Who'd have thought it...

[ShandyDrinker]

Boris prepares to sell out the domestic IT sector for a trade deal:

https://www.ft.com/content/d2b1bd03-...c-4c11acbd0ac5

Not that people didn't know it was coming...

[SimonMac]

Boris prepares to sell out the domestic IT sector for a trade deal:

https://www.ft.com/content/d2b1bd03-...c-4c11acbd0ac5

Not that people didn't know it was coming...

Have you donate to the Tory party lately? If not there is your answer

[OwlHoot]

and India are practically in bed with Russia, or would very much like to be. They desperately need that cheap wheat from Ukraine!

[mattster]

and India are practically in bed with Russia, or would very much like to be. They desperately need that cheap wheat from Ukraine!

Yes, it's disgusting. Despite all the noises they keep making about pressuring India on Russia, they are still going ahead with this deal - whilst India refuses to condemn Russia and has massively increased oil purchases from them. Surely the easiest thing in the world to simply put this whole thing on ice until India comes round - if they really cared at all, of course.

[vetran]

and India are practically in bed with Russia, or would very much like to be. They desperately need that cheap wheat from Ukraine!

So are China and many of the despots out there. Sadly we NEED to get into bed with them. The positive is that trade with them as equals will raise standards in their countries. Its teaching someone to fish rather than throwing aid at their leaders so they can buy new cars. Maybe in a few decades they won't need Russia and will stand with us because its the morally right course.

When we offshored our manufacturing to China etc we should have driven the green agenda so we didn't just displace the production of pollution we are now slowly starting to.

Thankfully we have insisted on our human rights standards. Conditions have improved massively for workers in India, China and across Asia because of it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...rights/620112/

The money is spreading out in China and things are getting better.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/overview#1

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." He went on to make the point that greed is a clean drive that "captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind."

[Gibbon]

and India are practically in bed with Russia, or would very much like to be. They desperately need that cheap wheat from Ukraine!

Perhaps not......

Ukraine war: Can India feed the world? - BBC News

[vetran]

Yes, it's disgusting. Despite all the noises they keep making about pressuring India on Russia, they are still going ahead with this deal - whilst India refuses to condemn Russia and has massively increased oil purchases from them. Surely the easiest thing in the world to simply put this whole thing on ice until India comes round - if they really cared at all, of course.

The Indians are taking the opportunities presented to them. Its easy to be moral when your people aren't starving.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com...w/90464830.cms

Against this macroeconomic backdrop, the war in Ukraine has created an unlikely opportunity for select Indian agri-exporters who trade in wheat, maize, millet and processed food. Since the crisis unfolded last month, the world has been looking to Indian wheat to fill the huge void in stocks caused by the turbulence in Europe’s breadbasket. Ukraine is one of the world’s top wheat exporters, and Russia and Ukraine together have a 25% share in the global wheat market.

[d000hg]

and India are practically in bed with Russia, or would very much like to be. They desperately need that cheap wheat from Ukraine!

You can't really let your people starve. UK is in a similar position with gas & oil and such reliances cannot be severed overnight.

[vetran]

You can't really let your people starve. UK is in a similar position with gas & oil and such reliances cannot be severed overnight.

Now if our government (of any colour) had combined green Energy with Energy security (like the French & America) then we would be much better control.

About 8% of our oil comes from Russia

https://www.nationalworld.com/news/u...il-ban-3602293

[DoctorStrangelove]

When we offshored our manufacturing to China etc we should have driven the green agenda so we didn't just displace the production of pollution we are now slowly starting to.

Nah. All that pollution is keeping the population increase in check.

That & the CV19.

Empathy? WTF is Empathy?