No no no surely you mean this is a time in history where the US is most admired?

Military are covering for Trump. This can go one of two ways Nuremberg or Putin. US needs to decide their future

“But the answer is not to abolish the jury system.” A bit of hyperbole from Rory here as wells I do not believe the proposal is to abolish the jury system but to remove some types of cases from it. Come on Rory you are better than this. Don’t use the tricks of populists please.

I suspect only the UK government can invest in education, build long term infrastructure and promote/incentivise strategic industries to base themselves in the U.K. Aim should be to attract businesses on the basis of a well educated workforce and the lifestyle that they can offer their employees

A race to free business is a race to the bottom in terms of environmental, employment and other rights. A race I don’t think we could or want to win. China has demonstrated that Governments can promote and support growth. That they can have a long term strategy to achieve big goals

@restispolitics.bsky.social Think Rory needs to lay off the right wing press for a bit. We’ve come off the back of 14 years of this strategy. In a global economy where our best businesses can be bought and stripped by US firms and markets are obsessed with short termism I don’t think it works

Surely the first question is why would you fund the WH ballroom

“If we do all that, and everybody’s prospering and they’re all a part of it, and there’s upside for everybody, that’s going to naturally be a bulwark against future conflicts there. Because everybody’s thriving.” Hasn’t Putin tried this BS before

I’ll defer as I don’t know the detail but I understood these were loans from the Commission to EU countries to buy military hardware. Under the deal more of the loans could be used to buy British kit. I can understand not buying US kit to reduce dependency but the U.K. is a major EUR ally

Pathetic by the EU in a time of crisis and a desperate need for unity and rearmament. More short term ism, point scoring and political posturing

Didn’t like focus/dismissive attitude of past promises as I’m sure in previous episodes it has been acknowledged the world has changed and the Gov should be prepared to be bolder. Would have preferred focus to be how does this encourage growth and what is the overall msg. @newsagents.bsky.social

Use the additional tax receipts to invest in UK long term growth. Education. Housing. Infrastructure. Health. Supporting strategic growth industries. Nationalise key strategic/failing industries. Stop sale of U.K. assets/companies to overseas entities who transfer the value elsewhere

Simplify income tax: remove marginal rate oddities + up level of top rate. Reform council tax to use up to date/live valuations. Bring in wealth tax. Tax more companies that are removing wealth from U.K. and/or not contributing to growth. Lower CapGains to apply to small U.K. entrepreneurs only.

Is there any logic to this other than to appear to be bashing foreigners

Also clear US sees EUR as a potential competitor both as a power but also as an alternative form of government. Actions are intended to weaken EUR at every turn

Didn’t realise this was a Government initiative. If you’re falling back on flags you’re in trouble. Leaning too hard into pageantry shows a lack of confidence in the country and what your doing to make things better