Westminstenders: From Russia with Love

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Things just got scary.

The colony of US puppet state or a vassel state of the EU?

Why not just let market forces take their course and let Russia buy the UK?

How did we get to stories of spies and mafia who buy politicians?

Just who are our enemies and allies?

Won't someone think of the effect on house prices in Salisbury?

Try not to don your foil hat, brace yourself and resist shouting 'money laundering too loud'.

More turbulence ahead.

Brexit still seems like such a cracking idea doesn't it?

Just read an article on it sos
I'll try and link
Scary times to be poor or disabled....

Here you go
twitter.com/Independent/status/974236574257942530

Life expectancy has gone down for the first time since 1890.....

Is it increased poverty then, or the Govt allowing the NHS to collapse? Or a bit of both?

Thanks for link mrsreynolds

I should say bit of both peregrina and agree with MrsReynolds its already scary times and that before we leave EU!

Seems limiting immigration only serves to depress the native labour market, and move jobs offshore.

www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/15/trumps_immigration_policies_costing_us_tech_jobs/

President Trump’s immigration policies are costing the United States technology jobs, rather than their intended effect of growing them, according to Bill Wagner, the CEO of LogMeIn.

Speaking to The Register in Sydney, Australia, today, Wagner said his company had hoped to bring in more workers, some on H-1B visas. He now believes that won’t be possible, that the company will instead need to establish bigger offices offshore and that the net outcome will be fewer employees in the USA.

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Bit of both peregrina I think.

Add to that the cuts to disability and benefits....

Maybe this is what older leavers wanted?

A return to the 1930s and poor people dying unnecessarily from things like malnutrition or mh problems...

If flares can make a comeback, why not typhoid, or cholera ?

For light relief:

Bonnie Greer (@Bonn1eGreer), who is marvellous, is currently re-tweeting bizarre conspiracy theories about the poisoning.

I do love Bonnie. I suspect most of you on here are already following her (she writes for 'The European') but if you aren't, now might be a good time to add her to your feed.

Well rickets are on the rise in GB can you believe that! TB is definitely on the rise.

Light relief really needed.

Well rickets are on the rise in GB

unlike the people with rickets ...

Too dark ?

Drs are seeing rickets and tb quite regularly now in deprived areas

Add to that the huge rise in gonnorhea infections

My dh and ds1 are asthmatic and have Atopic skin

They need regluar meds/creams etc

I'm already looking for other sources of these after brexit...

Look at water situation in flint in.thr US!

That's what lack of those pesky regulations leavers so despise leads to...

A whole town poisoned

And don't get me started on private prisons...

Leavers wanted our own regulations not the EUs. Trouble is the Tories dont give a monkeys uncle for the common people, the regulations they want are to champion big business and exploit workers.

And don't get me started on private prisons...

Rewatching a 2011 edition of QI, we learned that over 1% of the US was in prison (over 3,000,000 - a city in itself). And thanks to the fact that prisoners have no choice but to work, the US army has free kit made for them.

As one of the panelists suggested, the US still has slavery.

Leavers wanted our own regulations not the EUs.

Brexiteers wanted no regulations.

After all, when your presence on Earth is divine will, it is a sin to oppose you.

Its a pity the leavers didn't think of that. Leaving Tories in guarantees a miserable life for the common people.

Not true Rossetti they wanted our rules not the EUs. They should have got rid if the Tories first.

Love the Stephen Hawkin quote.

Yes, it will take a long time. Things that are worth something can take a long time motherofdragons. Lol!

My brain isn't at full retaining capabilities at the mo, so my tuppenceworth here is very late. Wrt the Russia stuff. I don't trust this government with their analyses or whether or not they exist etc so normally what Corbyn tried to say may have resonated with me a bit more. But it didn't. I was trying to decide if maybe it was the delivery, if maybe someone decent at spin had told him he could have made that point whilst condemning Russia it may have not been so bad. But no, that's not it either. It's taken a while but what's made me feel majorly like Corbyn was off is Tillerson's statement. Full confidence in their investigation and assessment I think is the quote. Suggests they've got some analysis that has some international credence.

My dgd loves his quotes and has (and read) his book. Whether she understood it is another thing though she's great at algebra.