[Crabcakes]

It’s a private company entitled to refuse custom to whoever they want. Or is letting the market decide on things suddenly bad now?

[Youngian]

Who had trust in the banking and financial system? A mug taken in by a huckster like Farage, that’s who.

[kreuzberger]

No word yet from Jeremy Cunt?

I'll presume that he has told Tiny Trews to fuck off with his nonsense until proven otherwise.

[Spoonman]

Okay, if I was a reporter going out to a high street in a random town or city in Britain to try and get some vox pops on what people think is the most important issue facing the country right now, I'd make a reasonable guess that it would involve inflation, rising interest rates/utility bills, the state of the NHS and maybe other public services, the ongoing impact of Brexit, immigration, or to be generous even issues concerning trans people, all rightly or wrongly.

I can quite safely say that if one person says that the big issue is of a Putin-friendly spiv being the fastest melting snowflake so far in 2023 being declined service from an exclusive bank, then you've cast-iron found a swivel-eyed loon.

The fact that the PM along with other government ministers & other high-level Tory party shitehawks appear to feel that this private business matter is one to firmly stick their neck out on pretty much sums up he fucking state of the UK right now.

I sincerely hope that all of this are the last attempted stings of a dying wasp, with Starmer eventually entering No. 10 and the very first things he orders to be carried out is a total fumigation of Westminster Palace. If the Tories somehow manage to hang on to power after the next GE, the country is well and truly fucked.

[Youngian]

No word yet from Jeremy Cunt?

I'll presume that he has told Tiny Trews to fuck off with his nonsense until proven otherwise.

He’s busy delivering economic crazy shit to Express readers
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[Samanfur]

It’s a private company entitled to refuse custom to whoever they want. Or is letting the market decide on things suddenly bad now?

It's only okay when you're refusing service to TEH GAYZ, as Farage himself has previously attested.

[Andy McDandy]

He'd likely say that cake is a luxury, while banking is a necessity. Sure, it's in the same league as things like a TV and internet access, very useful if you want to partake fully in modern life, but by no means essential.

And if he needs one that badly, there are plenty of banks and building societies out there.

[Boiler]

And if he needs one that badly, there are plenty of banks and building societies out there.

NatWest offered him a regular account but no doubt NatWest has insufficient cachet for him.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Old Rishi was striking a very blue collar pose the other day. Woke universities making false promises with bad courses, and all that.

So how is vocational education going?

[Boiler]

Somebody made a point about "low value degrees" elsewhere: what "value" did Cameron's, Truss's and Sunak's PPE degrees bring to the table?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Wow.

Not just the rolling back on immigration controls, but the "no Eastern Europeans, please" subtext. Wouldn't it have to be a pan-EU deal?

[Youngian]

In particular ministers are understood to be looking at France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland (not in EU)

Braverman is demented enough to believe they’ll be queueing up to serve coffee in England.

[Tubby Isaacs]

In my metropolitan elite days, I used to spend a lot time in Pret, whose staff used to wear a badge with their home country flags. I don't recall too many Germans and Swiss.

[Bones McCoy]

In particular ministers are understood to be looking at France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland (not in EU)

Braverman is demented enough to believe they’ll be queueing up to serve coffee in England.

German car makers were dying to help us (according to some).

Will they be quitting their jobs at VW and AUDI to come here and flip burgers?

[Andy McDandy]

And there was me under the impression that all the coffee shops and sandwich bars were closing because us lazy milennials were refusing to go and do an honest day's work.

[kreuzberger]

The coffee shops - add to that, the butcher, the baker, the busdriver, and the care worker - can't be had or hired for love nor money in this country. That's why the immigration laws are under urgent review at the moment. In CH, you're looking at a salary approaching 40k on the Lidl checkout and a tax "burden" of around 28%.

Someone, please point out that Risible Sunak and his gauleiters might just have a ready and willing workforce moored in prison hulks. Hey, the wrong colour but needs must etc, etc.

[Boiler]

Someone, please point out that Risible Sunak and his gauleiters might just have a ready and willing workforce moored in prison hulks. Hey, the wrong colour but needs must etc, etc.

Didn't Andrew Pierce suggest that this week? - that migrants to the UK could earn their keep by "digging the fields"?

It's been done before - the "Displaced Workers" of the 1940s.

[kreuzberger]

He was edging towards Zwangsarbeit, not acknowledging the hopes and ambitions of those who have migrated.

There's a difference.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Clever old Gove, finding a way out of the housing problem that doesn't involve building where his base lives!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... s-30530205

The Housing Secretary will tomorrow set out plans to make it easier for property developers to convert office blocks and shops into homes without applying for planning permission.

I thought Eric Pickles had proposed something like this years ago. What happened to that? Does saving a bit of paperwork applying for change of use really make that much difference?

Luckily, the only housing shortages are in inner cities.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Article on this sort of thing happening in Harlow.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... he-jenrick

Sure, most conversions will be better than that, and have people in them who want to live in them. But it seems like it's worth having some planning process that stops this sort of horror.