The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)

[Come On You Irons]

There. Resident WHO political commentators and gurus can knock yourselves out in here and conduct your endless bickering. All other threads will be locked.

[Lee Trundle]

Kent County Council (Reform) cancelling Christmas 
No Christmas lights going up due to lamp posts covered in flags
Safety issue, innit

Reckon we've got 4 more years of pathetic articles like that to sully Reform, Sven (which you'll lap up).

I don't think it's going to work, though.

[Fauxstralian]

Kent County Council (Reform) cancelling Christmas 
No Christmas lights going up due to lamp posts covered in flags
Safety issue, innit

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

Serious question …
All this talk by Rachel from Accounts about low productivity in the UK 
In this modern world of services & finance etc how do they actually calculate productivity given most people don’t work in factories knocking out widgets these days?
With modern technology I imagine most office based people are far more productive than they ever were

I think if you allow half the population to skive from home and the other half to do a four day week for a full week's money, then productivity will drop off a tad.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Serious question …
All this talk by Rachel from Accounts about low productivity in the UK 
In this modern world of services & finance etc how do they actually calculate productivity given most people don’t work in factories knocking out widgets these days?
With modern technology I imagine most office based people are far more productive than they ever were

Very few people actually make anything of worth these days, anything that adds actual wealth to the economy.

The most money seems to be "created" through adding, then pocketing, commission to the little stuff the UK actually creates as it moves through the supply chain from creator to consumer.

[Fauxstralian]

Serious question …
All this talk by Rachel from Accounts about low productivity in the UK 
In this modern world of services & finance etc how do they actually calculate productivity given most people don’t work in factories knocking out widgets these days?
With modern technology I imagine most office based people are far more productive than they ever were

[Mike Oxsaw]

Someone sent me this earlier:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/737105

Not sure if it's real/matters...

[BerlingtonBertie]

Maybe stop sending arms/money to Ukraine and sink any  incoming boats in the channel. That would be a good start and save a few quid. Fucking ponces and nonces running the UK since the 90’s.
A great nation ruined by incompetence and do gooders.
 

[WHU(Exeter)]

Fewer people working harder, paying more, for more and more not working.

Still it's great to know that all those taxes are being spent wisely, and the state of public bodies is in such a great state and doesn't lend itself open to jaw dropping incompetence on an almost daily basis.

[Tomshardware]

Read this earlier, not sure if it's true, maybe someone can clarify?  

"When Tony Blair came  to power the national debt was 25% when he left it was 65%. The Conservatives had spent the last 14 years trying to pay of that debt that Labour had accumulated and also paying for a pandemic. Under Starmer 91% to 97% national debt in 18 months."

Blair spent it on Education Education Education.

[violator]

Surprised she didn't blame it all on the flags...or VAR

[goose]

the speech was pretty much a list of excuses then told you that you'll have to pay for it.

labour (which means you) are fucked, they cannot get any welfare reform through parliament so the only option is to keep hiking taxes.

[zico]

Read this earlier, not sure if it's true, maybe someone can clarify?  

"When Tony Blair came  to power the national debt was 25% when he left it was 65%. The Conservatives had spent the last 14 years trying to pay of that debt that Labour had accumulated and also paying for a pandemic. Under Starmer 91% to 97% national debt in 18 months."

[WHU(Exeter)]

I love the way she shoehorned AI into the speech a couple times.

”ooooh, brand new shiny AI!!! In that case please tax me more”!!

[goose]

She blames the cost of borrowing while ignoring the fact it’s gone up under her watch.
She blames inflation while ignoring the fact her NI increase has caused this.

There’s no attempt to cut the welfare bill, just tax working people more.

This labour government hates you.

[Far Cough UKunt]

Fuck all to do with covid and even if it was then why wasn't it an issue at the previous budget. 

It's just rank bad financial irresponsibility.

The cunts need voting out for reneging on their promise not to raise taxes, to the electorate.

[BRANDED]

Seemed to be doing the Covid nonsense. Absolute cuntery of it.

[goose]

big speech delivered by Rachel from accounts, basically paving the way for income tax hikes in the budget.

if this was France people would be rioting.

[OK_Guy]

an apt weekend to remind people of what it must of been like for Jews in Germany before/during WW2... what have we become, this made my heart sink to read/watch

Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkznvv3j05o

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLJpiz6HW_4

[Mike Oxsaw]

Sorry, wrong thread.

Not so wrong.

Not sure Lord Upminster - the proper Lord Upminster, not this site's resident imposter - would have much truck with the current shambles of a government.

[Lee Trundle]

It is SLEAZE not SLEEZE

Get it right , LEA



 

 

Thanks, Sven.  Just so you're aware, I'm not one to get too bothered if I spell something incorrectly if I've managed to communicate what I wanted.  I've noticed that it becomes really important to you once you've lost the argument.  I wouldn't want you wasting your time on me.

[Nutsin]

Sorry, wrong thread.

[Nutsin]

[Fauxstralian]

It is SLEAZE not SLEEZE

Get it right , LEA

 

[Mike Oxsaw]

Still got the upcoming court cases of those rent boys as well

Can lob in the Child Support Payment fuckeries with all this too - never mind asking about the unauthorised sharing of personal data and the incorrect assumptions they make based on it.

This one, though seems to have been set with a longer fuse, so there's clearly more incoming shit to hit the fan and the fireworks from this can wait a bit.

[violator]

Still got the upcoming court cases of those rent boys as well