US Presidential Election, Nov 5th 2024

[moomba]

You are paying above the standard wage and have vacancies. Then controlled immigration would work for your company.
Sometimes it just location or seasonal problems. Not enough local workers to fill the jobs.
You apply to have foreign workers to fill those gaps. It's win win then.

I'm just not having British youth are "all" lazy fuckers. It a common misconception spread by people with "interests".
Having said that the Tik Tok generation has a lot to answer for!

We have vacancies all year round.

Foreign workers here legally don't need to be controlled.

Not sure what you're on about with British youth and "interests". Don't think I've said anything about British youth.

 

[moomba]

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A big worry for Ukraine unless the rest of Europe steps up.

 

[ballbag]

Not sure we're in a situation where we can laugh at others.

It's hard not to laugh at Trump, to be honest.

 

[The blue phantom]

A big worry for Ukraine unless the rest of Europe steps up.

Not just Ukraine, What about the poor bastards in Palestine that are left.

 

[halfcenturyup]

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I think it's time to stop showing a graphic of GDP growth as if it's some sort of counter-argument to the experience of real people who feel they have been treated badly financially for the last few years, if not decades. It hasn't worked in practice apparently and it certainly isn't going to work on here now.

 

[halfcenturyup]

I know. It was a play on Trump campaigning that tariffs would be paid by then originating country and not ultimately the American public buying the product.

It's just a talk-tough tactic. He knows it isn't true.

 

[The blue phantom]

I think it's time to stop showing a graphic of GDP growth as if it's some sort of counter-argument to the experience of real people who feel they have been treated badly financially for the last few years, if not decades. It hasn't worked in practice apparently and it certainly isn't going to work on here now.

This is so true. One of the Left Wing youtube presenters was in Michigan going in the Grocery stores with a family who explained, "Just look at these prices"

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I think it's time to stop showing a graphic of GDP growth as if it's some sort of counter-argument to the experience of real people who feel they have been treated badly financially for the last few years, if not decades. It hasn't worked in practice apparently and it certainly isn't going to work on here now.

Exactly the point I was making above about elections always being about the economy - or more accurately, the perception of the economy.

If you’re an everyday working Joe, someone showing you a graph pointing upwards isn’t going to make you feel better off if the price of bread and fuel has doubled in the last couple of years while wages have stagnated. You are going to feel tangibly poorer, and give the incumbent government a kicking at the next election.

It’s how these things have always worked since the dawn of democracy and there’s nothing special about this election.

I’ll say it again as I’ve been saying for years, campaigning on the culture war stuff is just noise for the press. People vote with their wallets. Always. Every focus group and poll said people felt better off under Trump. That’s all that matters, rightly or wrongly.

 

[moomba]

It's just a talk-tough tactic. He knows it isn't true.

I'm not sure. Maybe he does, maybe he doesnt.

But he must have said it at least a dozen times, so whether he believed it or not it's pretty shit.

I think too much of what Trump said has been excused as "tough talk" or "Trump being Trump".

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

The polls were completely wrong again. It’s looking like and absolute landslide for trump