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MUSK
at 10:55 21 Oct 2024

I think he's potentially the most dangerous man on Earth.
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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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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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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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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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Sue Gray steps down
at 14:11 7 Oct 2024

A nice dose of realism right there.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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The Crown Estates
at 07:54 5 Oct 2024

Most crown estate land is bought as an investment rather than a birthright. If they didn't buy it someone else would.

At least crown estate land see's a return to the public purse rather than profits disappearing to an offshore tax haven.

It's not perfect, but there are far worse landlords around.
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Welsh Government Scandalous waste of money.
at 21:32 4 Oct 2024

I agree. But it would be interesting to compare this across the entire public sector over a decade or so rather than look at a right wing website snapshot.

For instance, I used to organise meetings on a government procurement card in pub's/restaurants across Wales. It cost about £15 a head for lunch but the meeting room was free, probably a total of £180

Hiring a venue for a meeting would have been £250, but as far guido Fawkes and registered receipts are concerned concerned I've spent £180 on lunch.

It's click bait, but there is unnecessary waste I wouldn't argue with that.
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Welsh Government Scandalous waste of money.
at 19:25 4 Oct 2024

This doesn't appear to be acceptable at all but I'd like to see full justification of the spend before making comment. At the moment it looks like click bait.

It's not a massive amount of money in the grand scheme of things, and I bet some local authorities have "wasted" more.
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The Crown Estates
at 19:13 4 Oct 2024

No it is or was definitely the Crown Estate.

I haven't necessarily got a problem with them owning land and the money used for developing it, paid by developers going to the treasury / royal family.

Access to the beach by the public is a different story. That's taking the urine.
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Iran attacking Israel
at 14:35 4 Oct 2024



For a couple who claim they're "travellers" they only seem to post films of Iran there are over 50, except a handful about Dubai. Their first film is called "Iran, Jewel in the world"

That young lady in the photo features in a few of them too, in exactly the same pose wearing exactly the same clothes.

Mahsa's second channel is called Iranvillagegirl.

I smell a propaganda shaped rat. Have any posters been there?
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Enemy within?
at 11:31 4 Oct 2024

I don't know if they've been arrested yet. But they've got to be looking at 18 months inside surely?
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The Crown Estates
at 11:28 4 Oct 2024

I'm pretty certain the Crown Estate own - or at least have owned in the past the land that Morfa retail park / Swansea.com are on.
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Starmer! Wow!
at 22:29 2 Oct 2024

What we do know about the last government regarding donations/ gifts is bad enough and worse than anything Starmer has accepted.

Have the Tories paid back the donations from the racist fella yet that they still received until shortly before the election?

None of this should be ok.
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