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The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)

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There. Resident WHO political commentators and gurus can knock yourselves out in here and conduct your endless bickering. All other threads will be locked.
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XKhammer wrote: 30 Jul 2025, 15:04
Lee Trundle" wrote: 30 Jul 2025, 14:50
Massive Attack" wrote: 30 Jul 2025, 14:38 A seperate US Politics Thread maybe?
A goose and Nutsin thread is probably better.

To be fair, they should be praised.  They've single handily destroyed all talk of politics (which is a huge bonus) on this site for everyone else.  I've twice posted about UK politics on here recently, and it's been completely gobbled up with the shit they throw at each other.
Or maybe no one is interested in what you post tubby 
What do you mean Trundle is the worlds most interesting poster.

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Lee Trundle" wrote: 30 Jul 2025, 14:50
Massive Attack" wrote: 30 Jul 2025, 14:38 A seperate US Politics Thread maybe?
A goose and Nutsin thread is probably better.

To be fair, they should be praised.  They've single handily destroyed all talk of politics (which is a huge bonus) on this site for everyone else.  I've twice posted about UK politics on here recently, and it's been completely gobbled up with the shit they throw at each other.
Or maybe no one is interested in what you post tubby 
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Lee Trundle" wrote: 30 Jul 2025, 14:50
Massive Attack" wrote: 30 Jul 2025, 14:38 A seperate US Politics Thread maybe?
A goose and Nutsin thread is probably better.

To be fair, they should be praised.  They've single handily destroyed all talk of politics (which is a huge bonus) on this site for everyone else.  I've twice posted about UK politics on here recently, and it's been completely gobbled up with the shit they throw at each other.
Fuck that, it would just be a thread of weird videos he finds on Twitter and me having to constantly correct him (which even I’m getting tired of).

So, UK immigration from non EU countries……….. which countries are they coming from?
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Massive Attack" wrote: 30 Jul 2025, 14:38 A seperate US Politics Thread maybe?
A goose and Nutsin thread is probably better.

To be fair, they should be praised.  They've single handily destroyed all talk of politics (which is a huge bonus) on this site for everyone else.  I've twice posted about UK politics on here recently, and it's been completely gobbled up with the shit they throw at each other.
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Strip out trade inventory & government spending and you have “Real Final Sales to Private Domestic Purchasers”. This is underlying demand growth.

Q2 was 1.2%, a step back of 0.7% from Q1.

Like I said, don’t just read the headlines. 
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A seperate US Politics Thread maybe?
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goose wrote: 30 Jul 2025, 14:32 Haven’t seen inflation go up?? That’s a lie.
But, but,but!

I swear it’s not good news! I mean when you really try hard you can find a negative in there somewhere.


Lol!

Poor Goose! 
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Haven’t seen inflation go up?? That’s a lie.
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Rick Santelli sums it up perfectly.

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Nutsin wrote: 30 Jul 2025, 14:13 Hey Goose how about these apples?

You really are a sucker for a headline.
When Q1 retracted it was all about inventory pull forward, now that unwinds it’s suddenly an economic miracle??

as I quoted from Reuters, “grossly distorted” by trade movements.
H1 is a mile behind LY and a mile behind all the expectations back at the start of the year.
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Hey Goose how about these apples?

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US economy rebounds in second quarter - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-eco ... 025-07-30/

WASHINGTON - U.S. economic growth rebounded more than expected in the second quarter, but that grossly overstated the economy's health as subsiding imports accounted for the bulk of the improvement and consumer spending increased moderately.


1.3% over H1 vs 2.8% in 2024.
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Nutsin wrote: 30 Jul 2025, 13:52 Don’t look now Goose but Breaking News!



again you're incapable of reading past the headline.
strip out the movement of imports and come back to me.
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Don’t look now Goose but Breaking News!



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The population of England and Wales has grown by more than 700,000 in the year to June 2024 - the second-largest increase in over 75 years.

The change was largely fuelled by international migration, with natural change - the difference between births and deaths - accounting for only a small proportion.
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Nutsin wrote: 29 Jul 2025, 21:52 This has to be fake news surely?

 
 
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Trump gets tariffs; Americans get price hikes - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump- ... 025-07-29/

P&G to raise prices on a quarter of all products.

”Between July 16 and 25, companies in the Reuters global tariff tracker said they expected to lose a combined $7.1 billion to $8.3 billion for the full year.”
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US economic growth likely rebounded in Q2, but with weak underlying details -

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-eco ... 025-07-30/
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Still obsessed with me I see.
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Goose having a heart to heart with the missus.


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This has to be fake news surely?

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It's the unnecessarily dramatic movie orchestra played over the top of a bit of pitch and putt for me. I was half expecting Godzilla to rise out of the bunker. 😆
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