That scheme really f*cks me, as someone who's attempting a career change at age 28. Why would any firm hire me at entry level when they could hire a 25 year old for free?
Jeez.
Now do you see the problem with cleverly designed state run schemes replacing the free market?
Vote Tory in future...
But the Tories are in power?
What Charles means by "vote Tory" is go to a Tory fundraiser and give a bung to the appropriate minister, as that seems to be the only acceptable way to influence the policy of the eternal Tory government.
I am currently a Labour Party member, but mainly because I wanted to vote to ensure Long Bailey did not win.
I'd probably describe myself as a swing voter.
With respect , I don't think that being a party member - Labour or Tory - is compatible with being a 'swing voter.' Failure to support your party would - and should - result in expulsion.
I don’t really care. It’s not a football team. I’m not a “fan”.
In my life I have voted at GE for Liberals, SDP, Labour, Green, Tories and Lib Dems and been a member of both LD and Labour parties. I don't think that I have changed my views so much as various parties have shifted to the centre, then away from it.
An issue is defining what is "the centre".
In recent years the term "the centre" has been hijacked by pro-Europeans when there is nothing centrist about that. People campaigning for a second referendum last Parliament would call themselves centrists, but when 52% of the country voted to leave and a large bulk of those that voted to Remain thought that the referendum result (even if wrong) should be respected . . . the arch-Europhiles wanting a second referendum were not centrists they were extremists.
I voted Tory in 2010, when Cameron had clearly moved the party more central, and Labour in 1992, 97, and 2001 when it too had shifted to the centre. European policy was not the over riding issue otherwise I would have voted Tory in 83 and 87 when the Tories were running on a pro Europe manifesto.
I can't see myself voting Tory again.
If not Europe what is it that bothers you about the current Tories?
Boris is much like the Coalition government - only less austere on spending. So what do you dislike so much?
Sounds like you are almost as posh as Charles, if not more so then Nick P if your father's cousin was a Viscount and a son of the Earl of Moray
Yes, I'm the degenerate red sheep of the family . On my dad's side the family tree goes back to Edward III, on my mum's side there's a pre-revolutionary Russian prince. My aunt used to reminisce modestly about the family "country house" being quite pleasant (it was a 50-room castle, going back 750 years - https://www.scotclans.com/scotland/visit-scotland/scottish-castles/scottish-borders/cavers-castle/ ).
Thing is, though, if you go back a few hundred years then everyone's related to everyone, more or less.
Sounds like you have quite an interesting family history anyway, though as you say most of us are connected if you go back far enough, even Danny Dyer has some royal blood.
My father has been doing some family history and found out his mother's family used to reside at Poxwell Manor in Dorset a few centuries ago, though not quite as grand as Cavers Castle
Tesla might have this market valuation but the latest issue of Which reckons their cars are very unreliable and develop a lot of faults.
They are very badly built but so are lots of other cars (anything from Fiat-Chrysler or JLR for a start) but what Tesla appreciated way before any other manufacturer was the value of the combined offer of the car and the charging infrastructure. So when you buy a Model 3 you're not just buying a badly built car with pressed steel control arms like a 90s Nissan Micra you're buying access to the Tesla charging infrastructure which far superior to anything else.
Sounds like you are almost as posh as Charles, if not more so then Nick P if your father's cousin was a Viscount and a son of the Earl of Moray
Yes, I'm the degenerate red sheep of the family . On my dad's side the family tree goes back to Edward III, on my mum's side there's a pre-revolutionary Russian prince. My aunt used to reminisce modestly about the family "country house" being quite pleasant (it was a 50-room castle, going back 750 years - https://www.scotclans.com/scotland/visit-scotland/scottish-castles/scottish-borders/cavers-castle/ ).
Thing is, though, if you go back a few hundred years then everyone's related to everyone, more or less.
Sounds like you have quite an interesting family history anyway, though as you say most of us are connected if you go back far enough, even Danny Dyer has some royal blood.
My father has been doing some family history and found out his mother's family used to reside at Poxwell Manor in Dorset a few centuries ago, though not quite as grand as Cavers Castle
My father found out that one of our ancestors lost a factory in Stafford in a bet with Josiah Wedgewood. This is ironic as JW didn't allow his workers to gamble. The only item we have left from that time is a porcelain loving cup made in the factory before it was lost.
Arizona and Georgia would be bigly. They are both trending Democrat. Fun fact. Arizona's population has doubled since 1990.
A former work colleague of mine based in California recently moved to Phoenix because he was sick of the traffic around Los Angeles, as well as the house prices. He's certainly a Biden voter.
Can’t see the attraction myself. The summers are unbearable in Phoenix and go on forever. I met a young couple in Vienna once who said they got that first creeping feeling in early May, knowing that four months of hell were just around the corner.
I am currently a Labour Party member, but mainly because I wanted to vote to ensure Long Bailey did not win.
I'd probably describe myself as a swing voter.
With respect , I don't think that being a party member - Labour or Tory - is compatible with being a 'swing voter.' Failure to support your party would - and should - result in expulsion.
I don’t really care. It’s not a football team. I’m not a “fan”.
In my life I have voted at GE for Liberals, SDP, Labour, Green, Tories and Lib Dems and been a member of both LD and Labour parties. I don't think that I have changed my views so much as various parties have shifted to the centre, then away from it.
An issue is defining what is "the centre".
In recent years the term "the centre" has been hijacked by pro-Europeans when there is nothing centrist about that. People campaigning for a second referendum last Parliament would call themselves centrists, but when 52% of the country voted to leave and a large bulk of those that voted to Remain thought that the referendum result (even if wrong) should be respected . . . the arch-Europhiles wanting a second referendum were not centrists they were extremists.
I voted Tory in 2010, when Cameron had clearly moved the party more central, and Labour in 1992, 97, and 2001 when it too had shifted to the centre. European policy was not the over riding issue otherwise I would have voted Tory in 83 and 87 when the Tories were running on a pro Europe manifesto.
I can't see myself voting Tory again.
If not Europe what is it that bothers you about the current Tories?
Boris is much like the Coalition government - only less austere on spending. So what do you dislike so much?
How about the incompetence, chicanery, nepotism and corruption for starters. In terms of policy, foreign policy-particularly in regard to Europe, social policy, education policy- encouragement of Grammar School is retrospective, law and order policy, health, especially the handling of Covid-19, the culture war with the civil service and the BBC. The casually engineered break up of the Union. There is much more to consider too.
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Boris is much like the Coalition government - only less austere on spending. So what do you dislike so much?
My father has been doing some family history and found out his mother's family used to reside at Poxwell Manor in Dorset a few centuries ago, though not quite as grand as Cavers Castle
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3067138/Manor-home-Thomas-Hardy-Trumpet-Major-sold-3-25million.html
Markey 51%
Kennedy 48%
https://results.decisiondeskhq.com/
https://www.vox.com/2020/9/1/21403485/live-results-massachusetts-primaries-senate-ed-markey-joe-kennedy
https://twitter.com/billscher/status/1300957389705838593?s=21
https://www.vox.com/2020/9/1/21403485/live-results-massachusetts-primaries-senate-ed-markey-joe-kennedy
So all in all, what's not to like?