moonraker

Some all or a few, he is speaking for folks who are in afar worse place than you or I have ever been

I love the Tory snowflakes raging about a man who stands up for the oppressed and vulnerable.

David Attenborough being censored now,

It’s a myth that they have to claim asylum in the first safe country they reach, is not has been part of the UN rules for refugees we are signatories to. It is a rule for EU countries. There are numerous reasons people choose the the U.K. language and family ties being significant. Yet we still take fewer refugees than most civilised countries.

I didn’t need hindsight to predict that Brexit would be a shitshow and that the buffoon Johnson would make an even bigger mess than it might have been.

Just arrived back from Spain no shortages of fruit and veg there.

Other results not going our way is a massive pain, but all we can do is hold on and win.

Most of what you say is very valid, but amongst the many lower league players who will not be able to step up are some real gems, identifying them is the real skill. Lambert and Vardi just two obvious candidates, our issue at this stage is we need a striker to hit the ground running and therefore the only solution is a proven prem level striker, and finding and affording one of those is equally challenging.

Defined benefits schemes are final salary, I think you mean “lesser defined contributions scheme”. The value of a DB scheme is arbitrary, a multiplier of the annual pension set , currently at 25 times I believe, this is purely for calculating a figure for your lifetime allowance. DC schemes are simply based on each £1 contributed, by both the individual and their employer. Most good private sector employers contribute between 5 and 10% to staff pensions so to be totally accurate when comparing the value of the benefit of public sector pensions this should be added to in to the value of private sector renumeration.

No they are not, while your “researching” the nurses pension please also ascertain the % of publicly funded pensions that are over 7 figures.

Sadly the ERG and the arch Brexiteers are not interested in what most people think. They fooled them once and they are playing on that. They have Covid and Russia to blame for the shitshow we are now living. I am ever hopeful that enough of the British electorate will see them for the biggest bunch of charlatans and traitors they are, self interest and personal wealth is their only motivation.

Anyone who believes there is to much bureaucracy in the NHS needs to take a detailed look at the US health care system. The very high costs of treatment are in large part due to the high administrative burden required to ensure every penny is recouped from patients. A friend recently required an emergency appendectomy, it cost $45,000, the very first procedure they underwent was to have a bar code stamped on each arm. To ensure every element of their treatment was recorded and billed. Add to this the influence and power of commercial pharmaceutical companies and the non clinical cost element is far greater than that of the NHS.

I appreciate times have changed, and modern day footballer egos can be off the scale, but we have a history of appointing managers with no top level experience and many of them turned out to be good. Mcmenamy, Nicholl, Poch, even Ted Bates. The difference now and my big worry is there is no time in the modern game for managers to develop their own team.

The incompetence and unsuitability of this shower currently masquerading as our government continues to be demonstrated with the revelations on their attitude to security. Truss and Braverman have both identified as having compromised security, I won’t be surprised if others have as well. If a civil servant or member of the armed forces had done this they would be severely disciplined. Following the rules and protocols should be the minimum we expect of our Government Ministers, they truly are unfit for public office.

Bring on the euro, Schengen and all the other benefits of the EU that our cowardly politicians of the past failed to embrace for fear of upsetting the muppets in the ERG, the right wing press and the traitor in chief Farage. Not to mention the thick red meat eating, mail reading gamonati that either vote for them and purchase their chip wrappers full of lies.

Despite all the drivel from Duckie and GM they are still unable to identify a single benefit from BREXIT. Taking back control does not count.

They are coming to Bath and Bristol soon.

But so on the money, and sums up the country the the Mail-reading, red meat-eating, gamonati voted for.

Boris has neither the commitment nor attention to detail to lead an effective opposition. Not that he would acknowledge that, if it were to happen then it would be a gift for Labour.

Oh wasn’t that fun, as many fireworks as we could buy. We’re you a Paines or Brocks boy.

Whoever is stupid enough to become the leader of this pathetic party will be signing up for failure. Who in their right mind would want to lead them, not just as PM but at a General Election. Whoever does accept the post either accepts that they are a sacrificial lamb, or they are just another arrogant narcissistic twat.

A general election is the only way forward. Sadly the entitled Tory party and their sycophantic supporters will continue to act in their own best interests. They have no patriotism, no dignity and no honour. Starting with the Brexit referendum, purely called because Cameron was a coward and could not manage his own party we have seen this pathetic excuse for a political party dive to ever lower depths to maintain their grip on power, and all at the expense of our country and our people. They must go, and go now.

I agree with the thrust of your argument. There is a possibility of a Tory implosion and the party splitting. I do not think the LDs will welcome many if any of the current crop of cowardly backbenchers who have been complicit in facilitating this shit show. The ERG types will claim the party as theirs the centre right one nation mob will claim its as theirs, could end up in court! No matter how much I despise the Tories and their ideology there is a need for a centre right party if only to remind us how self serving a section of our society is. The long standing Tory supporters on here have stopped defending them, claiming they are not true Tories, the problem is they can’t agree amongst themselves what constitutes a true Tory.

And this from the twat that we had negotiating the Brexit deal, amateurs the lot of them. I would not employ any of the current crop of senior Tories to clean my windows for fear or indelible smears.

The problem is the Tories introduced it to to lure the pensioners votes. They have a track record of luring votes, the sacred Margaret’s council house cut price sell of being the biggest. These short term populist policies always come back to bite you.