The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?

[badgerx16]

Police snd Crime Commissioners being scrapped.

[tdmickey3]

47 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Police snd Crime Commissioners being scrapped.

good, utterly pointless

[Farmer Saint]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

Police snd Crime Commissioners being scrapped.

Good, a start to the cuts that Labour apparently haven't been looking at.

Edited Thursday at 13:20 by Farmer Saint

[Weston Super Saint]

2 hours ago, Farmer Saint said:

Good, a start to the cuts that Labour apparently haven't been looking at.

You say 'good', but just who will be opening the village fete next summer now?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, Weston Super Saint said:

You say 'good', but just who will be opening the village fete next summer now?

Since the vicar is helping police with safeguarding concerns, and the fete organising committee were caught running illegal lotteries, it doesn't much matter.

[Weston Super Saint]

20 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Since the vicar is helping police with safeguarding concerns, and the fete organising committee were caught running illegal lotteries, it doesn't much matter.

So the boat people are in with a shout then?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

So the boat people are in with a shout then?

Whoever can run a lucky dip is welcome (and eligible to join the SR manager selection panel).

[Baird of the land]

So now running scared of an increase in income tax. Becoming a trend of them being brave sir robin, after welfare and winter fuel allowance. Very curious to see how they are going to plug black hole without it.

Edited yesterday at 07:53 by Baird of the land

[iansums]

2 hours ago, Baird of the land said:

So now running scared of an increase in income tax. Becoming a trend of them being brave sir robin, after welfare and winter fuel allowance. Very curious to see how they are going to plug black hole without it.

What a dithering bunch they are. After the last Tory government (Sunak/Hunt) were steadying the ship after Covid and the cost of living crisis (and Truss), this lot are really fucking things up big time.

[rallyboy]

Having never claimed she would raise income tax, Reeves then doesn't raise it.

After fucking up their predictions, political opponents dress up this non-event as a U-turn.

Classic spin straight out of Yes, Minister. 😄

 

 

[Farmer Saint]

U-turn after U-turn...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mx3nv7zy8o

And we've lost all those millionaires who didn't want to pay an extra 2 pennies in the pound.

[The Kraken]

2 hours ago, iansums said:

What a dithering bunch they are. After the last Tory government (Sunak/Hunt) were steadying the ship after Covid and the cost of living crisis (and Truss), this lot are really fucking things up big time.

🤣

[rallyboy]

Three-tier Kier and his woke union paymasters are having a nightmare!

They all hate the UK so much they cancelled the fantastic Rwanda scheme that had delivered great value for money and have now refused to build those 40 new hospitals that the Tories bravely started, they are literally murdering patients through indecision.

If they build a hospital now it'll just be another dithering leftie U-Turn, and will probably be used to house hate marchers at our expense. That's not what I call Brexit.

[Sir Ralph]

You know things are getting desperate when the “gang” are making a point that it’s a success that the government haven’t publicly u-turned on a matter within the budget. They must be sat in No 10 patting themselves on the back for not fing up publicly. Sets a new low bar for measuring success!
 

Who is worse Sport Republic or this Government?

Edited 18 hours ago by Sir Ralph

[Farmer Saint]

35 minutes ago, Sir Ralph said:

You know things are getting desperate when the “gang” are making a point that it’s a success that the government haven’t publicly u-turned on a matter within the budget. They must be sat in No 10 patting themselves on the back for not fing up publicly. Sets a new low bar for measuring success!
 

Who is worse Sport Republic or this Government?

How are you feeling about it now? Are you happy? Are your millionaire mates sat in Dubai happy, crying into their bowls of sand?

Edited 18 hours ago by Farmer Saint

[sadoldgit]

Short memories some people have. It is almost as if the governments of Cameron,Johnson/Cummings, May and Truss weren’t an utter shambles. And these people think that Farage would be better!!! 

Jesus wept.

[tdmickey3]

1 hour ago, Sir Ralph said:

You know things are getting desperate when the “gang” are making a point that it’s a success that the government haven’t publicly u-turned on a matter within the budget. They must be sat in No 10 patting themselves on the back for not fing up publicly. Sets a new low bar for measuring success!
 

Who is worse Sport Republic or this Government?

Have you seen the budget details?

Just want to clarify that the u turn is u turn, thanks

[Sir Ralph]

35 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

Short memories some people have. It is almost as if the governments of Cameron,Johnson/Cummings, May and Truss weren’t an utter shambles. And these people think that Farage would be better!!! 

Jesus wept.

I agree that the Johnson and Truss governments (latter in particular) had their bad moments. Truss was terrible for a very short period, due to the speed of her policies changes, before she got the push. Most of them got pushed when they had messed up. These lot have acheived 1.5 years of consistent rubbish. They are record breakers in the crap olympics.

I would like Streeting to be PM but unfortunately a significant portion of his party is socialist so his hands would be tied.

Edited 17 hours ago by Sir Ralph

[Sir Ralph]

3 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Have you seen the budget details?

Just want to clarify that the u turn is u turn, thanks

So you think it is a u-turn?

[iansums]

13 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Have you seen the budget details?

Just want to clarify that the u turn is u turn, thanks

They leaked proposals to the press, saw them get a hammering and changed their minds. They don't have the courage of their convictions, we've see it throughout the past 18 months.

[Farmer Saint]

37 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Have you seen the budget details?

Just want to clarify that the u turn is u turn, thanks

I think he's ignoring me now after losing his debate with me the other day - it's a shame because he never responded to:

- The article by the associate director of the IFS.

- The fact that even though taxes are the most important factor to millionaires, instead of moving to other low tax parts of the US a lot of millionaires are jumping ship to the high tax havens of Europe.

- That the Government have started to make cuts, first ones to do with the PCCs. Shame he didn't mention that in his exhaustive list of cuts 😂

[egg]

1 hour ago, Sir Ralph said:

You know things are getting desperate when the “gang” are making a point that it’s a success that the government haven’t publicly u-turned on a matter within the budget. They must be sat in No 10 patting themselves on the back for not fing up publicly. Sets a new low bar for measuring success!
 

Who is worse Sport Republic or this Government?

Bollox. It's a non story.

Manifesto. No income tax rise.

Decision. No income tax rise.

There's no non U-turn to herald because there's not been a U-turn. 

[sadoldgit]

The u turn would be implementing an income tax rise in the budget when they said in the manifesto that they would not. As Egg says, if they say they will not increase income tax in the manifesto and don’t, that is being true to their pledge.

[tdmickey3]

1 hour ago, Sir Ralph said:

So you think it is a u-turn?

No as we have not had the budget yet, if you do then can you show it to me?

[tdmickey3]

1 hour ago, iansums said:

They leaked proposals to the press, saw them get a hammering and changed their minds. They don't have the courage of their convictions, we've see it throughout the past 18 months.

Rumours, unless you can show me the budget…?

[tdmickey3]

1 hour ago, Sir Ralph said:

I agree that the Johnson and Truss governments (latter in particular) had their bad moments. Truss was terrible for a very short period, due to the speed of her policies changes, before she got the push. Most of them got pushed when they had messed up. These lot have acheived 1.5 years of consistent rubbish. They are record breakers in the crap olympics.

I would like Streeting to be PM but unfortunately a significant portion of his party is socialist so his hands would be tied.

Moments ? 
🙄

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, Sir Ralph said:

 

I would like Streeting to be PM but unfortunately a significant portion of his party is socialist so his hands would be tied.

Labour Party, Socialist ? - what a fucking surprise.

You will be claiming there are free market capitalists in the Conservatives next.

Edited 16 hours ago by badgerx16

[iansums]

31 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Labour Party, Socialist ? - what a fucking surprise.

You will be claiming there are free market capitalists in the Conservatives next.

You know full well what he meant. The government are torn between keeping the left wing of their party happy whilst dealing with the reality of managing an economy. 

[iansums]

45 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Rumours, unless you can show me the budget…?

I’m not sure Rachel can either at the moment.

[Farmer Saint]

Although I think taxes do need to rise, it's also good news that this doesn't need to be done due to improved economic forecasts, so I guess an all round "well done" is probably due from all our posters.

[Sir Ralph]

15 hours ago, iansums said:

You know full well what he meant. The government are torn between keeping the left wing of their party happy whilst dealing with the reality of managing an economy. 

Exactly we all know it and it’s been played out before over the welfare bill. This is one of the reasons why they can’t come up with a coherent budget, placating the socialist left of their party. I thought they had maybe got rid of that mad lot but they were hiding. I’ll look forward to some of the gang trying to now argue that the left wing element of the Labour Party haven’t called the shots on the previous budget (and therefore this one).

Some people think the Goverment has “saved the day” by getting less shite growth forecasts than expected which has meant the budget deficit they have helped to create is just not as terrible as previously expected. One of the main reasons for the budget deficit is due to the downgrade in productivity of business (nothing to do with the previous budget at all!!). They are the types of people that, if Saints were expected to finish 24th this season, might say it’s a success finishing 23rd. You don’t deserve congratulations for getting into a less (but nonetheless) shite position that you had helped create.  😂

Edited 34 minutes ago by Sir Ralph