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Reply | Reform Wales
at 09:25 27 Feb 2025
As I'm sure the rest of the political parties are , what's your point? |
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Reply | Reform Wales
at 09:23 27 Feb 2025
How by voting Plaid FFS, you tool I'm still laughing by the way. |
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Reply | Wind power is important
at 09:18 27 Feb 2025
There's a common theme here , farming and the dismantling of it , we'll be seeing the return of famines if the have their way ,a way to separate those and the have nots . If a so called civilised country such as ours can blatantly remove financial help from its elderly ,make it financially unattractive to save, promote food banks as if its an acceptable way of life for many ,then we do have a problem . |
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Reply | Are We Climate Misled?
at 09:12 27 Feb 2025
Agree , climate change is the new ice age ( in case you missed it , it never happened ). The Globalists way of screwing us for more but we all smile whilst doing our bit. Just think every time you dispose thought fully dispose of of your plastic water bottle, in fact any plastic item, only 9% is recycled the rest goes into landfill . Don't get me wrong I'm a champion for recycling religiously but not stupid enough to think that even after all our efforts combined its making a mark on mankind's footprint. |
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Reply | Epstein client list
at 09:03 27 Feb 2025
Only if you're interested in the first place. |
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Reply | Wrexham
at 09:00 27 Feb 2025
Great if they played somewhere other than the race course which doesn't hold any where near that amount . I know the owners have dreams of that capacity but not yet pet. |
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Reply | Wrexham
at 22:23 26 Feb 2025
Why would it benefit Wales? |
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Reply | Wrexham
at 22:18 26 Feb 2025
Why would it benefit Wales? |
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Reply | Liar Johnson
at 15:48 26 Feb 2025
Why are people like that so fixated on the ridiculous , with their narrow point of view of the world life must be really frustrating for them . |
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Reply | Increase in defence spending
at 10:39 26 Feb 2025
What is it with these left wing loonies , scrap Trident was Corbyn's mantra . The problem in Scotland is that now Labour are doing so poorly support for the SNP is growing and with it more calls for independence will again be heard .
How can India or Pakistan be described as developing nations , the only thing their developing is the ability to shoot huge fireworks into space , at our expense. |
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Reply | Trump haters of the forum
at 10:10 26 Feb 2025
If we think immigration levels are currently too high then if the bearded one had got in god help us. |
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Reply | Liar Johnson
at 10:03 26 Feb 2025
your last sentence , as do yours . Looks like CJ has a friend . |
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Reply | Liar Johnson
at 10:01 26 Feb 2025
Are you really that dull, I know Boris was the pits but Lavrov ,really . |
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Reply | Increase in defence spending
at 09:17 26 Feb 2025
But then we have this
"Sir Keir Starmer has said he will raise defence spending to 2.5pc of GDP by reducing overseas aid by 0.2pc of GDP, claiming this equates to an extra £13bn - House of Commons
Sir Keir Starmer has said he will raise defence spending to 2.5pc of GDP by reducing overseas aid by 0.2pc of GDP, claiming this equates to an extra £13bn - House of Commons
Sir Keir Starmer’s claim that he will spend an extra £13.4bn a year defending Britain is “misleading”, economists have warned.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said raising the defence budget from 2.3pc to 2.5pc of GDP involved a comparable increase of less than half this amount.
The Prime Minister announced on Tuesday that he would meet a commitment to spend 2.5pc on defence by 2027, maintaining this level for the rest of the parliament.
He said the increase will be funded by a cut to the overseas aid budget, which will be reduced from 0.5pc of GDP to 0.3pc.
Sir Keir told the Commons: “That means spending £13.4bn more on defence every year from 2027.”
However, Ben Zaranko, of the IFS, branded the Prime Minister’s claim misleading. This is because the £13.4bn increase effectively assumes defence spending will be frozen in cash terms over the next two years.
Paul Johnson, the think tank’s director, accused Sir Keir of “playing silly games with numbers”.
Under the Nato definition that assumes a defence budget of £66.3bn this year, this would imply spending slipping to less than 2.2pc of GDP in 2026 to 2027 if frozen in cash terms. Donald Trump, the US president, has called for Nato countries to spend 5pc of GDP on defence.
Mr Zaranko compared the inflated figure with Rishi Sunak’s claim last year that he was pumping an “additional £75bn” into defence spending. This also assumed that spending would be frozen in cash terms over six years, an improbable assumption that risked leaving the UK shy of its 2pc Nato target as a share of the economy.
He said: “The Prime Minister followed in the steps of the last government by announcing a misleadingly large figure for the ‘extra’ defence spending this announcement entails. An extra 0.2pc of GDP is around £6bn, and this is the size of the cut to the aid budget. Yet he trumpeted a £13bn increase in defence spending.
“This figure only seems to make sense if one thinks the defence budget would otherwise have been frozen in cash terms. This is of course dwarfed by the significance of today’s announcement but is frustrating none the less.”
The Prime Minister also committed to raising defence spending to 3pc of GDP in the next parliament, hailing it as “the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War”.
Sir Keir suggested that more spending would be pulled into the Nato defence budget in order to reach the new 3pc goal, which could require tens of billions of tax rises or spending cuts in the next parliament.
He said the definition of defence spending will be “updated” to “recognise the incredible contribution of our intelligence and security services to the defence of the nation, which means, taken together, we will be spending 2.6pc on defence by 2027”.
George Osborne, the former chancellor, deployed a similar accounting shift in the 2010s. He moved pensions spending, UN peacekeeping and some intelligence spending into the Nato definition. Had he not, the UK would have been just shy of the 2pc target for most of the 2010s. |
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Reply | Increase in defence spending
at 09:08 26 Feb 2025
We've had over 30 years of a decline in the amount successive governments has spent on defence and overall we have a history of little investment in our defence capabilities going back to just after the 1st world war and yet again when threatened we find ourselves playing catchup .Hopefully its not a case of too little too late. |
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Reply | Reform Wales
at 21:02 25 Feb 2025
Winning the popular vote so you're wrong again . |
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