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Both Jack Channon runners, for me.
Both each way.
Both at 66s.Miss Attitude
Getreadytorumble
I dont like bans.
What’s happened to parents doing their ‘job’ (so to speak)? TVs and streaming feeds can already be altered with parental controls – are British parents not already doing this?
This creep creep of controls from government is dreadful.
There’s little hard evidence of the vast majority of kids being influenced by SM. It doesnt turn kids into dreadful humans, just as it does not do the same with the vast majority of adults. This decision has been driven by anecdotal high profile cases.
What government and campaigners have ignored is that teens have rebelled, experimented, defied, been creative, right thru the ages. They’ll rebel and find their own ways around it.
And if my grand kids want to watch youtube they can always pop around to grandad’s gaff.
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Erm….there’s already The Online Safety Act 2023. Plenty in there for HMG to act upon, so do we assume HMG is NOT doing enough already, under existing legislation?Former Labour deputy leader Roy Hattersley has died at the age of 93.
Despite not being on my ‘side’ he was one of the political ‘heavyweights’ from ‘back in the day’, who makes today’s ‘lot’ look like a right bunch of lightweights and incompetents, quite frankly.
RIP.
Richard
Interest rates returned to levels they should be. The super low rates, post-2008 were unsustainable and unrealistic. I think you may have posted similar sentiments, in here, over last couple of years
“Do you actually believe what you write or are you just on some elaborate wind-up?”
Are you able to write any decent, insightful posts OR is your limit just one-liners or the odd sentence?
Glad, your thinking is obviously curtailed by the daily boring, mundane compliance folders, telling you what is acceptable comms and what is not
For someone who works in finance you’re a bit slow, arent you, Glad?
The Truss/Kwasi ‘spike’ didnt last long at all.
Debt levels were already soaring and it was at this time that Bailey and his cohort were already behind the interest rate curve; they were playing catch up.The Ukraine/Russia conflict was the REAL catylyst for increasing UK govt debt levels, already inflated by the Covid handouts.
And today, the markets see NO signs of necessary action from current HMG to rein borrowing in.
It really is that simple.
“Simple” Glad.“Liz Truss ” she did 10 x times more damage in a few weeks”
Actually, this is a complete myth that’s been allowed to fester, because Starmer and his goons have used it to deceive the electorate.
UK bond yields spiked to those high levels for just a few days at the time of the Truss/Kwasi budget.
The real cause during 2022 was the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which led to the extremely high energy prices, that ‘forced’ the government to dish out more debt on top of the Covid debt.
UK bond yields have remained high due to increasing levels of UK govt debt.
Yes, the Middle East unrest has ‘helped’ to keep them high – in fact, UK bond yields have had higher peaks, at times, in last few months, than at the time of the Truss/Kwasi budget – FACT.
HOWEVER, UK bond yields, in comparison to other economies are higher, solely because of the uncontrolled UK public spending. Debt levels here are at worrying levels.
If the IMF have to step in, on UK govt request, part of any deal would be severe cuts to public spending and welfare.‘We’ may just escape an IMF bailout, but as each week goes by without HMG action on welfare, spending and debt, then we are periously close to such a bailout.
The Truss/Kwasi ‘effect’ will look like a walk in the park, compared to what might be coming.“….waiting times down and there has some shoots of growth”
LOL!
Waiting times are down for two reasons:
1) There are a number of medical referrals no longer being referred by GPs to hospitals for scans e.g. back pain. Instead GPs are being told to recommend physio exercises.
2) The period comparison Streeting used back in late March (i think?), compared a period where strikes were numerous to a period of only a small number of strikes, so there was bound to be shorter waiting lists.
Reminder to all – in the 6 months leading up to GE ’24 the Tory government had seen REAL shoots of growth.
0.7% in Q1 ’24 and 0.5% in Q2 ’24.
2% inflation in 2nd half ’24.
In the first half of 2024, the UK had the fastest-growing economy in the G7.“Anyway, are you going to answer my question or should I just add it to the long list of ones you either won’t or can’t answer?”
I’ve rarely answered to anyone in my life, so i’m hardly going to answer to an irrelevance like you, am I?
“To be fair Wilts it’s still less of a mess then 14 years of the Tories”
Yeah, but it’s only taken the current shower 2 years
Al Carns, Armed Forces Minister resigns!
Dear, oh dear.
What a mess…of their own making, i might add.
The chant goes up from the hoardes of Labour loyalists
“3 more years! 3 more years!”Healey said he could not accept the settlement in the Defence Investment Plan because it fell ‘well short of what is required’ at a ‘dangerous time’.
He puts the boot in, to Starmer and Reeves:
‘You have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats.’Labour former defence secretaries Lord Hutton and Geoff Hoon branded the situation a ‘car crash’ and urge MPs to drop their opposition to curbing welfare to free up cash.
Healey’s deputy Al Carns warned the plan is not ‘fit for purpose’, saying HMG has ‘got to sort this out’.The leader of the Unite trade union also waded in about the threats to defence jobs, thru inaction.
Labour at war…..with themselves.
This government is in freefall. Jeez, we’re not even at 2 years yet!!
“So black people are executed at a far higher rate than white people, but since when did you let facts get in the way?”
Maybe there’s a disproportionate ratio of serious crimes committed?
Starmer ready to fight for his leadership, he says.
So, while the country is facing a huge welfare issue, a defence issue, an economic growth crisis, a young unemployment crisis Labour will soon plunge the country into a leadership election.
Burnham intent on parachuting himself into the PM pos, with Starmer intent on going nowhere.
