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Re: The stop the war coalition is growing – politicalbetting.com
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Re: The stop the war coalition is growing – politicalbetting.com
Shakes head in disbelief.Very silly.
I just rang Northampton hospital because I have discovered an ex work colleague is in the hospital and pretty unwell
I could not get past the switchboard because I didn't know his date of birth
I just wanted to send a message of support but permission was refused.
Its bonkers.
Pop to the post office and send a card next day signed for. Mark it Name (inpatient). Some chance it gets through. Bonus points if you have a ward number.
Re: The stop the war coalition is growing – politicalbetting.com
In smaller towns and rural areas this is important. A recent malign shift has been cases where local firms that have been around for ages and have a decent reputation are quietly bought up by outfits from somewhere else and then either go bust or get into regulatory trouble.This Labour government is the worst ever, imagine a world without solicitors.Given the ineptitude and in some cases, open criminality of large chains of solicitors the loss of smaller firms would actually be a major disaster. There has surely got to be a better way of managing them than this,
Law Society chief: Lammy risks triggering collapse of high street firms
Justice Secretary warned that ‘once the solicitors have left town, they won’t go back’
David Lammy’s planned £100m tax raid on the legal industry risks forcing swathes of high street solicitors out of business, the head of the Law Society has warned.
Mark Evans, the new president of the Law Society, which represents more than 200,000 solicitors, said that the Justice Secretary’s proposals to start taxing interest payments earned on money in client accounts threatened to prove the final nail in the coffin for local law firms.
He said they risked having a permanent effect on Britain’s high streets at a time when many town and city centres are already grappling with rising vacancy rates.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/10/lammy-risks-triggering-collapse-of-high-street/
The other thing about such areas is that the reputation of individuals as opposed to firms as a whole is important.
Re: The stop the war coalition is growing – politicalbetting.com
The Labour cabinet are in a difficult position as they’d like to hammer Reform and the Tories over their eagerness to join Trumps clusterfxck in Iran but can’t say too much as they don’t want a further fracture with the WH .It is certainly an opportunity for someone to break ranks. Kemi looks irrelevant. This was her chance and she blew it. Starmer's stock has risen if he doesn't blow it. He's managed to separate himself from Trump and now that Carney and Macron have done the same it looks like he might end up having had a good war.
I heard this morning Smotrich's son might have been killed in Lebanon. As no 3 in the war criminals league maybe this is karma..
Roger
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Re: The stop the war coalition is growing – politicalbetting.com
After watching thirty thousand get slaughtered, and encouraging them to take to the streets nonetheless, because "help wa on its way".I can't think of a more moronic leader ever. When we get to looking back there will be a lot of red faces. All those sycophants from around the world including the UK wont know where to put themselves.
Reporter: You promised the Iranian people you would help them.
Trump: Will I help them? I'd like to, if they can behave, but they've been very menacing,
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2031134866360963295
Roger
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Re: The stop the war coalition is growing – politicalbetting.com
I oppose UK involvement and have from the start because of who's leading it and his clear track record. Some people just shouldn't be followed or supported.
Good morning, everybody.
Good morning, everybody.
AnneJGP
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Re: The stop the war coalition is growing – politicalbetting.com
This Labour government is the worst ever, imagine a world without solicitors.Whilst I disagree with the policy which is pointless fiddling of Brownian scale, I question whether £500/year per head would drive "swathes" of solicitors out of business.
Law Society chief: Lammy risks triggering collapse of high street firms
Justice Secretary warned that ‘once the solicitors have left town, they won’t go back’
David Lammy’s planned £100m tax raid on the legal industry risks forcing swathes of high street solicitors out of business, the head of the Law Society has warned.
Mark Evans, the new president of the Law Society, which represents more than 200,000 solicitors, said that the Justice Secretary’s proposals to start taxing interest payments earned on money in client accounts threatened to prove the final nail in the coffin for local law firms.
He said they risked having a permanent effect on Britain’s high streets at a time when many town and city centres are already grappling with rising vacancy rates.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/10/lammy-risks-triggering-collapse-of-high-street/
mwadams
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Re: The stop the war coalition is growing – politicalbetting.com
The thing that’s a bit strange is the relative spike in fuel prices has been higher in the USA than in the UK .I saw somewhere that the US economy is more dependent on oil than any other. It was couched in terms like every dollar the US economy generates, 40% is based on oil. For China it's 20%
The average price in the US has gone up 60c a gallon , equivalent to around 20% .
Scott_xP
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The stop the war coalition is growing – politicalbetting.com
The stop the war coalition is growing – politicalbetting.com
Opposition to the United States' military action against Iran has risen by 10pts among Britons over the last weekSupport: 25% (-3 from 2 March)Oppose: 59% (+10)yougov.com/en-gb/daily-…
System
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Re: The stop the war coalition is growing – politicalbetting.com
And how do you do that without actually putting troops on the ground in Iran?With the Afghan war, it was well planned and long prepared.I support it. At present, the Iranian navy, air force and missile capability is effectively gone - good - but that's not enough.
It was a fucking disaster.
With the Iraq war, it was well planned and long prepared.
It was a fucking disaster.
With this one, it's been done on the spur of the moment because Netanyahu's popularity was tanking and Trump urgently needed a distraction from the Epstein files and the references to forcing a 13-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him. It has not been planned, and it has not been prepared.
It has been a much bigger fucking disaster, and we're only a week in.
The amazing thing is that anyone supports it. It just shows how little attention most people pay to the news.
My view is the existing Iranian regime must go. And the nuclear stockpiles must be secured.
