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That's the thing, you get scare stories saying the DWP spend 279bn but 124bn of that is pensions! We spend another 32bn on adult social care, which sits outside the DWP payments, and over 50% of that is on pensioners. The only other 2 areas of DWP payments that are large enough to have any...

1.8m people get attendance allowance, 1.4m get carers allowance, PIP is 3.5m. Its interesting to look at the changes, number of pension claims increasing, pension credit increasing dramatically, huge increases in bereavement support payments (basically the old widows pension), PIP increasing as...

Suspect they won't get far, for a number of reasons. Firstly there's very few people in politics who aren't self serving so I doubt many others will make the jump, although Zack Polanski has already extending the olive branch so if he wins the Greens leadership election that could be...

We could be very thin on the ground going into the second week. Incredibly tough game coming up for Raducanu, Norrie's is a good match up he should probably win but could go either way. Only really Kartal you'd expect to win.

If its as easy as that why not just pop along and get one?

From what I've seen of chatGPT, grok etc I am not looking to have them perform medical procedures on me anytime soon!

Could not agree more with this. Visiting Scandinavian countries, or increasing other countries we would have in recent history deemed 'below' us such as in Eastern Europe, is like visiting a different planet. We're getting left behind and the gap is rapidly getting bigger. At the same time...

Was expecting the documentary on Channel 4 tonight to be a tough watch but fucking hell. Could never have imagined anything as horrific as this, struggling to get through it tbh but turning off feels like an insult to those who have gone through this horrific suffering. Some images that are...

She was on fire today, and a great win for Norrie as well. Not so much Boulter, never got going at all.

Given what they cover there can't really be anything can there. Sounds like an easy answer to avoid public sight of the minutes leading to questions they have no answer for.

There's other figures in here if you want to have a dig https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-savings-statistics-2024/commentary-for-annual-savings-statistics-september-2024

The mega-bucks people have got accountants to shove their money in places like the Caymans, changing ISA rules will have a negligible impact on them. Bet a fair chunk of the money in ISA comes from people inheriting.

If they can't find anyone more competent than Reeves then we've got big problems.

Not really buying into the idea that the ISA changes are a wealth tax. Pretty sure when most people refer to a wealth tax they're thinking of the 1% and billionaires, not regular workers trying to put a few quid away. Anyway, went hunting for some stats, not sure I'd be targeting people earing...

Sure we'll be told its all part of some brilliant plan to win the next election, that's normally what we get. Seems to be an increasing number of Westminster journalists reporting that questions are being asked of how tenable Reeves continuing in the role of chancellor is. Would not be at all...

Confirmed in the official report that it was known since 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly22eelnxjo

How did the plans ever get signed off as safe when there's not enough room for anything near a capacity crowd? They need to look at extending the concourse out, there's room to do it apart from the side I'm on which would be fucked as there's the hotel, exhibition hall etc behind it. Can't...

This winds me up more than it should. I'm not the only one where I sit, which is in the West Stand, who has completely given up on trying to get anything at half time. You have to leave before the end of the half and then still miss the start of the second half. It shouldn't be that difficult...

Thats obviously great news but slightly concerned they might decided to make do with Wilson until then and subsequently rush Dovin back.

The start of an obsession with music. I don't even want to think how much I've spent on that obsession over the years.