Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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How often do you see the BBC interrupt the news to tell you who's top of the charts?
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shmmeee
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Government. That’s who normally builds and operates things there’s no economic case for. I’m just not sure why you’d refuse to build anything in case somewhere a house is built without what you’d consider the right amenities.
shmmeee
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Just like every previous Christmas when it was an anti Tory song then.
Watching the right work out what opposition is like sure is entertaining.
Sick Boy
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I always knew you’d be into furries.
shmmeee
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If that’s your sub I won’t judge.
duffer
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Talk about a shambles. The government cuts WFA with the excuse that the worst affected will be able to claim pension credit.
Then they can't manage the surge of claimants for pension credit. So guess what, the poorest pensioners who relied on WFA will now go cold over Christmas.
And we have people who's only real justification for voting for Starmer was that he was at least competent.
Nope, turns out he's both a liar and incompetent.
More brainless, cowardly shite, by a government that's bound itself into the same fiscal nonsense that hasn't worked in the last few decades.
It's not austerity though, apparently.
Then they can't manage the surge of claimants for pension credit. So guess what, the poorest pensioners who relied on WFA will now go cold over Christmas.
And we have people who's only real justification for voting for Starmer was that he was at least competent.
Nope, turns out he's both a liar and incompetent.
More brainless, cowardly shite, by a government that's bound itself into the same fiscal nonsense that hasn't worked in the last few decades.
It's not austerity though, apparently.
Pensioners could miss out on Winter Fuel Payment this year
Tens of thousands of pensioners might not get their Winter Fuel Payments this year because of a backlog in processing claims.
www.bbc.co.uk
shmmeee
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Talk about a shambles. The government cuts WFA with the excuse that the worst affected will be able to claim pension credit.
Then they can't manage the surge of claimants for pension credit. So guess what, the poorest pensioners who relied on WFA will now go cold over Christmas.
And we have people who's only real justification for voting for Starmer was that he was at least competent.
Nope, turns out he's both a liar and incompetent.
More brainless, cowardly shite, by a government that's bound itself into the same fiscal nonsense that hasn't worked in the last few decades.
It's not austerity though, apparently.
Pensioners could miss out on Winter Fuel Payment this year
Tens of thousands of pensioners might not get their Winter Fuel Payments this year because of a backlog in processing claims.www.bbc.co.uk
Im not sure how hiring more people to ensure more people get benefits is austerity but sure. Buzz word I guess.
They must have shifted all the civil servants over to the home office dealing with all those asylum claims!Talk about a shambles. The government cuts WFA with the excuse that the worst affected will be able to claim pension credit.
Then they can't manage the surge of claimants for pension credit. So guess what, the poorest pensioners who relied on WFA will now go cold over Christmas.
And we have people who's only real justification for voting for Starmer was that he was at least competent.
Nope, turns out he's both a liar and incompetent.
More brainless, cowardly shite, by a government that's bound itself into the same fiscal nonsense that hasn't worked in the last few decades.
It's not austerity though, apparently.
Pensioners could miss out on Winter Fuel Payment this year
Tens of thousands of pensioners might not get their Winter Fuel Payments this year because of a backlog in processing claims.www.bbc.co.uk
Oh no they've recruited 500 extra staff.sounds like this initiative has had a spillover to actual claim's that have been made in really good time, like back to spring, although who gets the blame for that as it was a different administration?
Brighton Sky Blue
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Interesting to watch the Question Time from Lincoln a few weeks ago where Farage was in full character lighting the touch paper on blaming immigrants for everything that’s wrong with the country.
The quite pathetic Labour minister and random Tory on there didn’t have a clue. Sleepwalking into a Reform government if neither party sorts itself out.
The quite pathetic Labour minister and random Tory on there didn’t have a clue. Sleepwalking into a Reform government if neither party sorts itself out.
Sky Blue Pete
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And I wonder who’s been in charge
Sky Blue Pete
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I still dream he’ll be found out but I doubt it
Have always been told to run a mile from frauds offering simple solutions to complex problems but maybe that’s why I’m not rich
Sick Boy
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At the moment nothing will change under Starmer. As @Brighton Sky Blue says above, the country will sleepwalk into a Reform government.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Dig a little deeper and he makes contradictory points. Blames Labour for giving pay rises to the public sector but also wants immigration to come down when we rely heavily on foreign labour to work in the NHS and social care.
There is a left wing argument to getting immigration down as a way of strengthening our economic and workforce security, but I haven’t heard Labour making it.
Sky Blue Pete
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Gallop
Even my considered friends think there going to solve everything and MBGA make Britain’s great again
And my lads peers at school love someone who shouts at those that disagree and blames everything on groups that aren’t them
Sky Blue Pete
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They’re the least worst and certainly at best centrist but still contain left of centre individuals in the parliamentary party
Brighton Sky Blue
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Wife and I were discussing how the cost of everything just continues to spiral while our income gets more squeezed and Labour just point to a slightly smaller deficit.
Sky Blue Pete
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Need to be much braver
Brighton Sky Blue
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They don’t need a majority, just a plurality.
Sky Blue Pete
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Cos sunak is no longer in charge he sorted it out
Sky Blue Pete
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Grendel
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There is an irony that the 16 - 18 voting idea will probably benefit Reform as they seem to have some sway with younger voters but it would be monumental for a party to achieve the number of seats needed from virtually ground zero
Sky Blue Pete
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New world
Brighton Sky Blue
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Perhaps not if the vote were split along the sort of lines it is now.
Grendel
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The only way they would have a hope is if they signed some big names from the Tory Party
shmmeee
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The argument for lowering immigration isn’t right or left wing it’s about democracy. The country has very clearly had a majority for lower immigration for almost 20 years. Any government that doesn’t deliver it isn’t representing its constituents.
shmmeee
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FPTP doesn’t favour over the air, low ground support, geographically diffused parties. Like when the Lib Dem’s “surged” in 2010.
Also Trump won’t be in power in 2029 and we have no idea if Musk will still have his latest fascination. These aren’t reliable political allies we’re talking about.
But if they don’t handle immigration like everyone else they’ll get kicked out and a reform Tory coalition is likely at best.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Yeah. The party is both anti-immigration and pro- big business/rich. But those to are incompatable. For business to make huge profits low-wage immigration is absolutely vital.
IF he got into power he would definitely put big business ahead of immigration. Trouble is he'd still find ways to blame others for the immigration situation not being sorted out and there'd be plenty in his personality cult willing to swallow it for quite a long time.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Wouldn't put it past Boris.The only way they would have a hope is if they signed some big names from the Tory Party
I think it's far more likely Farage will defect to the Tories in a year or so and then become leader before the next GE, which the Tories would win comfortably and make the last lot of Tory nutcases look almost sane.
chiefdave
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OK, I'll bite. Why?