The Financial Times’ relentless shredding of its reputation continues.
No doubt it’s an interesting story but the lead in an internationally-respected financial publication ?
Brexit Derangement Syndrome has convulsed it.
jusayinlike
derangement is in the eye of the beholder.
Increasing Displacement
+1
Ollie Cromwell
Did you ever find evidence about the Ford and Mini factories in the UK which you claimed we’re on 3-day weeks ?
Or was it just Fake News ?
jusayinlike
Ford/Mini plants, all staff on protective notice, all contract negotiations are suspended. Both plants to close without a deal. Nissan and Toyota to follow.
40,000 job losses.
JLR plant, 3 day week.
Crap English designers and a weak effort at selling cars in US and China, coupled with uncertainty over you know what means they’re on the brink of closure with a loss of 4000 jobs.
Dry your deranged eyes m8.
Ollie Cromwell
So the Ford and Mini plants are not on a 3-day week as you alleged ?
Just admit you got it wrong and save yourself the embarrassment at trying to wriggle out of being caught out.
Copy and paste ” I apologise for my lame attempt at Fake News and admit I made up the 3-day week story.”
jusayinlike
The car plants are screwed and your semantics won’t change anything.
3 day week Bwitain.
Ollie Cromwell
Not enough guts to admit you made it up
Poor show.
Makes every other post of yours to be of doubtful credence.
You got caught out I’m afraid.
jusayinlike
Semantics.
When the 40,000 jobs are disintegrated, will you still whinge over the 3 day week?
I’m fairly sure all those workers would gladly take the 3 day week instead of closure and food rations.
Dry your eyes m8
Otis Blue
I hear ya, Ollie.
Your distress about the decline of the once estimable FT is understandable, given that it was founded by an obvious hero of yours.
Churchill’s Irishman? The Minister for Information? Uncanny!
Ireland, if we haven’t already, should offer asylum to Asia Bibi and her family and insist that Pakistan allow them to travel freely. It would be fitting, given our vote to remove blasphemy from the constitution. Especially as it was used as a weapon to persecute her for something she didn’t do or say.
Where were Leo’s grand HSE plan when he was health minister?
dav
it’s called let the poor get sick and die, they don’t get up early enough for him..
Ollie Cromwell
Delighted those Ryanair flight crew clowns who stunted up the sleeping on the floor image have been sacked.
Taking advantage of transport chaos caused by bad weather to paint the company that pays your wages in a bad light is despicable.
They’ll probably get a job at British Airways – the worst European airline for comfort,reliability and customer service.
realPolithicks
pollie you appear to be a person who takes great delight in the misfortune of others.
MaryLou's ArmaLite
They faked an image to manipulate public perception in a row with their employer. They got what they deserved.
Rep
Indeed, rather then sleeping on the floor, they are uncomfortable chairs to sleep on.
topsy
Deserved to be sacked.
Vanessa off the Telly
TBF
No matter what airline was the employer
They would have been let go
giggidygoo
Brian Hayes suddenly realizes that he hasn’t a hope of being re-elected to anything, and opts to become gamekeeper turned poacher. A lobbyist for the banks.
MaryLou's ArmaLite
He’s been in office since 1995, but yeah he’s running away.
dav
“in Office” jesus blushirts do have some notions
giggidygoo
No one said he’s running away. He’s staying, but on the other side of the fence (supposedly), and will hope to train in lobbying skills in order to get the Bankers better deals from the state. The ex ‘not very successful’ Junior Finance fellow.
But he knows that his game is up as a politician.
Ollie Cromwell
He must be on some whack to give up his unaccountable seat in the EU gravy train.
Vanessa off the Telly
@MaryLou’s Arm
All the more reason that his last count was to his shame
He was well short of the quota
And only beat Eamon Ryan by the hairs if his chinny chin chin
The Shin Lynn hammered him
Even Nessa Childers out polled him
He was a beaten docket then
So it would have been a painful election for him if he put himself in front of us again
Having said that
Fair play t’him for getting that Bankers Gig
SOQ
Pity the Democrats couldn’t have taken both houses but still, it is progress. They don’t appear to have a leader these days which they badly need in order to counter Trump’s persona. A high turnout on both sides proves how divided the US is these days of course.
Facebook appear to be much more proactive too, with the help of the FBI it appears.
Earlier on Monday, numerous federal agencies, including the FBI, wrote a joint statement alerting Americans to the fact that “foreign actors—and Russia in particular—continue to try to influence public sentiment and voter perceptions through actions intended to sow discord.”
The thing iss the Senate seats that Drumpf campaigned for – won. That means they are his creatures now.
Vanessa off the Telly
This
However Same’oh is right
There is no leader within the Democratic Party
And until one presents
They will continue to struggle Nationally and in the larger Senate and Governor electoral districts
Nigel
Holding onto the Senate was the lowest possible bar for Republicans so obviously Trump will declare it a resounding victory. Democrats are now going to have to govern like grown-ups so lots of Trump tantrums forthcoming but so what? Man’s a walking tantrum. Expect two years of him keeping his base in a frenzy. So more of the same, really.
dav
not only did they hold but increased their majority.
Cranky Pants
The Dims have just had a classic Pyrrhic victory. They may have taken the House, but at what cost? How much money did they spend only to have to do it all again in two years?
Senators, on the other hand, sit for six years. The Republicans increased their Senate majority all the while shaking out old (compromised) republican incumbents. The Senate controls the SCOTUS nomination process. (Trump probably has at least two more picks.)
How much money did Beta – the pretend Latino – spend in Texas only to fail to unseat Ted Cruz?
Buckle up Buttercups, the ride to 2020 will be awesome.
topsy
Democrats “Superstar” O’ Rourke spent $19 million but couldn’t beat so Cruz. (lol) He then proceeded to drop profanities in his speech. Class act is Beta.
Nigel
O’Rourke made a close run in a state that hasn’t had a serious Dem chance in thirty years. I’d be scared of him, and of more people like him threatening once-solid Red states, if I were them, too.
topsy
Sorry he spent circa 70 ml. Suck it up baby.
Nigel
Yes, it seems his fund-raising game was spectacular, and correct me if I’m wrong but apparently he didn’t rely on those superPAC things or corporate donors, either? Inspiring, I’m sure.
topsy
Nigel. Three other of your shining stars also got trounced , Abrams, Kobach & Gillum.
So much for the neo liberal bullpoo.
Vanessa off the Telly
One thing about Cruz
he’s a savage campaigner
no matter what and no matter how much 70 bar? Seriously?
he was always going to be hard bate
Ye don’t have’ta like him
I don’t
Ha
But you have to hand it to him
He’s one of the best campaigners in American Politics
Nigel
Cruz was coasting complacently in a safe Red seat and almost got within a whisker of being ousted by a first-timer that came out of nowhere and whose supporters washed lots of dems into state legislatures. Talk about a pyrrhic victory. Why do you think we’ve got this spin about him losing and spending that money? A dem losing in Texas shouldn’t be news, and a dem raising that much money to challenge a safe seat must be terrifying for reps.
Ollie Cromwell
O’Rourke played down the fact that his wife is a billionaire heiress and that his father-in-law,a real estate tycoon worth €20billion,has a somewhat contentious history with non-white residents.
Not that any of this frightful business is ever mentioned by the fawning liberal US media.
Nigel
Aw, bless, reduced to crowing about narrow victories in once-safe seats and whining about the librul meeja and that decisively losing the House is a Big Win For The Donald.
Nigel
And Cruz played down the fact that he is a lizard in a human skin-suit, so i suppose he has that going for him.
Ollie Cromwell
For a man who reckons Trump had a terrible night you sound awfully rattled old chum.
Nigel
That’s the sound of the me that lives in your head as it rattles around in all that empty space.
Ollie Cromwell
Jaysus,you follow me around like a sick puppy and when I occasionally toss you a biscuit you claim you’re being stalked.
Cheer up old sport.There’s plenty more Brexit and Trump coming to unnerve you.
Hehx3.
Nigel
Dry ur eyes m8.
Ollie Cromwell
With the Republicans on course to add key Senate seats and now having a 78-year-old crone widely disliked by her own party as his main adversary Trump has every reason to be cheerful this morning.
He increases his hold in the Senate, loses by a moderate amount in the House. Anti-Trump Republicans were picked off. Pro-Trump candidates largely succeeded. And he’s already in full campaigning mode for re-election in 2020 and the Dems still have no stand-out presidential candidate emerging.
So what can the majority House Dems now do ? Demand Trump’s tax returns ? Mueller has had them for months.
Impeachment ? Needs a two-thirds Senate majority.
Oppose Trump’s economic reforms and successes ? Plays right into his hands.
It’s SHOWTIME for the Donald.
MaryLou's ArmaLite
What happened to the Blue Wave? more dribble than tsunami
I’d imagine all the usual know it alls on here are quite disappointed Trump did so well in the mid terms…
dav
the lad had campaign adds so racist even fox news pulled them and ron is pleased drumpf did well
Nigel
To pwn the libs
millie st murderlark
He did well?
Lol
Ron
Yes he did very well.
millie st murderlark
He did modestly
Nigel
He does nothing modestly.
millie st murderlark
True that
topsy
As the times says ‘Trump likely to be vindicated by mid term results’ the man is a LEGEND.
ReproButina
Trump has said he wants to undo the work of Reagan and Gorbachev and build up the US’s nuclear arsenal again. The man’s a lunatic.
Donker
Topsy, you reek of ‘first year at a trading desk’, have you finished Liars Poker yet? Was it everything the lads said it would be?
topsy
Hi Donker, it’s dreadful when things do go as you would like. All the liberal media crap dose’nt change the fact that the people of America did not turn their backs on Trump.
Shining Demo stars O’ Rourke, Abrams, Kobach & Gillum all got smacked down by the PEOPLE. By the way I won’t be responding to any further comments as I’m off to play a round of golf. The greens will be nice and receptive after last night’s rain.
Nigel
Plus you got all this practice on putting a spin on things.
Vanessa off the Telly
So Lucinda then
I did wonder who’d run in place of Brian
Meh
Anyway, funny news day for the Poppy crowd there
int’it Ol
Ollie Cromwell
I don’t catch your drift luv.
Spell it out.
Ollie Cromwell
Well there’s a surprise
The Irish Times runs the angle on Irish voters reactions in America and didn’t print any who voted Republican even though one Democrat admitted large numbers of Irish Americans do.
Truly The Guardian of Ireland with equally horrendous plunges in print circulation.
Brother Barnabas
if the Irish Times was “the Guardian of Ireland”, it would be faring a lot better than it is – it’s a great pity it isn’t an irish guardian
you’re not wrong about irish americans, though – among the most deplorable of the deplorables. it’s always been the case, though. another pity.
The Old Boy
The quality of commentary in the Irish Times compares favourably to that in the Guardian, even if it is mediocre-to-fair versus mediocre-to-lamentable.
Ollie Cromwell
I feel your shame bro.
Brother Barnabas
no shame
irish americans mean zilch to me (in truth, find them all terribly phucking annoying)
The Financial Times’ relentless shredding of its reputation continues.
No doubt it’s an interesting story but the lead in an internationally-respected financial publication ?
Brexit Derangement Syndrome has convulsed it.
derangement is in the eye of the beholder.
+1
Did you ever find evidence about the Ford and Mini factories in the UK which you claimed we’re on 3-day weeks ?
Or was it just Fake News ?
Ford/Mini plants, all staff on protective notice, all contract negotiations are suspended. Both plants to close without a deal. Nissan and Toyota to follow.
40,000 job losses.
JLR plant, 3 day week.
Crap English designers and a weak effort at selling cars in US and China, coupled with uncertainty over you know what means they’re on the brink of closure with a loss of 4000 jobs.
Dry your deranged eyes m8.
So the Ford and Mini plants are not on a 3-day week as you alleged ?
Just admit you got it wrong and save yourself the embarrassment at trying to wriggle out of being caught out.
Copy and paste ” I apologise for my lame attempt at Fake News and admit I made up the 3-day week story.”
The car plants are screwed and your semantics won’t change anything.
3 day week Bwitain.
Not enough guts to admit you made it up
Poor show.
Makes every other post of yours to be of doubtful credence.
You got caught out I’m afraid.
Semantics.
When the 40,000 jobs are disintegrated, will you still whinge over the 3 day week?
I’m fairly sure all those workers would gladly take the 3 day week instead of closure and food rations.
Dry your eyes m8
I hear ya, Ollie.
Your distress about the decline of the once estimable FT is understandable, given that it was founded by an obvious hero of yours.
Churchill’s Irishman? The Minister for Information? Uncanny!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Bracken
Sinead O’Connor…. :( poor sod, has disappeared down some rabbit hole…
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sinead-oconnor-doesnt-want-mix-13543568.amp?fbclid=IwAR3UuK1L8ztz3nC5sqGiPfWh0YxJgfsQT77xj1QCM2fqicEJnFFHpP_ObSw
“Working on new music” – ah, I see.
Ireland, if we haven’t already, should offer asylum to Asia Bibi and her family and insist that Pakistan allow them to travel freely. It would be fitting, given our vote to remove blasphemy from the constitution. Especially as it was used as a weapon to persecute her for something she didn’t do or say.
+1
Where were Leo’s grand HSE plan when he was health minister?
it’s called let the poor get sick and die, they don’t get up early enough for him..
Delighted those Ryanair flight crew clowns who stunted up the sleeping on the floor image have been sacked.
Taking advantage of transport chaos caused by bad weather to paint the company that pays your wages in a bad light is despicable.
They’ll probably get a job at British Airways – the worst European airline for comfort,reliability and customer service.
pollie you appear to be a person who takes great delight in the misfortune of others.
They faked an image to manipulate public perception in a row with their employer. They got what they deserved.
Indeed, rather then sleeping on the floor, they are uncomfortable chairs to sleep on.
Deserved to be sacked.
TBF
No matter what airline was the employer
They would have been let go
Brian Hayes suddenly realizes that he hasn’t a hope of being re-elected to anything, and opts to become gamekeeper turned poacher. A lobbyist for the banks.
He’s been in office since 1995, but yeah he’s running away.
“in Office” jesus blushirts do have some notions
No one said he’s running away. He’s staying, but on the other side of the fence (supposedly), and will hope to train in lobbying skills in order to get the Bankers better deals from the state. The ex ‘not very successful’ Junior Finance fellow.
But he knows that his game is up as a politician.
He must be on some whack to give up his unaccountable seat in the EU gravy train.
@MaryLou’s Arm
All the more reason that his last count was to his shame
He was well short of the quota
And only beat Eamon Ryan by the hairs if his chinny chin chin
The Shin Lynn hammered him
Even Nessa Childers out polled him
He was a beaten docket then
So it would have been a painful election for him if he put himself in front of us again
Having said that
Fair play t’him for getting that Bankers Gig
Pity the Democrats couldn’t have taken both houses but still, it is progress. They don’t appear to have a leader these days which they badly need in order to counter Trump’s persona. A high turnout on both sides proves how divided the US is these days of course.
Facebook appear to be much more proactive too, with the help of the FBI it appears.
Earlier on Monday, numerous federal agencies, including the FBI, wrote a joint statement alerting Americans to the fact that “foreign actors—and Russia in particular—continue to try to influence public sentiment and voter perceptions through actions intended to sow discord.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/on-eve-of-elections-facebook-pulls-down-115-inauthentic-accounts/
The thing iss the Senate seats that Drumpf campaigned for – won. That means they are his creatures now.
This
However Same’oh is right
There is no leader within the Democratic Party
And until one presents
They will continue to struggle Nationally and in the larger Senate and Governor electoral districts
Holding onto the Senate was the lowest possible bar for Republicans so obviously Trump will declare it a resounding victory. Democrats are now going to have to govern like grown-ups so lots of Trump tantrums forthcoming but so what? Man’s a walking tantrum. Expect two years of him keeping his base in a frenzy. So more of the same, really.
not only did they hold but increased their majority.
The Dims have just had a classic Pyrrhic victory. They may have taken the House, but at what cost? How much money did they spend only to have to do it all again in two years?
Senators, on the other hand, sit for six years. The Republicans increased their Senate majority all the while shaking out old (compromised) republican incumbents. The Senate controls the SCOTUS nomination process. (Trump probably has at least two more picks.)
How much money did Beta – the pretend Latino – spend in Texas only to fail to unseat Ted Cruz?
Buckle up Buttercups, the ride to 2020 will be awesome.
Democrats “Superstar” O’ Rourke spent $19 million but couldn’t beat so Cruz. (lol) He then proceeded to drop profanities in his speech. Class act is Beta.
O’Rourke made a close run in a state that hasn’t had a serious Dem chance in thirty years. I’d be scared of him, and of more people like him threatening once-solid Red states, if I were them, too.
Sorry he spent circa 70 ml. Suck it up baby.
Yes, it seems his fund-raising game was spectacular, and correct me if I’m wrong but apparently he didn’t rely on those superPAC things or corporate donors, either? Inspiring, I’m sure.
Nigel. Three other of your shining stars also got trounced , Abrams, Kobach & Gillum.
So much for the neo liberal bullpoo.
One thing about Cruz
he’s a savage campaigner
no matter what and no matter how much
70 bar? Seriously?
he was always going to be hard bate
Ye don’t have’ta like him
I don’t
Ha
But you have to hand it to him
He’s one of the best campaigners in American Politics
Cruz was coasting complacently in a safe Red seat and almost got within a whisker of being ousted by a first-timer that came out of nowhere and whose supporters washed lots of dems into state legislatures. Talk about a pyrrhic victory. Why do you think we’ve got this spin about him losing and spending that money? A dem losing in Texas shouldn’t be news, and a dem raising that much money to challenge a safe seat must be terrifying for reps.
O’Rourke played down the fact that his wife is a billionaire heiress and that his father-in-law,a real estate tycoon worth €20billion,has a somewhat contentious history with non-white residents.
Not that any of this frightful business is ever mentioned by the fawning liberal US media.
Aw, bless, reduced to crowing about narrow victories in once-safe seats and whining about the librul meeja and that decisively losing the House is a Big Win For The Donald.
And Cruz played down the fact that he is a lizard in a human skin-suit, so i suppose he has that going for him.
For a man who reckons Trump had a terrible night you sound awfully rattled old chum.
That’s the sound of the me that lives in your head as it rattles around in all that empty space.
Jaysus,you follow me around like a sick puppy and when I occasionally toss you a biscuit you claim you’re being stalked.
Cheer up old sport.There’s plenty more Brexit and Trump coming to unnerve you.
Hehx3.
Dry ur eyes m8.
With the Republicans on course to add key Senate seats and now having a 78-year-old crone widely disliked by her own party as his main adversary Trump has every reason to be cheerful this morning.
He increases his hold in the Senate, loses by a moderate amount in the House. Anti-Trump Republicans were picked off. Pro-Trump candidates largely succeeded. And he’s already in full campaigning mode for re-election in 2020 and the Dems still have no stand-out presidential candidate emerging.
So what can the majority House Dems now do ? Demand Trump’s tax returns ? Mueller has had them for months.
Impeachment ? Needs a two-thirds Senate majority.
Oppose Trump’s economic reforms and successes ? Plays right into his hands.
It’s SHOWTIME for the Donald.
What happened to the Blue Wave? more dribble than tsunami
Fair play to Jared Polis! :)
I’d imagine all the usual know it alls on here are quite disappointed Trump did so well in the mid terms…
the lad had campaign adds so racist even fox news pulled them and ron is pleased drumpf did well
To pwn the libs
He did well?
Lol
Yes he did very well.
He did modestly
He does nothing modestly.
True that
As the times says ‘Trump likely to be vindicated by mid term results’ the man is a LEGEND.
Trump has said he wants to undo the work of Reagan and Gorbachev and build up the US’s nuclear arsenal again. The man’s a lunatic.
Topsy, you reek of ‘first year at a trading desk’, have you finished Liars Poker yet? Was it everything the lads said it would be?
Hi Donker, it’s dreadful when things do go as you would like. All the liberal media crap dose’nt change the fact that the people of America did not turn their backs on Trump.
Shining Demo stars O’ Rourke, Abrams, Kobach & Gillum all got smacked down by the PEOPLE. By the way I won’t be responding to any further comments as I’m off to play a round of golf. The greens will be nice and receptive after last night’s rain.
Plus you got all this practice on putting a spin on things.
So Lucinda then
I did wonder who’d run in place of Brian
Meh
Anyway, funny news day for the Poppy crowd there
int’it Ol
I don’t catch your drift luv.
Spell it out.
Well there’s a surprise
The Irish Times runs the angle on Irish voters reactions in America and didn’t print any who voted Republican even though one Democrat admitted large numbers of Irish Americans do.
Truly The Guardian of Ireland with equally horrendous plunges in print circulation.
if the Irish Times was “the Guardian of Ireland”, it would be faring a lot better than it is – it’s a great pity it isn’t an irish guardian
you’re not wrong about irish americans, though – among the most deplorable of the deplorables. it’s always been the case, though. another pity.
The quality of commentary in the Irish Times compares favourably to that in the Guardian, even if it is mediocre-to-fair versus mediocre-to-lamentable.
I feel your shame bro.
no shame
irish americans mean zilch to me (in truth, find them all terribly phucking annoying)