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Reply | Seventy Five million pounds for the Coronation
at 10:45 23 Nov 2024
Same way that sport, music and art does.
We could compare everything we personally don't like that cost money to the amount of something else it could pay for but for me, that’s a really miserable way to live. |
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Reply | The I voted labour and want to apologise thread.
at 10:10 23 Nov 2024
Depends.
If money is raised and things get fixed we may look back and say it was worth it. If not you could well be right.
There are a few things they’ve done that I’m not comfortable with but the way it’s being framed is crackers, if unsurprisingly.
Yes, I’m incredibly sorry for pensioners finding things hard but that doesn’t change the fact that as a group, they’re over all one of the better off parts of society. Way better off from children for example where the gap is pretty alarming.
Same sort of argument with farmers.
When money needs to be raised, any tax is going to be unpopular with those being hit. We’ve got a big division in this country in regards to wealth in assets. This is why I’m not surprised that farmers and pensioners are front and centre of the current tensions. |
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Reply | Seventy Five million pounds for the Coronation
at 09:27 23 Nov 2024
Or….
A very small percentage of farmers are having to make plans to sort out paying (or not) half the amount of IHT of everyone else.
I agree that the likes of James Dyson and Jeremy Clarkson are being caught. Good. |
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Reply | The I voted labour and want to apologise thread.
at 09:24 23 Nov 2024
Like most new governments, they’re doing the unpopular stuff early on while there’s time.
We’ll see after 2 years whether the direction of travel is the right one. |
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Reply | Seventy Five million pounds for the Coronation
at 21:25 22 Nov 2024
I’m pretty ambivalent towards the royal family.
I don’t t really care about them but realise that for millions of people, they (and their events) bring some much needed joy.
If we’re waiting for tax just to be spent on exactly the things we see as important, we’re going to be waiting a long time. |
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Reply | Thomas Cashman .Appeal
at 11:09 21 Nov 2024
Then that's a sentencing issue, nothing to do with the appeal. |
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Reply | Thomas Cashman .Appeal
at 10:53 21 Nov 2024
I would't suggest that.
I would suggest that the appeal has further tightened the case against this horrible piece of work.
That's a good thing. |
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Reply | They came for our libraries
at 20:22 19 Nov 2024
Same as the library stories as mentioned in the OP.
Anyone had their lives changed by was was said about libraries? |
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Reply | The Indy on BlueSky 👍
at 12:09 19 Nov 2024
It may well do but it's pretty good at the moment in a number of ways.
Twitter was horrible in parts before Musk got his hands in it, but I just used it purely for professional reasons and it was great.
Since Musk it's now pretty much unusable. |
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Reply | Manchester Airport Police attack
at 12:07 19 Nov 2024
Not really as it's not a particularly useful comparison.
What we really could do with knowing (which is all hypothetical, unfortunately) is whether the UK would have been better or worse off if we'd stayed in.
This is what causes arguments because both sides pick figures to suit their positions. |
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Reply | They came for our libraries
at 20:43 16 Nov 2024
My feeling s on the Tory party completely changed from 2016.
I hope they get back to what they originally stood for. |
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Reply | They came for our libraries
at 17:59 16 Nov 2024
The OP is about wokeness and I can see what you mean about a perceived waste of money is built in.
I see irony in it that some people who are furious about people not integrating with British culture are also furious when a report is commissioned to try and encourage that not no happen.
Some people are just furious. |
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Reply | They came for our libraries
at 16:06 16 Nov 2024
I’d agree that it seems like a waste of money to state the obvious.
That wasn’t the OP though. |
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Reply | They came for our libraries
at 15:56 16 Nov 2024
It must be exhausting to be cross about this stuff all the time.
I can’t see it changing. Once the internet found that creating anger gets more clicks than anything else, the growth of these kind of headlines was inevitable. |
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Reply | They came for our libraries
at 15:46 16 Nov 2024
Yes, Scotia put the link up.
It’s clickbait because from a 22 page report which mentions dogs once, a headline has been created to manufacture outrage. |
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Reply | They came for our libraries
at 12:58 16 Nov 2024
Absolutely clickbait.
It’ll bridge the gap between ‘their trying to cancel Christmas’ season and ‘when’s International Men’s Day?’ in the spring. |
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Reply | 2 weeks for a call back from my Doc
at 07:17 15 Nov 2024
As mentioned early, financial planning for those with small family farms in most cases would see IHT avoided.
There are always problems with universal policies like these. The aim is to tax people like James Dyson, who had a front page headline in the Mail complaining about the impact on farmers and forgot to mention he bought 34,000 acres of land to avoid IHT. See also Jeremy Clarkson.
Looks like farmers are planning to bring London to a standstill in protest. Let’s see if they’re dealt with in the same way as the Just Stop Oil numpties. |
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Reply | Cop 29
at 18:26 12 Nov 2024
Not sure what direction the US will take.
In one hand, Trump is keen on oil yet on the other there’s Elon Musk with electric vehicles and a real passion for pushing solar. |
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