#BofE The B of E has over £600bn parked by commercial banks it’s paying 3.5% interest on. It’s doing nothing with this money. In addition it’s selling gilts at a loss. Uninventing the cash it receives from it & recovering the losses from the Treasury & uninventing it. Madness.
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The description of #Murrell behaviour is just insane. Walter Mitty type with a penchant for thieving. The controls on SNP expenditure non existent. He could just buy a motor home, put it under transport. Forced by the auditors to put it in the books no-one checked the asset?
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Ireland's real GDP per capita has grown at an average annual rate of about 2.9% from 1922 to 2023, outpacing Wales' estimated 1.8% GVA per capita growth over the same period. These figures derive from 1922 relatives (Ireland at ~56% of UK, Wales ~85%) and current values (Ireland $104k, Wales ~£26k), yielding CAGRs via (end/start)^{1/101} - 1 adjustments against UK benchmarks. Ireland's edge stems from independent policy tools like low taxes attracting FDI, while Wales faced structural constraints within the UK.
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Honest debate about asylum seekers with replies off?
Labour policy is NOT to house them in SE England where they land.
Scotland with 0 say on who is sent & where.
Honest debate about housing and asylum policy matters and trying to shut it down helps no one. In @TheScotsman today
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#Brexit going to plan….
thelondoneconomic.com/busine…
UK vehicle making hits lowest level since 1953. bbc.com/news/articles/cr5vgl…
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The truth is that the U.K. set up fails Wales but Labour supports it & blames the SNP for better performance than Labour can achieve in Wales.
The big issue is structural not administrative & neither Labour or Tory want to address it.
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The you’ll know the link is to the U.K. Gov website & I’m factually correct. While you hide behind anonymity.
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#bbcdn Bailey on about 1 in 6 on waiting lists. 1 in 4 in Labour Wales. Brexit made NHS issues much worse it’s supported by Labour.
We KNOW their policies don’t work. Proven failures.
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A guy doesn’t want to blame Westminster or Brexit for Scottish economic underperformance & is looking for some mythical other reason other than reality. Lunacy. #bbcdn
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1st outbreak in Scotland was Nike International conference. 1st death was guy travelling to intl rugby game.
Who can spot the drivers of covid spread?
What restriction measures should have been taken?
Not you Johnson…
#ukcovidinquiry
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Misleading (lying) about comparisons with England for PISA where only the top schools put forward results v a large multiple more per capita in Scotland. Comparison is avg v best in England.
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Sarwar talking about PISA, NHS waiting & ferries.
Labour Wales far worse PISA results, far worse NHS waiting times, Wales builds no large commercial ships. Total failure.
He wants to impose this on Scotland?
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#bbcqt @benhabib6 is either astonishingly thick or ignorant. Anyone understanding trade & economics knows the damage done & continuing.
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#bbcqt Thick GBNews guy who knows zip about trade waffling nonsense about economics & trade. Why are license payers platforming hard right idiots?
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#bbcqt Sunderland applauding guy who has changed his mind from leaving the EU because it’s been a mess. Lunatic Tory comparing it to the US war of independence.
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#Peston Brexiters being platformed to lie that you can have frictionless trade without a single market & customs union & the EU is being intransigent by pointing out that reality.
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#Brexit
Trying to challenge Johnson as the worst liar?
Leave campaigned on fantasy, lies, contradictions & 0 understanding of trade. Brought back to earth by reality when they had to deliver. It’s their mess of their making. No-one else’s.
It was @Keir_Starmer & his friends who forced the Surrender Act on us in 2019.
That destroyed our leverage & stopped us fixing the N Ireland issue properly then.
The only purity cult was in these ideologues' efforts to sabotage the referendum.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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#bbcqt Audience member lies that more people voted for unionist parties than Indy ones in 2021. You vote for party on the list. >50% voted for Indy parties. That’s a fact.
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#bbcqt Sarwar saying it’s for the Scottish people to decide on Indyref2 while he supports English constituency MPs blocking Scottish representatives. He opposes democracy. Not even honest about it.
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