My uncle had to work with Raab once for an extended period and he said he’s one of the only people (in a work role) that he couldn’t build up any kind of rapport with.
Yep. Most definitely lazy. This is the guy that decided he was an expert on the Good Friday Agreement without actually reading it.
Not that I’m supporting his decision not to resign, BUT, isn’t there (always) this possibility that Raab would have been replaced by an even more moronic person if he had resigned?
One with a brain you mean?
That is actually highly likely as Raab doesn’t appear to have one. Maths certainly isn’t his strong point if you listen to the exchange between him and Ian Blackford on Wednesday.
I’m actually not convinced it can get any worse to be honest. The whole front bench is filled with people with a whole host of “issues”, putting it mildly. Others are pretty much the same.
I suppose a worse case scenario is that this lot are cleared to one side and the former ERG crowd take up all the positions of note. The upside is that everything would then be in the open. At the moment its pretty clear that we are being led by groups that sit in the shadows whispering in Boris’s ear and I suspect that the former ERG crowd are happy to be quietly working in the background.
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Is this not the same guy that let the driver of the car that killed Harry Dunn, flee the country under a ‘supposedly’ diplomatic immunity cover, when there was none in place…!
BoJo has surrounded himself with cretins of the highest order
Birds of a feather…
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Tom, you have my vote if you stand for PM.
You kind of think, at the very least make him Foreign Secretary.
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Darn it. Cant see the whole thread now unless I sign up to Twitter, which I’d rather not do.
I dont disagree with the above clip but I will add that one major thing that this will bring is a yet another widening of the gap between the “haves” and “have nots”.
Still going well
Lights touch paper and retreats into hedge aka Homer Simpson.
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Don’t be scared of sharing the truth about Brexit. It’s not as bad as the doom mongering a few years ago. But I am yet to see a benefit as basically all of us bar a couple said all those years ago.
The Conservatives also caught a break (in many ways if you factor in the cronyism) with the pandemic helping to hide the polished turd they are holding.
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That’s the thing. It is as bad or if not worse, but the costs of Brexit are just mixed in with some other global macroeconomic event. The costs were never going to be massive economic depression barring some cataclysmic stupidity by the government, but longer-term economic drags.
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In its latest report on the global economy, published 27 July, the IMF raised its forecasts for UK GDP growth to +7.0% in 2021, up from 5.3% at its previous April forecast. US GDP growth in 2021 is also forecast to be 7.0%, boosted by large-scale fiscal support, while the Eurozone is forecast to expand by 4.6%.
The OECD’s latest forecasts, published 31 May, projected an improved world growth outlook compared with its March projections. It forecast UK GDP growth of +7.2% in 2021 (up from its previous forecast of 5.1%) following -9.8% in 2020.
That depends on who you are and what you do. My brother for example has it worst than he ever imagined with excessive extra costs and time wasted. All adding cost to what he sells meaning it’s harder to sell. He also needs a fatter passport to fit in all the fucking stamps.
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