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Strict immigration controls, like tariffs are indeed left wing principles.

Got to say this made me laugh:

Pathetic (from Boddy). Thanks Pete. Still none the wiser: - how we’ve progressed this season under this incremental improvement model - why on Earth he thinks a club with our support is overachieving getting 12 (!!!). The lack of ambition is palpable and frankly he’s a L2 chairman who has...

Almost every public sector job comes with a free substance abuse issue in my experience.

This always seems to be the answer “oh taxing rich people is too hard, sorry”

Well we’ve had The Times one: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/were-swapping-a-40k-nanny-for-a-10k-au-pair-preparing-for-the-cost-of-living-squeeze-cgpb3ssbl

Housing Benefit claim? Edit: Only cowards read the thread before posting

Yeah I’m as anti Tory as you get and it’s a cheap shot. Haven’t GPs got some of the highest drinking and smoking rates out there? Bears no relation to your ability to do the job.

Wouldn’t be a Thatcher tribute act without a few riots.

Possibly better suited to the Ukraine thread, but relevant to U.K. politics and that thread pretty dead. Russian “trolls” set up fake news site for village near Sunderland, then pivot it to Ukraine disinfo after amassing 18k followers.

“Who’s a filthy pig who doesn’t deserve a transfer budget?”

Has there ever been a PM that never faced the electorate?

At least it would be open for everyone to see. Unlike the corporate influence we have now

Is this the time where I float my idea of having the major offices of state elected, maybe with weighting for industry votes? I can’t imagine many teachers voting in Cleverly, or lawyers voting in Braverman.

Looking at the early stages of the Ukrainian counteroffensive I suspect his views will change by the end of the month anyway.

Or even, you know, paying for insulation.

Stuff like that, especially after seeing Russia in Ukraine not being at all a military superpower, does make you wonder white how strong some of these countries are and how much is reliant on western tech.

That’s the one.

TBH with the state of the talent pool in the party is support almost anyone getting replaced in the hope that we get someone decent in. More hope than expectation though.

Surely everyone will be paying that back over 20 years regardless of usage or whatever? Starts to feel like Rishi’s forced loan idea but on a bigger scale.