please log in to view this image Lionheart @LoyalDefender2K Here’s the man who’s likely to be the next leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition & indeed the decimated Labour Party. He’s got about as much chance of becoming PM & wining an election, as he has writing ‘important’ words on ‘important’ documents using a pen with the lid on. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Portugal airports to introduce separate passport lanes for Britons after Brexit Comments By Alice Cuddy with Reuters • last updated: 18/01/2019 please log in to view this image Copyright REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/Illustration Share this article please log in to view this image Copy/paste the article video embed link below: please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Text size Aa Aa Portugal has announced plans to open separate customs lanes for British tourists at its airports after the UK leaves the European Union, as it seeks to prevent a post-Brexit slump in its tourism industry. Prime Minister Antonio Costa said the new lanes would be opened at Faro airport in the Algarve and Funchal airport on the island of Madeira — both popular destinations for British holidaymakers. The lanes for UK nationals will be similar to those provided to tourists from the EU, he said. British holidaymakers are important to Portugal as they are the biggest group of tourists to the country. However, numbers have dipped recently as the pound has fallen against the euro amid concerns over Brexit. Portuguese Economy Minister Pedro Siza Vieira also sought to ease Britons’ worries this week, saying they wouldn’t need a visa even in the event of a no-deal Brexit. He also said British citizens living in Portugal would retain all their rights after the UK leaves the EU, including access to healthcare. “We are ready to do this unilaterally,” he told Reuters, adding that he hoped the UK would do the same for Portuguese people. Portugal and Britain are the world’s oldest allies, having forged relations through a 1386 treaty.
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Don't be silly Kiwi. Everyone can see that he's striking a pose as Labour's 'thinking man' or 'thinking woman's crumpet.' It's what they do in Islington. Perhaps they were pondering what position to adopt to the electorate on Brexit. In the landscape photo Corbyn and little Miss Corbyn are doing the same. KS has just moved a bit quicker because he has already opened the document and is reading.
We're going to 'rip each other apart': France warns of tough Brexit negotiations AFP/The Local @thelocalfrance 16 February 2020 13:40 CET+01:00 brexiteuropean union Share this article please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Photo: ALAIN JOCARD / AFP France on Sunday warned Britain to expect a bitter, bloody battle in Brexit trade talks with the EU, saying the two sides would "rip each other apart". Negotiations for a deal on future EU-UK relations are not due to start until next month, but London and Brussels have already clashed over rules for British financial firms' access to the EU after Brexit. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said it would be tough to achieve Britain's aim of agreeing a free trade deal by the end of the year, with the two sides far apart on a range of issues. "I think that on trade issues and the mechanism for future relations, which we are going to start on, we are going to rip each other apart," Le Drian said at the Munich Security Conference. "But that is part of negotiations, everyone will defend their own interests." The Local's view: Most Brits in Europe didn't ask for Brexit, but now we have to make it work Britain formally left the EU two weeks ago but still trades like a member under a transition period ticking down to the end of this year. The remaining 27 EU states are currently drawing up their mandate for the talks on the future relationship, with France in particular pushing for a strong stance, notably on the vexed question of fishing. France and several other countries want to be able to keep fishing in British waters, while London wants full autonomy and limited access for European fishermen. "Let's hope the talks are done as quickly as possible, but there are a lot of issues and some difficult points to deal with," said Le Drian, who is from the important French fishing region of Brittany. The bloc's chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said the EU's top priorities are fishing, security and maintaining fair trading conditions for European companies. In a sign of the likely bruising exchanges ahead, Barnier this week told London not to kid itself about EU access for its prized financial services sector. Barnier firmly rejected a British suggestion that City of London companies could be given broad, permanent access to EU markets without conditions. Before the January 31 exit from the EU, Britain said it wanted an ambitious and comprehensive accord with the European bloc. But since then, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government has dialled back, signalling it is willing to accept trade friction in return for sovereignty.
poverty may not have risen but it still sounds ****ing awful Poverty hasn’t skyrocketed in the UK 14th Feb 2020 Claim Poverty has skyrocketed. Conclusion This is incorrect. A report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said that overall poverty rates have remained at about 22% over the last 15 years. However, some groups have seen increased rates of poverty, including children and pensioners. Claim 1 of 3 “Britain's shame as poverty skyrockets with children and pensioners worst hit” The Mirror, 7 February 2020 “About 14m struggling to make ends meet—a record high, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation” “The proportion of people with a job who live in poverty went up for the third consecutive year in 2018 to a record high” The Guardian, 7 February 2020 Several newspapers have reported on findings from a new report about poverty from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The Mirror said that there has been a substantial increase in poverty in the UK, and the Guardian and the Telegraph claimed poverty was at a record high. The Guardian also said that poverty rates for people in-work has risen for the last three years. None of these claims are correct. In fact the Joseph Rowntree Foundation concluded that “there has been little change in overall poverty levels for more than 15 years” (see page 5). In its report, poverty is defined as households with incomes below 60% of the median income for that financial year, after housing costs. The median is the income which would be in the middle if you lined everyone in the country’s incomes up from highest to lowest. This 60% threshold amounted to around £262 per week in 2017/18. This is just one of many ways to measure poverty. Based on this definition, it is estimated that 14 million people in the UK lived in poverty in 2017/18: approximately 22% of the population. Whilst this number is one of the highest in the last 20 years, it is the same as 2015/2016 and lower than 2016/17. The poverty rate, which accounts for the rising number of people in the UK, has stayed between 21% and 22% since 2002/03. However, the groups of people that make up those in poverty has changed. Poverty rates for pensioners have risen recently (see page 19 of the report). And working-age parents and children saw increasing poverty rates between 2012/13 and 2016/17 before slight falls in the most recent data. In contrast, working-age people without children have seen decreasing poverty rates. Overall, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report that 13% of people in work lived in poverty in 2017/18, which was a slight fall from the year before (see page 31 of the report). We spoke to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, who agreed that this figure had not risen for the last three years, but also stated that “what is a record high is the proportion of families in poverty with a job”. Of all people living in poverty, 56% are in a working family compared to 39% of those in poverty 20 years ago. We aim for our fact checks to be as accurate and up-to-date as possible. If you think we've made an error or missed some relevant information, please email [email protected].
exotic double life 'OFF THE WALL' Nicola Sturgeon laughs off salacious rumours about ‘exotic double life’ amid wild gossip at Holyrood and Westminster By Chris Musson 16th February 2020, 9:06 pm Updated: 17th February 2020, 8:18 am 14 Comments NICOLA Sturgeon yesterday rubbished claims she’s living an “exotic double life” amid a torrent of gossip about her in high circles. Salacious rumours about the First Minister’s private life have swept Holyrood and Westminster in recent months. Alan MacGregor Ewing - The Sun Glasgow Nicola Sturgeon has rubbished wild rumours about her ‘exotic double life’ But Ms Sturgeon laughed off the claims in an interview with The Sunday Times, where she told how she’d heard them all. The First Minister added: “This sort of exotic double life that I’m supposedly leading is a damn sight more interesting than the actual life I’m leading. “It does not have a scintilla of truth or basis in reality. It is just so completely off the wall.” Jackson Carlaw brands SNP ‘morally bankrupt’ and says government is ‘on its last legs’ after leadership win Gossip about Ms Sturgeon has been circulating for several years in political circles and on social media. But the claims – which her top aides have been aware of – have intensified in recent months. The rumours relate to Ms Sturgeon’s private life, but details cannot be disclosed for legal reasons. In the interview, the First Minister also spoke out against sexism and misogyny, and said when she was a rising SNP star she encountered sleazy men. She said she had an “uncomfortable” lunch in her early 20s with a senior journalist who leered at her chest. Ms Sturgeon said the #MeToo movement had helped her to realise she had tolerated male behaviour that by today’s standards was unacceptable. She said: “It has made a lot of people, me included, reassess things that at the time you just put up with. You know, guys kind of touching you in slightly uncomfortable ways, and the leering.” Ms Sturgeon added sexism and misogyny was “not completely gone … it just manifests itself in different ways”.
please log in to view this image Allison Pearson @allisonpearson A Cambridge councillor points out that if lads from the Arbury estate blocked roads or dug up lawn they’d be banged in the slammer. Middle-class dons’ children arrested? Heaven forbid!#ExtinctionRebellion#Cambridge
Extinction Rebellion showing what they are, a bunch of anarchists that have hijacked a vital world issue. These police leaders are showing themselves up as woke, social worker wannabe's whose job it is to protect extreme minorities against what they see as the vile majority of the popuation