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No idea over the Qz, but here the operating profits in the retail grocery sector during 2022-23 were down 41.5% on the previous year and that average operating margins in the sector fell from 3.2% to 1.8%. Put another way, for every £100 of sales, the typical supermarket is making a profit of just £1.80. Not an unreasonable profit margin and for most businesses is embarrassingly low, only volume of sales make supermarkets a viable operation.

I meant the financial arrangement; is the money borrowed or from the reserves, if borrowed, (which is probable), what are the interest rates, how long to pay back, how big an impact will the annual repayments have on services etc.

And the woolsack is a real sack of wool.....and I sat on it...

Irrelevant Col, he used the self same system as Sunak, the one you called questionable. The whys and wherefores don't count. Inclined to agree, not only should peers have some sort of relevance but attendance should be mandatory - as it should be for MPs.

There is a simpler explanation of the single transferable vote on the electoral reform website. I find it difficult to believe Tasmania, who's population is only two thirds that of Nottingham, can afford a prestige project like a stadium, although the financial details are not known. Presumably the Tasmanian health service is funded by the Australian government so the money for a stadium is taking nothing away from the bed/doctor/ambulance shortage.

The menu nowadays is more or less redundant if you use photo editing software. lots are free.

He said swerving neatly round Starmer using the same system

Col, as someone with an excellent camera why no pics?

And at the other end of the table it was postulated that said Mr Mayfield of this parish has constructed an online persona that will not stand up to reality and the cold light of day.

The ministerial code has actually nothing to do with selecting peers. It does apply to people like Pola Udin (Labour Baroness Udin), who was sacked over a £125,000 claim for a flat her husband denied ever having owned. Just as a highly experienced politician was given a peerage by Sunak, so were two rather obscure and decidedly inexperienced 'advisors' sent to the Lords by Starmer. Starmer, a man who is using the Lords as a tool of opposition yet hypocritically promises to scrap them when he becomes PM.

Col will be along shortly Oz...

A bit rambling but flags up a potential for concern, however at the end of the day politicians already lead the military. No general has ever declared war, it's always a political decision. In the US the president seems to be held in almost demigodlike awe and soldiers will obey without regard to the political side the order comes from. Lyndon Johnson (1965) was strongly advised against going to war in Vietnam - but he did it anyway No point having advisers that don't agree with you. Every president, PM etc. surrounds themselves with sycophants.

Quote from Reeves oh her plans for the economy: "What is demanded is a decade of national renewal, shaping the institutional architecture of the British economy in the direction of mission-led government," "If we can bring together public and private sectors, in a national mission - directed at restoring strong economic growth across Britain." Is it me or is it meaningless drivel?

Yes, a poor choice of words... The left wing comes from a putsch by Rudd that saw a mass exit by the Tory members leaving left wingers like Mandelson. The proDem and anti-Brexit I have no problem with.

According to Netanyahu they are, and a lack of a formal declaration makes not a jot of difference nor does the number of combatants. i Many people were unable to escape and ore civilians died in one city than the whole of Gaza, as for starvation I'm sure it's somethin the Dutch during the hongerwinter will know something about - and nobody officially declared war on them

Change Shin Bet for the Maquis 1943, or RAF pathfinders or the Luftwaffe etc etc, It's war and it's sick. Identifying various factions to apportion blame is as pointless as a foreign government arguing about calling for a ceasefire.

Me too...

Simply double click on Open Britain. https://us21.list-manage.com/survey?u=8ce323885fefc60a1dfe7ff0b&id=99c80c8296&utm_source=Open+Britain&utm_campaign=7303242da8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_30_11_21_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-27c14871b6-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&e=dd9850a83f Open Britain exists to serve a similar demographic as GBnews, how you can claim it's not left wing I don't know. Quote: The individuals involved in the campaign group include former Ministers Pat McFadden (Labour) and Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat).

A blanket dismissal true but it's just more left wing propaganda stating the blindingly obvious. The other two I've not read. The survey asks who's to blame for the problems post Brexit. but only lists Tory politicians as though Labour had no say... Are you opposed to those objectives? You seriously need to ask?

There are two pages that open Col, one a heavily biased diatribe, the second a survey so nonsensical it's laughable. Open Britain (should ne closed mind).

Didn't someone once say the first casualty of war is the truth? But Israel is at war, why waste men and resources attacking a target of no military value? Mason claims he has not seen any evidence, but also admits he's not there. Setting up a command post takes hours not days or weeks so maybe he didn't see anything, doesn't mean they aren't there. Will this guy also give evidence?: The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital in Jabaliya has revealed that his northern Gaza hospital was turned into a military facility under Hamas’s control and that at one point, it

Ask Alexa if she will marry you..... (it's not rude) Or ask her to sing the worm song...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001x7h6/sunday-with-laura-kuenssberg-how-would-labour-handle-the-economy Maybe you will have a different take?

It sounds very, VERY rude...