Sorry mate no. The boiling piss is the clue.
āIf wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.ā ~ George Monbiot
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Woke lefty.
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Very broad shoulders though. Odd that.
This is all very simple. Socialism is those who can and do should pay for those whoād frankly rather be doing fuck all.
Sounds French, probably.
Well done, youāve figured out the analogy. Itās nothing to do with hard work
Ah yes, one of the classic RWNJ lines
Iāve got bad news for you, my friend: itās utter bollocks.
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Fiscally responsible my arse.
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āRepeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truthā - Goebbels
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It really bugs me that the āUKā has essentially just shrugged its shoulders and moved on with an attempted clear up.
It doesnt feel right that we just accept that previous government ministers essentially maxed out the credit cards using public money and they can just disappear into the background.
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Fify
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Itās not even that. We have the former Home Secretary who presided over that running for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
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There are no penalties (other than the General Election) for being shit at running the country. However, there are rules that are meant to prevent government from having their fingers in the till. Iām pretty sure that there are plenty of contracts that have been awarded on the basis of a brown paper bag and āgentlemenāsā agreement.
There are rules against that. Unfortunately, I donāt know how many of those are enforced post-Brexit.
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I suppose thats my question. Is it being shit or deceitful? Iām leaning towards the latter and thereās zero comeback for that, which in my opinion is wrong.
The article linked above states that ministers repeatedly and deliberately low balled the figures.
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I think that would count as being shit. Some ministers do this deliberately because the worst thing a department can do is to underspend. The second worse is to balance the budget, because when the next spending round comes in they will see this as an indication that they donāt require more budget or can accommodate cuts.
However, this looks like they have been deliberately running the department badly (in respect to the asylum system). Iād look at who owns all those shit hotels that are being used as accomodation, because that is where the money has gone.
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Yeah, itās bollocks that some people are bone idle.
You understand basic maths yes? Who earns more, the person doing job X for twenty hours a week or the person doing the same job, same age etc for 40 hours a week.
Yes some people get paid a fortune for little work (posting this on a forum dedicated to a Premier League football team is a delicious irony) but in normal, work harder and get paid more.
As numerous people have already pointed out itās not as simple as that
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Yes it is, itās always very simple. A brain surgeon earns more per hour than a Tesco shelf stacker for bloody good reason. But you donāt get to be a brain surgeon without a colossal amount of hard work. It really isnāt rocket science. Getting yourself into a position to earn mega money ācanā be a quirk of fate or a rich parent but more often than not itās because the person worked their arse off.
The people who spend the money in our shop are self employed builders, painters, sparks etc. Oddly, the harder and longer they work, the more they get paid.
But being as youāre the expert, I presume you work an hour a day and live in Aruba?
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