What is that "mate" of mine Sadiq Khan trying to achieve ?

 

You lost you demented little cretin, get over it and concentrate on your job you terrorist sympathiser.

19 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

You'll find another job sooner or later mate. Chin up and soldier on.

I hope so 😁

 

3 hours ago, bolty58 said:

👍Voting Labour. You usually get what you deserve.

Decent public services you mean? 

8 minutes ago, kent_white said:

Decent public services you mean? 

When are we going to get them?

How are they going to be paid for?

The country isn't far off defaulting on its debt payments. 

If you keep spending all your money elsewhere, and not paying your mortgage, then sooner or later you will loose your house 

10 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

When are we going to get them?

How are they going to be paid for?

The country isn't far off defaulting on its debt payments. 

If you keep spending all your money elsewhere, and not paying your mortgage, then sooner or later you will loose your house 

Remind us all what Farage is proposing?

24 minutes ago, kent_white said:

Decent public services you mean? 

When they’re not striking 🙄

Down with charity rowers!

what an absolute cock

i bet them turbines are foreign too

coming over the sea, then marching onto our green belt

bastards

1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

When are we going to get them?

How are they going to be paid for?

The country isn't far off defaulting on its debt payments. 

If you keep spending all your money elsewhere, and not paying your mortgage, then sooner or later you will loose your house 

Well it took 15 years to dismantle them. It'll probably take a similar sort of time to get them back to some semblance of order. With a realistic funding package.

It would have to be paid for by taxes or further cuts to public services if there's not some sort of financial miracle in the next few years. 

The UK is nowhere near defaulting on its repayments, although it does face some serious fiscal challenges. Our default risk is low. That's why we have a AA credit rating, the same as the US. There's only a few that still have AAA status. Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, and Switzerland. 

I don't understand your mortgage analogy. Are you talking about overseas aid? To keep on the homeowner analogy, I'd argue that if you have a mortgage and don't keep up with repairing wear and tear, then don't be surprised when your roof eventually caves in.

Post COVID, post BREXIT, in an extremely volatile world and with an economy the UK ACTUALLY has (rather than the economy people pretend it has) - I can't see a route back to better public services without all of us actually paying more for them. Or cutting public services back even further. 

This isn't based on a left vs right argument. It's just based on my admittedly rudimentary understanding economics. 

Happy to hear other people's opinions on the best way out of this situation of course. 

1 hour ago, royal white said:

When they’re not striking 🙄

Nobody would be striking if we had decent public services. 

And I've not seen these widely predicted nationwide strikes that were predicted when Labour (and their greedy, champagne swigging, socialist trade union leaders) got back into power. 

If anything there seems to be fewer than when the Tories were in charge. 

What will happen is 

a) Labour will raise taxes

b) Things will start slowly improving 

c) That won't be fast enough for most people who will be unhappy at having to pay more for services

d) Labour will get voted out (although god knows who will end up replacing them this time)

e) The new party will cut taxes and public services.

f) There will be a temporary spike of economic improvement 

g) Public services will start going to shit again

h) The whole cycle will start again

We're never going to get to the crux of the problem until we all start being honest with ourselves and work on mutually agreed solutions that there is at least some agreement on from most people across the political spectrum. 

The empire is gone. The world we all grew up in is gone too. The European Union is gone. The old alliances we relied upon are gone. We need to start admitting this to ourselves and plotting a new way into the future or things will just continue to slowly deteriorate. 

Have a great weekend! 😁

 

Edited August 8, 2025Aug 8 by kent_white

2 hours ago, jmjhb said:

Down with charity rowers!

 

1 hour ago, Casino said:

what an absolute cock

He's a fucking bulb.

Anyway, if somebody did manage to get a dinghy from mainland Europe to Great Yarmouth, then fair play to them, it much be knocking on 100 miles in a straight line across the North Sea

Edited August 8, 2025Aug 8 by Sweep

1 hour ago, Casino said:

i bet them turbines are foreign too

coming over the sea, then marching onto our green belt

bastards

Foreign or not, Trumpton isn't a fan. Those off shore types kill whales in numbers never seen before (or some other such daft statement like that)

22 minutes ago, Sweep said:

 

He's a fucking blub.

Anyway, if somebody did manage to get a dinghy from mainland Europe to Great Yarmouth, then fair play to them, it much be knocking on 100 miles in a straight line across the North Sea

Imagine fleeing somewhere like Syria, trek half way across Europe, pay a people smuggler thousands, have 100 mile journey across dangerous seas and end up in Great Yarmouth 

You'd be gutted 

10 minutes ago, DirtySanchez said:

Imagine fleeing somewhere like Syria, trek half way across Europe, pay a people smuggler thousands, have 100 mile journey across dangerous seas and end up in Great Yarmouth 

You'd be gutted 

I used to work for a company based in Great Yarmouth, in the winter time, it's as bleak and scummy a place as anywhere I've ever been to in this country (and I used to work in Leigh). Don't get me wrong, Summertime is shit as well, but then at least it's full of good old fashioned English scum, but when everything closes down, it is just a cesspit of swarthy foreign types roaming around. It is an utterly horrendous place

exactly the breeding ground for reform (isn't jaywick part of clacton)

but don't blame the politicians, blame forriners

50 minutes ago, Spider said:

The graph is a Labour Party promo showing UK interest rates rising from 2% in Sep 2022 to 5.25% by Jul 2024 under Conservatives, then falling to 4% by Aug 2025 under Labour, following yesterday’s BoE cut. It implies Labour's credit, but rates are set independently by the Bank of England based on cooling inflation—trends that began pre-Labour. Correlation, not causation.

The bit they missed off. Pre COVID years. 👍

Edited August 8, 2025Aug 8 by BobyBrno

Happy Friday, everyone. 🙂

13 minutes ago, BobyBrno said:

The graph is a Labour Party promo showing UK interest rates rising from 2% in Sep 2022 to 5.25% by Jul 2024 under Conservatives, then falling to 4% by Aug 2025 under Labour, following yesterday’s BoE cut. It implies Labour's credit, but rates are set independently by the Bank of England based on cooling inflation—trends that began pre-Labour. Correlation, not causation.

The bit they missed off. Pre COVID years. 👍

Talking of COVID it’s strange how no one refers to it when bandying budget black holes back and forth. Thought we knew it would fuck the economy for years?

14 minutes ago, BobyBrno said:

Correlation, not causation.

 

remember that next time you post a graph

 

3 minutes ago, green genie said:

Talking of COVID it’s strange how no one refers to it when bandying budget black holes back and forth. Thought we knew it would fuck the economy for years?

Yep. Apart from Labour. They thought they had all the answers. Their reply? £50 billion black hole in a little over twelve months. That really does take some beating. There are another 4 years so watch this space. Happy Friday indeed. 😉

8 minutes ago, green genie said:

Talking of COVID it’s strange how no one refers to it when bandying budget black holes back and forth. Thought we knew it would fuck the economy for years?

Yep - in one. 

I don't know why we're not just all more honest about it? 

1 minute ago, BobyBrno said:

Yep. Apart from Labour. They thought they had all the answers. Their reply? £50 billion black hole in a little over twelve months. That really does take some beating. There are another 4 years so watch this space. Happy Friday indeed. 😉

£300billion on dodgy PPE

Get that back and we're £250billion up.

Perhaps the tories could throw us a bone there?

21 minutes ago, Spider said:

£300billion on dodgy PPE

Get that back and we're £250billion up.

Perhaps the tories could throw us a bone there?

😅

Rachel may have a job for you😅

27 minutes ago, BobyBrno said:

😅

Rachel may have a job for you😅

I’m on very strong painkillers this week 😭

Either way, £300billion on Covid, and it’s labours fault.

Some going that