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And for non pensioners who don't have spare money to invest in the stock market?

How much do you need to have invested in FTSE 100 companies to offset the increase in prices due to higher costs of imports due by the weak pound?

That does change things a bit. TfW and TransPennine could get you to Doncaster. From there, LNER to London and Thameslink to Brighton should be doable.

You might be lucky. According to here these are the companies affected on the 8th. And going by this, for the single change journeys, the train companies you'd use are Transport for Wales and TransPennine Express - neither of which are affected by strikes that day.

Doesn't matter. He's going to be standing as an MP at the next election. "Candidate financially benefits from family's slave ownership" isn't going to be a net positive for his chances, nor his party's.

It makes much of the small quota left to the UK fishing fleet whilst we were still in the EU but fails to mention anything about UK fishers selling the quotas they'd been allocated to foreign companies and UK governments taking to action to prevent them from doing so. (UK governments could, for example, have specified that the quotas remain property of the UK state and will be reallocated if no longer used by whoever it was allocated to.) The UK fishing industry shot itself in the foot with that, just as they did by becoming a figurehead for a brexit which cut them off from their main market - because in the main, British people don't eat British fish.

If you're feeling nostalgic about Ceefax...

Read the whole of it yourself - particularly this bit: The UK government first proposed mobility deals, the EU's proposal is a response to that. Sorting out the issues around borders/custom checks between RoI, NI and GB demonstrated that the UK tries to have it's cake and eat it and eventually accepts it can't. The same will happen with this.

You are the one who has misinterpreted the situation. It was the UK government who first proposed a youth mobility scheme. They may be unrealistic in their hope that it would allow them to undermine the integrity of the EU single market[1] but it was they who first proposed allowing some freedom of movement. Having demonstrated that they know some form of freedom of movement with the EU is in this country's interest, it will only be a matter of time before they accept that it will have to be with all EU countries. [1] And let's face it, every time they have tried to undermine the EU single market they have failed.

Then why did the Tory UK government propose youth mobility schemes to some EU countries?

I didn't accuse them of regret, I said realism. A hard brexit was always going to be softened over time as the reality of the problems caused by it came to light. I didn't think the Tories would have been the ones to start it or so soon though.

The UK can cherry pick which countries they try to make arrangements with, but if those countries are in the EU and the agreement is for something that is an EU competency, any agreement will be with and cover the EU as a whole not individual countries. Still. The important bit is that the UK government is finally showing signs of realism about the benefits that freedom of movement brings.

The PO staff definitely seem to be preparing the groundwork for an 'I was incompetent' defence ahead of any police investigations.

You obviously didn't read it very carefully: So "little old UK" tried to smarmy their way up to some EU countries by proposing youth mobility deals and the EU have responded by saying it's got to apply to all the EU. It appears brexiters still haven't got their heads around the fact that the EU will not let brexit undermine the single market.

Let's be clear. The Tories started making allegations against Rayner, despite the police having previously investigated her and decided there was nothing for her to answer for, so they could repeatedly throw mud in the hope some would stick and discredit her. It's exactly what they did to Starmer over 'beergate'. The Tories don't care whether any of their allegations are true or not, they just want the opportunity to throw mud and, as with Starmer, getting the police to investigate just gives them more mud to throw. That Labour/their supporters are now using the same tactic against those associated with the Tory Party is entirely the fault of the Tory Party for opening up this can of worms in the first place. As with the Tories, the nature of the allegations don't really matter - it's just an opportunity to throw mud in an attempt to discredit the opposition. Additionally, if allegations against Tories, however tenuous, are made of a potentially criminal nature the police won't have a choice but to investigate because to do so for one political party but not another would demonstrate political bias. All those people who got away with their PPE fraud because the Tories decided it would be too embarrassing for their supporters to be investigated, might find themselves having sleepless nights.