What Is Happening To Our Country?

[aintforever]

2 minutes ago, Hatch said:

as an aside,  Need to ban phones too, can't even have a proper riot anymore without some cunt filming it.

 

That made me laugh as well. There were probably more people holding their phones up filming than actually rioting. Don't the thick fuckers realise that by filming it and posting it online, all they are doing is probably handing their fellow neanderthal a prison sentence.  

[egg]

11 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Especially as the army are going to be using wheelie bins to replace the less reliable Ajax armoured vehicles. Do the rioters want to be speaking Russian? 

The future:

 

[Broccoli Man]

6 hours ago, Turkish said:

Id be very interested to see how much gets spent on DEI roles in the public sector. You can find dozens if not hundreds of very, very well paid jobs in Pub Sec in this gravy train. I've seen jobs paying 70-90k as head of DEI in various organisation, which suggests there are also teams of people under neath them. A truly fantastic job, making sure you've got a enough non whites, women and LGBTs women working in your organisation and if anyone disagrees with you you can get them fired for being racist, homophobic or sexist. The job where you cannot fail.

You forgot trannies you bigot.

[ecuk268]

33 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

Total government spending = £1.36trillion 

Total government income = £1.23 trillion 

Welfare/Benefits exceed income tax. 
Total spend exceeds total income. 
 

It’s a shit show. I’m not sure why you’re defending how the country is run lol 

You seem to be confusing total spending with spending on benefits.  

 

 

[badgerx16]

Government borrowing is not exclusively a Labour thing.....

[egg]

1 minute ago, badgerx16 said:

Government borrowing is not exclusively a Labour thing.....

Indeed...John Major's government doubled it. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

35 minutes ago, Hatch said:

as an aside,  Need to ban phones too, can't even have a proper riot anymore without some cunt filming it.

 

I missed half of it, trying on all my balaclavas, to see which one I looked best in, for the cameras.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

32 minutes ago, egg said:

The future:

 

Ed Miliband insisted on keeping the "Keep Your Battlefield Tidy" logo on the front.

[Osvaldorama]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

Government borrowing is not exclusively a Labour thing.....

It isn’t exclusively Labour, the Tories were horrific for the country. But labours policies WILL exacerbate all of the issues. 
 

We need to lower taxes, prioritise growth, lower energy costs, increase the “givers” and decrease the “takers”. 

Labour are doing the exact opposite of what we need. 
 

Again - the bond markets are the most important signal. They cut through all the noise. And the bond markets are saying: we don’t trust that the UK is credit worthy anymore 

[Farmer Saint]

4 hours ago, Osvaldorama said:

Even with NI, Inheritance tax etc there is still an annual deficit, expected to be £133bn this year. 

Taxes do not cover the shortfall, it’s funded by issuing government bonds.
 

They are borrowing from our children’s future to fund an insane welfare state.

As I said, look at the gilt yield curve to see the objective reality of what smart money thinks.

Bonds have been selling off, pushing up rates to even higher levels than under Liz truss, showing that the smart money across the world has zero faith in the government 
 

Bonds are selling off because most run over 10 years. The markets are scared of what's coming at the next election, Reform. That's why the smart money (and the smart people) are exiting the UK.

You don't get out once they are in charge, you get out before they get in charge.

Edited 4 hours ago by Farmer Saint

[Osvaldorama]

https://www.deported.co.uk/

 

Live immigration cost stats. Interesting 

[Farmer Saint]

25 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

https://www.deported.co.uk/

 

Live immigration cost stats. Interesting 

Interesting. Shows what an amazing job by Labour getting immigration down to 117k. Got to applaud them for that.

[Lord Duckhunter]

4 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

I get my first State pension payment next week, and will pay Income Tax on it.

The triple lock was brought in to rebalance it back to where it was before  Maggie abolished the link to average earnings in 1980. No Government since reversed that decision, and combined with Brown’s destruction of DB private sector pensions, meant a lot of pensioners were poor and getting worse. For all the criticism of the triple lock, it did what was intended, which was to bring it back to where it would have been had, Maggie not changed it. One of the coalitions better policies imo. 
 

I’d now link it to the tax threshold. Make it £1,2570 and peg it to the threshold you start paying tax. There’s no way any Government won’t increase the pension, but by doing so they will have to abandon the worst thing in our horrendous tax policy, fiscal drag. It’s utterly immoral that someone is so poor they don’t pay tax one year, but due to a cost of living pay rise, they pay tax the following one. They’re still just as poor in real terms. Link the pension to that figure , and it’s a win win. 

[egg]

41 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

The triple lock was brought in to rebalance it back to where it was before  Maggie abolished the link to average earnings in 1980. No Government since reversed that decision, and combined with Brown’s destruction of DB private sector pensions, meant a lot of pensioners were poor and getting worse. For all the criticism of the triple lock, it did what was intended, which was to bring it back to where it would have been had, Maggie not changed it. One of the coalitions better policies imo. 
 

I’d now link it to the tax threshold. Make it £1,2570 and peg it to the threshold you start paying tax. There’s no way any Government won’t increase the pension, but by doing so they will have to abandon the worst thing in our horrendous tax policy, fiscal drag. It’s utterly immoral that someone is so poor they don’t pay tax one year, but due to a cost of living pay rise, they pay tax the following one. They’re still just as poor in real terms. Link the pension to that figure , and it’s a win win. 

I quite like the concept, but it doesn't work as payments are held if the threshold is frozen, and a genuine risk of them being frozen in order to keep pension payments down. 

[Saint86]

Would it surprise anyone to know that on the Boro forums, there are multiple users trying to imply blame on Henry Nowak. Some saying he was following Digwa or that its not proven that he wasn't racially abusing him etc. Both of which are absolute nonsense. Some of them really are vile.

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, Saint86 said:

Would it surprise anyone to know that on the Boro forums, there are multiple users trying to imply blame on Henry Nowak. Some saying he was following Digwa or that its not proven that he wasn't racially abusing him etc. Both of which are absolute nonsense. Some of them really are vile.

And plenty more shooting them down. Having browsed a few pages I don't think their discussion of this is any different than ours, or any other disparate group of people "meeting" in an open online forum; most people taking the view that Digwa is a complete cunt, a few that Nowak must have done something to provoke the attack, some thinking the Police response was influenced by Digwa being a Sikh. Most, however, taking the reporting from the Court as accurate regarding what happened, and saying that although there are serious issues with how this incident was handled, in general the Police are often put in an impossible position.

And plenty saying Farage should stop trying to exploit the situation.

Edited 15 minutes ago by badgerx16