news & politics:discussion

[steviewevie]

8 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

No, it’s October tomorrow 😉

you've had a good week bro.

[squirrelarmy]

32 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

No, it’s October tomorrow 😉

Good point. Anyone woken Greenday up yet?

[lost]

Russian tv telling viewers to "enjoy your final days"

 

[Neil]

56 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

No, it’s October tomorrow 😉

Enough is enough of the lame jokes

[SheffJeff]

As well as the 'Enough Is Enough' protests tomorrow there's also a handful of protests about the bullshit that's going on in Iran... sadly none in Sheffield though.

 

[Skip997]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

signed, won't make any difference. What we need is a full scale REVOLUTION!

Moderate, woke, liberal centre lefties of the world unite!

No idea if you're joking but this is exactly what we need

[charlierc]

Given how dire September has been, or indeed 2022 as a whole, you almost dread to think what the fuck is coming next.

Not that I'm suggesting the next response be some kind of apocalypse bingo.

[Guest]

 

 

[Guest]

 

It's just incredible.

[Kurosagi]

This Austerity 2.0 bullshit chatter is pretty depressing/shocking. I mean the british public have swallowed some shit over the years but does Truss *really*  believe this will fly? It's all getting a bit ridiculous now.

 

[steviewevie]

8 hours ago, Kurosagi said:

This Austerity 2.0 bullshit chatter is pretty depressing/shocking. I mean the british public have swallowed some shit over the years but does Truss *really*  believe this will fly? It's all getting a bit ridiculous now.

 

yeah, surely they will uturn on some of this...I know the lunatic fringe have now got their hands on the steering wheel, but there are still many Tory MPs who will not be happy about this at all..especially some of the new red wall ones. It's like they're desperate to do their neo-thatcher thing and re-shape the british economy but they just have a couple of years...and with this our democracy isn't working, they got there just with tory member votes...so maybe there has to be some other sort of intervention.

[steviewevie]

...like an armed uprising.

[Guest]

We need to do something, we can’t allow them to gut our public services any further. This right here is why I get so angry about the Tories and why I say we need a Labour government. 

[steviewevie]

Simon Clarke in the Times

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Simon Clarke in the Times

Our welfare state is shocking. It needs to be better ffs. 

[Neil]

27 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

We need to do something, 

join one of the enough is enough marches today.

 

[steviewevie]

16 minutes ago, Neil said:

join one of the enough is enough marches today.

 

yeah, might go to the Manchester one...sexy Andy Burnham will be there...shame about my hangover though.

[lost]

38 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Simon Clarke in the Times

Its an issue successive governments have tangled with and haven't found a solution for since the mid-1990's when we signed all these trade deals with China, India and the former Eastern European socialist block. They have salaries that are a fraction of ours and little in the way of social systems like healthcare & pensions along with many having a much younger population.

I think the simple answer is you can't compete.

[Neil]

5 minutes ago, lost said:

Its an issue successive governments have tangled with and haven't found a solution for since the mid-1990's when we signed all these trade deals with China, India and the former Eastern European socialist block. They have salaries that are a fraction of ours and little in the way of social systems like healthcare & pensions along with many having a much younger population.

I think the simple answer is you can't compete.

its not about the age of the population, its about how much those oldies have saved for their old age; so that they're not burdening today's society with their old age costs.

[zahidf]

 

[Guest]

The public in this country just seem to roll over and allow the Tories to tear the country apart.

The constant comparison to others countries is a form of gaslighting to make the the public believe things are actually great here so that when the Tories make them worse we don’t get angry. It’s a joke. 

[Guest]

We’ve had it too good for too long.

[Neil]

8 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

We’ve had it too good for too long.

Living it up on our kids futures. 

[Punksnotdead]

1 hour ago, Neil said:

join one of the enough is enough marches today.

 

No trains & no march near me. Odd that they've chosen to hold these on a day with train strikes!

[Neil]

Just now, Punksnotdead said:

No trains & no march near me. Odd that they've chosen to hold these on a day with train strikes!

The march in bristol is going to meet up with the train picketers.