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The lady is for turning – politicalbetting.com
The lady is for turning – politicalbetting.com
Suspect Reeves announcement that the winter fuel allowance cut off will be £35,000 will meet public expectations. We found most thought the cut off should be £50,000 but didn't have a £35,000 option and think it's reasonable to say a good chunk would have opted for that.
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Economically Reform are hard left.
No real Tory could ever countenance supporting such economic illiteracy.
#justsayin (MiC/YG - I'm available for consultancy at very reasonable rates)
ETA: You'd need a decent size sample to get good precision though.
Though she raised the threshold for claims to £35k so the richest pensioners who tend to be Tory won't get it and it instead is focused on pensioners on average incomes and below where the biggest shift from Labour to Reform in that age group has been seen
@AdamBienkov
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has drawn up plans to win over Reform voters by changing its news and drama output.
BBC Director General Tim Davie and other execs discussed altering "story selection" in order to win the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage
https://x.com/UKDefJournal/status/1932039743543366092
So they've now decided to order some F35As, which also can't use it.
So you have a rose tinted viewpoint from people who can’t remember what it was really like as those who worked down them have mainly died out from lung conditions
Get the masses stiff for it
But I doubt his many millions would get him more than a third of the way through episode 1 of that concept.
working classroots I was surrounded by miners growing up and was at the epicentre of the 1984/85 strike.It’s funny when the South Yorkshire clubs play Nottingham Forest and Notts County they call them the scabs because the Nottinghamshire miners, even people born twenty years after the strike still do it because they have this romantic belief about mining and the strike.
Why we play along with it beats me.
Farage is asking the "what if" questions which millions have been asking for years and years. Sure, it's probably not doable. But he's talking about what we have lost thanks to cross-party vandalism and what we could have again if we took a strategic approach to where we are now and where we want to get to.
Do we want to make steel in the UK yes or no? If yes don't we have 400 years of coal sat underneath Wales waiting to be dug up to power the furnaces?
Private sector wages should be decided by the market, by supply and demand.
Public sector wages should be decided by political fiat, regardless of supply or demand.
https://youtu.be/kDcoJN9fnVI?si=Ga0lUszqtB5aoh2F&t=34
Labour’s tenure in office in Wales has been a disaster, and Farage is very likely to do very well next year in the Senedd, as will Plaid
The Tories left us with a £22 billion black hole.
My government has fixed the foundations of our economy. We now have the highest growth in the G7, four interest rate cuts, and we have signed three trade deals to protect jobs and put more money in your pockets.
The economy is improving, and I want you to feel that in your day-to-day lives – that is why we are expanding eligibility for the winter fuel allowance.
Coal mining will not happen here in Wales or anywhere else for that matter
They missed the money (mining paid well), and the camaraderie. But the ones I chatted to seemed not to want their kids working down the mine if other well-paid jobs were available. It was nasty, unpleasant and dangerous work. Opencast was better, but IIRC not as well-paid as underground mines.
I think it's a bit like steam locos (I also knew some ex drivers) - many missed the romance of steam, but not the working conditions when compared to the diesel or electric replacements. At least as full-time work. Not that they didn't complain about the draughts on the new diesel and electric locos...
It put me off trade unions for life.
That's what's getting mixed up here: the Cumbrian mine was for a very specific niche purpose. That might be arguable: but it's a world away from reopening many pits.
(And yes, we get back to coal for steam trains here...
The Never Trumpers lost & I think the outcome will be the same in the UK.
The Conservative Party will be reduced to the same small minority as the Never-Trump Republicans, and Reform will be the majority "conservative" party.
Reeves is an embarrassment and should resign or be sacked
Nobody is going to sink deep mines providing wages for hundreds or thousands of families. It is undiluted bulls***, but there might be plenty of dreamers willing to give him a go.
The Trump authoritarian blueprint model better have worked because Farage won't get another go in a democracy.
As an example, a look at the trends in mine employment and coal production show a rather different picture to the one the left usually like to portray. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_Kingdom#/media/File:UK_Coal_Production.png and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_Kingdom#/media/File:UK_Coal_Mining_Jobs.png
Farage will try to implement extreme versions of his policies & then chicken out when the markets & the public react negatively, and then implement something a lot milder.
I thought of Mrs Thatcher the other day when some PBers of a 'robust' right wing persuasion were complaining that this Labour government were doing things like VAT on private schools and IHT for farmers out of a desire to punish tory voters.
Ok, so making their school fees a bit more expensive or taking some tax when a chunk of land is passed on is not quite the same as complete loss of livelihood and dignity, but it's the same charge effectively.
Reinstating the universal nature of the WFP would have been far easier even if it cost a bit more
However, Reeves should have taken the hit and moved on, as it is she looks weak and unable to make the hard decisions that are needed, not least to pay 3.5% defence spending
It must not be forgotten she is putting another 30 billion into the NHS, apparently benefit cuts are being reduced in severity, and other spending commitments, genuinely makes me very concerned for our country going forward
She needs to go and be replaced with someone with backbone
Pretty quickly you're going to get the national guard stuck in the middle - refusing federal orders to attack their own people.
If he could add to this a competent front bench and 325+ potential MPs who aren't dim loonies + net Zero 'at the same pace as the rest of the world' he will win.
..........then on the one o'clock news on radio 4 the only person they interviewed said 'it was disgusting that they did it in the first place and they'll never be forgiven. All her retired friends feel the same'
It just reminds you of the power of editorial control and why vox pops are is a game for any number of players and why Alastair Campbell spent so much time berating the BBC when he was working for Blair
They represent everything I abhor.
Maybe AI has already taken Starmer and Reeves over, and to be fair they are robotic in their delivery
Do I sense the first stirrings of Faragism?
“I call it beautiful, clean coal. I told my people, never use the word coal unless you put beautiful, clean before it,” Trump said at a White House signing ceremony where he was flanked by coal miners in hard hats. Several wore patches on their work jackets that said “coal.”
“Pound for pound, coal is the single most reliable, durable, secure and powerful form of energy,” Trump said. “It’s cheap, incredibly efficient, high density, and it’s almost indestructible.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-coal-ai-data-centers-energy-dominance-693e2604785c07ff790d9afd2e06d543
https://x.com/Lewis_7592/status/1931427868493422840
Farage has kept the whatever works approach, but he's even more radical than Blair and Clinton. And his framework is anti-globalisation, to erect barriers and protect our own as if we can just tell the foreigners to do one and still have them buy our stuff.
But parents with infants who earn less than that, while working, and have to pay rent too, don't get that support?
Ridiculous.
Most on just state pension will be renting
@GoodwinMJ
“I want to be crystal clear about what Reform UK’s position is which is we will deport everybody who is here in this country illegally which is roughly 1.2 million people”
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@ZiaYusufUK
If you don’t think Reform is serious about illegal migration you’re not paying attention"
https://x.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1932056069422870641
Please show your source for most pensioners are renting
He's in Port Talbot you say? I'm twenty miles away by and I can smell the bullshit.
If they'd set it at the same as minimum wage - £23.5k, that would be about 73rd percentile (60th). That would still be very generous but defendable.
"The dyslexia school run by a 90-year-old where pupils nail GCSEs
Forget phonics and use a fountain pen: these are some of the secrets to earning at least seven pass grades when you struggle with reading or writing
At Maple Hayes Hall, a school for dyslexic children, prospective pupils attend an assessment with its founder, Neville Brown.
By the end of the meeting, most of the children — many of whom arrive here in the Staffordshire countryside aged nine or older unable to read or write — can comfortably spell the word “television”. For parents, it is akin to a magic trick.
They are in the hands of a professional with an extraordinary amount of experience. Brown, 90, became an English teacher in 1958 and for 40 years has been working with dyslexic pupils using the same innovative method he pioneered in the 1970s while studying for a PhD in psycholinguistics." (£)
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/the-dyslexia-school-run-by-a-90-year-old-where-pupils-nail-gcses-9x36xqvtq