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yeah, it's an implicit part of the UK - EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement which gives the UK market access.

It is derived from an EU law pre Brexit, as per all EU regulations they are transposed into domestic law with non material changes in each member state. Post Brexit they had to invent the concept of the UK GDPR as part of the withdrawal act. “the UK GDPR” means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the...

Labour has no new ideas at all, all that bluster for more promises of crackdowns

Average life expectancy in Russia went from around 30 pre WW1 to around 70 by 1990. It declined after the market reforms and didn't get back to 1990 levels until 2015. Meanwhile, outside of the collectivist system a few oligarchs got exceptionally rich from the previously shared resources, so...

Labour is not a communist party, is it.

I agree with you but it's not the official message, is it? The message is that you are entitled to a state pension subject to national insurance contributions.

The people that voted Labour on here are not necessarily socialists

They commission the programme from the production company, they can ask as part of that agreement for Wallace to be removed (as they have now done).

Thankfully your mate Kier is doing fuck all about kids in poverty or people on the streets, as some of my previous posts demonstrate

Anyway, french government tries the sort of austerity practiced in the UK and collapses 😂

You wouldn't pay a pension at all on that basis, but given that they do, there is no real reason why they don't uprate similar to other pensioners.

Me either really, the individual is not in control of the government of the place where they live.

Sweden in theory should be a greater force than they are, two superb forwards

To be fair the uprating of pensions based on a reciprocal arrangement with the country that person lives in seems ok. According to an article I read Canadian pensioners living in the UK have their state pension uprated by the Canadian government so it's unclear why there isn't reciprocity for UK...

I've had it after a few consecutive days on the piss. It's horrible. Even worse when you're in Benidorm with your mates 🤦🏻‍♀️

It's hard to understand why the BBC didn't just fuck him off years ago. I don't know anybody who watches MasterChef to be hear him go "Ooh that's laverley"

Paul Hollywood seems a bit suspect and as for Noel Fielding, he's known to be an iffy c**t

Anyway, work's Christmas do this Friday and it's at a fucking Roxy Ballroom. It's one of those places with loads of games to force 'fun'. Rather just get a room in a pub, get a buffet on and let everybody have the craic.

I love it when somebody says "I don't like the mainstream Christmas songs, my favourite one is the Pogues and Kirsty McColl"

It's not happening