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Do you want to discuss boring politics? (22 Viewers)

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SkyBlueDom26

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,386
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Look forward to emigrating as and when that happens
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Obsessed with me you are, it’s weird AF and sad
 
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Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,387
It is really odd when you see Wes Streeting talking about cutting benefits and getting people back to work. Mental heath is an issue as people aren’t working so let’s “encourage them”

“Get on your E Scooter and find a job”

Why is he actually in the Labour Party?
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,388
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Obsessed with me you are, it’s weird AF and sad
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Of course I am. It’s all I think about.
 

SkyBlueDom26

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,389
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Of course I am. It’s all I think about.
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,390
Grendel said:
It is really odd when you see Wes Streeting talking about cutting benefits and getting people back to work. Mental heath is an issue as people aren’t working so let’s “encourage them”

“Get on your E Scooter and find a job”

Why is he actually in the Labour Party?
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He’s a real piece of shit.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,391
Grendel said:
It is really odd when you see Wes Streeting talking about cutting benefits and getting people back to work. Mental heath is an issue as people aren’t working so let’s “encourage them”

“Get on your E Scooter and find a job”

Why is he actually in the Labour Party?
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The male Liz Kendall
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,392
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Look forward to emigrating as and when that happens
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where you planning to go?
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,393
Sick Boy said:
He’s a real piece of shit.
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Do you want to discuss boring politics?

Being too cowardly to say what he thinks isn’t an appealing trait. There’s a fresh narrative there of ‘see he can’t even make his mind up’. You wouldn’t think the sitting PM is a criminal who had just had 150 of his own MPs want him out. Smarmer has let him off the hook again and again and...
www.skybluestalk.co.uk
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,394
Grendel said:
where you planning to go?
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Canada, Australia or NZ
 
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,395
Grendel said:

Do you want to discuss boring politics?

Being too cowardly to say what he thinks isn’t an appealing trait. There’s a fresh narrative there of ‘see he can’t even make his mind up’. You wouldn’t think the sitting PM is a criminal who had just had 150 of his own MPs want him out. Smarmer has let him off the hook again and again and...
www.skybluestalk.co.uk
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fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,396
Grendel said:

Do you want to discuss boring politics?

Being too cowardly to say what he thinks isn’t an appealing trait. There’s a fresh narrative there of ‘see he can’t even make his mind up’. You wouldn’t think the sitting PM is a criminal who had just had 150 of his own MPs want him out. Smarmer has let him off the hook again and again and...
www.skybluestalk.co.uk
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His tone and content is to impress idiots
 
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fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,397
He's such a biddable wanker that this sort of stuff is non stop

 
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Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,398
Brighton Sky Blue said:
The male Liz Kendall
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Everytime I see Liz Kendall I just think of her 5 foot 3 frame being pounded by 6 foot 8 Greg Davies
 
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Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,399
fernandopartridge said:
His tone and content is to impress idiots
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Its certainly impressed one idiot on here
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,400
what delightful images this brings up

My affair with Liz Truss ruined my marriage, admits former Tory MP

Mark Field describes the former prime minister as ‘intoxicating, disconcerting and exhausting’
www.independent.co.uk
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,401
Grendel said:
Everytime I see Liz Kendall I just think of her 5 foot 3 frame being pounded by 6 foot 8 Greg Davies
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • #49,402
Grendel said:
Its certainly impressed one idiot on here
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fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 17, 2025
  • #49,403

Former Bank of England deputy warns Rachel Reeves against kneejerk cuts

Charlie Bean says OBR forecasts are ‘flaky’ and cautions against trying to hit targets five years away
www.theguardian.com

#GTTO
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 17, 2025
  • #49,404
2024 Labour voters right wing oddballs

 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 17, 2025
  • #49,405
The rentier economy

Buy-to-let firms become biggest single type of business in UK, data shows

Four times more buy-to-let firms than fast-food shops now registered at Companies House as landlords switch set-up to cut tax payments
www.theguardian.com

Honestly, tax profits from rent at >90%, the most extractive sector of Britain.
 
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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 17, 2025
  • #49,406
fernandopartridge said:
The rentier economy

Buy-to-let firms become biggest single type of business in UK, data shows

Four times more buy-to-let firms than fast-food shops now registered at Companies House as landlords switch set-up to cut tax payments
www.theguardian.com

Honestly, tax profits from rent at >90%, the most extractive sector of Britain.
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TV channels champion them daily, HMO 's a blight on the country.
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 17, 2025
  • #49,407
fernandopartridge said:
The rentier economy

Buy-to-let firms become biggest single type of business in UK, data shows

Four times more buy-to-let firms than fast-food shops now registered at Companies House as landlords switch set-up to cut tax payments
www.theguardian.com

Honestly, tax profits from rent at >90%, the most extractive sector of Britain.
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I agree, but sadly whichever way you do it if you increase the cost to the owner it will just be passed on to the renter with higher rents, exacerbating the problem.

The only way to sort this is going to be if you make it legally impossible for them to own all these homes in the first place, and how you do that is the $64k question. You could make it so that only people can own residential properties and each individual can only own one or two homes, but then you have the issue of how do you build them if the developer can't own them? Maybe some caveat that only a company building them can own them but must sell to a person, not a company? But then how much will that stifle new homes being built?
 

SBAndy

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • #49,408
It’s all a lump of plastic’s fault, you see.

 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • #49,409
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
I agree, but sadly whichever way you do it if you increase the cost to the owner it will just be passed on to the renter with higher rents, exacerbating the problem.

The only way to sort this is going to be if you make it legally impossible for them to own all these homes in the first place, and how you do that is the $64k question. You could make it so that only people can own residential properties and each individual can only own one or two homes, but then you have the issue of how do you build them if the developer can't own them? Maybe some caveat that only a company building them can own them but must sell to a person, not a company? But then how much will that stifle new homes being built?
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Rent controls
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • #49,410
SBAndy said:
It’s all a lump of plastic’s fault, you see.

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Straight out of a the Trump / Musk playbook. PVA's sensible heroes.
 
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • #49,411
fernandopartridge said:
Straight out of a the Trump / Musk playbook. PVA's sensible heroes.
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You're becoming as obsessed as Grendel. It's not healthy.

And you're the one one Trump's side, not me
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • #49,412
PVA said:
You're becoming as obsessed as Grendel. It's not healthy.

And you're the one one Trump's side, not me
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It's easy to get a nibble from you. You are the one that has voted for a government more right wing than even the coalition government you voted for back in 2010
 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • #49,413
fernandopartridge said:
It's easy to get a nibble from you. You are the one that has voted for a government more right wing than even the coalition government you voted for back in 2010
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Those famous right wing policies of working rights and nationalised rail.
 
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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • #49,414
Where's the wealth tax,is it still a thing?
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • #49,415
Grendel said:
Everytime I see Liz Kendall I just think of her 5 foot 3 frame being pounded by 6 foot 8 Greg Davies
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Challenge accepted.
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • #49,416
shmmeee said:
Those famous right wing policies of working rights and nationalised rail.
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I've looked at the nationalised rail stuff, it's half-arsed at best. Retains the existing franchise system just with the train operators ran by publicly owned entities, it'll all be quickly undone when the government changes again in 2029. Does not address any of the core reasons why the public want the railways renationalised. The ROSCOs still exist and will continue to extract money from passengers for clapped out trains.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Mar 18, 2025
  • #49,417
When's the big shift left happening @shmmeee - should be any moment now shouldn't it?
 
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Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • #49,418
fernandopartridge said:
When's the big shift left happening @shmmeee - should be any moment now shouldn't it?
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Well Jake Berry was on TV today praising Starmer for delivering benefit cuts his own party were too afraid to.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • #49,419
fernandopartridge said:
When's the big shift left happening @shmmeee - should be any moment now shouldn't it?
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Place this government on a left right scale of all the govts of your lifetime.
 
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Captain Dart

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  • Mar 18, 2025
  • #49,420
shmmeee said:
Place this government on a left right scale of all the govts of your lifetime.
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A dumbass thought if ever I heard one, there is no such scale. If you think there is please explain the method of measurement.
 
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