24 Nov
1:59pm, 24 Nov 2024
46,752 posts
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SPR
I think it would be more surprising if Trump voters didn't hail his picks, it's not like they're surprising picks.
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24 Nov
2:22pm, 24 Nov 2024
10,009 posts
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simbil
Disappointed with Labour's comments today. Unemployment benefit is 1% of the welfare spend (£2.2bn). Its a non-issue and sanctioning those, particularly 18-21 year olds, seems like playing to the gallery rather than genuinely trying to help them - these are young people that have had a lockdown gap in their early adult development, so unsurprisingly some of them are struggling and have feck all mental health support. 42% of welfare spend (£111bn) goes on pensions - a small change there is all that would be needed to hit the £3bn spending targets, if indeed it is that important to hit the spending target. |
24 Nov
2:47pm, 24 Nov 2024
11,843 posts
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Fields
Just red meat to try and revive their standing in the polls
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24 Nov
6:29pm, 24 Nov 2024
19,616 posts
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JamieKai *chameleon*
I suppose they're trying to show they're going after everyone - after the WFA stuff, hitting the olds again would be a bad optic, however just it might be.
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25 Nov
8:35am, 25 Nov 2024
11,844 posts
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Fields
We’re in this together to coin a phrase
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25 Nov
10:38am, 25 Nov 2024
7,032 posts
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paulcook
Yes. All in it together. This time for real telegraph.co.uk Hard to work out whether this headline is real or parody! |
25 Nov
11:39am, 25 Nov 2024
18,160 posts
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jda
“Theirs was not an easy inheritance.” Meanwhile, tiny violin sales are booming. |
25 Nov
12:44pm, 25 Nov 2024
30,260 posts
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richmac
lol Maybe right move should have a warning "Tax policy is subject to alteration" |
25 Nov
1:09pm, 25 Nov 2024
26,176 posts
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larkim
Can't quite believe how much interest this daft petition is getting on social medias etc. It should surprise no-one that of the few million Reform and Tory voters that recently voted, that a large number of them still don't like the outcome. Even before we deal with the irony that for the last decade we've been told that 51% was a fixed and final majority that put a question to bed for generations and so votes shouldn't be reconsidered. Have any of these petitions since they were introduced ever turned into something of any significance that Parliament wouldn't have dealt with anyway? |
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25 Nov
1:38pm, 25 Nov 2024
7,035 posts
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paulcook
2m so far. To be fair, 6m+ also signed the stop/reverse Brexit one(s). Though Brexit clearly not the same as a simple GE. Not sure what they quite hope to achieve though it did give me the odd sight of seeing a brief clip of Andi Peters interviewing Starmer about his unfavourable rating compared to Farage. About the last time I saw Andi Peters was with Edd the Duck / Gordon the Gopher or whichever puppet character it was. |
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