A Political Thread pt. 2

[Bada-Bing!]

Glad Liz Truss seems to have stayed over there. Hopefully Farage will go over and stay, I'm sure he will miss Clacton but I'm sure that's a sacrifice he's willing to make

He never made good his promise of leaving when Brexit turned out to be the disaster it was always going to be.

 

[AlRums]

Andrew Neil Says Senior Trump Aide Is 'A Kremlin Stooge' In Brutal Takedown

The veteran broadcaster said Steve Witkoff "doesn't know what he's talking about" when it comes to Vladimir Putin.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

 

[AlRums]

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Assisted dying law thrown into doubt as rollout likely delayed until at least 2029

Timeline for implementation in England and Wales likely to be pushed back a further two years, meaning it may coincide with general election

www.theguardian.com

 

[AlRums]

'Total sleazebag': Trump blames reporter for getting added to group chat on war plans

https://us.cnn.com/2025/03/25/politics/video/trump-hegseth-goldberg-classified-information-signal-digvid

Absolute bollo.cks alert from strumpet and waltz re security lapse.

Trump blames reporter.

 

[AlRums]

 

[Kiwiwomble]

im the last person to defend trump....but i watched that and i didn;t see him blame the reported, he takes a few unnecessary shots at him, childish jibes, but he never suggests the reported did anything to get into the chat

we do ourselves no favours getting distracted from the massive national security breach by the childish jibberish...thats what they want, they just point to it and say "seel! any excuse to hate on us"

 

[AlRums]

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

https://us.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws/index.html

yeah, bring back the workhouse

 

[Kiwiwomble]

this is what annoys me, he wasn;t even in the text group....the media continuing to swing for the fences just feeds into his plan

 

[McTallshort]

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

https://us.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws/index.html

yeah, bring back the workhouse

Welcome to Trumpistan where everything will regress at least a 100 years.

 

[BrokenWing]

Trumpton surely?

 

[McTallshort]

Trumpton surely?

There is a Trumpton in Nottinghamshire and it's a nice little place with good fishing on the Trent so I'm loathed to associate Trump with that.

 

[McTallshort]

Spring Statement 2025 live: UK inflation rate drops to 2.8% in February ahead of Rachel Reeves statement

The figure - which measures the increase in prices over time - remains above the Bank of England's target of 2%.

www.bbc.co.uk

Looking forward to my building society writing to tell me my new mortgage deal will have a massively reduced interest rate.......

 

[Which Tyler]

There is a Trumpton in Nottinghamshire and it's a nice little place with good fishing on the Trent so I'm loathed to associate Trump with that.

It's alright, you're loathed anyway

You're really not, and I feel terrible for typing that, but the door was just left too far open to resist

 

[ncurd]

Spring Statement 2025 live: UK inflation rate drops to 2.8% in February ahead of Rachel Reeves statement

The figure - which measures the increase in prices over time - remains above the Bank of England's target of 2%.

www.bbc.co.uk

Looking forward to my building society writing to tell me my new mortgage deal will have a massively reduced interest rate.......

Im still praying for it over the next year or two rates are killing my affordability. My original Mortage was 2.09% pre pandemic/pre brexit although the "plan" was to ride out Brexit. That didn't happen and on 4.89% but looking currently about a year later I still can't get cheaper.

(That 2.8% change equated for 37.5% increase on monthly paymennts)

 

[Reiser99]

Could go in the make me laugh thread, but more appropriate here.

 

[AlRums]

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

www.theatlantic.com

It's typical of trump and his cronies, just immediately lie and carry out a character assassination of anyone who points out what a shower of **** they are.

 

[ChicagoKid]

Spring Statement 2025 live: UK inflation rate drops to 2.8% in February ahead of Rachel Reeves statement

The figure - which measures the increase in prices over time - remains above the Bank of England's target of 2%.

www.bbc.co.uk

Looking forward to my building society writing to tell me my new mortgage deal will have a massively reduced interest rate.......

Are there any fixed-rate mortgages available in the UK? I.e., if you are wealthy enough or have a great credit history, is it possible to get an extended fixed-rate mortgage?

By far, the most common mortgage in the US is the 30-year fixed rate followed by the 15-year fixed rate.

Adjustable rate mortgages were very popular until the 2008/2009 downturn.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Are there any fixed-rate mortgages available in the UK?

2, 3 and 5yr fixes are the norm - think you can get 10 as well, though not sure how common they are