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MalcSB

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  • Nov 1, 2024
  • #45,361
shmmeee said:
Thinking about the budget. I wonder if the thinking behind loading the tax onto particularly low wage employment is to try and drive up automation as they’re making full expensing permanent. Maybe just cope.
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Let’s hope that social care, dentistry and general practice can all be automated.
 
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Marty

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  • Nov 1, 2024
  • #45,362
MalcSB said:
TBH I have seen many, many very large scale building developments around the couple of places I have lived over the past 6 years or so and I am sure there are quite a few boomers in those areas. Obviously not terribly successful at stopping such developments.

Perhaps developers should be required to include a higher percentage of affordable starter homes in their plans.

It is quite possible that many rental properties (student or otherwise) will come back on to the market. Thing is , like the right to buy experience, once they are gone they are gone and they probably aren’t in sufficient numbers to address the issue. Their return to owner occupier status will almost certainly see rents increase.
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I live on a street with many HMOs for students, now all are housing asylum seekers, the street has gone massively downhill since they moved in and I expect it to get worse as loads are selling up and moving on. Litter everywhere, human shit in the street, it doesn't feel safe anymore and no chance will I let the missus pop to the shops on her own when its dark.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 1, 2024
  • #45,363
Who OBRs the OBR?

 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,364
fernandopartridge said:
The UK could have retained a customs union and / or remained a member of the single market without being an EU member. Without going over tired old ground, the remain campaign disastrously went for an all or nothing approach and it got nowhere.
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To be fair that option was also being suggested by Leave before they actually won.

The EEA route would have been a fair compromise between the two side, left the country better off and wouldn’t have led to years and money wasted on it.
 
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MalcSB

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,365
shmmeee said:
Who OBRs the OBR?

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It could have been COBRA ( Checkers of Office for Budget Responsibility’s Arithmetic) except thats already been used. @fernandopartridge would have been Chairperson.
 

SkyBlueCharlie9

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,366
Marty said:
I live on a street with many HMOs for students, now all are housing asylum seekers, the street has gone massively downhill since they moved in and I expect it to get worse as loads are selling up and moving on. Litter everywhere, human shit in the street, it doesn't feel safe anymore and no chance will I let the missus pop to the shops on her own when its dark.
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More anecdotal racist claptrap from Marty. May be aluen to you but you might want to consider referencing proper research and evidence to inform your opinion. For someone who has made lots of mysoginistic jokes, good to see there is a caring side for your 'missus'.
 

SkyBlueCharlie9

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,367
Grendel said:
Oh dear. The mask is slipping.
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Deflection from the question again!
Been meaning to ask who you would go for in Tory leadership contest..... Bobby Jenrick or Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch ? Not allowed to sit on the fence as its going on the spreadsheet.
 

MalcSB

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,368
SkyBlueCharlie9 said:
More anecdotal racist claptrap from Marty. May be aluen to you but you might want to consider referencing proper research and evidence to inform your opinion. For someone who has made lots of mysoginistic jokes, good to see there is a caring side for your 'missus'.
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How is that anecdotal - he is describing his lived experience which requires no research on his part.

To challenge it, you would have to live on his street for a couple of weeks.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,369
MalcSB said:
How is that anecdotal - he is describing his lived experience which requires no research on his part.

To challenge it, you would have to live on his street for a couple of weeks.
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Just write out a huge post on my homeless mate who is a bit racist but also spends his life competing and losing out to recent immigrants for jobs and services. And generally agreeing with you.

Then I realised that I can be pedantic and this is the internet so I’m going to point out that a description of lived experience is literally what an anecdote is.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,370
shmmeee said:
Who OBRs the OBR?

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Just abolish it

What's the point in having ministers if they're subservient to a body that can't even get its sums right

Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk
 
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Grendel

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,371
SkyBlueCharlie9 said:
Deflection from the question again!
Been meaning to ask who you would go for in Tory leadership contest..... Bobby Jenrick or Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch ? Not allowed to sit on the fence as it’s going on the spreadsheet.
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Badenoch for me Charles. Who did you vote for?
 

Marty

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,372
SkyBlueCharlie9 said:
More anecdotal racist claptrap from Marty. May be aluen to you but you might want to consider referencing proper research and evidence to inform your opinion. For someone who has made lots of mysoginistic jokes, good to see there is a caring side for your 'missus'.
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You truly are an utter bellend. I didn't mention any one's race, that's you and your hatred for others shining through, again.

You insults dont bother me, only a few weeks ago you called me what was it? A far right trump lover because I grow my own food and pickle them.
 
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Philosoraptor

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,373
I'm guessing schmeeee is on the edge of his seat at the moment.
 

Ring Of Steel

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,374
Philosoraptor said:
I'm guessing schmeeee is on the edge of his seat at the moment.
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I just looked at the CVs of these people, my god. Then you have Starmer on the other side. And over in USA you have Trump & Harris- what a truly, horribly bleak era this is.

… so the lady wins, someone who according to the BBC is “loved by right wing voters”
 
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MalcSB

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,375
shmmeee said:
Just write out a huge post on my homeless mate who is a bit racist but also spends his life competing and losing out to recent immigrants for jobs and services. And generally agreeing with you.

Then I realised that I can be pedantic and this is the internet so I’m going to point out that a description of lived experience is literally what an anecdote is.
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Thanks for the reminder of the literal meaning of an anecdote. I’d kind of got it in my head, wrongly, that skybluecharlie was meaning a third party anecdote.

It doesn’t require research though, does it.
 
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Grendel

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,376
The racist old duffers in the Tory membership have elected the first black person to lead a uk political party
 

Philosoraptor

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,377
I wonder what the odds are for the next change of Conservative leader?
 

Grendel

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,378
Philosoraptor said:
I wonder what the odds are for the next change of Conservative leader?
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Make is a wild card but I think will do pretty well
 

Ring Of Steel

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,379
Philosoraptor said:
I wonder what the odds are for the next change of Conservative leader?
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I am not political at all, however my take would be that all she has to do is avoid scandal, avoid any embarrassing blunders, bang on about Brexit, bang on about immigration, look after old people- and she then sweeps to power in a few years. If she does that I don’t see any chance for Starmer, in my judgement he’s only there because even conservatives couldn’t handle any more sleaze, drama & embarrassing incidents.
 

Philosoraptor

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,380
Grendel said:
Make is a wild card but I think will do pretty well
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I'll be honest with you. I haven't followed this that closely.

My first thoughts are that one sits on the right whilst the other one moved over recently.
 

chiefdave

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,381
Ring Of Steel said:
Then you have Starmer on the other side.
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Bet Starmer can't believe his luck. Wins a landslide based on little more than the government being terrible and now they've elected a leader who makes the last few leaders look sane and competent.

Struggling to see how her rhetoric will help them recapture the centrist votes they need to get back into power.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,382
chiefdave said:
Bet Starmer can't believe his luck. Wins a landslide based on little more than the government being terrible and now they've elected a leader who makes the last few leaders look sane and competent.

Struggling to see how her rhetoric will help them recapture the centrist votes they need to get back into power.
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Well if everyone who voted reform in the last GE return and also the 4 million who didn’t vote now do?
 
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Philosoraptor

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,383
Ring Of Steel said:
I am not political at all, however my take would be that all she has to do is avoid scandal, avoid any embarrassing blunders, bang on about Brexit, bang on about immigration, look after old people- and she then sweeps to power in a few years. If she does that I don’t see any chance for Starmer, in my judgement he’s only there because even conservatives couldn’t handle any more sleaze, drama & embarrassing incidents.
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Likewise, as close to an anarchist as you can get. Just think the intrinsic natures in Democracy are worth keeping, unfortunately the downside of this is having political parties.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,384
Philosoraptor said:
Likewise, as close to an anarchist as you can get. Just think the intrinsic natures in Democracy are worth keeping, unfortunately the downside of this is having political parties.
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If it wasn’t for democracy like minded people would never organise to achieve shared goals
 
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Philosoraptor

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,385
shmmeee said:
If it wasn’t for democracy like minded people would never organise to achieve shared goals
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The Kraken awakes....
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,386
HTSITYS


Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,387
fernandopartridge said:
HTSITYS


Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk
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Oh no. If Starmer calls a snap election we’re screwed.
 
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PVA

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,388
fernandopartridge said:
HTSITYS


Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk
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You were posting close polls during the election campaign and ignoring all the ones showing massive Labour leads, how did that work out?

HTSITYS
 
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,389
How dense are the Tory membership, their response to the country saying we're fed up of this shit is to give them more of the same shit. Genius.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,390
PVA said:
How dense are the Labour government, their response to the country saying we're fed up of this shit is to give them more of the same shit. Genius.
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Corrected
 
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CCFCSteve

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,391
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Corrected
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Not sure you can class £40bn of tax rises and extra £30bn of borrowing, more of the same.

I have no major issue with either but I just hope that it’s spent wisely and the country sees some tangible benefit
 
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PVA

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,392
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Corrected
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I don't remember the tories going after business, private schools, private jets, non doms etc
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,393
CCFCSteve said:
Not sure you can class £40bn of tax rises and extra £30bn of borrowing, more of the same.

I have no major issue with either but I just hope that it’s spent wisely and the country sees some tangible benefit
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To be honest Steve I've kind of given up on hoping that the government can do me or the country much good. Certainly neither of these parties in their current forms anyway.
 

Grendel

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,394
PVA said:
I don't remember the tories going after business, private schools, private jets, non doms etc
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nor pensioners or young people hoping for an inheritance from their parents pensions or workers who even the chancellor admits will face lower wage increases
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #45,395
Why do so many people struggle to see that business as in Amazon or Tesco is a completely different world to a small business with less than 10 employees?

It's all well and good people pulling their cocks off about private schools, employers and landlords being hit thinking it's going to make a difference to the elite people.

It's not, it's going to be Dave the electrician who's built a business and has a handful of employees. Isn't massively well off but put his kid into Henry's to do his best for them.

It's the same when people demand all of these rights like "full sick pay and maternity from day one". Have they ever run or worked in a small business or are they just used to working at a big company / councils etc.
 
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