The Labour Government

[i kne albert davy]

No need to arrest them the thick pricks are displaying number plates. Just note them down and rather JSO them rock up on their doorsteps in a few weeks time like the Police do with racist rioters. I mean number plates for fucks sake - all revolutionaries had state registered identifiable plates don't they lol ???

To be honest locking folk up who grow your food might be not the brightest idea.

 

[bluethrunthru]

To be honest locking folk up who grow your food might be not the brightest idea.

The Tolpuddle Martyrs were farm workers and they deported them lol

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Its to save £500m to reinvest on Defence - can you imagine how much it costs to keep a Puma thats over 50 years old in the air and how would you feel flying combat missions as for the vessels being scrapped what is the point in having them tied up because you can't crew them due to lack of recruits ( another outsourcing triumph when it was outsourced to Crapita who fail year on year to meet targets ) - Defence spending is incredibly tight there have been a number of reports in recent years condemning a laissez-faire attitude to budgets and spending limits so you can waste money on out of date helicopters and equipment and storing empty ships.

So true , we aren't using it so let's save money and get rid! Afterall, it's only more capability lost, and replaced with an empty promise to replace at sometime in the future. Im affaid what ever way you spin this, its just a shameful continuation of the previous governments degradation of our armed forces. But you won't see it that way as your beloved Labour party have caried this out. Be honest with yourself, if this were Sunack announcing this you would be the first on here condemning it.

 

[remember arthur mann]

To be honest locking folk up who grow your food might be not the brightest idea.

Yeah but, no but, we can always get it from abroad cheaper, like Maggie got our coal.

 

[mosssideblue]

So true , we aren't using it so let's save money and get rid! Afterall, it's only more capability lost, and replaced with an empty promise to replace at sometime in the future. Im afriad what ever way younspin this its just a shameful continuation of the previous governments degradation of our armed forces. But you won't see it that way as your beloved Labour party have caried this out.

I'll try again. What is the material state of the two ships?

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

What is the material state of the two ships?

Operational I guess? as they were due to be decommissioned in 2033.

 

[mosssideblue]

Operational I guess? as they were due to be decommissioned in 2033.

So now you're guessing. They are in disrepair, old technology and are crew deficient. Makes total sense to mothball now rather than throw good money down the drain, would you agree?

 

[Vic]

I’ve never been a fan of relative poverty as a metric. I think it’s measured as 2/3rds of median income, which mathematically it would be very hard to ever irradiate- unless everyone earned same etc.

However in the context of holding Starmer’s and Reeve’s feet to the fire over the WFA I’ve no qualms with using it given they’ve used relative poverty frequently enough to further their own arguments. Of course you’re right to highlight increases in pensions due next year and they would have done a lot better to delay the WFA being removed until next winter, let the rise hit pensioners first and give them plenty of notice.

It's been a rise in pensions of £36 a week over the last two years so (cynically maybe) withdrawing £6 a week now should have been less outrageous than against a £9 a week rise next year.

If we accept that UK pensions are low compared to most other European countries, the triple lock has improved that position. And the "relative" figure that isn't being mentioned is that the number of pensioners keeps getting higher relative to the number of people paying tax to fund their pensions.

 

[i kne albert davy]

Yeah but, no but, we can always get it from abroad cheaper, like Maggie got our coal.

Or give just send everybody back to the stone free reign to save the planet we can enjoy to our life span of 30 years and plenty of room as 6 billion of us will have to snuff it.

 

[i kne albert davy]

It's been a rise in pensions of £36 a week over the last two years so (cynically maybe) withdrawing £6 a week now should have been less outrageous than against a £9 a week rise next year.

If we accept that UK pensions are low compared to most other European countries, the triple lock has improved that position. And the "relative" figure that isn't being mentioned is that the number of pensioners keeps getting higher relative to the number of people paying tax to fund their pensions.

Have the pensioners no paid tax to fund their pensions already ?