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Reply | Starmer! Wow!
at 22:22 5 Nov 2024
The worse period for austerity was the five years of the coalition government. Who remembers the LibDem Orange Book group now? They were every bit as bad as the Tories, and in particular gave full support to the shambolic NHS reforms of that period. When the Tories took sole power they turned out to be a relatively high spending, high tax government, even if not always efficient. What I remember though is that in the years when public borrowing increased to cope with energy price spikes, COVID and the cost of living crisis, the Labour opposition constantly called for even more generous spending, which would have pushed public debt even higher, That is what Labour are doing now with the change in the fiscal rules. So I would say all three main parties have a degree of responsibility for where we are now. |
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Reply | Kemi Badenoch wins Conservative Party leadership contest ...
at 22:08 5 Nov 2024
Earlier in the year I had to ring for an ambulance at about 10.00pm after my wife had a bleed following earlier surgery. I was told that there was no chance of an ambulance until morning and that I should drive my wife in myself. Once in A&E at Morriston she got into the treatment area fairly quickly, but not to the Surgical Assessment Unit until about 4.00am and a ward an hour later. There were several ambulances outside at A&E, not all of which seemed to be occupied. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Watford : Match day thread
at 22:00 5 Nov 2024
Good result, but the team seem to run out of energy and confidence late on. The two centre backs did well, but others looked sloppy in those closing minutes. |
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Reply | Kemi Badenoch wins Conservative Party leadership contest ...
at 10:24 4 Nov 2024
It is a good thing that Mr Naseem has left his post in the IOPC, and if he had not he should have resigned over this. I'm afraid that there has to be a suspicion that ethnicity is influencing certain decisions. In this case, a former IOPC lead on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion was promoted into the top job and we saw what happened. Naseem says he stands by his decision, and still believes there was no need to fire the fatal shot. |
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Reply | Kemi Badenoch wins Conservative Party leadership contest ...
at 07:58 4 Nov 2024
It isn't the PC thing to say, but if a certain group of Black MPs ever got real power the White population would be in real trouble. Skin colour is so important to them that they are prepared to portray a violent criminal like Kaba as the innocent target of "racist gang tropes". It doesn't take much imagination to see that reparations, positive discrimination, quotas, looser border controls, harsher penalties for hate speech, rewritten history books, and a steady dismantling of traditional British culture would all be on the agenda. |
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Reply | Red for Kuharevich
at 19:48 3 Nov 2024
I don't mind a hard man in the Tommy Smith mould who will take man and ball in an (almost) fair tackle. However, today Kuharevich struck me as a dirty player, leaving a foot in whenever he could, or going through the man from behind. He cost Hibs two points with the penalty. |
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Thread | Red for Kuharevich
at 16:56 3 Nov 2024
Sent off for second yellow and conceded a pen for Hibs against Dundee United. I thought he put himself around in this game, with nasty niggles and tackles. Must own up to potential bias as I have a soft spot for United, but in my opinion Kuharevich deserved his early shower. Could this be a hint of a character issue that explains his problems with Swansea managers? |
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Reply | January Transfer Window
at 16:04 3 Nov 2024
I agree that a decent midfielder would bring more goals, but I still think we have a weakness in the air when it comes to strikers and do need to strengthen there. Vipotnik has been disappointing when it comes to converting high crosses and Cullen is even poorer in that department. |
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Reply | US Election thread
at 12:12 3 Nov 2024
Even the polls are all over the place. I was pleasantly surprised to see Harris doing well in a couple of the bellwether states. The result is indeed up in the air. |
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Reply | 15 million migrants got NI numbers in last 20 years
at 12:09 3 Nov 2024
Before Brexit the UK electorate could not hold our Government responsible because the EU acquis made it impossible to act. Now it is within the power of our Government to withdraw from any treaty that prevents it taking action. The last government failed to deal with the problem and they felt the backlash. Labour too will be held accountable in due course. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 21:04 2 Nov 2024
The general principle has been the same since 1948. The war-time Beveridge blueprint for a welfare state envisaged a social insurance model, meaning that money would be accumulated from employment-related contributions in an insurance fund on German lines. However, Nye Bevan opted for tax funding, albeit with part of that labelled national insurance. The key point is that NI funds are collected and spent year by year as collected alongside other tax receipts (i.e. on a pay as you go basis) . Bevan famously said: "The great secret of the Fund is that there is no Fund." [Post edited 2 Nov 21:08]
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Reply | Oxford United v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 14:31 2 Nov 2024
Improved performance that should help build confidence. The downside was that, as in the past ,we did our best to let Oxford back into the game at the end. I've been listening to the Radio Oxford commentators and to be fair they acknowledged that the Us were 2nd best. Very complimentary about the Jacks in the ground getting behind our team. |
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Reply | January Transfer Window
at 04:37 2 Nov 2024
Six goals in Chesterfield's promotion season. About 6 so far this season. Nowhere near as prolific as he was for Macclesfield, so his goal count seems to fall as the standard rises. Would be a punt. |
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Reply | FA Cup weekend
at 21:40 1 Nov 2024
Another duff result for Duff. |
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