The Labour Government

Chippy_boy said:
Fuck off, of course I can answer it. FWIW, Reform or Tories over this shower any day of the week.

The question was pure trolling as he knew full well what the answer is, so my original answer was entirely appropriate.
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ahahahaha the Tories. Your biggest complaint day in, day out, is the asylum crisis and you'd rather have the party that created it and spent 14 years doing fuck all about it to be back in power.
 
moomba said:
Just out of interest I looker up the minimum wage when it was introduced in 1999, it was £3.60 per hour.

It's now £12.21. The last 2-3 years have seen pretty significant increases.
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It's meant to be £14.80. It is significantly lower than what it is meant to be.

And that's the Living Wage, not the Minimum Wage. The Minimum Wage is £10.00. The Tories Introduced the Living Wage. The Living Wage has increased by around 0.70p on average every year since 2020.
 
WRicko said:
The government raised minimum wage.

So you would rather no breakfast clubs ? It’s going into more and more schools and it’s a direct result of new government policy and funding.

You keep saying the opposite of what UC is the old work benefits etc was big cliff edges as you upped your hours you lost more in benefit. UC has reduced these cliff edges so you can earn more and still keep some benefits. Don’t know why we keep going over this
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It's been raised every April for the last 9 years for the Living Wage and the Minimum Wage every October.

It's not a 'feat'.
 
domalino said:
Indeed. He was actually in UKIP when he was selling us out to the Russians.

Who else was at UKIP back then? Richard Tice, Nigel Farage and Gawain Tower (That's reforms head of press for the past 6 years).

I'm sure it's nothing...
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Correct.

It's a nothingburger.
 
Metal Biker said:
Correct.

It's a nothingburger.
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Doesn’t look great though does it, your former leader being sent to prison for selling out the country?

Plus big Nige has his history of blaming anyone except Russia for the Ukraine war, and then the whole Aaron Banks Ural properties and meeting Russian agents before Brexit thing and GB News constantly getting linked to Russian money and putting out Kremlin friendly opinions.

Oh and wasn’t it just this morning it turned out one of their biggest donors was getting his money from a Kremlin backed cryptocurrency?

www.theguardian.com

Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say

Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

Just keeps following Farage around doesn’t it.

But I’m sure you’re right, it’s nothing.
 
domalino said:
Doesn’t look great though does it, your former leader being sent to prison for selling out the country?
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Since when have I ever said or shown support for Reform?

Please, go ahead, show me where. I'm pointing out that it's a nothing story on a thread about the Labour Government to try and deflect from how incompetant they are.

Bluemoon Labour luvvies to a fucking tee, you are.
 
Metal Biker said:
Since when have I ever said or shown support for Reform?

Please, go ahead, show me where. I'm pointing out that it's a nothing story on a thread about the Labour Government to try and deflect from how incompetant they are.

Bluemoon Labour luvvies to a fucking tee, you are.
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That’s you into a convenient little box ;-)
 
Metal Biker said:
Since when have I ever said or shown support for Reform?

Please, go ahead, show me where. I'm pointing out that it's a nothing story on a thread about the Labour Government to try and deflect from how incompetant they are.

Bluemoon Labour luvvies to a fucking tee, you are.
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It was a royal “your” lol, as in it looks bad for Reform, but carry on, you clearly wanted to jump down someone throat about something. I really couldn’t care less who you, @MetalBiker, support.

Who even refers to a party leader as “their leader”? You’d have to be a member of the parliamentary party for that to even make sense, not just a would be voter.
 
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domalino said:
It was a royal “your” lol, as in it looks bad for Reform, but carry on, you clearly wanted to jump down someone throat about something. I really couldn’t care less who you, @MetalBiker, support.
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You did half an hour ago.
 
metalblue said:
Underlying commodity prices routinely fluctuate and rarely impact shop prices and certainly a price decrease for December will not given we are not selling December milk yet. Bulk buyers will lock in their costs through derivative contracts to provide price certainty, or to give it its correct term they will hedge their price risk - for example British Airways will know the cost of aviation fuel because they will have brought aviation fuel futures for the next 9-12 months. This means they can sell you a plane ticket for your holiday next year at a fixed cost. This is how the world works. There are exceptions to that and they are always in the negative, petrol for example always “reacts” to price increase shocks instantly but slower to reduce on price declines… now that is profiteering!!

Official figures from the government show wholesale milk prices have gone up 5.6% September YoY (the last official figures). Retail milk prices have gone up 4.5%, I gave the average price chart an eyeball and it looks likely retailers are absorbing more cost without fully passing it on to consumers (on average). Final full year figures will need to be provided for a complete assessment.

UK farmgate milk prices | AHDB

UK farmgate milk prices
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www.gov.uk

Latest UK milk prices and composition of milk

Monthly UK averages of the farm-gate price and butterfat and protein content of milk delivered to dairies.
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Fascinating. (Seriously.) But (assuming I heard right) it was said that the food inflation rate was partly due to a 15% rise in the price of milk (presumably year on year).

Even allowing for hedging, the price should surely be coming down as there's a bit of a milk glut (UK and globally).
 
bluemick1 said:
Starmers claims re bringing breakfast clubs to all schools is a joke. He recently said in parliament “promise made, promise delivered”
He should visit Rochdale where only 1 school has it. The school is in Bamford, one of the most affluent areas in the Borough.
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WRicko said:
It’s more than that tho it will help get parents to work on time or earlier and therefore boost the economy
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Yes you’d think so wouldn’t you! The main purpose should be removing one of the barriers to get people into work.

I do find the framing of the scheme in this Dept for Education video very odd.

Not a single person says it means they can get to work on time or means they are able to increase their hours with additional wrap around care.

“You’re rushing, you forget if they’ve eaten” says the women who looks like she’s never forgotten to eat a meal.


 
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