st albans fox Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 1 hour ago, leicsmac said: It will be interesting to see what kind of agreement the UK and US have come to regarding those tariffs. 26 minutes ago, foxy boxing said: They will probably negotiate that we have to accept American chlorinated chicken or the like, honestly our politicians are absolutely cr£p at negotiations. Always operating from a position of weakness instead of a position of strength. 9 minutes ago, leicsmac said: I hope you're wrong, but I guess we'll find out in due course. Word is that it will be pretty meh hopefully a sig reduction in cars and steel tariffs the rest probs lots of smoke and mirrors the politics will be more significant wonder if we’re beginning to see a period where the us administration puts humpty back together having smashed him into many pieces in the first few months. The point being that humpty put together is a better humpty for them than before and they’ll demand lots of sycophancy for being the arsonist and then turning up with a fire hose ……
leicsmac Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 1 minute ago, st albans fox said: Word is that it will be pretty meh hopefully a sig reduction in cars and steel tariffs the rest probs lots of smoke and mirrors the politics will be more significant wonder if we’re beginning to see a period where the us administration puts humpty back together having smashed him into many pieces in the first few months. The point being that humpty put together is a better humpty for them than before and they’ll demand lots of sycophancy for being the arsonist and then turning up with a fire hose …… Pretty much. And it's rather depressing how many people will fall for that.
Lionator Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 The more I think about it, Ukraine attacking a ‘defeat of the Nazi’s’ victory parade when they’ve had allegations of big neo Nazi movements in Ukraine, would be a terrible decision for Zelenskyy and co to make. As funny as it would be. Also looks like they’re generally adhering the Putin’s pathetic ceasefire too.
davieG Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 2 hours ago, leicsmac said: It will be interesting to see what kind of agreement the UK and US have come to regarding those tariffs. US will come out better off as with our additional 10% tariff Trump moved the starting point before discussions even started.
danny. Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 8 hours ago, urban.spaceman said: Technically speaking Grimes is right. Never thought I’d actually say that. People voted for Darren Grimes?! 1
urban.spaceman Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 13 minutes ago, danny. said: People voted for Darren Grimes?! A whopping 1,364 votes! He got 49% of the vote. 1
kenny Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 28 minutes ago, Lionator said: The more I think about it, Ukraine attacking a ‘defeat of the Nazi’s’ victory parade when they’ve had allegations of big neo Nazi movements in Ukraine, would be a terrible decision for Zelenskyy and co to make. As funny as it would be. Also looks like they’re generally adhering the Putin’s pathetic ceasefire too. They have used the opportunity to launch hundreds of long range drones into Russia. I think they have taken advantage of most of the anti-air defence being moved to Moscow to go for war infrastructure around the country. Russia claimed to have shot down over 500 drones in a single night the other day. I don't think there is a ceasefire on either side at the moment. Plus the last thing Ukraine needs is a foreign PM being killed in a drone strike. 1
st albans fox Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 Wonder what the late night demand made by trump last night was on the ‘deal ‘. as expected, it’s not much of a big deal - 100k cars can be exported at 10% tarrif (I/o 25%) and steel/aluminium will be tariff free (assume this will apply to certain qualities of steel that the us needs and doesn’t make). most of the deal will no doubt just address the nonsense consequences of what had been decided a few weeks ago by trump. An example of this is RR jet engines now being tariff free into the USA in order to be fitted to Boeing jets exported out of the USA.
izzymuzzet Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 18 minutes ago, st albans fox said: Wonder what the late night demand made by trump last night was on the ‘deal ‘. as expected, it’s not much of a big deal - 100k cars can be exported at 10% tarrif (I/o 25%) and steel/aluminium will be tariff free (assume this will apply to certain qualities of steel that the us needs and doesn’t make). most of the deal will no doubt just address the nonsense consequences of what had been decided a few weeks ago by trump. An example of this is RR jet engines now being tariff free into the USA in order to be fitted to Boeing jets exported out of the USA. These aren't huge numbers at a national level but will make a big difference for particular places reliant on big autmotive employers. I was at an event a couple of weeks ago where representatives from Jaguar Land Rover were talking about the huge impact of tarriffs on the Ellesmere Port site and potential for job losses. As you say Rolls Royce will benefit which given their importance to the local economy in Derby is very important for that (admittedly poxy and home to an awful football club) town.
Guest Bilo Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 6 hours ago, danny. said: People voted for Darren Grimes?! 6 hours ago, urban.spaceman said: A whopping 1,364 votes! He got 49% of the vote. Any excuse to remind folk of when Darren 'Cllr Craftywank' Grimes was part of one of the funniest Twitter interactions ever.
Raj Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 White smoke!!! All celebrating a new manager like hes prime Mourinho and then they pull out Ruud!! Sorry wrong thread!!!
Spudulike Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 3 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said: 🚨🚨🚨POPE ALERT🚨🚨🚨 The Foreign Secretary won't be happy if it's white smoke.
Guest Bilo Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 1 minute ago, urban.spaceman said: No need for AI mate There's always a need for AI.
leicsmac Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 11 minutes ago, Spudulike said: The Foreign Secretary won't be happy if it's white smoke. They just needed to get Trump and his cadre onside with the new appointment
urban.spaceman Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 8 minutes ago, Bilo said: There's always a need for AI.
urban.spaceman Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 9 minutes ago, Bilo said: I think we should stop now before we get the whole general chat deleted.
Lionator Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 Seems like the picked the conservative American/Peruvian cardinal. That’s properly pissing on Pope Francis’s grave.
Manc_Fox Posted 8 May 2025 Posted 8 May 2025 I like it how they hung the rug out to dry as soon as new Popey had done his speech. Nothing like getting back to normal and sorting the washing out.
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