Farmer Saint

Maybe we should stop people doing as many crimes?

Alright Manuel.

His detractors will blame him for absolutely everything. No keeper is saving that.

Aribo can hold onto the ball well, where as Robinson tends to do the opposite.

Jay's doing his wife.

Scar tissue.

Ick-hert...

It couldn't, could it? May as well stop paying and invest the money in employing staff and speeding up applications.

WTF is the point, and what are we paying for?

Here we're back to my oft made point with regards Government systems and processes. Any changes to both need to made hand in hand, and with a view to a complete overhaul combining system enhancement and process innovation and engineering. However this takes a huge amount of money and time, with ROI low at first and over a long period. No government will commit to that money for the next government to benefit. It's why, and I will repeat this ad infinitum, I am so disappointed with Starmer and his "country before party" rhetoric that he is not following through on.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kpmm20zwwo We'll see if it happens, but positive if it does. We seem to have a far better relationship with France, and the EU as a whole, under this current government.

And this is why the benefits system needs drastic reform as those that really need it tend to not get it at levels needed and vice versa. Essentially benefits should not be to maintain your current standard of living. It's to supplement you so that you are not left destitute. If you own a house, perhaps you need to sell or release equity, downgrade your car etc. The complexities of people's finances make it very difficult to apply rules that allows for all circumstances.

That's not the argument, so wind your neck in. His literal reasoning was that he has no problem seeing some children in poverty as collateral for not having this in place, as long as it doesn't mean we have feckless people having more money to spend on Tennents Super, fags and Sky TV. If he had just said he doesn't agree with it, and the money should be invested in a different way to help, then that's fine, it was the fact that he is happy to see the children suffer and is happy to see them in poverty to punish the parents. Take your faux outrage at my posting style, and don't get involved in my debates. Thank you.

Mate, you would prefer kids to be in poverty than to allow people child benefit for if they have more than 2 kids, and as the above studies prove, child poverty causes child deaths. That's bordering on evil, so don't you dare try to take the high road. I'll add those questions to the long list of questions you have refused to answer in the past.

I think we're all waiting for Sir Ralph's responses, or will these just be added to the long list of questions he is yet to answer...

So you thought you'd respond with a word that doesn't make any sense?

Do you know what "succinct" means, because the post is anything but?

Good - businesses will be very happy with that. Let's see if they create the jobs they said that this policy was stopping...

Cool, well have a read: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news-society-politics/news/article/5856/uk-children-dying-through-poverty-data-shows https://www.ncmd.info/publications/child-mortality-social-deprivation/ https://cpag.org.uk/news/more-children-ill-poverty-bleak-paediatricians-survey-anniversary-child-poverty-taskforce

I'm waiting for his suggestion of chemical castration to ensure people that he doesn't think should have kids, don't. I certainly know at least one person on this thread who should fall under that category.

Thank God we've got fuckwits like you to police us eh?

The point is your opinion is that children should suffer in poverty as a result of their parents feckless attitude towards procreation. That's the problem here. Lifting kids out of poverty should be the first agenda for any government, left or right. They are the economic future for countries, so you want them to be as high-achieving as possible. Starting them off in a life of poverty strangles that, and is very poor for the economy.

https://johnmajorarchive.org.uk/2025/11/19/sir-john-majors-speech-at-maurice-fraser-lecture-18-november-2025/

This is not aspiration. You don't aspire for children to not be in poverty. Kids are in poverty now, this will help to lift quite a few out. If that means we have to tax the rich, which includes myself, a bit more, then fuck it, we should do it. Children are not a commodity to use as collateral because you think that we should punish the feckless. We live in a country where two parents can both work full time and still have to use food banks. You do not understand the societal impact that poverty has on children. I'm not a socialist, I'm a one nation Tory, and you ARE a cunt. A real, grade A, don't give a fuck about anyone than myself, cunt. Own it.

Oh sorry, you just hope those children suffer in poverty. Luckily no-one in poverty ever dies. I apologise, you must be the new Mother Theresa. What a cunt.