comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted less than a minute ago
Guy that threw stones at Nigel Farage given a suspended sentence.
Two tier policing.
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He did what?
ffs
What did he expect?
Who’d even want to be a politician these days?
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Nigel Farage obviously, it only took him 8 attempts to get elected. Wonder what attracted known grifter Nige to the £80k, plus expenses, job guaranteed for 5 years?
It was either that or back to Cameo videos praising the 1RA at £50 a pop.
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 4 minutes ago
At least put a ban on dividends until they're solvent.
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Absolutely this. My own take has always been that dividends should only be payable when certain criteria is met.
Profitable; and by that I mean a cover of 2x
Meet the obligations of the industry and fulfil its moral and legislative requirements
Fair industry pay for staff that is comparable with industry peers
Furthermore, board directors held accountable for negligence of duties required of them and to face criminal proceedings as they would for serious breaches of health and safety.
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted less than a minute ago
Guy that threw stones at Nigel Farage given a suspended sentence.
Two tier policing.
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He did what?
ffs
What did he expect?
Who’d even want to be a politician these days?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Nigel Farage obviously, it only took him 8 attempts to get elected. Wonder what attracted known grifter Nige to the £80k, plus expenses, job guaranteed for 5 years?
It was either that or back to Cameo videos praising the 1RA at £50 a pop.
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I’ve no idea why he does what he does. To be so castigated in his own country and yet still try and somehow give credence to his prejudices is just beyond my thinking. It’s not rational.
comment by Robbing Hoody - keepy up arbiter. Don’t talk to me unless you can do ten (U6374)
posted 14 minutes ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lgl9kypno
Thames Water need to increase bills 59% to ’survive’.
Absolute grifters who should face criminal prosecution.
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They definitely should. Sadly there’t too many billionaire bootlickers in this country for it to actually happen.
It should be a national scandal what’s been happening.
comment by Joshua The King Of Kings Zirkzee (U10026)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - keepy up arbiter. Don’t talk to me unless you can do ten (U6374)
posted 14 minutes ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lgl9kypno
Thames Water need to increase bills 59% to ’survive’.
Absolute grifters who should face criminal prosecution.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
They definitely should. Sadly there’t too many billionaire bootlickers in this country for it to actually happen.
It should be a national scandal what’s been happening.
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The legal means isn’t in statute so they can’t be prosecuted. It is a national scandal.
Interestingly when a business is in “distress”, shareholders will usually prop it up if they see a return on investment. This time they’ve chosen not to and hence why they are asking for increases to bills. My gut feeling is they know that time is up and legislation will come about along with far stronger enforcement of checks and significant fines. Remove the self policing and they’ll let the business go under.
I’d like to see the government refuse to bail them out or allow them to increase bills higher than inflation. Then the government if it chooses can pick up the remnants and build back in the infrastructure by using any profits wisely.
‘Labour’s Austerity Is a Choice
Despite what Keir Starmer claims, there's nothing inevitable about another round of harsh cuts — it is a deliberate decision to avoid confronting the powerful.’
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/08/labours-austerity-is-a-choice-starmer-pain
An excellent summary of where we’re at paradigmatically in UK politics by Grace Blakeley.
I’ve just finished her latest book, Vulture Capitalism, which explains how we ended up in this neoliberal economic mire, in which politicians of all colours approaching power find themselves entirely beholden to turbo-capitalist vested interests, and how well never get out of it without systemic changes. Highly recommended.
*we’ll never get out of it
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 3 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
They've been in power for what, 8 weeks? and parliament hasn't even sat for half of that due to summer recess. I don't get what people expect them to have done in this timeframe.
The budget will be the one where we can finally issue some judgement but even then, it's their first one with 4.5 more years to go so writing them off solely on that seems silly, well unless it's a Truss V2 that crashes the economy
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And in that time they've given way above wage increases to the railways and junior doctors with no return on improvement other than the guarantee of further strikes 9I suppose someone might call that an improvement) , whilst depriving all but the very poorest of pensioners of a paltry heating allowance which means everything to the vast majority of them.
The savings on the fuel allowance are some £1.5bn reportedly whilst the cost of the increased wages are some £10bn. All to prevent the cost and disruption caused by strikes which they have spectacularly failed at.
All capped off with the gloomiest prediction of significant austerity and taxation to come in a couple of months because of the black hole which half comprises the results of their own political choices.
An auspicious 8 weeks indeed.
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Lol
Austerity is always a choice
Even when implemented, the measures go on for too long because the country is by then used to it and don’t readily recognise or accept the signs that things are improving. Osborne being the prime example
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 2 seconds ago
Austerity is always a choice
Even when implemented, the measures go on for too long because the country is by then used to it and don’t readily recognise or accept the signs that things are improving. Osborne being the prime example
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Anyone who has read any or all of Profs Mark Blyth, Paul Krugman, Florian Schui, David Stuckler… will know it is literally always a bad choice.
https://bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwnn11x18o
Who was it on here yesterday making a big thing of Trump attending this and Biden not?
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 57 seconds ago
https://bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwnn11x18o
Who was it on here yesterday making a big thing of Trump attending this and Biden not?
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Oscar of coarse
Oscar's off to buy Trump Digital Trading Cards.
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 15 minutes ago
https://bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwnn11x18o
Who was it on here yesterday making a big thing of Trump attending this and Biden not?
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It was always going to be controversial. Only popping up for a photo op on election year.
comment by #4zA (U22472)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 57 seconds ago
https://bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwnn11x18o
Who was it on here yesterday making a big thing of Trump attending this and Biden not?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Oscar of coarse
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Por supuesto
Embarrassing this clown is my MP, well done Vic show them up for the hypocrites they are
https://x.com/joerichlaw/status/1828854507683365361?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
"Colonialism gets a bad rap"
A woman from Texas who's moved to Israel and now wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza in order to settle there.
https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1828656530343809312?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
What the hell do you say to this?
She’s just representing the Founding Fathers.
comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 42 seconds ago
"Colonialism gets a bad rap"
A woman from Texas who's moved to Israel and now wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza in order to settle there.
https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1828656530343809312?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
What the hell do you say to this?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Not the first time Texans have embraced ethnic cleansing.
comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 15 minutes ago
"Colonialism gets a bad rap"
A woman from Texas who's moved to Israel and now wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza in order to settle there.
https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1828656530343809312?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
What the hell do you say to this?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I hope she gets anal cancer
comment by Robb Raygun (U22716)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 15 minutes ago
"Colonialism gets a bad rap"
A woman from Texas who's moved to Israel and now wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza in order to settle there.
https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1828656530343809312?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
What the hell do you say to this?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I hope she gets anal cancer
----------------------------------------------------------------------
what the....?
comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
"Colonialism gets a bad rap"
A woman from Texas who's moved to Israel and now wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza in order to settle there.
https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1828656530343809312?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
What the hell do you say to this?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
She was on C4 news last night, complete weirdo.
It seems the illegal settlers think that Gaza's in the bag, time to move on to the West Bank.
comment by mancWoohoo- maximus mardius cob-onius (U10676)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by Robb Raygun (U22716)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 15 minutes ago
"Colonialism gets a bad rap"
A woman from Texas who's moved to Israel and now wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza in order to settle there.
https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1828656530343809312?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
What the hell do you say to this?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I hope she gets anal cancer
----------------------------------------------------------------------
what the....?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
He went there
A think tank has blamed "woeful budgeting" at the Home Office for repeated overspending on asylum support.
Over the last three years, the department's initial estimated budgets for asylum, border, visa and passport operations amounted to £320m.
But the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said it had ended up spending £7.9bn over the period, £7.6bn more than forecast.
The IFS also warned the department had submitted figures it "knows to be insufficient" for this year.
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posted on 28/8/24
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted less than a minute ago
Guy that threw stones at Nigel Farage given a suspended sentence.
Two tier policing.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
He did what?
ffs
What did he expect?
Who’d even want to be a politician these days?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Nigel Farage obviously, it only took him 8 attempts to get elected. Wonder what attracted known grifter Nige to the £80k, plus expenses, job guaranteed for 5 years?
It was either that or back to Cameo videos praising the 1RA at £50 a pop.
posted on 28/8/24
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 4 minutes ago
At least put a ban on dividends until they're solvent.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Absolutely this. My own take has always been that dividends should only be payable when certain criteria is met.
Profitable; and by that I mean a cover of 2x
Meet the obligations of the industry and fulfil its moral and legislative requirements
Fair industry pay for staff that is comparable with industry peers
Furthermore, board directors held accountable for negligence of duties required of them and to face criminal proceedings as they would for serious breaches of health and safety.
posted on 28/8/24
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted less than a minute ago
Guy that threw stones at Nigel Farage given a suspended sentence.
Two tier policing.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
He did what?
ffs
What did he expect?
Who’d even want to be a politician these days?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Nigel Farage obviously, it only took him 8 attempts to get elected. Wonder what attracted known grifter Nige to the £80k, plus expenses, job guaranteed for 5 years?
It was either that or back to Cameo videos praising the 1RA at £50 a pop.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I’ve no idea why he does what he does. To be so castigated in his own country and yet still try and somehow give credence to his prejudices is just beyond my thinking. It’s not rational.
posted on 28/8/24
comment by Robbing Hoody - keepy up arbiter. Don’t talk to me unless you can do ten (U6374)
posted 14 minutes ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lgl9kypno
Thames Water need to increase bills 59% to ’survive’.
Absolute grifters who should face criminal prosecution.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
They definitely should. Sadly there’t too many billionaire bootlickers in this country for it to actually happen.
It should be a national scandal what’s been happening.
posted on 28/8/24
comment by Joshua The King Of Kings Zirkzee (U10026)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - keepy up arbiter. Don’t talk to me unless you can do ten (U6374)
posted 14 minutes ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lgl9kypno
Thames Water need to increase bills 59% to ’survive’.
Absolute grifters who should face criminal prosecution.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
They definitely should. Sadly there’t too many billionaire bootlickers in this country for it to actually happen.
It should be a national scandal what’s been happening.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The legal means isn’t in statute so they can’t be prosecuted. It is a national scandal.
Interestingly when a business is in “distress”, shareholders will usually prop it up if they see a return on investment. This time they’ve chosen not to and hence why they are asking for increases to bills. My gut feeling is they know that time is up and legislation will come about along with far stronger enforcement of checks and significant fines. Remove the self policing and they’ll let the business go under.
I’d like to see the government refuse to bail them out or allow them to increase bills higher than inflation. Then the government if it chooses can pick up the remnants and build back in the infrastructure by using any profits wisely.
posted on 28/8/24
‘Labour’s Austerity Is a Choice
Despite what Keir Starmer claims, there's nothing inevitable about another round of harsh cuts — it is a deliberate decision to avoid confronting the powerful.’
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/08/labours-austerity-is-a-choice-starmer-pain
An excellent summary of where we’re at paradigmatically in UK politics by Grace Blakeley.
I’ve just finished her latest book, Vulture Capitalism, which explains how we ended up in this neoliberal economic mire, in which politicians of all colours approaching power find themselves entirely beholden to turbo-capitalist vested interests, and how well never get out of it without systemic changes. Highly recommended.
posted on 28/8/24
*we’ll never get out of it
posted on 28/8/24
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 3 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
They've been in power for what, 8 weeks? and parliament hasn't even sat for half of that due to summer recess. I don't get what people expect them to have done in this timeframe.
The budget will be the one where we can finally issue some judgement but even then, it's their first one with 4.5 more years to go so writing them off solely on that seems silly, well unless it's a Truss V2 that crashes the economy
----------------------------------------------------------------------
And in that time they've given way above wage increases to the railways and junior doctors with no return on improvement other than the guarantee of further strikes 9I suppose someone might call that an improvement) , whilst depriving all but the very poorest of pensioners of a paltry heating allowance which means everything to the vast majority of them.
The savings on the fuel allowance are some £1.5bn reportedly whilst the cost of the increased wages are some £10bn. All to prevent the cost and disruption caused by strikes which they have spectacularly failed at.
All capped off with the gloomiest prediction of significant austerity and taxation to come in a couple of months because of the black hole which half comprises the results of their own political choices.
An auspicious 8 weeks indeed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Lol
posted on 28/8/24
Austerity is always a choice
Even when implemented, the measures go on for too long because the country is by then used to it and don’t readily recognise or accept the signs that things are improving. Osborne being the prime example
posted on 28/8/24
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 2 seconds ago
Austerity is always a choice
Even when implemented, the measures go on for too long because the country is by then used to it and don’t readily recognise or accept the signs that things are improving. Osborne being the prime example
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Anyone who has read any or all of Profs Mark Blyth, Paul Krugman, Florian Schui, David Stuckler… will know it is literally always a bad choice.
posted on 28/8/24
https://bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwnn11x18o
Who was it on here yesterday making a big thing of Trump attending this and Biden not?
posted on 28/8/24
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 57 seconds ago
https://bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwnn11x18o
Who was it on here yesterday making a big thing of Trump attending this and Biden not?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Oscar of coarse
posted on 28/8/24
Oscar's off to buy Trump Digital Trading Cards.
posted on 28/8/24
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 15 minutes ago
https://bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwnn11x18o
Who was it on here yesterday making a big thing of Trump attending this and Biden not?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It was always going to be controversial. Only popping up for a photo op on election year.
posted on 28/8/24
comment by #4zA (U22472)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 57 seconds ago
https://bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwnn11x18o
Who was it on here yesterday making a big thing of Trump attending this and Biden not?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Oscar of coarse
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Por supuesto
posted on 28/8/24
Embarrassing this clown is my MP, well done Vic show them up for the hypocrites they are
https://x.com/joerichlaw/status/1828854507683365361?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
posted on 28/8/24
"Colonialism gets a bad rap"
A woman from Texas who's moved to Israel and now wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza in order to settle there.
https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1828656530343809312?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
What the hell do you say to this?
posted on 28/8/24
She’s just representing the Founding Fathers.
posted on 28/8/24
comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 42 seconds ago
"Colonialism gets a bad rap"
A woman from Texas who's moved to Israel and now wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza in order to settle there.
https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1828656530343809312?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
What the hell do you say to this?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Not the first time Texans have embraced ethnic cleansing.
posted on 28/8/24
comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 15 minutes ago
"Colonialism gets a bad rap"
A woman from Texas who's moved to Israel and now wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza in order to settle there.
https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1828656530343809312?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
What the hell do you say to this?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I hope she gets anal cancer
posted on 28/8/24
comment by Robb Raygun (U22716)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 15 minutes ago
"Colonialism gets a bad rap"
A woman from Texas who's moved to Israel and now wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza in order to settle there.
https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1828656530343809312?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
What the hell do you say to this?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I hope she gets anal cancer
----------------------------------------------------------------------
what the....?
posted on 28/8/24
comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
"Colonialism gets a bad rap"
A woman from Texas who's moved to Israel and now wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza in order to settle there.
https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1828656530343809312?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
What the hell do you say to this?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
She was on C4 news last night, complete weirdo.
posted on 28/8/24
It seems the illegal settlers think that Gaza's in the bag, time to move on to the West Bank.
posted on 28/8/24
comment by mancWoohoo- maximus mardius cob-onius (U10676)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by Robb Raygun (U22716)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 15 minutes ago
"Colonialism gets a bad rap"
A woman from Texas who's moved to Israel and now wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza in order to settle there.
https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1828656530343809312?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
What the hell do you say to this?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I hope she gets anal cancer
----------------------------------------------------------------------
what the....?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
He went there
posted on 29/8/24
A think tank has blamed "woeful budgeting" at the Home Office for repeated overspending on asylum support.
Over the last three years, the department's initial estimated budgets for asylum, border, visa and passport operations amounted to £320m.
But the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said it had ended up spending £7.9bn over the period, £7.6bn more than forecast.
The IFS also warned the department had submitted figures it "knows to be insufficient" for this year.
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