#1819

Amazing what you can achieve when you can expose Tory collusion with terrorist forces at the drop of a hat

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#1820

My colleague just said that Corbyn “played a blinder the other week” and I couldn’t stop myself from chuckling, which confused him.

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#1821

DUP in half an hour: ‘let’s just say the new deal moved us…to bigger houses!’

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#1822

Ah so we’re back to everything hanging on what the 10 worst people in the UK fancy doing. I missed this feeling.

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#1823

It’s going to be a wild, wild couple of days for FX traders and exporters - pound is at a five-month high right now, but if the DUP dig in, or this gets voted down, the fall is going to be mind-blowing

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#1824

Well as long as the FX traders are happy.

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#1825

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Pound against the dollar before DUP opened their maw. The only reason these sort of things happen is because traders like certainty if they believe a deal will happen it will rise because they see it as a certain outcome. Plus saying a 5 month high is not a 3 year high still shows currency as being in a pisspoor state.

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#1826

Looks like the DUP are going to be Boris’s fall guys, then?

#1827

Yeah, but market sentiment and so on is not a great indicator of future outcomes. It’s a reading of the tea leaves.

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#1828

Deserves a gif imo

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#1829

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#1830

There might be some link between this whole Brexit thing and capital markets

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#1831

*Capital Markets

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#1832

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#1833

As some funny bugger on twitter just said;

DUP is the new VAR.

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#1834

If only… :frowning:

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#1835

this all feels vaguely familiar somehow…

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#1836

The definition is an International Labour Organisation standard and is this:

“People not in employment who have not been seeking work within the last 4 weeks and/or are unable to start work within the next 2 weeks.”

It is determined in the UK using the Labour Force Survey, a random household survey (the biggest in the country), where people are asked those specific questions (as well as many others).

I haven’t looked into this OECD report thing, but I’m a bit bemused by the article, which on the face of it seems to be saying that first they removed the economically inactive people (eg pensioners) and then calculated a new economic activity rate, which on that basis is clear nonsense.

Any claim that the unemployment rate is largely undercalculated due to economic activity rates falls over somewhat when you look at the employment rates and the economic activity rates.

I’ll take a closer look though.

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#1837

Can’t help but consider it a personal failing that I’ve ended up in a situation where Stephen Kinnock can actually impact my life.

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#1838
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