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… and the rest of it. From 2021 to 2025, there are 3m more people on UC who do not even have to find work. The total number of people on UC who are not in work has surpassed 5m people. It isn’t sustainable. The ONS is confirming that tax rises are being ate up by benefits. The government is...

Mind the gap…

It’s not a ridiculous idea. A welfare state can only survive if the number of people paying into it outnumbers the people taking out of it. This thread demonstrates that a lot of left leaning people do not grasp this or simply don’t want to confront this.

Let’s agree that measuring public sector productivity is more difficult than the private sector… In any case, whatever measurements are, the public sector is producing less of what it is currently measured on. A public service = a tax funded, government run Welfare benefits = handouts to...

This entire project is 100% going to blow up in their own faces. We’ve seen it happen at our club. The various non-stadiums SISU promised and even Wasps taking over the RICOH and became the death of them. If Man City don’t fill 48k, you’ve got to delusional to believe Blues will fill a 62k...

Sure, they’ll build a new stadium, certainly not one that’s 60k. The design concept looks like something out of a cartoon… Their owners are charging 11% interest on money they loan the club, building a new stadium would cripple Birmingham City. They’re not putting a spade in the ground unless...

Things that will never happen…

Did somebody say Just Eat?

It’s remarkable that the World Cup adopted a format that was tried by UEFA for the Euros and took 2 tournaments to change it. It will damage the product. IIRC, it was Slovakia v Romania last Euros where both teams knew a draw would guarantee qualification. I spoke to a small Slovenian fans...

Let’s be honest, there’s nothing stopping him coming back.

International tournaments having 3rd place qualifiers kills the format. As we see with the Euros, smaller teams know 3 daws will more or less guarantee qualification. If we have bigger World Cup, have a format that has 16 groups of 3 (2 qualifiers) or 8 groups of 6 (4 qualifiers).

It’s not a belief, it’s a fact and it’s why we have progressive taxation. Immigration status is actually taken into account. The Beveridge Report in 1942 specifically mentions UK citizens. It was through numerous EU treaties that extends this to EU citizens as a whole and ILR as we know it...

This ai language model definitely had men in mind. The amount of times we have all said we’ll go for a ‘couple’ of drinks that turned into many more.

Definitely not proles like us. FIFA is 100% selling itself to the highest bidder in a more deliberate Without being too one sided, even if the World Cup was just in the USA, the internal travel would be a lot more expensive in Europe. The rail pass I got for the month last year was €500 and...

I'm planning to go out but need to see the draw before deciding what to do. I'm looking into refundable flights/accommodation for the final in New York/Jersey just in case we make the final because I'll get a ticket through the ETSC. I did the whole month in Germany 2024, had a great time and...

Adults can support themselves, children can’t. They also don’t receive money directly from the government. I can’t believe you thought that was a good question.

Was this pre or post-COVID? I’m assuming pre and frankly the huge pressures on the welfare systems has been exacerbated by the lack of face to face meetings. For anyone interested, check out Fraser Nelson: https://www.benefitstrap.com/ Note: the long term claimants has gone up by 700k since...

Nice idea in theory, the data suggests this isn’t happening and it’s a growing problem. Specifically, young people are claiming incapacity benefits at record levels. If you’re paying no tax, you earn less than 13k and will invariably be on UC… so this line of question is misleading. To put...

No wonder this conversation is going nowhere when the basic distinction between public service and state handout is being made. I’ve addressed pension reform directly and I don’t think acknowledged anything I’ve said on that. On a fundamental level, do you think there’s any areas in the...