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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 09:08 1 Nov 2024
Yep. Brexit on the whole may be manageable. Leaving with a crap deal, or looking at one stage like it would be no deal is hugely detrimental. The biggest legacy and economic improvement this government could deliver is improving on our current deal and relationship with the EU. That's not hard.
The £22 billion black hole, £9.5 billion black hole or whatever it actually may be is totally immaterial. Public services, across the board are in a shocking state and need massive investment even £22 billion won't scratch the surface. We have to pay for it, we've paid too much already and are continuing to pay too much but most of that is to make up for the ineptitude of the last 14 years.
One thing this budget has demonstrated is how much most of the media want this government to fail.
I don't really care who governs as long as they are competent, the last lot weren't this lot might be. Let's see where we are in 2029 |
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Reply | Tommy Robinson jailed for 18 months ...
at 15:11 31 Oct 2024
I'm a member of a number of "patriot" groups on social media. He has got menopausal women falling over themselves for him, he is absolutely adored by some of them. |
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Reply | Tommy Robinson jailed for 18 months ...
at 08:41 31 Oct 2024
Nope, he's not thick, I do think his followers are though. Or at least they are very gullible .
He spent the Summer in Cyprus getting people to donate to his campaign to fight his charges, came home and pleaded guilty at his first opportunity. He basically conned them in to paying for his holiday. The same people will now chip in to his next fraudulent campaign.
He's invented a character for himself and it's payiing off handsomely. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 21:42 26 Oct 2024
No worries.
For the record any comment I make about benefits doesn't include state pension.
Most people earn that and deserve every penny of it. |
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Reply | Goat herder
at 21:36 26 Oct 2024
My wife's hairdresser no longer cuts mens hair because it's not worth it.
I don't use a "Turkish" barbers but they are doing a roaring, cash in hand, trade.
It's a complete tax evasion, money laundering, illegal immigration supporting scam. Along with car washes, kebab shops, take aways, nail bars and food delivery. They can easily get away with it.
It's not the immigrants that are the problem. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 20:32 26 Oct 2024
Because I have to work to make sure I can do that. Everyone should.
I expect to maintain my own house as long as it's mine. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 07:29 26 Oct 2024
It is a step too far, but I don't have a problem with the state having an overview of your finances. It's the only way to avoid fraud.
I'd also like to see businesses having to accept card payments (with control over fees charged by banks) in addition to cash.
I'd also like to see a reduction in the amount of savings you can have but still receive benefits. Someone with £15,999 in the bank shouldn't be getting financial help, and proper scrutiny would stop them hiding it. |
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Reply | MUSK
at 10:55 21 Oct 2024
I think he's potentially the most dangerous man on Earth. |
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Reply | Transferring ownership of your house to your son
at 22:10 18 Oct 2024
My parents were considering doing this to me a few years ago and it was so difficult they didn't do it, they even considered selling it to me for a small sum, that was a no go too.
I think unless you gift it and rent it back for market value or sell it for market value there are significant tax implications. |
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Reply | The illegal immigration capital of Europe?
at 10:49 10 Oct 2024
This has been going on for a lot longer than 30 years. It's been going on in some form or another since humans evolved and exploded as religion developed.
Freedom of speech is allowed, it's when that is based on either no evidence or misrepresented evidence a problem arises. Especially when it can then by accessed by billions of people. That sort of sums Trump and conspiracy theorists up. It's a bit ironic that your post is in response to someone who does this very thing.
Democracy exists too, but most people don't take part in it. That's how we've ended up with the current system. |
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Reply | Sue Gray steps down
at 17:11 8 Oct 2024
The problem is the press are the same and most of the press are on the political right.
Starmer and the freebie culture in the Labour party is wrong, but not as wrong as the Tories under Boris to a criminal degree.
Two wrongs don't make a right. No gifts, no donations and no lobbying. It's the only way forward.
It's been a long time since I last voted Labour, and I don't hate the Tories. But I hate what politics in the UK has descended in to. |
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Reply | Sue Gray steps down
at 14:12 7 Oct 2024
We do. Starting with people actually voting.
I also think we need serious reformation of the media too. |
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Reply | Chagos Islands
at 23:24 6 Oct 2024
It's a pander to the Daily Mail / GBNews.
This is almost certainly the right thing to do, started and almost finished by the conservatives.
Starmer's fault though. |
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Reply | Bird flu
at 22:55 5 Oct 2024
But you couldn't have outside events, really, without a lot of inside mingling to some degree. A completely outside family barbecue would be great, but the Cheltenham festival not.
The first instincts of the government led to longer restrictions, especially in the second wave. They took too long to react especially with a vaccine on the horizon.
Restrictions should have been far more nuanced and the government had enough lead up to do that in the second wave but didn't.
The biggest mistake really is not completely removing all
restrictions once everyone had a first jab. But that's totally down to hindsight. |
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Reply | Bird flu
at 22:29 5 Oct 2024
Swedish society and the country as a whole is very different.
Their approach wouldn't have worked here.
This sort of sums it up.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95699-9
And that's before the societal collapse that would have been inevitable in the UK.
That's not to say non essential shops could have stayed open and outdoor events carried on, but that's hindsight. [Post edited 5 Oct 22:35]
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Reply | Bird flu
at 22:07 5 Oct 2024
Bird flu? Nothing to worry about.
We had no choice but to shut society down for Covid, it could have been done better, and for slightly less long but that's hindsight for you. |
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Reply | Welsh Government Scandalous waste of money.
at 09:20 5 Oct 2024
But nobody in the Aberavon constituency would vote for anyone who said they'd withdraw investment from Tata. No matter what political party they were from.
There does need to be accountability but the electorate don't realise the power they have at the ballot box, most don't use it. |
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Reply | Welsh Government Scandalous waste of money.
at 07:59 5 Oct 2024
They're dammed if they do and dammed if they don't regarding grants and investment.
Tata in Port Talbot has been a dead duck for years, probably since privatisation, but Stephen Kinnock and others would happily see more cash thrown at it because that's what people want them to do and say. |
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