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Westminster Politics 2024-2029
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Are the tories running for President now or something?
When did this become a thing in UK politics?
When did this become a thing in UK politics?
Would have been interesting if Twitter & polls on the platform existed (for Blair) and were as prolific (Cameron).
You get much change from that £200 from an initial consultation with a specialist, let alone treatment, and more likely it will cost north of £300.
That amount woudn't get you in the door TBH!
As soon as a journalist stumbles into Britain by mistake, they'll get right on to it.
Who are they trying to fool with this shite
Yes. WHat you have here is a front bench made entirely of beurocratic, overambitious idiots outsourcing all policy to the corporate sociopaths who own them.
You want economy growth. Lets make travelling around the country more expensive, further isolating businesses not located in the south east and london. The tories were utterly corrupt, these guys are even worse. Corrupt and stupid.
And I know its only a small amount, but here is the thing, these are cards aimed at young people and the elderly. They will see its more expensive and travel less. The amount involved is less important than the perception of increased costs. Businesses are struggling all over the country, town centres are becoming wastelands, we need to encourage consumers not discourage them.
You want economy growth. Lets make travelling around the country more expensive, further isolating businesses not located in the south east and london. The tories were utterly corrupt, these guys are even worse. Corrupt and stupid.
And I know its only a small amount, but here is the thing, these are cards aimed at young people and the elderly. They will see its more expensive and travel less. The amount involved is less important than the perception of increased costs. Businesses are struggling all over the country, town centres are becoming wastelands, we need to encourage consumers not discourage them.
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I think you're overblowing this somewhat, it's about £2 less discount on a ticket price of around £71 but I guess the optics makes the headlines more than the reality.
The focus that people should be putting their energy into is the actual cost of the tickets, that's what is actually ensuring people travel less on rail, not subsidised travel benefits.
Yes, thats what they should be prioritising.
That, and banning smoking in beer gardens.
Absolute top of the list issues.
That’s great news to be fair! clearly aimed at children, I’d be delighted with that with a little boy.
Hope someone was on it enough to make a joke about them ‘but you bought them already?!’
This isn't new, it's been consulted on extensively both uk-wide and within Scotland. Was a policy of the last government and current SNP administration up north.
It’s going to be 4 years of the most annoying substitute teacher.
Tbh vapes are god awful. But I remember the Biden administration wanting to do the same thing but seeing counter arguments showing that it could result in people going back onto cigarettes.
I think cigarettes are harder for children to get hold of and also can imagine less children who have never smoked before wanting to get into smoking over bubblegum flavour vapes.
Are the tories running for President now or something?
When did this become a thing in UK politics?
They look bored as feck. Assume that's why they got the youngest people they could find to sit behind him so they wouldn't doze off at least. Like the guy on the right.
Yes, because in my experience, Alzheimers is one of the most hilarious of the dementia-related diseases.
I cant believe this has been allowed to ever be a thing. I think regulation should be a first step to bringing products to the market. The first question to allowing products should be whether a new product causes more problems than it solves. This is a clear yes, it does.
Agree and I’m not against a ban(Although the black market is so massive that access to vapes will be sadly pretty easy).
The arguments against the ban tend to come from….the tobacco industry so likely just bullshit. But well we live in such dystopian dumb world that I can never write off a future where Marlboro makes a come back because we’ve correctly banned super bubblegum mango juiced vapes.
So true.
Probably depends how addicted to nicotine they are
Grown up politics is back!
Jeremy Corbyn to form alliance with four independent pro-Gaza MPs
Group calls for more MPs to join and vows to campaign on issues such as austerity and two-child benefit caphttps://www.theguardian.com/politic...remy-corbyn-alliance-independent-pro-gaza-mps
What an interesting way to phrase this. 'Pro-Gaza'.
Yeah. It's become more socially acceptable to "vape" then it has been to smoke actual cigs in the last decade.
Followed by telling an impoverished pensioner to stop crying your heart out. Or maybe offer them a standalone heater because she's electric? It's not like they're going to live forever!Grown up politics is back!
Wonderwall.
I’d call that progress to be honest. It’s been phrased as “antisemitic” for a long while now.
We're so concerned we're going to stop 10% of our licences.
Labour's Yaya Toure moment.
Most shocking thing about this is that it wasn't sweet square who posted it.
I’m a socialist so I’m all for collective and shared Starmer hating.
That would be a disaster, that's a lot of extra money for those that I imagine are mainly younger or older demographics.
That'll deal with wealth inequality.
You would think Labour are getting all of these unpopular decisions out of the way and taking the hit on their approval ratings in the hope that they can turn the economy around in time for the next election. Right now they are looking more ruthless than the Tories though so they had better hope the gamble pays off.