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[Bri963]

I agree about the preferred direction of travel. I just question their ability and actual intentions. Often groups like this can attract the wrong people. I think maybe a coalition with reform and conservatives might be a better outcome than straight up reform. Or even reform coming a close enough second to give the traditional parties a wake up call.
We really need to watch America and not let the same happen to us.

Let what happen? We get someone in power who does what they say they will And what we vote them in to do?

I have more faith in Reform than the other showers. This current clown show came to power with very little experience of any sort of work, let alone running a country, and are definitely the wrong people for the job, and I don’t see any better among the Tories. As for the yellow perils, Ed would be okay in a theme park or adventure playground, but I wouldn’t let them run a hot bath, and the greens wouldn’t want to run a hot bath because a) heating water up would be bad for the environment, and b) they wouldn’t know what a hot bath is for.

 

[Lancs Lad]

Let what happen? We get someone in power who does what they say they will And what we vote them in to do?

I have more faith in Reform than the other showers. This current clown show came to power with very little experience of any sort of work, let alone running a country, and are definitely the wrong people for the job, and I don’t see any better among the Tories. As for the yellow perils, Ed would be okay in a theme park or adventure playground, but I wouldn’t let them run a hot bath, and the greens wouldn’t want to run a hot bath because a) heating water up would be bad for the environment, and b) they wouldn’t know what a hot bath is for.

Well said

 

[Vinpetrol]

Let what happen? We get someone in power who does what they say they will And what we vote them in to do?

I have more faith in Reform than the other showers. This current clown show came to power with very little experience of any sort of work, let alone running a country, and are definitely the wrong people for the job, and I don’t see any better among the Tories. As for the yellow perils, Ed would be okay in a theme park or adventure playground, but I wouldn’t let them run a hot bath, and the greens wouldn’t want to run a hot bath because a) heating water up would be bad for the environment, and b) they wouldn’t know what a hot bath is for.

You’re dead on . Greens got a sniff of power up here by getting into bed with SNP . They managed to stop all the proposed road upgrades and spent 10s of millions on feasibility studies to come up with reasons why we don’t need the road upgrades while the average speed on main trunk routes dropped below 30mph on journeys over 100miles .

 

[kabin man]

300 easy jobs up for grabs.. not bad salary,good conditions tho..
https://careers.homeoffice.gov.uk/news/asylumdecisionmakers

 

[Lancs Lad]

300 easy jobs up for grabs.. not bad salary,good conditions tho..
https://careers.homeoffice.gov.uk/news/asylumdecisionmaker

And if it's mainly ex asylum seekers that take up these jobs....? I imagine they'll get priority due to the Diversity crap.
It's like a sick joke...only it's not

 

[Vinpetrol]

300 easy jobs up for grabs.. not bad salary,good conditions tho..
https://careers.homeoffice.gov.uk/news/asylumdecisionmakers
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The Reform mps in waiting would be the right candidates for that job ! At least til they get voted in.

 

[V8Druid]

 

[V8Druid]

Chinese Cats added to excavator tariff list

Having lost a legal challenge, Caterpillar Xuxhou excavators now face UK tariffs.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

" When the UK Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) proposed In November 2024 that a new anti-dumping duty of up to 83.5% be applied to imports of excavators of between 11 and 80 tonnes from China to the UK, it never thought to consider Caterpillar.

The tariff proposal followed an investigation of the market requested by JCB, which had complained to the UK government that Chinese manufacturers were dumping their machines in the UK.

Chinese manufactures who cooperated with the investigation negotiated lower rates: 33.03% for Sany, 59% for Liugong, 56.24% for XCMG and 56.24% for Sunward. For everyone else, up to 83.5%. These rates have now been substantially reduced to a range between 18.8% to 40.08% ... Only after the TRA announced its proposals in November did Caterpillar declare that it too shipped excavators from China to the UK and should have been consulted
The recommended duty rates now are

• Liugong: 20.09%
• Sany: 32.82%
• Caterpillar: 18.81%
• XCMG: 24.32%
• Sunward: 24.32%
• Others: 40.08%. "