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Liam Fox says no deal Brexit now likeliest outcome and blames EU
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox is now saying that Britain exiting the EU with his government having failed to have negotiated a deal about how everything will work with the EU is the likeliest outcome. The Leave campaigning Conservative minister who this time last year insisted that Britain is negotiating “one of the easiest” deals “in human history,” put the chances of a No Deal Brexit at "60-40". And Fox blamed a No Deal outcome on the EU and chief...
The story of how the Conservatives crippled the country
From austerity, to Brexit, to economic collapse. That is the story of how the Conservatives have crippled the country over consecutive parliamentary terms and now the details have been exposed in full in a damning new study. According to a comprehensive research paper by University of Warwick economics professor Thiemo Fetzer Tory austerity and welfare cuts directly caused Brexit. The study concluded that if austerity had not happened, the Leave vote in 2016 would have been 9.51 percentage points lower and “could have swung...
Outrage from devastated High Street as Amazon pays less tax in UK despite profits tripling
There has been an outcry after news emerged that the tax delivery giant Amazon pays in the UK has fallen despite profits almost tripling. Amazon’s turnover was nearly £2 billion in the UK and its profits leapt. Yet the internet delivery giant’s taxes fell, partly due to being able to pay some of the staff in shares. Amazon UK’s taxes fell to just £1.7 million last year, down from £7.4 million in 2016. Billionaire Jeff Bezos's company says it pays...
Breathing low levels of toxic air pollution causes changes similar to early stages of heart failure
Being exposed to levels of soot and harmful fumes at levels well within UK legal limits damages the heart
Prolonged drought caused collapse of Maya civilisation about one thousand years ago
Between half and three quarters the usual rainfall and a drop in humidity in the ninth century coincided with the downfall of one of the ancient world's great civilisations
Britain’s sewer fatbergs could power your home with green energy
Scientist develop way to break down oils so they can be converted into methane
Ancient Welshmen helped build Stonehenge, a new study found
Neolithic people from Preseli Mountains of west Wales transported huge stones and help build monument in Wessex
Amazon public service contract “a joke”
If Amazon really wanted to help our public services, they'd pay taxes properly and treat their workforce better says GMB Union GMB, Britain’s general union, has branded Amazon’s £600million public sector deal ‘a joke’ The internet giant has secured a contract to sell everything from paper clips to bandages to Yorkshire’s schools, social care providers and emergency services. Amazon signed the five-year deal with Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (YPO), a procurement body owned by local authorities which helps to drive the...
BoE’s interest rate hike is ‘premature & unnecessary’ & could be ‘motivated to protect reputations’
The Bank of England’s interest rate hike has been slammed as “premature” by the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations, who added the rate decision could be “motivated to protect reputations.” Nigel Green, founder and chief executive of deVere Group, is speaking out after the governor of the UK’s central bank, Mark Carney, announced today (Thursday) a rate rise from 0.5 per cent to 0.75 per cent, taking the UK's base rate of interest to...