Before I post, what’s the forum rules on wishing harm and/or death on people?
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Before I post, what’s the forum rules on wishing harm and/or death on people?
She's an absolute scumbag.
I wish her a career ending injury
I had never heard about him before today, and I don't live in Britain, but my ideologue radar didn't immediately go off. I feel like it's quite symptomatic of the current information landscape that you find it accurare and others call it ideologically driven nonsense. I don't know what to think now
Then my advice is to adapt a mind set like everyone else (seems to do) that 'your truth' is the only real truth... and start from there. Also to continual refer to others who don't agree with you as ..at best 'Muppets'... or at worse 'Morons'. However beware this almost always never works in convincing people they are wrong and you are right and can lead you to self doubt or maybe just to wonder why others cannot see or understand that you are right.
*The posts in the Red caf are full of these practical examples...
Heartily encouraged in her case.
Conversely, I wouldn’t wish her on any disease.
She’s just smelled what she’s shovelling
Even by Tory standards, this government and in particular the Cabinet manage to sink to historic lower and lower levels of morality by each day.
Utterly despicable.
Priti Patel alluding to corruption when discussing party gate and Boris and sue gray on a gb news clip earlier. How about someone from the left accuse her to her face if her corrupt ppe dealings. Then the world would cave in with outrage at the sheer audacity of accusing her.
The left need to start throwing punches the way the right do.
The left need to start throwing punches the way the right do.
The left aren’t allowed to get their hands dirty like that. It’s a moral outrage when they do.
Tory Scum.
Remember the Tapered Annual Allowance applies so people earning £360k+ per annum still only get tax relief on £10k pension contributions per annum (admittedly up from £4k per annum previously). Between £260k and £360k you "lose" £1 of tax relief for every £2 earned.
It would be very difficult to get tax relief on a pension pot above the £1.073m pre-budget limit whilst only getting relief on £10k per year.
It's a tax cut on the upper middle classes (and middle classes in London) rather than the very wealthy. Although "very wealthy" is subjective of course.
£360k a year is very wealthy and it's a symptom of a broken economic system that that isn't necessarily thought of as being the case. If you're earning 10x the average salary, by anybody's view you should be considered very wealthy. I think when that law was proposed in Switzerland it was that nobody at a company should earn more than 12x what the lowest paid worker earned. I think the more recognised number might be 20x. Either way, you're well on your way towards that.
The point was just that people on £360k per annum wouldn't benefit from the change. It's people on £125k - £250k who'll benefit the most (especially those with large, usually public sector, pensions on top).
So in other words ministers and MPs with 2nd jobs. Great.
Oh, 100%. For clarity I don't agree with the policy.
Wasn't saying you did, thanks for clarifying how the policy works for me!
The Tories have been steadily rising in the polls the last few months. Don’t forget that they won the last election at a canter on the Brexit vote, and that’s exactly who they’re aiming at winning back with these anti-immigrant policies.
They've also disenfranchised a good portion of the population that would vote against them in future elections. I saw the first advert today (a billboard) informing me that ID will be required before you can vote in the May elections. Spoke to many friends/family recently that have no idea it will be a thing from May elections onwards. Weird the adverts start appearing so close to the elections that anyone who doesn't have ID probably won't be able to get it (i.e. buy it as no free ones available [edit - unless you're a pensioner]) until after the election.
Especially if they bring people in numbers over to Rwanda, it will be a problem for Labour to win.
What?
I'd love to believe these numbers. If the Greens could get more than just the one MP in and the Tories were crushed we might even have a fighting chance at getting some growth in the economy and putting some type of dent in our climate targets over the next few years...
Zero chance of those numbers in a general as the British electorate are incredibly
To sure how reliable that poll is
Neither am I but I think it's up to you to back up your original point, that 'The Tories have been steadily rising in the polls the last few months'. Is it true or not?
They don't have the media behind them. There would be wholesale condemnation for such a statement.
They've been slowly rising since November yeah. They're currently at their highest since then according to the politico poll of polls.
Still a significant gap but Labour will need a 13% lead going into an election campaign, they've got an approx 19% lead today. I don't doubt the Tories will close that only question is by how much.
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Thanks. The recent uptick is quite small then. Can't be arsed looking at what caused the November lows, it was always unlikely they would stay. But then again I try to never rule anything out in politics, been surprised too many times.It's not quite steady and it's from an incredibly low base but...
It was the mayhem of Truss. They were never realistically going to stay as low as they were in the polls at that time forever.
Tory councillor suspended over ‘Pride sex flags’ comment
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-councillor-suspended-over-pride-sex-flags-comment-mmbn35c6t
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-councillor-suspended-over-pride-sex-flags-comment-mmbn35c6t
This is disgusting. Absolute state of British politics with this idiot as Home Secretary.
I think I need to go back to therapy, these lot are making me want to just walk in to the North Sea.
Potentially the most unfit any MP has ever been for a cabinet position and that is saying something.
Looks like the xenophobic/racist/fascist culture wars are starting to work for the Tories then.It's not quite steady and it's from an incredibly low base but...
Good on them. Hope all the other strikers get what they're owed as well.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64970708
