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  • Jacob
    Jacob replied to the thread No Fault Evictions.
    You mean the 5% who have loadsa dosh and can afford to pay higher taxes and help social progress and civilisation...
  • Jacob
    Jacob replied to the thread Favourite hand plane and why.
    Come to think mine is the ECE scrub. Small and light but removes material faster than anything else. I use it for cleaning up old...
  • Jacob
    Jacob replied to the thread No Fault Evictions.
    Who decides on the merit in a meritocracy? Many ordinary workers work harder and for longer hours than most, but for low wages and...
  • Jacob
    Jacob replied to the thread No Fault Evictions.
    Working class tends to mean people who work for wages generally so low that they do not accumulate wealth. It used to mean unskilled or...
  • Jacob
    Jacob replied to the thread US Election November 5th.
    My guess is that the Republicans will dump Trump at the last minute and substitute something slightly more humanoid in a lighter shade...
  • Jacob
    Jacob reacted to paulrbarnard's post in the thread US Election November 5th with Like Like.
    Probably it would be a more factual debate if they mute the mics while the candidates is talking.
  • Jacob
    Jacob replied to the thread No Fault Evictions.
    ChatGPT! 🤣 An echo chamber for populist opinions, they being in the majority. Nevertheless you have to note the amount of state...
  • Jacob
    1 It's the Telegraph, typical scaremongering and hence very likely to misrepresent the facts. 2 "Excess" deaths means deaths over and...
  • Jacob
    Jacob replied to the thread No Fault Evictions.
    Where is this meritocratic paradise you all talk about? Is there an example anywhere in the world? Nobody ever answers this question...
  • Jacob
    Jacob replied to the thread No Fault Evictions.
    Examples? Where is this non socialist utopia? Liz Truss was supposed to lead us to this promised land. Brexit was supposed to be a step...
  • Jacob
    Jacob replied to the thread No Fault Evictions.
    You are, by definition, apparent in every post you make! A very conventional right wing view. There is no "prejudice against success...
  • Jacob
    Jacob replied to the thread Unusual horned plane.
    It's a common European design sometimes referred to in the UK as a "Bismarck" . I've got several including an ECE scrub and a very...
  • Jacob
    Jacob reacted to John Brown's post in the thread No Fault Evictions with Like Like.
    Prison, like taxation, is for little people. Although, to be fair, Leona Helmsley did serve 19 months in prison.
  • Jacob
    Jacob reacted to selectortone's post in the thread No Fault Evictions with Like Like.
    Will anyone ever go to prison for Grenfell? Or Post Office/Horizon? Or the contaminated blood scandal? (To name just the ones that...
  • Jacob
    Jacob replied to the thread No Fault Evictions.
    I did say "not alone". Cameron was PM and just happens to have been caught out lying about it so he is high up the list of those...
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