Politics

[royal white]

45 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Close enough for a recount?

I’ve just e mailed Broadmoor to see if they have availability for 27 folk 

[mickbrown]

19 minutes ago, royal white said:

I’ve just e mailed Broadmoor to see if they have availability for 27 folk 

What’s the Broadmoor proof answer?

[DazBob]

10 hours ago, royal white said:

I’ve just e mailed Broadmoor to see if they have availability for 27 folk 

Which one did you vote for?

[Dimron]

11 hours ago, royal white said:

I’ve just e mailed Broadmoor to see if they have availability for 27 folk 

22 will look lost in Nuremberg 

[Cheese]

12 hours ago, mickbrown said:

What’s the Broadmoor proof answer?

Surely he means the Conservative and Reform voters combined?

Edited November 3, 2025 by Cheese

[Spider]

Reeves has had a busy start to the day

[wakey]

If I were out walking the dog round here and someone started banging on about immigrants I'd just say "je ne comprends pas" and fuck off sharpish.

[Zulu]

12 minutes ago, Spider said:

Reeves has had a busy start to the day

I’m sure that she’ll respect the Labour manifesto promises. Particularly this promise. “We will ensure taxes on working people are kept as low as possible. Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase National Insurance, the basic, higher, or additional rates of Income Tax, or VAT.”

Whadda girl! 🙄

[Sweep]

20 minutes ago, wakey said:

If I were out walking the dog round here and someone started banging on about immigrants I'd just say "je ne comprends pas" and fuck off sharpish.

I'd be doing the same, if I could speak Spanish that well

[Sweep]

Just now, Zulu said:

I’m sure that she’ll respect the Labour manifesto promises. Particularly this promise. “We will ensure taxes on working people are kept as low as possible. Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase National Insurance, the basic, higher, or additional rates of Income Tax, or VAT.”

Whadda girl! 🙄

Fuck all chance she's doing that. 

Government in power, not honouring it's manifesto promises shocker! 

 

[Zulu]

13 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Fuck all chance she's doing that. 

Government in power, not honouring it's manifesto promises shocker! 

 

But, but the experts on here told me that Labour were different. 😲

[Sweep]

3 hours ago, Zulu said:

But, but the experts on here told me that Labour were different. 😲

They were wrong. The country is fucked, financially. 

Even the saviour, Farage, yester had to admit that the savings he said in his last mani weren't possible (he's not in power, so it doesn't really matter I suppose) - but the fact even he is rowing back, shouted how fucked we really are. 

Labour, could and should have said "Listen chaps, we're financially fucked, as that last lot who have been in power for the last 14 years have fucked us over a little bit. There will be a bit of pain, but we'll try our best, but until we get into #10, we don't really injure how bad it is, but we do know it's really grim" - they would have still got in. To promise no tax rises was just daft (IMO) 

Edited November 4, 2025 by Sweep

[Spider]

Taxes were always going up , only a total thruster would have thought otherwise.

I didn’t vote for Labour because I thought they’d reduce them.

we need to pay that debt down. They didn’t cause that.

[Spider]

In case anyone wasn’t paying attention about the magnificent job the Tories did with national debt here’s a little reminder

 

[Zulu]

36 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Labour, could and should have said "Listen chaps, we're financially fucked, as that last lot who have been in power for the last 14 years have fucked us over a little bit. They're will be a bit of pain, but we'll try our best, but into we get into #10, we don't really injure how bad it is, but we do know it's really grim" - they would have still got in. To promise no tax rises was just daft (IMO) 

Don’t forget Covid Brexit and er.. WW1,WW2, the Crusades and shit. 😀

[Zulu]

29 minutes ago, Spider said:

In case anyone wasn’t paying attention about the magnificent job the Tories did with national debt here’s a little reminder

 

If only Rachel had seen that graph before she made that fucking stupid promise, eh?

[wakey]

1 hour ago, Sweep said:

I'd be doing the same, if I could speak Spanish that well

shit, I thought it was French.

No wonder they don't understand me 😁

[gonzo]

 

 

 

[Spider]

15 minutes ago, Zulu said:

If only Rachel had seen that graph before she made that fucking stupid promise, eh?

It was a daft promise

but at least you can acknowledge that there is a really bad debt she needs to sort

[green genie]

18 minutes ago, Zulu said:

Don’t forget Covid Brexit and er.. WW1,WW2, the Crusades and shit. 😀

It’s amazing that nobody mentions Covid when discussing financial black holes.

[Zulu]

5 minutes ago, Spider said:

It was a daft promise

but at least you can acknowledge that there is a really bad debt she needs to sort

Acknowledged. It’s not the point that I’m trying to make though. All politicians lie, not just Tories. The ‘thrusters’ are those that believed that this lot would be any different. 

[Gonk]

Ignore - just playing catch up

Edited November 4, 2025 by Gonk

[dazl1212]

On 31/10/2025 at 15:27, Spider said:

No offence, but I'd consider this just standard, routine brain behaviour.

If we start paying out for every slightly quirky bit of brain activity we'd have to give everyone in the country a hand out.

Obsessive folk are some of the richest on the planet. That Musk bloke for example, he 100% spends some of his days carefully folding bog roll into the shape of farm animals. I bet he isn't claiming benefits.

If you shuffle round a town centre screaming at pigeons with a thousand yard stare and shit up your back, I'd say you probably qualify for some help, otherwise, just get the fuck on with it.

I missed this and I think its pretty poor form to tell people that their issues, when you don't have a full grasp of the facts "Its normal, crack on" Of course everyone gets distracted from time to time or obsessed. That's not what ADHD is....Re-reading a paragraph a  couple of times might be "normal" but being unable to process it after trying for hours on end, with your brain going off on tangents, daydreaming about unrelated things mentioned in the text, or thinking about other tasks instead of the reading material and not being able to stop it, no matter how much effort you put in, is not normal. Nor is obsessing about something ridiculous to the point of it practically stopping you doing what you need to do in your day to day life is either.

I don't receive money for it either, I doubt many do, mine is classed as severe and the diagnosis wasn't just an interview about my symptoms either. I take medication and it makes me perform at close to a level a person who hasn't got it can. Not quite the level a non ADHD person does but it helps. On my meds I can feel my mind wander but I'm now able to stop it an pull it back to where it was and finish the task I was doing.

 

Edit to add: I've actually lost jobs and missed out on being promoted for my poor concentration and haven't been able to stay in a job for longer than 2 years so I've never been financially stable..

 

 

Edited November 4, 2025 by dazl1212

[kent_white]

11 minutes ago, dazl1212 said:

I missed this and I think its pretty poor form to tell people that their issues, when you don't have a full grasp of the facts "Its normal, crack on" Of course everyone gets distracted from time to time or obsessed. That's not what ADHD is....

Re-reading a paragraph a  couple of times might be "normal" but being unable to process it after trying for hours on end, with your brain going off on tangents, daydreaming about unrelated things mentioned in the text, or thinking about other tasks instead of the reading material and not being able to stop it, no matter how much effort you put in, is not normal. Nor is obsessing about something ridiculous to the point of it practically stopping you doing what you need to do in your day to day life is either. 

 

I don't receive money for it either, I doubt many do, mine is classed as severe and the diagnosis wasn't just an interview about my symptoms either. I take medication and it makes me perform at close to a level a person who hasn't got it can. Not quite the level a non ADHD person does but it helps. On my meds I can feel my mind wander but I'm now able to stop it an pull it back to where it was and finish the task I was doing.

I think the point he was trying to make was 'man the fuck up' and 'don't take those meds you've been prescribed - even if they improve your life immeasurably' 😁

[dazl1212]

14 minutes ago, kent_white said:

I think the point he was trying to make was 'man the fuck up' and 'don't take those meds you've been prescribed - even if they improve your life immeasurably' 😁

Sounds sensible. I wonder what my employer would think of that 😂