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while everyone is busy laughing at how incompetent they are Justin Amash raised a good point. They didn't take this to congress as they claimed it was an emergency situation, this chat shows that was entirely untrue.

I don't see how you can make that level of reduction in government spending without it having a huge impact. You assert that we have seen no reduction in spending yet we have seen services absolutely decimated. How do you propose this level of reduction could be achieved with no noticeable...

I think we've found the root of the issue. You seem to fundamentally not believe that austerity was, and still is, a thing or that inflation has any impact on budgets. The 1.3m hasn't come from nowhere. It was you who suggested 20% of civil service workers were adding nothing to productivity...

So lets go with that and say we cut 20% across the board. That's around 1.3 million people who no longer have jobs. Lets ignore the fact that we've been through years of cuts and austerity and that hasn't led to some miraculous improvement in services, in fact quite the opposite, and assume...

Didn't know Elon was on the forum. Are you going to take over the club? Can give all the players cybertrucks

You've made the mistake of thinking the desired result is for services to improve rather than for more money to flow to those at the top.

I don't know how they so consistently come up with such bad England kits

As long as its not a round of applause like last time

That's the Commonwealth games fucked then

it doesn't get any more cheerful

Seeing it now. Huge cuts in the last 15 years to mental health services. Now we have the government scratching their heads about why there's so many people unable to work because of mental health issues. But rather than fix the problem they're going to try forcing them back to work by cutting...

In the last couple of months I've been seeing a number of British acts be refused entry to the US despite having all the correct work permits and visas for their tour. In most cases they are people who have entered the USA for work purposes on a regular basis in the past, in some cases they have...

Can't think of any ticketing app I've got on my phone that doesn't allow you to transfer tickets to someone else

Who do you think is sponging off the state? There definitely isn't help for people in genuine need, although I guess genuine need is subjective. When I thought I might end up unemployed during covid I looked at what I was entitled to and it was fuck all. Similarly when its been suggested that...

Have they created their own problem by saying they will open the roads as soon as possible rather than saying they will be closed for a set amount of time? Although that wouldn't resolve situations like Sunderland where the opening gets delayed as people are incapable of leaving the ground...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-suspends-some-efforts-counter-russian-sabotage-trump-moves-closer-putin-2025-03-19/

For me at least if you want a sensible discussion you have to be open to change but that's the way things are these days. People have entrenched views one way or the other so you end up with two extremes just shouting at each other and anyone with a more nuanced view just thinking fuck this its...

The existing bridge doesn't seem to be particuarly heavily used so I doubt anyone sees much need for an increased capacity there. Judds Lane is a problem. The fact you have stairs leading to the crossing is an issue that could relatively easily be fixed. Just have a walkway on a gradual...

You've answered your own questions there. People aren't happy to pay more taxes when they aren't seeing any improvement in services and are seeing blank cheques being passed to mates of whoever the government of the time is. Taxes have been increasing but I don't think anyone would argue...