Sheaf Saint
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It's like all the other "Death of XXX" threads in recent years. Eventually everyone just ignores the thread title and treats it as the current general UK politics thread. Having said that, SOG's post might have been more appropriate on the Russia thread, but hey ho. If it was any other poster, you and WSS probably wouldn't have even bothered to comment on it. Any excuse to stick the boot in.
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No worries, he's found a foolproof way of plugging that gap in his finances - he's adding Bible Salesman to his CV: Just imagine being such a fucking idiot as to actually support this shameless grifter.
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Well I would just like to congratulate Vladimir on an excellent, hard fought victory. It's incredible to think that, even after all these years, he's still so popular with the Russian voters that they keep re-electing him. He must be such a wonderful, caring leader to garner so much respect and support from such a diverse range of cultures all across Russia.
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Wow. Well done Cov. Fully deserved.
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That's got to be a red card.
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Cracking effort from Cov, this. Lemina having one of his can't-be-arsed days in midfield is probably helping, mind.
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Fucking hell! How many times does VAR have to replay this before making a decision?
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This is the long and short of it. For many people, the way to express dissatisfaction at the status quo is to vote against it, without thinking about what they are actually voting for. I vividly remember the vox pops after the Brexit vote, where numerous people said they didn't care whether we stayed in the EU or not, but they voted leave purely because they didn't like David Cameron's government and blindly believed that voting for a change would improve things. So we can argue all we like about whether people should be more financially responsible, but it doesn't change the fact that plenty of people aren't and will blame the government for their current situation regardless.
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It's all very well pointing to personal responsibility, but it ignores the fact that entire point of reducing interests rates is to encourage people to borrow what they otherwise wouldn't be able to afford in order to get the economy moving. It's like dangling a carrot and then criticising the donkey for actually taking it. People are like lemmings (from the old video game, not real ones). If you give them the opportunity to do something, they will always do it. If you offer people cheap mortgage rates, how many people are honestly going to turn down the opportunity to take one out and buy a home because rates *might* go up again in future?