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  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,712
    AlistairM said:

    This speech reminds me of IDS in 2003. Cheered to the rafters and then got rid of straight afterwards.

    Parliament back next week. The plotting can get seriously underway then.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,841
    One sensible decision at least, not to try any jokes (apart from the obvious one, of course)
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 6,277
    The anti growth coalition ! So now if you don’t agree with the Maggie clone you’re an enemy of the people .
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    AlistairM said:

    This speech reminds me of IDS in 2003. Cheered to the rafters and then got rid of straight afterwards.

    Applause is pretty perfunctory. And look at their faces.
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,642
    F Me! She has done it! She's turned this round! We're going to be back to double digit poll leads for the Tories as early as this week! Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Brava! Brava!
  • FrankBoothFrankBooth Posts: 10,022
    Doesn't seem to have crashed the pound yet.

    Weirdly on the charts I'm looking at the pound sank from $1.14 to to $1.04 at 03:35 this morning. Luckily normal service was resumed and the pound bounced back to $1.14 by 03:45.
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,642
    mwadams said:

    Am I correct in thinking that the Nobel Prize in question was Literature?
    Yes
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,642

    Samuel Beckett?
    Spot on.
  • Defence to get the 3%.

    Keep those printing presses going BoE.

    Keep up. LizT pledged 3% *by the end of the decade* not now, and not before the next two general elections.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,712
    North London now the enemy within it seems.

  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,507
    Up the IT workers!
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559

    Who said don't go to work?

    Go to work, but don't rely upon the services of those who are on strike to do so. If you normally get a train then drive instead and so on. If you can't, then be prepared to pay more to the staff since you must value them so highly that you're so dependant upon them.
    But how do you arrange to pay more to the staff? You can't.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,841
    You never get the sense that there’s any real conviction behind any of this
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559
    DougSeal said:

    Sometimes workers have no choice. They suffer from strikes too - they don't get paid for the days they're om strike. You don't wake up in the morning and go "oh, I fancy a day off"
    Going on strike is always a choice.

    "We had no choice" is a pathetic whine and not credible.
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 6,277
    Oh dear now onto enemies of enterprise! Just more division peddling .
  • eekeek Posts: 29,399
    nico679 said:

    The anti growth coalition ! So now if you don’t agree with the Maggie clone you’re an enemy of the people .

    or understand that if something didn't work the first 12 times it's rather unlikely the 13th attempt is going to end any differently...
  • numbertwelvenumbertwelve Posts: 7,219
    No, not the anti growth coalition! I hate those guys.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 58,970
    edited October 2022
    IshmaelZ said:

    So, who and who have won both an Oscar and a Nobel?
    Without googling, I'm gonna guess Graham Greene. Oscar for the Third Man Nobel for Literature?

    Are you saying there are two?! F Scott Fitzgerald? Don't think he got the Nobel, might have got an Oscar

    Churchill, but then, an Oscar for what? Obama? No Oscar

    Samuel Beckett?

    I shall now go and google

    (Good quiz question, btw!)
  • El_CapitanoEl_Capitano Posts: 4,241
    I thought someone promised this was only going to be 25 minutes long?
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 79,010
    Greenpeace protest looks to have been well done to me. Message on the National news, no disruption to the nation at large, no destruction of property.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    This is a reprise of Cleggy's alarm clock Britain is it not?
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,507
    Is this the crescendo?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,841
    One assumes HS2 is safe, at least
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,712
    IshmaelZ said:

    This is a reprise of Cleggy's alarm clock Britain is it not?

    I was thinking the same thing.
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559

    And their workers don't "force" you to use their services either, you choose to do so.

    They need to take responsibility for their decisions, you need to take responsibility for yours. That is a liberal free market.
    What I am asking for is for them to take responsibility for their decisions: if they choose to punish innocent people by going on strike, they should compensate accordingly.
  • SlackbladderSlackbladder Posts: 9,795

    No, not the anti growth coalition! I hate those guys.

    New enemy of the people....
  • El_CapitanoEl_Capitano Posts: 4,241
    I'm not sure "anti-growth coalition" is going to have the cut-through she thinks it will. It kind of sounds like a reverse Viagra.
  • Driver said:

    But how do you arrange to pay more to the staff? You can't.
    You pay more for the service, if that is what is required.

    If you can find an alternative, then you don't need to.

    Your choice, but if you're making yourself dependant upon other people then you've chosen to do that and you are a party to their disputes, since you've made yourself reliant upon them. That was your choice. You need to take personal responsibility.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,773
    Pulpstar said:

    Greenpeace protest looks to have been well done to me. Message on the National news, no disruption to the nation at large, no destruction of property.

    Might have woken up some of the audience though.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,712
    DougSeal said:

    F Me! She has done it! She's turned this round! We're going to be back to double digit poll leads for the Tories as early as this week! Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Brava! Brava!

    Bit early to be completely wrecked but each to their own. :smile:
  • FrankBoothFrankBooth Posts: 10,022
    I knew Beckett had played cricket to a high level. Didn't know he had a nobel prize.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 58,970
    Aha

    Well I never
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559
    edited October 2022

    So is choosing to use their service.

    In a free society everyone is free to make their own choices. If you want to use other people's labour, even when they don't want to provide it, then there's a word for that.

    Why should you get to choose to use their service, or not, but they don't get to choose whether to offer it, or not?
    Because for many people, their service is irreplaceable. And as I said right at the beginning, if they don't want to offer the service, they can quit.
  • SlackbladderSlackbladder Posts: 9,795
    Well that was pretty crap.
  • I'm not sure "anti-growth coalition" is going to have the cut-through she thinks it will. It kind of sounds like a reverse Viagra.

    The Greenpeace protestors have probably helped it generate some cut through ironically.

    Play clips of her talking about protestors blocking roads, linked to the video of the protestors, and I'm sure a few people will be nodding their heads and thinking "she has a point there".
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 6,277
    Even the end music is garbage . Sorry this speech was dismal .
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    I'm not sure "anti-growth coalition" is going to have the cut-through she thinks it will. It kind of sounds like a reverse Viagra.

    Cancer research.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,712
    Is that the end?

    Are we sure?

    Dire beyond words.

    Has there ever been a worse leader's speech?



  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,642
    edited October 2022
    Driver said:

    Going on strike is always a choice.

    "We had no choice" is a pathetic whine and not credible.
    If people who use the strike affected service don’t like it then they can use another service…oh, wait, it’s a monopoly. They can’t. Same logic applies to the poor sods who work for monopolies. How would you change your intolerable working conditions if you had no alternative employer? Ask managers nicely? Suck up to the boss a bit more? Where your employer has a monopoly on your field of work
    you have no choice. . Your argument seems to suggest that public servants are just servants on a very literal sense.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    27 mentions of growth.
  • Driver said:

    Because for many people, their service is irreplaceable. And as I said right at the beginning, if they don't want to offer the service, they can quit.
    Then pay for it then. Your choice.

    If they don't want to offer the service, they can quit, or they can go on strike, that is their choice.

    If you want to use their service, you can pay whatever it takes to keep the people providing it to you content and happy, or you can find an alternative, that is your choice.

    We all have choices.
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559

    You pay more for the service, if that is what is required.

    If you can find an alternative, then you don't need to.

    Your choice, but if you're making yourself dependant upon other people then you've chosen to do that and you are a party to their disputes, since you've made yourself reliant upon them. That was your choice. You need to take personal responsibility.
    But you can't choose to pay more for the service - the ticket price is what it is.
  • XtrainXtrain Posts: 341
    She's dreadful. She needs to go!
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,841
    nico679 said:

    Even the end music is garbage . Sorry this speech was dismal .

    And that awkward few seconds at the end when everyone was standing there wondering whether she’d actually finished…
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,507
    IshmaelZ said:

    Cancer research.
    Oh dear. I once told my son that Regaine doesn't work.
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,642
    Driver said:

    But how do you arrange to pay more to the staff? You can't.
    You pressure management to pay more by using alternative services. Support your fellow ordinary working man and woman.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 79,010
    Aaron Bell MP
    @AaronBell4NUL
    ·
    25s
    Great speech from the PM!

    A global economic crisis is completely the wrong time to be raising taxes on businesses that create wealth. Liz’s growth focused approach will mean British businesses have the freedom to grow and invest – creating jobs and boosting prosperity for all.
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  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559
    DougSeal said:

    If people who use the strike affected service don’t like it then they can use another service…oh, wait, it’s a monopoly. They can’t. Same logic applies to the poor sods who work for monopolies. How would you change your intolerable working conditions if you had no alternative employer? Ask managers nicely? Suck up to the boss a bit more? Where your employer has a monopoly on your field of work
    you have no choice. . Your argument seems to suggest that public servants are just servants on a very literal sense.
    Quit. Get a different job.

    You probably won't get paif £50k for anything nearly as cushy, but there it is.

    "Intolerable working conditions" for train drivers on £50k+ is just another non-credible whinge.
  • BartholomewRobertsBartholomewRoberts Posts: 23,153
    edited October 2022
    Driver said:

    But you can't choose to pay more for the service - the ticket price is what it is.
    In the long run you absolutely can. Write to the company and say I'd rather pay a higher ticket price if I get a more reliable service, have you done that? Or find an alternative transport method. Stop being dependant upon that service. Your choice.

    Why don't you take the actions available to you to find an alternative? If you can't be bothered, that's your choice too.
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559

    Then pay for it then.
    How???
  • Definitely not a Thatcher or a Blair but the circus now goes onto Parliament where the real action will play out

    Green peace did her no harm and even Burley of Sky said she dealt with it well

    I would imagine she is safe until Spring but if the polls remain as negative she will be removed
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    Driver said:

    Quit. Get a different job.

    You probably won't get paif £50k for anything nearly as cushy, but there it is.

    "Intolerable working conditions" for train drivers on £50k+ is just another non-credible whinge.
    You don't get many people committing suicide very messily all over your office window, I bet.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,841
    edited October 2022
    The captions on YouTube Sky are hilarious - their voice recognition software isn’t working well at all
  • StereodogStereodog Posts: 773

    Then pay for it then. Your choice.

    If they don't want to offer the service, they can quit, or they can go on strike, that is their choice.

    If you want to use their service, you can pay whatever it takes to keep the people providing it to you content and happy, or you can find an alternative, that is your choice.

    We all have choices.
    I do pay for it, £500 a month to go to work on the train. Are you telling me that the train companies can’t afford to pay their staff a decent wage out of that and that the millions of others who pay similar?

    Also do you think that literally everyone has the choice to drive to work?
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559
    DougSeal said:

    You pressure management to pay more by using alternative services. Support your fellow ordinary working man and woman.
    What alternative?

    The people that the unions choose to punish by going on strike have no influence on management.
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 13,680
    Wish list + the pretence that regulation and legislation for a complex, globally reaching, industrial society and its ancillary services is simple. Tory members seem to believe such simplicities. Not great. Junk.
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559

    In the long run you absolutely can. Write to the company and say I'd rather pay a higher ticket price if I get a more reliable service, have you done that? Or find an alternative transport method. Stop being dependant upon that service. Your choice.

    Why don't you take the actions available to you to find an alternative? If you can't be bothered, that's your choice too.
    What alternative? For many people there is none.
  • Awful, dull, content lacking series of platitudes, few of which seem actually deliverable. I genuinely think she's so deluded she thinks she probably nailed it though.

    What i find particularly frustrating is that she's rubbishing the efforts of 12 years of Tory governments and going Labour's work for them. Boris and May were slightly guilty of this but did it in a more nuanced way. And had time on their side.

    Once the Tories are eviscerated in late 2024, the Left are now going to run the show for 2 decades if not forever. It's so depressing for those of us who believe in free markets and personal freedom.

    Then again, i can't really see any benefit of getting shut of her now. Why would Rishi or AN Other want to take it on now as the car veers over the cliff??
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,504
    DavidL said:

    The rate of collapse of Russian forces in Ukraine is increasing, particularly in Kherson but also in the east: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/4/2126969/-Ukraine-update-Russian-defensive-lines-are-reportedly-broken-as-Ukraine-moves-for-Berislav

    It seems as if the logistical shortages west of the Dneiper river, combined with a slighly bizarre lack of radio contact between Russian forces, is causing the abandonment of position after position with ever less actual fighting. Within days we are likely to see a more fundamental collapse and much larger scale surrenders.

    Which will, of course, be the moment of maximum danger. It is quite clear that Putin's recent gambles have failed. The entire province of Kharkiv will soon be back in Ukranian hands yet this is supposed to be mother Russia. The shambles of the mobilisation has simply shown another level of Russian incompetence and increasing domestic resistance. Putin is trapped, humiliated and desperate. If he continues in power (and domestic terror is one of his skills) I fear that the use of nuclear weapons becomes probable. Only an internal coup reduces the risk to moderate. This should be getting far more attention than it is. I think people still think that at some point we are going to have a bloody stalemate and time. We are not.

    The lack of radio contact is probably a function of crap equipment - the *premium* Russian system requires using the local cellular network and many units were using unencrypted commercial systems - and jamming/spoofing by the Ukrainians. With er…. assistance from friends.
  • Driver said:

    How???
    Plenty of options. If we're talking about trains for example, then just off the top of my head.

    1: Put pressure on the train company to resolve the dispute, saying you'll be happy to pay higher ticket prices.
    2: Work from home instead and don't use the train.
    3: Drive instead and don't use the train.
    4: Get a taxi instead and don't use the train.
    5: Go somewhere else instead so you don't need the train.
    6: Quit yourself, so you don't use the train.

    You have plenty of options before you. You want their only option to be quit, well why don't you quit? Or find an alternative that is available to you?
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559
    eek said:

    And in 1 tweet I lose all respect for Aaron. As I said before if your desired approach hasn't worked the last 12 times you've tried (low taxes) why is it going to work the 13th time..
    The tax burden is at a record high, and that certainly hasn't worked.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,310
    Wb, Mr. Sykes.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 79,010
    Carnyx said:

    You don't get many people committing suicide very messily all over your office window, I bet.
    Sorry that argument is a nonsense.
    It's more than most of the army, police, nurses, firemen who all have to deal with traumatic situations on a daily basis.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,841
    eek said:

    And in 1 tweet I lose all respect for Aaron. As I said before if your desired approach hasn't worked the last 12 times you've tried (low taxes) why is it going to work the 13th time..
    TBF he will just have cut and paste from the CCHQ things to tweet..
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559

    Plenty of options. If we're talking about trains for example, then just off the top of my head.

    1: Put pressure on the train company to resolve the dispute, saying you'll be happy to pay higher ticket prices.
    2: Work from home instead and don't use the train.
    3: Drive instead and don't use the train.
    4: Get a taxi instead and don't use the train.
    5: Go somewhere else instead so you don't need the train.
    6: Quit yourself, so you don't use the train.

    You have plenty of options before you. You want their only option to be quit, well why don't you quit? Or find an alternative that is available to you?
    1: They won't listen
    2-5: Impossible for many people
    6: Why should an innocent person be forced to do that by unions choosing to strike?
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,347
    algarkirk said:

    Wish list + the pretence that regulation and legislation for a complex, globally reaching, industrial society and its ancillary services is simple. Tory members seem to believe such simplicities. Not great. Junk.

    It's all "Red Tape". Can be "swept away" and replaced by "common sense".
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617

    Plenty of options. If we're talking about trains for example, then just off the top of my head.

    1: Put pressure on the train company to resolve the dispute, saying you'll be happy to pay higher ticket prices.
    2: Work from home instead and don't use the train.
    3: Drive instead and don't use the train.
    4: Get a taxi instead and don't use the train.
    5: Go somewhere else instead so you don't need the train.
    6: Quit yourself, so you don't use the train.

    You have plenty of options before you. You want their only option to be quit, well why don't you quit? Or find an alternative that is available to you?
    7. Put pressure on the government to make the company resolve the dispute.
    8. Get your political party (if in opposition) to do (7).
  • LeonLeon Posts: 58,970
    edited October 2022
    IanB2 said:

    The captions on YouTube Sky are hilarious - their voice recognition software isn’t working.

    Looks like everyone could use a few of these:

    (Fascinating thread)


    "10 clever websites powered by AI that will make your jaw drop (Don't miss them):"


    https://twitter.com/GrwthPartner/status/1577286175794028548?s=20&t=dJXxPzgDFpVkkSJhLhHOnA


    Honestly. All the economic, industrial and employment predictions we make now are about to be rendered utterly obsolete by AI (setting aside wars, bombs, and climate). It's like people arguing about stables, saddlery and the price of horseshoes in the 1880s, only more so

    I see Nouriel Roubini agrees with me:

    "AI/ML/Robotics/Automation will not only replace routine jobs but also cognitive & creative ones as argued in my new book Megathreats. Eventually most jobs and labor income are at threat. AI also increases inequality as there are stark winners & losers."

    https://twitter.com/Nouriel/status/1577611553708208129?s=20&t=dJXxPzgDFpVkkSJhLhHOnA
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    Pulpstar said:

    Sorry that argument is a nonsense.
    It's more than most of the army, police, nurses, firemen who all have to deal with traumatic situations on a daily basis.
    It's an element. And the emergency services are trained for that. Drivers aren't, not so much.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,333
    Leon said:

    Looks like everyone could use a few of these:

    (Fascinating thread)


    "10 clever websites powered by AI that will make your jaw drop (Don't miss them):"


    https://twitter.com/GrwthPartner/status/1577286175794028548?s=20&t=dJXxPzgDFpVkkSJhLhHOnA


    Honestly. All the economic, industrial and employment predictions we make now are about to be rendered utterly obsolete by AI (setting aside ars, bombs, and climate). It's like people arguing about stables, saddlery and the price of horseshoes in the 1880s, only more so

    I see Nouriel Roubini agrees with me:

    "AI/ML/Robotics/Automation will not only replace routine jobs but also cognitive & creative ones as argued in my new book Megathreats. Eventually most jobs and labor income are at threat. AI also increases inequality as there are stark winners & losers."

    https://twitter.com/Nouriel/status/1577611553708208129?s=20&t=dJXxPzgDFpVkkSJhLhHOnA
    In which case a UBI funded by a robot tax is inevitable and governments will be elected to deliver that
  • eek said:

    And in 1 tweet I lose all respect for Aaron. As I said before if your desired approach hasn't worked the last 12 times you've tried (low taxes) why is it going to work the 13th time..
    Low taxes has worked when its been tried.

    By 2019 we had a fairly balanced budget having grown the economy, got full employment and cleared the deficit that Brown bequeathed thanks in part to lower corporation taxes and a better (but still far from perfect) tax and benefit system that ensured work pays more than benefits better than under Tax Credits.

    If people keep more of their own money, they can invest and save and develop the economy.
  • At the end of the day Liz is at the head of a minority government. She can do nothing that the various factions of swirling Con MPs won't allow her to do. Or are they all part of the Anti-Growth Coalition to be expelled? It would at least make her minority status official and then let her go to the country against the splitters.

    'Get Growth Done!'

    She can't be that stupid can she - and I bow to no-one in the low bar I set for Ms Truss!
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    Grauniad feed:

    "Richard Adams
    Liz Truss was wrong when she claimed in her conference speech that she was the first prime minister to have gone to a comprehensive school. Gordon Brown went to a comprehensive secondary school (Kirkcaldy High School), while Theresa May’s school was converted in a comprehensive while she was a pupil there - Holton Park Girls’ Grammar School, in Oxfordshire, became Wheatley Park Comprehensive School in 1971, two years after May enrolled. The education secretary at the time was Margaret Thatcher."
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    Driver said:

    1: They won't listen
    2-5: Impossible for many people
    6: Why should an innocent person be forced to do that by unions choosing to strike?
    You don't seem to have grasped the fact that life is about reaching equilibria between competing interests. The trainco wants its staff to work for free, the customers want free transport, the staff want £500,000 a day and free cocaine. If you deprive one party of the right to compete against the others that is a serious injustice.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 79,010
    edited October 2022
    I think the 45p tax thing had to go, but tbh the Conservatives best chance to save some seats would be to show a bit of loyalty from now till the next GE.
    I won';t be voting for them but Bravermann is right, Gove is on a complete power trip.
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559
    Carnyx said:

    7. Put pressure on the government to make the company resolve the dispute.
    8. Get your political party (if in opposition) to do (7).
    Those take years to have any impact.
  • Driver said:

    1: They won't listen
    2-5: Impossible for many people
    6: Why should an innocent person be forced to do that by unions choosing to strike?
    It is a dispute between employers and unions. Why not phrase it as employers choosing a strike? If employers did as unions wanted there would be no strike, just as if unions did what employers wanted there would be no strike.

    It is nearly always a failure of both parties, not just one.
  • Carnyx said:

    On cxhecking the parish school was probably funded by the state anyway (bit like an English free school) by that time, so it counts.

    Gordon Brown was also at Kirkcaldy High School.
    I think (though not 100% sure) it was a grammar at the time.

    But the "first comprehensive school PM" thing is a bit deliberately misleading as it implies all PMs have been to Eton and Winchester, whereas it's relatively recent that PMs are of an age to have grown up with a widespread comprehensive system. There have been a lot of PMs witha privileged background, of course, but a fair number of PMs have been state educated and, as mentioned, Lloyd-George and MacDonald were non-selective schools too.
  • BartholomewRobertsBartholomewRoberts Posts: 23,153
    edited October 2022
    Driver said:

    1: They won't listen
    2-5: Impossible for many people
    6: Why should an innocent person be forced to do that by unions choosing to strike?
    2 to 5 are not impossible.

    6: They're not "innocent". If you're using that workers services then you are a party to the dispute, stop using their services if you want to be unaffected by the strike.

    You seem to think you can rely upon workers without paying them what they want to be paid. That's not a free market and its not liberal, or appropriate.

    If you want to rely upon workers then pay them the going rate to get them into work. If you don't want to, then don't rely upon them.

    If you are using someone's services, why do you think you are "innocent" of the dispute. Stop using the service and then you'll be, but if you're using the service you need to pay for it.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    Driver said:

    Those take years to have any impact.
    Who hands out contracts to TOCs? The government (depnding on which bit of the UK). Especially if contracts are up for renewal ...
  • LeonLeon Posts: 58,970
    Machines once took over the hard or repetitive jobs we all hated. From harvesting, to laundry, to weaving,

    Now the machines are about to take over all the jobs we LIKE
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    HYUFD said:

    In which case a UBI funded by a robot tax is inevitable and governments will be elected to deliver that
    That is precisely the message of Oscar Wilde's Soul of Man under Socialism 1891. Been a long time coming.
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 13,680
    Enjoyed the wild applause for the claim that LT is going to ensure, via the health sec, that you will be able to see a GP in a fortnight.

    Not all that long ago this would be unthinkably awful.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,504

    France has nuclear energy, how do you spend so much time there and bang on about it so much and not know that?

    The petrol price seems about the same, its back into the 1.50s here too. The exchange rate isn't the same, but I think France has lower fuel duty.
    Oil prices disconnected (mostly) from the natural gas price long ago.

    In France, EDF was 100% nationalised and the government directed them not to change energy prices. This means that debt is piling up in EDF - which has to buy natural gas on the open market. The debt is effectively government debt…

    They are buying a lot of electricity from the U.K. and other countries, because a number of the nuke plants are in deep maintenance.
  • RogerRoger Posts: 20,130
    A Shocker!

    Thank God for Greenpeace or it would have been the dullest ever.
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559

    It is a dispute between employers and unions. Why not phrase it as employers choosing a strike? If employers did as unions wanted there would be no strike, just as if unions did what employers wanted there would be no strike.

    It is nearly always a failure of both parties, not just one.
    I don't phrase it as employers choosing a strike, because they aren't the ones choosing to strike, the unions are...
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 6,277
    I hope Truss enjoyed her party speech because it will be the last one she gives .
  • OnlyLivingBoyOnlyLivingBoy Posts: 16,269
    Leon said:

    Machines once took over the hard or repetitive jobs we all hated. From harvesting, to laundry, to weaving,

    Now the machines are about to take over all the jobs we LIKE

    Well a robot has taken over as PM and judging from how that's going I don't think we have too much to worry about.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,202

    Her "Pie growth" analogy does not seem to get that poverty is relative.

    Without growth, the UK will be relatively poor.
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 19,119
    BobSykes said:

    Awful, dull, content lacking series of platitudes, few of which seem actually deliverable. I genuinely think she's so deluded she thinks she probably nailed it though.

    What i find particularly frustrating is that she's rubbishing the efforts of 12 years of Tory governments and going Labour's work for them. Boris and May were slightly guilty of this but did it in a more nuanced way. And had time on their side.

    Once the Tories are eviscerated in late 2024, the Left are now going to run the show for 2 decades if not forever. It's so depressing for those of us who believe in free markets and personal freedom.

    Then again, i can't really see any benefit of getting shut of her now. Why would Rishi or AN Other want to take it on now as the car veers over the cliff??

    I believe this is a welcome back Bob?

    What I find confusing is that a small state and low tax message is hardly controversial, so why has she provoked such a revolt?

    The only conclusion I can draw is that Britain's fiscal position is incredibly precarious and her initial promise of borrowing would have pushed us over the edge. What state will the country be in by the time of the next GE?
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,642
    Leon said:

    Machines once took over the hard or repetitive jobs we all hated. From harvesting, to laundry, to weaving,

    Now the machines are about to take over all the jobs we LIKE

    I don't think we should be worried about that so much as the threat of nuclear war, Covid, Aliens and the Woke - all are far more serious. Have you considered posting about one of those deeply concerning issues? I bet you'd get some engagement.
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,559

    2 to 5 are not impossible.

    6: They're not "innocent". If you're using that workers services then you are a party to the dispute, stop using their services if you want to be unaffected by the strike.

    You seem to think you can rely upon workers without paying them what they want to be paid. That's not a free market and its not liberal, or appropriate.

    If you want to rely upon workers then pay them the going rate to get them into work. If you don't want to, then don't rely upon them.

    If you are using someone's services, why do you think you are "innocent" of the dispute. Stop using the service and then you'll be, but if you're using the service you need to pay for it.
    And there are many people who are perfectly happy to pay to use the service, when the unions can be bothered to provide it. But the ordinary people who just want to travel to work, or to see family, for who the train may be the only option - and I'll keep using the word innocent, because they are - have zero influence on the dispute.

    In an ideal world, they would have such influence, but this is not that world.
  • Stereodog said:

    I do pay for it, £500 a month to go to work on the train. Are you telling me that the train companies can’t afford to pay their staff a decent wage out of that and that the millions of others who pay similar?

    Also do you think that literally everyone has the choice to drive to work?
    Yes I am saying that, considering that train fares are heavily subsidies by the taxpayer, that £500 is not enough quite frankly. As far as I'm concerned we should abolish taxpayer subsidies for trains, why should one person's transport be taxed in order to subsidise somebody else's personal choice? But that's a different matter.

    And yes, everyone has the choice to drive to work, or get a taxi, or alternatives like quitting which Driver so kindly suggested as the alternative for train workers. If quitting is an appropriate option for train workers, its an appropriate option for train customers too, who are not "innocent" of any train dispute.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,841
    nico679 said:

    I hope Truss enjoyed her party speech because it will be the last one she gives .

    Party leaders having a hard time of it always get a sympathetic and supportive response from party members - the applause during her speech reminded me of Clegg’s conference speeches during the coalition
  • IshmaelZ said:

    ...the staff want £500,000 a day and free cocaine...
    Half Man Half Biscuit shout !
  • WillGWillG Posts: 2,366
    Leon said:

    Machines once took over the hard or repetitive jobs we all hated. From harvesting, to laundry, to weaving,

    Now the machines are about to take over all the jobs we LIKE

    Some jobs they will take over, most they will complement. Even in situations at the most extreme like producing graphic art, the jobs around them will become about selecting the best art produced, iterating the keywords used to refine the art, ensuring consistency between art styles across the brand. This will all result in those jobs being way, way more productive and the knock-on higher salaries.

    Plus there are some things the AI can't do. Human interaction, where the uncanny Valley discomforts people. Management and oversight. People development. These jobs will become more productive and better paid due to the greater wealth generated per worker on the automation-assisted ones.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,202
    @RoryStewartUK
    A much more confident speech than many were expecting. She has drawn clear political lines on EU, immigration, tax and defence and defined her opponents. Whatever we think of content, you can see clearly here why Liz Truss won over Conservative party members.


    https://twitter.com/RoryStewartUK/status/1577611588101705731
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