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Canada here showing how to be a good neighbour.

Burnham and Carney, toffees

Now that’s the sort of Country I want to live in!

Yes, 💯

I can't get, 'Hardtimes' by Paramore out of my head at the moment 😄

Yes, to this!

Absolutely. I wish I wasn’t too old to emigrate.

When Carney left his post as Governor of the Bank of England, I did despair. He knows and is wise.

Loved my month in Italy and Pompeii is amazing. As is Naples. Arrived to Naples at dawn by night train from Milan and that's a memory I will never forget. So romantic.

Seem to remember Carney was treated like crap by Brexiteers. Truss blamed him for her resignation despite Carney having left in 2020! Revealing that Brexiteers will blame everyone but themselves.

Farmers in the North West have always had to subside water supplies to East Anglia.

GDP growth up again!

Yes there were a few smart posts yesterday on growth and how the economy was picking up. Then the figures came in.

Good news.

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Mel Stride responding to Philps comments

“It seems to me what Chris Philp was stating was just the blindingly obvious”

Mel Stride is an idiot, Sky made him look like one too!

Interesting to see that production was up.

I mean it was obvious if you’d read the law. But the UK did not use Dublin very effectively when we were in the EU. Even within the EU it doesn’t work very well!

Dublin only applies to migrants who have registered in another EU country, if not, they can stay.

Imho, it acted as a deterrent, hence numbers rocketed when DA could no longer be applied.

How many does France accept back now? Zero.

They can’t possibly have only discovered Dublin 3 Regulations just before Brexit? Surely there were impact assessments?
And they didn’t think to mention this to the electorate? Why not?
I think this is lies piled on lies.

Oh no it did work better than now, clearly. But I reckon if you looked at the actual returns made by the UK during membership it would be tiny compared to asylum claims.

But the EU countries also play games with each other about acceptance of return because of entry points being in border countries. I think it’s a running sore for them and they aren’t happy.

A failure to use the regulations? Or a deliberate choice to bolster political arguments?

I know where my money is.

Significant, not least for the dynamics of the Reform-Labour contest. Richard Tice commits to frontload spending cuts (£150bn p/a in the Reform manifesto) before phasing in equally massive tax cuts. Following scrutiny that "Nigel Truss" spending plans would bring immediate sterling crisis...
https://bsky.app/profile/matthewholehouse.bsky.social/post/3lp7c3ygp4c23

Where do we think those savings are coming from? Education ? NHS? Social Care? Defence?

I think Tice was responding to this article

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-city-backlash-against-reform-has-already-begun/

Telegraph as well

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/14/reforms-economic-plans-would-trigger-run-on-the-pound/