Sir Ralph

I think thats the most words I've ever seen you post. Have you started using Chat GPT too?

It just confirmed I'm the best looking and Chat GPT is always right😆

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@tdmickey3 get the camera the right way round mate. Try again.😆

Fair point, I probably dont. My sense of humour is definitely not my strength. I'm incredibly good looking and clever though 😆

Deflection and distraction is the way of the left when they have no response.

There is no defence of the current shambles so it doesnt surprise me to see this. Funny you just criticised @east-stand-nic for being incoherent and you make a comment like this. The old tactic of distraction. No good point or defence to make of the current shambles so revert to that. Defending the indefensible = no credibility.

I suppose they might change the law specifically to exclude her, so she doesnt have to pay it. That will be tomorrow's headline I suspect

I'm no staunch supporter of any party. In fact I hope Labour do well - we all benefit. Sometimes you have to deal with reality rather than just back the party you support as thats just blind support. The reason I'm against them is because they are clueless and they fail to understand the absolute basics. So of course its all in my mind, its just me. The polls would say otherwise - they are absolutely tanking. So its not just me that thinks they are doing a terrible job. Its the electorate - to you thats the people of the country. Instead, maybe its in your mind they they are doing a half decent (being generous) job because the polls show that your view doesnt align with the vast majority of people, including people that voted for Labour. Maybe everyone else is wrong then and you are right? I'm not getting angry, its just embarrassing we have 4 more years of ineptitude. The longer it goes on, the more damage they will do and the longer it will be before they get back in office again thankfully. Last time it took 14 or so years and that previous Labour Government had redeeming qualities. This one has very, very few so it will be a lot longer. https://www.inkl.com/news/new-poll-sees-labour-s-approval-rating-fall-to-record-low

Its amazing anybody still try to defend them. If I voted for the Lib Dems, Tories or Reform and they were doing this I would just accept they were doing a terrible job. Defending the indefensible = no credibility. PMQ's will be entertaining😆 If I didnt pay my stamp duty, HMRC would be after me but I suspect the two-tier approach will be applied to Angela.

Another day, another balls up. At least Angela wont be taking the PM's job. Not a tax dodge though. #clueless https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/crm4mxrg40pt

What the Government should be doing today is bringing the budget forward and confirming how they have a sound fiscal plan, including reducing public expenditure (essentially u-turning on some of the expenditure they foolishly put forward in the last budget). They will do neither of course - I suspect they will keep to the budget date, not cut expenditure (the only u turn they havent performed but the most critical one) and keep floating mad ideas, creating more uncertainty, increasing borrowing and the black hole they have helped to create. #clueless.

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I agree with you Wes Sweeting is doing a good job and I rate him. I also agree with much of what you just said. I dont think its a simple case of just cutting everything but I dont think Labour has got the balance right which was reflected in its significant increase in spending without making some of the hard decisions. Predictably this is now what is causing the problems we are witnessing now. We all also speak from our experience. Whilst I work in the private sector, I also work alongside the public sector in some instances and I see inefficiencies and unnecessary beau acracy which informs my views.

I feel privileged to be off his hit list - it’s a big day for me. 😆

I forgot about that - You mean this one?

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Well they are about to balls things up so I suspect at some point somebody will have to cut public services again (whether this government or the next one) to fix the problems Labour hasn’t created. The issue is they haven’t really even tried to address the inefficiencies. They have just massively increased day to day public sector spending. It’s like taking over a company, seeing there are inefficiencies but just giving the business more money to significantly increase wages, without really tackling the inefficiencies. I’m happy to pay more tax if the government isn’t just going to waste it. Currently there is too much waste and Labour hasn’t addressed it. To busy hoping that taxing businesses and rich people will be politically more popular. You say selfish I say sensible. If you already pay multiples in tax compared to the average citizen and keep being asked to pay more. Leave until you have a more friendly government. Why spend half your day working for the government to take it and waste it. But that’s all rubbish anyway because nobody is leaving and the economy is booming!

It’s a principle I’m highlighting, but that should be clear. So far Labour has just taxed and I’m saying that’s not the solution (albeit many people who think they are very clever have told me on here that this economic approach is sound - not looking as clever at the moment). Again dismissal with no rebuttal. A common theme. Just keep taxing then I suspect that’s what you think? That’s working really well isn’t it.

I’ve noticed a shift on here - the regular defence of the Labour Party’s economic strategy is now subsiding into (1) a suggestion of alternatives that they should be putting forward or (2) deflection that other parties messed up or wouldn’t do as well. This indicates a silent acceptance that their policies aren’t up to it. To be honest they have even surprised me with how quickly they managed to balls it up - the only time they have exceeded expectations!

I agree that brexit isn’t economically good. I didn’t vote for it. If we went back in it would be economically better. However the Conservatives and Labour Governments have and are working in this framework. I agree that spending on infrastructure and subsidy to encourage economic growth can justify increased public spending if the net outcome is economic growth. However as soon as it came in, labour increased spending. In fact it is the largest real terms increase in day to day spending in 20 years (oh and significantly more than she said before the election). Increase if £23 billion for 24/25 and £39 billion for 25/26. This was mainly paid for by taxing businesses. So the principle of government policy to date is tax business and use that to increase day to day spending. The much needed welfare cuts were binned (those anticipated savings will now be paid by businesses and me). That doesn’t grow an economy - it’s all one way. I don’t understand why you still defend their policies - it’s absolutely obvious they are all over the place. On reform you can take a view on what you think will happen. My point is that nobody really knows how they will do. We know how labour is doing so an assessment of labour is more credible as a matter of fact

I appreciate a vote of no confidence is unfortunately unlikely. The chances would increase if things get really bad. We aren’t talking about reform. They aren’t in government - you can’t speculate about how they will do. We are talking about labour and their terrible economic strategy. We can say how they are doing because they are unfortunately currently in government