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Mick-b never finishes anything, he's got
a black belt in partial arts. 😂
Nomlungo
When you have lived through many Labour and Tory governments you do not need brain washing, as to whom did what and when. I take it this GE, will be your first time that you will be eligible to vote.
I have never seen or heard a socialist say anything, positive about anything, nothing ! they find fault or an argument with anything. Why even sexuality, is now their new battle front, with Palestine added in as an extra. As if they care about Gazans, as if they care about a man in a frock! When they /you get board with the present crop of pathetic squabbles you will need some other imaginary historical fact to jump on. You avoid the mistakes or even malicious deeds under taken by Labour governments.
Interestingly, Palestine 1948. 1948 WHICH PARTY WAS IN POWER IN 1948, when we pulled out of Palestine, which government had had enough of seeing its troops killed by both sides in Palestine?
Does Khan and his Muslim friends know about the party he claims to support.
1947, India which government was in power in 1947 a momentous year, for which sub-continent a year of mass sectarian murder?
People as bitter as socialist never make good friends for anyone.
And this..
Labour risks triggering a wave of legal action if it goes ahead with plans to shield top public sector workers from a pension tax raid, the retirement industry has warned.
Not much of an answer mick b...so even an avid labour supporter like yourself has no idea what their policies may be...
“Every time Labour announce a policy it gets nicks”
Haven't seen anyone nicking the following….
1. Invest £28bn a year in green energy
2. Abolish the House of Lords
3. Abolish Universal Credit
4. Support the abolition of tuition fees
5. Increase income tax for the top 5%
6. Strip private schools of charitable status
7. Reinstate cap on bankers' bonuses
8. Common ownership of rail, mail, energy & water
9. Defend free movement post-Brexit
10. Increase levy on big tech companies.
“This time next year we'll be millionaires Rodney.”
Don't know who was present at the time but rumour has it Sir Keir Rodney Starmer KCB KC was there. 😆
Every time Labour announce a policy it gets nicks.
Nom Doms being a prime example.
Rant contiued:
The US is prints money and appears to funnel cash into it's home grown tech companies through private equity players, otherwise how has companies like Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, etc managed to grow into Trillion Dollar plus companies? The latest US protectionist policies are the Inflation Reduction Act and the Chips Act, both designed to encourage companies to build in the US rather than other countries, which includes their allies; In the meantime they're telling other countries who they can buy and sell to, as well as probably pulling other strings in the background.
888
To right what are Labour's plans
It is about time we knew
Anyone else noticed the ramp up in Brexit rhetoric?
Articles are appearing daily trying to persuade us that we made a mistake leaving the EU, and telling us we should rejoin. If the UK is doing badly it has nothing to do with our membership of the EU and everything to do with decades of nonsensical political decisions, in my opinion.
Since Thatcher the Conservatives have been on a mission to sell anything and everything that was publicly owned, trying to replicate the privatisation of Telecoms into all other sectors, like Rail and utilities. The Conservatives have also sat back while UK industry has been poached and moved abroad, leaving us with very few home based large manufacturers. German, French and Spanish companies, as well as private equity, seem to have had a free hand at moving in and taking over many of our utility companies, underinvesting in infrastructure while taking fat dividends. The Conservatives seem to have no interest in manufacturing, and decided to focus more on the City of London financial industry and ignoring everything else. Clearly Conservative free market policies have contributed to the decline of UK PLC.
Labour are just as bad as the Conservatives, just in a different way. Gordon Brown hammered the final nails into the Final salary pensions coffin, probably aimed at generating some cash to create more civil service jobs and growing their own future voting base. I was one of the fortunate members of a Final Salary pension scheme, affected by Brown's attack on pensions; After Brown scrapped pension tax relief on dividends my Defined Benefit pension scheme was degraded by various changes, before being closed 8 years before I was due to retire. As a direct result of Brown's attack on DB pensions my annual pension income is now thousands of pounds lower than it would have been, and the annual pay rises are capped at under 4.3%; Even when inflation was running at 10%, and generous Government pension increases were over 10%. I can't forgive Labour for what they did to my pension.
I'm constantly reading about how unproductive the UK is, but what large industries do we have that's actually affiliated to this country? Globalisation has created a situation where our homegrown industry is bought up on the cheap and absorbed into the ether of large Global entities who are protected by their own Governments, unlike our politicians who sit back and do nothing, ARM is a good example of what I'm talking about.
The big 3 issues..NHS,Immigration & cost of living...looking likely a labour govt next..however I'm still haven't heard their policies with the above...surely its time they made those policies clear...gla
Guitarsolo
You have been to the DR Congo several times for work reasons, I wonder what work would attract someone to that place.
The man in question posed a hypothetical question which many could have taken as a factual statement, the way it was worded. The fighting around Goma is localised, he did not say that, so as I POINTED IT OUT if you got OUT of the city you would be in the safe areas. The DR Congo, does have an army, by the way. No need to get a economy seat, on a flight to the Heathrow. I also pointed out that the area, is central to Africa, a large continent with many African countries in all directions in which no wars are being fought.
The civil war in Rwanda which people like to bring up as if it is still being fought , ended over 20years ago.
The actually reason for the INTER-TRIBAL war was due to the past enslavement of one tribe by the other, I forget who did what to whom. It, was pay back time as they say, that elephant in the room SLAVERY African on African, black on black and and for some reason no one mentioned it, but we were expected to pick up the resulting pieces / refugees . I read only recently that some associated with the mass killings, in Rwanda have been allowed to live in the UK, so we took in both sides, which I find rather strange and they live here happily together !
I do remember the Nigerian civil war when one side starved the other into submission .
On visiting Africa , I like you have been there several time, my daughter inlaw comes from South Africa, she runs a travel business taking in safaris and the Zulu War battle sites. She is there as I write , her first stop is Botswana then Zimbabwe and then South Africa she is there for a month. I first visited Africa as a 17 yr old in the Merchant Navy back in the late 1968/9.
“And only the democratic vote of a GE will consign broken Tory Brexit Britain to history”
mick-b.
No political party has ever broken the UK more disastrous than the last labour government and that's how the next one will end.
Even you've been brainwashed by the labour rhetoric in that you can't mention the Tories without a reference to 14 years…. pathetic just like the pratt's you support.
The Tories seem to have done a good job brainwashing the many that all politicians are greedy and corrupt thanks to being in power for so long. The blame for the state of the nation belongs to them and them alone.
#hometruthshurt
14 year ruinous tory rule ! Yes i would agree and go further, all tories should pay double income tax , 100% inheritance tax, and live in Rochdale forcibly
"Yet an EU (Eire) country wants to control theirs! How does that work?"
Maybe accepting the reality that the Tories have been a bunch of useless liars is a good starting point.
And only the democratic vote of a GE will consign broken Tory Brexit Britain to history
Putting Labour in to completely finish breaking Britain
It’s time to end the disastrous 14 year experiment with ruinous Tory rule.
We must return to the historical norm of government by rational people who aren't out just to enrich their mates.
And only the democratic vote of a GE will consign broken Tory Brexit Britain to history.
"We are set yo rejoin the EU!"
Another lie from the boards compulsive liar.
We came out of the EU to protect our Borders, but we still can't or won't!
Yet an EU (Eire) country wants to control theirs! How does that work?
Asperger, He sounds like an deal member for the modern day 'Socialist' party.
Oh Dear, Dr Dan is a mess !!! - Gd luck Labour lol
At least saved the Tories the job of sacking him
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/14/bereaved-families-angered-by-tory-mp-second-job-at-inadequate-nhs-trust-dan-poulter
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/23987186.suffolk-mps-tom-hunt-dan-poulter-missed-vote-rwanda/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-42172752
Guitar - what you've described sounds like the perfect deterrent then
STP
'We'
Ireland are fully paid up EU sycophants already.
Explains your hostility towards Israel come to think of it.
What is it with you Irish and the people of Israel?
My 6.2% Lloyds monthly saver matured yesterday. I put £200 in a month with the interest applied at the end of the year's term, thinking i'd get (£2400 x 6.2%) £148.80 interest at the end.
Nope - idiot me didn't realise that the interest is based on monthly accumulation. so i got the equivalent of 3% interest instead.
I should have put a lump sum in a 5% interest account with the likes of Cahoot rather than what i did.
Oh well, you live and learn eh.....