Here come the excuses

[ReganAndCarter]

Mick and Elton will be ok.

It's a gas for Mick.

 

[Mrs Ten Names]

Not sure about potless, maybe witless politicians. They've taken the heating allowance from pensioners, but somehow can afford to give £11.6 billion to African despots and dictators in overseas climate aid. Is it so they can convert their Mercedes limousines and private planes to battery power?

The only affect all this will have on lessening carbon emmissions is by pensioners alone in their bedsits unable to afford to put the heating on, so using less of those nasty fossil fuels.

Or is it just Lammy sending home a bit of money?

POLITICO Pro: Labour pledges billions in climate aid

Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy said a Labour government will honor a promise to deliver £11.6 billion by 2026 to countries hit by climate change.

subscriber.politicopro.com

It's been given to reduce climate change pollution.
But you don't believe it. You're welcome to your opinion even if it is based on your rampant racism.

 

[Mrs Ten Names]

colossal amounts of taxpayers money into the foreign aid/third world bottomless pit?

But insufficient to compensate them for the wealth of resources taken from them.

 

[Mottie]

I can’t see Labour achieving much on that, although I believe they are going to tackle it with the best intentions

TIt needs international cooperation….and no country want to talk about the refugee crisis, because every govt has right wing populists in the background weaponising it for political self interest. People like the lying Farage

As well as anonymous left wing populists on internet forums weaponising it for trolling purposes. People like the lying Notch7.

 

[Mrs Ten Names]

As well as anonymous left wing populists on internet forums weaponising it for trolling purposes. People like the lying Notch7.

I'm not sure there are any left wing populists, see below.

How or why would a 'left wing' person weaponise arguments about immigration?
It's illogical.
If they're presenting arguments, that's topical and absolutely acceptable.
There is no logical 'left wing populist' argument about immigration.

On the other hand RWR will blame the immigrants for their own failings.


Are there any left wing populists?

But "most successful populists today are on the right, particularly the radical right," Prof Mudde said.

Politicians "like Marine Le Pen in France, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, and Donald Trump in the US, combine populism with [anti-immigrant] nativism and authoritarianism," he added.

What is populism, and what does the term actually mean?

We're told that populism is on the rise - but what exactly does that mean?

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Vinty]

It seems the opposite is true

The French wanted the Euro believing it would protect them against the power of a reunified Germany


“In French eyes, Germany divided was reassuringly weak; Germany united would be frighteningly strong. Faced with this, the French President, François Mitterrand, came to believe that a single European currency was the only way for other European countries to regain the sovereignty they had already lost to Germany – and in particular to the German central bank, which maintained a super-strong Deutschemark”

The euro was designed to assuage fears of German power

In the second of a three-part series, The Independent’s founding editor finds that Germany’s economic relationship with its neighbours came to define the European Union

www.independent.co.uk

So German exporters didn't benefit from using the Euro rather than the Deutschemark.

Whoever wrote this must be wrong then.

Once plagued by the strength of the Deutsche mark, Germany benefited from the euro's lower exchange rate, which made its goods more competitive abroad. That was particularly true within the eurozone itself, which accounts for about 40 percent of Germany's exports.22 Apr 2020

 

[Mrs Ten Names]

So German exporters didn't benefit from using the Euro rather than the Deutschemark.

Whoever wrote this must be wrong then.

Once plagued by the strength of the Deutsche mark, Germany benefited from the euro's lower exchange rate, which made its goods more competitive abroad. That was particularly true within the eurozone itself, which accounts for about 40 percent of Germany's exports.22 Apr 2020

Who wrote it?

 

[Vinty]

Who wrote it?

Not me.
Probably someone who knows what they are talking about.
Although in economic theory, a strong currency can affect a nations exports.

 

[ajohn]

It's strange that Evil Germany crops up in conversations about the EU. I wonder why?

 

[Mrs Ten Names]

Not me.
Probably someone who knows what they are talking about.
Although in economic theory, a strong currency can affect a nations exports.

So you find a sentence, not knowing who said it, not when nor where, and you accept it as true?
I just wrote this. It's just as acceptable as the sentence you found.

Once secure by the strength of the Deutsche mark, Germany was at a disadvantage from the euro's lower exchange rate, which made its goods less competitive abroad. That was particularly true within the eurozone itself, which accounts for about 40 percent of Germany's exports.22 Apr 2020