OK no apology then. Didn't really expect it. People hardly ever apologise if asked to. Any case all is well now since going forward I can filter you out on this one.
But not on other matters, I hasten to add. You are value added on plenty of other matters. I must ignore you just on this one. Bloomberg.
OK no apology then. Didn't really expect it. People hardly ever apologise if asked to. Any case all is well now since going forward I can filter you out on this one.
But not on other matters, I hasten to add. You are value added on plenty of other matters. I must ignore you just on this one. Bloomberg.
Think it just shows that DUP were quite happy with no Stormont when they could get what they wanted by being the casting vote at Westminster. Now they are irrelevant at Westminster they want their power back.
OK no apology then. Didn't really expect it. People hardly ever apologise if asked to. Any case all is well now since going forward I can filter you out on this one.
But not on other matters, I hasten to add. You are value added on plenty of other matters. I must ignore you just on this one. Bloomberg.
Thanks, if Sanders wins the nomination and Bloomberg backs him I will apologise but for now I remain of the view he will not and would run as an Independent instead (though he would happily campaign for Biden or Buttigieg).
He would justify it on the basis Trump would beat Sanders and for the good of the nation he has to run to give a credible alternative to Trump
Think it just shows that DUP were quite happy with no Stormont when they could get what they wanted by being the casting vote at Westminster. Now they are irrelevant at Westminster they want their power back.
I think both they and SF were more influenced by the need to avoid elections.
Well, anything's possible if you throw enough money at it. Mary Lou McDonald seemed to be able to point to plenty of concessions won by SF including on the promotion of the Irish language.
The DUP also perhaps realise their influence of old has now gone and the new political reality post 12/12 means they have to play ball to get scraps from the table.
Think it just shows that DUP were quite happy with no Stormont when they could get what they wanted by being the casting vote at Westminster. Now they are irrelevant at Westminster they want their power back.
I think both they and SF were more influenced by the need to avoid elections.
Think it just shows that DUP were quite happy with no Stormont when they could get what they wanted by being the casting vote at Westminster. Now they are irrelevant at Westminster they want their power back.
Both the DUP and SF lost votes at the GE 1 in 6 for DUP and 1 in 4 for SF, add in the NHS there, that seems to be in meltdown, they both had no choice but to reconvene the Assembly. The voters would have chosen other parties if they had not.
Well, anything's possible if you throw enough money at it. Mary Lou McDonald seemed to be able to point to plenty of concessions won by SF including on the promotion of the Irish language.
The DUP also perhaps realise their influence of old has now gone and the new political reality post 12/12 means they have to play ball to get scraps from the table.
That isn't really the point. It is happening on his watch, whether he has any direct input or not.
Think it just shows that DUP were quite happy with no Stormont when they could get what they wanted by being the casting vote at Westminster. Now they are irrelevant at Westminster they want their power back.
Both the DUP and SF lost votes at the GE 1 in 6 for DUP and 1 in 4 for SF, add in the NHS there seems to be in meltdown, they both had no choice but to reconvene the Assembly. The voters would have chosen other parties if they had not.
Think it just shows that DUP were quite happy with no Stormont when they could get what they wanted by being the casting vote at Westminster. Now they are irrelevant at Westminster they want their power back.
And neither the DUP or SF particularly want an election. It takes two to tango.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
Not many would remain on welfare, that's for sure sir.
Well he was but he's off it now. I don't hold grudges. Life's too short.
Quick point from my party meeting the other day. I was struck by the sense that for many of the activists there it is far more important to feel part of something they truly believe in than it is to win a majority of MPs in Westminster.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
Not many would remain on welfare, that's for sure sir.
OK no apology then. Didn't really expect it. People hardly ever apologise if asked to. Any case all is well now since going forward I can filter you out on this one.
But not on other matters, I hasten to add. You are value added on plenty of other matters. I must ignore you just on this one. Bloomberg.
Thanks, if Sanders wins the nomination and Bloomberg backs him I will apologise but for now I remain of the view he will not and would run as an Independent instead (though he would happily campaign for Biden or Buttigieg).
He would justify it on the basis Trump would beat Sanders and for the good of the nation he has to run to give a credible alternative to Trump
Phillips, whose campaign slogan is “speak truth, win power”, said she stands ready to work with the Conservatives and other parties to solve a problem that has dogged successive governments.
She said a “citizens’ assembly”, similar to the Irish model that proposed new abortion laws, could allow ordinary people to work out how a better system could be funded.
This stupid idea of a citizens' assembly again. We elect MPs to represent us, listen to experts and form policy. This is again a very complex issue. We should instead be learning from the experience of having for example Prof Webb doing pensions i.e. an genuine expert in the role in which they are extremely well versed.
Yes, but Citizens Assemlies allow MPs to avoid responsibility. With the EU-crutch being taken away ("it wasn't my idea, it was forced on me by Brussels"), MPs need a new way to pass the buck.
I think this is overly cynical.
Citizens` Assemblies is a mechanism which could in principle be used in an attempt to supplement or bypass democracy. For example, Extinction Rebellion advocates strongly for CAs because it recognises that democracy (whether direct or representative) will never tackle the planet`s environmental woes - which are human-caused and turkeys don`t vote for Christmas blah blah.
ER`s CAs would not be made up of random electorate (that could be counter-productive to their aims), rather they would be made up of scientists, naturalists and environmental campaigners.
Their view - and mine - is that business as usual is not even slightly able to produce the change that is needed. Something drastic has to be done to ameliorate the shocking loss of biodiversity and wild habitat, and ER is at least coming up with something which would have a real effect if global cooperation were achieved alongside.
I know ER is hated by many (I disagree with some of their antics) but they are not looking for popularity.
So basically you're arguing for a dictatorship led by the likes of ER and the associated suspension of democracy?
Forgive me if I don't sign up for that.
They really are just Trotskyites in green clothing aren't they?
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
I was working with a guy yesterday who was in a full-time supervisory role and earning £21,500 a year. Most people on PB were earning more than that 30 years ago. For people on here to see earning that sort of money as economically prudent may have a shock when the peasants start revolting.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
Not many would remain on welfare, that's for sure sir.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
I was working with a guy yesterday who was in a full-time supervisory role and earning £21,500 a year. Most people on PB were earning more than that 30 years ago. For people on here to see earning that sort of money as economically prudent may have a shock when the peasants start revolting.
Well he was but he's off it now. I don't hold grudges. Life's too short.
Quick point from my party meeting the other day. I was struck by the sense that for many of the activists there it is far more important to feel part of something they truly believe in than it is to win a majority of MPs in Westminster.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
I was working with a guy yesterday who was in a full-time supervisory role and earning £21,500 a year. Most people on PB were earning more than that 30 years ago. For people on here to see earning that sort of money as economically prudent may have a shock when the peasants start revolting.
Was he eligible for Tax Credits?
I have no idea. Either way I believe you have missed my point.
Well he was but he's off it now. I don't hold grudges. Life's too short.
Quick point from my party meeting the other day. I was struck by the sense that for many of the activists there it is far more important to feel part of something they truly believe in than it is to win a majority of MPs in Westminster.
I skipped our CLP this evening. Better for my wellbeing to avoid 2 hours of fuckwittery.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
I was working with a guy yesterday who was in a full-time supervisory role and earning £21,500 a year. Most people on PB were earning more than that 30 years ago. For people on here to see earning that sort of money as economically prudent may have a shock when the peasants start revolting.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
Not many would remain on welfare, that's for sure sir.
Except those not in work...
Your mad, lol.
You are if you think more than doubling the minimum wage would have no negative impact.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
Not many would remain on welfare, that's for sure sir.
Can you please enlighten us on whether you're thick or just trolling?
Probably quite a lot of credit owed to Julian Smith, much more effective than the hapless Karen Bradley who was viewed with contempt by all sides in NI.
Probably quite a lot of credit owed to Julian Smith, much more effective than the hapless Karen Bradley who was viewed with contempt by all sides in NI.
The buck stops with Boris. So for the moment this is a Boris win.
That’s well worth 15 minutes of anyone’s time, listening to someone who actually understands all the factions in the ME and how they fit together. I hope that he has the ear of those in government who could benefit from his insight.
That’s well worth 15 minutes of anyone’s time, listening to someone who actually understands all the factions in the ME and how they fit together. I hope that he has the ear of those in government who could benefit from his insight.
Him and Rory the ex-Tory know their onions on this stuff.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
No politician is ever good for the poor & vulnerable. They all despise them regardless of party.
Could we have league table of vulnerability? It appears to include everyone bar the white middle to upper middle class.
What's the point of saying white? Do you believe white people are the victim of social anti-white racism. In Boris's Britain where the PM fantasises in print about "piccaninnies". Jesus wept.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
No politician is ever good for the poor & vulnerable. They all despise them regardless of party.
Could we have league table of vulnerability? It appears to include everyone bar the white middle to upper middle class.
What's the point of saying white? Do you believe white people are the victim of social anti-white racism. In Boris's Britain where the PM fantasises in print about "piccaninnies". Jesus wept.
I really feel like the piccaninnies line is not going to be enough to sustain attacks on Boris through the long years of his premiership. He provides newer reasons to criticise often enough.
Probably quite a lot of credit owed to Julian Smith, much more effective than the hapless Karen Bradley who was viewed with contempt by all sides in NI.
The buck stops with Boris. So for the moment this is a Boris win.
Boris owns everything now apparently, applies to good as well as bad I assumed
When the aircraft industry started using carbon fibre they ran into an enormous problem: suddenly nothing fit. They'd got so used to bodging subassemblies together they couldn't cope with brittle materials that can't be subject to percussive adjustment. This tradition was famously one of the reasons why the AEW Nimrod went over budget: not one of the refurbished wings fitted in the fuselages, since all of the wing roots were of slightly different sizes.
The wing issue wasn't on Nimrod AEW.3; it was on the Portillo designed catastrophe Nimrod 2000 which became Nimrod MRA.4 which became a 4bn quid pile of scrap.
All of the original MR.2s (which were to be remanufactured into MRA.4s in a typical tory act of corporate welfare to BAE) were built on concrete jigs at Hatfield in the 60s. One of the jigs was a Friday afternoon job that was built on the piss meaning that none of the datum points on the fuselage were quite were they were supposed to be. This was only discovered when they sawed the original wings off XV243 and the new ones didn't fit.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
No politician is ever good for the poor & vulnerable. They all despise them regardless of party.
Could we have league table of vulnerability? It appears to include everyone bar the white middle to upper middle class.
What's the point of saying white? Do you believe white people are the victim of social anti-white racism. In Boris's Britain where the PM fantasises in print about "piccaninnies". Jesus wept.
I really feel like the piccaninnies line is not going to be enough to sustain attacks on Boris through the long years of his premiership. He provides newer reasons to criticise often enough.
Although, if you notice, not for quite some while now.....
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
No politician is ever good for the poor & vulnerable. They all despise them regardless of party.
Could we have league table of vulnerability? It appears to include everyone bar the white middle to upper middle class.
What's the point of saying white? Do you believe white people are the victim of social anti-white racism. In Boris's Britain where the PM fantasises in print about "piccaninnies". Jesus wept.
He didn't fantasize about it, he was satirising the mindset of other people. As about 30 seconds googling would enable you to learn for yourself.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
Not many would remain on welfare, that's for sure sir.
Can you please enlighten us on whether you're thick or just trolling?
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
Not many would remain on welfare, that's for sure sir.
Except those not in work...
Your mad, lol.
You are if you think more than doubling the minimum wage would have no negative impact.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
No politician is ever good for the poor & vulnerable. They all despise them regardless of party.
Could we have league table of vulnerability? It appears to include everyone bar the white middle to upper middle class.
What's the point of saying white? Do you believe white people are the victim of social anti-white racism. In Boris's Britain where the PM fantasises in print about "piccaninnies". Jesus wept.
He didn't fantasize about it, he was satirising the mindset of other people. As about 30 seconds googling would enable you to learn for yourself.
Satire explained by googling is really a summary of the sh1tposting that should be abandoned with the rest of 2010s culture.
It is absolutely hilarious going back to the newspapers of the nineties and reading the absolutely hysterical nonsense written about the absolutely apocalyptic devastation to the economy introducing a minimum wage would do.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
Not many would remain on welfare, that's for sure sir.
Except those not in work...
Your mad, lol.
You are if you think more than doubling the minimum wage would have no negative impact.
You're delusional to put it nicely.
Has any country more than doubled the minimum wage overnight before? I think the onus is on you to say why it wouldn't have any negative impact on employment.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
Not many would remain on welfare, that's for sure sir.
Except those not in work...
Your mad, lol.
You are if you think more than doubling the minimum wage would have no negative impact.
You're delusional to put it nicely.
Has any country more than doubled the minimum wage overnight before? I think the onus is on you to say why it wouldn't have any negative impact on employment.
All the main shop's now have self service checkouts.
Probably quite a lot of credit owed to Julian Smith, much more effective than the hapless Karen Bradley who was viewed with contempt by all sides in NI.
The buck stops with Boris. So for the moment this is a Boris win.
Boris owns everything now apparently, applies to good as well as bad I assumed
Politically speaking, yes he does. All Heads of State do.
John Major achieved lasting peace in Northern Ireland, but the hapless ERM debacle defined his premiership.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
No politician is ever good for the poor & vulnerable. They all despise them regardless of party.
Could we have league table of vulnerability? It appears to include everyone bar the white middle to upper middle class.
What's the point of saying white? Do you believe white people are the victim of social anti-white racism. In Boris's Britain where the PM fantasises in print about "piccaninnies". Jesus wept.
I really feel like the piccaninnies line is not going to be enough to sustain attacks on Boris through the long years of his premiership. He provides newer reasons to criticise often enough.
Although, if you notice, not for quite some while now.....
I meant things to criticise about him generally, not merely unfortunate remarks.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
Do you honestly believe that any PM is some sort of magic wand for those people?
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Increasing the minimum wage to £20 per hour would fix a lot of stuff for them.
Quite a jump. I wonder what that would do to employment figures.
Not many would remain on welfare, that's for sure sir.
Except those not in work...
Your mad, lol.
You are if you think more than doubling the minimum wage would have no negative impact.
You're delusional to put it nicely.
Has any country more than doubled the minimum wage overnight before? I think the onus is on you to say why it wouldn't have any negative impact on employment.
All the main shop's now have self service checkouts.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
No politician is ever good for the poor & vulnerable. They all despise them regardless of party.
Could we have league table of vulnerability? It appears to include everyone bar the white middle to upper middle class.
What's the point of saying white? Do you believe white people are the victim of social anti-white racism. In Boris's Britain where the PM fantasises in print about "piccaninnies". Jesus wept.
He didn't fantasize about it, he was satirising the mindset of other people. As about 30 seconds googling would enable you to learn for yourself.
Johnson's awful piece decrying Blair's apparent old colonialism might have been many things, satire was not one of them.
Probably quite a lot of credit owed to Julian Smith, much more effective than the hapless Karen Bradley who was viewed with contempt by all sides in NI.
The buck stops with Boris. So for the moment this is a Boris win.
Boris owns everything now apparently, applies to good as well as bad I assumed
Politically speaking, yes he does. All Heads of State do.
Brenda still carries that can - currently on a favourable rating of +66....(pipped only by William, (+69) and miles ahead of Charles (+24) and Harry (+29).
Think it just shows that DUP were quite happy with no Stormont when they could get what they wanted by being the casting vote at Westminster. Now they are irrelevant at Westminster they want their power back.
And neither the DUP or SF particularly want an election. It takes two to tango.
Both my wife and I said that as the announcement was made on the News. It’s amazing how termination of income concentrates minds.
It is absolutely hilarious going back to the newspapers of the nineties and reading the absolutely hysterical nonsense written about the absolutely apocalyptic devastation to the economy introducing a minimum wage would do.
It was going to be the fucking end times.
I’d give this a like if it wasn’t for the unnecessary (and incorrect) use of the f word!
I do wonder if Clive Lewis' positioning, while likely to flop among the current Labour membership, would actually be a smart move for the party for the electorate as a whole.
RLB basically wants to do the Corbyn thing but better. Same coalition.
Starmer would maybe bring back in the low hanging fruit by dealing with the AS issue, but is vulnerable in Brexit/ culture. Labour would continue to be a party of socialista, graduates, young people, city dwellers.
Nandy meanwhile would aim to rebuild the party's support in Leavey areas and towns, but the more woke wing might baulk at losing their priorities and having to tolerate socially conservative voters.
The Lewis position seems built to coopt Lib Dems by supporting PR and political reform. The LDs don't have a lot of seats but they do have broad shallow support almost everywhere, and a "progressive alliance" of pro European, pro PR liberal lefties would be a real prospect if Labour changed leadership. It seems a more likely alliance than between woke Corbynites and Blue Labour on paper at least.
Think it just shows that DUP were quite happy with no Stormont when they could get what they wanted by being the casting vote at Westminster. Now they are irrelevant at Westminster they want their power back.
And neither the DUP or SF particularly want an election. It takes two to tango.
Both my wife and I said that as the announcement was made on the News. It’s amazing how termination of income concentrates minds.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
No politician is ever good for the poor & vulnerable. They all despise them regardless of party.
Could we have league table of vulnerability? It appears to include everyone bar the white middle to upper middle class.
What's the point of saying white? Do you believe white people are the victim of social anti-white racism. In Boris's Britain where the PM fantasises in print about "piccaninnies". Jesus wept.
He didn't fantasize about it, he was satirising the mindset of other people. As about 30 seconds googling would enable you to learn for yourself.
Johnson's awful piece decrying Blair's apparent old colonialism might have been many things, satire was not one of them.
And that precludes any one particular word in the piece from being used satirically, does it?
It is absolutely hilarious going back to the newspapers of the nineties and reading the absolutely hysterical nonsense written about the absolutely apocalyptic devastation to the economy introducing a minimum wage would do.
It was going to be the fucking end times.
Not really. The devil is (as always) in the detail, and in particular in respect of a minimum wage, at the actual figure. Blair, very sensibly, set the initial minimum wage at a very low level, so it did little damage. Even so it helped finish off what was left of the textile industry, and some marginal retail jobs.
Correct but he's not good for the most vunerable and poor in our society, although no Tory is / was.
No politician is ever good for the poor & vulnerable. They all despise them regardless of party.
Could we have league table of vulnerability? It appears to include everyone bar the white middle to upper middle class.
What's the point of saying white? Do you believe white people are the victim of social anti-white racism. In Boris's Britain where the PM fantasises in print about "piccaninnies". Jesus wept.
He didn't fantasize about it, he was satirising the mindset of other people. As about 30 seconds googling would enable you to learn for yourself.
Satire explained by googling is really a summary of the sh1tposting that should be abandoned with the rest of 2010s culture.
It is absolutely hilarious going back to the newspapers of the nineties and reading the absolutely hysterical nonsense written about the absolutely apocalyptic devastation to the economy introducing a minimum wage would do.
It was going to be the fucking end times.
Not really. The devil is (as always) in the detail, and in particular in respect of a minimum wage, at the actual figure. Blair, very sensibly, set the initial minimum wage at a very low level, so it did little damage. Even so it helped finish off what was left of the textile industry, and some marginal retail jobs.
I read that the average increase in wage for those on the lowest was about 10%. A huge difference from more than doubling it to £20!
Probably quite a lot of credit owed to Julian Smith, much more effective than the hapless Karen Bradley who was viewed with contempt by all sides in NI.
The buck stops with Boris. So for the moment this is a Boris win.
Boris owns everything now apparently, applies to good as well as bad I assumed
Politically speaking, yes he does. All Heads of State do.
Brenda still carries that can - currently on a favourable rating of +66....(pipped only by William, (+69) and miles ahead of Charles (+24) and Harry (+29).
Yes fairy point,but you knew what I meant. Mrs Mountbatten however doesn't stand or fall by circumstances every four or five years at the ballot box.
It is absolutely hilarious going back to the newspapers of the nineties and reading the absolutely hysterical nonsense written about the absolutely apocalyptic devastation to the economy introducing a minimum wage would do.
It was going to be the fucking end times.
It really does make remarkable reading. The right at its Chicken Licken worst. I remember reading someone in the Guardian writing that the NMW was a policy which would never be rescinded by any government once installed, and his being mocked by rightwingers. But he was correct.
It is absolutely hilarious going back to the newspapers of the nineties and reading the absolutely hysterical nonsense written about the absolutely apocalyptic devastation to the economy introducing a minimum wage would do.
It was going to be the fucking end times.
It really does make remarkable reading. The right at its Chicken Licken worst. I remember reading someone in the Guardian writing that the NMW was a policy which would never be rescinded by any government once installed, and his being mocked by rightwingers. But he was correct.
So, like the triple lock, bus passes for the elderly and other similar policies. Are you suggesting that the fact that a policy is hard to reverse once enacted makes it good?
"Do what you want - and pay for it". Public not in favour of cakeism.
Prince Andrew....the Jezza of the royal family.
Jeremy Corbyn was not "friends with" a paedophile.
I think you may well receive a comment from the 'moderator' over that sentence
Not sure there is any dispute that a certain Prince's circle of friends may have included someone convicted of unbecoming behaviour. Unless you were defending Corbyn?
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OK no apology then. Didn't really expect it. People hardly ever apologise if asked to. Any case all is well now since going forward I can filter you out on this one.
But not on other matters, I hasten to add. You are value added on plenty of other matters. I must ignore you just on this one. Bloomberg.
Having a functioning Stormont will add a new wrinkle to Brexit.
In terms of results, Tories still win the next election.
He would justify it on the basis Trump would beat Sanders and for the good of the nation he has to run to give a credible alternative to Trump
maajid Nawaz on this weeks events in Middle East
The DUP also perhaps realise their influence of old has now gone and the new political reality post 12/12 means they have to play ball to get scraps from the table.
Boris will be at least as good as his predecessors in helping them.
Essentially the vulnerable shouldn't be so - social services should pick up on them before they get there, and the poor are a mixed bag, but a good many of them should 'get on their bikes' as Norman Tebbitt once said.
We need less people trying to arse about and self-classify themselves as needy, and that'll free the social services to deal with the real cases. I have no idea at all how you achieve that.
Quick point from my party meeting the other day. I was struck by the sense that for many of the activists there it is far more important to feel part of something they truly believe in than it is to win a majority of MPs in Westminster.
Gotta love the Aussies, go Was he eligible for Tax Credits?
All of the original MR.2s (which were to be remanufactured into MRA.4s in a typical tory act of corporate welfare to BAE) were built on concrete jigs at Hatfield in the 60s. One of the jigs was a Friday afternoon job that was built on the piss meaning that none of the datum points on the fuselage were quite were they were supposed to be. This was only discovered when they sawed the original wings off XV243 and the new ones didn't fit.
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1215709733178486795
I'm an advocate to increase minimum wage but it doesn't bother me either way, I just dislike seeing people struggle.
It was going to be the fucking end times.
John Major achieved lasting peace in Northern Ireland, but the hapless ERM debacle defined his premiership.
"Do what you want - and pay for it". Public not in favour of cakeism.
I do wonder if Clive Lewis' positioning, while likely to flop among the current Labour membership, would actually be a smart move for the party for the electorate as a whole.
RLB basically wants to do the Corbyn thing but better. Same coalition.
Starmer would maybe bring back in the low hanging fruit by dealing with the AS issue, but is vulnerable in Brexit/ culture. Labour would continue to be a party of socialista, graduates, young people, city dwellers.
Nandy meanwhile would aim to rebuild the party's support in Leavey areas and towns, but the more woke wing might baulk at losing their priorities and having to tolerate socially conservative voters.
The Lewis position seems built to coopt Lib Dems by supporting PR and political reform. The LDs don't have a lot of seats but they do have broad shallow support almost everywhere, and a "progressive alliance" of pro European, pro PR liberal lefties would be a real prospect if Labour changed leadership. It seems a more likely alliance than between woke Corbynites and Blue Labour on paper at least.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/09/politics/cnn-iowa-poll-announcement/index.html
https://twitter.com/TheMarcofCraig/status/1215756946705387520?s=20
"Probably just a few thousand" would be well more than enough if it was weighted correctly...
JL Partners interviewed 1,000 adults online on Thursday and yesterday. The earlier poll on royals' ratings was carried out in October by YouGov.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7874669/Majority-Britons-say-Harry-Meghan-treated-Queen-shoddily.html
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5db0ca668552dd5ab1168a91/t/5e18fa313a904b6e1b21fc4e/1578695220563/Royals_Poll.pdf
Basic Statistics for Corbynites. Free online course. The need is clearly there.
Deputy Standings.