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Robots and AI can bring down pension age, says TUC

PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.

Robots and AI can bring down pension age, says TUC

Yes - you'd have thought so, wouldn't you? But then there's the problem of what to do with all that leisure time . . .

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... -tuc-urges

HindleA wrote:Bin obsession over nuclear annihilation.I suppose it is a question of priorities.

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Ah here it is!

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Nick Clegg: saying progress has been made on Brexit is like staring at an empty building site having made a cup of tea. Excellent. #r4today

UK construction slumps to lowest in 2017 as real estate projects are delayed in Brexit run-up

Duchess of Cambridge expecting third child

PorFavor wrote:Another made-to-order royal distraction

HindleA wrote:https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/0 ... /23195302/


Japan princess to wed commoner, forcing her to quit royal family

HindleA wrote:https://labourlist.org/2017/09/anas-sar ... eadership/

HindleA wrote:https://www.tuc.org.uk/economic-issues/ ... uture-work


Universal basic income and the future of work

In the Times today (paywall) Matt Chorley says Theresa May is considering making Jacob Rees-Mogg a minister. On the Daily Politics Rees-Mogg (a“pantomime toff”, according to a recent Bagehot column in the Economist) did not sound particularly keen on the prospect.
(Politics Live, Guardian)

Barnier says his comment about 'teaching' Britons about impact of Brexit taken out of context

Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotatior, insisted this morning that his comments were taken out of context. When he suggesting[sic] teaching British people a lesson, he meant in the spirit of Mr Chips, not the Kray twins, he reveals. (Politics Live, Guardian - my emphasis)

adam wrote:This is a tiny bit of a shame because there are many worse conservative writers and commentators out there than Peter Oborne but this is still quite a read.

April 2017 - History beckons: This election gives Mrs May the chance to do what every Conservative leader since Churchill has dreamed of - putting an end to Labour for ever.

gilsey wrote:

adam wrote:This is a tiny bit of a shame because there are many worse conservative writers and commentators out there than Peter Oborne but this is still quite a read.

April 2017 - History beckons: This election gives Mrs May the chance to do what every Conservative leader since Churchill has dreamed of - putting an end to Labour for ever.

Spectacular.

At the insistence of the Commission — which in effect is acting as the divorce lawyer for the 27 remaining states — the UK must agree to cough up a vast sum before we can even begin to discuss the post-Brexit trading terms between us.

In other words, the long-term future of families in the EU — the people who will benefit most from an amicable trade deal — is less important than getting lots of dosh up front.

This is understandable from the Commission’s point of view. While the UK’s contribution to the EU’s finances may not be significant in terms of those countries’ overall economies, it is of enormous consequence to the Commission itself, amounting to 14 per cent of its total income — notably the salaries and the pensions of the 35,000 or so officials who work for it.

The most influential of those officials is not the President of the Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker. No, the man of power there is that bibulous and erratic Luxembourger’s chief of staff, Martin Selmayr.
This 46-year-old German lawyer is known in the corridors of the Berlaymont as ‘the monster’. Both brilliant and a fearsome bully, Selmayr is a fanatical believer in ‘the project’ and is determined not only that Britain is punished for its decision to leave, but so obviously punished that no other nation will ever again even dream of taking the same action.

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Nazis hate the Jews because, like Soviets, Nazis have socialist views, and hate them for supposedly "controlling" the free market.
10:00 pm - 2 Sep 2017

Britain’s trade minister has heralded the arrival of a “second Elizabethan Golden Age” as the country breaks away from the European Union.

Speaking on his first foreign visit since the referendum, Lord Price predicted that the falling value of sterling will boost investment into to the UK give exporters “a helping hand”. He told business leaders in Hong Kong that British companies would enjoy less regulation and an “even more competitive” tax system after Brexit.

Major government-backed campaigns will help to boost annual exports from Britain by as much as £70 billion by 2020, he predicted.

Lord Price said departing the EU would hand the country a “fresh start” with an “open economy”, adding: “I will use this week’s G20 trade ministers meeting in Shanghai to start building these important relationships with counterparts ahead of our negotiations.”

Setting out ambitious plans to transform Britain into a “super connected trading hub”, the minister said the country could maintain a close relationship with Europe while striking new deals across the world.

Brexit: Labour prepares first attempt to vote down EU withdrawal bill

Guardian understands shadow cabinet will decide to whip MPs to vote against ‘great repeal bill’ at second reading (Guardian)

So this leaves Theresa May a prisoner not of her Brexit rebels but to Parliamentary arithmetic and the reality of her negotiating hand, and under strong pressure from business interests to sort things out quickly. Her Cabinet allies point out that it is not just Tory MPs who do not want another election but SNP MPs too, they calculate, would fear a further loss of seats, and not vote for an early election as required under the Fixed Term Parliament Act (plans to scrap this appear to have been mysteriously parked).

Willow904 wrote:Some interesting points in this Brexit article from Faisal Islam:

http://news.sky.com/story/amp/sky-views ... e-11019976" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Particularly:

So this leaves Theresa May a prisoner not of her Brexit rebels but to Parliamentary arithmetic and the reality of her negotiating hand, and under strong pressure from business interests to sort things out quickly. Her Cabinet allies point out that it is not just Tory MPs who do not want another election but SNP MPs too, they calculate, would fear a further loss of seats, and not vote for an early election as required under the Fixed Term Parliament Act (plans to scrap this appear to have been mysteriously parked).