Starmer’s chronicles

[Dingbat]

Wouldn’t it be easier to just abolish parliament and let Charlie become an absolute monarch instead?

[Sephiroth]

What? The King of all faiths?

[Dingbat]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

What? The King of all faiths?

A ruler for everyone. Plus we wouldn’t need to bother about the inconvenience of elections and manifesto promises any more.

Originally Posted by Dingbat

A ruler for everyone. Plus we wouldn’t need to bother about the inconvenience of elections and manifesto promises any more.

He very much approves of this message.

[papa smurf]

Just watched Rachael from customer accounts give her it's every one else's fault speech ,then avoiding the questions after it, looks like labour are going to rip up the manifesto and pile on the taxes as usual.

it was brexit it was covid it was kwasi ...........


who exactly is compiling this budget her or the OBR


https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...eves-tax-rises

A mess of their own making. Utterly stupid to rule out tax rises with the state of the finances.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Damien

A mess of their own making. Utterly stupid to rule out tax rises with the state of the finances.

She talked about poor productivity [oh the irony]

then about getting the best qualified people for the job [oh irony upon irony] won't be having anyone who faked their CV then


last budget she "fixed the foundations" and wasn't coming back for more money ,now the foundations have collapsed

We have the most expensive electricity in the world. Any economist can tell you there is always, always a direct correlation between economic growth and energy. The industrial revolution happened here because we had near unlimited supplies of easily mined coal to fuel the ideas of people like Boulton and Watt. As long as the idiot ideologue Ed Miliband is in charge of net zero zealotry, nothing will improve because just about anywhere else is cheaper to make stuff than here.

[Carth]

Originally Posted by Chris

We have the most expensive electricity in the world. Any economist can tell you there is always, always a direct correlation between economic growth and energy. The industrial revolution happened here because we had near unlimited supplies of easily mined coal to fuel the ideas of people like Boulton and Watt. As long as the idiot ideologue Ed Miliband is in charge of net zero zealotry, nothing will improve because just about anywhere else is cheaper to make stuff than here.

I've probably got this wrong - as usual - but don't we earn (lol) some sort of carbon credits by not manufacturing stuff (therefore not adding to global warming*), and then sell those credits to other countries so they can offset their carbon emissions whilst manufacturing shite (adding to the dreaded global warming) that we then import from afar (again adding to global warming), and then dump aforementioned shite into landfills (adding to global warming) or even ship it back where it came from (adding to global warming) where it is recycled (adding to . . . ) and the circle goes on and on.

*I use the term global warming loosely as a polluting the planet phrase connected to net zero

Yes, the world did invent a way of buying and selling worthless bits of paper which almost certainly makes no practical difference to carbon emissions whatsoever.

Net zero in the UK is just a pointless joke these days.

We are responsible for "less than 1% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions", it really doesnt matter what we do.

[Carth]

Originally Posted by Paul

Net zero in the UK is just a pointless joke these days.

We are responsible for "less than 1% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions", it really doesnt matter what we do.

Yep, the backwater of Europe trying to act like the saviour of the World . . .

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Damien

A mess of their own making. Utterly stupid to rule out tax rises with the state of the finances.

Nobody gets elected promising tax rises.

The public need to get real, always wanting something for nothing. The mess this country is in isn"t down to the last year, its down to the 14 years before it and daft decisions made by the electorate. Joe Public always want someone to blame, maybe they should look in the mirror...

[mrmistoffelees]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Nobody gets elected promising tax rises.

The public need to get real, always wanting something for nothing. The mess this country is in isn"t down to the last year, its down to the 14 years before it and daft decisions made by the electorate. Joe Public always want someone to blame, maybe they should look in the mirror...

The truth I suspect is somewhere between the two, the past year isn't anywhere near wholly responsible but has played a part in our current position.

As someone else said it was stupid of labour to put no tax rises in their manifesto even baron von greenback is now walking back his no tax increases statements.

The tories failed to fix the problems, labour will fail to fix the problems. I don't see any other party being able to fix the issues we face. IMHO the country is and will continue to be in a death spiral.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Nobody gets elected promising tax rises.

The public need to get real, always wanting something for nothing. The mess this country is in isn"t down to the last year, its down to the 14 years before it and daft decisions made by the electorate. Joe Public always want someone to blame, maybe they should look in the mirror...

We need to cut the waste rather than keep putting up taxes. Robin Hood must be spinning in his grave.