle class family. That's wholly unfair. Hitting kids later in life is something I can get on board with though.

The threat to the petrodollar is one of the factors at play, and led to Iraq, Libya and Venezuela. The US will spend whatever it needs to spend to keep that going imo.

Plans

I get that it's easy to adapt to a road that you drive on probably twice a day, but that's vastly different to driving street to street with ever changing limits.

Yep. Focus on the speedo rather than the road is an issue. The problem on some back streets is that some are 20 and others 30, with no signs, so I only know I'm in a 20 zone when the car beeps at me for exceeding 20.

There are 20 zones all over the place that aren't clearly marked. I don't believe anyone who says they consistently stay below that limit.

Splendid. I love Athens. Did it once by hiring a cabbie almost as old as the structures and taken everywhere, including a lap of the original Olympic stadium against my youngest (which was closed, but said old boy managed to get us in). Enjoy.

Jesus SoG, I push at the limits of a reasonable post, but that's something else.

Predictions for his national address tonight folks? It's primetime and across 4 networks so it'll be more than his usual steps of a plane rambling.

Fair point on reflection.