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Post by steve on Aug 16, 2022 9:24:31 GMT
I will be back in Greece in a couple of weeks. There's only room for one fat retiree in the village!I Attachment Deleted
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Post by hireton on Aug 16, 2022 9:39:27 GMT
This is a sobering summary of the IFS report on educational inequality in England and the challenge of levelling up:
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Post by lululemonmustdobetter on Aug 16, 2022 9:43:00 GMT
@ lefthanging In not too long I will be becoming a father for the first time so I'll look forward to child benefit fun in future!
Hope all goes well - I would strongly advise that both of you get as much sleep now as you can now. Hope you have your nursery ready (I was about a month early with my first, and we hadn't got round to putting the cot up).
But, apparently you shouldn't use Crown paint. Not sure whether I'm on the 'can't take a joke' or the 'incensed social media' on that issue. Yes implying that a woman has trapped/conned a man into parenthood - damned hilarious!
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Post by oldnat on Aug 16, 2022 9:44:45 GMT
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Post by wb61 on Aug 16, 2022 9:49:29 GMT
But, apparently you shouldn't use Crown paint. Not sure whether I'm on the 'can't take a joke' or the 'incensed social media' on that issue. Yes implying that a woman has trapped/conned a man into parenthood - damned hilarious!I have no clue what any of this code speak is about
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Post by lululemonmustdobetter on Aug 16, 2022 9:50:15 GMT
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Post by thexterminatingdalek on Aug 16, 2022 9:53:14 GMT
I hadn't realised the payout methods for fuel subsidies had changed, even as one who follows these things more closely than many.
It was always obvious that, despite the headline cost looking like a very big number, the payout will be inadequate for anyone living on the limit of available resources, unless they deliver magic money trees at the same time.
The Starmer plan, nicked from the Libdems, regardless of its cost or merits will, one way or another, must be where we end up, since the alternative is mass destitution, the end of credit worthiness for a third of the population and probably civil unrest. The cost and how it's paid for is irrelevant.
The next PM's job will be harder now it's opposition policy, and will delay as long as possible, which will be fun for those who wish the Tories ill with the luxury of savings to cover the first month or two, less so for the rest of us.
They will also need to address the cost of energy for business, since this will drive up food and other prices at a staggering rate, and just in time for Christmas too. I work in the public sector, crippled by funding cuts over a dozen years, unable to recruit from a decade of below inflation pay rises with morale nonexistent. How we're going to square keeping lights on with maintaining services already on the edge I've no idea.
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Post by hireton on Aug 16, 2022 9:55:57 GMT
Scottish Tory leadership hustings in Scotland tonight.
Apparently it's being chaired by Colin McKay of STV which is challenging news for Truss and Sunak.
This is what happened when McKay interviewed Truss last year when Truss decided to launch the UK Government's green trade plan in Scotland:
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Post by oldnat on Aug 16, 2022 9:58:53 GMT
Survation ran a Full Scottish poll 6-9 August. Few details out yet (though it did ask VI questions).
Presumably "piggy backed" onto it were questions on attitudes to Truss/Sunak reported in the National.
"When respondents were asked if they were more likely to support independence if Truss wins the leadership contest, 20% said they were “much more likely” while 5% said they were “a little more likely” to back leaving the UK.
When asked the same question in reference to Sunak, the pollsters found that 19% were much more likely to support independence, and 7% said they were a little more likely."
www.thenational.scot/news/20660805.scottish-independence-support-go-rishi-sunak-liz-truss-poll-finds/?ref=nuo
Anthony was always scathing about the value of "more likely" style questions, and I'll stick with his judgement.
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Post by leftieliberal on Aug 16, 2022 10:32:42 GMT
I prefer a translation that is based on the best biblical scholarship of the last 400 years to the version that American conservative evangelicasl rely on. Is that the one that says Donald Trump is the new Messiah He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy.
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Post by johntel on Aug 16, 2022 10:36:28 GMT
The new emergency alert system will go live in October. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62549122The BBC News at 10 had a piece on it last night - they claimed its purpose was to warn of imminent severe weather events. But we all know what it's really for . In other news, another ammunition dump in Crimea has been hit. I sincerely hope they won't target Sevastopol.
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Post by leftieliberal on Aug 16, 2022 10:39:51 GMT
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Post by steve on Aug 16, 2022 10:49:45 GMT
And repeat after me " it's got nothing to do with Brexit! "If you say it enough times the expulsion of bull shit will be sufficient to jet propel brexitania to la la land. The sun lit fields await fellow brexitoids.
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Post by neilj on Aug 16, 2022 10:57:25 GMT
Now the dust has settled Starmer's energy plans appears to be
Energy prices to be capped at £1,995 With the cap expected to rise to £3,600 in October, this should save the average household £1,605
In addition an existing plan to give an extra £650 help for pensioners and those receiving universal credit would remain in place.
The cap is in place for 6 months, but he has made clear in interviews I have seen that he will look at extending the 6 months if energy prices are still high.
I think he had played it very clever, as the pressure will be on Truss now to get somewhere near that figure, or look like the bad guy.
I also think Starmer has learned his lesson from the windfall tax, where Sunak went with his idea and actually increased it (although when you took into account that windfall tax could be offset against new investment there wasn't much difference).
The ball is now firmly in Truss's court (who realistically will be the next PM). Can't see how she will fund both the tax cuts she wants and Starmer's level of state support
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2022 10:59:01 GMT
View AttachmentAnd repeat after me " it's got nothing to do with Brexit! "If you say it enough times the expulsion of bull shit will be sufficient to jet propel brexitania to la la land. The sun lit fields await fellow brexitoids. You lost. Get over it sonny.
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Post by alec on Aug 16, 2022 11:09:27 GMT
Something brewing in Crimea -
Another big blast, and Ukraine claiming this was a group of specialist forces working deep behind Russian lines. Some are expressing doubt about this, largely based on calculations of the crater size at the Saki airfield attack, saying this would require vastly more explosives than a covert unit could handle, so it is possible that this claim is part of Ukraine's psychological war. Either way, there has been a big blast and Russia has one less munitions depot.
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Post by alec on Aug 16, 2022 11:17:44 GMT
neilj - yes, it's a good package. We're now down to the barrel scrapings in terms of criticisms: in a move that will save people £1600, what about that £400; yes, but subsidising energy is a bad things; yes, it's good, but the Lib Dems said it first..... Withmassive tax cut promises, Truss opened the door for Labour on this one.
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Post by lefthanging on Aug 16, 2022 11:25:46 GMT
@ lefthanging In not too long I will be becoming a father for the first time so I'll look forward to child benefit fun in future!
Hope all goes well - I would strongly advise that both of you get as much sleep now as you can now. Hope you have your nursery ready (I was about a month early with my first, and we hadn't got round to putting the cot up).
Thank you - genuinely much appreciated! Alas we rent and don't really have a suitable spare room for a proper 'nursery' right now but will hopefully manage to move in time and get something set up. As for the cot, not to worry - apparently a 'snuzpod' is the plan for the first 6 months or so before moving into a cot. Not that we have one of those either!
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Post by lululemonmustdobetter on Aug 16, 2022 11:52:15 GMT
@ lefthanging In not too long I will be becoming a father for the first time so I'll look forward to child benefit fun in future!
Hope all goes well - I would strongly advise that both of you get as much sleep now as you can now. Hope you have your nursery ready (I was about a month early with my first, and we hadn't got round to putting the cot up).
Thank you - genuinely much appreciated! Alas we rent and don't really have a suitable spare room for a proper 'nursery' right now but will hopefully manage to move in time and get something set up. As for the cot, not to worry - apparently a 'snuzpod' is the plan for the first 6 months or so before moving into a cot. Not that we have one of those either! When we had our first we lived in a two bed flat in central London, so the second bedroom became his room. We had a Mosses basket, we were pre- 'snuzpod' days - baby related technology moves quite quickly.
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Post by mandolinist on Aug 16, 2022 11:56:34 GMT
Thank you - genuinely much appreciated! Alas we rent and don't really have a suitable spare room for a proper 'nursery' right now but will hopefully manage to move in time and get something set up. As for the cot, not to worry - apparently a 'snuzpod' is the plan for the first 6 months or so before moving into a cot. Not that we have one of those either! When we had our first we lived in a two bed flat in central London, so the second bedroom became his room. We had a Mosses basket, we were pre- 'snuzpod' days - baby related technology moves quite quickly.When I had my first, it was a one bedroom flat on the top floor of a converted victorian house, carrycot. Blooming freezing in winter and baking in summer. No washing machine and disposable nappies were way beyond my budget.
Tell the youth of today that and they won't believe you...
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Post by Mark on Aug 16, 2022 11:59:07 GMT
Thanks, LuluLemon, I, too was wondering what this was about. What an unpleasant, sexist advert. Who the hell thought that, in 2022, this was a good idea? Yet another reason that I'm thankful that I use an adblocker with my Firefox. More to the point, though, many adverts are sexist, from ads in newspapers and online showing women with large breasts in tiny outfits to other ads such as this one with sexist attitudes or undertones at their core. There are plenty of parents who, on buying tech, will install - and often pay for - 'parental controls', which will block content that their (particularly teenage) kids will actively seek out - and evade parental controls to get to, pron (typo deliberate) being the prime example. For me, the avoidance of unwelcome attitudes and messages is just as well served with an ad-blocker, which is also something nobody will circumvent.
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Post by pjw1961 on Aug 16, 2022 12:03:19 GMT
View AttachmentAnd repeat after me " it's got nothing to do with Brexit! "If you say it enough times the expulsion of bull shit will be sufficient to jet propel brexitania to la la land. The sun lit fields await fellow brexitoids. You lost. Get over it sonny. You are Jib and I claim my £5.
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Post by mercian on Aug 16, 2022 12:07:54 GMT
I was a young man with a young family and had a mortgage rate of at least 12% at the time (it was higher than that at times). Buying new appliances was impossible financially and I was conned. I had no knowledge of corgi suppliers and no mention was made of them in the entire saga. It was no fantasy believe me. You were “a young man with a young family “. Surely it would have been more prudent and responsible to delay parenthood until you could afford it. We could afford it - just. When we took out our variable-rate mortgage it was 8% and I'd calculated we could afford 10% so things were getting a bit tight. Surely most people are harder-up when young? Also, my wife had a son from a previous marriage so running a couple more in didn't make a huge difference.
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Post by mercian on Aug 16, 2022 12:14:43 GMT
I did not own a car at the time and had the impression that the ration books had been delivered to post offices ready to be issued to the public at large. From what you say the process had got a bit further ahead than I recall! If memory serves, the rollout had started for those at the top of the alphabet and/or those in particular locations. I think my father was due to be getting his in a couple of weeks when the plan was changed and the rollout was stopped. Hence the ration books that were issued are likely to be quite low in number. Those that weren't binned at the time will be even rarer. It's the kind of interesting social history that would make for a good display in a museum That made me check ebay to see if they're worth anything. Alas, only a couple of quid.
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Post by mercian on Aug 16, 2022 12:29:18 GMT
That Crown advert made me laugh out loud just reading the words. It was a joke for goodness sake. There was no hidden message.
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Post by isa on Aug 16, 2022 12:32:04 GMT
Possibly something of a watershed moment on the BBC1 lunchtime news? Economics Correspondent Andy Verity squarely acknowledging Brexit as being a factor in the inability of the hospitality industry to operate at full efficiency due to insufficient staff being available.
I personally don't recall the 'B' word being used so candidly on such a high profile mainstream news bulletin previously.
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Post by wb61 on Aug 16, 2022 12:47:08 GMT
Thanks I had no idea, we record most programmes and fast forward through the ads.
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Post by steve on Aug 16, 2022 13:03:19 GMT
isa That would be Andy Verify the new BBC correspondent in the Falklands islands. Can't have reality rearing its head again. Attachments:
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Post by neilj on Aug 16, 2022 13:16:07 GMT
Seems Labour's energy price cap is very popular, even among tory voters
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2022 13:37:19 GMT
Our illustrious PM suns himself in Greece & effective government is overcome with paralysis..... meanwhile away from the front line in the War On Woke & back in the real world, this is what is happening now .....
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