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EU’re Not The Boss Of Me

Bill Kruse — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 09:05:02 +0000

The EU does a Greece on Germany, illustrating neatly that, whoever the real enemy at the heart of the EU is, it isn’t the Germans. Austerity, or rather the German version, has left much of Germany, unable to create and supply its own currency as it relies instead on the Euro, in many ways now …

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Ending the UK

Bill Kruse — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:23:33 +0000

Following on from what I was saying about migrants and the effects of the exchange rate, it seems only sensible to me that the North of England be declared its own country and granted its own government and currency. It’s a common view, one with which I agree, that the South of England is regarded …

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Why Immigrants Can Find Work Here And Enjoy It When Britons Can’t And Don’t.

Bill Kruse — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:17:15 +0000

How is it that immigrants can come here from abroad and walk into jobs? Because certain jobs aren’t even advertised in the UK, the employers only advertise them abroad. Why are immigrants happy to do jobs Britons turn their noses up at? Because of the exchange rate. Immigrants can come here to work for a …

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Close-Ended Questions

Bill Kruse — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 07:46:05 +0000

What’s a close-ended question? Here’s an example; A politician might ask, in response to criticism of, say, allegedly ‘green’ policies, policies which were dressed up as caring for the planet but in reality were about setting up a system of sophisticated financial instruments called carbon futures (creating a new casino for the banksters to play in), …

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Physiotherapists banned from touching patients

Bill Kruse — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:42:08 +0000

The story is here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9195501/Physiotherapists-banned-from-touching-patients.html. Physios in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, physiotherapists of all people, can no longer actually touch the patients they’re trying to apply physical therapy to. You’d think the clue is in the name, and you’d be right too, but helping the patient’s no longer the guiding principle in healthcare. Instead, making money is. This …

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The Great Apprenticeships Con.

Bill Kruse — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:33:43 +0000

I was just reading about the government’s newly-created apprenticeships over at the Sunday Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-2044130/Apprentice-jobs-racket-openings-fall-short-firms-collect-millions.html. I understand the pay for these jobs is £2.50ph as being apprenticeships they fall outside low wage regulation. So then, on the one hand the government raises the minimum wage but on the other it reclassifies jobs to make them …

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Disability Bashing and My Arse

Bill Kruse — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:53:58 +0000

A new study clearly indicates the government are talking complete nonsense about the economy http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/12/who’d-have-thought-it-‘real’-welfare-is-working/ This just underlines what I keep saying, the government has no idea whatsoever what to do about the lack of money in the system as it’s all down to the banks and the government doesn’t want to come out and …

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Osborne Bails Out Osborne

Bill Kruse — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:13:23 +0000

Chancellor George Osborne (who will eventually become an Irish Baronet, we should remember) today announced a bailout loan for the (basically insolvent) Irish banking system of around £7bn, this to come from the British taxpayer. He defends this as in our national interest because we export more to them than we do to several of …

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Not Waving But Drowning – Clueless Bernanke

Bill Kruse — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:23:55 +0000

It’s suggested in many quarters that Germany’s finance minister has called Bernanke ‘clueless’ after hearing about Bernanke’s planned implementation of QE2. There is a further and I believe more accurate suggestion that suggests this is a poor translation of what was actually said, and Bernanke was more correctly described as being ‘at a loss’. This works for me. I’ve …

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Economic Dynamism and My Arse

Bill Kruse — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:35:11 +0000

What happened was the multi-millionaire David Cameron walked into a room full of frustrated businessmen, talked a lot of old flannel and walked out again. He’s still a multi-millionaire and they’re still frustrated businessmen. What he didn’t say was the one thing they needed to hear, “Here’s the money”. All that happened was the status quo …

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