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I have to say though I think that’s their fault. There seem to be a major misunderstanding what being in a coalition means. It means a negotiated combination of 2 (or more) parties policies with some policies inevitably falling by the wayside. Sorry but anyone who thought that voting Lib Dem...

If Braverman and BadEnoch are the final 2 the Tory memberships heads are going to explode trying to pick the craziest out of those two.

They’re tearing themselves apart

It is, but they didn’t address that with the money saved.

The last 2 years aside though our spending in real terms has gone down for over a decade and our military has shrunk considerably in terms of personnel.

They’ve learned fuck all from the GE

Didn’t it come out last year that pretty much every boss Ofwat has ever had was either a former director of a water company or went on to be a director of a water company when they left? I think the current Ofwat boss is the former from memory.

If you were being cynical you’d suggest that they’ve taken all of last year’s profits out as one last hurrah before dumping it and the government to pick up the pieces. Read in an earlier article about how they’re going to run out of money next year and last year they made a profit of… checks...

How on earth was Thames Water allowed to pay out £158 in dividends in March and then plead poverty today? The system is so loaded.

If nothing else it created some good memes https://www.thepoke.com/2024/07/09/turns-out-the-ai-reform-uk-candidate-really-is-an-actual-person-and-this-interview-just-made-the-whole-thing-even-better/ My personal favourite

Elon Musk impersonator.

It really was a wasted 14 years when you look back

Certainly used to be allowed. When I left school at 16 none of my mates or myself went on to further education and we were all working in garages, on building sites etc at 16 full time on YTS’ except a day or 2 at college depending on what trade you were doing. Not sure why they changed it so...

It is. I think and hope he’ll persevere as it’s a good trade to have and to be blunt he’s not academically minded but does have a practical mind that means he’s took to to it like a duck to water and if he does persevere he’ll earn a good living out of it. He’s a brute of a lad too, he’s looked...

Can’t central government step in and overrule if they’re unhappy how local government is handling it?

It’s not irrelevant, it shows the scale of the task. We’re building about 210K homes a year at the moment the Tories grew the annual house building figure by 900 last year. I do feel Labour are setting themselves up for a fall though as they’ve put all the emphasis on planning rules, it’s bigger...

Presumably that’s additional every year on top of the previous year. That would put us on almost 300K a year by the end of the current parliament. To put that into some sort of context if they can deliver an extra 14k year on year that would be an 13,100 extra homes than the Tories delivered in...

All the culture war bollocks was very hard right, especially the attacks on the LGBTQ+ community with one specific minority of the LGBTQ+ being especially targeted. Attacking minorities is straight out of the far right playbook. It’s also straight out of the playbook of Orbán.

I think you need to open your eyes.

They’re a damn site nearer to the far right than they are the centre that’s for sure. They’ve spent the last 12 months especially trying to make immigration the biggest issue. Text book far right. But the truth is they’ve been flirting with it since May was Home Secretary.