Westminster Politics

Buster15 said:
But your last paragraph is right. Some of those protests were definitely more aggressive and better organised, as were the major strikes.
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Yes, remember Arthur Scargill and his 'flying pickets'... they helped to win the first Miner's strike; however, he (foolishly some thought) tried the same ploy/tactic in the second strike, but Maggie T was ready for him with busloads of policeman, being shuttled about from pit to pit (all on overtime I believe) to confront the pickets.
 
Mickeza said:
My brother is 18 - him and all his mates are proper little Tories who have grown up on algorithms of right-wing libertarian YouTube bullshit
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So... it's time to raise the voting age to at least 25 wouldn't you say?
 
FireballXL5 said:
JRM proving what we all know already...he's just a supermassive cnut.

Rees-Mogg seeking to evade scrutiny of new fracking projects, email shows

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/04/jacob-rees-mogg-fracking-email-hse
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I'm torn on fracking. I was against it until that cheap source of energy became the reason that my energy bills didn't go up 1000%. Could the US even support Ukraine if they were facing the same shortages of energy that Germany are facing? It seems to me that fracking is at least partially responsible for saving Ukraine and who knows what else if Russia wasn't stopped there.

I would like to see "Green" energy supplies appear everywhere, but I've read that Germany spent trillions and are getting very little from their unwise choice of solar power in a place that isn't sunny.

But then people tell me their English solar panels do a great job, so I don't understand how this can both be true, and I need to look into it more.
 
Compton22 said:


Nads casually calling for a General Election
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As much as I hate this dingleberry, she's not wrong.

What the government is currently doing is political suicide. A change is needed, not just a GE but the system needs an overhaul.
 
tinfish said:
As much as I hate this dingleberry, she's not wrong.

What the government is currently doing is political suicide. A change is needed, not just a GE but the system needs an overhaul.
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Don’t give her the credit. What she wanted to do was just as damaging to the country and she wouldn’t be saying a thing if it were continuing that
 
That'sHernandez said:
Not my intention to punch down. Just a momentary flight of bitterness; of course I think benefits payments should be in line with inflation.
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I understand, it was just a turn of phrase. Its more the government who are punching down.

I personally think civil servants should also get a pay rise in line with inflation.

Look at the pay rises MP's have had since 2010. From £65k in 2010 to £84k in 2022. Hypocritical cnuts.
 
feckin hell. Braverman's speech is a bit Trumpish.
 
Pexbo said:
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At the end. That wry smile. Her emotion chip is corrupted and she needs to return to the factory.
 
largelyworried said:
Benefits freeze is dead in the water I reckon.

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from the tories' point of view, the system of precarity which they've engineered over the decade of austerity is designed very intentionally to keep as many people as possible "down". what it is not designed to do is break entirely because that causes a problem that no government will be able to solve. if they don't scrap things like the benefits freeze or the 45p taxrate, which is already gone, then they're playing chicken with the possibility of riots and revolution.

what they want is to extract all value they can at as optimal a rate as possible. a bit like a virus. the really potent ones kill you too quickly to spread and replicate. the "good" ones are the ones that are strong enough to hit but weak enough to survive. that's what the economy is under a tory administration. precarity is a slow bleed. it's optimal from their point of view. a broken economy with people literally starving and counting their gas meters is not optimal. it's because the balance between precarity and mass drowning in poverty has moved to the right, toward drowning, that the tory government is itself finally looking sunk when it should have been discarded three times since 2010.
 
Good thread here:



TL;DR - The Government will be able to claw back £4bn in cuts to child benefit and Universal credit as the ways they are voted on are a straightforward yes/no and no amendments are allowed.
 
Frosty said:
Good thread here:



TL;DR - The Government will be able to claw back £4bn in cuts to child benefit and Universal credit as the ways they are voted on are a straightforward yes/no and no amendments are allowed.
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A lot of lower-middle and lower class families will suffer if this happens. But a significant amount of those families will also be the ones that voted Brexit, ergo Tory. They need these chickens to come home to roost.
 
Frosty said:
Good thread here:



TL;DR - The Government will be able to claw back £4bn in cuts to child benefit and Universal credit as the ways they are voted on are a straightforward yes/no and no amendments are allowed.
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It doesn't really matter about votes on this item. This isn't a few random backbenchers who object, this is many of the big beasts In the party, including Sunak and his supporters, Boris and his, plus Gove and a few Cabinet members. If she pushes this through against the will of the party they just stab her in the back on some other issue. It could even trigger a VONC. Her position is so weak now she can't get away with doing anything unless the party agrees with it.
 
Paul the Wolf said:
They need to develop the technology first which after more than seventy years they still haven't managed to do.
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Like you, I was very sceptical about the likelihood of a UK nuclear fusion reactor being developed for 2040.

But on investigation, while it is still in its early stages, the UKAEA is developing a smaller Fusion design called STEP. Spherical Tokamak For Energy Production aimed at 2040.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...ep.ukaea.uk/&usg=AOvVaw2G0Nby2hFs8GfoSh3VViMC.

I have spoken to an ex colleague who has done some work on the programme and he thinks it could be possible, but on a small scale.
 
neverdie said:
from the tories' point of view, the system of precarity which they've engineered over the decade of austerity is designed very intentionally to keep as many people as possible "down". what it is not designed to do is break entirely because that causes a problem that no government will be able to solve. if they don't scrap things like the benefits freeze or the 45p taxrate, which is already gone, then they're playing chicken with the possibility of riots and revolution.

what they want is to extract all value they can at as optimal a rate as possible. a bit like a virus. the really potent ones kill you too quickly to spread and replicate. the "good" ones are the ones that are strong enough to hit but weak enough to survive. that's what the economy is under a tory administration. precarity is a slow bleed. it's optimal from their point of view. a broken economy with people literally starving and counting their gas meters is not optimal. it's because the balance between precarity and mass drowning in poverty has moved to the right, toward drowning, that the tory government is itself finally looking sunk when it should have been discarded three times since 2010.
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Absolutely. JRMs wet dream.
 
Buster15 said:
Like you, I was very sceptical about the likelihood of a UK nuclear fusion reactor being developed for 2040.

But on investigation, while it is still in its early stages, the UKAEA is developing a smaller Fusion design called STEP. Spherical Tokamak For Energy Production aimed at 2040.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...ep.ukaea.uk/&usg=AOvVaw2G0Nby2hFs8GfoSh3VViMC.

I have spoken to an ex colleague who has done some work on the programme and he thinks it could be possible, but on a small scale.
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Have they figured out what to do with the nuclear waste yet? Other than sit on it for 1000s of years and hope the barrels don't rust or geology changes for the worse over millennia?
 
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