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Patrick Lohlein retweeted
The UK media needs to move on from its obsession with Barnier
The world has changed, the EU and the UK have changed. Time for some fresh European voices to weigh in and provide their perspective
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
You cannot have a Shadow Minister who is not on the front bench of the Official Opposition and who is not even in Parliament. Over 11 years an MP and still clueless about how Government works, just as you were when regretfully you were part of it for rather too long.
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
This is not the "free market". This is "limited liability". The shareholder's liability for the company is limited to the capital they have put in. It's wholly possible to have a "free market" with "unlimited liability". That's how a partnership works (an LLP is a limited liability partnership, a partnership is not liability limited). It's also how Lloyd's used to work and didn't everyone love that when those last cufflinks were taken. The disadvantage of an unlimited liability marketplace is that there would be no diversification of investment and therefore also very few large scale institutions. Who would want to be liable, to that last cufflink, for every company in a 200 investment portfolio? Like, you know, our pension fund should be diversified? And how many organisations would be able to large scale their capital requirements if they couldn't call upon some small fraction of the investing of tens of thousands of people?
Limited liability is a great idea for having a well functioning investment market. But it's not the same as the free market at all.
Well worth a read
Chinese electric motorcycles are bringing cleaner, cheaper mobility to Nigeria, but the real cost is buried in batteries, repairs, spare parts and the growing dependence on Chinese EV technology.
buff.ly/1DzNjw1
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
I do not miss arguing with misleading arguments from both Leavers and Remainers
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
Having won an election because people hated inflation, I simply would not have imposed tariffs, badgered the Fed for rate cuts, run enormous budget deficits and thrown in a Middle Eastern war. But I appreciate there are different schools of thought.
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
Waking up to some incredible results from US Midterms. A massive and welcome rebuttal of Trump and Trumpism. Heaven knows how he will respond but it’s one hell of a message the American people have sent him. The decent civilised rest of the world will be glad and relieved
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
🚨 New deals on food and drink, emissions trading and youth mobility are expected at the UK-EU Leaders' Summit on Friday 20 November. But what does this mean for British business? @William_Bain spoke to @JustinOnWeb on @BBCr4today to set out the benefits we all could see. 👇
Significant development on the EU-UK Agri Food Deal. Looking forward to reading the draft text when it is made public
NEW
Draft deal on UK-EU food and agrifood exports (veterinary agreement / SPS) done and circulated to EU27 member states ahead of Council (coreper) meeting in Brussels tomorrow. 200 page legal texts on this, and emissions trading, although square brackets remain on numbers for youth experience scheme.
Transition to dynamic alignment agreed in some areas where food standards have diverged.
15 page draft Joint Statement for Nov 20th summit also circulated referencing defence, security cooperation and reassurance over Made in Europe agenda.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmp3…
Polling on Free Movement of Persons with the EU 🇪🇺 shows UK 🇬🇧 public is broadly supportive, but framing matters 👇
@RestoreFOM
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
Clearest evidence yet of Reform’s pivot to a more populist interventionist economic platform and willing to be excesses of capitalism critical. IMO that always made sense given where their likely voter pool is (socially right, economically statist) than trying to out free market the Tories on the economic right
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
Paul Nuttall is running the vetting for Reform candidates? The same Paul Nuttall who, as UKIP leader, claimed to have lost friends at Hillborough, played for Tranmere Rovers, had a PHD and lived at a fake address? Ok
Via @JAHeale
Bacon butties and G&Ts at 30,000 feet: this week's column aboard Air Force Farage
🗣️ Why he's now back on the campaign trail
📺 Overhaul of leaders' office and big YouTube push
🪖 Defence, health + agriculture spox for shad cab
💸 Teal equivalent to Treasury 'red book' next week
🏛️ First candidates in seats from end of November
🎖️ Farage going personal with Remembrance film
spectator.com/article/nigel-…
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
The new crime survey is out - the "Lawless Britain" picture in full
- Violence at lowest since records began in 1981
- Corroborated by hospital figures for knife wounds
- Robbery: record low
- Overall crime 78% below 1995 peak.
- Shoplifting up
More:-
comment.press/lawless
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
Struggle to see why a policy position on the ECHR should disqualify someone from standing as Mayor of London & as we have seen from our current & a previous Prime Minister, electorally successful Mayors usually have some independence from the Party line bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq78…
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
The ECHR protects your right to the peaceful enjoyment of your property. That matters when a Government elected on just 34% of the vote has MPs talking about ‘seizing’ people’s homes. Fundamental rights should not depend simply on who has a Commons majority. – at East Ham, London
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
@JAHeale here is a summary: she announced £100 billion of uncosted energy ‘support’. The markets and the party realised she was a nut job and financially illiterate. And she was, mercifully, ejected.
She is now an international embarrassment with zero self awareness.
New: former PM Liz Truss will publish her second book next Monday “Bank Job”
“Timed to coincide with the Burnham Government’s first Budget, it lifts the lid on what really happened around the Mini-Budget in 2022, challenging the establishment narrative and examining in particular the role of the unaccountable Bank of England”
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
Wow, more Republicans than Democrats now want state ownership of businesses. I guess national conservatives put the "nation" in "nationalization".
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
Badenoch also hits an all time approval rating high, up 3 to +5. Burnham is down 5 to +11, Davey is down one to -11, Lowe remains steady at -15, (though less than half give a firm view on Davey/Lowe) Farage is down 2 to -26 and Polanski is down a lot 7 to -35- his lowest for us.
Patrick Lohlein retweeted
Shooting unarmed civilians is murder. I find it astonishing that a man of this military seniority argues for murdering civilians.
Major-General Julian Thompson, who commanded 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands War, on the small boats crisis:
"We could stop them tomorrow if we really had the guts. I'd shot them, sorry but I would."
"We're wet. I think there's going to be a revolution."
Full interview covering his military career, views on modern Britain, and growing up in Imperial India: youtube.com/watch?v=nZGUfnIy…