Politics

[leigh white]

Glad I rent my tatty council house.😀

[Not in Crawley]

1 minute ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Because it’s nowt to do with being in or out of the EU…. Shouldn’t need explaining but sadly some folk can’t quite grasp it. 

But it is contributing. That and the economic mismanagement of the Conservative party because of the division that is caused in the British political spectrum.

You can't just disassociate the huge schism that Brexit has caused with the issues that the country is facing. Politics and economics don't work like that.

[royal white]

2 minutes ago, leigh white said:

Glad I rent my tatty council house.😀

Ex council houses are bringing in mega money in rental at the minute in 0161 area 

Edited June 21, 2023 by royal white

[Not in Crawley]

And we wonder why there is a housing shortage.

 

[leigh white]

1 minute ago, royal white said:

Ex council houses are bringing in mega money in rental at the minute in 0161 area 

Been here since 85 on this council estate, not getting any younger so being a socialist, will let it pass on to some poor fucker on the waiting list.

[Spider]

19 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Because it’s nowt to do with being in or out of the EU…. Shouldn’t need explaining but sadly some folk can’t quite grasp it. 

It’s almost like Brexit doesn’t stop anything bad happening after all.

Booooo

[Winchester White]

1 minute ago, Mounts Kipper said:

They don’t deserve to be in power for a long long time. 

I agree. Mainly for self inflicted economic harm with brexit, firstly with Cameron and his failure to take it seriously and then by putting the self interests of the ERG and Johnson before our country, totally shafting any workable agreement.

However, leaving all that aside as we can bang each other across the head all day long with responses.

The money spent in covid is frankly unfathomable. Unprecedented since WW2 and unlikely ever to happen again. The reason was to stop our massively biased service based economy from burning into dust so I get it. I really do.

But the money spent should be accountable and every penny accounted for. Along with decisions made at a high level to move people at high risk during a pandemic and why those decisions were made.

[Winchester White]

21 minutes ago, royal white said:

Ex council houses are bringing in mega money in rental at the minute in 0161 area 

Social housing is also fucked.

[Not in Crawley]

1 minute ago, Winchester White said:

Social housing is also fucked.

Let everyone buy their own house. Fine.

Don't build stock to replace it. Stupid.

[Not in Crawley]

Now we've got landlords making profit of houses the public paid for. Insanity.

[Winchester White]

1 minute ago, Not in Crawley said:

Let everyone buy their own house. Fine.

Don't build stock to replace it. Stupid.

Whoa! Don't you dare dis Thatcher!

[Not in Crawley]

1 minute ago, Winchester White said:

Whoa! Don't you dare dis Thatcher!

It's almost as though decisions have consequences. 

[Winchester White]

16 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

It's almost as though decisions have consequences. 

All for the theory, just not the practice. 

[Not in Crawley]

6 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

All for the theory, just not the practice. 

Truss had a theory as well.

[Casino]

1 hour ago, Spider said:

Pretty sure a couple of folk were crowing about Germany going into recession on this thread a couple of weeks back.

And if you’re going to have mortgages here and abroad, make sure you can afford it when interest rates rise.

Thats just common sense.

Plan ahead, surely

[bolty58]

16 hours ago, Ani said:

You have misunderstood. I was talking about the Tories who did not vote to support Boris. Either by abstaining or voting in favour of the report. 
 

 

I would suggest that this was more to do with expressing disgust at the utter waste of time and money in grandstanding over what was effectively already a 'dead rubber'.

[bolty58]

12 hours ago, Ani said:

Strange if they have so little impact that Bolty jumps to his defence at every step. 
If you are saying he is only saying that to relieve the boredom, he must be very bored a lot of the time. The 'I was only fishing defence' would be pretty lame. 

Everyone else seems to have realised Boris is a Bumblecunt , but Bolty won't have it. 

Correct. I'll let you work out which part.

[bolty58]

9 hours ago, tomski said:

I’d be amazed if it garners more than a chuckle from him.

 

Be amazed. It is good for the soul.

[bolty58]

5 hours ago, Casino said:

Plan ahead, surely

That's what the BoE should have done but the useless cunt running it didn't see inflation coming. Missed his primary function you could say.

Should have raised interest rates earlier and we would be nowhere near the mess it is now.

[Spider]

3 hours ago, bolty58 said:

That's what the BoE should have done but the useless cunt running it didn't see inflation coming. Missed his primary function you could say.

Should have raised interest rates earlier and we would be nowhere near the mess it is now.

It’ll be Brussels controlling our central bank again.

Fortunately, we don’t have that problem anymore

[Not in Crawley]

Just heard about this on the Rest is Politics podcast. What a fantastic idea, wish it'd been set up when I was at Uni - https://www.93percent.club/

Going to tell my kids about it certainly.

[Ani]

Big breath....but I do think the Govt is taking some unfair flak on the economy !

IMO Brexit is a factor, but we won't agree on that, we should be comparing to France and Germany as a major economy. 
 

But for me it is now clear the furlough scheme was too generous - But not many were up in arms about it at the time. It was introduced quickly and the lack of control leading to fraud was not great. We all know someone who 'did alright' out of it. 
 

Easy to Chuck bricks at them about the scheme in retrospect but at the time most people were full of praise. 
 

Also the Ukraine situation has made things worse. The biggest issue with the Govt is their disunity and use of meaningless headline slogans rather than actions to sort shit out.

[mickbrown]

9 hours ago, bolty58 said:

I would suggest that this was more to do with expressing disgust at the utter waste of time and money in grandstanding over what was effectively already a 'dead rubber'.

Waste of money?

The cunt spent £250k of our (not your) money on lawyers.

[Spider]

Some elite level shithousing from the Bank of England today.

 

[Spider]

3 hours ago, Ani said:

Big breath....but I do think the Govt is taking some unfair flak on the economy !

IMO Brexit is a factor, but we won't agree on that, we should be comparing to France and Germany as a major economy. 
 

But for me it is now clear the furlough scheme was too generous - But not many were up in arms about it at the time. It was introduced quickly and the lack of control leading to fraud was not great. We all know someone who 'did alright' out of it. 
 

Easy to Chuck bricks at them about the scheme in retrospect but at the time most people were full of praise. 
 

Also the Ukraine situation has made things worse. The biggest issue with the Govt is their disunity and use of meaningless headline slogans rather than actions to sort shit out.

All pretty fair.

Rishi Sunak has picked up a massive bag of shit (that he is responsible for in a small way) that Darling Boris has left behind.

Truss doesn't count because she didn't even unpack her pork meat into the Downing St fridge.

Sunak is a breath of fresh air next to Darling Boris. Far from perfect and certain to lose the election, but at least he's dull, not mired in lies & controversy and seems to be trying his best to sort some of the shit out.

In other times, he'd be worth consideration at the voting booth.

Inflation cannot be sorted in a few days.

Brexit has contributed to our ills, anyone who says it hasn't is just being a prick to defend their choice. But there are other factors and normally 5% interest rates would be a pain but not the end of the world.

However, 13 years of continual fucking from the tories means this is kicking a man whilst he's down. The country is on its arse (it's why people get better jobs abroad).

Rishi is a big improvement, but we've only upgraded from a bin liner to a cardboard box.