UK Politics

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

[steviewevie]

Woohoo f**k you europe

 

[sheffinghell]

Huge result for the MVT on getting a levy on arena / stadium tickets to support grassroots venues.

 

Detailed info here, on this and other issues they're trying to get sorted 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCWcvYNNcHN/?igsh=YXEyaGtraGw1N204

[pink_triangle]

18 hours ago, steviewevie said:

Woohoo f**k you europe

 

Secret vote so no pressure to follow the Trump line.

[Neil]

Since the guardian yesterday said it's quitting twitter all of the can't think for themselves types have also quit!

[steviewevie]

World beaters!

[steviewevie]

1 hour ago, Neil said:

Since the guardian yesterday said it's quitting twitter all of the can't think for themselves types have also quit!

There's been a steady flow of people leaving twitter for the last 12 months, and a sudden increase following the US election. Guardian is just part of that. 

[lost]

41 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

World beaters!

 

Boris did it to impress the FT:

 

 

[steviewevie]

35 minutes ago, lost said:

 

Boris did it to impress the FT:

 

 

yeah of course.

[steviewevie]

3 hours ago, steviewevie said:

There's been a steady flow of people leaving twitter for the last 12 months, and a sudden increase following the US election. Guardian is just part of that. 

bluesky so popular it's crashed

[steviewevie]

wow, booming. Bring back Rishi.

[stuie]

3 hours ago, steviewevie said:

wow, booming. Bring back Rishi.

 

 

 

Did anyone expect Labour to be able to change this, before their first budget?

[steviewevie]

14 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

 

 

Did anyone expect Labour to be able to change this, before their first budget?

growth lower than forecast due to Reeves/Starmer scaring the sh*t out of everyone with their budget warnings?

Ultimately though this is not good for this government...they've put everything on growth, they're off to a bad start, the forecasts weren't great anyway, and now Trump will likely f**k it up some more.

[stuie]

3 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

growth lower than forecast due to Reeves/Starmer scaring the sh*t out of everyone with their budget warnings?

Ultimately though this is not good for this government...they've put everything on growth, they're off to a bad start, the forecasts weren't great anyway, and now Trump will likely f**k it up some more.

 

A cheerful optimistic outlook!

 

it's the next quarter that's important.  I didn't expect anything to be better just by them walking in the door. 

[lost]

It actually fell over the 4 month period. September was -0.1%. Could be in recession if they don't turn it around.

[steviewevie]

Think the problem was all the doom and gloom uncertainty leading up to the budget...now we have all this investment which might improve things...and they'll hope the NI rises don't bugger things up too much.

[lost]

Reeves appears to have been caught lying on her cv too. Described herself as an economist when she actually worked in the complaints department at Halifax/HBOS.

 

 

[Ryan1984]

1 hour ago, stuie said:

 

 

 

Did anyone expect Labour to be able to change this, before their first budget?

The Tory press and their readers?

[steviewevie]

2 hours ago, lost said:

Reeves appears to have been caught lying on her cv too. Described herself as an economist when she actually worked in the complaints department at Halifax/HBOS.

 

 

economical with the truth

[steviewevie]

[steviewevie]

Good argument for increasing inheritance tax.

Middle class millennials set to gain most from ‘unprecedented’ wealth transfer | Inequality | The Guardian

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

[steviewevie]

Farmers don't like the inheritance tax rise. Retailers don't like the National insurance rise.

Should have just taxed working people.