General Election - December 12th, 2019

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

Any sign of Jennifer Arcuri?

No .... she is however being linked with Thomas Borwick who worked for Cambridge Analytica and Vote Leave . He's harvested the data of every registered voter in the UK but is adamant that he did 'nothing with it ' .

 

[Bluemanc100]

I'm breathing a sigh of relief this morning... I said if Alyn and Deeside went Tory I'd show my arse in Woolworth's window... 215 seats between the two parties but @Labour clung on

 

[W12]

Funny thing is if we all (& I mean the UK) had a vote they'd probably get their wish but could they survive without all our money?

Another just Scottish vote will change nothing as they'll not take the plunge, a bit like 'hold me back' at a football match.

The most recent (2017) regional GDP estimates calculated by Eurostat, the EU civil service statistics authority, suggest the following:[2]

Region GDP (trillion $) GDP (trillion €) GDP (trillion £)[3]
Total UK GDP: 2.5 2.3 1.8
Great Britain: 2.4 2.2 1.7
England (including London): 2.2 2.0 1.6
England (excluding London): 1.6 1.45 1.1
London: 0.6 0.55 0.43
Scotland: 0.2 0.18 0.14
Wales: 0.09 0.08 0.06
Northern Ireland: 0.06 0.05 0.04

This would make the economy of England taken alone (£1.6tn / €2.0tn) approximately the world's 8th largest economy (just behind France, and ahead of Italy) as opposed to the 6th largest for the UK as a whole (between India (5th), and France, 7th) by the usual criteria. Scotland's economy, for comparison, would be roughly the size of Hungary's (54th).

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Because Torys are experts at getting messages through to people. Labour aren't.

Most of the Labour leadership wanted Brexit but people are convinced they wanted to stop it.

As mentioned earlier the leaflet I got from labour I studied and read but they said I'd get a final say on Brexit.
I did that in 2016 and initially they (labour) said they would honour it, they didn't.
Also their policies were absolute tosh and unworkable.

 

[Bluemanc100]

That is true.

If he had then this morning might look very different....

 

[argyle]

As mentioned earlier the leaflet I got from labour I studied and read but they said I'd get a final say on Brexit.
I did that in 2016 and initially they (labour) said they would honour it, they didn't.
Also their policies were absolute tosh and unworkable.

Yes their manifesto was rubbish.

 

[argyle]

If he had then this morning might look very different....

Possibly although he may have lost voters in South.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

No .... she is however being linked with Thomas Borwick who worked for Cambridge Analytica and Vote Leave . He's harvested the data of every registered voter in the UK but is adamant that he did 'nothing with it ' .

What do you mean "harvested the data"? That in itself isn't illegal.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

The most recent (2017) regional GDP estimates calculated by Eurostat, the EU civil service statistics authority, suggest the following:[2]

Region GDP (trillion $) GDP (trillion €) GDP (trillion £)[3]
Total UK GDP: 2.5 2.3 1.8
Great Britain: 2.4 2.2 1.7
England (including London): 2.2 2.0 1.6
England (excluding London): 1.6 1.45 1.1
London: 0.6 0.55 0.43
Scotland: 0.2 0.18 0.14
Wales: 0.09 0.08 0.06
Northern Ireland: 0.06 0.05 0.04

This would make the economy of England taken alone (£1.6tn / €2.0tn) approximately the world's 8th largest economy (just behind France, and ahead of Italy) as opposed to the 6th largest for the UK as a whole (between India (5th), and France, 7th) by the usual criteria. Scotland's economy, for comparison, would be roughly the size of Hungary's (54th).

You're not adding back in the revenue from Oil & Gas that are currently included in the UKs figures.

 

[M18CTID]

We were told at school (late 80"s early 90's) that they had 25 years left then. Seems they keep finding more behind the sofa

A huge oil field was discovered off Shetland 2 or 3 years ago. Not sure it's 100 years worth though, plus there's the ongoing issue of how expensive it is to get it extracted compared to some of the Middle East countries. It was also the mass production from some of those countries a few years back that led to the arse falling out of the oil industry in Scotland and Norway. I think something like 40,000 jobs went in Aberdeen alone and while there has been a recovery of sorts, it's nowhere near back to where it was and is unlikely to be for the foreseeable future, so while Scotland still has plenty of oil reserves it's simplistic to think they can rely on them to help prop up their economy as much as it did in the past.