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We are in the middle of a crisis with the USA not only starting an illegal war but adding fuel to the flames to ensure is cannot end, thereby causing chaos to the whole world. Starmer is the only UK politician trying to do something about it. Yet all we seem to want to discuss here is history- Mandelson. Quite amazing in my view!
Wilts, you brought back memories for me. I started work at the Sun Insurance Office. I was a junior clerk and where you sat determined your status. The Accident Manager sat top left and I sat back right. Because of ny moaning they gave me holiday insurance in those days a set fee of £1. Then I graduated to travel insurance. There were 4 different level of cover for four options with the price ranging from £2.50 to £10. One day being the junior I was left alone at lunch time because the others were out celebrating something.
A customer came in; 3 of the options were within specification but one was outside. I didn’t know what to do but decided to put him off saying the premium would be £25 He said fine so I amended the limit and verified with the Sun stamp.
The following morning the Accident Manager was checking through yesterday’s policies and he came across mine. His skin coulour changed to pink and then red and immediately went off to see the General Manager, something only done by appointment. The rest of the team said they would organise my leaving do.
After ten minutes I was called down into the sacred office. I sat next to the Accident Manager who was shaking in despair. The General Manager sat opposite. I was resigned to being sacked; then I noticed the GM was laughing. He told me he appreciated that I didn’t want to let the Sun Insurance Office down, but next time ask the customer to come back after lunch. He told what I had underwritten was way outside the Accident Manager’s authority, but luckily it was within
his authority. The correct premium was £24.Moehat, I am with you all the way. Trump is an absolute moron. When 7 years of age my son was diagnosed to be dyslexic. He had a reading age of 5 and a reasoning age of 14. My wife organised it that he had a specialised teacher meaning he was late for school by one hour on one day a week. When he went up to the middle school the head teacher say she didn’t believe in dyslexia (in her view my son was thick) and that she would not allow his tuition to continue. I told this stupid head teacher (sadly Trump is not alone!) that she would have no further input in my child’s education.
My thick child has two master’s degrees, one from Oxford and the other from Imperial College. You have to wonder how some people get into key positions yet are so ignorant!
Son had been offered to do a degree in bakery.
He didn’t etc – I hope you are joking; if not it is far more serious than I thought. Can you imagine two boys, neither of whom are academic. One gets an apprenticeship studying food preparation and gets a part-time job at a bakery. The other goes to university.
After three years a job comes up supervising a number of bakeries. One applies saying he is £50,000 in debt but he says he has a 1st degree in Bakery. He knows in theory how to make bread. The other says he has three years experience having started out part time.
Who gets the job? Answers on a postcard.
He didn’t etc – If your comment was not a joke, then I agree with you the university in question should be shut down.
Those experts offering ‘boosts’ might not believe they will lose, but they often do! Yesterday’s boost (Burnley v Manchester City) was Manchester City to win both halves 1/1 was 4/7,
You will find some very bright students at all universities; unfortunately not many off them away from the top universities.
With AI coming in the need for university graduates will lessen and lessen whereas we will always need plumbers, electricians, builders and care workers etc.
Wilts, i have been following elections for over 50 years and each time bookmakers’ odds, reflecting actual bets, always do better than polls.
If you believe what you write, then aell everything you’ve got and back Reforn (not to form the next government, but merely to have the most seats at 6/4. If the bookmakers believed the polls then Reform would be 1/10.
As Wilson said, “a week in politics is a long time!”
I admit I am completely out of touch. The current betting to get the most seats is:
Reform 6/4
Labour 11/4
Greens 7/2
Conservatives 7/1
LibDems 33/1.I can understand Reform being favourites with the huge amount of money they have got from billionaires, but Greens having less than a handful of seats being 7/2 confuses me.
Bookmakers think we are heading for a hung parliament. If this is the case we are going nowhere. There is no way the 2nd or 3rd favourites would do a deal with Reform.
No, I have NOT forgotten the postmasters debacle. There are numerous people involved in this scandal; many of whom should have been prosecuted. But practically every politician makes mistakes. The worst thing the LibDems ever did was to campaign to reduce tuition fees and then under pressure from the Tories tripled them.
But we must work out what the best option is in the current situation. Definitely not Reform nor the Conservatives.
Great advert for Hamlet; must go back over 40 years. I must admit the thought of a peasant girl’s thighs are far more attractive than cigars.
Of this poor lot only Ed Davey calls it out as it is by regularly thrashing Trumpety Trump. He the ony one who is neither a woman nor a gelding.
If you vote for a party just because that party has said it will hurt someone you don’t like it always backfires. In America the vast majority of farmers voted for Trump as they wanted these ‘nasty’ immigrants eliminated. Then they woke up one day and found there was nobody to pick their crops. It will be the same in the UK if Reform get in. They will phone their doctor only to find their practice has closed down to a shortage of staff. So they will head off to their local A&E, to find the hospital has been privatised and it now costs £250 per visit. When they complain they have no money they will be told it was their fault in they didn’t have any insurance. You know Farage is a great friend of Trump. So now we are like America; you’ve got what you voted for!
” I am working class and have always voted Labour but I am deserting them because they no longer support us. So I am now going to vote Reform.”
They (Reform) will look after me by eliminating my human rights through ignoring International Law. The will help my employment prospects by abolishing the Employment Protection Act. Finally, if I need help they will reduce my income because they will vastly reduce benefits.
I am lucky my health is good because when Reform have spent £2 billion of setting up an ICE type agency to eliminate immigrants we will no longer have doctors nor the NHS.
My name is Turkey Brainless and I am looking forward to Christmas. It is so sad because those voting Reform will be the first ones to feel the pain.
Moehat writes a lot of sense. There is only one thing I would disagree with though. In normal circumstances I would agree that diplomacy is needed, but not in the case of Trump. He thinks he is God and writes abusive comments about the Pope saying the church leader should stop praying for peace and instead follow him.
Starmer’s diplomacy with Trump hasn’t got the UK anywhere. The moron is atill outrageously suing the BBC for $5 billion.
The only way to deal with Trump is to take him on head to head as Mark Carney of Canada has done. So I fully support Ed Davey for blasting the self acclaimed messiah in the House of Commons.
It is about time we stopped moaning about the past and based on what is currently happening.
So lets see where were are:The Conservatives big mistake was Brexit and electing a halfwit who took the party from centre right to far right. Which is why many of them defected to Reform.
The LibDems biggest mistake was to campaign to cut tuition fees and in government with the Tories agreed to treble them.
Lwbour’s biggest mistake was to elect someone: without any charisma to be their leader who is afraid to put the truth above pragmatism.
At the moment the Libdems have the only leader who tells it as it is that Trump is a moron who is systematically ruining thr world.
For the record, I find your posts and wilts posts to be right wing. Always whinging about benefits and deriding those with liberal views. We know that Reform are far right wing as they prefer the law of the jungle to International Law. They clearly support the likes of the USA, Israel and Russia, all countries that ignore International Law.
What I find laughable is that the Far Right Wing mob, that being Reform et al, are terrified of the Greens. Presumably that is because they won the Manchester by-election. All the nonsense they write on this board is pathetic!
Back to Starmer; we at least have a Prime Minister who is meeting like minded leaders to resolve the major nightmare that Trump has put us all in.
The reality is that Israel/USA started this war stupidly thinking they could achieve their objectives in days. But with China and Russia supporting Iran they have no chance of victory. I would not like to see our King go to America if the war was still on. Equally I cannot see how the USA can hold the World Cup while being in the middle of a war. Trump will have to recognise that he will lose face and get out the best he can.
