The Rise of the Far-Right

[Nobby the Bastard]

Although the market fell in value we didn't have massive numbers of of home owners defaulting as the sub-prime market wasn't as extensive in the UK due to regulation of the banks. Thus there was no place for huge corporations to set up into, plus housing associations were probably buying property at auction which were then rented out on a not-for--profit basis.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I think corporate landlords would be a good idea provided there was legislation to encourage the initial purchase while limiting their expectations. Buy-to-let would be seen as a long-term, slow-return but safe investment rather than the urgent recovery a private landlord needs, allowing reduced rents.

[Polarbear]

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[Polarbear]

Complete change of subject but Germany is in the sh1t with it's politics at the moment.

Germany engulfed by political crisis as Scholz coalition falls apart
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9n79w8p7po

Reading the article it doesn't bode well for Ukraine with Trump being in and Germany being hamstrung over improved aid.

I can see Russia turning the screws to force a deal.
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[Easy-X]

Much is said about Trump drop kicking Ukraine into defeat but I've only ever seen him say "people are dying, that's bad" and a desire to sort it out sooner rather than later. This is why people hate him, he sounds far too reasonable.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[DaddyStu]

Hope we stop wasting money on that too. Deal with problems at home first. Those billions could've built entire new villages or hospitals!
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[Polarbear]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Expect him to be taking bigger chunks out of Moldovia if the war in the Ukraine stops. NATO would do nothing on account Moldovia not being a member of NATO.
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[doggone]

It sounds like China is eyeing up tracts of Siberia he might have other things to worry about.

[Polarbear]

[DaddyStu]

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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Trump has said he’d fix the problem with a deal on day one, and unless that deal meant a full retreat from Ukraine the aggressor will have won something. On the other hand it’s possible that there is a region of Ukraine that actually does want to be part of Russia. I think I read that suggestion somewhere.

[Easy-X]

Politicians say a lot of things. I don't doubt Trump will appoint someone to take a very hard look at the situation in Ukraine but he's promised an awful lot of "Day 1" objectives. That being said, up until the election result he was rumoured to have been paying his soon-to-be Whitehouse staff out of his own pocket so maybe he'll have actually put in the work before his fat ass occupies the big chair in the Oval Office in any official capacity. Not holding my breath though.

Trump just needs the photo-op of him, Zelensky and Putin sat down in the same room to brag he's done more than anyone else to try and resolve the situation.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

It would be like Roosevelt telling Churchill,

“I think you should end this by giving them Kent.”

See also The Munich Agreement. Lessons from history.
Boris did the right thing.

[Nobby the Bastard]

So trump.has started his appeasement of putin already.
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Just wait till January. The Democrats will announce: "Yes, we did cheat in the 2020 election!" Therefore Trump won the election. Therefore he can't do a third term
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[Ste]

"An ally of President-elect Donald Trump says the incoming administration will focus on achieving peace in Ukraine rather than enabling the country to gain back territory occupied by Russia.

Bryan Lanza, a strategist who worked on Trump's recent presidential campaign, told the BBC the incoming administration would ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his version of a "realistic vision for peace".

"And if President Zelensky comes to the table and says, well we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows to us that he's not serious," he said. "Crimea is gone."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxrwr078v7o

[Ste]

"Donald Trump is considering offering the UK a special deal that would exempt British exports from billions of pounds of new tariffs.

The US president has pledged to impose huge levies on all foreign imports after he takes office next year, under an “America First” trade policy that has caused panic in European capitals.

But sources close to Mr Trump said the UK could be exempt from the tariffs, under the terms of a deal that Britain hopes to negotiate in the coming months.

The president-elect’s proposed tariffs include a levy of between ten and 20 per cent on all foreign imports, and a 60 per cent duty on goods and services from China."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/11/08/donald-trump-considering-british-exports-exempt-tariffs/

[Easy-X]

Oh? So when the President Elect comes out as a blatant Anglophile it's fine but Ilhan Omar even halfway suggests Sharia Law for the USA everyone loses there motherfucking mind?!

What a racist place the USA's become
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