Rishi Sunak

gordondaviesmoustache said:
He was perfectly at liberty to use a form of words that accurately captured the position, which he did not. It’s not especially hard to achieve given the extensive resources at his disposal i.e. The UK Government.
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He could have phrased it differently, but I don’t really see it as the crime of the century - there is a kernel of truth around it - and I wouldn’t think it’s worthy of some of the abuse he’s received on here for it.

It’s certainly not as bad as Starmer’s claim that he’s going to get a major re-write of the Brexit deal, for example, which anyone with half a brain knows is complete and utter bollocks and in fact deliberately misleading.
 
Brewster's millions said:
He could have phrased it differently, but I don’t really see it as the crime of the century - there is a kernel of truth around it - and I wouldn’t think it’s worthy of some of the abuse he’s received on here for it.

It’s certainly not as bad as Starmer’s claim that he’s going to get a major re-write of the Brexit deal, for example, which anyone with half a brain knows is complete and utter bollocks and in fact deliberately misleading.
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They will both say anything to get elected but this isn’t the Starmer thread.
 
Brewster's millions said:
He could have phrased it differently, but I don’t really see it as the crime of the century - there is a kernel of truth around it - and I wouldn’t think it’s worthy of some of the abuse he’s received on here for it.

It’s certainly not as bad as Starmer’s claim that he’s going to get a major re-write of the Brexit deal, for example, which anyone with half a brain knows is complete and utter bollocks and in fact deliberately misleading.
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All the same, init.
 
Brewster's millions said:
I would suggest that cost of living is a relative term, with inflation being set against your income growth. If not, the cost of living is practically always increasing, and the term loses meaning as a result.

Given that wages, benefits and pensions are now increasing in annual terms at a rate above inflation, then I don’t think it’s unreasonable to claim that the cost of living is declining or improving, even though it’s technically incorrect to say that. Apart from in January of course, when the CPI nearly always declines.
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Idiot (aka Tory shill).

If wages, benefits and pensions are "now increasing" above inflation it's because they were fixed based on what inflation was, not on "now".

"Technically incorrect but reasonable"? I didn't notice that disclaimer on Sunak's gaslighting video...
 
My pension increase, which I shall receive from April 2024, was based on last year's inflation not what inflation is now. When implemented, it nominally restores me to where I was the year before. Nominally. The idea I am somehow 'better off' now because inflation is falling is laughable. I have not been compensated for current inflation now and will not be until April 2025. That is because the increases are decided each September based on the previous year's inflation. That is to say, the period from October 2023 to September 2024, which includes the inflation we are experiencing now.

I am sick of these gaslighting cunts who think we are all thick.
 
BrianW said:
My pension increase, which I shall receive from April 2024, was based on last year's inflation not what inflation is now. When implemented, it nominally restores me to where I was the year before. Nominally. The idea I am somehow 'better off' now because inflation is falling is laughable. I have not been compensated for current inflation now and will not be until April 2025. That is because the increases are decided each September based on the previous year's inflation. That is to say, the period from October 2023 to September 2024, which includes the inflation we are experiencing now.

I am sick of these gaslighting cunts who think we are all thick.
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You’ve conveniently, or erroneously, forgotten about the triple lock.

Average earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation, and that situation appears likely to persist over the coming year.

So your pension will increase at a faster pace than your cost of living, and any further decline in inflation relative to wage growth will make you better off. So falling inflation will in fact make you better off in the current situation.

Also, the point isn’t solely about pensioners - across the economy, earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation. When the opposite was the case, and inflation was higher, you were all jumping up and down complaining about the real terms decline in income. When real terms growth is restored, you fail to recognise the change.

Frankly, some of you lefties need to look at the bigger picture and not think only about yourself and your own personal situation.
 
Brewster's millions said:
You’ve conveniently, or erroneously, forgotten about the triple lock.

Average earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation, and that situation appears likely to persist over the coming year.

So your pension will increase at a faster pace than your cost of living, and any further decline in inflation relative to wage growth will make you better off. So falling inflation will in fact make you better off in the current situation.

Also, the point isn’t solely about pensioners - across the economy, earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation. When the opposite was the case, and inflation was higher, you were all jumping up and down complaining about the real terms decline in income. When real terms growth is restored, you fail to recognise the change.

Frankly, some of you lefties need to look at the bigger picture and not think only about yourself and your own personal situation.
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If a guy is telling you he's less better off then you can probably take it at face value that he is. Not try and gaslight with statistical manipulation that would make even the Tories blush.
 
Brewster's millions said:
You’ve conveniently, or erroneously, forgotten about the triple lock.

Average earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation, and that situation appears likely to persist over the coming year.

So your pension will increase at a faster pace than your cost of living, and any further decline in inflation relative to wage growth will make you better off. So falling inflation will in fact make you better off in the current situation.

Also, the point isn’t solely about pensioners - across the economy, earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation. When the opposite was the case, and inflation was higher, you were all jumping up and down complaining about the real terms decline in income. When real terms growth is restored, you fail to recognise the change.

Frankly, some of you lefties need to look at the bigger picture and not think only about yourself and your own personal situation.
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Unfortunately, the triple lock only covers part of my income. And the earnings element, again, is in arrears. My increase in April reflects events in the 12 months up to summer 2023, as far as the earnings element is concerned.

A fall in inflation is a 'good thing' but it does not make me 'better off' it makes me less 'worse off' than it would have been had it remained higher.

As for the 'big picture' - words fail me. It's people worrying about trivialities like the colour of the fucking passport that have screwed this country's economy and its standing in the world. So-called 'patriots' who can't see beyond the end of their noses because of their absurd obsessions. Most of these people are Tories or fellow travellers.
 
Brewster's millions said:
You’ve conveniently, or erroneously, forgotten about the triple lock.

Average earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation, and that situation appears likely to persist over the coming year.

So your pension will increase at a faster pace than your cost of living, and any further decline in inflation relative to wage growth will make you better off. So falling inflation will in fact make you better off in the current situation.

Also, the point isn’t solely about pensioners - across the economy, earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation. When the opposite was the case, and inflation was higher, you were all jumping up and down complaining about the real terms decline in income. When real terms growth is restored, you fail to recognise the change.

Frankly, some of you lefties need to look at the bigger picture and not think only about yourself and your own personal situation.
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Whether you look at the rise in UK real wages under Labour (until 2008) and what's happened since under the Tories (one good year partly catching up with last year), or at the OECD average increase since the crash, the Tories have made you worse off. Most of the sectors where wages have outstripped inflation are those which had a lot of EU workers pre-Brexit (transport, hospitality etc).

Even the triple lock doesn't take account of the inflation increases in basic costs of living (housing, food, fuel) which are higher than the inflation average.
 
kaz7 said:
Trying to say they have cleared the backlog , gaslighting cunts, they would have been screaming that before the holidays as i am damn sure it hasnt happened in the last week , new year same fucking lying bastards
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They have been fast tracking decisions at an alarming rate from certain countries for a couple of months - the ones which you know there is war and /or danger for the average person.

They have just become homeless instead of asylum seekers, and from a Home Office to an LA burden.
 
Corky said:
They have been fast tracking decisions at an alarming rate from certain countries for a couple of months - the ones which you know there is war and /or danger for the average person.

They have just become homeless instead of asylum seekers, and from a Home Office to an LA burden.
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The cunts are obsessed with immigration to an irrational extent when you actually look at how important the issue is to swing voters (quite). They’ve lost their fucking minds.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
The cunts are obsessed with immigration to an irrational extent when you actually look at how important the issue is to swing voters (quite). They’ve lost their fucking minds.
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I think it’s because immigration is an easy concept for the assorted fuckwits to understand.
Discuss economics, public spending, and the effects of interest rates and inflation etc, and watch people glaze over. Sadly these are the things that affect them the most, but don‘t get the understanding or attention.
But talk about foreigners coming here ‘illegally’, ‘invasions‘ and attacks on our culture and our women and children and the old blood starts boiling and the gut reactions kick in.
As you say, irrational, but you can see how important it is to this collection of washed up, clapped out no hopers when they have nothing else.
 
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