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If John Bolton said it was raining, I would have to look out the window to check.
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The London Living Wage is £10.55 an hour, so £20,300 a year. It is, of course, only voluntary.
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This gives just 12 months to finalise before the election, where Ladbrokes for example see the race between Republicans and Democrats dead even at 10 to 11 each side.According to John Bolton, who met with Boris Johnson yesterday, the UK will definitely get a brilliant trade deal with the UK, on a sector by sector basis.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49325620
Of course it will be quick and straight-forward if the UK simply accepts whatever terms the US offers
What is the prognosis for trade deals with the Democrats?
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So is NZ, according to Jacinda, who spoke to Johnson yesterday.
Looks like a free trade lolly scramble.
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Dave Rogers
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I realise that was a typo, but I suspect that's the only good trade deal the UK's going to get.
Dave
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Me too. Gove lacks the utter incompetence that's the saving grace of the rest.
Dave
Minimum wage is £8.21 an hour.
The lowest pay rate for nursing staff is £9.03.
A qualified nurse would typically be in band 5 where the starting rate is £12.39 an hour.
https://www.nhsemployers.org/pay-pensions-and-reward/agenda-for-change/pay-scales/hourly
IIRC, nurses in the UK are poorly paid in comparison to nurses in the US, and indeed are just poorly paid but they do earn more than minimum wage and almost all earn significantly more.
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No, they get paid upwards of 21k a year as the link showed.
UK minimum wage is about 15k
UK minimum wage is about 15k
quadraginta
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So it would seem. The national average for RNs in the US is around $73,000, which seems to be the equivalent of about £65,000. The average in large urban areas is significantly higher which reflects the higher CoL.
And they're worth every penny of it.
It's also been pointed out that the UK has announced its going to impose zero tariffs on most products, so there's little incentive for agreements- according to the radio this morning, Canada has doesn't wantbto roll over the EU agreement as it would get everything it wants from WTO trade with the UK.
UK industry will be thrilled with that, facing export tariffs which will tend to make UK goods and services less affordable abroad (and that's not even taking into account non-tariff barriers) whilst allowing goods to flow into the UK tariff free.
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The phrase "isn't necessarily the death knell for a business" inspires such confidence in me. How could something that might not be the death knell be bad?
McHrozni
Approximately a trade embargo for the UK until the Irish border is open.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politi...ld-be-wooing-get-trade-deal-it-s-nancy-pelosi
It turns out the Irish-americans are a large enough voting block that cares enough for Ireland for this to be a net vote winner. The trade deal has to go through the House of Representatives, meaning unless the GFA is not weakned by Brexit, there will be no deal with the US.
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Dave Rogers
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Are they a particularly Democratic, rather than Republican, voting block? If they play as significant a role in electing Republicans then the Trump administration may do a sudden about-face to the same position. (Of course, if they form no part of Trump's core support, then they can go to hell in a handbasket for all he cares.)
Dave
Any trade deal has to make it through Congress.
No matter what President Trump and his administration may think about the necessity to get the Irish vote, Senator and members of the house from both parties do need it and so they cannot afford to antagonise the Irish lobby.
They apparently do form a surprisingly large part of Trump's inner core of advisors, but trend Democrat nation-wide.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/how-irish-america-thinks-votes-and-acts-1.3104336
Irish Americans figure prominently among President Donald Trump’s advisers, as they do among Republican leaders and (now former) Fox News hosts.
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Political perspectives trended broadly towards Democrat/liberal. In the 2016 presidential election, 92 per cent of respondents voted: 47 per cent voted for Clinton, 27 per cent for Trump, and 20 per cent refused to indicate their vote. More generally, 41 per cent signified as Democrat while 23 per cent selected Republican. The preferred news sources were more liberal than conservative; for example, of those who got their news from television, 45 per cent used NBC while 36 per cent used Fox.
So ... yes to both maybe? Two negatives cancel out, right?
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This doesn't seem to get brought up much, but as far as I can see the US will not be ratifying trade deals with anyone until the president , and the majority of the house and senate are from the same party. It doesn't look too likely that this will happen in the 2020 election, so 2023 would be the next possibility.
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Well, then, since there's no possibility that Trump would promise anything he couldn't deliver, or if he did, that Johnson would be taken in by it, no doubt that'll make sure HMG doesn't go for the no-deal option, because it would be economic suicide.
Yeah. Right.
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