Derfel Cadarn Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 GB ‘News’ cleaning house? First Fox, then Branning … err I mean Wooten, now the Cosplay cleric has been suspended  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 They just need to fire 95% of the rest of their staff and there might be something to salvage from that channel. There does need to be some sort of news outlet that challenges the homogenous viewpoints of British tv news, but it sure as shit isn't GB news. Andrew Neil had the right idea when he escaped weeks after it started, he could clearly see what direction it was going in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 (edited) We have the highest tax burden in fucking forever. Can anyone point to a single thing the tories have achieved in power? Genuinely, just one thing they got right or improved? surely its - high taxes = good services or low taxes = poor services, not high taxes = poor services.  Edited September 29, 2023 by BigFatCoward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Which Tyler Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 7 minutes ago, BigFatCoward said: We have the highest tax burden in fucking forever. Can anyone point to a single thing the tories have achieved in power? Genuinely, just one thing they got right or improved? surely its - high taxes = good services or low taxes - poor services, not high taxes = poor services.  Given money to tory donors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 14 minutes ago, Which Tyler said: Given money to tory donors. And to their mates - millions paid for medical ppe that was useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Which Tyler Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 (edited) I was treating donors and friends as being the same people - but yes, you are correct. Â Should also add honours and peerages for themselves. Edited September 29, 2023 by Which Tyler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 30 minutes ago, BigFatCoward said: We have the highest tax burden in fucking forever.  Higher taxes, to pay for all the stuff that everyone was complaining we need to pay for, cover everyone's costs during lockdown, pay for everyone's fuel bills. Agree Tories have been shit, hard to see where they have done anything worthwhile, but at the same time it all seems a bit cheeky to complain about taxes when all we've heard for the last few years is we need to spend more money on stuff. We are either a high tax, high spend country or we aren't. Make your mind up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 8 minutes ago, Which Tyler said: I was treating donors and friends as being the same people - but yes, you are correct. Â Should also add honours and peerages for themselves. Which is an understandable mistake. Friends people who spend their time on you. Donors people who spend their money on you. As we all know time is money. If time and money are interchangeable, then so are friends and donors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Heartofice said: Higher taxes, to pay for all the stuff that everyone was complaining we need to pay for, cover everyone's costs during lockdown, pay for everyone's fuel bills. Agree Tories have been shit, hard to see where they have done anything worthwhile, but at the same time it all seems a bit cheeky to complain about taxes when all we've heard for the last few years is we need to spend more money on stuff. We are either a high tax, high spend country or we aren't. Make your mind up. Maybe they could not spend 37 billion on track and trace, or HS2 that looks like it will stop in a farmer field halfway to nowhere, or 4.3 billion to covid fraud that we walked away from, or 8 billion on dodgy PPE we bought and didn't get the money back for, or any of the other catastrophic fuck ups that cost fortunes and deliver nothing. And obviously the self inflicted wound that was Brexit, and however much that costs us every fucking year. How much are they going to spend shipping people to Rwanda, it would be cheaper to house them at euro disney. Other countries went through the covid and high fuel prices, but at least their shit works. Edited September 29, 2023 by BigFatCoward Spockydog and A wilding 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A wilding Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 1 hour ago, Derfel Cadarn said: And to their mates - millions billions paid for medical ppe that was useless. Corrected that for you. Derfel Cadarn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 1 hour ago, Which Tyler said: I was treating donors and friends as being the same people - but yes, you are correct. Â Should also add honours and peerages for themselves. And for possibly illegitimate offspring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mormont Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 Today I learned that Jeremy Hunt doesn’t know what a ‘vicious circle’ is. (More likely he does know but just felt the phrase got across what he wanted - to make taxes sound evil, decouple them from the things they pay for, and make it sound like a natural phenomenon that happened spontaneously and that he’ll need time to fix, instead of addressing the fact that our tax system is regressive, hits lower earners disproportionately, doesn’t properly address public funding needs, and all of this is his party’s fault.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 8 hours ago, mormont said: Today I learned that Jeremy Hunt doesn’t know what a ‘vicious circle’ is. (More likely he does know but just felt the phrase got across what he wanted - to make taxes sound evil, decouple them from the things they pay for, and make it sound like a natural phenomenon that happened spontaneously and that he’ll need time to fix, instead of addressing the fact that our tax system is regressive, hits lower earners disproportionately, doesn’t properly address public funding needs, and all of this is his party’s fault.) It’s fine! He’ll pay for the tax cuts by … cutting welfare. Whatever’s left of it  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 The fucking nerve of the water companies beggars belief. 'Pay us more so we can keep paying huge dividends to stakeholders, otherwise you will keep pumping sewage into your waterways'. You have to admire the fucking chutzpah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Which Tyler Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 But... we've already paid them to do the repairs and maintenance. What I'm seeing, is a pretty good example of extortion. Are we absolutely sure that Tony Soprano isn't a water company CEO? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 In an incredible moment of reading fail, I actually read Tory Soprano. Make of that what you will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Just what British farmers wanted to hear! https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1708816290167529666?s=46&t=YQ5EoXBFy9mUDmV3PkLqIg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 14 minutes ago, Derfel Cadarn said: Just what British farmers wanted to hear! https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1708816290167529666?s=46&t=YQ5EoXBFy9mUDmV3PkLqIg Boo to trade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 19 minutes ago, Derfel Cadarn said: Just what British farmers wanted to hear! https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1708816290167529666?s=46&t=YQ5EoXBFy9mUDmV3PkLqIg They voted for Brexit. Didn't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mormont Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Today the Tory scattergun has also thrown out minimum service levels in that essential public service, university teaching. I've worked to represent students for 25 years and even to me, that one's a real head-scratcher. Also bans on mobile phones in school, because telling people what speed to drive at and how often is sinister government overreach but telling kids what to do is as popular as it always is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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