The Labour Government

[Scottyboi]

People say benefit fraud is peanuts on here but by the government's own figures it's £7.3billion. And as others have pointed out could be a lot higher. That is clearly a lot of money and to suggest otherwise is nonsense.

Is that fraud only or does it include mistakes by DWP for overpayments, or honest mistakes by people claiming?

 

[ganganvince]

We could cut the higher rate of income tax by 5%-pts with that money.

Or reinstate the WFA raising it to £1k

 

[bluethrunthru]

Elon and his bot farms are interfering again

 

[Brewster's millions]

No-one has ever said to cut benefit fraud to fund tax cuts for the rich. Only a Toryboy on Bluemoon.

It’s a great idea and it’s not really the rich paying the higher rate of tax now; they pay the additional rate.

Or as @ganganvince says, reinstate the WFA and raise it to 1k. Pensioners wouldn’t have to go to the library to keep warm then, as you so compassionately suggested.

 

[TinFoilHat]

CBI moaning they have to pay a bit more in taxes than they pay someone to avoid.

Pisses me off they plead poverty yet take the most of us in tax breaks and other benefits. But it's all about Shazney and her 27 united colours of benneton kids destroying the country.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Elon and his bot farms are interfering again

 

[Eccles Blue]

Why would you call for another election after a few months?
There are a heck of a lot of years of Tory misrule to remedy. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Give them time.

 

[Claytop]

Got to laugh, 14 years of the Tories and what that brought and barely 4 months in opposition and they're cry arsing with a petition because they're not happy.

Christ.

 

[kaz7]

Got to laugh, 14 years of the Tories and what that brought and barely 4 months in opposition and they're cry arsing with a petition because they're not happy.

Christ.

Reminds me of a lot of thicko's voting for brexit then a week later demanding know why we hadnt left

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Why would you call for another election after a few months?
There are a heck of a lot of years of Tory misrule to remedy. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Give them time.

This lot aren’t Tories. They’re online idiots wanting to cause chaos, whoever is in power.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

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I don’t get it, who has raised the petition to call for a GE, and why are bots allowed to sign it? Surely there should be some security feature to stop it, otherwise anybody could unleash all sorts of shit on the country.

Worrying times when a democracy may not be a democracy. Is this what was happening in the US to further Trump’s position?

Ps. I don’t do X, or any other SM.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I don’t get it, who has raised the petition to call for a GE, and why are bots allowed to sign it? Surely there should be some security feature to stop it, otherwise anybody could unleash all sorts of shit on the country.

Worrying times when a democracy may not be a democracy. Is this what was happening in the US to further Trump’s position?

Anyone can start a petition. It’s meaningless barring making some people discuss it briefly before ignoring it.

Look at Romania and the US. It’s happening everywhere. It seems as though all countries need to physically live through a term of populists and see how bad things get under them.

There’s not even many policies they stand for, just stopping everything they perceive is bad.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I don’t get it, who has raised the petition to call for a GE, and why are bots allowed to sign it? Surely there should be some security feature to stop it, otherwise anybody could unleash all sorts of shit on the country.

Worrying times when a democracy may not be a democracy. Is this what was happening in the US to further Trump’s position?

Ps. I don’t do X, or any other SM.

Some bloke who owns a pub, I think.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

It’s a great idea and it’s not really the rich paying the higher rate of tax now; they pay the additional rate.

Or as @ganganvince says, reinstate the WFA and raise it to 1k. Pensioners wouldn’t have to go to the library to keep warm then, as you so compassionately suggested.

What libraries?

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

The people who opposed a second referendum after Brexit because the result was ''the will of the people'' now want a second General Election to overturn ''the will of the people''


YCMIU


Conservatives eh ..... what are they like?

 

[super_city_si]

I don’t get it, who has raised the petition to call for a GE, and why are bots allowed to sign it? Surely there should be some security feature to stop it, otherwise anybody could unleash all sorts of shit on the country.

Worrying times when a democracy may not be a democracy. Is this what was happening in the US to further Trump’s position?

Ps. I don’t do X, or any other SM.

Govt should ban X in the UK. Its a cancer

 

[kaz7]

What libraries?

Those ones the tories got rid of

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Anyone can start a petition. It’s meaningless barring making some people discuss it briefly before ignoring it.

Look at Romania and the US. It’s happening everywhere. It seems as though all countries need to physically live through a term of populists and see how bad things get under them.

There’s not even many policies they stand for, just stopping everything they perceive is bad.

But surely this now has to be countered by governments, using security protocols, and putting out their own press releases to counter the likes of RW media, new and old, spreading all sorts of mis/disinformation?

What ever you colour of politics, Tory, Labour, LD, or Reform, surely we must not let foreign entities take over our country?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

But surely this now has to be countered by governments, using security protocols, and putting out their own press releases to counter the likes of RW media, new and old, spreading all sorts of mis/disinformation?

What ever you colour of politics, Tory, Labour, LD, or Reform, surely we must not let foreign entities take over our country?

Truth doesn’t matter anymore.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU petition received 6,103,056 signatures in 2019, the highest figure obtained for any British petition since the Chartists' petition of 1848.

Last time I looked we left.