Oh well at least duty on my draught ale has gone down. Rachel must be a real ale fan…
A whole penny off a pint will have them lifting their glasses to her in boozers all round the country tonight.
In effect every 400th pint I have from now on will be a freebie 
I’m wondering if it’s softening up the industry just before they get hit with the smoking ban…
I’m letting the dust settle a bit on the budget and will digest stuff as it comes out but from the feed i had there was nothing there that made me personally wince with my own finances having been kicked in the plums.
The NI change is the biggy i guess. I’ll have to get my head round that one
By the way, and @Dane and @jaffod, should be interested in this explanation from Watt in the video.
The suspect in the murders did not have an ‘Al Qieda training manual’ in his possession - it was an American study into Jihadism.
The police have not yet elevated the attacks to a terrorist incident, because to do so would require there to be a clear motive linked to an ideology. It’s an ongoing investigation, and that may yet happen as part of the enquiry.
The Government and Starmer are not involved in the police investigation or the CPS in any way.
This is way rumour mongering on live criminal cases is so dangerous and unhelpful. It’s not that long since Tommy Robinson managed to collapse a trial into a suspected paedophile ring by refusing to the shut the fuck up about it (which might have been his intention all along).
And by the way, something said by Hollinrake, Jenrick, Badenoch, a million thick bellends on Twitter, and countless Russian Bots. We have a right to know.
Erm. No you don’t, you fucking morbid, rubbernecking, opportunists. Shut the fuck up, let the police do their job and let the families have one last dignity of not seeing their daughter’s murders politically weaponised by ghouls.
So you’ll be a pint up by this time next week?
I had no intention of posting anymore on this subject after a bit of reflection on it’s sensitive nature.
However, every report I’ve seen so far has the Police saying he was in possession of a PDF titled ‘Military Studies In The Jihad Against The Tyrants, The Al Qaeda Training Manual’.
If that turns out to be incorrect then I will accept I was totally wrong in what I posted but it was done in good faith going on what was being reported in the mainstream news.
Doesnt mean it is a training manual. To me that looks more like a title of an academic paper on what Al Qaeda use for training purposes…
Maybe, maybe not.
It’s freely downloadable from US institutions. It will be the fact that he tried creating ricin that makes it relevant.
Rather than speculate further, this is the Chief Constable’s statement:
Pretty sure I difused my initial comments a long time ago, but feel free to carry on briniging it up 
Not sure if there is relevance here regards the law, the prosecution that will follow, and the crime itself in Southport, but he carried out his act 1 week before his 18th Birthday…!!
Being tried in a youth court as opposed to an adult for example.
Terror charges may circumvent the need for niceties, as such, lock the fucker up for as long a sentence as possible, immaterial of age
Being reported that smaller businesses especially, won’t survive the change without reducing employee numbers.
Corporations on the other hand can survive the change comfortably, but will likely put profit before employee security.
Either way, working people will suffer
Did chortle at this…
https://x.com/Juliest101/status/1851625923130388879?t=-Ar7Pnp13uEF9vowJKMTUw&s=19
Meant no slight by it - I genuinely thought you might be interested in an update.
That was my initial thought too but then they lowered the threshold. I dont know how that will work to be honest.
A lot of talk about being pro business but I dont know if it is. You can bet Tesco or similsr will just pass the cost on which means its inflationary. 
I admit I dont know.
Physics.
Shit flows downhill.
What channel would put a microphone in front of her to criticize? Is there one that pro-Labour?
Farage has called today’s budget ‘economically illiterate’.
Best to let Led by Donkeys respond, I reckon…
https://x.com/ByDonkeys/status/1808097149709680882?t=8fpZyfTZu6nTlVF1cFZMug&s=19
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