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There will always be an England, but maybe not a UK.

Howler.

The UK economy will shrink and perform worse than other advanced economies as the cost of living continues to hit households, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.

The IMF said the economy will contract by 0.6% in 2023, rather than grow slightly as previously predicted.

It said its new forecast reflected the UK's high energy prices and financial conditions, such as high inflation.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the UK outperformed many forecasts last year.

In its World Economic Outlook update, the IMF, which works to stabilise economic growth, said the UK's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would shrink rather than grow by 0.3% this year.

It predicted the UK would be the only country - across the world's advanced and emerging economies - to suffer a year of declining GDP.
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In 2015 Mhairi Black was the youngest person ever elected to Parliament at just 20 years old. Today she announced that she will not stand in the next election. Aside from the typical abuse an MP receives, she and her family have been sent multiple death threats and two members of Parliament have been killed in recent years. The toll it was taking on her (she called Westminster "toxic" and "poisonous") and her family was horrible.

She will be a tremendous loss. If you haven't had the pleasure of hearing her speeches in Westminster you really should. Just today a member of the Tories paid tribute to her (in a Tory sort of way) and she responded that they had both arrived in Parliament at the same time and will be leaving at the same time as well. (He is standing for election, but will likely get trounced).
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
40% increase in last decade.

the drinking culture is disgusting. I moved there knowing it was a thing and was blown away by how much worse it actually was

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/c...t=1&utm_term=1
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Next to a British stag party, even the most grizzled, old Eastern Euro or Rust Belt town drunk looks like he has his sh*t together.

Let's just say that my one experience getting caught up in and tagging along with a group in Berlin involved my first and last ever experience with authentic absthine. I woke up hours later, pantsless, on the floor of my hotel room, contacts still in, with no recollection of how I made it back.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Next to a British stag party, even the most grizzled, old Eastern Euro or Rust Belt town drunk looks like he has his sh*t together.

Let's just say that my one experience getting caught up in and tagging along with a group in Berlin involved my first and last ever experience with authentic absthine. I woke up hours later, pantsless, on the floor of my hotel room, contacts still in, with no recollection of how I made it back.
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Interesting. When I lived in Berlin there were tales about “real absence” but it def seemed like bs the more we dug around

pantless? Yikes
 
20-point swing from Tories to Labour in two by-elections.

Maybe people are finally waking up after forty years asleep, or enough Olds have died?

The results from Tamworth and Mid-Bedfordshire represent one of the worst by-election nights that any government has had to endure.

In Tamworth, the 23.9% swing from Conservative to Labour was the second highest in post-war by-election history. No government has previously lost so safe a seat - the Conservatives had a 42% majority in 2019 - to the principal opposition party in a by-election contest.

In Mid-Bedfordshire it was a little lower, 20.5%. However, the Conservatives' own share of the vote fell by even more than in Tamworth. Indeed, the 28.7 point drop in Mid-Bedfordshire was the sixth biggest fall in Tory support in the post-war period.
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David Cameron is back!!!! Very happy Suella Braverman was finally fired. Even by modern standards she was a disgrace.
 
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