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Post by dudleyhatter on Sept 25, 2021 11:55:39 GMT
Every day I read and see more from that government that make me happier to be here. I will not be returning
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Post by gazz on Sept 25, 2021 12:36:23 GMT
Every day I read and see more from that government that make me happier to be here. I will not be returning You made the right decision, Duds, I really do think this country is screwed.
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Sept 25, 2021 13:17:58 GMT
Seems relevant that more than 20 times more money is lost to tax "evasion" in this country than lost to benefit fraud.
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Post by gazz on Sept 25, 2021 13:59:50 GMT
Seems relevant that more than 20 times more money is lost to tax "evasion" in this country than lost to benefit fraud. Look on the bright side, Lennie, they take on that horrible job of evading tax so we don't have to - Gawd bless 'em!
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Post by woznorthyorksexile on Oct 6, 2021 11:21:42 GMT
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Post by gazz on Oct 6, 2021 14:10:28 GMT
It's f***ing obscene, mate, yet people still defend them and will vote for them again, in enough numbers to put this lying toad back into office for another 5 years. Stockholm syndrome, anyone?
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Post by woznorthyorksexile on Oct 29, 2021 5:53:13 GMT
The day after Rishi Sunak sticks two fingers up to those of us with serious concerns about climate change by promoting domestic flights by cutting taxes on fares, and as a result of escalating climate change, 13" of rain fall on Cumbria! 13 inches in 24 hours! It took me nearly 3 hours to get home as the 3 routes I could ordinarily use were all closed, submerged under water. I ended up going via Kendal and minor roads to join the M6 at Shap due to the additional problem of the motorway being shut as a result of a lorry fire.
This is the same Sunak who, along with the terminally thick Therese Coffey, in a heroically defiant gesture to the rest of the world and common sense refuses to wear a mask in the HoC. What is the matter with these people and why do their supporters seem to place so much value on gormlessness and a flat-earther approach to science?
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Post by gazz on Oct 29, 2021 6:12:43 GMT
The day after Rishi Sunak sticks two fingers up to those of us with serious concerns about climate change by promoting domestic flights by cutting taxes on fares, and as a result of escalating climate change, 13" of rain fall on Cumbria! 13 inches in 24 hours! It took me nearly 3 hours to get home as the 3 routes I could ordinarily use were all closed, submerged under water. I ended up going via Kendal and minor roads to join the M6 at Shap due to the additional problem of the motorway being shut as a result of a lorry fire. This is the same Sunak who, along with the terminally thick Therese Coffey, in a heroically defiant gesture to the rest of the world and common sense refuses to wear a mask in the HoC. What is the matter with these people and why do their supporters seem to place so much value on gormlessness and a flat-earther approach to science? Social media, mate, some of the utter sh*t being written is bad enough, but there are enough people out there believing it who are keeping these B'stards in a position to sh*t on us from a great height.
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Post by gazz on Oct 29, 2021 6:55:13 GMT
This is what you're up against, Yorks.
I'm just off to the garden centre to buy some concrete seeds.
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Post by woznorthyorksexile on Oct 29, 2021 7:19:40 GMT
This is what you're up against, Yorks. I'm just off to the garden centre to buy some concrete seeds. Yes, I sat yesterday, open-mouthed at that "interview". It's genuinely one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard but it follows the pattern that has been emerging over recent years as one by one, the arguments used by denialists are systematically dismantled. All they now have is shouty men pouring scorn on their opponents in an attempt to belittle them and therefore their views.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Oct 29, 2021 9:54:28 GMT
That is genuinely staggering...
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Post by ceefer on Oct 29, 2021 20:20:31 GMT
Very illuminating or not.........
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Post by gazz on Oct 29, 2021 20:36:19 GMT
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Post by dudleyhatter on Oct 30, 2021 7:01:41 GMT
Love it (and stolen it) Ceef
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Post by woznorthyorksexile on Oct 31, 2021 9:59:46 GMT
Remember the halcyon days when the Tories were in the business of calming fears that Brexit would lead to, amongst many other downsides, a watering down or the abolition of environmental protections guaranteed by EU law?
The days when Michael Gove told Radio 4’s farming today that ‘I absolutely don’t want to water down [environmental protection]’, seem but a distant memory. We now know what he meant when he went on to say that ‘We need to make sure that the policies that we have in place to enhance the environment are focused in the right way. It may well be that we change the operation of particular rules, but any change will be designed to ensure that we get better protection for the environment'. Increasingly, the evidence suggests that what he really meant was increasing the focus on allowing water utility companies to protect shareholder value.
Estimates as to the cost of dragging this country's Victorian infrastructure into the 21st century vary wildly between £150-660 billion. Their failure to do so comes at a time when these companies privatised by the free market zealots of the Tory party have handed vast amounts of money in unearned income to their shareholders, a figure currently standing at £57 billion and rising.
The effects of these failures are that The Environment Agency has been allowing more and more discharges of untreated sewage into rivers and the sea as a result of problems procuring the chemicals needed to treat it which even the New Statesman allows have been exacerbated in this country by Brexit. Far be it from me to suggest that two of the principal pillars of modern conservatism namely, the privatisation of businesses operating in an environment in which there is no competition and Brexit are demonstrable failures, but I’ve yet to find a Tory who can explain the benefits beyond the mindless mantra’s that by definition state that public ownership = bad, private ownership = good and the EUSSR is some form of extension of Stalinism.
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