Honestly the thought of a picture of Farage being near my ass is too much.
It also annoys me that the house purchase scandal has melted away.
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Itâs only a scandal when youâre:
- on the left
- female
- northern
- ranga (ginger)
- all of the above
Thatâs actually what happened to my troubles when I wiped my arse with a Reform flyer.
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Itâs a shit show. Left or right itâs incompetent at best. It will take10 years to fix it.
Explain to me how pensioners should pay for people to have 3 kids. Put it away as you cannot afford them unless the state pays.
Furious. If you are left then ok. But can you not see this lot are ruining our country?
Nah.
Pretty happy c. 500k kids might be able to eat soon, actually.
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If you think Labour are ruining the country Iâd love to hear your assessment of the Tories.
Really ? Of parents who could not afford 3 kids but had them anyway. Because the state will pay?
For the record, I am bitterly disappointed with Labour.
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My biggest disappointment - apart from politics. Is Johnson. Had a mandate. Did nothing. Maybe Covid was a factor. This lot! Mandate. Embarrassing.
Last people with a vision. thatcher and Blair. The rest is noise to win the next election.
The changes arenât due for another couple of years so I assume there will be time to re-shape this, or even drop it if governmentâs revenues are much higher than set out in the budget this week.
This plus a number of other tax measures are due to come in during an election year, which would make it difficult for them to win the election.
There is also an argument to be made that the OBR have been overly negative in their forecasting. If that turns out to be the case then the government will most likely have the funds available to back track on some of these measures (I would guess the frozen thresholds would particularly be in scope).
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And we will get what we deserve. Farage. Maybe like Trump he may make some change.
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Itâs not even hard to see. We cannot afford the benefits bill. Whether you believe these people are ill or not. We are spending more than we have.
Badenoch - who I dislike - called it unchristian. She is right.
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And the OBR! Every forecast is wrong. By a long way. But they still survive. How?
And we have Sturgeon, Rayner and the rest filling their bootsâŚ..
Labour were for clean politics. Now?
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Whatâs a welfare state for, if not to support people in need?
Iâm sure some could equally ask why the state should pay pensioners who have had their whole lives to accumulate assets to pay for their own retirement.
They are not. They are certainly not perfect, but theyâve been dealt a pretty awful hand. The measures they have taken over the last two budgets should not alter the course of the economy which should begin, if it hasnt already been, building momentum now.
Many of the people impacted by the two child limit where not always on benefit, nor do they always remain so but at some point had to turn to the system for help.
Pretty sure I read this week that not paying benefits for the additional children did not lead to fewer claims being made, or speed up the rate at which the families moved off of benefit. I suspect it probably did increase demand on other services which means that costs on the state were higher and the outcomes for the kids likely to be worse.
You might deserve Farage. I think the rest of us donât.
Of course we can afford the benefits bill. Itâs growth over the last 15 years has largely been because of an ageing population and the triple lock.
As I have said in other posts, the OBRâs forecasts have a good chance of being overly pessimistic, so the government likely has more room for manouvre in the coming years than the budget indicated.
I fail to see how helping someone in need is unchristian.
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You can do the same with your next ballot paper for what your vote will be worth.
To the degree that Farage emulates Trump, it will be disastrous for the UK.
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