US Election November 5th

[John Brown]

The thing is he's not wrong...the Nation cannot afford to keep allowing immigration to flourish as it has been doing or are you suggesting it can? Even the European Union is taking steps to address what Farage has been saying for years.
Where is the infrastructure to cater for for the number of migrants coming here? There isn't a fully functioning infrastructure to deal with those living here let alone incomers.
That's the problem with left wing economics it doesn't embrace reality.

For starters Reeves could have saved the country a fair bit yesterday just by cutting immigrant accommodation down to one or two star hotels...why 3 or 4 star? If they're fleeing persecution as they claim then they would be grateful for even a tent let alone 3 or 4 star accommodation. I'd rather that money saved went into the pockets of the poorest already living here.

As for the poster...the only people who would associate that poster with Nazi's propaganda are your typical left wingers who don't appear to live in the real world.
Whether or you agree or disagree the numbers tell us one thing, the UK's population can't keep growing at the rate it is without everyone becoming poorer and if that's what you want fine but don't expect others to agree with your destructive thinking.

To quote Friedrich Hayek economist and winner of the Nobel Prize..."If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists"...and looking at the nonsense posted on here never a truer word was spoken.

"If all the economists in the world were laid end-to-end, they still wouldn't reach a consensus".

 

[Blackswanwood]

Put simply - the timescale for the withdrawal that was agreed by Trump was fundamentally unachievable.

If anyone is interested there is a summary of the dates and how the decisions were arrived at here that I found when the point first came up..

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/US-Withdrawal-from-Afghanistan.pdf

 

[Jake]

You repeatedly refer to the peace agreement between the US and the Taliban as a surrender agreement, as I believe have others on this thread... To suggest the US and their allies simply surrendered is not accurate and possibly misleading.

Sorry that's not my phrase, it's the description given to it by General McMaster, his (Trump's) former head of national security.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/20/trump-peace-deal-taliban/

 

[NickDReed]

Sorry that's not my phrase, it's the description given to it by General McMaster, his (Trump's) former head of national security.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/20/trump-peace-deal-taliban/

Given their history the use of the language makes sense, I would still stand by my point that it is a misleading way to represent the agreement.

 

[TRITON]

"If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists"..

It's near meaningless. It's something said by people who don't like socialism. Usually means they don't understand it.
But in reality it is impossible to evaluate without putting it into proper context, i.e. in what settings it's applied and what kind of socialism they're talking about. As a blanket statement, it's just nonsense.

Many socialists, most notably Marx, spoke of economics with knowledge and authority. Marx made reference to the boom and bust cycles we have today for example.