Silly McSilly Face
Eidur Gudjohnsen
Well everyone has their opinions and everyone gets a vote! I guess we will see what 2029 brings....
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Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)
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MartyFunkhouser
George Hunt
As long as the raving looney racist parties continue to split and multiply then you likely see the vote split on that side
Mikey10
Les Ferdinand
Reform’s councils are going under. Their plans simply don’t work at that level (see Kent) and so have no chance at a national level.
Like Polanski, it’s fantasy economics that doesn’t survive contact with reality.
Silly McSilly Face
Eidur Gudjohnsen
Councils are going under left, right and centre no matter who is in charge. Labour and Tory councils have failed. Local government is failing as a trend in and of itself. And its symptomatic of a much wider reform that is necessary.
robp135
Luke Young
Lost Mango
Jose Dominguez
Except it is.
Its so far from being anything other than about Nigel right now. More so than ever.
monkeybarry
Nayim
Is that Scara?
Lost Mango
Jose Dominguez
Totally agree with this but Nigel and his paymasters aren't the answer.
The main issue though is the way taxation is used. Councils are expected to deliver more on less so have to raise council tax and cut services, which isn't what they are elected to do.
The issue is the whole funding arrangement which isn't working, which is a Westminster problem rather than a local solution, which then reflects on who and where tax is paid and how much disappears offshore or into magic non-reachable black holes in the name of supporting 'growth' at the top.
Mikey10
Les Ferdinand
Reform were on record as saying they could turn Kent Council around once in charge (Farage initially said they would show there what they could do nationally) - they haven’t. They’ve been forced to cede to economic reality, now that they’ve realised that millions aren’t being ‘wasted’ on green and DEI initiatives.
And they’ve spent a lot of their time in-fighting.
In short, their governance there has been a s hitshow.
In other news on the self-styled man of the people…
Labour challenges Farage over cost of private jet trip to Maldives
Anna Turley questions revised £25,000 figure for failed attempt to reach Chagos Islands on jet linked to billionaire
MartyFunkhouser
George Hunt
Reform were on record as saying they could turn Kent Council around once in charge (Farage initially said they would show there what they could do nationally) - they haven’t. They’ve been forced to cede to economic reality, now that they’ve realised that millions aren’t being ‘wasted’ on green and DEI initiatives.
And they’ve spent a lot of their time in-fighting.
In short, their governance there has been a s hitshow.
In other news on the self-styled man of the people…
Labour challenges Farage over cost of private jet trip to Maldives
Anna Turley questions revised £25,000 figure for failed attempt to reach Chagos Islands on jet linked to billionairewww.theguardian.com
Yep, absolutely this
Everyone who has followed politics in the last 40 years knows running a council has its issues, no one is expecting utopia, but when its promised and promised at the expense of them hammering DEI and Green policy then you have to deliver.
The mental gymnastics about reducing taxes too when they were bang to rights is also just embarrassing
But yeh, the future
johnola
Dean Richards
he has never styled himself as a common man- far from it- where did you get that idea from?Reform were on record as saying they could turn Kent Council around once in charge (Farage initially said they would show there what they could do nationally) - they haven’t. They’ve been forced to cede to economic reality, now that they’ve realised that millions aren’t being ‘wasted’ on green and DEI initiatives.
And they’ve spent a lot of their time in-fighting.
In short, their governance there has been a s hitshow.
In other news on the self-styled man of the people…
Labour challenges Farage over cost of private jet trip to Maldives
Anna Turley questions revised £25,000 figure for failed attempt to reach Chagos Islands on jet linked to billionaire
Mikey10
Les Ferdinand
Forever pictured with a fag in one hand and a pint in the other. It’s his entire schtick; the ‘man of the people, anti-establishment patriot’ politician who was educated privately, had a career in the City, making a fortune betting against sterling, and whose party receives huge amount of funding through ex-pats.
It only takes a quick Google to turn up this, amongst many other articles:
'Poor' Nigel Farage finds it hard to get by on £109,000 a year plus
His ‘small, semi-detached house in the country’ is estimated to be worth £540,000
www.independent.co.uk
SirPercyHotspur
Steven Caulker
Farage and others like Duncan Smith, Johnson etc have cost untold millions over Brexit. Stock markets are a pretty good indicator of the health of companies, companies doing well they employ more people make good profits amd pay tax to the government , if not doing that well it's the opposite.
January 2016 the German Dax stood at 10283 it closed last Thursday at 23168 that's an increase of 125%
January 2016 the FTSE stood at 6093 it closed last Thursday at 10436 that's an increase of 71%.
Which tracker fund would you want your pension manager investing in Germany or the UK , seem to remember being told that the EU was on the verge of collapse, Paris , Madrid & Amsterdam markets also doing better than London.
How much has Brexit cost UK investors ?
January 2016 the German Dax stood at 10283 it closed last Thursday at 23168 that's an increase of 125%
January 2016 the FTSE stood at 6093 it closed last Thursday at 10436 that's an increase of 71%.
Which tracker fund would you want your pension manager investing in Germany or the UK , seem to remember being told that the EU was on the verge of collapse, Paris , Madrid & Amsterdam markets also doing better than London.
How much has Brexit cost UK investors ?
MartyFunkhouser
George Hunt
Yeh but the vaccine roll out was quicker
SirPercyHotspur
Steven Caulker
Although the Germans beat us again with better health care and lower death rate overall but even Spurs can beat their football clubs apart from Bayern.
Key Healthcare Differences
- ICU Capacity: Germany maintains roughly five times more ICU beds per person than the UK (29.8 vs 6.6 per 100,000).
- Treatment Intensity: Throughout the pandemic, Germany had up to four times as many COVID-19 patients in intensive care as the UK.
- Testing: Germany implemented mass testing far earlier than the UK, which is cited as a primary reason for its lower fatality rate during the first wave
MartyFunkhouser
George Hunt
I hope you know I was being sarcy hahah
He said he styled himself as "a man of the people". Which he has for years. The "common man" bit is what you added lol
WillWeEverBeGoodAgain
Johnny nice-tits
But Sadiq says London is the safest city in the world all the time so why was all this kit needed in the 1st place ?
SirPercyHotspur
Steven Caulker
Had protection since receiving death threats, a quote from him in 2021, he's not wrong there are a lot of sick people around.
"The mayor of the greatest city in the world needs protection 24 hours a day, seven days a week because of the colour of his skin and the GHod he worships, that can't be right."