The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?

[whelk]

Deputy speaker seems like a school kid

[tdmickey3]

7 minutes ago, east-stand-nic said:

But then he will never be able to comment on anything ever and he needs this place for his well being. 

 

2 minutes ago, Sir Ralph said:

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3 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

You two are such good bed-fellows, you really are.

Nutty nic and clueless ralphy, a match of the tiny intellects 

[tdmickey3]

Just now, whelk said:

Deputy speaker seems like a school kid

Well, she was trying to control the kiddies

[badgerx16]

24 minutes ago, Sir Ralph said:

Can’t get too pissed off though. Most of this stuff will be around for a couple of years. They will be gone and then the new government will have a lot of fat to strip out

And find their own ways to favour their mates and shaft the rest of us.

[Gloucester Saint]

14 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

You two are such good bed-fellows, you really are, so much so that you are probably the same logon

 

[Farmer Saint]

2 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

 

Well, I did originally think that tbh. They are very similar, and both seem to make things up to suit their arguments.

[whelk]

Ralph is infinitely more reasonable and you can have a discussion. Nic is in some fantasy world and cannot discuss anything

[east-stand-nic]

22 minutes ago, whelk said:

Ralph is infinitely more reasonable and you can have a discussion. Nic is in some fantasy world and cannot discuss anything

Prove it. Try debating with me instead of just throwing childish insults. Fancy it? 

Thought not.

Edited 2 hours ago by east-stand-nic

[pingpong]

Badenoch calls Reeves the worst chancellor of all time.

I'm not really sure that is accurate.  At least this time I've not had to scramble to remortgage my house.  (I took a 5 yr fixed on the day truss and kwarteng were fucking the interest rates, sneaked in at 3.6%)

 

[badgerx16]

1 minute ago, pingpong said:

Badenoch calls Reeves the worst chancellor of all time.

I'm not really sure that is accurate.  At least this time I've not had to scramble to remortgage my house.  (I took a 5 yr fixed on the day truss and kwarteng were fucking the interest rates, sneaked in at 3.6%)

 

Reeves hasn't ( yet ) shafted the UK economy as badly as Winston Churchill did in 1925 when he arbitrarily set the Pound back to it's pre WW1 value and put the country on the Gold Standard.

[Farmer Saint]

So, nothing to really see here with this budget - bit of a stabilising budget with no real shocks. I think if we see a large decrease in interest rates over the next few months that will help businesses to start re-investing and should kick start us a little bit.

[Farmer Saint]

34 minutes ago, pingpong said:

Badenoch calls Reeves the worst chancellor of all time.

I'm not really sure that is accurate.  At least this time I've not had to scramble to remortgage my house.  (I took a 5 yr fixed on the day truss and kwarteng were fucking the interest rates, sneaked in at 3.6%)

 

Exactly, she's not even the worst chancellor in the last 3 years.

[Turkish]

2 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Exactly, she's not even the worst chancellor in the last 3 years.

Fuck me shes got an annoying voice though

[whelk]

47 minutes ago, east-stand-nic said:

Prove it. Try debating with me instead of just throwing childish insults. Fancy it? 

Thought not.

Onus is on you, you halfwit

[egg]

36 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

So, nothing to really see here with this budget - bit of a stabilising budget with no real shocks. I think if we see a large decrease in interest rates over the next few months that will help businesses to start re-investing and should kick start us a little bit.

Yep. A bit of a nothing budget. I thought pension contribution tax relief would be hit and I'm surprised that's stayed as it was. I was also expecting NI to extend to other incomes. The reduced cash ISA allowance kind of takes us back to ISA origins with a bigger allowance for stocks and shares. People who want to invest £20k at low risk can just whack their cash in a largely cash or bond based fund anyway so there'll be ways around it if people want to find them. 

Hopefully that'll settle the markets, and we see a rate drop to give us a much needed jolt. 

[egg]

32 minutes ago, whelk said:

Onus is on you, you halfwit

Half. Unusually benevolent of you mate. 

[whelk]

5 minutes ago, egg said:

Half. Unusually benevolent of you mate. 

I was a actually debating whether to use fucko or halfwit

[whelk]

54 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

So, nothing to really see here with this budget - bit of a stabilising budget with no real shocks. I think if we see a large decrease in interest rates over the next few months that will help businesses to start re-investing and should kick start us a little bit.

I was trying to think what the Mail will be wailing about tomorrow and nothing stood out. Dull and gradually just pleasing no-one - need to be bolder IMO

[Baird of the land]

So lots of near-term borrowing and a promise of future fiscal restraint(from a govt that has shown zero ability to do so).

[badgerx16]

2 minutes ago, Baird of the land said:

So lots of near-term borrowing and a promise of future fiscal restraint(from a govt that has shown zero ability to do so).

What Government in this century has ?

Edited 45 minutes ago by badgerx16

[Gloucester Saint]

11 minutes ago, Baird of the land said:

So lots of near-term borrowing and a promise of future fiscal restraint(from a govt that has shown zero ability to do so).

That was the price of voting Leave in 2016, sharply restricting access to the world’s free market and was always going to be thus. As Badger says, it has been the case for some years now.

The Red Wall want higher public spending on services and places, the original Brexiteers want Singapore on Thames, the two are incompatible. 

You’re paying for a hard Brexit which was a choice and paying off Covid (not a choice but at least with furlough, business kept trading). If you want to break the cycle, campaign to rejoin. It’ll be no different at best and likely far worse under Reform.

[rooney]

The City, the Bond Markets and the FX markets seem to be happy with it today.

[ecuk268]

22 minutes ago, whelk said:

I was trying to think what the Mail will be wailing about tomorrow and nothing stood out. Dull and gradually just pleasing no-one - need to be bolder IMO

Probably something about lifting the 2-child cap and the lower orders breeding and spending it all on fags and booze.

[badgerx16]

12 minutes ago, ecuk268 said:

Probably something about lifting the 2-child cap and the lower orders breeding and spending it all on fags and booze.

More money for the exchequer.

Edited 13 minutes ago by badgerx16

[badgerx16]

14 minutes ago, rooney said:

The City, the Bond Markets and the FX markets seem to be happy with it today.

Fucking economically illiterate lefties.

Edited 12 minutes ago by badgerx16