Happened a few billion years ago possibly. The universe is big. Really big:)
Happened a few billion years ago possibly. The universe is big. Really big:)
Do you not think putting NI on rents would increase rental costs for tenants? Housing costs are the biggest problem for working people and the gap between wages and house prices needs to fall, and inequality reduce, if the economy is to work properly.
They hit the mark with Bobson Dugnutt.
Perhaps he was being satirical? I wish.
Basically, if you are considering voting Reform, consider whether you would want to live in the US right now.
When I hear or see people saying the asylum hotel riots show the level of concern the public have, I think "no, it's a demonstration of how a rabble rouser can create hate and division". Hopefully people will realise just how dangerous Garage is well before the next General Election.
Well he's dead right isn't he. Trump's capable of anything. If Russia subsumes Ukraine it will be the Baltics next.
Wealth taxes on the rich are needed to tackle inequality so the economy can work properly. Stop looking at average incomes, too many working people already have no disposable income. The NHS will never be fixed while the UK continues to be owned by billionaires.
I did that in May 2019, it was fairly quiet in May. I advise people now to look for other routes
I thought rules and etiquette were an important aspect of golf! If he cheats, should be not be banned from every course, everywhere?
Economically, UK *is* broken. Inequality and debt (national, household, and deferred infrastructure maintenance) are the two cancers. Household incomes for the 95% are stuck indefinitely unless it is turned around with serious wealth taxes especially on the 1%.
Stirling Moss, Shirley?
Yes, they probably got the idea from Johnson. When are more than half a dozen republicans going to grow a backbone and stop DT in his tracks? They should all be asked whether it's greed or fear that keeps them loyal. Even if Maxwell does testify he's a paedophile, it won't finish him.
>>all we have to do is sit back and wait. If only that were true. All the kompromat is in the public domain already and the MAGAts still say he's the best president ever, or the perennial "they're all the same".
Garage runs rings round the BBC whose style is to pretend he's the voice of reason, when he's anything but.
What does "triple lock will cost 3x expected cost" mean? The total increases? The earnings link? The 2.5%? The CPI link? Just the first two?
Basically agree. Real wages stopped rising 15 yrs ago after 60 years of them. Huge total debt (national, corporate, private) is making us poorer. Add on run down infrastructure which is just deferred tax/debt. I don't think this can be fixed in my lifetime. I'm 72.
A million wouldn't be much for the entire planet. A million a day would be on a scale of 1% for just the UK and that's very credible.
I'm 72. I had assumed I would be visiting the USA again sometime. Not now. I'm sorry for the many decent people there, but you need to get rid of this evil regime while you still can. Unless all are free, none is free.
As if they would trust the Conservatives any more...
Excellent video about the threat of Reform. Reform is the UK branch of MAGA, and it has set up a so-called think tank to solicit donations, particularly from the US. Labour must tighten electoral law to end large donations to political parties. If Reform wins in 2029, they’ll destroy the country.
This is not a surprise, it's how capitalism works.
Incredible how much ignorance these people display. Just everyday general knowledge. Probably goes with narcissism.
Presumably George III was a colonialist. Did you mean colonist?
The sovereignty argument never made sense to me. In or out, agreeing to be bound by treaties that are in the UK interest *is* exercising sovereignty. The only way to remain fully sovereign then is presumably never to exercise your sovereignty, Mr Garage?
“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!” - UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues. “Brexit Betrayed!”
Surely it's only humiliating for Johnson et al who worked so hard to damage the country?
Ah... Too late, I'll be blocked then.
Don't start that again, you idiot Hannan.
This should be a statement of the bleeding obvious. Please, Americans, make it stop while you still can. When you condone the removal of others' freedoms, you lose your own.
To be fair, it's only most things he does for personal enrichment. Sometimes he's just being cruel and vindictive.
Correction they *aren't* saying it could be done better...
Good point. Make them say they don't believe in fairness. Because that's what it means. They are saying it could be done better. They don't want to do it at all.
Not being complacent, isn't there always a big protest vote at by-elections & locals? It would be a disaster if Reform were to be biggest party & not congruent with perceived high level of disdain for Garage? What does the science say? As to Tories - prob depends on who succeeds Badenoch & when.
Good for Starmer. I wouldn't take any nonsense from those two chancers either.
Vance is a cycle path. The sooner he's on his bike, the better.
Perhaps Trump's insurance policy is having a VP who is potentially as bad as he is?
And had Biden done it, the Republicans would have been leading the clamour to send for the white coats.
Like St George. I thought briefly some national pride might be good. Then remembered my first visit to the USA, being bowled over by the sheer pride they have in their country, all that saluting the flag and singing Hail to the Chief at school. And what they have done to their country since.
Utterly baffling. I mean, he can't be an actual halfwit can he? He's PotUS, and the GOP it seems will follow him anywhere. They wouldn't genuflect to a halfwit would they? Does he just think nobody in the the world is as clever as he is? Still doesn't explain the GOP...
If Labour retreats on climate, it will alienate more voters than it attracts. Most people want climate change to be taken seriously.
Here in Hertfordshire voting is always tactical if you don't want a Conservative, to which can now be added Reform. The beneficiaries here are the Lib Dems. I can only see tactical voting becoming the default as the electorate polarised & who you *don't* want becomes the dominant concern.
The empty vessel who leads this shower is responsible for the UK leaving the EU, which is costing us billions, and most now think we should rejoin. I hope these protest voters will reflect on that.
Have already deleted USA from putative travel plans. Was eyeing Romania fly-drive. There'll be nowhere left to go on holiday at this rate. How long will we have the luxury of such 1st world problems? 40% Trump approval is a record low. But still a lot of people & Fox is the top 'news' channel.
That's why people buy national lottery tickets.
What a berk. Economies do not prosper on strategic uncertainty. USA is the last place to invest in production facilities so long as that obtains.
I agree. The SC might have been decisive but they have solved nothing by militating an unworkable, unfair outcome.
Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.
Trump would be a peril for a start. Sad that it should be the first thing that occurred to me.
Where's the pork pie?
Spot on. Marx got that bit right - the surplus goes to capital. None of the so called wealth creators would make a bean if they were left on their own on a desert island. Their wealth comes from Earth's resources and from society as a whole, which deserves its share of said surplus.
I presume you would never write something like "increasingly more fraught"?
It seems rather foolish of LVMH to invest in US manufacturing on the basis of anything trump did in the last couple of weeks, if that is what is implied.
Best he isn't. He could take the Catholic church back 650 years and nobody would be expecting it.
Yes, we had a dud as well but we only elected her once and her party colleagues were sufficiently appalled and ashamed to boot her out after 49 days. Republicans, do your duty, be on the right side of history.
That's my working assumption Arthur, in complete fairness I haven't been there and obvs never will:)
Can a centibillionaire even fit the definition of Christian? There are no self made billionaires. It's theft when they won't pay tax. Stick one in the middle of the Sahara and see how much money they can make on their own. More likely that a camel will pass through the eye of a needle.
Badenough still digging I see.
Online socialising can add to mental stresses especially for younger people (is my instinct - I wonder if evidence supports this?) I'm not sold on the idea that online interaction is a good substitute for face to face, one to one interaction. It certainly doesn't work that way for me.
Concerning for all of us. "People who are more socially connected to family, friends, or their community are happier, physically healthier, and live longer, with fewer mental health problems than people who are less well connected." www.mentalhealth.org.uk/explore-ment...,
Tell them we need to think about it. For about 45 months.
Press and TV are almost always useless with stats. They should all be made to listen to More or Less. Podcasts are doing some excellent interviews now, Today should take heed.
Definitely travel sweets for the ear popping.
Same reason I don't go to see the pyramids. I know what they look like, I don't need to check. Austria - very scenic. Yorkshire Dales - lovely. But craters? It's people that matter anyway.
To foresee the likely return on negotiating with Trump it's only necessary to know that his aim is always to screw the other party. He has no concept of mutual benefit.
What Trump is doing is extortion. I don't think we need to poke him gratuitously, but a dignified silence should be maintained. On no account should we drop standards, we're going to need them to agree terms with better people than him.
We should match the tariffs on principle. We do not have a meaningful trade surplus with the USA AFAIK. If a bully hits you, you hit them back. If we take their stinky chicken we won't get what we need from the EU, a bigger trading partner.
What are the chances of Trump outsmarting Xi? Place your bets.
Look at what happened last time, what little growth there was, reversed. He was trammelled then, now he is off the leash, surrounded by nodding donkeys. Who would be confident to invest when Trump is so unpredictable?
As @birdyword.bsky.social notes: alongside crashing the global/US economy, the Trump administration is derailing the largest factory construction boom in America this century. All under the banner of reindustrialising the US. Once it's done, Washington can call Brussels for its manufactured goods.
We should cut out losses then, and focus on the European single market. The change in circumstances since last July is surely justification enough for ditching that stupid pledge. They US can keep its chlorinated poultry, hormone saturated beef, and stew in its own juice.
Has anybody told Trump the probable reason for most countries running a trade surplus with US is that the US has more purchasing power? Or that the relative strength of USD is a factor? Is he just weakening the currency by trashing his economy?
"plotting"from the Met. Do they do plotting in their meetings? Police seem to have a problem with Quakers. ISTR a senior officer giving the impression the Society of Friends was a cover for satanic abuse in the Orkneys once. I was brought up with Quakerism. All decent principled people.
Not fair but predictable. DT needs to resign over his conflict of interests, serving Russia and being PotUS.
"Radical Left Lunatics" are normally such frequent buyers of Tesla's, aren't they?
I never thought I would see a Labour government making the poorest pay to balance the books as the Conservatives did with austerity. Waiting to see what transpires before I cancel my membership.
I wouldn't live there at the moment if they paid me £5m.
Quite. Shouldn't be wasting time seeking out 'wokery'. See US as to what happens when that's your obsession. Given they are impotent for 4 yrs, a bit of cross party effort on external problems might put her in a better light. Grateful however that she's sinking her awful party.
There's not a minute to lose Elon, get on with. Just go.
I noticed this too. Does nobody ever think for example that inferior candidates were ever, or for that matter still are, favoured simply because they were male, white, and under 50?
I don't think Islamic means the same as Islamist. Still nonsense.
Let's call this out for what it blatantly is. The Tories and their mates at the Telegraph, trying to thwart Labour meeting its growth targets. Griffiths doesn't want our country to succeed. No Brexiteer does. It's faux patriotism hiding their true goal of keeping us poor while hedge funds boom.
A fish rots from the head. I fear for the USA the most.
Faulty logic there, how many of the 90% got what they wanted by lying?
We (all) must arrive at a point where exponential growth is not needed to make the economy work, it being incompatible with finite resources. Any fule no that. How?
Sometimes what should be obvious needs to be explained. We should not be surprised at what has happened. Can it even be reversed while our public conversations are curated by the tyrants? They can, in effect, control how we vote.
I have noticed that, for the moment, Mrs Badenough is not in charge.
The problem with Carsen's statement is the premise he uses so glibly. Child abuse has always been hidden more or less. I certainly don't know why or how that happens. How did Cyril Smith and Savile for example get away with it for so long?
I have long thought women are basically better than men, and the fact that men overwhelmingly oppress women rather than the other way round only helps to confirm it. That the USA is going in this direction, and in law, is shameful.
Putin goes out of his way to frighten everybody and then complains they are Russophobic.
Isn't he threatening to renege on a free trade treaty (NAFTA2) made under the first Trump administration in 2020? Why would they trust him enough to negotiate with him again? Canada and Mexico are I think the biggest trading partners of the USA. This is Trump's Brexit.
It's incredible that the Conservatives capped benefits so the poorest paid to bail out the banks. It would be even more incredible if a Labour government did the same. Whatever, it was a crime to sell off the best social housing.
I don't suppose there is any point in asking what is wrong with Trump. Or whether he has considered that, of 15,000 people, some are presumably doing worthwhile or essential jobs?
Who is Conor MacGregor? What's the gender critical movement?
Hence the saying "If you're explaining, you're losing"? The people who might benefit from the explanation don't understand it.
Let's face it, neither Trump nor Musk looks likely to be good company for long. And it's pretty obvious that the 'loyalty' of Trump's team is not emotional but transactional. On both sides.