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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 11:27 19 Mar 2025
The tax take from the 27m (plus corporate and business taxation) is propping up everything else though.
An NHS nurse may provide a brilliant service, but if they receive £40k a year in salary and pay £5k back in tax and NI, the Treasury is still £35k down on the deal. Money that has to come from somewhere.
There are not enough net taxpayers and too many next tax receivers. If that doesn't change the country will slowly go bankrupt. [Post edited 19 Mar 12:10]
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 10:59 19 Mar 2025
Anyone who receives their sole income from the government is a tax recycler, not a tax payer. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 08:14 19 Mar 2025
I read somewhere that there are 27 million private sector workers in the UK. So that 27 million people are supporting the other 41 million. |
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Reply | Is a coup possible
at 22:36 18 Mar 2025
Nah.
There is not and never has been an appetite for extremist politics in the UK. It's the reason why even at their height the BUF, National Front, BNP, Communists, SWP and similar rarely get anywhere near double figures in terms of support. It's also the reason why the likes of Michael Foot and Jeremy Corbyn were both roundly dismissed by the electorate.
The chances of senior military officers even considering the prospect, never mind actually trying to carry it out are zero. [Post edited 18 Mar 22:40]
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Reply | Was corbyn the UK's last chance ?
at 20:22 18 Mar 2025
It's been said before, but the idea that the Russian (plus the poor North Korean sods thrown in) forces who have spent the last three years stuck in a bloody quagmire against a numerically vastly inferior force using largely second hand and dated NATO equipment are any kind of serious threat to the rest of Western Europe, never mind the US is quite amusing.
At the rate the Poles are tooling up they alone could probably finish off the job that the Ukrainians found themselves having to do. Add in Germany, France, The Scandinavians, Italy, the UK and the Baltics all using the latest kit? It'd be like Pee Wee Herman squaring off against Muhammad Ali.
As has been proven repeatedly in the last 25 years in Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine and elsewhere, all the Russians have is the numbers and a complete willingness to waste as many lives as they can until they can scrape out some sort of result. Technologically they're miles behind. [Post edited 18 Mar 20:25]
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Reply | Live music?
at 10:38 18 Mar 2025
Ticket booked to go and see Volbeat in November. Well worth checking out if you're unfamiliar with their stuff. |
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Reply | Was corbyn the UK's last chance ?
at 10:00 18 Mar 2025
Ukraine had access to a nuclear deterrent once. It gave it up after guarantees of protection were made.
A decision that they're now no doubt regretting. |
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Reply | Live music?
at 06:54 17 Mar 2025
David Gray at the arena last night.
Called it a "Homecoming" gig. |
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Reply | Crowd seeping away
at 12:40 16 Mar 2025
If we hadn't gone back up then we'd have been utterly screwed. Gambling the clubs future on immediate promotion back was a non-starter.
Our finances weren't structured to deal with relegation post 2016. Before that they were. Ultimately ownership was to blame for not keeping a tight reign on Jenkins, but he's the one responsible for it. [Post edited 16 Mar 12:46]
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Reply | Crowd seeping away
at 12:21 16 Mar 2025
The biggest mistake ownership made was letting Jenkins run wild with the finances. We weren't in a position to try and keep the squad together and bounce straight back up. Believe me, I know.
When Jenkins and Co were sole owners they kept a tight grip on the money. As soon as it was someone elses cash he was splashing he went mad. Excessive wages/fees, no relegation clauses. The lot.
Even with the parachute payments our outgoings over a 2/3 year period far exceeded our likely income. We had no choice but to slash and burn or we could well have lost the club. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Burnley : Match day thread
at 10:18 16 Mar 2025
It's funny how games can appear "different" to what the stats suggest.
We had the majority of the possession yesterday but as you say, we looked a lot more direct than in other recent games where we didn't see as much of the ball but played it better. It very much seemed like a reversion to the worst of Williams.
The biggest problem we have is that for the vast majority of the last four years, and arguably the last six, our players have been coached to do things at a slower pace than they should. Old habits die hard. Maybe it was a tactical choice, maybe just a bad game. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Burnley : Match day thread
at 09:10 16 Mar 2025
Ronald's biggest problem is his lack of genuine pace. He's not quick enough to get around the outside of players. He even got out paced to a decent through ball by one of their CB's I think.
He's reasonably capable when cutting in from the left, but he simply can't play on the right. Can't fault his work ethic, and he may actually be better defensively than he is going forward, but someone who needs to be less sure of his starting place for me. Certainly Bianchini needs to be getting more game time. |
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Reply | Neath
at 09:05 16 Mar 2025
Measures taken long after the damage had already been done. It certainly wasn't that cheap (relatively) when they were tearing up the roads for the bendy bus and pedestrianising chunks of the city centre. In any case, free is still cheaper than £1 an hour, so people will go where parking is free.
In common with local authorities all over the UK, Swansea council thought people would voluntarily catch the bus into town to do a days shopping. They were wrong. |
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Reply | Was corbyn the UK's last chance ?
at 08:59 16 Mar 2025
I'm also entertained by the idea that the lifelong politician from a wealthy family who has never done a day's actual work in his life is somehow not "elite" himself. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Burnley : Match day thread
at 20:44 15 Mar 2025
Cullen has had a bit of a purple patch in front of goal this season but his all round game is woeful. Can't play as a lone striker, certainly no good as a #10. He's been indulged and accommodated by every manager from Martin onwards and delivered very little. To a degree Oli Cooper is the same. Just not good enough on a fundamental level. Both should be bench players at best.
Eom needs to move into the #10 slot for the rest of the season with Ginelly or Bianchini taking over out wide.
Fulton did OK when he came on, as he usually does. Damned by association with Grimes for me. Not a great player, but certainly better than he will ever be credited with in these parts. [Post edited 15 Mar 20:45]
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Reply | Was corbyn the UK's last chance ?
at 08:14 15 Mar 2025
Let's not also forget that Corbyn has been kissing Putin's arse since well before Trump's first presidency, never mind the current one.
He's remarkably flexible when it comes to supporting anti West despots. |
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