Westminster Politics 2024-2029

Sweet Square said:
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Reads like the author is soon coming to the sexy bit.
 
Bobade said:
Reads like the author is soon coming to the sexy bit.
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Keir whispered in Angela's ear. "We shouldn't be doing this. If anyone found out-"
Angela pressed a finger to his lips. "Let them find out." She purred as she guided the Prime Minister's hand downwards. Her breath hitched as he reached the heat. Keir's chest heaved as he fondled with the dial on the portable thermostat that Angela had put between her shoes for some strange reason, possibly to misdirect the reader.
"22 degrees? You dirty bitch." Keir chuckled. "In this economy?"
The pair of them cackled as they imagined the unpaid kids in the basement shovelling more coal into the boiler.
"My father was a toolmaker." Keir laughed, which made feck all sense within the current context of what was going on. Then he went into the broom cupboard and had another wank.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Keir whispered in Angela's ear. "We shouldn't be doing this. If anyone found out-"
Angela pressed a finger to his lips. "Let them find out." She purred as she guided the Prime Minister's hand downwards. Her breath hitched as he reached the heat. Keir's chest heaved as he fondled with the dial on the portable thermostat that Angela had put between her shoes for some strange reason, possibly to misdirect the reader.
"22 degrees? You dirty bitch." Keir chuckled. "In this economy?"
The pair of them cackled as they imagined the unpaid kids in the basement shovelling more coal into the boiler.
"My father was a toolmaker." Keir laughed, which made feck all sense within the current context of what was going on. Then he went into the broom cupboard and had another wank.
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:lol:
 
thisisnottaken1 said:
Yup. We need to fully renationalise the trains, rolling stock as well.
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Ain't happening anytime soon and even if it happened doesn't mean it would be any cheaper or better, Network Rail is publicly owned and run and they are a shambles
 
thisisnottaken1 said:
Nah. It would be cheaper.
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Are you old enough to remember pre privatisation? It was horrendous.

We didn't truly privatise. We ended up with government granted monopolies, the worst of all worlds. Inefficienct, lacking competition and with a profit margin added on top.

I think it's time we brought it back under state ownership but I don't expect great things there either.
 
The chancellor has earmarked several billion pounds in draft spending cuts to welfare and other government departments ahead of the Spring Statement.
The Treasury will put the proposed cuts to the government's official forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), on Wednesday amid expectations the chancellor's financial buffer has been wiped out.
Sources said "the world has changed" since Rachel Reeves's Budget last October, when the OBR indicated she had £9.9bn available to spend against her self-imposed borrowing rules.
The OBR's forecast is likely to see that disappear because of global factors such as trade tariffs, as well as higher inflation and borrowing costs in the UK.
The Treasury will on Wednesday inform the OBR of its "major measures" -essentially changes to tax and spending in order to meet the chancellor's self-imposed rules on borrowing money.
The government has committed to get debt falling as a share of the economy during the course of this Parliament, and to only borrow to fund investment, not to cover day-to-day spending.
Such rules are put in place by most governments in wealthy nations and are designed to maintain credibility with financial markets. Reeves has repeatedly said her rules are "non-negotiable".
The spending cuts drafted by the Treasury will help plug the gap that has emerged in recent months, ahead of the OBR publishing its forecast and Reeves giving a statement on 26 March.
Insiders expect "politically painful" new welfare cuts that are designed to reduce the huge growth in health-related benefits, which will be outlined in a forthcoming speech from Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall.
The Treasury has blamed global economic policy and geopolitical uncertainty for hiking up government borrowing costs.
Asked on Wednesday if welfare cuts were the right approach, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood told the BBC's Today programme there had been a "huge rise in the welfare budget" and there were "too many" young people not in work, education or training.
"There's a moral case here for making sure that people who can work are able to work and there's a practical point here as well, because our current situation is unsustainable," he added.
Mahmood declined to comment on whether the justice department would face cuts, saying she was "not going to get ahead" of Treasury announcements.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lpjqg2mp5o
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Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, has been giving interviews this morning, promoting an announcement about extra funding for courts to allow judges to hear more criminal cases, as a means of reducing the backlog. In an interview on the Today programme, she was asked about the BBC spring statement story. She could have said it was all nonsense, but didn’t. Or she could have just refused to speculate on forthcoming Treasury announcements, which would have been the usual answer. Instead she not only endorsed the broad thrust of Islam’s report, saying that welfare spending is “unsustainable”, but also argued that there is a “moral case” for getting people off welfare and back into the labour market.

Asked if it was right to target the welfare budget when looking for savings, she replied:

This is the Labour party. The clue is in the name. We believe in work. We know that there are many people who are currently receiving state support for being out of work who want to be in work. We know that we have too many of our young people currently out of work, not in education, employment or training.
It is right that a Labour government strains every sinew to make sure that the support is available to prevent people from leaving the labour market or, if they have left the labour market, to help them get back.
The welfare secretary has been very clear that this has got to be a clear focus for our government. There is a moral case here for making sure that people who can work are able to work.
And there’s a practical point here as well, because our current situation is unsustainable.
So on both of those measures, I think the welfare secretary is looking at the right area of policy.
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Asked again if it was right to focus on welfare, if government spending had to be cut, she replied:

We’ve seen a huge rise in that welfare budget. We know that there are millions of people who are out of work in our country who want to be in work. It is absolutely morally the right thing to do to support people, to make sure either they don’t leave the labour market, or if they have, they’re supported to get back into it.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politic...r-starmer-kemi-badenoch-news-uk-politics-live
 
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Sweet Square said:
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Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, has been giving interviews this morning, promoting an announcement about extra funding for courts to allow judges to hear more criminal cases, as a means of reducing the backlog. In an interview on the Today programme, she was asked about the BBC spring statement story. She could have said it was all nonsense, but didn’t. Or she could have just refused to speculate on forthcoming Treasury announcements, which would have been the usual answer. Instead she not only endorsed the broad thrust of Islam’s report, saying that welfare spending is “unsustainable”, but also argued that there is a “moral case” for getting people off welfare and back into the labour market.

Asked if it was right to target the welfare budget when looking for savings, she replied:


Asked again if it was right to focus on welfare, if government spending had to be cut, she replied:



https://www.theguardian.com/politic...r-starmer-kemi-badenoch-news-uk-politics-live
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As we head towards a time when AI is going to be decimating the job market, it’s really assuring to know that welfare is being cut back along with corporate taxes.
 
11101 said:
Are you old enough to remember pre privatisation? It was horrendous.

We didn't truly privatise. We ended up with government granted monopolies, the worst of all worlds. Inefficienct, lacking competition and with a profit margin added on top.

I think it's time we brought it back under state ownership but I don't expect great things there either.
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All of this is true, the only thing that got better with privatisation, from my perspective, was the increase in services on the daytime services between London and Manchester which I used on a semi-regular basis

When Virgin were running the services there were 3 trains an hour for large parts of the day, way better than BR, on the flip side the late and overnight services were canned
 
All those who advocate welfare cuts should, imo, (regardless), have to live on it for a while.

Also, those who most advocate going to war should be on the frontlines.

Similar thing.
 
Sweet Square said:
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Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, has been giving interviews this morning, promoting an announcement about extra funding for courts to allow judges to hear more criminal cases, as a means of reducing the backlog. In an interview on the Today programme, she was asked about the BBC spring statement story. She could have said it was all nonsense, but didn’t. Or she could have just refused to speculate on forthcoming Treasury announcements, which would have been the usual answer. Instead she not only endorsed the broad thrust of Islam’s report, saying that welfare spending is “unsustainable”, but also argued that there is a “moral case” for getting people off welfare and back into the labour market.

Asked if it was right to target the welfare budget when looking for savings, she replied:


Asked again if it was right to focus on welfare, if government spending had to be cut, she replied:



https://www.theguardian.com/politic...r-starmer-kemi-badenoch-news-uk-politics-live
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I’m fecking tired of these cnuts attacking people like me.
 
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