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Post by dsjr on Sept 9, 2024 8:55:56 GMT
But local authorities haven't got any money I gather, so all the best intentions may come to nought. I do hope not though, as 'government' is far too remote to see what local needs are.
Four county councils in east anglia are getting together to protest at plans to built a pylon supply from the new Sizewell nuclear power plant to Tilbury (docks?) on the Thames, cutting through Constable Country and so on. 'We' all want an undersea power line going round the coast (nobody really wants Sizewell C, but that's been bulldozed through regardless as the existing generators reach the end of their lives, but apparently it's expensive...........
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Post by dsjr on Sept 11, 2024 14:09:51 GMT
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Post by dsjr on Sept 18, 2024 12:56:50 GMT
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Post by Westie on Sept 18, 2024 15:41:17 GMT
I really don’t understand why she was hired tbh. Labour took a lot of crap for doing it, and there would surely have been other choices.
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Post by dsjr on Sept 18, 2024 22:50:28 GMT
Another attempt to control the pulic with trials to scrap the pint in pubs for smmaller measures of Beer. I have not touched drink for years so im not bothered but if i did no way would i comply & a doubt drinkers or pubs will. So whats the idea, people that go out for a session have a goal of how many pint pots they intend downing not the amount? Well when i drank for England i drank till i was pissed no matter how many it took & then i was always knocking more back when i got in it if i could. so i dont see how that will control intake & besides young idiots generally sup strong larger from bottles ontop of spirits, i just dont get where they are coming from I think I do, as although my limits weren't high, I drank quite a bit (and how I got home safely I'll never ever know...). I met my wife and it all kind-of stopped, although I like a can or two still, but can't take more and then, only at home.
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Post by Westie on Sept 19, 2024 13:59:03 GMT
I think it’s risking unpopularity for too little gain. The pubs will probably like it because they will find ways to serve less and charge more. Sadly it plays into the hands of the likes of Boris and Farage who will rally round “The Good Old British Pint”. Of course the Tory press will have a field day too.
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Post by dsjr on Sept 23, 2024 9:42:01 GMT
Why can't this deluded woman simply disappear into oblivion?
From Sky News -
'Truss claims economy would be in 'better shape' if mini-budget was implemented
Away from Labour Party conference, former prime minister Liz Truss has just taken to social media to celebrate two years since her disastrous mini-budget.
If you need a reminder - the financial statement, delivered by then-chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, was blamed for sending the UK's economy into a downwards spiral.
Ms Truss resigned as prime minister shortly afterwards.
But taking to Twitter, Ms Truss claimed the British economy would be "in much better shape if the mini-budget had been implemented".
She claimed the plan was "undermined by the economic establishment".
If this hadn't happened, Ms Truss claims, the economy would be growing, and people would be paying much lower energy bills.'
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Post by Westie on Sept 23, 2024 16:19:24 GMT
Why can't this deluded woman simply disappear into oblivion? From Sky News - 'Truss claims economy would be in 'better shape' if mini-budget was implemented
Away from Labour Party conference, former prime minister Liz Truss has just taken to social media to celebrate two years since her disastrous mini-budget.
If you need a reminder - the financial statement, delivered by then-chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, was blamed for sending the UK's economy into a downwards spiral.
Ms Truss resigned as prime minister shortly afterwards.
But taking to Twitter, Ms Truss claimed the British economy would be "in much better shape if the mini-budget had been implemented".
She claimed the plan was "undermined by the economic establishment".
If this hadn't happened, Ms Truss claims, the economy would be growing, and people would be paying much lower energy bills.'She’s not alone. Boris is trying to put an end to working from home. As if he even knows what work is. Not all of us hold nightly piss ups, you fat wanker.
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Post by Westie on Sept 24, 2024 12:18:31 GMT
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Post by Westie on Sept 30, 2024 20:52:46 GMT
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Post by dsjr on Oct 1, 2024 8:30:10 GMT
Polly Toynbee is an arch leftie and I sometimes find she goes too far mor my tastes, but she has this Tory conference attitude summed up well I feel - www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/01/conservative-party-delegates-birmingham-conference-labourI think many of them are in such total denial, that they all need to extract their heads from where the sun don't shine and see real daylight as well as smell the coffee. Mind you, I think some Labour high-ups are in a similar boat right now, the mis-steps they've made so far...
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Post by Westie on Oct 1, 2024 9:02:21 GMT
I agree on both counts. The Tories have painted themselves into a corner by allowing the Right wing Brexiteers turn them into “Reform-Lite”. This has alienated most of the population and left the remainder on a course where they are competing with Farage, who can say or do what he likes because he runs that Party and will never see power.
They have lost any decent candidates thanks to Boris insisting all MPs declare allegiance to his hard Brexit. They will need another defeat to change course.
Labour have been incredibly naive with the clothing freebies. The amounts in particular smack of greed and entitlement. I get the argument that politicians going on air have to look the part, but us honestly prefer them to look like real people who pay for their own clothes. Even if we accept their stance, all they had to do was get Lord Alli to donate the money to the Party and then set up a fund for clothes and media training for front benchers.
The biggest irony is that they did this because they think appearance matters most. It doesn’t do their “appearance” much good to be seen as just like the corrupt Tories though, so it’s an own goal
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Post by dsjr on Oct 4, 2024 9:46:06 GMT
£22bn black hole, yet a spending commitment of £22bn on carbon-capture? www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/04/carbon-capture-labour-green-revolution-britain-industry-jobsI'm not in the slightest bit anti-green, but this country is in a mess and, as we contribute 1% or less to global warming, couldn't this 'green agenda' be scaled down while we try to recover our financial state? I don't like the current Labour leadership I have to say, but the eejits vying for Tory rule are just as bad. I despair for our future with party-policies ruling over what we really need once again
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Post by dsjr on Oct 18, 2024 17:16:08 GMT
It appears many people, whether Tory or Labour, tend to agree that the government since Gordon Brown's days (and the fall-out after '2008' especially), has been increasingly self-serving and dire. The trouble for me now, is that this current lot seem as bad or worse!!!
I'm dreading the budget, as Ms Reeves is promising (not threatening) all manner of things to help pay for the Doctor and train driver pay rises and the so-called £22bn black hole that has miraculously doubled in size, this to increase investment rather than stand still. Got to say, I'm alarmed at tax thresholds being extended beyond 2028, the inheritance tax situation (very few houses down south other than small terrace types are as little as £325,000 now and our first modern end-terrace two-bed marital home in Lu'on sold last year for a whopping three hundred grand for some reason).
Maybe we do need to sharply pull horns in, but then I look on the roads here, at the tanks driving around costing hundreds per month (HP or leased), the shit clothes still being bought, worn once or twice and then dumped and the busy bars even off season here. There's obviously money out there to plunder, but maybe from the wrong sectors of society?
Was it really that bad in the 80s, or was it the sales of all our assets back then that bolstered a 'feel-good factor?'
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Post by Westie on Oct 18, 2024 18:59:29 GMT
The 80s really was about selling assets for short term gain. It’s why we are in the mess we are today. There was also the completely un-necessary recessions, which you’ve forgotten about. All because of ideological nonsense about controlling the money supply being paramount. Things won get better until we lose the economic paradigm that came in with Thatcher and Reagan and has plagued the world ever since.
Incidentally the 2008 recession was caused entirely by the same ideological doctrines, pursued by Baby Bush, who removed all the checks and balances on lending, and almost bankrupt the planet as a result.
We were only just recovering when the same right wing ideology brought us Brexit and sent us backwards again. Of course, Covid came at a big economic cost too, but the costs were all the larger because of the free market nonsense that had robbed us of PPE supplies and hobbled our NHS.
Then we had the same ideology on steroids with Truss, who crashed the economy and made borrowing our way out of the doldrums almost impossible.
I don’t know what Labour can or will do, but they are being given relentlessly bad press and being expected to wave a magic wand to undo 45 years of rowing in the wrong direction.
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