niemeyjt
Established Member
Come now - not the first, wont be the last - gets his job because he ticks some diversity box rather than having any ability.
So did I. Looks like we have something in common after all.I voted green last time.
And his opposition counterpart is Cleverly, also a buffoon.They do have a large majority but when it comes to those seats many are marginal and won with a small majority. The Mp's who have to face there constituents are at the front end and get the feedback whilst starmer cares little for them as there job of voting is now over. The party is held together by Starmer, he lets go and it falls apart as the members all belong to various groups within like an umbrella company and to much power can be self destructive.
A double win for the chancellor, savings on winter fuel allowance and yes everyone knows older people will die if we get a bad winter but that will just save her more money as no more pension to pay either, I feel that they look at the older generation as just a burden and would be better off without them.
That is already wearing very thin and much of it already discounted, they cannot hide behind them excuses forever. The one thing they can blame the predecessors for is getting into number 10.
Amazing how people like him can get a job that is way over his head, just a waste of space and should be working in warehousing with no public contact.
Lib Dem here. Tories didn't deserve to get my vote, and couldn't bring myself to vote labour.So did I. Looks like we have something in common after all.
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Rather than try to re-join
But we have done and it has been a disaster with no "attractive deals" or any other obvious benefits......we should cut all remaining ties to a sinking ship and allow us the freedom to open up attractive deals with other countries.
Not actually their idea - the previous government had exactly this policy in their plans. They didn't finish getting it through parliament for various reasons, but the EPC level C rules was a Conservative policy. Rightly or wrongly, that was their policy.Because of this shower's ideas, there are going to be far fewer rental properties available which will negate any housebuilding numbers for affordable rentals for some years to come
It's certainly true for those wanting the 'extras' like foreign travel, Sky, smart phones, clothes with designer labels all etc.The world of our childhood is no longer with us. And, there is no way of going back to it. My parents generation could function with one main wage earner per household. Those were the days when married men were paid more than single men and women were paid a lot less. Those were the days when married women stayed at home to look after the children. They also kept an eye out for the older generation who were finding it difficult to cope. This in a sense was part of the 'social services' of the day
Things have changed to the extent that one wage is no longer enough to keep a family.
In fact.one is criticized if every working age member of the household isn't gainfully employed. This is the age when everyone has to work and ones children have to be looked after by others. If one can't look after ones own children then how is one going to look after ones parents?
There should , in a sense be a pact, between the government and its citizens. Which is , that if every citizen is expected to work , to ensure a healthy economy and lots of tax revenue, then the government in return has to supply the necessary child care, and care for the elderly
As Labour moves towards the centre and the Tories less right, will we notice any difference?You couldn't make it up!
Most new PMs and governments have a honeymoon period but this clown is so stupid that he has got to be the most unpopular PM of all time at this early stage in their governance.
He should be walking around with a red nose and huge shoes...it would fit his persona.
First they take away the pensioner's winter fuel payments claiming there is a black hole of £22bn...they didn't say that £9bn is self inflicted by giving it away in above-inflation pay rises to their union paymasters.
I think it's great, they take away the winter fuel payments and give it to already highly paid train drivers...really good logic and I'm sure very popular with the pensioners.
How many billions does it cost to house and deal with the false claimants of asylum but who are in truth economic migrants? They will get put into hotels where they are fed and kept warm while pensioners will struggle to heat their own homes this winter!
Because of this shower's ideas, there are going to be far fewer rental properties available which will negate any housebuilding numbers for affordable rentals for some years to come especially given the numbers of migrants coming here. They will need housing so where are all these homes going to come from?
Rents are only going to get higher rather than lower with people chasing fewer and fewer properties to rent.
Not only that they're considering taking away the single occupant council tax deduction. It just gets worse. There's also a saving to be made with pensioner's free bus passes and that too has been mooted.
I can't wait until next May's local elections...that's when the pensioners will have their revenge
They're also going to tax private education and that in turn means many people can't afford to send their kids to private schools so it increases the load on state schools which can't even find the teachers to fill the posts already available let alone retain the staffing.
...and the voters thought the Conservatives were bad! I'll wager they won't be saying that in a year's time, that's for sure.
If the EU ever had any usefulness as a concept it is certainly no longer sustainable. It has managed to overload with poor eastern european countries all of whom have got in for the perceived financial benefits they will receive. No system can carry that load. The eu has lost it's way and,with so many countries to have to agree on decisions they are now defunct in managing a monster. I mean, seven years to arrange a trade deal and then lose it because one nation does not agree eg Canada.
Rather than try to re-join we should cut all remaining ties to a sinking ship and allow us the freedom to open up attractive deals with other countries.
There hasn't been anything attractive emanating from Brexit....no attractive trade deals emanating from Brexit.
No idea what computer systems you're trying to access but just checked HMRC and I can see my State pension alongside other stuff.....
It was 14 years of Tory austerity that underfunded HMRC and DWP so that their computer systems don't talk to each other.
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I've no doubt many of the plans we are seeing now were mooted by the previous government but they were only plans so that doesn't mean that Starmer et all must automatically follow what they proposed.Not actually their idea - the previous government had exactly this policy in their plans. They didn't finish getting it through parliament for various reasons, but the EPC level C rules was a Conservative policy. Rightly or wrongly, that was their policy.
On different levels most things can get too large and cumbersome so that they can longer be managed as a single entity or they get to big for their boots, the EU is a good example but also the BBC and the NHS. Ones that had reached this point and are no longer are British rail and British gas in it's conceptual form.If the EU ever had any usefulness as a concept it is certainly no longer sustainable.
It is worse than that, childhood is rushed and the teenager phase has gone, been replaced with go get a degree in anything.The world of our childhood is no longer with us.
Those that voted labour were warned of the dire consequences of a labour government and what they might do, they have a history of bad financial decisions but could get away with it when the economy was buoyant. But you cannot blame the minority who did bother to vote, what about the majority who did not bother to vote at all, they also knew what would happen if Labour won the election but never cast a vote.and the voters thought the Conservatives were bad
So give them a chance. They've only been in power for three months and parliament was in recess for most of that.The Tories lost the election and Labour won with a handsome majority, therefore they are in a position to review and change those plans before they are implemented, but they won't and will use the fact that the Tories were the ones who thought these plans up
In recent years I never thought of the Tories as anything other than wannabee socialists...they were more socialist than the socialists of that period...how the Tories reacted to saving the jobs and people's livelihoods was clearly evident during the Covid crisis.As Labour moves towards the centre and the Tories less right, will we notice any difference?
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