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Mr Pigeon said:
Cool, so that'll be another massive crisis sorted for the near future then.

My favourite bit was this;



Because the future banking system where lessons aren't learned and the resulting chaos kills people through negligence isn't remotely worthy of the name "Jurassic Park"...
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I think the Tories want their own global financial crisis, see if we can't out do the one started in America.
 
Mart1974 said:
I think the Tories want their own global financial crisis, see if we can't out do the one started in America.
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It's probably the last thing on their Evil Bingo.

But what'll probably happen is it'll all happen under a Labour government and they'll get the blame, the public will believe it, and vote the Tories back in.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
It's probably the last thing on their Evil Bingo.

But what'll probably happen is it'll all happen under a Labour government and they'll get the blame, the public will believe it, and vote the Tories back in.
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The public are stupid, I am observing an argument on Facebook where a Labour activist has called this tweet out as racist. There are plenty of people saying it isn't without reading the article

 
Mr Pigeon said:
It's probably the last thing on their Evil Bingo.

But what'll probably happen is it'll all happen under a Labour government and they'll get the blame, the public will believe it, and vote the Tories back in.
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What will happen is that the shareholders of financial institutions will be able to trouser a wedge of the cash they currently have to hold to cover bad debts, in the sort of cash grab the Tories always go for, after that the EU and US will be able to say our regulations don't now match their standards and they will not licence UK operators to do business in the EU or US. More businesses destroyed by Tory short-termism, as usual.
 
711 said:
What will happen is that the shareholders of financial institutions will be able to trouser a wedge of the cash they currently have to hold to cover bad debts, in the sort of cash grab the Tories always go for, after that the EU and US will be able to say our regulations don't now match their standards and they will not licence UK operators to do business in the EU or US. More businesses destroyed by Tory short-termism, as usual.
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It's funny how they are portrayed as the party of business when they do things like you suggest. The party of super rich folk, maybe, but that doesn't help the family firm that employs fifty folk.
 
Mart1974 said:
The public are stupid, I am observing an argument on Facebook where a Labour activist has called this tweet out as racist. There are plenty of people saying it isn't without reading the article

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Jaysus that's depressing.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
It's funny how they are portrayed as the party of business when they do things like you suggest. The party of super rich folk, maybe, but that doesn't help the family firm that employs fifty folk.
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They claim to be the party of law and order as well, yet they do less than feck-all about it except reduce police numbers and watch crime rates rise whenever there's a Tory government.
 
711 said:
They claim to be the party of law and order as well, yet they do less than feck-all about it except reduce police numbers and watch crime rates rise whenever there's a Tory government.
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And destroy the courts as well!
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Cool, so that'll be another massive crisis sorted for the near future then.

My favourite bit was this;



Because the future banking system where lessons aren't learned and the resulting chaos kills people through negligence isn't remotely worthy of the name "Jurassic Park"...
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Marshall may be a tax dodging cnut but he has a point. The FTSE 100 is full of old economy banks, oil & gas, industrials, miners and healthcare. Tech is less than 1% of the index and British tech firms are being bought by foreign companies and even those listing are choosing NY over London.

It comes back to the UK being a low growth economy with low productivity and very few world-leading companies.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
It's funny how they are portrayed as the party of business when they do things like you suggest. The party of super rich folk, maybe, but that doesn't help the family firm that employs fifty folk.
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There's a Peter Hitchens interview online where he says the Tory Party is full of revolutionary trotskyists. Which on the face of it sounds insane , but tbf to Hitchens the tory party more than any other section of British society is trying it's best to force people into radical change by acting as the biggest cnuts.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
It's funny how they are portrayed as the party of business when they do things like you suggest. The party of super rich folk, maybe, but that doesn't help the family firm that employs fifty folk.
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They basically get in, turn the funnel on, direct cash to their donors, wreck the economy, reduce living standards and life expectancy, then leave. Usually, 10% get fired for sex crimes and another 10% for being corrupt/stealing.
 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politic...hobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1670709639-1

Labour will take on “hostile” health unions holding back the NHS, the shadow health secretary has said.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Wes Streeting warned that the NHS was “a service, not a shrine” and needed to “reform or die”.

Mr Streeting – who revealed that he has been waiting for months for delayed scans after cancer treatment – said the health service faced an “existential crisis”, with “appalling” difficulties accessing care.

He said the public had sacrificed “a lot of their lives and liberty” to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed during repeated lockdowns, only to see it now “collapsed” around them.
 
DavidDeSchmikes said:
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Surely it's a legal requirement to provide a heating system?

Then again, even if it is then not sure what you can do other than sue them. Which will take ages and cost you money no doubt. And you'll probably get a section 21 eviction notice for your trouble!

With the ever declining availability of housing and the lack of legislation to protect tenants means this sort of thing is only going to get worse.

The slow march back to victorian times continues.
 
Bert_ said:
Surely it's a legal requirement to provide a heating system?

Then again, even if it is then not sure what you can do other than sue them. Which will take ages and cost you money no doubt. And you'll probably get a section 21 eviction notice for your trouble!

With the ever declining availability of housing and the lack of legislation to protect tenants means this sort of thing is only going to get worse.

The slow march back to victorian times continues.
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If you've evidence that you've reported it and not had any response for more than a week or two then you can report them to the council. Not sure what happens then mind.
 
Bert_ said:
Surely it's a legal requirement to provide a heating system?

Then again, even if it is then not sure what you can do other than sue them. Which will take ages and cost you money no doubt. And you'll probably get a section 21 eviction notice for your trouble!

With the ever declining availability of housing and the lack of legislation to protect tenants means this sort of thing is only going to get worse.

The slow march back to victorian times continues.
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A certain section of the Tories will be delighted
 
From America...

Spiraling costs and crumbling public services: Millions in Britain struggling to live (nbcnews.com)

MORECAMBE, England — A dire and potentially deadly humanitarian emergency is endangering millions across Britain.

It is playing out as the seats of politics and power are reeling from months of chaos, farce and opulent pageantry. The ruling Conservative Party has busied itself with internecine political warfare, cycling through the scandal-plagued Boris Johnson and the historically brief Liz Truss before settling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, an ex-Goldman Sachs banker worth $800 million. Amidst it all was the gold-plated weeklong mourning period for the United Kingdom's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.


More than 200 miles north of London, in seaside Morecambe, Dusty Thomas says he spends many of his days quietly starving. He is 60, a veteran of the 1982 Falklands war and the sectarian “Troubles” in Northern Ireland.

“Sometimes I’ve gone two or three days without food,” he said, huddled under a cartoon-themed blanket in his chilly first floor-floor home just outside of town, where the heat hasn’t been switched on in three years. “A few times I’ve used tricks like drinking quite a lot of vinegar, which shrinks the sides of your stomach and takes your appetite away.”

Thomas is not alone.
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"WHaT aBOut R VeTERanS!"

A lot of people are going to die this winter simply down to choices made by this government. People drinking vinegar ffs to stave off hunger. Even the 80's didn't feel this grim.
 
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TheReligion said:
On my phone “Where is Rishi Sunak” and “is Rishi Sunak still PM” are both trending searches.

The invisible man.
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It's a tactic which I'll admit, in the game of politics has been a good one for him so far. Dunno how much longer he can hide though, seems that as it gets colder, the pressure will build.
 
SalfordRed18 said:
It's a tactic which I'll admit, in the game of politics has been a good one for him so far. Dunno how much longer he can hide though, seems that as it gets colder, the pressure will build.
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Oh aye it’s obvious what he’s doing and likely being advised to do. That said I don’t think it’s the right approach when there’s cost of living crisis, inclement weather and strike after strike disrupting the country.
 
I'm curious.

If RM, Post Office and the rail have been privatized, then why are these workers considered public sector?
 
Eplel said:
I'm curious.

If RM, Post Office and the rail have been privatized, then why are these workers considered public sector?
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The Post Office hasn't been privatised, for what it's worth. Royal Mail has, but it's the "official" mail carrier and is required to law to ensure it serves the whole country (including the remote islands etc.), which other mail/parcel companies aren't. The rail is a mixed bag, LNER and Network Rail are government-run but it's mostly private.

But obviously, the nurses/ambulance drivers/civil servants who are either going on strike or balloting to do so are all public sector, and that's probably what people are referring to.
 
Jericholyte2 said:
LBC’s Facebook page has about 100 laughing emoji responses to this.

BBC News’s page has about 40.

How broken does your souls have to be? How poisoned do you have to be, to reply like that to people dying!?!?!?
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I saw the Times had turned comments off on the story, obviously fearing the worst.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Best take I heard about one of the previous boat incidents was some cheek chewing loudmouth saying "if the folk really were desperate then where are they finding money to buy a boat?!"

Like they're sailing here in a super yacht.
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That's actually hilarious if they're being ironic.
 
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