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John C. Nankervis Professor of Financial Econometrics at the University of Essex.

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The turfery has rotted her brain, methinks.

09.10.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thatโ€™s David Lammy who has a masters degree from Harvard and was called to the bar. Jenrick has neither of these distinctions. Jenrick confuses general knowledge with intelligence. He also answered โ€œLeicesterโ€ not โ€œRed Leicesterโ€. Given most Stilton is made in Leicestershire itโ€™s a decent guess!

07.10.2025 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Exactly! An utterly shambolic leadership campaign as I recall.

13.09.2025 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

People seem to forget how useless Burnham was when he was in Blair/Brown government. And heโ€™ll dance to any tune the he thinks will advance his career - the staunch Blairite is now a darling of the left ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

13.09.2025 12:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Heโ€™s not exactly know for his brilliant judgement is he โ€ฆ

10.09.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Emily is spot-on!

09.09.2025 13:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No idea. Probably as he was about the only pro-Brexit economist they could find. Meanwhile a large group of us paid for an open letter warning about the dangers of Brexit to be published in a variety of newspapers. I rarely saw an anti-Brexit economist on the BBC. The BBC let the UK down badly.

09.09.2025 13:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Patrick is a very nice man who Iโ€™ve met many times in my academic career. Heโ€™s very personable and easy to get along with. His political and economic views are very, very different to my own. Most academic economists I know like him, despite disagreeing completely with his views on economic policy.

09.09.2025 11:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good old Malthus at work again!

08.09.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Though you have to be really stupid to think vaccines arenโ€™t a very good thing. Seriously retarded.

08.09.2025 19:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It isnโ€™t rubbish though is it, and itโ€™s precisely the reason why heโ€™s racing headlong towards oblivion at the next election.

08.09.2025 19:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Politician lies. Shock, horror.

01.09.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why anyone cares about the views of this plastic halfwit, I have no idea.

29.08.2025 10:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hope he doesnโ€™t get wood splinters in his mouth.

22.08.2025 08:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hell awaits him

22.08.2025 08:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Aww thatโ€™s lovely!

23.07.2025 19:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love Ozzy

22.07.2025 22:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s hard being a conviction socialist โ€ฆ

22.07.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well they are hopeless arenโ€™t they. Just Tories by another name.

17.07.2025 17:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Harper is stupefying thick

16.07.2025 13:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sheโ€™s deranged.

12.07.2025 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Absolutely. My jaw was on the floor as I watched that. If anything it was even more biased than GBeebies!

10.07.2025 20:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The best bit was their ludicrous poll at the end which they thought was representative of the views of the entire UK population rather than just of those watching a trashy tabloid TV news show โ€ฆ

10.07.2025 17:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well โ€ฆ she didnโ€™t say all constituents. In her affluent constituency I would imagine multiple people would be affected.

09.07.2025 12:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He was a leading figure in the anti-apartheid movement so heโ€™s got good form for having sound judgement. The government would do well to listen to people like Peter.

04.07.2025 17:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Peter Hain spot on as usual

04.07.2025 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The logical response to an applicant being assigned to review other applications to the same funding call as them is to recommend rejection of all the proposals they are asked to review.

04.07.2025 10:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, I think the UK should indeed agree to those things!

03.07.2025 16:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As opposed to what he is - an over-privileged public school boy who grew up to be a racist.

03.07.2025 11:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Which shows that rather than trying to out-Reform Reform, they should go exactly the opposite way and make a meaningful move back towards EU membership, such as re-joining the single market and customs union. This is the only way to seriously improve the state of the U.K. economy.

03.07.2025 11:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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