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Not entirely sure what you don't get - current overall inflation rate is up to 10.4% - food inflation is 17% + and we are going to face even higher prices at the end of the year when we have to invoke the agreed border checks for all imports (currently not happening ) - current average pay increases 5.7%. Things are not getting better and are likely to get worse which will continue to impact Govt polling rates - we face being poorer in real terms for a long time and that will be indefensible.
Headline inflation is very likely to be below wage growth by the end of the year, with big drops coming in April and then July.
 
Headline inflation is very likely to be below wage growth by the end of the year, with big drops coming in April and then July.

that was the thinking last month yet this month it went up.......... nothing is a given however does your view factor in that the imports we have right now are subject to almost no checks but at the end of the year all the delays all the paperwork that exports are subject to have to be applied to imports as of 1/1/24 or the deal we have with the EU fails ( we will also be in breech of WTO requirements ) - inflation ain't coming down mate and the Tories know it
 
Oh… forgive me, I thought the hope he would travel left after winning an election was a belief he would lie to the electorate just to get elected. Silly me. Although I’m not sure “I’m voting for Starmer because he’s not the other guy.” is much better ;)

Does anyone want to say “I’m voting Starmer because he’s got all the big ideas, his policies really resonate with me, and they form the bedrock of what this country needs to get it back on track”?
I like his policies, just seems that Tories keep nicking them and packaging them as their own.

There has to be a start, and even if people don’t want to see it due to their infatuation/anger with/over Corbyn, Labour, with many different facets on the front bench, are putting decent policies together.

And, as we’re in the Tory thread, I do think Sunak is trying to right the ship that the previous leaders tried to sink and it’s only the interference/influence from the ERG that is affecting his thinking.

Other than that, their are certain Tories who are still scum.
 
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The Tories have all but destroyed the working classes.

They've taken away the libraries to educate. Support networks to meet organise and communicate. Filled them full of fear and given them scapegoats.

They are now coming for the middle classes. And they seem totally oblivious to it.

"It'll be ok. I'll vote Labour and they'll keep me in the lifestyle I've earned. I'm a centre kind of guy. I feel sad for people who who have less than me. But they aren't me. So I'm happy if labour win and we can relive our youth the last time they were in."

I can't believe how many think it's a done deal. By rights the Tories have already won the next election by their landslide majority in the last. They could well do it again with a tiny majority. But just enough to carry on fucking us over whilst the opposition quietly appease them because they'll be moving centre right again as the majority of the fucknuggets brought in by Johnson will have left or voted out.
 
Anyone think the American healthcare system is the way forward?



It’s so crippling, so impossible to pay off medical debts for even tiny things that you can buy medical debt in the US for way less than 1 cent on the dollar.

There’s charity organisations that raise money just to cancel medical debts and let people know they don’t need to pay it off anymore.
 
What they are avoiding is the French are rioting over a retirement age 6 years lower than the UK's for a state pension twice the size of what we get here - we are a G7 country who cares little for its retired
The French pension is around £90 a week more than ours from what I understand, but I don't know what other benefits they recieve like bus passes, etc.

We have always paid our pensioners a pittance, and neither Labour or tory governments over the decades have tried to improve their situation. I remember my mothers parents in the 60's and early 70's complaining it was barely enough to live on, and it's been the same ever since. I remember seeing the queues of pensioners standing outside post offices early in the morning back in the day because they hadn't got a penny in their pockets, and the only reasaon we don't see that now is because the payments are made directly into the recipients bank accounts.

I'm going to receive my pension of £816.16 every 4 weeks from the beginning of June, which, after I have paid my bills, will leave me with little more than £12 a day to enjoy spending. Take food into account, and it's even less.

I'm fortunate I have a private pension so I can carry on living the life I want for a few years yet, but neither political party has addressed the fact that pensioners have been dying for decades from hypothermia in the winter because they can't afford heating or be able to cook a hot meal.

As you say, we don't as a country care about the elderly and it's been the same story for all of my life. I don't know why we accept it because we all grow old, as I'm now finding out, but our attitude towards the elderly hasn't changed since the 60's when my grandparents were scrimping along.

It's beyond political divisions, because none of the parties have tried to change the welfare of our pensioners for the better.
 

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