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Post by dsjr on Oct 19, 2024 13:18:32 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. I was naive as heck in the 70s and 80s, but all I can remember when the Thatcher government started going on about tax cuts, was that, as an early twenty year old, I wanted a good health service for when I was older and a decent education system for any kids I may have. I think income tax was 29p/£ from memory.
I think most of 'us' today, would have accepted a penny on income tax if it meant more money for the basic utilities that seem bled dry. Labour could have reversed the NI give-away Hunt introduced a year ago and I don't think anyone would have minded too much really. Instead, employers will suffer higher NI contributions and the inheritance tax will drive even more pensioners away (oh, that's alright, 'cos many will be dead come next election)  The thing is, they currently don't care and arguably want to do all this now while they can, in the hope we'll have forgotten by 2009 
Damned if they do and damned if they don't, as they're all as bad as each other I currently feel!
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Post by Westie on Oct 21, 2024 14:08:29 GMT
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Post by Westie on Nov 3, 2024 10:24:07 GMT
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Post by Westie on Nov 4, 2024 17:17:08 GMT
24 Hours to US Election results. They are already boarding up all the shop windows just incase of any rioting lol I will be watching avidly. Even if he loses big, Trump and his minions will cause chaos. |
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Post by dsjr on Nov 4, 2024 18:21:47 GMT
he'll do more than cry like a baby if he loses too, as I gather they've set up for all kinds of loud chaos about supposed cheating and so on. I'm stunne dhow characters like that are so able to project all of their weaknesses onto other people they're attacking - and the sheeple believe it!!! No hope for the human race, as I'd hoped we'd learned. Sadly, these lessons only seem to last for living memory and a fresh lot of people return to the same old, same old. Two world wars and countless other atrocities in the 20th century will count for nothing after we've gone |
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Post by Westie on Nov 6, 2024 20:32:15 GMT
I was up all night watching the USA Elections, i knew early doors Trump was gonna win. I watched them too… until I could stand it no longer. |
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Post by Westie on Nov 7, 2024 16:06:11 GMT
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Post by dsjr on Nov 7, 2024 18:26:41 GMT
I'd say the Democrats had ample time to train and groom a worthy younger successor to Biden, but didn't. Harris isn't liked I gather and a now US-naturalised pal living in PA (so diagonal from Mexico) was very concerned about the illegals flooding in which Biden's lot didn't seem to be doing that much about. Similar still going on here and what are Labour doing about it?
Let's see how far Trump actually goes. It may not be as bad as you'd think, but being in the UK, we need to keep on his good side, something Lammy may find difficult after the things he reportedly said about him some years back.
Trumps lot did some good things for the US in his first term. All we can hope is that he continues and leaves us alone. Over this way, Germany is falling apart it seems. I'm far more interested to see how that turns out as it's closer to home.
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Post by Westie on Nov 7, 2024 20:03:57 GMT
You’re right in that Biden should have said he’d only serve one term very early. That would’ve allowed a proper campaign and all the publicity it brings, as well as gauging popularity.
The border situation has been exacerbated by Trump who told his Puppets in the House to vote down any funding bills to tackle it. That said, it’s the same issue that caused Brexit: People don’t want mass immigration and politicians need to listen and act.
I hope you are right in that he may not be as bad as one might fear. After a few months of activity, he may well just sit back, do nothing and enjoy the status. I doubt he will try to wangle a third term as long as he’s completely scuppered any chance of prosecution afterwards. I must admit to thinking he’s more likely to cause a global catastrophe than not, but it’s anyone’s guess in reality.
It’s still an utter disgrace that he was allowed to stand, because the constitution appears clear on this,
: Unless you rely on the extremist majority on the Supreme Court to interpret it.
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Post by dsjr on Nov 11, 2024 18:04:40 GMT
Our house is simply not efficient enough to use a heat pump, cannot take cavity wall insulation and would cost very many thousands of pounds to better insulate the walls, the risk being damp and mould if we did, judging by some local house treatments supposed to eliminate this... www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/11/gas-boilers-to-be-banned-in-new-homes-by-2027/Many new homes aren't up to snuff as it is, so adding extra expense to the build and selling costs will certainly cool down sales of new homes I'm sure if things carry on as they are. Darn it, it's not as if the UK is a major polluter in any case |
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Post by Westie on Nov 11, 2024 21:23:41 GMT
I can’t seem to see the article: It just takes me to the a page of stories. Heat pumps are useless anyway. They don’t give you high enough temperatures.
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Post by Idiot! on Nov 11, 2024 23:12:03 GMT
The day i go with anything the Gov recommend ill eat my shit & die but ofc people are so dumb they never learn. You guys got a Diesel car? why did you buy it years ago? apart from better for Co2 emissions lol, efficiency lol (Get more unreliable as they get older) cheap running costs lol now Diesel is the most expensive fuel for your car even though its technically cheaper than petrol on the wholesale market. o well you could always buy an electric car & fall into an even bigger trap but Hey hold on you WILL be forced to by one by 2030.
Heat pumps are bollox, unreliable cost a fortune, pig ugly like some industrial air conditioning unit. You need at least three Sq meters outside for them to work & the best one is you going back in time, you need a cylinder tank indoors to store the water as Westie mentioned the heat availability is poor you even need bigger radiator surface area. They are one of the most ill thought out ideas the idiots are planning on implementing.
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Post by Westie on Nov 11, 2024 23:29:07 GMT
I’m amazed this bollocks is still being implemented because I thought it was one of Boris’ policies. The trouble with politicians is that they usually double down on stupid decisions until they get booted out. It shouldn’t be that way because they lose and we lose.
I’m still hopeful Labour will reconsider, but I’m guessing they need a “green” alternative to keep woke media off their backs.
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Post by Westie on Nov 15, 2024 9:56:43 GMT
Trump is making some staggeringly insane appointments. It looks like he will transform America into a mafia state, like Russia.
All the offices of State will be headed by unqualified and unsuitable extremists who are loyal to him over the Constitution, He will have control over both the Senate and the House of Representatives, and he has ensured a 6-3 Supreme Court majority which has enabled him to avoid jail and kept him on the ballot when he should have been disqualified.
Of course Murdoch and Musk are ensuring that he will have media control too, so it really doesn’t look good. He’s already joking about a third term, so I fear we may be relying on him dying to get shot of him. By that time, he will have done irrevocable damage. I just hope he doesn’t cause another worldwide recession or de-stabilise the entire world.
I watched a news report of two Latino families who voted for him despite the fact that they are undocumented immigrants. The wives were devastated but the husbands still voted for him over the economy, even though they won’t be around to benefit from it. We live in increasingly scary times.
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Post by dsjr on Nov 15, 2024 10:33:18 GMT
You know westie, I was terrified of the T word regaining power, but there's the whole of the government to discuss and enact these policies (Senate and Congress, please excuse my extreme ignorance here) and despite the republicans having overall control, the more extreme things may not go through without severe toning down (with luck  ). I swear I'm not a 'Little Englander,' but to see the wets on both sides of our government making a total hash of it for so long and ALWAYS in their ideological (previously personal too) interests rather than what's best for the country, makes me want to weep in anger. Many of the top Labour team are awful and as a good few have said, at least Corbyn was up-front in his manifestos as to how he was going to spend other people's money This lot have so far been underhand, lulling the largely politics-ignorant voters into a false sense of security. Got to say my only concern was getting rid of that awful and useless woman MP we had before... The media are keeping very silent on the 'boat' situation as well, yet things don't loo any better than they were before, the Rwanda threat a deterant that looked like it could have worked. I don't mean to rub anyone up the wrong way with the above, but I'm very frustrated and growth also appears to have slowed since the election. |
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The thing is, they currently don't care and arguably want to do all this now while they can, in the hope we'll have forgotten by 2009 
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