Recent content by metalblue

Would fully agree. A governments first responsibility is the protection of its people, we should be pooling our resources with our European friends and if that takes a few extra billion then that’s what it takes.

Shame this https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/britain-says-talks-join-eu-defence-fund-have-broken-down-2025-11-28/

Populism isn’t the reserve of the fringe parties. Johnson was nothing if not a populist and herein lay the problem with politics today IMHO, as a politician try standing for something other than reelection.

The most recent budget process has plumbed new depths of chaos. Perhaps if someone had a few bevvies it might have been less so ;)

Polanski is an ideologist and ever so slightly insane. He will appeal to plenty but there is a ceiling to that appeal that should keep him away from high office - although he could be the king maker in a coalition which would be fun to watch because I don’t see him as someone who would...

They were still writing the budget last weekend so quite possibly…

How long do you think it will take to build the technology to do that baseline mileage and annual update on a fixed date? I suppose the government thinks a couple of years.

Seems sensible to me.

Nah, just print more money init. All of them countries bottled it ;)

As you rightly point out you get a fixed amount for your car (not sure how the insurance part works) but I suspect this is more about the optics of it - i.e. people will question if you can afford to be paying extra to drive a brand new higher end car do you really need help from the tax payer...

Spot on. Plenty of former Labour voters have “defected” to reform and it’s an uncomfortable truth for a few on here. To quote myself

Which begs the question why did someone even suggest this in the first place followed by how did it get this far before someone with a brain said…hang on a minute. I agree with @Ifwecouldjust....... that post a probation period feels a more sensible approach- and perhaps cap the time...

Cheers for link MB. It’s estimated to be £7.3bn per 300,000 adults migrating. So £23k made up of income tax and VAT etc I can see that being accurate as migrants will likely have decent paying jobs don’t have any “debt” where the state has paid for their education etc. The worrying aspect of...

Stick to a manifesto… hell this government can’t stick to what it said last week

£7bn per 100k. So each is paying £70k in tax? Per year? That sounds very unlikely.