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Well she’s clearly wrong. If it’s unworkable and extortionately expensive it is therefore profoundly British.
I have to say though that I am deeply uncomfortable with this strategy. I agree with @MajorRage that we do need to look at ways of discouraging illegal immigration and the racketeering that is now associated with it. I just don’t think this is an humane or workable option.
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This is worth a watch. It's an interesting point of view. Just wish he hadn't played the race card, as I don't think skin colour / eye colour has anything to with it (it could be me being naive).
Reasonably well handled by Piers, but think his comments around Farage were poor. Whether he likes it or not, a lot of people do get behind Farage, mainly because they see the endless immigration as the decline of British culture. And there is some truth in that.
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@Bones said in British Politics:
This Mick Lynch clown strikes me as an utter cockhole. On sky news this morning answering every question with "read the newspapers" or "look around me" then saying how all the unions should synchronise in order to bring the country to a halt.
Yeah, well it's going to work. They're all licking their lips in anticipation. There's not one macroeconomist amongst them, they just play the blackmail game. Simple as that.
I'm sick of hearing them blame the government. Honestly, it's like it's a national pastime here, see how much of your own misery you can blame on the government. Not yourself.
Railways get 16bln of government money, make profits and then can't appease their staff. They are undoubtedly stuck in a tricky situation, in that the unions have serious power to try to maintain jobs that aren't needed anymore, but that's their problem which they must solve. Reality is that it's the lowest paid they are screwing over. Most city workers can/will work from home, no problems. But what does the hospital orderly do? The construction contractor?
Yeah, they just get fucked on.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
@Bones said in British Politics:
This Mick Lynch clown strikes me as an utter cockhole. On sky news this morning answering every question with "read the newspapers" or "look around me" then saying how all the unions should synchronise in order to bring the country to a halt.
Yeah, well it's going to work. They're all licking their lips in anticipation. There's not one macroeconomist amongst them, they just play the blackmail game. Simple as that.
I'm sick of hearing them blame the government. Honestly, it's like it's a national pastime here, see how much of your own misery you can blame on the government. Not yourself.
Railways get 16bln of government money, make profits and then can't appease their staff. They are undoubtedly stuck in a tricky situation, in that the unions have serious power to try to maintain jobs that aren't needed anymore, but that's their problem which they must solve. Reality is that it's the lowest paid they are screwing over. Most city workers can/will work from home, no problems. But what does the hospital orderly do? The construction contractor?
Yeah, they just get fucked on.
I find it amazing that people have to pay for their own public transport to work. I've been here too long.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
@Bones said in British Politics:
This Mick Lynch clown strikes me as an utter cockhole. On sky news this morning answering every question with "read the newspapers" or "look around me" then saying how all the unions should synchronise in order to bring the country to a halt.
Yeah, well it's going to work. They're all licking their lips in anticipation. There's not one macroeconomist amongst them, they just play the blackmail game. Simple as that.
I'm sick of hearing them blame the government. Honestly, it's like it's a national pastime here, see how much of your own misery you can blame on the government. Not yourself.
Railways get 16bln of government money, make profits and then can't appease their staff. They are undoubtedly stuck in a tricky situation, in that the unions have serious power to try to maintain jobs that aren't needed anymore, but that's their problem which they must solve. Reality is that it's the lowest paid they are screwing over. Most city workers can/will work from home, no problems. But what does the hospital orderly do? The construction contractor?
Yeah, they just get fucked on.
This film explains everything
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Aaaand the by-election caused by the resignation of tractor-porn MP Neil Parrish has seen the Tories lose a 24,000 majority to hand the Lib Dem’s a seat they’ve never held before. This is beginning to seem like the last months of poor old John Major’s last Government.
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@Catogrande said in British Politics:
Aaaand the by-election caused by the resignation of tractor-porn MP Neil Parrish has seen the Tories lose a 24,000 majority to hand the Lib Dem’s a seat they’ve never held before. This is beginning to seem like the last months of poor old John Major’s last Government.
Good.
And good fucking riddance to Tractor Boy.
Lib Dems eh?
Labour are in a worse state than the Tories.
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@MiketheSnow said in British Politics:
@Catogrande said in British Politics:
Aaaand the by-election caused by the resignation of tractor-porn MP Neil Parrish has seen the Tories lose a 24,000 majority to hand the Lib Dem’s a seat they’ve never held before. This is beginning to seem like the last months of poor old John Major’s last Government.
Good.
And good fucking riddance to Tractor Boy.
Lib Dems eh?
Labour are in a worse state than the Tories.
Tories say hold my beer ...
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
The game must surely be up for Boris now.
Sleaze, lies, party gate. He's just toxic.
Javed & Sunak have resigned on the back of it. It's impossible to understate how big this is.
He's got to go. And quickly.
They've all known all along
All been complicit
But Boris goes under the bus
They're all a bunch of fluffybunnies
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
The game must surely be up for Boris now.
Sleaze, lies, party gate. He's just toxic.
Javed & Sunak have resigned on the back of it. It's impossible to understate how big this is.
He's got to go. And quickly.
Oh he's toast. And people who never wanted him leader will say "I told you so"
But I think the Tory party is so split and divided it isn't going to make any difference to their chances at the next election - no matter who is or was Leader. Johnson winning the election & Covid kept the lid on things but once that was over the knives - which he stupidly sharpened for his critics with his behavior - were out.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
@MajorRage said in British Politics:
The game must surely be up for Boris now.
Sleaze, lies, party gate. He's just toxic.
Javed & Sunak have resigned on the back of it. It's impossible to understate how big this is.
He's got to go. And quickly.
Oh he's toast. And people who never wanted him leader will say "I told you so"
But I think the Tory party is so split and divided it isn't going to make any difference to their chances at the next election - no matter who is or was Leader. Johnson winning the election & Covid kept the lid on things but once that was over the knives - which he stupidly sharpened for his critics with his behavior - were out.
Javed & Sunak an alliance to put the first non-Caucasian in power?
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My two cents.
Sunak is a tax-raiser so probably won't get the support of the "cut taxes to zero" wing of the party. Javid is/was an ardent remainer so the Brexit fundamentalists will not want him.
The party is all over the place and whoever replaces Johnson will have a huge job to do. Meanwhile no-one is prepared to tell the people the economy is fucked, drowning it debt and is going to get worse.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
My two cents.
Sunak is a tax-raiser so probably won't get the support of the "cut taxes to zero" wing of the party. Javid is/was an ardent remainer so the Brexit fundamentalists will not want him.
The party is all over the place and whoever replaces Johnson will have a huge job to do. Meanwhile no-one is prepared to tell the people the economy is fucked, drowning it debt and is going to get worse.
Pretty clear Sunak wanted to say that but BoJo wanted to be more upbeat from his resignation statement.
All 3 things are imminently fixable with the right approach if you ask me.
But it seems more likely it’s going to go the other way until such time that people actually get real.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
All 3 things are imminently fixable with the right approach if you ask me.
The last time the government got by without borrowing billions was over 21 years ago. Debt per person is now £75k per taxpayer & unfunded public sector pension liabilities of around £40k per taxpayer. Will take a lot of pain and time to fix.
But it seems more likely it’s going to go the other way until such time that people actually get real.
People still believe in free lunches and politicians keep telling people they have easy solution - the magic money tree. Could be we are heading into a re-run of late-70's politics with high inflation, public borrowing to prop up crap industries and a collapsing economy.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
Could be we are heading into a re-run of late-70's politics with high inflation, public borrowing to prop up crap industries and a collapsing economy.
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