The Labour Government

[Vic]

“asking for it” eh Vic?

Blunt? Nah mate, you’re just desperately scrambling for one thread to another trying to defend the indefensible.

Stop stalking me then.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

“asking for it” eh Vic?

Blunt? Nah mate, you’re just desperately scrambling for one thread to another trying to defend the indefensible.

You okay hun?

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

agreed - has to be linked to income not CT Band. Over the road from me is a 94 year old widow - she lives on one of the "big" detached houses on the street with 5 bedrooms etc and her CT is much higher than ours (smaller 3 bed semi)- she survives on state pension and the idea that just because of her house she shouldn't get WFA is ludicrous.

My fear is even if Connie gets pension credit, even if she gets the WFA she still won't put her heating on. Just over a month ago she had a heating fault and one of her son's got someone to sort it - the problem was related to a lack of use.

She can heat the rooms she uses or maybe take in some female lodgers working in health and social care.

My gran sold her 3 bed semi and then lived in a council 1 bed bungalow for the last 10-15 years of her life. Didn't leave much in way of inheritance but doubt she would have lived to 87 whilst navigating a victorian stairwell.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

You okay hun?

Of course he isn’t. He keeps voting for things that don’t do what he thought.

We’re in the transitional phase where he’s gearing up to vote Reform at the next election, before years of posts saying it isn’t what he voted for.

Perhaps thinking more positively, rather than voting to stop everything might get us further, but I’m not sure we’re in the era for voting for positive things.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Of course he isn’t. He keeps voting for things that don’t do what he thought.

We’re in the transitional phase where he’s gearing up to vote Reform at the next election, before years of posts saying it isn’t what he voted for.

Perhaps thinking more positively, rather than voting to stop everything might get us further, but I’m not sure we’re in the era for voting for positive things.

I'm not sure politics is the problem for some people. If someone sets out looking for misery they are bound to find it.

Might want to take some advice from Michael Jackson and start with the man in the mirror.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I'm not sure politics is the problem for some people. If someone sets out looking for misery they are bound to find it.

Might want to take some advice from Michael Jackson and start with the man in the mirror.

It’s not just him, to be fair, it’s social media as a whole that sees simplistic, destructive answers as the quick win to all society’s ills.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

It’s not just him, to be fair, it’s social media as a whole that sees simplistic, destructive answers as the quick win to all society’s ills.

Pretty much. It's like walking into speakers' corner and expecting a rational and coherent solution to anything.

Once saw a black bloke dressed in ceremonial police uniform proposing to deport all white people in faraway lands back to Europe.

Probably the sanest thing thing there that day.

A minority of people on social media are willingly to accept that there are trade-offs. Wealthy pensioners, farmers, they might be party losing out in a trade-off to put more money towards helping young families or improving teenage cancer outcomes or reducing waiting lists.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Pretty much. It's like walking into speakers' corner and expecting a rational and coherent solution to anything.

Once saw a black bloke dressed in ceremonial police uniform proposing to deport all white people in faraway lands back to Europe.

Probably the sanest thing thing there that day.

A minority of people on social media are willingly to accept that there are trade-offs. Wealthy pensioners, farmers, they might be party losing out in a trade-off to put more money towards helping young families or improving teenage cancer outcomes or reducing waiting lists.

I’d give you a like, but for including the story about the bloke dressed in police uniform, you’re getting a “cool story bro” in order for any rhetoric to be diminished.

 

[The perfect fumble]

This short video sums up pretty well why Europe, and the UK in particular, are in such a depressing mess...

 

[Zuriblue]

“asking for it” eh Vic?

Blunt? Nah mate, you’re just desperately scrambling for one thread to another trying to defend the indefensible.