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Rates of insolvency among women over 65 rapidly increasing
Across all age groups insolvency rate of women overtaken men

adam wrote:Excellent comment BTL on the guardian - if we want to understand what 'leveling up' really involves, we need to look at Germany since reunification. Tax surcharges and focused spending of around €100bn a year for 20 years.

adam wrote:Excellent comment BTL on the guardian - if we want to understand what 'leveling up' really involves, we need to look at Germany since reunification. Tax surcharges and focused spending of around €100bn a year for 20 years.

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Interesting thing about the replies to this (which are overwhelmingly anti-freedom of movement) is that they still don't see this as *our* freedom of movement as well, but solely as an immigration issue.

Given the Union and the United Kingdom’s geographic proximity and economic interdependence, the future relationship must ensure open and fair competition, encompassing robust commitments to ensure a level playing field. The precise nature of commitments should be commensurate with the scope and depth of the future relationship and the economic connectedness of the parties. These commitments should prevent distortions of trade and unfair competitive advantages. To that end, the Parties should uphold the common high standards applicable in the Union and the United Kingdom at the end of the transition period in the areas of state aid, competition, social and employment standards, environment, climate change, and relevant tax matters.

Would British security services perhaps be a bit less stretched, if Pritti Patel had not sought to label climate activists as terrorists?

HindleA wrote:PR?ot unusually I have serious doubts/concerns,at least before outlining further given the myriad of options

PorFavor wrote:

HindleA wrote:PR?ot unusually I have serious doubts/concerns,at least before outlining further given the myriad of options

AV+. Roy Jenkins' preferred option, if I recall correctly. Seems about the best version of PR.

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For four years under Tony Blair's government I worked for the Daily Mail. His No10 absolutely hated us - you might say justifiably - and yet we were never banned from any briefing involving civil servants under his government, ever.

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I remember asking Blair, live on TV, during one press conference about the number of dead soldiers in Iraq. It was deeply uncomfortable for him. But I still got invited back to the next one.

Also this idea there should be "technical" and "specialist" separate briefings where some political journalists are excluded is a joke excuse - this is about THE major plank of Johnson's post-Brexit policy, all outlets and their readers have a right to know the details

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Does being a disingenuous shill pay well? I'm currently scouting around for work and was wondering how much dignity I would have to shed, becoming a forelock-tugging sycophant to the lousiest government in living memory, and if it's really worth it.

PorFavor wrote:Has Robert Buckland hit upon a posh way to refer to Motown? Otherwise, what's this "automaticity" that he keeps on about?

citizenJA wrote:

PorFavor wrote:Has Robert Buckland hit upon a posh way to refer to Motown? Otherwise, what's this "automaticity" that he keeps on about?

Is he the one recently misleading MPs over crown court funding cuts?

HindleA wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51318730

The welfare state is a big part of British family life, with 20.3 million families receiving some kind of benefit (64% of all families), about 8.7 million of them pensioners