Westminster Politics

WPMUFC said:
I have no idea what point he's even trying to haphazardly make here.

"Swimming in shit has always been a thing but of course it's bad" It's like a shit version of gaslighting? I have no clue what he's saying.
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I think he was going for the "it's a snowflake health safety gone mad" issue - with a side order of, "it never did me any harm," argument. Then he spotted that it really didn't sound that great, even by their standards.

So he switched to a, "what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over," stance. I'm pretty sure that it's all the EU's fault for telling the water companies to monitor and report sewage contamination of bathing and drinking water. One of those petty regulations that Brexit was supposed to free us from, like not putting arsenic in baby food :smirk:
 
WPMUFC said:
I have no idea what point he's even trying to haphazardly make here.

"Swimming in shit has always been a thing but of course it's bad" It's like a shit version of gaslighting? I have no clue what he's saying.
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I remember this being a thing in the early 90s when we were kids. You wouldn't go swimming in a lot of places around Blackpool, but until recently, it hadn't been like that for a couple of decades. I'm sure Damian Green can remember strikes in the 70s and 80s, but just because there are strikes now, it doesn't mean we haven't had times of relative calm in between. It's an idiot argument from someone who knows better.
 
WPMUFC said:
I have no idea what point he's even trying to haphazardly make here.

"Swimming in shit has always been a thing but of course it's bad" It's like a shit version of gaslighting? I have no clue what he's saying.
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It'll be in the Daily Mail tomorrow: "Remember the days when we used to have so much fun swimming in shit."

And the great unwashed brainwashed will be parrotting the same Daily Mail line this weekend, and adding, "but there were no foreigners then."
 
That'sHernandez said:
They increased their dividends by 1.4 billion just ten fecking days ago. It’s astounding
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Honestly this country is so passive and we have a government that is in the pockets of these corporations. They’re going to keep fecking people over as long as people keep saying “well this annoys me a lot” before putting their hand in their pocket and voting Tory again.
 
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TheGame said:
My mortgage went up £350 you feckin twat!!!!

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A very close family member has just had their
Mortgage increased by over £500/month. And they are seriously struggling to keep their head above water.
And the majority of that is down to you and the imbecile Teresa May.
Do you even understand what that means.
 
Buster15 said:
A very close family member has just had their
Mortgage increased by over £500/month. And they are seriously struggling to keep their head above water.
And the majority of that is down to you and the imbecile Teresa May.
Do you even understand what that means.
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They don't care. It's irrelevant to them because they operate in an entirely different World where needing money to survive is an alien concept.
 
Buster15 said:
A very close family member has just had their
Mortgage increased by over £500/month. And they are seriously struggling to keep their head above water.
And the majority of that is down to you and the imbecile Teresa May.
Do you even understand what that means.
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Liz Truss? But yeah, Teresa "ganja for me not for thee" May is a cnut n all.
 
Buster15 said:
A very close family member has just had their
Mortgage increased by over £500/month. And they are seriously struggling to keep their head above water.
And the majority of that is down to you and the imbecile Teresa May.
Do you even understand what that means.
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They succeeded bud. They gave the banks more money, without anyone really noticing. It’s by design. They won’t apologise.

My mortgage increased by £700. Or… £1900 PER MONTH if I don’t fix for another 3 years.

It’s vandalism. Rape. Arson. They are complicit, not incompetent.
 
Buster15 said:
A very close family member has just had their
Mortgage increased by over £500/month. And they are seriously struggling to keep their head above water.
And the majority of that is down to you and the imbecile Teresa May.
Do you even understand what that means.
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We have 2 kids and have had to balance the increase with all of the childcare costs. We had an initial mortgage we were looking at which would have been a smaller increase but it was pulled as soon as Truss and Kwasi made the budget announcement. I fecking see Truss going to the coronation and now to Taiwan and I want to tell to feck off and disappear.
 
Fingeredmouse said:
They don't care. It's irrelevant to them because they operate in an entirely different World where needing money to survive is an alien concept.
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You are quite right about that.
I am sick and fed up with how this country has changed for the worst over the last 13 years and certainly not for the better. During this time people have become progressively worse off while the gap between the rich few percent and the overwhelming majority has been growing out of all proportion.
And the government shows not the slightest inte
 
"...withdraw from the convention all together..."

Not only are they pathetic bigots, but barely literate ones as well.
 
UnrelatedPsuedo said:
They succeeded bud. They gave the banks more money, without anyone really noticing. It’s by design. They won’t apologise.

My mortgage increased by £700. Or… £1900 PER MONTH if I don’t fix for another 3 years.

It’s vandalism. Rape. Arson. They are complicit, not incompetent.
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I am really sorry to hear that.
What makes no sense to me is that the BoE and government blame everything on COVID and the war in Ukraine for the cost of living crisis.
But are making most of us significantly worse off by putting up the cost of borrowing when we have almost nothing to do with those factors.
But are doing nothing at all to stop supermarkets putting their prices up, making inflation much worse.

And if you want proof of that... I was in the local supermarket and an assistant was changing the price of bread and cakes. The same bread and cakes that have been on the shelf for a day or so. The same bread and cakes that have already been baked and already transported.
Not new bread and cakes that were about to be produced.
Profiteering plain and simple.
 
TheGame said:
Boo fecking hoo!

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People like this already live in a bubble. If she can already afford £5k+ a year in fees then she can afford an additional 20%. The thing is she doesn't want to, because it means having to cut back on something. Anything. She has no fecking idea that there's millions of people in this country that have nothing left to cut back on. She has zero clue of what life is like for the majority of people who have already given the shirts off of their backs and then some. Her idea of poverty is not having a subscription to Amazon Prime.

I'm just assuming because, feck it, it's the same assumptions folk make about what being "poor" is.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
People like this already live in a bubble. If she can already afford £5k+ a year in fees then she can afford an additional 20%. The thing is she doesn't want to, because it means having to cut back on something. Anything. She has no fecking idea that there's millions of people in this country that have nothing left to cut back on. She has zero clue of what life is like for the majority of people who have already given the shirts off of their backs and then some. Her idea of poverty is not having a subscription to Amazon Prime.

I'm just assuming because, feck it, it's the same assumptions folk make about what being "poor" is.
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She falls into the same category as that guy on Question Time a few years ago who was adimient his £80k salary was below average and no where near the top 50%, let alone the top 5%. Absolutely clueless about the real world.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
People like this already live in a bubble. If she can already afford £5k+ a year in fees then she can afford an additional 20%. The thing is she doesn't want to, because it means having to cut back on something. Anything. She has no fecking idea that there's millions of people in this country that have nothing left to cut back on. She has zero clue of what life is like for the majority of people who have already given the shirts off of their backs and then some. Her idea of poverty is not having a subscription to Amazon Prime.

I'm just assuming because, feck it, it's the same assumptions folk make about what being "poor" is.
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Put yourself in the shoes of someone who's middle class for a change.
 
It's bizarre the way that Liz and Kwasi are being drip fed back into the public consciousness; testing the waters to see how the public respond. It's like trying to slowly reintroduce a convicted paedophile gang into your babysitting circle and watching for the parents to baulk. We may be a completely amoral nation of racist, venal, self serving cnuts but even we have limits. It's the lettuce wot won it.
 
Buster15 said:
A very close family member has just had their
Mortgage increased by over £500/month. And they are seriously struggling to keep their head above water.
And the majority of that is down to you and the imbecile Teresa May.
Do you even understand what that means.
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Have they tried buying cheaper brands of beans?
 
dumbo said:
It's bizarre the way that Liz and Kwasi are being drip fed back into the public consciousness; testing the waters to see how the public respond. It's like trying to slowly reintroduce a convicted paedophile gang into your babysitting circle and watching for the parents to baulk. We may be a completely amoral nation of racist, venal, self serving cnuts but even we have limits. It's the lettuce wot won it.
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It's ok, you're allowed to call it the "Prince Andrew Strategy" if you want.
 
Buster15 said:
Profiteering plain and simple.
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The Government are allowing business to 'profiteer' in order to make up for the (apparent) losses suffered under Covid.... it is nothing really to do with Ukraine (although that doesn't help) etc. but that gives them 'extra cover' with the public, with luxury goods you can make choices, with staples like food, energy, house costs etc you can't.
TBH cannot see it getting much better if Labour got in, the 'rot has set in' and it goes deep!
 


Weird how there's always money available to help big businesses but never for poor people. That magic money tree really is special.
 
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