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skybluetony176

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Funny reading about the crisis in the UK and how it’s effecting markets around the world. In the US for instance amongst the Trump cult (in stark contrast to the Tory cult in this country) the effects of the UK crisis on the US stock exchanges is absolutely, 100% the fault of the Biden government.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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Public support for teachers striking is pretty split an overwhelming display of public support at 51-49.


Teachers on the whole are very reluctant strikers. Certainly a lot less so than rail workers who seem to strike every 5 minutes
 

fernandopartridge

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Brighton Sky Blue

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Interesting to know how that breaks down between people with or without school aged children

I’d wonder what the public thinks of their children’s education having had its funding eroded over the past 12 years and what’s left being diverted from classrooms to CEOs and MAT executives. The teachers’ strike wouldn’t be as much about our salaries as much as it’s about funding.

Health and education should be a government’s top two service priorities
 

JAM See

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I’d wonder what the public thinks of their children’s education having had its funding eroded over the past 12 years and what’s left being diverted from classrooms to CEOs and MAT executives. The teachers’ strike wouldn’t be as much about our salaries as much as it’s about funding.

Health and education should be a government’s top two service priorities
What's truly depressing (and I have no idea how to change it) is the narrative that taxation is a bad thing.

Taxation is a good thing.

The narrative should be about effective use of taxes, not purely reduction of tax.
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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What's truly depressing (and I have no idea how to change it) is the narrative that taxation is a bad thing.

Taxation is a good thing.

The narrative should be about effective use of taxes, not purely reduction of tax.

£40 billion just given away for what could be quite literally nothing in return. Imagine what good that money could have done-we’re at the point where a general election just has to be called
 

shmmeee

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£40 billion just given away for what could be quite literally nothing in return. Imagine what good that money could have done-we’re at the point where a general election just has to be called

More than the entire Primary School budget. You could have given every kid under 11 the same funding as private school kids for that.

Support any strike 100%, i know damn well from personal experience that priority one will be ensuring it doesn’t impact the kids.
 

shmmeee

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Just listened to Phelps on R4, absolutely delusional and doing the same “deny everything and wheel out soundbites” strategy they have all along. Completely denies there’s a problem, claims it’s happening all over the world and nothing to worry about.
 

PVA

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Truss getting absolutely skewered on her BBC local radio rounds this morning it seems.

She keeps saying that the maximum energy bill will be £2,500. Does she not understand the energy cap or is she deliberately lying?

Not sure which one it is and I'm not sure which is worse!
 

clint van damme

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Truss getting absolutely skewered on her BBC local radio rounds this morning it seems.

She keeps saying that the maximum energy bill will be £2,500. Does she not understand the energy cap or is she deliberately lying?

Not sure which one it is and I'm not sure which is worse!



Imagine the tory fan boys on here if this was a Labour PM?
 

JAM See

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Imagine the tory fan boys on here if this was a Labour PM?

She sounds like a bot.

Is somebody typing the words and them being delivered via a synthesize.

Not a huge fan of style over substance, but a little bit of charisma wouldn't go amiss.

She sounds like even she doesn't believe what she's saying.
 

shmmeee

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She sounds like a bot.

Is somebody typing the words and them being delivered via a synthesize.

Not a huge fan of style over substance, but a little bit of charisma wouldn't go amiss.

She sounds like even she doesn't believe what she's saying.

Its worse than that. I don’t think she understands what she’s saying. She’s just repeating lines given to her.
 

Bugsy

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"had to take decisive action" in order to get the economy growing.

is she really that dense.
you and your government nearly wiped the pension fund you dumb fuck.
 

skybluetony176

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Just listened to Phelps on R4, absolutely delusional and doing the same “deny everything and wheel out soundbites” strategy they have all along. Completely denies there’s a problem, claims it’s happening all over the world and nothing to worry about.
Where it has been happening around the world (and to a far lesser extent than us) it’s been a reaction to what’s happening here for the most part. It’s another example of the contempt they have for the general public. They think we’re all idiots. And with so many being willing to indulge them in that thought over the last 6 years they think they can continue to get away with it. I’m very pleased to say that the country is waking up. Finally.
 

PVA

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So refreshing to hear proper questioning like that.

If only the main BBC journos and interviewers were as good as their local counterparts.
 

skybluetony176

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These car crash interviews she’s done this morning are again another example of the contempt they have for the electorate and how they think we’re all idiots. She picked local radio deliberately avoiding the heavy hitting national journalists thinking that she’d run rings around these “little” men of local journalism . Unfortunately for her they’re all cleverer than her and over their briefs and the details, Truss typically short of details because she’s poorly briefed and that’s a compliment, the reality is more likely that she’s an idiot.
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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What's truly depressing (and I have no idea how to change it) is the narrative that taxation is a bad thing.

Taxation is a good thing.

The narrative should be about effective use of taxes, not purely reduction of tax.
That's the problem when you have people with this much money - they can buy influence and power to set the narrative.

Hence why we've got this almost ingrained belief that taxation is bad but dividends are good.
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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She sounds like a bot.

Is somebody typing the words and them being delivered via a synthesize.

Not a huge fan of style over substance, but a little bit of charisma wouldn't go amiss.

She sounds like even she doesn't believe what she's saying.
You can't believe it if you don't understand it.
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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More than the entire Primary School budget. You could have given every kid under 11 the same funding as private school kids for that.

Support any strike 100%, i know damn well from personal experience that priority one will be ensuring it doesn’t impact the kids.

It goes beyond party politics now-this is just criminal negligence.
 

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