General Election - 4th July 2024

[Vic]

Is Cox no longer moonlighting for a tax haven?

 

[Eccles Blue]

I’m in my mid 30s and grew up under New Labour.

I can only comment from my own personal observations but this country has got measurably shitter in every single way since the Conservatives got in.

I realise being a supporter of Tony Blair will probably get me lynched on here.

I agree with your second paragraph. As for the third paragraph although I am not a fan of Blair for many reasons, I know and understand that to some he was an excellent PM. I know I celebrated with a glass of Cointreau the night we got a Labour Government with him at the helm.

I’ll stand at your side so they don’t lynch you! ;-) :-)

 

[Vic]

Its post 9/11 when the world went to shit, everywhere in the western world is immeasurably worse. All accelerated by the third wave of globalisation that stated around 1990 and continues to this day.

Nah, it's the last 14 years.

I really don't recall anyone blaming any problems in 2010 on 9/11 or globalisation.

 

[mexico1970]

Nah, it's the last 14 years.

I really don't recall anyone blaming any problems in 2010 on 9/11 or globalisation.

The problems in 2010 could have come from the huge problem of the collapse of 2008.

 

[Don Karleone]

I just watched some of that. I like Margaret Hodge, shame she is getting on a bit and not in Starmers cabinet. But Mick Lynch was a bit of a disspointment with his inaccurate one sided statements about self employed people. I expected better tbh.

Evil woman.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Oh gosh. Woe to you who store up treasure on earth... yeah, let's cut taxes for those with materialistic goods (whatever they are) at the expense of those who can't afford food clothing and shelter.

You don't seem to understand the point I was making, so why bother commenting Vic?

 

[Kompany Car]

The problems in 2010 could have come from the huge problem of the collapse of 2008.

Add to that the international markets were just recovering from the dot com bubble when 9/11 happened which everyone seems to forget.
Continual uncertainty caused by all of these events caused significant ripples throughout the whole world economy which with Covid and the Ukraine war have only been amplified.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Evil woman.

Why?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Is Cox no longer moonlighting for a tax haven?

Not today. He was parroting about the socialist state coming repeatedly, whilst interrupting others and not listening to the host.

 

[Brett Sinclair]

Why?

What's the betting it's because of her religion eh! ;-)

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

What's the betting it's because of her religion eh! ;-)

I don't know?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Brown fucked that election up for sure, it was awful to watch.

Had he won in 2010 we’d be in a better place as a country now.

I was really pissed off with Brown by the time the 2010 GE came round, but upon reflection that was hasty and ill-judged on my part, especially given the shit show that has followed.

 

[law74]

Whatever you do dont waste your vote on people/parties who will have zero say in how the country is run

I have no choice, none of the candidates standing in my constituency will be forming the next government

The Tories bring him up and I bite sadly.I should have learned my lesson by now.

British parliamentary approval for the invasion of Iraq - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I find quoting facts about the war in Iraq usually quietens the self-servatives apologists.
84 Labour, 52 Lib-dems and 2 (two) tories opposed the war.
Hansard is also a wonderful method of research (but can take time to navigate)

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

When did we last have an effective opposition? 1979?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I don't think anyone sane would argue that the country hasn't got worse.

It’s got discernibly worse by pretty much every meaningful measure.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I don't know?

It will be as she went straight to anti-semitism when the Green Leader was on.

 

[Don Karleone]

What's the betting it's because of her religion eh! ;-)

With a past like hers, Margaret Hodge might show a bit more humility

In the Eighties Hodge was aware of previous child sex abuse in the care homes for which she was responsible, and did nothing about it

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Vic]

You don't seem to understand the point I was making, so why bother commenting Vic?

Were you not criticising a policy of tax increases for people earning over £50k a year because they'd got commitments and/or had bought a lot of stuff? In other words, by spending money they can avoid paying higher income tax.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

It will be as she went straight to anti-semitism when the Green Leader was on.

Sorry to go Wenger , but I didn't see that bit , just watched the first 10mins.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Were you not criticising a policy of tax increases for people earning over £50k a year because they'd got commitments and/or had bought a lot of stuff? In other words, by spending money they can avoid paying higher income tax.

No not really, I was criticising the Greens for thinking that just because they believe people have spare cash when they earn 50 k or more, doesn't necessarily mean that people do have that spare cash. I used the materialistic analogy as green people arnt the most materialistic in my experience, but 99% of the population are to a degree are they not?

Ie its easy and incorrect for Greens to judge everybody by their holier than thou lifestyle.