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Ironically it’s probably these guys: But they’ve also got their fair share of nutters. The selection process for Polticians has a lot to answer for. It basically selects for weirdness and obsession.

They basically cost what one person makes in my experience making them entirely pointless aside from the fact you want to socialise your kid so they’ve got you by the balls. Said before I’d rather we front loaded the cash and support at early years. I did see something that we pay more because...

I hear they’ve got this new thing on the Internet called jokes.

Football tickets aren’t massively price elastic. Fans find the money when it’s good and when it’s bad you can’t give tickets away (as anyone with a spare season ticket in L1/2 can attest)

Oh he said that when we stayed up We’d go to Europe and win a cup Oh we never did it, although I often thought of it Oh Richarse do you recall? Highfield Road was very small With the writing on the wall When the council came to call You didn’t hesitate at alllll And I said let’s all meet up at...

I hope you’re Clive’s new replacement, would be like he’d never left.

“Dear Sirs, I hope this email finds you well…”

Im saying that just calling everyone who has kids at a sustainable rate stupid is a pretty wild generalisation. If choice and education lead to a species that can’t sustain itself what do you do about that? People were telling me it’s 100% about finances. I only brought up poorer people having...

I hear Putin is great at wrestling bears and Kim Jong Un has the biggest dick in Korea too.

Old enough to do all that but can’t get insurance through Saga or claim the state pension or rent a van 😔 All the arguments are silly aren’t they really? But as we need an age let’s just make it 18 when you’re an adult and the government considers you an autonomous being.

Babies for some Somalians for others?

I dunno my ex went from class teacher to ass head as a single mum working part time.

I want everyone to pay more taxes. You don’t want that. Grrrr taxes. OK I want everyone to have more kids to the tax burden is shared more. You don’t want that. Grrr benefits. OK I want us to accept we’ll have to bring working age immigrants in to share the tax burden. You don’t want that...

Recent immigrants tend to start at similar family sizes and within a generation or two are roughly at the UK average. That’s assimilation for you. I think you wildly overestimate how many people are living off the state Nick I’ll be honest. It’s not every single immigrant and everyone without a...

Not sure age matter much other than the fact that you’re more likely to become infertile but yeah. We need a way to sort out the inverted population pyramid and that’s either make the bottom bigger with births, make the middle bigger with immigration or get everyone in the middle paying a whole...

If you’ve got a better one apply to 1 Nobel Prize Way, Sweden for your prize.

Why do you think old people cost the state a lot? It’s not cleaning up after all their parties.

I think what the evidence shows: that generally those kids grow up and pay taxes that pay for mine and your retirement and keep our taxes lower when working. You’re completely ass backwards on the economics of this. Because you’re trying to make what you see as a moral issue have some economic...

There is one solution for economies hit by low birth rates who don’t want to raise taxes or magically find a way to encourage more children. But I don’t think this thread will like it.

You planning to reveal your secret to perfect health to the scientific community or keeping it to yourself?