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Interesting overview from Peston

Agree with this and it’s been my major frustration with the government. They were elected on a growth manifesto and then immediately talked the economy down after the election when they should’ve ridden the post Tory positivity wave. They then exacerbated the problem with emp’er NIC rise (rather...

But this is usually the precursor to suggesting that we can just spend what we want. The challenge in response being but the bond markets will charge even more for borrowing, squeezing public funds further. The response is then we don’t need the bond markets and we can print/borrow from BoE...

Thatcherite spending philosophy?! What, trying to grow the economy? (Not sure that’s working so far) Come on FD. They’re already borrowing and taxing £70bn more per year over the parliament (let’s say £300-350bn). I’d imagine tax will increase further this budget. As the party hasnt shown any...

The ‘working right’ sound like old school traditional Labour voters to me

that’s not quite what was said

Just to be clear, if he’s found to have done anything with minors then it’s disgusting and I hope he feels the full force of the law (unlikely be we can but hope). But I can see why most people in this country would be far more concerned about what’s happening here and now.

Im not saying it’s not but I would expect 99% of people to be more upset/outraged about what’s going on here.

Sure there will be plenty of outrage if/when full details ever come out but there’s stuff that’s happening in our country right now and stuff that happened abroad 20-30 years ago. We can maybe do something about one and fuck all about the other. Which one should we be more upset over ?

Looking at the vitriol on X I can only presume that Gibbs’s been involved in all of the above. I’d never seen even heard of him 48 hours ago

This is what happens. Some Doctors/BMA seem to be the worst kind of capitalists in progressives clothing though. Their behaviour recently shows little regard for either the long term future of the nhs or patients in general. We need a tie in for doctors who are trained (at a significant cost to...

The table below details the starting and top-of-band salaries for an NHS Band 5 employee in England for 2015/16 and 2025/26 (salaries may vary in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland). Pay Point 2015/16 Salary 2025/26 Salary Entry (Starting) £21,692 £31,049 Mid £25,783 (approximate)...

Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s the highest per capita (or was). If it’s happening between gangs it probably slips under the radar but it appears to be spreading outside that. The police commissioner who’s been in post since 2021 has seemingly failed miserably but because he had a Labour badge won...

Young girl (19) was murdered in oldbury last week as well. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3973lp8vl8o.amp We keep being told there’s nothing to see here when it comes to knife/violent crime, the numbers are lower etc. It isn’t feeling that way around Birmingham/West Mids at the moment...

We all know how thin skinned Trump is and he will use any leverage possible to apply pressure to get his way, so why put yourselves in that position to start with ? It was done intentionally by someone that probably thought it was the right thing to do. As has been mentioned elsewhere it was...

Exactly, someone couldn’t help themselves though. Everyone could tell the gist of what he was trying to do, whip up fury and unrest (all because his narcissism couldn’t accept defeat). But to remove “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” and march to “cheer on our brave...

Keeper slid into his foot from memory

King was getting dogs abuse at the time though, people saying he wanted Robins out, hadn’t supported him etc. I can understand why he wanted to get some of the stuff out there and by doing so it probably helped to settle things down a bit quicker, took a bit of pressure off Lampard. Agree that...

I don’t care much for Trump so ‘being upset’ is a little OTT. I am concerned about how people consume media/information these days though and it appears more and more that as long as it aligns with their thinking on a subject, it doesn’t matter if it’s wholly accurate/factual. We’re on a...

We’re talking crossed purposes here. You’re talking about Trump, I’m talking about media/press. We seem to be living in a society where we aren’t just presented with quotes or facts, we’re having things tweaked or people being selective with what’s said to support their opinion. If that’s...