Cable Forum - Current Affairs https://www.cableforum.uk/board/ A place to discuss topical issues and news. en Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:45:03 GMT vBulletin 5 https://www.cableforum.uk/board/images/misc/rss.jpg Cable Forum - Current Affairs https://www.cableforum.uk/board/ National Budget 2026 https://www.cableforum.uk/board/showthread.php?t=33714045&goto=newpost Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:06:45 GMT With only days before Labour tells us how they are going to impoverish many of us even more, what are your predictions for the content? I suspect that Personal Independence Payments (PIP) will cease as a cash payment to the disabled and will be replaced by an expansion of Disabled Facilities... With only days before Labour tells us how they are going to impoverish many of us even more, what are your predictions for the content?

I suspect that Personal Independence Payments (PIP) will cease as a cash payment to the disabled and will be replaced by an expansion of Disabled Facilities Grants. That means provision of walking sticks, Zimmer frames and wheelchairs. Or modification of kitchens and/or bathrooms, or provision of ramps, handrails and hoists in and around the home. All Means Tested, and not just on the claimants's savings or investments, but those of the entire household.

I also expect all disability assessments to return to face-to-face interviews with medical evidence requirements rising, especially in the capability to work area.

I cannot see how they will deal with many crossing the first Personal Tax Allowance threshold, except perhaps by ignoring that situation where the person only receives the State Pension and nothing else, excluding Pension Credit.

Garages are lobbying for an increase to the maximum that they can charge for MOT tests, the figures doing the rounds are around £95. ]]> Current Affairs Taf https://www.cableforum.uk/board/showthread.php?t=33714045 RIP Jeffrey Archer https://www.cableforum.uk/board/showthread.php?t=33714042&goto=newpost Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:44:51 GMT https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckj0l401dvpgo ---Quote--- *Bestselling author and former politician Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86.* Archer sold more than 300 million books in his five-decade writing career, including the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, and often set... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckj0l401dvpgo

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Bestselling author and former politician Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86.

Archer sold more than 300 million books in his five-decade writing career, including the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, and often set the novels in his home town of Wellington, Somerset.

In a statement, Archer's publisher HarperCollins said the author died "suddenly and peacefully at home" on Monday between writing sessions.
]]> Current Affairs Hugh https://www.cableforum.uk/board/showthread.php?t=33714042 Zack Polanski gets banned from Israel https://www.cableforum.uk/board/showthread.php?t=33714041&goto=newpost Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:12:41 GMT … due to being the leader of a party whose official policy is that the State of Israel has no right to exist, which is, regardless of what weasel-worded apologists might try to claim, purely and simply all that Zionism is. The belief in the existence of a nation state called Israel.

If you are a member of the Green Party, and also a Jew who is a member of a synagogue that believes Israel has a right to exist, you are now subject to censure by your political party. The optics are … troubling.

It’s going to make the run-in interesting this week while he tries to get elected to Starmer’s former seat in Holborn. I notice that he and several others are trying to distance themselves from the motion passed at their party conference this past weekend, but thanks to the way the party operates, it is now policy. A policy he might not have voted for, but then he didn’t stand and speak or vote against it either, despite being party leader.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6jdm5n1vy7go

Anyway. Newsflash for anyone who still thinks the Green Party is for tofu-knitting environmentalists. It is a hard left nut hatch inhabited by people with an unhealthy interest in a very specific form of racism that was popular in parts of Europe in the 1930s and sadly, never seems to have quite gone away. ]]> Current Affairs Chris https://www.cableforum.uk/board/showthread.php?t=33714041